Wandering upon the affective terrain

[Sacred Fool]

...but like most people I tend to focus on the stuff that's hard. 

I hope I'm not being picayune here...but, uh...I think you're imagining a skewed dichotomy between, let's say, the lion of the visceral drives and tweety bird of the finer emotions.  Is mastery of the latter truly easy compared with making friends with the former?  I suppose one could view it that way from the perspective of what one might receive from each (wild confusion vs. like, bliss, man), but I would challenge you to consider the artistic options available in tweety-land.  Function there, likewise, takes a lot out of one in the sense that knowledge of self must deepen mightily as contact with Divinity is deepened, and that sort of personal refinement feels a lot like work, I would aver.

Anyhow (steeping off the soap box now), that Temptress icon strikes me as a depiction of skillful sts developement.  You condition a relationship with your animal vitality (rrrrrrrRRRRRRRR!), then you receive the snake bite at the brow (the biting is actually an ancient Greek motif, the Egyptians were more demure about it), which is to say, you learn to do work in spirit, and you bliss out in tweetsville.

It's telling, if you look at it, that her right arm crosses over her heart.  This is to say, the balance depicted here shows no use of love.  It's a clean, elegant summation of balanced self love....um, but are you really loving yourself if you conceal from yourself a critical, vital, integral element?  You decide!