Part 3
Journeys and peregrinations denoted by a line running from plain of Mars (hollow of hand) down to the Bracelet lines and ending immediately below the mount of the Moon.
THE MOUNT OF JUPITER. HONOUR, FAME, RENOWN, ECCLESIASTICAL, STATE, LAW.
The planet is fortunate when (1) a star or double cross; (2) parallel lines or (3) line clearly drawn from line of Life to his mount.
Description when fortunate: he signifies a noble, glorious, honest, benevolent, affable, honourable, merry, renowned, neat, just and equitable person; good-looking, formidable and happy, with beautiful hazel or blue eyes.
Hair dark brown; grave gesture, modest, and faithful to their promises.
Professions, etc.: great dignitaries, churchmen, lawyers or counsellors, statesmen or persons brought into contact with great men who are highly esteemed and loved. They favour their wives, sons, and all good men.
Jupiter rules the liver, blood, ribs, lungs and gristles.
Jupiter unfortunate when half a gridiron on his mount. This shows losses by powerful women. When generally unfortunate: when flat, flabby, with no good marks on it, interlaced with a lot of little hair lines, etc., he causes persons to lose their estates and brings about great calamities in money matters, although, if nothing else stops it, the person will usually recover it after he becomes strong.
Diseases: when afflicted he causes troubles of the heart, cramps, inflammation of the lungs, windy spasms.
Apoplexy indicated by a line transversely cutting his mount and extending towards the mount of Saturn (middle finger), and forming there a cleft or little lines.
Splendid honours and fame, riches, public rewards from princes and great men, a cross, especially a clear and red star on the mount of Jupiter or ♃ marked thereon.
THE MOUNT OF APOLLO. THE PLANET SUN. INGENUITY, PUBLIC HONOURS, BRILLIANCY, ETC.
The Sun is fortunate—same as in last planet.
Description when fortunate: persons are faithful, ingenious, honoured, high-minded, wise, humane, religious, just, moderate, aged, and do all things wisely.
He gives a well-set body with yellow or sandy hair, and rules the heart and eyes, the diaphragm (bowels) and nerves.
Description when unfortunate: the persons are proud and easily elated, manifesting their access to dignity by unjust means, boasters and immodest.
Diseases: he produces sore eyes and blindness, especially of right eye in man and left in a woman, and trembling of the heart, syncope, etc.
Political honours: the Via Solis being uniform and of a clear good colour; it also gives the favour and grace of princes.
Trouble and enmity from political and legal men when the Via Solis is confused and afflicted.
THE MOON. TRAVELLING BY LAND AND SEA.
When fortunate: good and clear marks near this mount, stars, etc. These persons are successful in journeys and messages and great prosperity in foreign countries; to a female felicity and happiness in bearing children.
Ominous signs placed here show death and affliction in childbirth.
Description: the persons will be famous, honest and honourable, with well-set large bodies proportioned and pleasant. They travel by land and sea, and causes them to desire to lie or walk by the side of water—rivers and running waters.
When unfortunate principally known by pale and confused line on the mount of the Moon.
The mount flat, soft and small, she causes persons to be inconstant in life and actions.
Diseases: affects the brain, stomach and belly, and occasions paralysis, epilepsy, cancer, spots on the body, gripings and severe colds.
THE PLANET SATURN. THE MOUNT OF SATURN. COUNSELS, MATHEMATICIANS, GRAVE THINKERS, INVENTORS, ETC.
When fortunate: when the line of Saturn runs uniformly and clear to his mount or ♄ marked thereon.
Saturn unfortunate when there are confused lines on his mount or contrary or unfortunate signs thereon.
Saturn fortunate: men are silent, provident; good and profound, not always rich, counsels, grave meditators, somewhat melancholy, and generally have a foolish way of laughing and jesting.
Description: they generally have a slender body, and rather tall, pale and feeble.
Hair brown or blackish colour, yet sometimes sandy. The eyes are sunken.
Trades, etc.: they are fortunate in agriculture, in minerals of all kinds, as mines, etc. They are somewhat careless of their wives and less addicted to sexual excesses, are more grasping and tenacious than is just.
When Saturn is unfortunate he makes persons sorrowful, laborious, sordid, humble, covetous, unfaithful, liars, unfortunate, malicious, oppressed with continual griefs and calamities.
Diseases: he gives dangerous diseases, colds, coughs, melancholy, hypochondriacal complaints, dropsy, gout, falling sickness, quartan and hectic fevers.
Accidents: he produces falls from houses, imprisonment and danger of drowning.
A deep line running from the space between the forefinger and middle finger to the line of Fortune and cutting or interrupting it, signifies a wound or disease in the lower part of the abdomen.
THE PLANET MERCURY. THE MOUNT OF MERCURY. STUDY, RESEARCH, SCIENCES, SPEAKING, ETC.
When this planet is fortunate, men are ingenious, studious, scientific and searchers after secrets.
Professions, trades, etc., according to his dignity: he produces orators, poets, eloquent speakers, persons ready to learn anything, mathematicians, merchants, sometimes crafty, variable people.
When unfortunate he produces persons full of levity, liars, prattlers, thieves, cheats, inconstant, faithless, traitors, etc.
Diseases: he produces madness, fury, acute fevers, etc.
Signs of deceit and danger to life: the mensa sharpened by the concourse of the line of Fortune and the line of Life or the Liver line. The best sign is the mensa diverging, open at both ends and forming the figure ≍.
