Hillary Clinton's face has changed in ways that may amaze you. Whether or not you're a fan, did you notice how she has come to look more like Bill? And what does she have in common, facially, with her hero Eleanor Roosevelt?
Yes, I know that everyone's talking today about her back-and-forths with Obama. But I believe you can find more about ongoing character from her physical face.
And, yes, unlike many at Daily KOS, I read faces and auras and do empathic merges. If your mind is open to consider this perspective, please read and share your reaction. If your mind is closed, please spare us all and read/write elsewhere.
Senator Clinton's face is unusually expressive for a politician of either gender. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, for instance, seems wooden by comparison. (Or more dignified, depending upon your perspective.)
Even someone without Clinton's mobility has something else going on facially. It's far more revealing than expression or body language. Are you counter-culture enough to see it? Faces change. They structurally change over time. Every one of these changes is meaningful.
For close to 10 years, this discovery drove me. It's not just that I wrote "Wrinkles Are God's Makeup: How You Can Find Meaning in Your Evolving Face." During that decade, I lived facial change. Whenever I could, I'd compare photos of the same person, searching for insight.
Physiognomy has been done for 5,000 years, but nobody else had thought to write books about this aspect. Understandable! Who had photos back in the day? But whatever the tragic findings of future historians, deconstructing the Internet Age, I don't think they'll find that we suffered from lack of pictures.
Here I'm going to point out a handful of really significant changes to Hillary Clinton's face. Feel free to notice more and add your observations as comments AT MY BLOG ONLY.
I'll supply the page numbers in WAGM to interpret those changes and, should you find something that isn't covered there, I will summarize if you contact me via my blog about aura reading, face reading and other kinds of deeper perception. That's "Deeper Perception Made Practical" at http://www.rose-rosetree.com/... . My blog is also where you will find the photos referred to in this article.
(I do look through comments here at KOS, and when I find ones that merit an answer, I do. But until the proportion of respectful responses and real questions is higher, there is no way that I promise to respond to every comment. Yet I know that some of you are interested, and that's why I post here. Enjoy!)
If you look closely, with a face reader's eye, you may be able to find dozens of changes. And, speaking of finding, I was fortunate to find a rare head shot of Hillary Clinton, age 21. If you can help me to locate old photos of other top presidential candidates, and supply a link, I'll do similar readings on them. Comment away! (Again, please address this to my blog, so I will be sure to see it.)
We'll use these two photos to read Clinton's evolving face. I'm comparing her photo at age 21 with a current photograph, more than three decades later.
WARINESS
The Physical Change: Lower eyelid curve means the shape at the bottom half of an eye. It can range anywhere from super-curvy to straight. For Clinton, that's just what it does.
The huge openness of her eyes continued well into when she moved into the White House. I remember staring at her photos in The Washington Post. It's so unusual to have a high-profile political wife with that degree of openness.
Sure enough, attacks began from what Clinton called "a vast right-wing conspiracy," her face changed.
Sure, we can always narrow or round our eyes, moment by moment, but the default position counts. For Hillary Clinton, that meant going from 10 to 1.
The Inner Meaning:
Clinton learned to trust nobody, not until that person has proven trustworthy. She may not enjoy people as much as she once did. But that lost innocence has compensations, one of which is greater loyalty to those people who do pass her test.
DOWN-ANGLED LEFT EYE
The Physical Change:
To see eye angles, imagine one dot each at the inner and outer eye corners. Connect those dots with an imaginary line. Comparing Clinton's left eye in each photo (which will be on your right side of the page), note that it used to go up quite a lot. Now it angles way down.
The Inner Meaning: In personal life, rather than public life, Clinton has gone through hell. She's come back, sadder and wiser and way more compassionate.
Interestingly, her left eye now resembles whose? Check out the current face of her rather famous husband, who has developed a down-angled left eye as well.
Yes, when husbands and wives come to look alike, that's no coincidence, not to a face reader, anyway. Every change to the physical face is meaningful.
CHANGED LOWER LIP
The Physical Change: Younger, Hillary's lower lip is so much fuller, it's maybe quadruple the size of her upper lip now. But that isn't even the most interesting mouth change. The texture starts off puffy and soft. What happens later?
Reading lip texture is one of the perks of becoming an expert face reader.
Imagine, with practice you don't have to actually kiss a mouth in order to know about that texture! Hillary's lower lip became unusually muscular. What does it mean that she lost that puff, that fluff?
The Inner Meaning: Lower lips symbolize communicating facts. (Upper lips relate to talking about feelings.)
Clinton must have been some debater back in the day, because she had a flirtatious quality when talking facts. She could tell people what they wanted to hear, finding just the appropriate fact and timing it perfectly.
Now all she has is the passion of her convictions. When Hillary speaks now, you may agree or disagree, but you'd have to be pretty far gone not to believe she's sincere.
The challenge is that she's lost that easy, confident persuasiveness. Speaking with passion and conviction is not common among today's high-level politicians. They risk seeming strident (not to mention losing the Romney-like plasticity).
For a female politician to speak passionately and assertively could be a particularly great liability among those who like their women to be sweet and supportive, more like a Laura Bush.
CHIN LENGTH
The Physical Change: Chins are the bottom line of the face, the part that tells so much about ethics and decision making. Hillary's chin changed in numerous ways. Here I want to emphasize the sheer length. Notice how petite that chin used to be. Now her chin is more than double the size, taking into consideration the proportions on the rest of her face.
The Inner Meaning: Earlier, Clinton had one of those consciences that wouldn't quit. She pushed herself to walk her talk, and probably was her own worst critic. Today, of course, she'd be hard pressed to match the virulence of the hatred directed against her.
Fortunately, she has toughened up, become more of a risk taker. Sure she can take attacks on the chin now. She has grown way more chin. The potential challenge is being ethically less pristine. If she does become elected, it will be important for her to guard against this challenge.
NEW PRIORITIES
The Physical Change: For 5,000 years, physiognomists have compared the three lengths within a face. In my system, these Priority Areas tell a great deal about how the personality comes across. Compare these three lengths on Hillary:
Priority Area I: Hairline to highest part of eyebrow.
Priority Area II: Highest part of eyebrow to lowest part of the nose.
Priority Area III: Lowest part of the nose to the chin (first chin only, please!)
The college grad had a clear, and dramatic, priority on her face, Area II.
Now all three Priority Areas have equal length. This is how Hillary Clinton looks just like King George Bush the First.
The Inner Meaning: Ambition showed plainly on the young woman's face. If you had a strong nose for the scent, you could smell it a mile off. Now her ambitions have been incorporated into the rest of her life. She also cares about learning. Plus she's more street smart. It's easier for Hillary Clinton now, to appeal to people who fear ambitious women.
But that job will never be easy, not yet. Do you realize that 20 other countries have elected a woman as highest political official but not yet our oh-so-advanced United States?
During the Clinton years, Bob Woodward outed Hillary Clinton as someone who really admired Eleanor Roosevelt and was even involved in emulating her in ways that could be called, gasp! New Age.
When we admire people, we do learn from them, whether Woodward approves or not. Eleanor Roosevelt is one of my heroes as well. In "Wrinkles Are God's Makeup," I include her among six famous people whose face changes are discussed in detail, and Roosevelt leads them all. She changed more than most people you'll ever meet, 20 significant changes plus wrinkles. What do you think it means, when somebody's face changes that much?