Face Reading
Choose your seven features (face, forehead, eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, ears) to read your innate fortune.
Pick the shapes of your seven features (face, forehead, eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, ears) and traditional physiognomy reads your innate fortune. Face reading was codified in physiognomic manuals such as the Maui Sangbeop and carried into Korea, dividing the face into the forehead, brows, eyes, nose and mouth and assigning a meaning to each. Here you pick the shape of each feature yourself rather than uploading anything, so no image of your face is received or stored. Face reading does not disclose a fixed destiny; it is an old way of reading an impression, so please take it lightly.
How it works
A face-reading catalogue you read without entering anything. It moves through the face shape and seven features — forehead, eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, and ears — and how each has traditionally been read.
What you'll get
You see the reading for every feature and what the three temperaments — feeling, will, and intellect — say about your nature, along with love, work, money, and health for each.
What face reading was actually for
In earlier times there was rarely the luxury of knowing someone at length before having to work with them. People often had to size up a stranger at a first meeting, and the manuals of face reading grew out of that need, dividing the face into places and attaching a sense to each. So face reading is less a technique for knowing a fate in advance than a practical way of organising a first impression. Keep it in that place while you read this guide and it sits about right.
The three divisions and the twelve palaces
The old manuals cut the face into three bands across. Up to the forehead stood for the early years, from the brows to the nose for the middle years, and below the philtrum for the later years, and this was called the three divisions. Onto that they mapped named places: the seat of office on the forehead, the life palace between the eyes, the spouse palace at the corner of the eye, and so on, twelve in all. This guide handles only the shapes of the features and does not carry that frame, but it is worth knowing that a way of reading the face by period and by domain existed.
The face in a mirror and the face others see
A face in a mirror is reversed left to right, so the face you look at every day is not the face other people see. That is why your own photograph can feel so oddly unfamiliar. Since the two sides of a face differ slightly, a straight-on photograph is closer to the truth than a mirror when you are picking your features here. Judging from one view alone makes it easy to drift, without noticing, toward whichever option you would rather have.
Do not judge a person by their face
The habit of gauging character or ability from appearance turns directly into prejudice. Sharp eyes do not make someone cold, and a mild face does not make someone soft. In an interview or an introduction in particular, please refrain from calling the sentences of this guide to mind while looking at the person across from you. A face carries the time someone has lived and the mood they are in today; it says nothing about what they are going to do next.
Do not alter your face because of a reading
People really do go looking into procedures after being told that their nose blocks wealth or that a narrow forehead keeps their luck shut. Face reading is an old way of reading an impression from a face, and there is no basis anywhere for the idea that changing the face changes the fortune. Altering a face is something done to a body, so it belongs to medical judgement and your own wishes, and a sentence from this guide should never be the reason behind that decision.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to upload a photo?
No. You read through the catalogue feature by feature and find the passages that match you, so nothing is entered at all.
Is face reading a fixed destiny?
No. Tradition itself holds that expression, habit, and the way you speak change your face. Please take it as reference only.
None of the options quite match my feature.
Pick the closest one. Physiognomy never judged from a single feature anyway — it reads the balance of the whole face, so a few uncertain choices still leave the overall picture intact.
Is it read differently for men and women?
This catalogue does not split by gender; it reads each feature by shape alone. Old physiognomy texts did divide by sex in places, but much of that writing does not sit well today, so it is not included.