Pillars — Modern divination

Would you believe that you were born under 4 pairs of letters and they can tell how your life is going? Well, I didn’t until I decided to make a whole app about it. Check it out if you already want to know your Pillars. My partner goes “So I looked up their Pillars…” whenever she meets someone. The Four Pillars of Destiny is an astrology widely active around the Far East. In ancient days, people would depend on these letters to understand and, hopefully, predict their lives. While being ancient, the Four Pillars still count. They’re brought up to resolve relationship issues. Birth rate bumps when it’s the year of Dragon, like this year. There are many other applications: Feng Shui, Gua, Qi Men Dun Jia, and so on. Do they make any sense though? I remained disengaged, sceptical, and sometimes critical because I thought such superstition would hurt good judgement. Then I saw my partner raising hope in her most difficult times. More often than not, there is not much good judgement can do. That’s when I thought I had to give the astrology thing a second thought. I still don’t think the Pillars predict or diagnose anything. They are purely fictitious. Then what is fiction for? Once you accept that a story is just a story, it becomes a source of wisdom and inspiration. It’s been said that people tend to agree with random fortune-telling. The Barnum-Forer effect exposes how, not dumb, but complex we are. Any story can work as a mirror that reflects yourself within yourself. The Pillars make a great story-generator. The four pairs of ten and twelve letters produce 12,960,000 possible combinations of Pillars. Each pair gets assigned a relationship that opens up space for interpretation. I thought it would be fun to build upon this idea. That’s how I started working on Pillars.