SCIENCE OF PALMISTRY

Evening Star, Issue 22524, 17 December 1936, Page 20

SCIENCE OF PALMISTRY

WHAT FINGERNAILS REVEAL Nails are a good guide to character. The shape of the pink’ part only should bo taken into account, although obviously “bitten” nails mean irritability, nervousness, while long curving ones show bad temper. Generally speaking, short nails show a critical nature, quick and sometimes frivolous. While spots mean a cold nature, but show favourable fortune; black spots point to loss of money and little strength of . character. White spots on different nails have different meanings . . thumb, loye: index, money; second, journeys; third, honour and gains; fourth, business acquisitions. Turn the hand over and examine the mounts. Venus at the base of the thumb, presides over the lighter side of life. Here are indications of love of beauty and a good time; passion is shown hero also, and fickleness. Absence of this mount is bad, showing selfishness and a. dull, cold nature. Excess is bad, also, showing inconsistency. Other indications of- sensuousness and weakness of will are a flaccid thumb and a much-lined heart line. Jupiter is beneath the first finger. Ambition, power, and religion are here, also a domineering spirit. Very developed, it shows love of display, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, hard generosity, of a calculating kind. Lack of this mount betrays boorishness, idleness, and unpunotuality. Saturn, at the root of the middle finger, shows the fate of the subject. In excess there is horror of death, profound melancholy, unreasonable fears. Little or no mount shows fatalism and resignation, inclination to “ lie down ” about things. Happily, these tendencies can he eradicated by the Fate line ending clean and straight through the mound, indicating that man’s destiny lies truly in his own hands. Apollo, in strong contrast to Saturn, is the mount of sunshine, and lies at the root of the third finger. The cultivation of art and literature, and a kindly disposition, are indicated here. Sensitiveness, love of beauty, sometimes the ■ temperament of the artist. In excess, it shows extravagance, boastfulness, love of dress. ■ Absence of the mount means dullness, a negative personality, and a love of low forms of pleasure. To sum up, a taste for beauty, an appreciation of art, and a charitable and kindly nature are shown by a moderate, well-lined mount of Apollo. Mercury presides over business capacities, and 3s beneath the fourth finger. It shows quickness of wit, intelligence, aptitude for business. Also eloquence, writing facility, and a clear brain, in excess, these talents, may become dishonesty, lying, and treachery, Absence of the mount shows lack of business instinct. A Mercury hand sometimes shows activity in sport, ability at games and cards. Mars, between the mounts of Mercury and the Moon, shows courage. In a good hand, an excess of the mount, though showing rashness, still indicates bravery. In a bad hand, it shows a bullying sensibility, Luna stands for magnetism, romance, poetic feeling, and love of the sea. Absence of this mount means melancholy and extreme sensibility. AH'these * signs must be weighed against each other before judgment is passed, as the good influence of one may counteract the bad effect of an-