Cheiro – The Father of Modern Palmistry

Cheiro, (pronounced Ok’i-ro) born William John Warner (November 1, 1866 – October 8, 1936) was the daddy of trendy palmistry.  He was additionally recognized professionally as Count Louis Hamon. Cheiro was with none doubt an unusually gifted astrologer and palmist and offered trendy-day palmists with an incredible physique of reference work.

Cheiro was an Irish astrologer and a nicely-recognized determine within the budding occult world of the early twentieth century. He was born to William and Margaret Warner in a village exterior Dublin.  Throughout his skilled life, he maintained a number of pseudonyms together with Count Louis Hamon, Count Leigh de Hamong, and most well-known title, Cheiro.  As you might need found out, the title Cheiro is derived from the phrase cheiromancy, which implies palmistry. He was a clairvoyant who taught palmistry, astrology, and Chaldean numerology.  During his profession, he circulated within the circle of very well-known folks worldwide.  His divination expertise have been heralded and he was recognized to make impactful predictions linked to his purchasers.

As a younger man, Cheiro traveled to Bombay, India.  There he met Guru Chitpavan Brahmin, who allowed him to check historical texts about palmistry.  He spent two years immersed in growing his personal expertise as a palmist.  He then returned to Europe, however to not his homeland, as an alternative organising a palm studying observe in London, England.  His first shopper was Arthur Balfour, who was a member of the brand new Society for Psychical Research. This group was researching every type of psychic exercise all through England. Mr. Balfour was fairly impressed together with his studying, a lot that he informed all his buddies, who have been fairly influential on the time. Word of mouth introduced Cherio fame and fortune, particularly with the higher courses. He shortly turned often known as one of the most well-liked and influential seers of his time throughout Europe and in America.  The accuracy of his predictions was the important thing cause that many well-known celebrities and members of royalty consulted him on all kinds of subjects.

The Hands of Celebrities

Cheiro learn the palms of Sir Austen Chamberlain, Mark Twain, Dame Nellie Melba, Oscar Wilde, Grover Cleveland, Thomas Edison, Sarah Bernhardt, Mata Hari and the Prince of Wales to call a couple of.  Not solely did he learn the palms of well-known people, however he additionally documented these periods and made palm prints of their fingers.  As half of the general expertise, he saved a journal wherein he would ask patrons to jot down private ideas on their expertise with their readings.  Mark Twain agreed to sit down for a studying, regardless that he was skeptical of palmistry.  He was so impressed with the accuracy of his studying, he made use of palmistry in a single of his tales referred to as, ‘Pudd’n Head Wilson’.  He wrote an exquisite assertion in Cherio’s journal stating how moved he was by the expertise.

He appropriately predicted that the Jews would return to Palestine and the nation would once more be referred to as Israel.  He additionally predicted the date of Queen Victoria’s demise, the year and month when King Edward VII would die, and the assassination of Italy’s King Humbert.  These are only a few of the correct predictions that he made about world leaders.  He turned so standard that he stayed in America, Hollywood particularly, and noticed over a dozen shopper per day till his demise in 1936 following a coronary heart assault.

Written Works

Cheiro amassed an incredible fortune writing books on palmistry, astrology, numerology and the occult.  Many of his works are nonetheless in print as we speak and so they have been important to palmists nonetheless as we speak.

Cheiro’s Written Works

Numerology
Cheiro’s Book of Numbers – 1926

Palmistry
Cheiro’s Language of the Hand (first self-revealed in 1894)
Cheiro’s Guide to the Hand – 1892
You and Your Hand – 1931
Palmistry for All – 1910
The Cheiro Book of Fate and Fortune – 1971
Cheiro’s Complete Palmistry (Count Louis Harmon) – 1968

Astrology
Where have been you Born? – 1930
Cheiro’s You and Your Star: The Book of the Zodiac – 1934
Cheiro’s World Predictions – 1925
Cheiro’s Memoirs: The Reminiscences of a Society Palmist
Titanic’s Last Secrets
True Ghost Stories (attested tales of paranormal experiences)

Fiction
A Study of Destiny (additionally revealed as The Hand of Fate, first launched in 1898)

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