Is there a correct method of accepting catalyst?

[Plenum]

Are all things intended to be accepted as catalyst immediately or can a balanced entity abstain from certain activities and still be balanced in its desire to know the self? If the self cannot be freely given something without great pain, should it still bear the sacrifice? Is sacrifice the way and only way to progress?

if you look at the Structure of the Archetypes, you will that the Catalyst chain (the Wheel, the Empress, the Star) leads onto the Experience chain.

catalyst leads to experience.

Catalyst is just the first step.