C O N T E N T S
LIST OF FIGURES ix
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi
PREFACE xiii
INTRODUCTION xv
Chapter 1 THE HAND:
PHYSICAL ASPECTS 1
Basic Hand Shapes 2
Mounts 6
Fingertip
Shapes 9
The
Shapes of the Fingers 12
The Three Phalanges 23
The Standing of the Fingers 24
The Thumb 25
Knots 30
Fingerprints 31
Palmprints 36
Chapter 2 THE LINES:
AN INTRODUCTION 39
Chapter 3 PRIMARY LINES
41
Life Line 41
Head
Line 55
Heart
Line 71
Chapter 4 SECONDARY
LINES 85
Girdle of Venus 85
Saturn Line 88
Sun Line 96
Line
of Liver 98
Poison
Line 101
Line
of Mars 103 Marriage Lines 103
v i I
Chapter
5 FURTHER ASPECTS OF THE PALM 107
Special Markings and Lines
107
Comparing the Two Hands
123
Changes in the Major Lines 125
Comparison of the Primary
and Secondary Lines 126
Chapter 6 GIVING
A READING 129
Making an Examination 132
FURTHER
READING 138
INDEX
140
P
R E FAC E
Welcome to this wonderful world of palmistry.
You will find in this book, clear and concise explanations based upon current
modern psychological understanding and, as well, ancient spiritual wisdom.
And included are explanations not found in any other book that came to me
over the years of studying palms, which I know certainly to be true. It has
been an absolute pleasure to write and put together this book, I invite you
also to enjoy palmistry in this way.
Palmistry is fun to learn especially when the meanings of the lines are discovered
to be absolutely relevant to who you are. And looking at the lines of others
is always intriguing and deeply meaningful for both you and the person being
read.
Each chapter is accompanied with informative illustrations that are close
at hand for your examination.
I certainly hope that you will enjoy palmistry as much as I do and in the
process, learn a very useful skill.
Good Luck and Best Wishes!
I
N T RO D U C T I O N
This book contains the knowledge accumulated from my study and practice of palmistry over the last 20 years. It is not complete, but there is a system to it, and a basis of moving from logic to intuition and from intuition to logic.
I present only the information I use and know to be true. I do not offer anything that has not been verified by observation. So please do not expect a textbook. I am expressing a fragment of a teaching that you can use to build your own store of knowledge. However, there is more than enough information to enable you to make a proper reading.
You will find interpretations here that you will not discover in any other palmistry book. These have come to me over the years and I am sure they are correct.
It is my conclusion that nearly everything can be seen in the lines and shapes of the hands.The big exception for me is the indication of children in the subject's hand. I've yet to find any accurate information about children in the hand.
How I see and interpret the lines is unique. Every palmist interprets and sees something according to his viewpoint and the subculture he associates with. No one ever sees the whole picture, since in reality truth is beyond our limited understanding. It is always a look through the peephole, and even if it is a large peephole, perception is still limited. The key to the information in the hand is the palmist's knowledge and his skill at interpreting the lines and shape of the hand.
The
lines of the palm are not stagnant or fixed. They are constantly changing
My approach to palmistry is to examine the mental, emotional, psychological and spiritual make-up of subjects as indicated by the lines and shape of their hands. This approach helps them to understand tendencies and habits; to see blocks, shortcomings, talents and advantages; and to see where they are in terms of enlightenment.
I look for tendencies and patterns, how they react in certain situations, what tools and talents they have and what tools they lack. All this helps them to understand their nature and is thus very valuable.
When you are studying and reading this book, you will notice that I make many references to past lives. Now, for me, past lives are not a belief but knowledge and recognition of an aspect of reality. I've come to realise, however, that it is difficult to see the whole picture or have a full understanding of past lives. Past lives do exist but perhaps not exactly in the way they are presently thought of. Still, I've had very clear visions and memories of past lives, and people I trust absolutely have had similar experiences and have even gone to graves and areas where they lived before. In my life I have been in places where I knew everything about them and yet had never been there before. It is my understanding that life itself is a dream, and our past lives are dreams, which are incorporated into the dreams we are having now.
