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Fork
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
it is a sign of a happy, tranquil nature, good fortune, and happiness in affection
Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)
About this entry
What a fork means in Cheiro 1897 depends on the line that carries it. A heart line forking with one branch on Jupiter and one between the first and second fingers has the quoted reading. A life line dividing toward the end with a wide gap is read as a move to a country other than the birthplace, and a marriage line forking downward as divorce or separation.
St Hill 1893 takes a forked marriage line to mean an engagement that was broken off. She also remarks that it is good for every line except the life line to end in a fork, which differs from Cheiro's reading of a life line fork as a change of place.
Where this text comes from
Statements credited to an older writer follow the scanned or typed text named here, and those writers often disagree. Modern practice is labeled as modern.
- Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)
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- Katharine St. Hill, The Grammar of Palmistry (1893)
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