A Finger in Every Pie:

Once you've had a chance to see what your mounts have to tell you about your life's work, switch your attention to your fingers. They can tell you a lot about yourself, such as how you carry out your duties and use your talents.

Check Your Jupiter Finger

The Jupiter finger is the prime indicator of success in business. Pay careful attention to both the Jupiter finger and its corresponding mount. Having a straight Jupiter finger shows you are sensible and honest. If it leans outward, you are a financial risk-taker and an adventurer, as well as ambitious. If it leans inward, you are more careful and may even lack confidence in your own ability. The closer the Jupiter finger is to your Saturn finger, the more cautious you are with money. And if your Jupiter finger is longer than the Apollo finger, you are a dominant person and would always seek to do better professionally and promote yourself.

What does it mean if I have differently shaped fingertips on the fingers of one hand?
If you have differently shaped fingertips, your quest for job satisfaction depends on which finger has what kind of shape. The combination of fingertip and finger will give you information specific to that area of life.

Long middle sections of the finger, the phalanges, show that you have good financial and managerial abilities. If the bottom part of your Jupiter finger has vertical lines, it means you are very organized, but if that is overscored by horizontal lines to form a grille, you can be manipulative in the office environment and like to play politics there.

Measuring Up

Let's go on to see what else your fingers and fingertips can tell about you and career choices. If you have longer fingers, you should choose detail and precision work where speed is not a factor but accurate analysis is. If you have shorter fingers, it is just the opposite — you are a quick thinker, intuitive rather than analytical, and you see the big picture rather than the small details. You are goal-oriented rather than process-oriented.

If you have a long Mercury finger, you should look for a job in communications, such as a writer, broadcaster, public relations person, or clergyperson.

At Your Fingertips

Your fingertips can tell a lot about the kind of person you are and how you should work:

• Square: In general, those with squared fingertips are organized, thorough, and goal-oriented. Secretaries, clerks, and many businesspeople fall into this category.
• Spatulate: Those with spatulate fingertips love action and getting things done right away. Many of these people are successful business owners and athletes.
• Pointed: Those with pointed fingertips are imaginative and aesthetically oriented, and they have a great sense of idealism.
• Rounded: Those with rounded fingertips are indeed well rounded. They can be successful in many different professions and need to look for further guidance in other areas of the hand.

Fingerprinting for Success

Your fingerprints, too, will give you clues as to the right career choice to make. Of course, these remain unchanged by time, but they do give you an idea of what is in your genes that cannot be changed and must be dealt with when it comes to your life work. Take a look at your fingerprints. Do you see any of the following?

• Arches: People with fingerprints that are mostly arches are practical and down to earth; they like to work with their hands, whether it be as a surgeon, a mechanic, or a potter.
• Whorls: If your fingerprints contain whorls, you are likely to want to specialize in one particular topic and to become renowned for it. You like to work alone so that you can control the work environment and focus on the project at hand, and you tend to be temperamental and innovative.
• Loops: Those with fingerprint loops love teamwork and can adapt to many situations. They like the stimulation of changing surroundings and having a lot going on, and they can be either serious or fun-loving, depending on the type of loop displayed on their fingertips.
• Composite patterns: Those with composite fingerprints are good at seeing all points of view, and this makes them good at being arbitrators and jurists.

In any profession, people who have a large mount of Venus will bring a great deal of dedication to the job and sincere concern to those persons with whom the job brings them into contact, outshining any other reward the job may bring.

You can also look at the joints of your fingers to learn more about the attributes you have that will make you valuable in a particular job. If you have knotty joints, you tend to look at things logically and love to do research and solve problems. Think about science, law, or any other rational professional as a career. If you have smooth joints, you use your intuition to make quick assessments, and you like to work with others and to create new projects and ideas of your own rather than studying those of the past.