Saturday, July 16, 2005

A line of intuition or two

One does not know why lines appear on palms for one is not a palmist. But lines occasionally appear or grow markedly strongly ever since I started practising inner alchemy (neidan) in 1993, so much so that one decided to sketch on paper the lines on my left hand in December 1999 for further observations and analysis.

Since then, one of the so called lesser lines of the hand, the Line of Intuition has appeared on the left palm, growing stronger and clearer as time passes by. This Line of Intuition extends like a semi circle from Mercury to Luna (both mounts are below the little or fourth finger).

Cheiro, a renowned palmist, had this to say about the line:
“The line of intuition is more often found on the philosophic, the conic, and the psychic, than on any other of the seven types (of hands). It sometimes runs through or with the hepatica (line of health), but can be found clear and distinct even when the hepatica is marked. It denotes a purely impressionable nature, a person keenly sensitive to all surroundings and influences; an intuitional feeling of presentiment for others, strange vivid dreams and warnings which science has never been able to account for by that much-used word, ‘coincidence.’ It is found more on psychic hands than on any others.”

Nope, one is not a psychic, and my hands are shaped more like the philosophic or conic types, but when one is quiet and receptive, one intuitively ‘knows’ the motive behind someone’s post, words or thoughts. This could explain why one occasionally receives omens and/or heaven’s secrets from the Yi. It could also be because of the Qi flows?

But then again, as the Yi gave the first omen in 1990, one will still rely on the best explanation given by the ancients in the Doctrine of the Mean (Chung Yung) that is, "the one who possess the most complete sincerity can certainly foreknow and is like a spirit (shen)."

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