Linda Goodman might find my opinion extremely irritating but believe me it's only about the way we look at circumstances that life presents to us. It's like believing that a glass tumbler is half full or half empty.
It's completely in our hands to interpret and analyse a situation, determine our choices and thereby a course of action. The result of this hard work is something that we then attribute to destiny and find a convenient way to blame a nonexistent entity for our incorrect and often absurd perceptions.
Moral of the story: We truly are in control of destiny's manifestations ... after all its only a matter of perception. And we can manage that ... can we ?