In the Roman calendar, Saturnus recurs in a seven-years’ cycle. This event copes with fears of uncertainty that are constantly renewing and at the same time with the hope for a better, more peaceful and fairer future. Fear and confidence, and motifs that appear to be martial and peaceful alternate. They demonstrate that such opposites keep our world in motion, and make it, what it is: a place, where opposites may well exist in concord.