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Velma the Seer
Dec. 1st, 2022 12:58 pmVelma the Seer was a talented palmist and crystal gazer who was based in London in early 1900s. He read the hands of many famous people of his day, including the last Czar of Russia, Nicholas, whose assassination he predicted; the former Queen Mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, to whom he predicted that she would give birth to a daughter who would be beloved around the world (that daughter was the recently-deceased Queen Elizabeth of the House of Windsor); King Edward VIII, whose abdication he predicted. Velma wrote a book in 1929, My Mysteries and My Story, in which he gives rudimentary information about his arts, a lot of interesting stories from his life of palmistry and crystal gazing, but very little else in the way of biographical information. There is no biographical information about him available on the internet. And I found no photographs. Here are two photographs of him from his own book:
MEDITATION
ABSOLUTE CONCENTRATION
Judging from his accounts, it seems that Velma would first read his subject's hand for some information. And then, if the subject desired further particulars, Velma would consult the crystal. It seems to me that he was a much better clairvoyant than palmist. His instruction on palmistry in the book is slight, and not terribly sound.
Of interest is that, after he read the Queen Mother's palm (back in the days before she had children, when she was still the Duchess of York), he sat down and drew the main lines of her hand from memory. He reproduces the drawing in the book. I was not very impressed by his interpretation, though. What I would have commented on, myself:
1. Spatulate hand: boundless energy, must always keep busy.
2. Long, Deep Life Line: excellent vitality, long life.
3. Fate Line arising from within the deep curve of the Life Line: Her fate would always be bound up with the fate of her family.
4. A ram-rod straight Head Line, ending on the Outer Mount of Mars: a clear thinker and reasoner, even in the face of danger or scandal.
5. A ram-rod straight Heart Line, extending across the palm: a lover of people, in general, but not emotional or sentimental toward individual people.
6. The Line of Influence from the Mount of Venus crosses the Life Life as it heads to the Mount of Mercury: Where the line crosses the Life Line, it shows the age at which she would marry: around 22 or 23 years old.
I would read more, naturally, but the above are the only lines that Velma reproduces in his drawing.
*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.
* Copyright to Coven Rochester
MEDITATION
ABSOLUTE CONCENTRATION
Judging from his accounts, it seems that Velma would first read his subject's hand for some information. And then, if the subject desired further particulars, Velma would consult the crystal. It seems to me that he was a much better clairvoyant than palmist. His instruction on palmistry in the book is slight, and not terribly sound.
Of interest is that, after he read the Queen Mother's palm (back in the days before she had children, when she was still the Duchess of York), he sat down and drew the main lines of her hand from memory. He reproduces the drawing in the book. I was not very impressed by his interpretation, though. What I would have commented on, myself:
1. Spatulate hand: boundless energy, must always keep busy.
2. Long, Deep Life Line: excellent vitality, long life.
3. Fate Line arising from within the deep curve of the Life Line: Her fate would always be bound up with the fate of her family.
4. A ram-rod straight Head Line, ending on the Outer Mount of Mars: a clear thinker and reasoner, even in the face of danger or scandal.
5. A ram-rod straight Heart Line, extending across the palm: a lover of people, in general, but not emotional or sentimental toward individual people.
6. The Line of Influence from the Mount of Venus crosses the Life Life as it heads to the Mount of Mercury: Where the line crosses the Life Line, it shows the age at which she would marry: around 22 or 23 years old.
I would read more, naturally, but the above are the only lines that Velma reproduces in his drawing.
*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.
* Copyright to Coven Rochester
