Palm Reading
Choose the shape of your palm lines to read your innate nature and fortune.
Pick the shapes of your palm lines (life, head, heart, fate, sun, wealth, marriage, health, travel and the girdle of Venus) and traditional palmistry reads your innate nature and fortune. Reading the palm is a long practice in India and China, and it reached Europe through the medieval period, where the names now in common use — the life, head and heart lines — took hold. There is no basis for readings that take the length of a line as a span of years, so looking at how a line runs suits this catalogue better than how long it is. The palm is not a fixed destiny but an old way of reading temperament.
How it works
A palm-reading catalogue you read without entering anything. It walks the ten lines one by one, starting with where to find each on your palm, so open your hand and follow along.
What you'll get
You get the three forms each line can take and what they mean, plus an overall reading for six hand types depending on how many major lines stand out, along with love and career.
How the lines of a hand form
The heavy lines across a palm begin as creases set down in the womb, as the hand closes and opens. The main channels are therefore already in place at birth, and like fingerprints they differ from person to person. Heredity plays some part, yet even identical twins do not carry identical palms. Knowing that the pattern was assembled with a good deal of chance in it makes it easy to see that what this guide offers is a way of reading grain, not a prediction.
The old readers looked at the hand itself
Traditional palmistry never confined itself to lines. Whether the palm ran square or narrow, whether the fingers were long or short against it, whether the flesh was thick or thin, all of it was weighed in judging temperament. A thick hand was read as practical and good with household matters, long fingers as thinking ahead of acting. This guide covers only the ten lines, so that part is missing. If a reading of the lines feels somehow incomplete, that may well be why.
When the two hands differ
It is very common for the two palms to carry different lines, and rather uncommon for them to match. Instead of trying to decide which hand is the true one, look at where and how they diverge. The custom is to read the hand you use less as what you were born with and the hand you use more as what living has made, so the gap between them amounts to a record of which way you have walked so far. The wider the gap, the more there is to read.
When the life line makes you anxious
A life line that looks short or broken is not cause for worry. There is no basis for reading length as a span of years, and this guide does not read it that way. If something is genuinely wrong with your body, though, the answer is a doctor rather than a closer look at your palm. Palmistry is not an instrument for confirming a fear; it is closer to a game of putting into other words a grain you already knew about yourself.
When you read a palm for someone else
Asked to read a palm, even someone who starts out lightly slides easily into speaking with certainty. The listener keeps a casually tossed remark for a long time, so it is better not to add anything of your own about health, length of life or partings in particular. Reading out the lines of the guide and leaving the person to decide what to make of them is quite enough. Wanting to be told you read well is what pushes people into saying things that were never there.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which hand should I look at?
It is common to read your dominant hand for the present and what you have made, and the other for what you were born with. Read the catalogue and compare both.
Do palm lines change?
They are said to fade and deepen with time and living. Treat this as reading where you are now, for entertainment, rather than a fixed fate.
Is a faint or short line a bad sign?
No. The length or depth of a line speaks of temperament, not lifespan or success. A short, clear line reads as gathering force into one place.
Do I need to read all ten lines?
No. The life, head and heart lines are the basics; the rest are read if present. Plenty of hands have no fate or sun line at all, and their absence carries no bad meaning.