The Emperor and Temperance

Both Fire, and both about governing something, by opposite methods. The Emperor sets a rule and holds it; Temperance adjusts continuously and never settles. The tradition reads the pair as the argument between a policy and a judgement.

Associated with rigid agreements meeting a situation that keeps changing, and with the strain of maintaining a rule past its usefulness.

Read for policy against discretion. The pair notes that policy scales and discretion fits, and that the choice is real.

Ask whether this needs a rule or a judgement. Rules applied to moving situations break in the same place every time.