Mixed hand

The mixed hand gets its name, Cheiro 1897 says, because it cannot be classed as square, spatulate, conic, philosophic or psychic. The fingers also belong to different types, and he gives the example of one pointed, one square, one spatulate and one philosophic on the same hand.

D'Arpentigny's list, in Heron-Allen's 1886 translation, also closes with a Mixed hand, so the two lists share a seventh type. The same translation prints an objection by Desbarrolles, who would not follow the classification at all. He held that hands may resemble one another while nature never repeats herself.

Benham 1900 went further and dropped whole-hand shapes. He read the fingertips and the seven mounts in their place.