Quality of the handwesternuniversal
Also called: D'Arpentigny type 7 · The seventh type
Where on the hand: Recognised by the absence of a dominant type: fingers may be of different types on the same hand — one square tip, one spatulate, one conic.
What it looks like: No single form governs the hand. The palm may suit one type and the fingers another; individual fingers may disagree with each other.
The commonest of all seven types. It gives versatility and adaptability — many ideas, many aptitudes, quick to grasp anything but rarely mastering one thing. Its danger is dispersion of energy.
Western reading: D'Arpentigny proposed six basic types plus this seventh, mixed one; the scheme was carried into English by Cheiro and remains the standard chirognomy.
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