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Ancient Face Reading

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Facial Reading+-“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

— Oscar Wilde-Ever noticed a line, mark, or vein on your forehead and wondered if it means something more?

Drop a 🧠 if you’ve ever heard a wild face-reading theory like this.

I went down a rabbit hole on metoposcopy - the old practice of reading forehead lines, shapes, and marks as signs of wisdom, destiny, or intensity.

Some traditions linked forehead lines to the planets.

Others saw stars, crosses, and triangles as symbols of genius, burden, or spiritual initiation.

A visible central…

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