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title: 水澤節 — Limitation (Hexagram 60)
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# 水澤節 · Limitation — Hexagram 60

Hexagram 60 of the I Ching is 水澤節 (Limitation). Limitation — moderation. Success — but bitter limitation cannot be persevered in. Find the mean. Neither too strict nor too lax — keep measure.

## Work / Relationships / Health

- **Work**: Good for budgeting and disciplined planning.
- **Relationships**: Keep distance; do not over-involve.
- **Health**: Moderate food, drink, life.

## Structure

- Number: 60
- Name: 水澤節
- English: Limitation
- Romaji: sui-taku-setsu
- Pinyin: jié
- Upper: 水 (Water)
- Lower: 澤 (Lake)
- Lines (top to bottom):

```text
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▬▬▬   ▬▬▬
▬▬▬   ▬▬▬
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
```

## Recorded readings using this hexagram

### Divining His Own Fate in Prison (1861)

- Hexagram 3 → 60 · Chun (屯) changing to Setsu (節), line 2
- Imprisoned as a young man, Takashima found a volume of the Book of Changes left in his cell, studied it for three years, then made paper ropes in place of yarrow stalks and cast a hexagram on his own fate.
- [Read the case](https://ekidan.ai/heritage/cases/takashima-own-fate-in-prison)

### A Police Officer's Debt (Meiji era)

- Hexagram 60 · Setsu (節) — Moderation, line 2
- A police officer, sick with worry over a debt of 13,000 yen incurred educating a dead comrade's relatives, came to Takashima — and left with a repayment schedule and a limit on how long he was allowed to worry each day.
- [Read the case](https://ekidan.ai/heritage/cases/police-officer-debt-setsu)

## Questions about this hexagram

### What does hexagram 60 (水澤節) mean?

Limitation — moderation. Success — but bitter limitation cannot be persevered in. Find the mean.

### What does 水澤節 counsel?

Neither too strict nor too lax — keep measure.

### What does 水澤節 say about work?

Good for budgeting and disciplined planning.

### What does 水澤節 say about relationships?

Keep distance; do not over-involve.

### What does 水澤節 say about health?

Moderate food, drink, life.

### Which trigrams make up hexagram 60?

Upper trigram 水 (Water) over lower trigram 澤 (Lake).


Source: [Takashima Ekidan AI — ekidan.ai](https://ekidan.ai/library/60)