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Before a single line is read, the outline of the hand itself speaks. Cheiro (Count Louis Hamon), building on the earlier French system of d'Arpentigny, sorted hands into seven broad types by palm outline, finger character and proportion — and this typing is meant to be judged as a leaning, never a rigid box, since most real hands blend two adjacent types.
Elementary hands are short, thick and coarse — instinct before thought. Square (or "Useful") hands have straight sides and even proportions — order, method and reliability. Spatulate hands flare at the fingertips or palm base — restless energy that must move, the inventor or athlete. Philosophic hands are long with knotty joints — analysis and love of truth. Conic hands taper to a rounded tip — impulsive, artistic feeling. Psychic hands are long, slender and delicate — idealism and sensitivity, the rarest type. Mixed hands, the most common in practice, blend features across zones and are best read region by region.
Once named, the type sets the tone for everything read afterward: a Square hand steadies even a modest fortune line into durable progress, while a Spatulate hand intensifies whatever the lines already show. Naming the blend precisely — "leans Square with a Conic softness in the fingers" — is always more accurate than forcing a hand into a single label.
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