The presence of pink color in a hand should bring to your mind a picture of the attraction, warmth, brightness, sparkle, vivacity, life, energy, generosity, and tenderness, which belong to a normal and healthy condition of mind and body. Pink is the happy medium with the mounts, and does not, with two exceptions, intensify or decrease their normal operation, consequently you can apply it favorably to all your types. With the Lunar and Saturn-ian subjects, reserved above, white and yellow color is normal, pink color will light up their coldness and sadness, and make them less pessimistic in their views of life. Thus pink color is a benefit from every point of view.

In considering, next, the red color we must, to a certain degree, take account of the type of hand. Intensity, which is shown by redness, belongs to the Martian type, and is, in that case, not such a defect as it may be with the Jupiterians, Apollonians, or Venusians. Excess of anything may be as fatal as deficiency, and as the redness of the hands shows the great force with which the blood is being propelled, it is typical of excess in quantity, quality, and force of the blood stream. By redness I mean a clear, full red, not a pink or dark pink, but a deep color. In this case we find the blood full of red corpuscles, consequently teeming with life, with vitality, and the subject correspondingly strong. We find the physical strength of the subject good, and the nature an ardent and intense one. He is a person who cannot do things by halves, who has so much vitality that it may be called an excess of health and strength. Thus, instead of nursing a physical pain or delicacy, he is impelled to great exertions in order to work off or use up the superabundance of vital energy with which he is charged.

These people are intense in everything - love, war, business, art, religion; in fact, no place or walk in life in which they may be placed but will feel the impetus of their wonderful vitality and energy. They do not mince matters in speech, but use strong, short sentences. If they love, it is with no feeble flame, but a withering blast of strength. If angry, they are violent, and the red-hand finds the greatest difficulty in exercising self-control. As eaters these subjects are voracious, for the reason that it takes great quantities to feed the intense fires that inflame them. Their difficulty lies in being so much stronger than most people that they overshadow and wear out others by their intensity. Thus we see how it is possible to have even too much of the greatest of all blessings, health and strength. The person with the red hand does not think with the same ease and activity as the pink-handed subject, for the brain is somewhat clogged in its action by too much strong blood. The mind is heavier, coarser, denser, and not susceptible of the keenness which goes with a well-nourished condition and which is lacking when there is an overcrowding of blood to the brain cells. In these persons things are overdone, consequently they are extremists.

By this time you have seen the great desirability of the normal condition in life, and can see that excess is nearly, if not quite, as bad as deficiency. The cold white hand freezes all qualities, the red hand burns them up; it is questionable which is the lesser of the two evils. So, when you encounter the red hand, think of the excess of blood, its strength, force, and rich quality. Picture the fires of extreme health and strength that are burning within. Think how ardent, firm, intense is the nature of your client. If strongly Jupiterian, he will have fierce ardor added to his ambition, to pride, and love of rule. If an Apollonian, he will be heated and intense in his brilliancy, excessive in all things, fond of show, and redness will destroy much of Apollo's refinement. If Venusian qualities of love and passion are his possession, he fairly consumes with ardor and heat of passion, and is alike dangerous to himself and to others. To the Martian type it gives ardor, fierceness, and coarseness. He fights, eats, and burns with fierce love. He is liable to strain his stomach by overeating, produce vertigo or apoplexy, and thus in health matters you must consider redness very carefully.

If you find heart difficulties in nails or heart line, and also redness of the hands, it is a very serious matter. With throat, bronchial, or intestinal difficulties shown, if you find redness of the hands it is also a very bad indication. Thus through everything this fiery intensity of red hands will add heat and force. In a low, brutal hand, big Mount of Venus, short, thick fingers, hard palm, and clubbed thumb, if redness be added, there is one chance in ten that the possessor will not commit murder, - certainly he will if his affections are trifled with. He who spoke of "the red-handed murderer "may not have meant that his hands were dipped in blood, but he must have spoken of the red hand above described. With such a tremendous force to deal with as the red hand shows, you can understand how far short of proficiency you will be unless able to recognize and understand it.

Yellow color next claims our attention. The Saturnian is the type to which this color really belongs, but the Mer-curian claims a share, while in all other types yellow is abnormal.

The reason some hands show this color is because their owners are bilious. The bile, whose function is to assist in the digestion of the food, was never intended to get into the blood. It should be carried away through the intestines and, having performed its natural function, disappear. But cases arise where the liver secretes too much bile, and a portion finds its way into the blood. Bile then becomes an irritant, a poisonous foreign substance, which vitiates the blood stream. Bile is yellowish in color, and as the blood in its course is constantly anxious to rid itself of the irritant, it embraces every opportunity to deposit the bile pigment whenever it can do so. When blood containing too much bile reaches the surface of the skin some of the bile pigment is left, and gradually the skin assumes a yellow color, more or less intense according to the amount of the bilious overflow into the blood. Thus the blood stream, which should carry on its course nothing but renewed strength, is transfusing an irritating foreign substance, and consequently fails to enliven, and build up the health and strength as it should. It is rather like a polluted miasmatic stream, producing weakened vitality, and lessening the vigor and energy.