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Inspired by temperance card in tarot

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"A kind of political continuity"

It [..] appears impossible to portray the royal counsellors convincingly, still less to single out with precision the contribution made by each of them or indeed by any one of them to the dynasty's general achievement; but there seems to have been one important respect in which their actions probably helped to reinforce the dynastic views of the Capetian kings. The Capetians were remarkably loyal to their counsellors. In so far as the history of their council is known, disgrace appears rarely to have been visited on its members. Etienne de Garlande, archdeacon of Notre-Dame de Paris, and chancellor and seneschal to Louis VI, Pierre de La Broce, and Enguerrand de Marigny, the cynical Norman adviser of Philip the Fair, are the only royal counsellors known for certain to have been disgraced. For that matter, Marigny was deserted not by the king he had served, but by his son Louis X, who lived to experience remorse for it. Counsellors frequently survived the king who had first admitted them to his council, nor did the royal favour shown them die with him. Out of filial respect a new king, on succeeding to the throne, would usually retain his father's counsellors in his service. The association of the heir-presumptive with the throne during his father's lifetime helps to explain this policy during the reigns preceding that of Philip Augustus; so does the quasi-hereditary nature of the functions of some of the great offices of state. But in Philip Augustus' time these last two factors finally ceased to operate. All that now counted was the regard of a new king for his father's memory and his father's works. Louis VIII retained all the counsellors of his father, Philip Augustus. After him, his widow and son retained the services of the Hospitaller Guérin and of Renaud de Roye, who had been reared in the school of the victor of Bouvines. Until the closing years of his reign, Philip III allowed the old servants of St Louis to carry on his father's policy. Many of Philip the Fair's officials began their careers under Philip III and, after a temporary eclipse, Philip the Fair's counsellors very largely made up the council of his three sons.

The relative permanence of the royal counsellors helped to create a kind of political continuity for the whole Capetian period. For two centuries, each Capet king in turn was associated with his father in governing before coming to rule on his own. Every king of the dynasty was surrounded by counsellors who had already worked with his predecessor and sometimes with the last king but one. And every king was persuaded to follow the same broad lines of policy, the more so as the very exigencies of his situation set him on the path he must tread. Hence Capetian policy was not cursed with the vagaries characteristic of so many dynasties and governments. A last contributing factor was the modest and reasonable character of everything they purposed and accomplished. Excess was foreign to their natures.

Robert Fawtier - The Capetian Kings of France

From Les Rois Maudits (1972)- A dying Philippe IV worries about everything he did, and everything he couldn't do, and Marigny tries, with unwavering confidence and loyalty, to assuage his fears.

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Hello back #tarot What a nice card to get before I travel #temperance #templanza Shortly, the readings I'd promised... #tarotcards #weeklyreading #cartadelasemana #arcanodelasemana #14 #XIIII #XVI (at Chez Brixton)

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Tarot Project: Ill-Dignified Temperance

Tarot Project: Ill-Dignified Temperance

Day one of my tarot card project. First off, a couple things I believe about the nature of tarot, which are important to keep in mind during any card reading:

Tarot doesn’t show the future, it shows the path a person is on. Directionality, rather than inevitability.

As such it is possible for a person to change their path at any time, especially if they know and understand the road they are…

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[lethalbutterfly]

Hi, I'll be auditioning for Xion and I'm going to sing "thanks for the memories" by fallout boy.