Perfection of wit and science: a star placed (or other clearly-formed flowers or flag) in the mensa especially under the mount of Mercury or the Sun.
MENSA. THE PART OF FORTUNE.
When fortunate: liberal, magnanimous and long-lived people. The space between the line of Fortune and the Liver line (called sometimes the line of the Heart and the line of the Head), and forms a nice figure.
When unfortunate: small and narrow (by the approaching of these two lines), it argues slender fortune, niggardliness and fearfulness.
Honours and dignities to follow by great and noble personages, when a star or cross appears in this space, clear and well-formed, especially under the mount of the Sun (see chapter on figures and flowers on hand).
The sign of ♃ here promises prominent ecclesiastical dignities.
Good fortune is denoted by the star or triple cross. Good and equal lines in this space denote a good fortune; evil or unequal lines the reverse.
The worst sign when no mensa is found, for it shows obscurity both of life and fortune.
Misfortune and loss of honours when confused little lines appear here, the good is diverted, and anxieties and troubles threaten, to honours especially, if under the mount of the Sun.
Fortunate journeys: a cross or star on the outermost part of the mensa on or near the mount of the Moon is a sure sign.
THE FINGERS. THE THUMB.
Riches and honours shown by overthwart lines clear and red underneath the nail and joint of the thumb.
A violent death or danger through a married woman, etc.: a line passing from the upper joint of the thumb to the line of Life.
A contentious nature: confused lines on the lower joint of the thumb; one always brawling and scolding.
Death by hanging, etc.: a line surrounding the thumb at the middle joint.
Riches and possessions—to be worked for: equal furrows under the lower joint.
Idleness and lack of energy: if the first and second joints are void of incisures.
THE FOREFINGER OR INDEX FINGER.
Inheritance: denoted by many overthwart lines in the top joint; these in the second joint show envious and evil-disposed persons.
Issue, bad tongue: right lines running between the top and second joints declare in a woman a numerous issue; in a man bitterness of tongue.
A jovial disposition: right lines in the joint near the mount of Jupiter.
Unchaste and lascivious: in a female hand a star being placed in the joint near the mount of Jupiter.
THE MIDDLE FINGER.
An unhappy, melancholy and depraved mind: denoted by small gridirons or confused marks in the joints of this finger.
Success with metals: manifested by equal lines.
Drowning or violent death: this is denoted by a star in the joints of this finger.
Folly and madness: a crossed line, extending from the root of this finger upwards through the whole length of the finger.
THE RING FINGER.
Great and noble fame denoted by a line ascending unbroken from the mount of the Sun through the joints of this finger to the end.
Honour and riches: this is shown by equal lines in the first joint (near the mount).
Enmity of great men: denoted by overthwart lines here; it is made late in life when these lines are intersected.
THE LITTLE FINGER.
The planet Mars has dominion over this finger. A strong and valorous person when strong and well fed.
_Note._—From the joints of this finger as from the mount itself are judgments passed concerning merchandise and favours.
Ingenuity and eloquence: a star in the first joint (near the mount of Mercury) shows this; it is also shown by a right line extending from the mount of Mercury to the end of finger, also a great speaker.
Foolishness, etc.: denoted by obtuse and confused marks placed here.
A thief and deceitful person: this is shown by confused and unfortunate marks appearing in the first and second joints of this finger.
Perpetual inconstancy: this is shown by adverse lines in the last or top joint of the finger.
_Note._—The number of wives and husbands are frequently indicated from the small lines passing from the outermost part of the hand to the mount of Mercury, but I consider the proper place is from the mount of Venus.
If the end of the little finger does not reach so far as to touch the last joint of the ring finger, it signifies that the partner in marriage will be imperious in all things.
The mounts marked with good figures and characters show good and happy omens, being vitiated with confused or broken characters, etc., or lines, they always denote the contrary, unless they are restrained by other lines that be good.
Chiromancers generally teach that the first joints near the mount of the finger indicate the early age, the second, the flourishing state of manhood, and the last old age. But our opinion is that the planets shown by the nativity of the persons do, in their proper order, manifest their marks and characters whether for good or bad.
_Note._—A knowledge of astrology will prove an acquisition to the study of palmistry or any science.
SIGNS ON THE HEAD. HOW TO READ THE FOREHEAD.
If a person has a broad forehead and takes the form of ⌒, a crescent, he was born of poor parents but is sure to be rich.
If a prominent single vein or mark extends from the nose to the top of the forehead the person is born to immense wealth.
If there are many similarly placed the person is very vicious.
If the forehead is depressed in the middle he is very jealous and a lascivious or sinful man.
If the forehead is narrow he is a great miser.
If there be three furrows going across the head he is likely to live a long life, especially if they go over the eyes.
If there be four such lines the person will be a commander or great potentate and live a very long time.
Many indistinct lines on the forehead denote lewd persons.
If there be any marks in the middle of the forehead and they take the form of a crescent ⌒, the person will be very prosperous and fortunate.
SIGNS ON THE FEET.
If a crescent or elongated horseshoe mark appear on sole of the foot and the toes separated well from each other, the person will have a harsh temper and remain poor.
If a female's toes are well set together and close, and has a wheel or flower mark on either or both feet, she will become a lady of rank and position.
If there be an ear-shaped figure on the foot and without hair, or a little tuft, the person may expect to be successful in the world.
THE ARMS.
If her arms are very long she will be renowned and well-to-do. Short-armed persons generally remain poor.
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