As the mounts being adorned with good figures and characters indicate a
good and happy issue, so likewise being vitiated with confused lines, they
threaten the contrary, and this as well on the fingers as mounts, except
they are restrained by the confederacy of other lines which are of
themselves good and fortunate.
There are likewise the twelve signs of the Zodiac upon the fingers. The
signification of the lines proceeding from the mounts of the different
planets upon the fingers, show their effect chiefly when the sun, or their
principal significator, as lord of the ascendant, &c., is in these signs,
ruling the parts where they terminate, as a line passing from the mount of
Saturn to the first point of the middle finger would give improvement when
the sun was in Pisces; if to the second, in Aquarius. Observe also that
the first joint near the mount of the finger must be attributed to the
first part of the age, the second to the prime of life, and the last unto
old age.
Lastly. The structure of the hand itself is really admirable in respect to
the proportion it bears to the face, and certain parts thereof, which is
this:
The whole hand is of equal length with the face.
The greater joint of the forefinger (which adjoins upon the tuberculum of
Jupiter) equals the height of the forehead.
The other two (to the extremity of the nail) are just the length of the
nose, viz.: from the intercelia, or place between the eyebrows, to the tip
of the nostrils.
The first and greater joint of the middle finger is just as long as it is
between the bottom of the chin and the top of the under lip.
But the third joint of the same finger is of equal length with the
distance that is between the mouth and the lower part of the nostrils.
The largest joint of the thumb gives the width of the mouth.
The distance between the bottom of the chin and the top of the lower lip,
the same.
The lesser joint of the thumb is equal to the distance between the top of
the lower lip and the lower part of the nostrils. The nails obtain just
the half of their respective uppermost joints, which they call omychios.