Palmistry [1996]

I am an amateur palmist who unfortunately could read his own palms and see unpleasant & painful events occurring. However, I tend to focus on the positive points and try not to worry about the negative events. This article is based on a booklet which was published in 1974.

Language of the hands 
Palmistry is a belief so old that its origin are lost in time. Records in the West date it back to Aristotle's time, but we know that it flourished unrecorded, long before that. There are two main aspects to palmistry i.e Chirognomy and Chiromancy.

Chirognomy focuses on personality and character traits while Chiromancy which concentrates on fortune-telling and preditions.

Which hand to read ?

Take a look at your hands and notice that there is a big difference between both your right and left hands. It is generally agreed that the hand to study is the the hand you use most often. As such, we should study the right hand for right-handers and the left hand for southpaws. The late Cheiro, the celebrated palmist states that your left hand shows what you have been born with and your right shows what you are today !

In order words, your left hand shows your inherited positive and negative points while the right records the way you shape your life. The opposite is ture for southpaws.

In reading palms, you should look at both the type of hands and the major lines on the palm. Before studying the lines and features of your own palm, categorise the shape of your hands.

Type of Hands

There are six main type of hands :

• Square hand
• Knotty or Philosophic
• Physic
• Conic or Creative
• Spatulate
• Mixed