do you find it important to distinguish between masculine and feminine energies (e.g. like in tarot decks, some ritual magic, etc) in practice? as a baby occultist im finding that it seems like 'woman' and 'man' are more so symbolic associations corresponding to the archetypal traits of each, and its got me wondering if it might be compelling to take an alternate approach to that kind of imagery. like literally just talking about the subconscious vs. conscious, intuition vs. action, etc in more literal terms when that's what's being discussed fundamentally. but i also know that i don't have the background to fully parse why those associations and energies being labeled in that way is important (or if it even is or just arbitrary), so ...
Okok this is something a lot of people interested in Esotericism hit so ill do my best to explain:
In an Esoteric context, Male and Female quite literally does not refer to gender. It comes from Aristotle, and it refers to what we would now call chemical reactivity.
If two substances don’t react together, it’s because they’re the same Gender. If two substances react to create a third substance, it’s because they’re opposite Gender.
The point of this being that a binary is an opportunity. Your goal should be to seek out binaries, specifically to transcend them.