LONG
SHORT

TIPS ------- - SPATULATE - SQUARE - CONIC - POINTED

Judge each finger by itself rather than grouping the four fingers into any category. The thumb is not considered a finger.
First look at length of fingers. Then joints to see if they are developed or smooth.
Examine the flexibility of each finger by itself, it one finger is more flexible than the others, then the qualities of the Mount type it represents are more pronounced in the subject.
See if the fingers are straight or twisted. See it the bending is lateral or if the finger seems to twist around on its own axis. Fingers bent laterally increase the SHREWDNESS of the qualities of the Mount on which they are placed, while a twisting on the axis shows a liability to moral or physical defects in the Mount qualities. To determine which, use the nails, the lines on the Mount, the Life line, and the line of the Mount itself. You can easily separate moral from physical defects in this way.
Note whether any finger seems to stand more erect than the others, with one or more fingers inclined toward it. This will show you the strongest finger on the hand. Every finger leaning toward another gives up some of its strength to the finer toward which it leans. 'This applies it the leaning finger be only STRAIGHT and merely appears DRAWN toward another. If
the leaning finer is BENT it accentuates the strength of ITS OWN Mount and you will generally find other fingers leaning toward IT A straight, leaning finger and a bent finger must not be confounded. Fingers to be well balanced should set evenly on the palm one finger should not be placed lower down or higher up than the others. Any finger set lower than the normal line reduces the strength of the Mount under it and any finger set higher than the normal line, increases the force of the Mount under it. The best development is the
evenly set, normally placed finger.

FINGER SEPARATION
In this examination is it indispensable that the fingers should be held naturally. Any strained position would defeat the object. Various ways can be devised to accomplish this. You can ask that he place his hand in a perfectly natural manner on a piece of white paper as though you were to draw an outline of it. By asking that he lift the hand up and place it on the paper several times in succession, you will get the natural pose accurately. Another way is to ask him to hold the hand up, clear of every support, and extend the palm toward you. When this is done, the fingers assume their natural pose.
When the hand thus held shows the space between the thumb and side of the hand to be very wide, you subject is generous, loves freedom and independence, and is intolerant of restrain, these being the qualities belonging to the low-set thumb.
If the fingers of Jupiter and Saturn separate widely = great independence in thought, is not bound down by the views of others, but forms his own opinions.
When the fingers of Saturn and Apollo widely separate, the subject is careless of the future, Bohemian in ideas, and is entirely devoid of stiffness and love of formality.
When the fingers of Apollo and Mercury widely separate, the subject is independent in ACTION. He does what he wishes without caring what others may think. These separations of the fingers will be very useful and very accurate in their results. You will find the separations variously combined. Oftenest you find freedom in thought combined with freedom of action, with Saturn and Apollo close together, showing care for the future. You may find freedom of thought with the other fingers close together. Then your subject is a free thinker, but one careful in actions and of the future.
When all the fingers separate widely you have free though, Bohemianism, and freedom of action. This subject will be easy to get acquainted with, entirely lacking in conventionality, and not tied don to rules of etiquette.
If the separation is very wide, he will be a 'hail fellow well met"; it only moderately wide, the person will be easy of approach. If all the fingers are held tightly together, the subject will be hard to get acquainted with, stiff, and lack independence in either thought or action. he is a slave to formality, and to make his acquaintance one must approach in a respectful manner. He is also stingy, for he is self-centred and constantly looking out for the future.

You must compare the fingers with each other as to length, tips, and thickness. Saturn should be the longest finger always, for it is the balance-wheel of the character.
The fingers of Jupiter and Apollo should be of equal length to be in balance; the one which is the longer of the two will have its qualities dominant over the other.
Tips must be considered, for spatulate or square tips are stronger and more practical than conic or pointed.
The fingers of Jupiter and Apollo being of equal length, the one having a square or spatulate tip will be stronger in a practical way than the one having a conic or pointed tip, which, however, is likely to indicate greater keenness.
Consider carefully both length and tips of the fingers, in estimating which finger is the strongest.
Mercury is naturally the smallest finger. The Mercurian is the smallest of the seven types, Saturn is the tallest, the fingers following the respective height of their types. Mercury, normal, should reach the first joint of the finger of Apollo. Shorter than that it is not a leading finger. Longer than this, the Mercurian type is predominant.
If the finger of Jupiter is of normal length, normal Jupiterian qualities are present; if deficient, the Jupiterian qualities will be deficient. This rule must be followed with Saturn, Apollo, and Mercury.
The Mounts of Mars, Moon, and Venus have no finger, and all judgment of them must be from the Mounts alone.

Examine the individual phalanges of the fingers, counting first, second, third, from the tip down. Here, again, we find the three worlds of Palmistry, mental, abstract, and material, represented by the first, second and third phalanges of the fingers. This is a very important matter to understand thoroughly, for it will tell whether the qualities of the Mount types will be expended in the mental, the practical, or the baser worlds. If the first phalanx of any finger is the longest and largest, the mental will rule, and the qualities of the type will be expended in that direction.
If the second phalanx is longest and largest, the business side of the type will prevail, and the efforts will be expended in pushing the commercial side of the type.
If the third phalanx be strongest, the material qualities will prevail, and either coarseness or brutishness in the attributes off the type will be the moving force, in proportion as this phalanx is thick or narrow. The longer the first phalanx, the more will mental matters absorb the attention, and if this phalanx is found short, it will tell that the enjoyment of mental occupations is lacking, and that qualities more material absorb the attention. If the second phalanx is thick and long, the many making side is uppermost. It the third phalanx is very long and very thick, it will show that sensualism and the gratification of appetite and luxury are the pleasures which the subject seeks. The extreme thickness of the third phalanx shows a great love for eating and drinking.
If with this subject the first phalanx is short, the second normal, and third very thick, he will not care for mental pursuits at all, but only cates to make money and to have plenty to eat and drink. It is not the sexual sensualism that is shown by appetite and a love of luxury and comfort. The more pronounced the thickness, the more these traits are strengthened.
If the third phalanx is moderately developed, then there is only a fair degree of these desires. Love of sensual pleasures will always be shown by the thickening of these third phalanges, and the DEGREE of thickness. This indication will have added force in different types, for the Jupiterian, being naturally a large eater (as it also the Martian), will be much more so if the third phalanx be thick. Length of the phalanges shows strength of the qualities, thickness shows coarseness and liability to excess. When the third phalanx, instead of being thick, is narrow and waist-like in shape, it shows that the subject eats to live and does not live to eat. He is one who expends his strength in either the mental or business worlds, not in the sensual. He does no care for money except for what it will buy and the pleasure it can bring. It slips through his fingers for whatever suits his fancy. He has an inquiring mind, as shown by the chinks between the fingers.
If the fingers are very long and the chinks very wide, the subject becomes, not an investigator, but one who is merely curious. He pries into the affairs of everyone from innate curiosity. I have reasoned that as this phalanx, when thick, shows gluttony, and as a gorged stomach produces an inactive brain, the subject with a thick third phalanx is too busy digesting to be an investigator. If the phalanx is waist-like, the subacute is only a slight eater, and his brain, instead of being clogged and heavy, has force to expand, and does it through its faculty of investigation. This waist-like indication, so estimated, is very acute in its results, and may be used freely as showing little care for money, an absence of gluttony, and the inquiring, even curious mind.
Finger tips - Conic or pointed - will show the idealism of qualities.
Square tips - Practical
Spatulate - original and mental application.

First phalanx - Mental
Second phalanx - Business
Third - Sensualism