Color of the Hands

Need 70 degrees F, to correctly judge color, for anything that accelerates or retards the flow of blood will affect the color of the hands, and what you are tying to find is the natural STRENGTH and QUALITY of the blood stream.

Physiologically considered, blood which produces color performs two most important functions. It swiflty courses thorugh our veins and arteries, absorbs and carries away impurities, and at the same time renews and sustains life. These impurities which the blood absorbs carbonize it (which is only another word for devitalization) and unless this life current flowing through us is itself renewed, it will turn to poison. The lungs function is to take into their cells fresh air, and to throw off the poisonous carbonic gas.
This respiratory action of the lungs is the influx of new life into us with the inspiration, the outgo of exhausted must flow through the lungs leaving with them this poisonous matter, and receiving in its stead oxygen, or new life. Thus renewed it returns through the veins to the heart, which received it and pumps it out again to all parts of the system. In this manner blood is propelled to the outermost part of the body, the skin, and gives to it its color; it is the amount and quality of the blood that changes the color of the skin. It is wee said, that "blood is the renewer and sustainer of life,"
and therefore the color of the skin becomes, to the palmist, an all important subject. Now suppose this blood throws off only a part of its carbonic poison when it passes through the lungs to be renewed, and is onlypartially revitalized. Manifestly it will then return through the arteries, carrying not a full measure of renewed life, but only partially able to perform its highest degree of revivification. Suppose blood thus continue to pass thorugh us only partially pue, it will not be long befoe the health will suffer and, as the health conditions alter or are impaired, the temperament will be affected, the character will become less strong as vital force
diminishes or will be changed in different ways, as different changes in the blood take place. This physiological side of Palmistry is one of which the public knows little. Few have realized the scientific axactitude of indications given by color, nor why they are so exact.

EXAMINE THE PALM - NOT THE BACK OF THE HAND since not suntaned.
In examing the hand for color, be guided largely be the palm, not the back of the hand, and look at the lines and the nails as well, from which combined point of veiw you can very accuratly astimate the normal color of the hand under consideration. You must take into account the season of the year, for marked differences will be shown by some hands on this account. In winter the tendency is toward whiter color, and in summer you find sunburn or tan temporarily changing the appearance. These must be taken fully into account, and it is to avoid being misled by such matters that I advise usig the palm, which is less susceptible to change form exposure than the back of the hand.
Some people burn in summer, and their skin turns red. Others tan, and these hands turn brown. Often beween the time when hands have been badly tanned, and the time hwen they become bleached out agian, there is a period when they have a most decidedly yellow appearance. This might, if you did not keep all these matters in mind, lead you to ascribe the qualities of yellow color to hands which were only underging the process of regaining their normal appearance. It is the back of the hand, however, that is thus nost often artificially colored, and by using the palm as indicated, you will not be led astray.

WHITE HAND = Dreamy, mystical, not entusicastic, unemotional, selfish, imaginary.By white I mean DEAD-WHITE, one which gives you an impression of PALLOR and lack of blood supply.
-Not a white hand which is white merely by reason of fineness -particularly
in women.
Thus first learn to recognize the watery, pallid look of a dead white hand, the corpse-like whitness that means the dearth of heat, and that gives the clew to the prdominating quality of the white hand - COLDNESS.
With this color, the nature lacks ardor, heat, warmth, life, and attractiveness; it does not belong to one whose society is sought, whose genial qualities light up with a glow of warmth, or one who so radiates good-fellowship that others enfoy his society. These poeple, instead, are distant, repellent in manner, cold in their views, and not anxious to make exertions to please others. They are cold by nature, and cold physically, for the blood current is reading the outside skin only in a deeble and
insufficent quantity. It is not pounding against it by virtue of the strong action of a stong heart, but comes in lifeless force from a flabby heart that is muscularly weak.
They are not sensual, for the vital force of strong health, which gives force to passion, is absent; they are cold in love, and while often very clever they do not seek the society of others. They make good poets and prose writers, and do not find their greatest enjoyment in the gratification of the senses. The mind may be active and at work, though it is not spurred on by marital fire or love. While cold white hands have written some of the most beautiful of all of our literature, their work has the glitter of the frost, the sparkle of the iceberg, lacking the warmth which reaches the heart. In religion these people are mystical; in the business world they make few friends; they do not enter the social world when they can avoid it. Remember that the life-renewing current is weak, blood thin, heart action deficient, maybe form inactive kidneys, and you will recognize that this coldness greatly affects every other quality.
A mount of Jupiter may give ambition, pride, religion, but it will be tinges with coldness, cynisism, and superstition. If Jupiter is in excess, it will make a cold-blooded tyrant.
If Saturn is strong, imparting wisdom, melancholy, or gravity, it will be made more cold by the white hand, though yellow color belongs to a strong Saturnian Mount, and the white color will not often be found by itself.
The art, brilliancy, and veratility of Apollo will be pulled to the ground by a white hand, while Mercury is made more crafty, scheming, and less the good fellow he might otherwise be.
The white hand gives resigination to a Martian, and in exaggerated developments adds to the destructiveness of his aggressive qualities, by making him cold hearted. Venus is ruined by white color, for love cannot live without heat. White is the normal color of the Mount of Moon, and will be expected in a Lunar type of hand. If you find it with the other Mounts, it is always an abnormal condition.

