Thickness of Palm: The Hand Proper and the Palm

Thickness of Palm: The Hand Proper and the Palm

The Thickness of the Hand and its Consistency Combined are to be judged by pressing the center of the hand with the Index on the Back and the Thumb inside. The roughness or softness of the skin must not enter into consideration.

A. Thick and very hard — Instincts verging on brute animality.
B. Thick and hard — A primitive, rather rough nature, but with strong, good points and native honesty.
C. Thick and medium hard — A good worker who cares for little else; kindly but not amorous nature.
D. Thick and medium soft — Capacity for enjoying all pleasures without falling into any excesses.
E. Thick and soft — Self-indulgence and laziness; danger ahead; is a sign also of a very bright imagination; desirable in artists, poets, musicians, etc.; dangerous in the commonplace hands.
F. Thick and very soft, “flabby” — Sensual instincts, hatred of any kind of labor; selfishness without restraint.
G. Thin and very hard—cold, heartless, calculating disposition, even to crime.
H. Thin and hard—Selfishness, avarice, narrow-mindedness.
I. Thin, narrow and meager — Feeble temperament; indecision of character; cold imagination, if any.
J. Thin and soft — Weak constitution yielding to physical temptation.
K. Thin and very soft—vicious disposition; often morbid tendencies. In an otherwise very good hand: gift of intuition.
L. Transparent — The palm, of seers and saints; and in a bad hand, the palm that goes with an utterly diseased imagination.