Continuation…
Dr. Shanker Adawal
Modus Operandi
When examining the hands
it is better to do so by daylight rather than by artificial light unless the
latter is very good. Sit opposite the subject, permit-ting the light to fall on
his hands and examine both hands, see what the character has been by the left,
and how it has altered as shown in the right. In reference to what has been
said before, it is better to rely rather on the right hand for information than
on the left, and it is therefore advisable to ascertain whether one’s subject
is right or left handed.
The natural position of
the fingers must be noted, and if difficulty is experienced it is found useful
to ask the subject to hold up his hand palm towards the reader; the fingers
will then be found to assume their natural positions. First of all the
predominating mount or finger and mount must be ascertained, and as one
commences to read examine the three worlds, texture, flexibility, consistency,
etc., then the thumb and fingers, nails, etc., and read each in its special significance
to the predominating division, noticing how each influences and modifies the
qualities of the type.
Be very careful not to
make mistakes by omitting to examine everything bearing on the part of the hand
examined.
Speak slowly and
distinctly, without hesitation, and truthfully. You need not offend, however
plainly you speak, if you use tact.
Be careful lest you
frighten a sensitive and highly-strung subject, put yourself into your
consultant’s place and feel for him or her.
Do not read the future
until you are fully able to do so, and then strive to warn and to strengthen
rather than to create an impression.
This study cannot be
learnt in a day, so do not be discouraged if at first you fail-it is worth much
attention, for by it the Book of Nature-the study of Man-is open to all.
Knowledge is power, let us
therefore seek it that we may help others and be of use to ourselves.
The Female Hand
The characteristics of
each type, as we have enumerated them, apply to women as well as to men, though
we have, for convenience sake, made use throughout of the masculine pronoun; at
the same time, there are certain modifications which seem to require
exposition; as, for instance, the square spatulate types are much less
pronounced in woman than in man, a fact shown by the greater suppleness and
elasticity of the female hand in general, consequent on the differences
existing between the male and female dispositions. The man creates, but the
woman develops; to man belongs the faculty of principle, to woman the gift of
form; our laws are made by man, but our morals by woman; and it has been justly
said that man is the spirit of the woman, but woman is the soul of the man. Few
women have their joints developed, so few women have the faculty of
combination; in intellectual occupations they choose generally those requiring
more tact than science, more activity of mind than of body, more imagination than judgment; if their hands are
knotty, their intellects are, so to speak, diluted; they are then less
impressionable, and less given to the inspirations of fancy. Women may be
divided by this science into two classes; those with large and those with small
thumbs; the first, more intelligent than sensitive, have a natural taste for
history and similar studies; the second, more sensitive than intellectual,
prefer romance. Consideration and clear headedness is the gift of those with
large thumbs; love with them is more a matter of head than heart, but it is
also more free and faithful, and a large-thumbed woman is never a coquette.
With those who have a small thumb, on the contrary, love is their all in all,
and though they are not so clever, they are infinitely more fascinating. The
cares of womanhood, the sympathy which is natural to her, and the troubles of maternity,
all require and enforce a high degree of intelligence; therefore the elementary
hand is of extremely rare occurrence among women; and in communities where the
men represent for the most part this type the empire of woman is supreme. Man under
these circumstances is dead to the charms o youth, and nearly always marries a
woman older than him, to be governed by her.
Indian women usually have
the exterior phalange delicately squared, consequent on their willingness to
adopt household cares. The women of the Oriental harems, on the other hand,
devoted unto death, have, generally, small slim hands, with small thumbs. Such
women as Charlotte Corday, Sophie de Condorcet, and Lucile Desmoulins, women,
whose very souls were permeated only with one feverish ideal, had very pointed
fingers. Take a woman with rather spatulate fingers and a small thumb; such a
woman has an unlimited fund of affection and freedom of soul, love of activity,
and knowledge of real life; she loves and understands horses, and all other
animals; her ideas are practical and useful. The woman with square fingers and
a small thumb will have everything in her house orderly and punctual, but
without tyranny or despotism; by her example she keeps all things neat and
under control. If she has a large thumb, it indicates a virago, tyrannical
towards her servants and towards her children; at the same time, the square
phalange may indicate narrow-mindedness, prudishness, and fussiness if the hand
inclines to hardness. Little, soft, supple hands, with marked joints, and a
pretty colour, indicate sharpness, vivacity and brilliancy; love with them must
be gay, for their sole object is to be merry. If a woman has hands with a
strong palm, conic fingers, and a small thumb, she is most accessible to
rhetoric and the fervid language of love, which explains, palliates, extols all
things; to please her one must be brilliant, for she prefer oratory and
persuasion to logic and sound sense. Delicate, smooth-pointed fingers, with a
little thumb and a narrow elastic palm, proclaim an indolent enthusiasm; such
woman is governed more by heart than by sense and spirit; she do not care about
the realities of life and conventional duties; she is pious, but hardly
devoted; enthusiastic in spirit, but not in body.
Thus, it will be seen
that, though the types have much the same characteristics among women as among
men, yet, to read the character of a woman, as shown by her hand, requires more
tact and self-confidence than is required in reading that of a man. But,
without multiplying instances, we hope that the notes contained in this chapter
may aid the would be Palmist to analyse and discern these differences; and
having shortly enumerated the points of importance to be remembered with regard
to Palmistry, we may safely launch the reader upon the more tempestuous and
dangerous sea of Palmistry.
Continue…
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