PINK HAND = Good temperament
As whitness shows deficiency of blood supply, pink color shows that a normal amount of blood is coursing through the body, consequently pinkness will be the health color. In thiscase the force pump of the body, the heart, is acting with normal strength, is forcing through the arteries a good quality of blood, rich in red corpuscles, full of life, renewing power, and this rich blood is being sent in sufficient supply to the surface of the skin. Blood is what gives skin its color, and as there is, in this case, a normal condition of quantity, quality, and propelling force, the result is the healthy pink glow of the hands that speaks of a well conditioned subject, full of life,
energy, and vitality. A healthy person, whose body is not racked with pain, is necessarily is neater normal an all his qualities than one who is urging himself through life, weighed down by bodily ills. Thus pink color, meaning a good, healthful blood supply, means the nearest approach to normal conditions in temperament. The pink hand belongs to the bright, cheerful, vivacious person, full of the psarkle of a brain unclouded by too much blood or weakened by too little. It indicated one who is attractive, brighty, and witty, one who can appreciate the power of love, who has sympathy, tenderness, and a gentle spirit toward all less favored brethren. It indicates one who finds life pleasant, bright and attractive, who finds his greatest pleasure in the society of people of his acquaintance, one to whom others are attracted, and whose society is sought wherever he may be. Life to many is full of tragedy,and to such the pink hand people are a boon. They feel that life is worth living and can be made pleasanter, thus they are willing to make the necessary effort, being healthy, in order to enjoy these pleasures. They are optimists, and it is a blessing there are such people, who may gavanize their white handed brethren into life. Warmth of love, the fire of enthusiasm, the tenderness of sympathy, belong to pink hands. They suffer when their friends suffer, but they try to cheer those in trouble; they give off magnetism, or heat as it is more porperly called, for magneticpeople must have warmth or they could not attrct others. This is the physical reason why Venusians and Apollonians gather so many around them, why they are so much sought after. They radiate warmth, which is life; not
coldness, which is death. The presence of pink color in a hand should bring to your mind a picture of the attraction, warmth, brighness, sparkle, vivacity, life, energy, generosity, and tenderness, which belong to a normal and healthy condition of mind and body. Pink is the happy medium with the mounts, and does not, with two exceptions, intesnsify or decrease their normal operation, consequently you can apply it favorably to all your types. with the Lunar and Saturnian subjects, rserved above, white and yellow color is normal, pink color will light up thier coldness and sadness, and make them less perssimistic in their views of life. Thus pink color is a benefit from every point of view.

