A shift from "national fate" to "personal fate." Wang Chong philosophized on destiny; Guan Lu practiced divination—marking the beginning of numerology's focus on individual fortune.
The earliest recorded "destiny reading" comes from Guan Lu of the Three Kingdoms period. A master of numerology, his self-assessment is recorded in the Records of Three Kingdoms: "My natal element falls in Yin, and I was born on a night of lunar eclipse. Heaven has its fixed numbers that cannot be defied, though people know it not. I have foretold the deaths of over a hundred people, rarely erring."
This was Guan Lu reading his own fate. "Natal element in Yin" meant he was born in a Gengyin year (210 CE). From his birth time, he calculated he was destined to be "short-lived." Indeed, he died the following year at forty-eight.
His claim to have accurately predicted over a hundred deaths demonstrates that traditional destiny analysis based on birth time had already emerged by the Three Kingdoms era.
