Reading Palms and Faces
From the lines on your hand to the shape of a face, in the order tradition read them
Palmistry and face reading belong to the same family: both read what is written on the body. Your hand is always there to open, so start with palms and move to the face afterwards. Keep your own palm open beside you as you read.
Stage 1 · Trace the lines on your hand
Palmistry starts with knowing which line runs where. Look at the whole map first, then study the three main lines closely: the life line, the heart line and the head line.
- 1. How to Read Palms — The Three Major Lines and the Fate Line — From which hand to read, to the three major lines — life, head, and heart — and on to the fate line and sun line: the basics for anyone reading palms for the first time.
- 2. The Three Major Palm Lines — Reading the Life, Head, and Heart Lines — Three great lines cross the palm: the life line, the head line, and the heart line. Here is the basics of reading their flow — where they begin and where they run.
Stage 2 · Look at the face
In face reading each feature carries a fixed meaning. See what the forehead, eyes, nose and mouth stand for, then move on to the twelve palaces that divide the face into twelve reading positions.
- 3. Physiognomy Basics — Reading Temperament and Fortune in the Face — The fundamentals of physiognomy, which divides the face into three zones, and the principles of traditional face reading that interpret the balance of the features and the five peaks.
- 4. The Twelve Palaces of Face Reading — Twelve Stations Held in the Face — Wealth in the nose, siblings in the brows, children beneath the eyes — face reading divides the face into twelve areas of life. Here are the basics of the Twelve Palaces.
By the end you can look at your own hand and face by the old standards. The place people get stuck is a line that is faint or splits into several branches; rather than forcing one answer, hold both meanings side by side. That said, the reading that judges lifespan by the length of a line has no basis, and face reading describes the impression you give now, not a fixed fate. Do not use it to judge other people.
When you can change the order
Palm reading and face reading stand apart from each other, so either can come first. Hands are simply easier to look at whenever you like, which is the only reason palmistry was put in front. If faces are what interest you, starting at stage two puts nothing out of order. Once you have read both, it is worth setting the two side by side where they say different things; what emerges is not which one is right but what each of them is actually looking at.
What people usually get wrong
The most widespread misreading is that the length of the life line tells you how long you will live. There is no basis for it, and if something about your health worries you, a doctor comes well before a palm. Taking a face as a fixed fate is the other one. Even the old manuals held that an impression changes with expression and bearing; this is a craft for reading the impression you give now, not a device that settles what is coming.
What this path does not cover
This site neither receives nor stores photographs of faces or hands, and this path does not cover reading from a picture. Nothing here is written to be used as grounds for cosmetic surgery. People do occasionally look into a procedure after being told that their nose blocks wealth, and there is no basis anywhere for the idea that changing a face changes a fortune. Please do not use any of it to choose or exclude people either.