12 Facts About Cheiro

William John Warner, popularly known as Cheiro, was an Irish astrologer and colourful occult figure of the early 20th century.

Cheiro was a self-described clairvoyant who said he learned palmistry, astrology, and Chaldean numerology in India.

Cheiro was celebrated for using these forms of divination to make personal predictions for famous clients and to foresee world events.

The son of William Warner and Margaret Thompson Warner, Cheiro was born William John Warner in the barony of Rathdown, outside Dublin, Ireland.

Later Cheiro was permitted by Brahmans to study an ancient book that has many studies on hands.

Cheiro was reluctant to marry but was aware that he was destined to marry late in life.

Cheiro had a wide following of famous European and American clients during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Cheiro read palms and told the fortunes of famous celebrities like Mark Twain, W T Stead, Sarah Bernhardt, Mata Hari, Oscar Wilde, Grover Cleveland, Thomas Edison, the Prince of Wales, General Kitchener, William Ewart Gladstone, and Joseph Chamberlain.

Cheiro documented his sittings with these clients by asking them to sign a guest book he kept for the purpose, in which he encouraged them to comment on their experiences as subjects of his character analyses and predictions.

Cheiro predicted that he would soon be in a fight for his life, talking about the battle surrounding the Titanic sinking.

Cheiro has exposed my character to me with humiliating accuracy.

Cheiro spent his final years in Hollywood, seeing as many as twenty clients a day and doing some screenwriting before his death there in 1936 following a heart attack.