If
you are too much of a rationalist then translate what I say about past lives
into genetics. Perhaps that can open a door for you. It could be that we absorb
collective dreams at birth, or even before -most often the dreams and memories
The first five chapters of this book cover the nomenclature and meanings of the lines, mounts and hand shapes. In the final chapter I discuss how to give a reading and how to make interpretations.
Step one is to learn the nomenclature and the meanings of the lines, mounts and shapes of the hand. The next step is to investigate whether the meanings given are true. This investigation can take up to seven to ten years.You cannot usually be called a master palmist before completing seven years of study.This does not mean that you cannot give a reading - and a good one - before that time. In general, though, you need this amount of time to gain sufficient mastery. But don't get discouraged; you can give a reading even after a very short time and with a small amount of knowledge. It will be a limited reading, but still a helpful one. As your knowledge increases, the scope of the reading will increase. So don't worry about learning everything at once. For example, it took me years before I could include mounts in my readings. At first, I couldn't recognise the mounts and see their differences. By and by, I began to be able to recognise the mounts and their relationships to each other. I could then include the meanings of the mounts in my readings.
Learning the meanings of the lines is like learning the meaning of words. Once the meanings of the words are known, then sentences can be put together to form an interpretation. Usually this sentence is more than the sum of the words. These words can also be seen as signposts or pieces of a puzzle which when put together tell a story.
The first palm to read is your own. Reading your own palm is most interesting and a very good way to learn. This interest will never stop, especially when there are changes in the lines and shape of the hands. Since you know your own characteristics, it is easy to see if the meaning of a line is correct. This will give you a good basis for trusting the meaning of the lines.
Before I became a palmist, I was a Tarot card reader. However, while watching a man reading palms at a party I became jealous of his popularity and decided to learn palmistry as well. I bought some books and then started toanalyse my own hand. I was profoundly impressed how accurate the meanings of the lines were. So from a silly reason to start studying palmistry I became seriously interested and embarked on a systematic study of it.
Even if you never give a reading, it is useful to know palmistry just for the understanding it will give you regarding your mind-body-personality.
Whatever brings you here doesn't matter. Whatever the reason, you can make a good study of palmistry and gain something from it. Take your time, go slowly, read all the books, look at your own palm and the palms of others. Don't look for results and one day you will be surprised that you are able to read palms.
I have spontaneously put together a short list of what I can tell from the
palm. It is not complete but it will give you a good idea of what palmistry
can reveal. I find palmistry to be quite accurate in these particular areas.The
only limitation is the palmist's level of intuition and intelligence.
I can tell from the palm:
past-life
tendencies, including issues reoccurring from other lives
whether
a child was wanted or not and how much love was present at conception
the
love of the mother
the
role of the father
stability
and development in childhood
intelligence,
and the ability to use it
emotional
strength and the ability to love deeplythe effect of childhood, as shown in
the shape of the fingers
weakness
in physical organs and predisposition to disease
recklessness
or caution
the
state of the life force, strong or weak, and when each occurs
greed
and ambition
relationship
with others
creativity
and love of art
luck
psychic
influences
challenges
in life
predisposition
to depression
honesty,
and whether a person lives in a dream world
abilities
to direct and organise and manifest in life
influxes
and losses of life force
mid-life
crises
how
the soul enters the body
passion
of life-force energy
tendency
to laziness
how
loving and giving a person is
spontaneity
and degree of flexibility or inflexibility
confidence and self-worth dominating life issues and, of course, the usual things about the head line, life line and heart line
Details
on all these points can be found within the book.
THE
LINES, MOUNTS AND FINGERS
On
the following pages are five illustrations showing:
It
is best to memorise everything here before continuing. It will make learning
a lot easier.
These diagrams are all hand drawn and very idealised. I have found that it is easier to learn from such drawings than from photographs. Photographs can be confusing, even for an experienced palmist. A photograph is almost always a distorted representation, and even when it is not, you can pick up only 60 per cent of what is in the hand.