RED HANDS = An excess in quantity and quality of blood = Excess in physical
activity.
Intensity, which is shown by redness, belongs to the Martian type, and is, in that case, not such a defect as it may be with the Jupiterians, Apollonians or Venusians. Excess of anything may be as fatal as deficiency, and as the redness of the hands shows the great force with which the blood is being propelled, it is typical of excess in quantity, quality, and force of the blood stream. By redness I mean a clear, full red, not a pink of dark pin, but a deep color. In this case we find the blood full of red corpuscles, consequently teeming with life, with vitality, and the subject correspondingly strong. We find the physical strength of the subject good, and the nature an ardent and intense one. He is a person who cannot do things by halves, who has so much vitality that it may be called an excess of health and strength. Thus, instead of nursing a physical pain or delicacy, he is impelled to great exertions in order to work off or use up the superabundance of vital energy with which he is charged. These people are intesne in everything - love, war, business, art, religion; in fact, no place or walk in life in which they may be placed but will feel the impetus of their wonderful
vitality, and energy. They do not mince matters in speech, but use strong, short sentences. If they love, it is with no feeble flame, but a withering blast of strength. If angry, they are violent, and the red hand finds greatest fiddiculty in exercising self contral. As eater these subject are voracious, for the reason that it takes great quantities to feed the intese fires that inflame them. Their difficulty lies in being so much stronger than most people that they overshadow and wear out others by their intensity. Thus
we see how it is possible to have even too muxh of the greatest of all blessings, health and strength. The person with the red hand does not think with the same ease and activity as the pink-handed subject, for the brain is somewhat clogged in its action by too much strong blood. The mind is heavier, coarser, denser, and not susceptible of the keeness which goes with a well nourished condition and which is lacking when there is an overcroding of blood to the brain cells. In these persons theings are overdone, consequently they are extremists. By this time you have seen the great desirability of the normal condition in life, and can seen that excess is nearly, if not quite as bad a deficiency. The cold white hand freezes all qualiti3s, the red hand burns them up; it is questionable which is the lesser of the two evils. So when you encounter the red hand, think of the excess of blood, its strength, force, and rich quality. Picture the fires of extreme health and strength that are burning within. Think how ardent, firm, intense is the nature of your client.
If strongly Jupiterian, he will have fierce ardor added to his ambition, to pride, and love of rule.
If Apollonian, he will be heated and intese in his briliancy, excessive in alll things, fond of show, and redness will destroy much of Apollo's refinement.
If Venusian qualities of love and passion are his possession, he fairly consumes with ardor and heart of passion, and is alike dangerous to himself and to others. To the Martian type it gives ardor, fiercness, and coarseness. He fights, eats, and burns with fierce love. He is liable to strain his stonach by overeating, produce vertigo or apoplexy, and thus in health matters you must consider redness very carefully. If you find heart difficulties in nails or heart line, and also redness of the hands, it is a very serious matter. With throat, bronchial, or intestinal difficulties shown, if you find redness of the hands it is also a very vad indication. Thus through everything this fiery intesity of red hands will add heat and force. In a low, brutal hand, bit Mount of Venus, short, thick fingers, hard palm, and clubbed thumb, if redness be added, there is
one chance in ten that the possessor will not commit murder, certainly he will if his affections are trifled with. He who spoke of "the red handed murderer" may not have meant that his hands were dipped in blood, but he must have spoken of the red hand above described. With such a tremendous force to deal with as the red hand shows, uou can understand how far short of proficiency you will be unless able to recognize and understand it.

YELLOW HANDS
The Saturnian is the type to which this color really belongs, but the Mercurian clains share, while in all other types yellow is abnormal. The reason somehands show this color is becuase their owners are bilious. The bile, whose function is to assist in the digestion of the food, was never intended to get into the blood. It should be carried away through the intestines and having perfomred its natural function, disappear. But cases arise where the liver secretes too much bile, and a portion finds its way
into the blood. Bile then becomes an irritant, a poisonous foreign substance, which vitiates the blood stream. Bile is yellowish in color, and as the blood, in its course is constantly anxious to rid itself of the irritant, it embraces every opportunity to deposit itself of the irritant, it embraces every opportunity to deposit the bile pigment whenever it can do so. When blood containing too much bile reaches the surface of the skin some of the bile gigment is left, and gradually the skin assumes a yellow color, more or less intese according to the amount of the bilious overflow into the blood. Thus the blood stream, which should carry on its course nothing but renewed
strength, is transfusing an irritating foreign substance, and consequenly fails to enliven, and build up the health and strength as it should. It is rather like a polluted miasmatic stream, producing weakened vitality, and lessening the vigor and evergy. This bile in the blood is a constant irritant in its course, and in addition to poisoneing the blood and tissures, it produces its corresponding irritating influence on the nerves, brain, and temper. It gradually lessens the strength of a muscular heart, and in time we find our pump becoming weak and irregular, whie the force of the blood stream itself diminishes. Thus is added in chronic cases a paleness to the yellow
skin, and we have the cold-blooded, bilious person, a most distressing combination. The person plagused with bile cannot be joyous, bright, and happy as our pink skinned subject. he is held down by a weight that seems about to crush him; he is moody, melancholy, takes a dark view of life, and has "the blues". he constantly crosses the bridges before he gets to them. He becomes morase, silent, and forms the habbit of shunning society and gayety in every form. His brain is clogged by bilious poisoning, and its views become poisoned. He sees no bright side to anything, but reverls in gloom, nyster, and superstition. he takes, in other words, a sickly, distorted point of view, and soon inclines to seek seclusion, and gives way to gloom and despondency. The bile irritates the nerves, so the yellow skinned subject is cross, irritable, and consequently not a pleasant companion.