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Finger shapes explained
The fingertip is a small portrait of how you meet the world: by taste, by method, or by wanting to see what a thing does when you pick it up. Traditional palmistry reads the outline of the flesh at the end of the finger, not the nail and not the length.
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How to look at a fingertip
Use the hand you write with. Hold it in daylight, palm down, fingers relaxed and a little apart. Look at the last segment, from the joint nearest the nail to the end. The shape is the outline of the flesh.
Compare the width at the nail with the width at the joint just below it. Narrower at the nail is pointed or conic. The same width, ending flat, is square. Wider at the nail, the way a spatula widens, is spatulate. If you cannot tell, leave that finger undecided. Call a tip pointed only when the taper is obvious, and spatulate only when the flare is obvious.
A bump at the joint is not a tip shape. The old books call a raised joint a knot and read it as a pause to question. Leave knots out of this note. Finger length, set against the palm, is a separate comparison on the hand shapes guide.
Pointed and conic tips
A pointed tip tapers to a fine end. A conic tip tapers too, but the cone is fuller and the end is softer. Old books often name them together, then keep that small difference. Many hands sit between the two. "Conic, almost pointed" is a clearer note than a label you had to force.
A tapering tip answers quickly to beauty and to the mood of a room. The pointed end of the range is more easily moved by what it meets. You can fall for an idea, a face, a piece of music, before you have built a case. The conic end keeps a little more weight: form, color, and an enthusiasm that arrives quickly and then wants a body to live in.
Square tips
A square tip ends flat. The sides of the last segment stay about even, and the end looks level rather than narrowed or flared.
You prefer what can be repeated. A time, a rule, a task you can check, sit more comfortably than an open impression. The older name for this style is the useful hand: work with a visible finish. You are the person who notices the crooked frame. A tip that is neither flat nor clearly tapered is sometimes called round, and it sits between square and conic.
Spatulate tips
A spatulate tip is wider at the end than at the joint beneath it. The outline flares. Call it spatulate when you can see the widening without searching for it.
That flare wants to know how a thing behaves in the world. A start is easier than a wait. The old books place invention here, and a love of movement: tools, travel, and work that changes place or pace. You would rather try the hinge than discuss the hinge.
Mixed tips
Mixed means the fingers do not share one shape. An index may be square while a ring finger is conic. Most hands are mixed. Forcing one name onto the whole hand hides the difference. Name the mix: "square index, conic middle and ring" is the reading.
The thumb and the index get a little more weight, as will and direction. The other tips color only their own finger. The middle finger is seriousness and a limit. The ring finger is making and display. The little finger is speech and trade. A mix is more than one way of paying attention. If one tip stands apart, name it. The odd tip is a note.
Tips, lines, and mounts
The fingertip is one small part of the hand. Palm shape and finger length are on the hand shapes guide. The creases are on the palm lines guide. The pads are on the palm mounts guide. The thumb is the digit the tradition treats as will. Its tip, set, and flexibility are on the thumb shapes guide. Small marks are on the palm marks guide. Which palm to use is on the which hand guide.
The palm card draws a stroke only when the map locks onto a crease. Fingertip shape is not part of that automatic map, so the comparison above is how you check it. The photo stays on your device.
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