PALMISTRY A late nineteenth century version of the palmistic hand - although the traditional links with the twelve signs of the zodiac and the finger phalanges are preserved, the three fold division is now overlaid by a division into Intuition, Reason and 'Material Instinct'. The thumb is now visualised as an expression of will-power, mediated by Reason, stemming from the huge reservoir of Passion within the Mount of Venus. From E.H. Allen, A Manual of Cheirosophy, 1885.