SUZANNE BELLING
PHOTOGRAPH BY SUZANNE BELLING
Graphologist Mashi Rose.
There are many companies locally and abroad who will not employ anyone without referring to Rose.
Choosing a potential marriage partner, dealing with marriage issues, assisting the Beth Din in both Johannesburg and Cape Town with conversion applications and even employing domestic staff, honesty testing, career tracking – you name it and Rose has the skills to help – without even meeting the person.
“I just have to see a sample of their handwriting, so I even assist companies overseas,” says Rose, the wife of Rabbi Aharon Rose, “who used to think it was like reading tea leaves before he saw the proof for himself”.
Brought up in the former West Rand town of Bank (the town ceased to exist after the discovery of gold there and sinkholes made it uninhabitable) and educated at Helpmekaar Meisies in Johannesburg, to where she commuted daily, “as my father wanted me to make the most of my tennis playing skills”, Rose later attended a seminary in New York, when she met her husband.
The couple lived in Melbourne for three years, before settling in Johannesburg.
She had an interview with a rabbi who was also a graphologist and psychologist and became fascinated with graphology.
Thereafter, she studied the craft with Dr Marcelle Feinberg and Italian Sylvana Gnandin and ran an evening school, “where people, exhausted after working all day, suddenly perked up with interest and didn’t want to go home, while I was falling asleep!”
Mother of three and a youthful grandmother, Rose also does counselling, which she often combines with her graphology.
She recalls one young man who had problems and guilt dealing with the death of his father. “You have so much understanding when you analyse someone’s handwriting. I guide them to change their handwriting and it changes their personality.
“This particular young man wept for 45 minutes of the hour-long session, but we succeeded in helping him lift his burden. He bought a music system and it became his passport to life.”
Rose says there are four basic categories to a person’s honesty:
Upstanding and truthful; overall honesty with occasional deviation from the truth (which includes unintentional dishonesty); soft dishonesty – people who lack backbone and are easily influenced by low morals of their culture and intentional dishonesty – anti-social, premeditated criminals.
“The third area is where dishonest tendencies ought to be investigated. These are the people who cannot be trusted in important decision-making or financial positions.
“One only knows a person as he or she reveals himself or herself to you. The ‘write way’ has a number of scientific tests which will ensure you recruit the best people for the positions you need to fill,” Rose said.
