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Line of Intuition

Everything here reports what named old books claimed about hands. None of it is a statement about you or about anything to come.

In an older source

Its position on the hand is almost that of a semicircle from the face of the Mount of Mercury to that of the Mount of Luna.

Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)

About this entry

In Cheiro 1897 the line of intuition is a semicircle running from the face of the Mount of Mercury to that of the Mount of Luna. It is more common on philosophic, conic and psychic hands than on the remaining four types. He adds that it may run through or with the health line, though it can be clear even when that line is marked.

He reads it as a purely impressionable nature, a person keenly sensitive to surroundings and influences, with a feeling of presentiment about others. He mentions strange vivid dreams and warnings in the same chapter and says the mark is found more on psychic hands than on any other.

Benham 1900 places the line near the edge of the palm. It starts low on the Moon mount, bows in toward the center of the palm and stops at or close to the Mercury mount. He counts it as a form of the Mercury line. A clear one, he says, sharpens intuition, though he wonders whether intuition here is simply the cleverness he gives the Mercury type.

Features the books describe

  • A curved line from under the little finger to the outer edge of the palm

    Cheiro 1897 describes this position and reads a purely impressionable nature, keenly sensitive to surroundings and influences.

    Source: Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)

  • On a philosophic, conic or psychic hand

    Cheiro 1897 says it is more often found on these three types than on the other four.

    Source: Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)

  • Clear even when a health line is marked

    Cheiro 1897 says the two lines can run together, but the intuition line can stand clear on its own.

    Source: Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)

  • A curved line near the edge of the palm

    Benham 1900 counts this as a form of the Mercury line, and says a clear one sharpens intuition.

    Source: William G. Benham, The Laws of Scientific Hand Reading (1900)

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