Garlands & Arcades, Intuition & Logic, Diplomacy & Tact

This article will take a look at something we call garlands and arcades in your handwriting. A garland is much like the kind of Christmas garland you hang on top of a window or mantelpiece, the arcade is the reverse of that.

First, garlands. By it's nature, a garland is almost a graceful thing, a sweeping downward motion, gently curving at the bottom, and rounding up to the top. Garlands are an indication that the writer loves luxurious things, is gracious and takes great pleasure in the things they enjoy. It also says the person may be lazy, but needs to be noticed, needs admiration. If you see really deep garlands you can bet the traits we've just mentioned are even more pronounced.

Arcades, the opposite of garlands. These people are very self protective, good planners and builders but secretive. They love convention and formality. Why protective? Well, if you take a good look at the arch the arcade forms, it is much like a covering structure - a sheltering arch - hence protecting something. If the person with arcades has good rhythm showing in their handwriting it shows they're creative and sociable. You can probably guess what I'm going to say next. If you have a sample that is immature, crude, all over the place, broken, patchy etc, then you have a vain or hypocritical person. As with the garlands, if the arcades are really pronounced, the stronger the traits.

You're probably asking yourself if both garlands and arcades are present in most samples? The answer is yes, they usually are. It's when you see almost all deep garlands or all arcades that the behaviour the person will display is extreme. There are such things as angular arcades, which looks terribly awkward, and with good reason - it indicates mental disturbance and emotional turmoil. If you see threadlike writing, as in threadlike arcades and/or garlands you could be looking at a person who avoids making decisions, an individual who is very suggestible. Now, having said that, I need to add, that threadlike writing may be the result of speed. If it is due to speed (the threadiness) then the person has insight and is versatile and adaptable. One needs to be careful with thready writing, as thready letters draw their meaning from other letters present.

Now the opposite of threadlike (which also implys thin lines) is snake like (which is often times thicker writing, but can be thinner). Snakelike writing with garlands and arcades (remember what we said earlier about too many however) indicates intelligence and diplomacy. If you have a sample of writing that shows immaturity or is very clumsy, you can evaluate a person who has difficulty making decisions.

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