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WALT DISNEY'S HAND is the fortunate combination of knotty-philosophic and spatulate. This is indeed a lucky duality, for it gives Mr. Disney the capacity for independent thinking plus the energy and courage for action. Too many thinkers live in a world of abstract ideas and do not contribute directly to the world we live in; and too many of our men of action are incapable of arriving at sound bases for their activities. From the creator of the world's most popular comedians, Mickey Mouse and his troupe, we can expect both originality and action.

Now, to look at the individual fingers. Notice that the first and third are long compared with the middle finger. This signifies the attributes of leadership, dramatic talent and sociability more prominent in Disney's makeup than the serious, ingrown thoughtfulness which is associated with the finger of Saturn. The little finger is unusually long. Ordinarily, it reaches only to the base of the third finger's first phalanx. In Disney's hand it extends almost to the middle of the Apollo finger's first phalanx. This underscores the prominence of Mercurial qualities: business ability, fluency of expression and humor.

The thumb, which is of a pronounced spatulate type, marks out Disney's courageous and enterprising nature.

The lines of Walter Disney's hand are markedly individual. His lifeline in the right hand is unusually long and firm except for some minor breaks near the beginning. It shows great improvement over the very broken lifeline in his left hand, which I have not reproduced. The headline, strangely enough in a man who has accomplished so much in public ways, is closely tied to the lifeline at its beginning, even showing portions which penetrate within the area enclosed by the line of life. This shows a supersensitive nature which would almost have made a hermit of Disney were it not offset by the large triangle of humor seen connecting the lines of head and heart at the base of the second finger.

The line of heart is set pretty low in the hand, which indicates that Mr. Disney is quite emotional. The destiny line shows a definite break at the line of head and a new beginning at another point on the line of head. This second part of the line of destiny joins the triangle of humor and shows how Disney found himself in his satiric artistry, and how he won success through it.

The girdle of Venus is quite noticeable in Disney's left hand, though less pronounced in the right. This gives evidence of his creative imagination, which he has perhaps partly suppressed in arriving at an outstanding business success. The prominence of mount Luna, along the outer edge of the hand, however, also attests to an active imagination which finds expression in the thousand and one humorous details in his cartoon-comedies.

But even more important than the mount of Luna in Disney's hand is the mount of Apollo, whose fullness is directly under the Apollo finger. This mount is usually to be found between the base of the second and third fingers. When it occurs directly under the third finger it is an exceedingly fortunate indication. In Disney's hand it probably more than makes up for the absence of the Apollo line.

There are many lines of restlessness along the outer edge of Disney's hand, and he will probably travel about, perhaps go in for exploration or flying fairly late in life. But whatever he does, the saving grace of humor, so prominently designated by the triangle of which I have already spoken, will temper his actions and his thoughts.