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means The idea of destiny as an active force that shapes events beyond anyone's control, as if fate were physically guiding what happens to you.

from A pairing of two old words: "fate" comes from the Latin "fatum," literally "that which has been spoken" — a thing decreed, often by the gods — from "fari," to speak. "Hand" is plain Old English "hond," and has long stood for agency and control (the hand that does, gives, takes). Putting them together personifies destiny as a being with a literal hand at work, an image stretching back to the Greek and Roman Fates, the Moirai and Parcae, who were imagined spinning, measuring, and cutting the thread of each life.