Palmistry question and answers

This indicates an abuse of material pleasures, resulting in ill-health if the twisting lasts all the way: but if only at the commencement it indicates misfortune or ill-health in youth which in overcome as time goes on.

This is an indication of both physical and moral troubles: if, however, Saturn's mount is full, the difficulties will be modified, especially if the mount of Moon is also fully developed, as this will help the subject, to go through life more smoothly than otherwise.

This indicates that misery and trouble overtake the person in childhood, but that those troubles are overcome as maturity is reached, and the power to exercise the will and reason is developed.

It is a bad omen, usually showing a chequered existence, but if one branch overlaps the other, so that the line does not cease to exist, even for a short space, it only shows a change of position in life which will before the better or worse according to the improved or otherwise condition of the line as it proceeds up the palm.

It shows that fortune is not stable in her dealings with the subject, causing ebbs and flows of fortune and making a change "from grave to gay, from lively to severe," thus creating more or less anxiety and disappoint­ment according to whether the line is broken or not.

They are sure indications of love which does not end in marriage unless they touch the Heart line.

This is an indication of marriage at the time when the branch leaves the Fate line; but to be thoroughly reliable it should be corroborated by other signs of marriage on the hand.

In a good hand, if it goes straight up to the root of Saturn's finger, it is an excellent sign of great honour, riches and importance.

This is an indication that success only comes to the subject very late in life, when his vital powers are almost exhausted; but it means rest for the weary at last, and is also the sign of an ingenious if not an inventive nature.

This is a bad sign, for it indicates great sorrow, difficulty and trouble, often imprison­ment; but in an otherwise good hand, the imprisonment will be undeserved, or will be in a good cause.