CHIROMANCY

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XX, Issue XVI, 16 April 1898, Page 475

CHIROMANCY

Or the SCIENCE OF READING HANDS. f I 1 HERE has been so much interest I taken in the Graphology ColJ- umn, that it has been decided to start a ‘Chirot iancy’ Column, under the able guidance of Madame Vero. This lady has devoted a great deal of time and thought to this very interesting subject, and has thoroughly studied it in all its branches. Her ‘readings’ have been extraordinarily successful, and ‘The Graphic’ is fortunate in securing her services. A sketch of a hand with all its lines is given, as a guide to those wishing their hands to be read. No one has all the lines indicated on the specimen hand, but some few of them will be found on each hand. The following suggestions will help in drawing the hand:—

Lay your band, palm downwards, on a piece of clean white paper, the fingers as far apart as they will comfortably go. Then with a pencil trace all round it. Next hold it up against the window, and reverse it so that it will appear with the palm uppermost, as in the sketch. Then ink it carefully all round, taking pains to have the fingers the exact length. In the first sketch indicate the joints as you come to them by dots; this makes it much easier to get the correct distances when filling in the lines. Draw all the lines you see, as far as possible at correct distances from each other. Put no names in. Then send your hand with 24 penny stamps, to ‘MADAME VERO. Care of the Lady Editor, “New Zea land Graphic,” Auckland.’ THE TRAVELLER.—It is a very pleasant task to read so fortunate a hand as yours, and unless my confidence in chiromancy be sadly misplaced your lot in life should lie an enviable one. The lines are ideal in

their length and clearness. Jupiter and Mercury appear to be predominant, and their combination generally command success in life. As the mount beneath the iittle finger in a good hand adds philosophy and love of science to the high ambition, honour and gaiety of Jupiter, your fingers are distinctly spatulate. This termination gives love of action, change, exercise. travel, excitement and notoriety. The length of the hand indicates attention to detail; the well-developed knots give method, philosophy and reason, with possibly a •taste’ for argument. In your drawing the thumb does not display strength of will, although logic and tact are visible in the second phalange; but the angles, the quadrangle, and triangle are all so perfect that your character cannot be deficient either in firmness or nobility. The second angle betokens acutely sensitive nerves and this may be the weak point. The life line shows good health until after 60, from which date great eare should be taken of the health; and at all times I think too much excitement should be avoided because of the excitable nervous temperament. The heart line leaves nothing to be desired in the quantity or quality of your affection. It is almost too unselfish and self-sacrificing in type. There are two heart troubles, one very young which may signify the loss of some relation or dear friend. The date of the second I make to be about 22. There is only one deep attachment line marked between 23 and 26; but there are undoubtedly two love affairs at the same time. I consider the second heart trouble to be entirely the result of imagination which misleads you and causes pain for a time. The head line is, as I said before, ideal, and the same term may be applied to the lines of Fate, Apollo and Mercury. 1 have never, in real life, seen so fortunate a hand as yours. With the exception of two early troubles I have mentioned, there is not a sign of anything but prosperity, riches, success and gratified ambition. Wealth increases after 35, and is the result of personal meric and ability rather than heredity. No voyage lines are marked ; but you have travelling to do. I cannot fix any date for your marriage as the lines are not given; but I am almost sure the event takes place before you are 28, or else your engagement is a long one. —VERO. Note.—My ‘subjects,’ of course, understand that I have not the remotest idea of their real ages.

JASMINE.—I cannot attempt to pronounce on the ascendant mount in your hand without the distinguishing mark to guide me. The type appears to be Venusian; but if you .possess the attributes of that mount, viz., benevolence, affection, grace, desire to be loved, admiration for beauty, colour, and melody in music, you evidently combine with these characteristics the prudence and gravity of Saturn. The fingers denote artistic taste, mental activity, and independence, both in thought and action. The thumb indicates firmness and generosity, without extravagance, and the pointed little finger gives intuition and eloquence. The life line shows a severe illness in childhood before the age of 12 years; after that, from your diagram, the line signifies good health up to an advanced age, although I do not think you should overtax your mental powers, notwithstanding the indications of talent and acute intelligence shown by the head line and the line running from the root of the little finger to the second phalange. The heart line is also very good. It betokens strong and lasting affection, and, as there are no crosses on any of the branches, I need predict no heart troubles or give warning of false friends; but you have not given me a single horizontal line below the little finger. I think there must be some marked in your hand, for in my long experience 1 never remember seeing a hand without one. Moreover, a line which I always consider to represent ‘a husband’s influence,’ appears on the Mount of Venus no later than the age of 20, and the line, touching both heart and head lines, signifies some very strong and life-long influence. The line of Saturn, or Fate, is not fortunate, as its numerous breaks and stoppages at the head line show troubles and difficulties long before 35, although wealth is indicated by the upwa rd branches, and, again, by the angle near the wrist. The three lines, in steps, from the Mount of

Saturn to that of Jupiter, also show a gradual ascent in the social scale. The deep line cutting the Mount of Mercury gives cleverness and business capacity. This line is generally found in Mercurian subjects, and if the mount be developed it gives energy to your character. The line of Fate is probably more developed in your right hand when the breaks only give warning of possible dangers and difficulties in your path.—VEßO.

NANCY.—I think your hand is of the Mercurian type, and in case you have not read my previous sketches I must repeat that the mount below the little finger gives love of science, invention, industry, travel, quick intelligence, and with your fingers clear, reasonable eloquence and perhaps some argumentative taste. The thumb shows an equal balance between will and reason, and the long first finger, with its pointed nail phalange, betokens that you are fairly ambitious, intuitive, and a good economist. The life line, rising high, denotes ambition, and the uncrossed branches on Jupiter’s mount seems to promise that your desires will be gratified; but in this hand you appear to be lamentably deficient in self-confidence; perhaps the right gives testimony that you overcome this as years elapse. The line is tortuous between 25 and 35, and there are indications of an illness soon after the former date, while, .as in the hand of Jasmine, the bifurcated termination should warn you not to tighten the strain on your mental faculties. The heart line indicates trouble connected with the affections in early youth, and again a still more severe sorrow or disappointment between 21 and 25. I regret that in this diagram, as well as Jasmine’s, although both are so well executed, no attachment lines are given, therefore 1 can only remain reluctantly silent on the subject. On the fate line a strong influence is shown which in an ordinary hand I should say betokened a union of affection before 20, but yours is so uncommon that I hesitate to say more than that there might have been such a union. About 21 there is a break. You were or will be in some trouble or difficulty at that time. The line proceeds smoothly afterwards until 30, or a little more, when there is a most important change; and from 35 there seems little doubt that brilliant fortune will attend you. Your career appears to commence at that age, and there are many signs of eminent success. The head line shows an excellent memory and perseverance, a sympathetic and imaginative temperament. also promptness in decision; but there is warning of either illness, connected with the brain, or an accident late in life. A long voyage is marked with which some danger or misfortune is combined, but please remember that this requires the confirmation of both hands, and even if confirmed at present the lines may change before vou take the voyage.— VERO.