When you begin to look at hands, don't expect them to always have clear-cut lines as shown in the diagrams. However, you will be surprised how often the examples given are exactly like those you will find in the hands.
The first four diagrams are self-explanatory, but the fifth needs some explanation. The hand can be divided into active and passive areas.The top half of the palm, which includes the mount of Jupiter, Saturn, Sun and Mercury, is active. In the bottom half, the moon is passive, and the mount of Venus has a passive and active function. Venus is active because it is connected to the thumb and moves with it, and the thumb is active. Venus is passive because it is the reservoir of energy and life force, available on many levels.
The fingers can be active or passive. Jupiter is active. Saturn is active/ passive (which is why Saturn deals with balance). Sun and Mercury are passive.
The hand can be predominantly active or passive. If the bottom half of the palm predominates, that person is more likely to be centred in the passive areas of emotions, intuition and seeing in the 'inner world'. If the upper, active half is predominant, a person will be more focused on the outer world and manifesting therein.
The
following chapters deal with all these points in detail.
Chapter
2
THE LINES:
A
N I N T RO D U C T I O
N
The lines on the palm have fascinated us since we have had the intelligence to perceive them and make associations and conclusions about them. In the West, the first written treatise on hands was compiled by Aristotle, and it is quite accurate. In India, palmistry is as ancient a science as astrology, going back thousands upon thousands of years to the time of the Vedas (ancient scriptures) and rishis (holy persons).
The lines on the palm are alive, vibrant and constantly changing. They do not exist only because of the way the hand folds. The lines are deeply connected to the central nervous system and change as we change. When the nerves in the arm that lead to the hand are cut, the lines on the palm will disappear. Therefore, the lines are a reflection of our vibrant nature and can be used to indicate mental, emotional and spiritual states.
How the form of the lines became associated with the form of our mental-emotional-spiritual
personalities is a mystery, as is everything else. What is important is that
the association exists. Over the vast expanse of time, it has been found that
when a certain line is present, a certain trait, talent or tendency, or a
certain way of perceiving the world, is also present. This association is
similar to the way in which, in astrology, the planets and their movements
are associated with certain types of influences upon us.
There is no hocus-pocus involved in the association of lines and human characteristics.The connections are quite scientific. Hocus-pocus enters when a interpretation is made from the scientific observations. A good interpretation relies greatly on intuition, and intuition is as scientific as logic. A good reading involves a skilful use of both intuition and logic.
Palmistry is a tool to help us see ourselves and understand the mechanics of our mind-body mechanism. It is as valid as any branch of psychology or astrology. You might be surprised how much of our mind-body mechanism is purely mechanical and robot like.
Now let us look at the blueprint of our mind-body-spirit mechanism. The lines of the palm can be divided into primary and secondary lines.
Primary lines - life lines, head lines and heart lines -are always present in the palm, except in very rare cases. Secondary lines- Saturn, Sun, Mars, liver, Girdle of Venus- are not always present in the palm but are as important as the primary lines.
There are a few general points to know about lines, which apply to all of them.
F i rst, begin to see the lines as energy channels or canals. The lines are an indication of how the energy of the lines travels and flow s. An ideal line is one that is strong and continuous, showing no bre a k s, chains or marks Breaks, islands, chains or marks are a sign of weakness, indicating some resistance to flow. T h e re is an exception to this rule. If a line breaks but a new line starts before the break , 'a change in direction' is the indicated meaning rather than 'we a k n e s s '.
A line that is wide, deep and showing a strong red colour indicates a strong passionate energy. This is true of Caucasian, Western people, but recently I've discovered that in Indian palms this is not the case. Nearly all Indians have thick red lines, but this does not necessarily indicate passion.
Lines can be pale or more diffuse. Paleness means less energy, at least on
the surface. I massage the palm to see if the lines become redder. If they
do, it means the subject's energy is hidden but can be brought out when activated.
When massaging the palm does not make the lines redder, it can be a sign that
there is a weak hold on life, less attachment to life, and/or only a limited
amount of energy available to the subject.