One popular method of divination in Korea is SAJU
SAJU means the "Four Pillars". And it is composed of
the year, month, date and hour of one's birth which are supposed to
influence one's fate.
So if we think people's life is the process of building a house, the
four main pillars are already installed by birth timing.
With this Four Pillars people visit fortune- tellers.
Fortune-tellers are the working -class descendants of the diviners who
descendants of the diviners who introduced the science of divination
from China to Korea some 2,000 years ago. Their materials are loosely
based on the Chinese classic 'I Ching (Book of Divination)'
SAJU reads a person's destiny through the alignment of the force that
makes up nature, in accordance with the principles of YIN and YANG
(the negative and positive aspects of the universe).
The balance between
the five elements (wood, fire, earth, metal and water) in nature becomes
the main factor determining the person's
They perform a variety of services- choosing an auspicious date for a
ceremony (such as a wedding), naming a new-born child or a business,
giving advice to job-seekers, matching young couples before they embark
on an engagement, and- perhaps the most popular request in career- driven
Korea- predicting the outcome of college examinations.
Fortuneteller says "through SAJU we can understand almost 90 per cent of a
person's good or bad luck, both past and future."
You can get the advice based on the secret of the universe.
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