Destiny is a matter many perceive as mysterious and fatalistic and many perceive it as nonsense. We all are the makers of our own fortune by applying ambitions and skill in building our fortune. Failing to do this will call upon misfortune. But on what goals are we applying our skill? A Ifá proverb says: If we don’t know to where we are going, any road will do’. This is a call to know your destiny. The Yoruba word for destiny is kádàrá and is an elision of Ká, which signifies something coiled up, something cyclical that can be exercised, like a muscle can be flexed and àdà meaning ‘cutlass’ and àrá , ‘lightning’. This invites an understanding of destiny as something coiled up within our Iwa or character and Ori, consciousness that is subject to being uncoiled by the work of cutlass and lightening. We see here the manifestation of the powers of Obatàlá, Ogún, Sangó and Oyá and an understanding of destiny being imprinted by Obatàlá , who coil