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Astrological Body Types & Palmistry


The classic idea is that you can determine what someone looks like by the sign on their ascendant, and that simple idea does work more often than not. But you should also examine the moon and the 6th house for a larger view. A Sagittarius ascendant with a moon conjunct Jupiter in Taurus in the 6th is not going to make for a slender person!

See also The Ascendant

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ASTROLOGICAL BODY TYPES, Face, Form & Expression - Judith Hill, $14.95
 Contents:
Preface;
  • 1. Introduction to Astrophysiognomy;
  • 2. About race;
  • 3. Building blocks of Astrophysiognomy;
  • 4. The face in general (non-astrological);
  • 5. The elements & the modes;
  • 6. Introduction to signs & planetary types (Table: Significators of physical appearance in the birth chart; Table: Conditions for planetary strength);
  • 7. Planetary & zodiacal sign types: Sun, Leo-Sun ruled; Moon, Cancer-Moon ruled; Mercury, Gemini-Mercury ruled, Virgo-Mercury ruled; Venus, Libra-Venus ruled; Mars, Aries-Mars ruled, Scorpio-Mars/Pluto ruled; Jupiter, Sagittarius-Jupiter ruled, Pisces-Jupiter/Neptune ruled; Saturn, Capricorn-Saturn ruled, Aquarius-Saturn/Uranus ruled;
  • 8. The outer planets;
  • 9. Summary;
  • 10. Lunar nodes & physical appearance;
  • 11. Karma & physical anomaly;
  • 12. Example personalities.

Appendix 1: Zodiacal correspondences to the human body; Appendix 2: The 36 decanates; Appendix 3: Redheads & Mars; Appendix 4: Sect: Day or night birth; Appendix 5: Medical elements; Bibliography.

Comment: The most complete compendium of astrological body types available. Over 80 illustrations (by the author) accurately depict archetypal Zodiac, Planetary, Elemental and Modal body/face types. Character, appearance & vocation, plus numerous sample personalities are included for each body type. Also: Lunar nodes & physical appearance, karma and physical anomaly, and face reading fundamentals.

Borderlands, 217 pages, paper.


ASTROLOGICAL TYPES - Illustrated & Described by Howard Duff, $6.00
 Contents:
Introduction; Aries; Taurus; Gemini; Cancer; Leo; Virgo; Libra; Scorpio; Sagittarius; Capricorn; Aquarius; Pisces; Cusps.

Comment: Describes the physical characteristics of each sign & for each, a full page head profile as well as a second page of "doodles", consisting of secondary profiles, key physical features, overall body sketch, etc, often humorous in nature. Many of the sketches are classics, one sees them elsewhere without attribution.

From the introduction: "These profiles are TYPES; that is ALL the known characteristics associated with the signs are here assembled in one face. In real life this does not happen, for we are all mixtures, showing Sun, Meridian, Ascendant, Moon and angular dominance characteristics of many signs, which, since they are active in our consciousness, show in our faces. The caricatures on the right hand pages are not meant to insult anyone. They are exaggerations to bring out points more dramatically than would a simple fact sketch."

Self-published, 53 pages, paper.


HOW BODY LANGUAGE DEFINES CHARACTER - Doris Chase Doane, $15.00
 From the back cover: "The fundamentals discussed are applied to the profiles of 26 well-known women of the past century. You will see how the contour matches a person's habitual thoughts, feelings and actions." Contents: Body build and personality; Head contours - clue to character; What you should know about the nose; Famous women who reflected these traits. 81 pages. AFA, paper.


YOUR HOROSCOPE IN YOUR HANDS - Lorna Green, $18.00

Contents:

Frontispiece
Introduction

Part 1:
Left or right hand? Taking handprints. Does the print tell all? The elements. Skin texture. The birth time. Rectification by Moon's position. Identifying the lines & characteristics of the hand. Fingernails. Fingertip patterns: ridges. Thumbs. Mars areas on the hand. Loops on the palm. Line markings on the hand. Transits. Timing on the hand. Moon-Saturn. Changing lines. The bracelets. Fingers & hands: three divisions. Basic fingertip shapes. The joints of the fingers.

Relationships: The need for space. Dependency.

Money & attitude to money.

Health: Food. Coeliac. Depression.

Part 2:
The planets: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Chiron.

Part 3:
Chart-hand comparisons.

Comment:

There is a long-standing connection between astrology & palmistry, which I have never quite understood, but then I can't possibly understand everything.

Some basics. The thumb is ruled by Mars, the index finger by Jupiter, the longest finger by Saturn, the ring finger by the Sun, and the pinkie by Mercury. The mound of Venus is the fleshy area below the thumb, the mount of the moon is the opposite lower corner of the hand, both of these bordering the wrist.

The author finds the right hand changes more than the left hand. She says her finding runs against common beliefs. Myself, I would presume the dominant hand - usually the right - would of necesssity change as it adapts to the changing circumstances of life.

Hand prints, along with drawings of the hand, are the best you can get in a book, but do not tell the whole story. Hands have thickness, they have color, they can be hot or cold, firm or flabby. A skilled palmist takes all of this into account. Green tells how to judge these.

Except for the final chapter, illustrations are line drawings, which are clearer & easier to learn from than actual palm prints.

In the last chapter, Green relates palms to charts, and charts to palms. The final example is the hand of the most famous palmist of all time, Cheiro. As palms change over time, it therefore true that palms react to transits.

In the Conclusion, the author suggests watching the hands of famous people, as best you can glimpse them on TV or in movies. Study of such hands often provides an interesting commentary.

Wessex Astrologer, 144 pages.

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