Handwriting analysis can show you a great deal about your personality. There are many traits involved in analyzing your handwriting as well as many letter formations used to determine these traits. How you communicate your ideas to other people is shown in your handwriting by looking at the small letters a, o, d, and g.
Frankness in Your Handwriting
The term frankness is used when you have spoken in complete honesty without malice. If you have no secretiveness or deceit in what you share with someone else, you are considered a frank person. This is a trait involved in integrity and allows people to trust and respect you.
Frankness can be seen in the small circle letters, a, o, d, and g, that have no loops or hooks within them. It does not matter if the circles are open or closed.
Reticence
If you prefer your own company to the company of others, you are considered a reticent person and do not readily communicate.
Reticence is shown by closing your circle letters at the top. These letters can have hooks or loops, but the basic handwriting trait is shown by the closed tops.
Talkativeness
Talkativeness does not mean you talk incessantly. In handwriting analysis, talkativeness refers to a person who wants to share their feelings with others. If you are willing to reveal your inner feelings and attitudes to others, you are considered talkative.
This trait is shown by leaving the tops of the circle letters open. The wider the opening, the more willing you are to communicate.
The Cover Up
If you attempt to avoid responsibility for statements you have made, you will use another person to shift responsibility away from yourself. You might say, "I heard it is supposed to rain today." Then, you will add, "At least that is what the weather man said." This way, if it does not rain, you are not held responsible for your statement.
The cover up stroke starts the small circle letter, hanging over the completed letter like a roof which extends a little too far. These letters can be opened or closed.
The Trait of Self-Deceit
When you refuse to face facts, rationalizing your actions, make decisions before getting all the facts, and solving problems by stepping around them, in handwriting, this shows the trait of self-deceit.
Self-deceit is seen when a circle letter has an initial loop and the final stroke of this loop turns downward to form the circle of the letter. The size of the loop determines how much self-deceit affects your personality.
Secretiveness
If you prefer to keep your personal information to yourself, you are considered secretive. This does not mean you do not talk to others, but you will talk around anything that involves what you consider personal in nature.
The trait of secretiveness is shown by a final loop which closes the circle letter. If the final loop does not close the circle, you are trying to establish the habit of secretiveness so as not to reveal personal information, but have not quite mastered it.
Deceptiveness in Handwriting
Deceptiveness concerns speaking without truth or showing deceptive action and it is a trait that is meant to mislead or deceive. If you are in a threatening situation, your handwriting might reveal this trait. You may also show this trait if you have a habit of misrepresenting facts to gain approval from others. It is important to get a full understanding of other traits in the handwriting before labeling someone as being deceptive. Simplifying here, if you feel the need to deceive others, there may be a valid reason.
Deceptiveness is shown when the circle letter is made up of two loops. One loop will begin the letter and the other loop will finish the letter.
Evasiveness
When you have the tendency to get around telling the truth without actually telling a lie, you are showing the trait of evasiveness. Chances are, you are trying to acquire something or hold onto something, so you prefer to only give a portion of the truth.
In handwriting, this trait is shown by either a single beginning hook or a double-hook formation at the top of the circle letter.
Combinations of Handwriting Traits
You can have one or more of the above traits in a single letter. For example, if your small letter "a" has no hooks or loops, you are showing frankness. However, this same letter "a" might be closed showing the trait of reticence as well. Always check for more than one handwriting trait in each of the circle letters a, o, d, and g. You will then be able to determine which communication traits are strongest in your personality, which traits you do not have, and which traits require improvement.
Sources:
- IGAS
- The General Course in Graphoanalysis - Lesson 7-8; The IGAS Instruction Department; M.N. Bunker (1956)
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