III - Binah - Understanding (Saturnine)

Getting way up high, arriving at Binah, a silent sphere of understanding. Despite being about birth it is somewhat funereal, once things are given form and life they are now able to lose those things, I suppose.
 
Number: Three
Planetary association: Saturn
Animals: Woman
Colors: Black
Stones: Star sapphire, pearl
Fragrance: Myrrh, civet
Myths & godforms: Babalon, Maut, Isis, Nephthys, Bhavani, Frigga, Demeter, Rhea, Hera/Juno, Kronos, Hecate, the Virgin Mary
Chakra: Ajna (third eye)
Metals: Lead
Plants: Cypress, opium poppy, ivy, lily, lotus
Tools: the outer robe, the cup