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​The Winds of Fate and Destiny in an Eternal World: The concepts of fate and destiny and the concepts of eternity and infinity are all entwined in meaning but have distinct connotations. Fate and destiny relate (differently) to a predetermined state in the future and that future may or may not be held eternally or infinitely. Also available as a Word Guide.
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A Brief Moment in the History of Time:
Time is the continuous passage of existence in which events pass from a state of potentiality in the future, through the present, to a state of finality in the past.
Also available as a Word Guide.​

Syzygy
​Alignment of the Universe and Earth

May the universe give you life
May the earth sustain and nurture it
May the energy of the sun empower it
May the moon softly restore it at night
May the breeze blow away any worries
May the rain wash away any tears
May you find peace and harmony in nature

PART II

FLUFFY WHITE CLOUDS

Words for clouds:
Gaelic: SCAMALL - German: WOLKE - Greek: SYNNEFO - Japanese: KUMO - Latin: NUBES

Beautiful words related to the clouds:
  • Billow - a large, undulating mass of clouds
  • Brumous - dark sky with grey rain clouds
  • Iceblink- a yellowish luminosity bear the horizon or the underside of a cloud caused by a reflection on sea ice
  • Louring - darkening by clouds
  • Nefelibata - cloud walker; someone with their head in the clouds
  • Nimbus - a cloud or atmosphere
  • Nubivagant - moving through the air or wandering through the clouds
  • Opacus - a dense cloud that obscures the sun or the moon

A WARM AND GENTLE RAIN

Words for rain:
Arabic: TUMTIR - French: PLUIE - Greek: VROCHI - Latin: PLUVIAM

Beautiful words related to the rain, fog or thunder and lightning:
  • Brume - mist or fog
  • Fulmen - thunderbolt
    • Fulgor- flash of lightning
    • Mizzle - rain that falls in fine drops, a drizzle or a mist
    • Sirimiri - a light drizzle
  • Mistpouffer - the mysterious sound heard from the ocean during foggy weather
  • Petrichor - Greek for the smell of the earth after a rain
  • Pluviophile - a lover of rain; someone who finds peace and comfort on rainy days
  • Rimjhim - Hindi for gentle tapping of the rain
  • Turadh - Gaelic for a break in the clouds between showers
  • Yeoubi - Korean for the sun shining through the rain

A COLD AND BRISK SNOWFALL

Words floor snow:
Arabic: THALAJ French: NEIGE - Greek: CHIONI - Japanese: YUKIMI - Latin: NIX

Beautiful words related to ice and snowfall:
  • Ammil- the glittering layer of ice that dusts the twigs, leaves and branches of trees after a freeze.
  • Bruma - winter, winter solstice
  • Gelidus - icy cold or frozen
  • Niveous - resembling snow
  • Kapel - Russian for the water that drips from a melting frost
  • Kheima - winter weather, cold and frost

OUR SPINNING EARTH

Words for Earth:
French: TERRE - Dutch: AARDE - Gaelic: DOMHAIN - Japanese: CHIKYU - Hindi: PRTHVEE

Beautiful words related to the earth:
  • Bosky - covered with bushes, shrubs, and small trees; a woody area
  • Feullemort - a dying leaf
  • Hyle- a forest or woodland
  • Petrichor - the smell of the earth after the rain
  • Triphyllous - having three leaves
  • Xylophile - someone who loves the forest
    • Sylvan - of or relating to the woods
    • Weald- a forest or wild upland region
    • Willowwacks- a wooded, uninhibited area of forest
  • Xyst - a garden walkway planted with trees

THE BLUEST WAVES OF THE OCEAN

Words for ocean:
German: OZEAN- Greek: OKEANOS- Latin: OCEANUM- Arabic: MUHIT

Beautiful words related to the ocean:
  • Abbysal - pertaining to the floor of the ocean
  • Abyssopelagic - like or pertaining to the darkest depths of the blue sea.
  • Aequoreal - a rare and poetic term for the ocean
  • Benthic - pertaining to the depths of the deep ocean
  • Litoreus - if or belonging to the sea shore; the sandy area where the beach meets the sea
  • Littoral - the shore of the ocean
  • Marmoris - the shining surface of the ocean
  • Offing - the distant part of the sea seen from the shore
  • Pulchritudinous - breathtaking, heartbreaking beauty like the deep blue ocean
  • Serein- the fine, light rain that falls from a clear sky
  • Spoondrift - a fine spray of sea water
  • Spume - a white mass of bubbles or froth on the top of a wave
  • Thalassic - relating to the deep beauty of the sea
  • Venetus - having the color of the deep blue sea
  • Venters - what the wind or the tide drives in on the waves of the ocean
See also: The Ocean and Sea

THE BEAUTY OF NATURE

Beautiful words related to the beauty of nature on the earth and in the universe:
  • Aesthete- someone with a deep sensitivity for the beauty of nature
  • Biophilia - a love of life and the living world.
  • Cyrophilic - thriving in low temperatures
  • Idyllic - extremely happy or peaceful or picturesque.
  • Querencia - a place where ones strength is drawn, a home
  • Rewild- returning to a more natural state
  • Songimvelo - Siswati for conserving, caring for or nurturing nature
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