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| Conic or Artist Hand Palmistry |
tapering, and the fingers full at the base, and conic, or slightly pointed, at the
tip or nail phalange. It is often confounded with the next type,
the psychic, which is the long, narrow hand, with extremely long, tapering
fingers.
The main characteristics of the conic hand are impulse and instinct.
People with the conic hand are often, m fact, designated "the children
of impulse." There is a great variety in connection with this type, but it is
more usually found as a full, soft hand, with pointed fingers, and rather long
nails. Such a formation denotes an artistic, impulsive nature, but one in
which love of luxury and indolence predominate. The great fault with
people possessing this type is, that though they may be clever and quick in
thought and ideas, yet they are so utterly devoid of patience and tire so
easily, that they rarely, if ever, carry out their intentions. Such people appear
to their greatest advantage in company, or before strangers. They are good
conversationalists, they grasp the drift of a subject quickly, but they are
more or less superficial in knowledge, as also in other things ; they have not
the power of the student, through want of application ; they do not reason,
they judge by impulse and instinct. It is that quality which makes them
changeable in friendship and affection ; one can easily offend them over little
things. They are also very much influenced by the people they come in contact
with, and by their surroundings. They are impressionable in affaires de
cmur ; they carry their likes and dislikes to extremes ; they are usually quicktempered,
but temper with them is but a thing of the moment. They, however,
when out of temper, speak their mind plainly, and are too impetuous to
study words or expressions. They are always generous and sympathetic,selfish where then* own personal comfort is concerned, it is true, but not in
money matters; they are easily influenced to give money for charity, but,
alas ! here they have not the power of discrimination, consequently the money
is given to anybody or anything which may rouse their sympathies at the
moment. These hands never get that credit for charity which falls to the
lot of the more practical types. To get credit for charity very often consists
m savmg what we give to the beggar and giving it to the church, but the conic
fingers never think of that. The beggar comes, and if the impulse to give is
there—well, they give, and that is all.
This interesting type has been called, and deservedly so, the artistic, but
such relates more to temperament than to the carrying out of the artistic
ideas. It would really be more correct to say that the owners of such hands
are influenced by the artistic, than that they are artistic. They are more
easily influenced by color, music, eloquence, tears, joy, or sorrow, than any
other type. Men and women possessing this class of hand respond quickly to
sympathetic influences; they are emotional, and rise to the greatest heights
of rapture, or descend to the lowest depths of despair, over any trifle.
When the conic hand is hard and elastic, it denotes all the good qualities
of the first-mentioned, but accentuated by greater energy and firmness of will.
The conic hand hard is artistic in nature, and if encouraged for an artistic
life the energy and determination will go far toward making success. It
will have all the quickness of the first, with all the brilliancy and sparkle in
company and before strangers, and it is for that reason that the conic hand
has been chosen to represent those who lead a public life, such as actors,,
actresses, singers, orators, and all those who follow a purely emotional
career. But it must not be forgotten that such people depend more upon
the inspirational feeling of the moment than thought, reason, or study.
They will do things well, but will not know why or how they do them.
The smger will carry away her audience by her own individuality mor&
than by study of the song ; the actress, from her own emotional nature, will
stir the emotions of others ; and the orator will move multitudes by the eloquence
of his tongue—not by the logic of his words. It must, therefore, be
remembered that the type of hand but relates to the natural temperament
and disposition of the individual ; it is the foundation upon which the talent rises or falls. For instance, a woman with square fingers can be as great a
singer, and may often be capable of rising to greater things than the
woman with the pointed formation ; but she will reach that point by different
means—by her application, by her study, by her conscientious work, and
by the greater power of endurance and patience that she possesses. Study
and development are one half the ladder of fame. Genius sits on the rungs
to dream, Study works and rises rung by rung; it is the earthworms alone
who, dazzled by the heights above them, confound the two, and oft crown
Study and call it Genius. The artistic type as a type but relates to temperament
; the variety of fingers indicates only where that temperament is
strongest: as, for instance, the artistic hand with square fingers indicates
more the student, and, consequently, more exactness in foundation, method,
and correctness ; such persons will try and try again until they are successful.
The spatulate fingers on the artistic hand will give, say, to a painter
the greater breadth of design and color, the more daring ideas that will make
the man famous for his originality. The philosophic will give the mystical
treatment of the idea—the tones and semitones that subdue the already subdued
colors. The lights and shades that creep across the canvas, the poem in
the petals of the asphodel, the Benedictus in the hands that soothe the dying
all will be detail, but detail leading to the regions of the spirit ; all will be
calm, but with that calmness that awes one with the sense of the mysterious.
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