Sun, third finger.—If the first phalanx is longer than the second, it indicates love of the arts; if the second phalanx is long, it indicates success and love of riches; if the third phalanx is thick, it indicates an inherited talent for the arts.
Mercury, fourth finger.—If the first phalanx is longer than the second, it indicates a taste for and love of research; if the second phalanx is long and well developed, it indicates industrious habits; if the third phalanx is long and fat, it indicates a desire for the comforts of life.
The following points, upon which the science of Palmistry is based explain its mysteries, and will be found very interesting, amusing and instructive.
Form of the Hand
Hands are classed in seven types:
1. The Elementary or Bilious Hand, indicating brutal instinct instead of reason as the governing power of the character.
2. The Square or Jupiter Hand, indicating a practical, stubborn, methodical and conventional character; one apt to be suspicious of strangers and radical in views.
3. The Spatulate or Nervous Hand, so named because of its imagined resemblance to a spatula. It is broad at the base of the fingers, and indicates great energy and push to discover; also courage and fearlessness.
4. The Philosophic or Venus Hand has a long, thin, muscular palm, with long fingers; indicates a student of nature and searcher after truth.
5. The Mercury or Artistic Hand indicates quick temper, impulsiveness; a character that is light-hearted, gay and charitable, today; and tomorrow, sad, tearful and uncharitable.