Victorian palmistry, numerology, and astrology

Cheiro

1866 – 1936

William John Warner, known as Cheiro, was an Irish occultist who rose to international fame reading the palms of figures such as Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, King Edward VII, and Kaiser Wilhelm II, and who popularized the Chaldean system of numerology for English-speaking audiences. He claimed his knowledge came from Brahmin priests in India and was widely celebrated as a genuine psychic talent as much as an entertainer, straddling the line between performance and serious esoteric practice. His prolific writings on palmistry, numerology, and prophecy made him one of the most commercially successful and visible occultists of the Victorian and Edwardian eras.