Saturn (♄) — Structure, Limitation, Time

~~Hex 47 (Oppression) — Saturn as the taskmaster who crushes.~~ Too negative. Saturn is not punishment; Saturn is structure. Hex 52 (Keeping Still): the mountain that defines the landscape by not moving. Hex 60 (Limitation): water over lake, the banks that give the river its course. Saturn says: without limits, nothing has shape. The I-Ching agrees — Hex 60 says 'galling limitation must not be persevered in,' but limitation itself is necessary. Saturn is the frame; the painting exists because of it.

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