Simple Face Reading
Supervised by Ms.M
Affiliation: KARASU CHANNEL
Traditions studied: 12+ (Western astrology, Four Pillars of Destiny, Nine Star Ki, tarot, runes, palmistry & physiognomy, name numerology, numerology, feng shui, Vedic astrology / Zi Wei, Onmyodo, spiritual reading, and more)
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Read about Simple Face Reading
About this reading: Face reading (physiognomy) reads personality and fortune from the shape and placement of facial features — forehead, eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, face shape, and more. It traces back to Chinese "physiognomy" (guanxiangxue) and has a long history of spreading across East Asia. Alongside palmistry, it's one of the classic "read the inner self from the body" divination practices, and trying both lets you compare the two results.
Face reading is sometimes described as "habitual expressions shaping the face," because the form of your eyes and mouth is thought to shift, little by little, not only from your inborn bone structure but from the expressions you've repeated over the years. A frequent smiler's mouth corners, or the crease between the brows of someone prone to worry, are both said to carry marks distinct to that person. As we see it here, face reading works less as a reading of a fate you were born with and more as a record of accumulated living, etched onto the face over time.
Lore column: How Did a Man Told He Bore the Face of Death Change His Face?
A short read on the legends and strange tales around this reading, with this site's own view.
Mizuno Nanboku (1760 to 1834), a face reader of the Edo period, was once called the finest physiognomist in Japan. Yet as a young man, it is said, he spent his days drinking, gambling and brawling. The turning point reportedly came when a diviner told him that his face showed the sign of meeting disaster and losing his life.
That warning is said to have awakened him to the art of face reading, and after a year of eating nothing but barley and soybeans, the sign of death vanished and both his looks and his fate changed. Nanboku later taught that restraint in eating opens the way to good fortune, telling people who felt their luck had turned bad to look first at what they ate. The front page of his book Nanboku Soho is said to bear the name of Prince Shotoku, revered by face readers of the time as the founder of their art.
He erased the sign of death from his own face by changing how he lived. The story is passed down as one in which Nanboku himself, with his own body, built a bridge between the belief that a face is fixed at birth and the belief that it can change.
As we see it here, the terror and the comfort in Nanboku's story are two sides of the same coin. This is our own conjecture, but what the young man told he bore the face of death must have felt was a bottomless fear: that a fate others could read, and he could not, was carved into his own face. In his attempt to overwrite that fear through the most everyday act of all, eating, we can see a human will not to be bound by a reading, but to face it squarely and change the way one lives.
Simple Face Reading
No photo upload needed. Look in a mirror and, for each of eight features — forehead, eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, face shape, chin, and ears — pick whichever description comes closest (just the ones you can tell are fine). Try the Simple Palm Reading too, and you'll also see a "Palm × Face" comparison of the two.
Which best matches your forehead — its width and shape?
Which best matches your eyebrows — their thickness and shape?
Which best matches your eyes — their size and shape?
Which best matches your nose — its height and shape?
Which best matches your mouth — its size, or the thickness of your lips?
Which best matches the outline of your face?
Which best matches the shape of your chin?
Which best matches your ears — their size, or your earlobes?
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