Shape of hand
The shape of hand is very important to understand Palmistry . It has been
broadly classified into Ten parts which are discussed below :-
The Psychic Hand :
The Psychic Hand is of all hands the most beautiful, and consequently the most
scare, for rarity is one of the conditions of beauty. It is small and slender,
compared with the rest of the body. It has a medium Palm, smooth Fingers, the
nailed Phalanges long, and tapering to a point, a small and elegant Thumb.
The Artistic Hand :
The Artistic Hand is Characterized by smooth Fingers whose nailed Phalanges
assume the form of the Cones or of elongated Thimbles. Plastic arts, painting,
Sculpture, monumental architecture, poetry of the imagination and of the senses,
cultivation of the beautiful in the solid and visible form, romantic charms,
antipathy to rigorous deduction, desire of social independence, propensity to
enthusiasm, subjection to fantasy - all these Qualities & defects are
Distinctively represented by the Artistic (Conical Hand).
The Useful Hand :
The Useful Hand is of medium size, but large rather than small, often with
Knotty Fingers, the nailed Phalanges of which are Square, a large Thumb, with
the base thereof (the mount of Venus) well developed, the Palm of medium
dimension, and firm. Perseverance, foresight and the spirit of order and
conventionality, with a love of truth & fair play, characterize the
individualities revealed to us by Useful hands. The possessors of such hands
have a deep preference for similitude and homogeneity.
The Necessary Hand :
A Necessary Hand is one, with nailed phalanges of whose fingers present the
appearance of a more or less flattened out spatula. The thumbs are large, with
those in which the instinct peculiar to these hands, supported by the promptings
of the brain, makes itself the most clearly manifest. The possessors of such
hand are almost insensible to art or to poetry, they are endowed with a very
small share of the instincts which lead to moral instability. They attach
themselves to a country for the material benefits which is accrue to them
therefrom. Manual labor is agreeable to them, and it is the same with all kinds
of active exercise. they suffer from the absence of the necessaries of life, but
not from the absence of the superfluous, for they are only slightly sensual.
The Philosophical Hand :
In a Philosophical Hand The Palm is rather large and well developed, but bony;
both Knots well marked in the Fingers; the nailed Phalanx half square, half
conical, a combination producing with the upper Knot a kind of egg-shaped
spatula; the Thumb large and indicating the presence of as much logic as will
power. Hands possessing Spatulate Finger-tips are drawn irresistibly toward that
which is materially useful; that the tendency of the Conical Fingers is toward
beauty of form, i.e., art; and that the inclination of the square Finger-tips
tends towards social utility, average and practical ideas, and realizable
combinations.
The Elementary Hand :
As the name it self Points, this type of hand is the most commonly found in the
masses. This hand Naturally belongs to the lowest kind of mentality. It is
characterized by stiff, heavy Fingers, by a short, clumsy Thumb with the nailed
Phalanx turned back, often of the "clubbed" type; by an extremely thick and hard
Palm, and by the Finger-Tips rounded and shapeless, somewhat of the Square type.
The people possessing such a type of hand have very little mental capacity. They
have little or no control over their passions; love of form, colour and beauty
does not appeal them. These types of Hands undertake unskilled manual labor, the
care of stables and the endless routine of coarse work. This type of hand is
very rarely found in its purity among civilized nation.
The Artistic- Elementary Hand :
This is a slightly improved type of basic Elementary hand. An improvement one
meets especially among those men of talent, or even genius who emerge from the
very lowest ranks of society, urged on by an invincible force, which pushes them
to the highest places in the social hierarchy. Many of the Great poets, famous
musicians, illustrious painters, sculptors, orators etc. belong to this
category.
The Brutal Murders Hand :
This type of hand is a great deterioration of the Elementary hand, Often seen in
people with uncontrollably violent temper. This type of hand is Characterized by
a thick, heavy Palm, reddish in tint, and broader than the average; short
awkward and stiff Fingers, generally crooked; often Spatulate; no knots to speak
of although sometimes the second joint may be clumsy and thick; a thumb with a
"clubbed" First Phalanx and a second Phalanx very much undersized. These
observations were made on brutal murderers in the Prisons or Penitentiaries.
The Congenital Idiot's Hand :
This is further deterioration of the Elementary hand. Below Criminal, almost in
a level with him, one finds the Congenital Idiot, the half-developed brain, the
child for Life. This hand is so ill-shaped as often to be justly called
crippled. The Palm is thick, soft longer than the Fingers and generally narrow;
this narrowness is increased by the position of the Thumb, set very high and
only half detached from the side of the hand; very short besides clumsy and
ill-shaped. The Fingers are hardly more than one-half the normal size; the
Phalanges are twisted and their Tips rounded and shapeless.
The mixed Hand :
The mixed Hand is most difficult to describe. The mixed hand is so called
because the hand cannot possibly be classed as Psychic, Artistic, Useful,
Necessary, Philosophical or Elementary; the Fingers also belong to different
types - often one pointed, one square, one Spatulate, one Philosophic etc. This
is the hand of Ideas, of versatility, and generally of changeability of purpose.
A person with such a hand is adaptable to both people and circumstances, clever,
but erratic in application of his talents.
The Woman's Hand :
The tendencies of each type among women are, the same as they are among men,
only, those which are peculiar to the Spatulate and Square types are much less
intense among women, by the reason of the suppleness of their muscles, than they
are among men.
