WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Four Pillars of Destiny - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pillars_of_Destiny

    The Four Pillars of Destiny, as known as " Ba-Zi ", which means "eight characters" or "eight words" in Chinese, is a Chinese astrological concept that a person's destiny or fate can be divined by the two sexagenary cycle characters assigned to their birth year, month, day, and hour. This type of cosmological astrology is also widely used in ...

  3. Destiny - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destiny

    Fate, by Alphonse Mucha. Although often used interchangeably, the words fate and destiny have distinct connotations.. Traditional usage defines fate as a power or agency that predetermines and orders the course or set of events positively or negatively affecting someone or a group, or in an idiom, to tell someone's fortune, or simply the result of chance and events.

  4. Tonalli - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonalli

    The Tonalli is the soul that enters and leaves the body. In Atla in the northern Sierra de Puebla, the inhabitants believe this is the soul that travels while you sleep at night, and then comes back. [5] This is the soul that leaves and comes back every time you sneeze, or whenever you yawn, or even when you are startled.

  5. Free will - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will

    Destiny or fate is a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or of an individual. It is a concept based on the belief that there is a fixed natural order to the cosmos. Although often used interchangeably, the words "fate" and "destiny" have distinct connotations.

  6. Moirai - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moirai

    v. t. e. In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Moirai (/ ˈmɔɪraɪ, - riː /)—often known in English as the Fates —were the personifications of destiny. They were three sisters: Clotho (the spinner), Lachesis (the allotter), and Atropos (the inevitable, a metaphor for death). Their Roman equivalent is the Parcae.

  7. Fatalism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatalism

    Destiny, painting by T. C. Gotch (1885–1886), Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia. Fatalism is a belief [1] and philosophical doctrine [2] [3] which considers the entire universe as a deterministic system and stresses the subjugation of all events, actions, and behaviors to fate or destiny, which is commonly associated with the consequent attitude of resignation in the face of future ...

  8. Ananke - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananke

    Ananke is considered the most powerful dictator of fate and circumstance. Mortals and gods alike respected her power and paid her homage. She is also considered the mother of the Fates, hence she is thought to be the only being to overrule their decisions [1] (according to some sources, excepting Zeus also). According to Daniel Schowalter and ...

  9. Astrology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology

    Astrology is a range of divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, [1][2] that propose that information about human affairs and terrestrial events may be discerned by studying the apparent positions of celestial objects. [3][4][5][6][7] Different cultures have employed forms of astrology since at least the 2nd ...