What comes to mind for me here is a Tao saying that is famous from Bruce Lee's, Enter the Dragon.
The quote, "It is like a finger pointing away to the moon, don't concerntrate on the finger or you will miss all the heavenly glory" makes perfect sense to me in reference to this. How I use the understanding of that quote here is that we study hard the nature of the finger, which is a system of knowledge bound to the shell or the white at best.
For example when we read the description of the Year of the Dragon, we are looking at a known structure that describes the essense that is termed as *dragon* - The description is pointing, with the eastern zodiac it is the moon like finger that is pointing.
By personal belief is that these specific 12 energy bodies are omnipresent and corresponde to incarnations. I perceive that a lunar and a solar finger points as 2 seperate descriptions of the same things.
Common thought is that Tuarus = Snake, Scorpio = Pig, Gemini = Horse, etc... But in my view it is opposite; and that Snake = Scorpio, Tuarus = Pig, Sagittarius = Horse... Gemini is the Rat.
But that is an arrangement of the descriptions. In large, we mostly interact in rearranging descriptions, daily. We then present these and create a discussion based on our current descriptions. The discussing process keps our attention on the shell of knowledge. To go deeper into the egg we need to stop talking, stop discussing, and stop rearranging our descriptions.
The image below is a painting I once did where I was exploring the possible living connectivity that Scorpio is in fact the same total egg that is Year of the Snake.
The snake is in the lower, right corner moving the cycles of the moon, and the small flame walking in the sun on the upper left is in Scorpio form.
The sun is one wheel, the moon is the other wheel, but what combines the 2?
Well Neptune does, but Venus sits between them. The connection is always Venus, if not then we are not alligned to the Goddess.
What I then look at is time itself. I see how through Roman rule I think, that we in our current agreed societies have this 12 point clock that we live by. Again it is seemingly this 12 spoked wheel that we obey and live within.