Dreams & Horoscopes

We find this truth in both classical and modern astrology. Robert Schmidt, in his article called "The Facets of Fate" tells us,

"Fate, what the Greeks called Moira,

http://home.online.no/~stebi/housesol.htm

http://www.mythindex.com/greek-mythology/M/Moirae.html

he calls them, together with the Keres, daughters of Night; and distinguishes three, viz. Clotho, or the spinning fate; Lachesis, or the one who assigns to man his fate; and Atropos, or the fate that cannot be avoided.

The Moirae according to an interpretation of the Parthenon sculptures (Athena and Kain) (color reconstruction), another interpretation is that the sculptures represent Persephone, Demeter and Iris.

In Greek Mythology, the white-robed Moirae or Moerae (Greek Μοίραι �?the "Apportioners," often called the Fates) were the personifications of destiny (Roman equivalent: Parcae, "sparing ones", or Fatae; also equivalent to the Germanic Norns). They controlled the metaphorical thread of life of every mortal and immortal from birth to death (and beyond). Even the gods feared the Moirae. Zeus himself may be subject to their power, as the Pythian priestess at Delphi once admitted. The Greek word moira (μοῖρ�? literally means a part or portion, and by extension one's portion in life or destiny.

Atropos ( ['ætrəpɒs], Greek Ἄτροπος �?"inexorable" or "inevitable", sometimes called Aisa) was the cutter of the thread of life. She chose the manner of a person's death. When she cut the thread with "her abhorred shears", someone on earth died. Her Roman equivalent was Morta ('Death').

http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Mythology/Moirae.html

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