Divination Series - Part 3.5 - Palmistry: Alternative Hand Types (The Elements) & More Detail on the Palm (Post 2 of 2)

The  Alternate Hand Types

In my last post we talked about the 7 classifications of hands in palmistry. Another way of looking at them classifies them into 4 categories, the elements, a method which I kinda favor. Keep in mind however, your hand element won't necessarily match up with your astrological element.

"Earth hands are wide, with square palms and fingers, thick or rough skin, and ruddy in appearance. The length of the palm is usually equal to the length of the fingers.

People with Earth hands are usually very practical and level-headed. They’d rather get out into the world and do something rather than learn about it. They can be quite conservative, and prefer to be outdoors. If you have Earth hands, cabin fever is real!

Air hands feature square or rectangular palms with long fingers. They often have protruding knuckles, low thumbs, or dry skin. The length of the palm is usually equal to the length of the fingers.
Air types are very intellectual, always curious and full of ideas. They practically hum with nervous energy, and can be prone to worry and stress. People with Air hands are great communicators, but they can internalise their feelings too much. This can lead to difficulties within their close relationships.

Water hands are based on a short, sometimes oval palm, with long, flexible fingers. Their palm is usually wider than it is long, with fingers equal to the height of the palm.
People with Water hands are very emotional. They are always looking for peace, and are extremely artistic. It can be hard for Water hands to deal with stress, and they are mostly motivated by feelings.

Fire hands have a square or rectangular palm, flushed or pink skin, and shorter fingers. The length of the palm is usually greater than the length of the fingers.
Fire hand types are energetic and always on the go. They need variety, and can be a little impatient and intolerant! People with Fire hands are often fiercely individual, and make great leaders.

If your hands are clammy, you are lazy and unstable, but well-intentioned. If it is hot, you are wild and successful, but can be insincere. If your hands are cold, you are generous, reserved and a bit of a hermit!" - Source

Palm Lines

Now we touched briefly on a few palm lines, but here we're going to go more in detail and cover a little more ground. Picture of where to find the following lines is location below.

Life Line - Now, we already know this is the most important line. But what else? Well...

• Special markings on this line indicate specific events which occurred in your life. The line can be divided into three parts to help judge when certain events occurred or might occur: (1) represents youth, (2) represents adult, (3) represents old age.

• If the Life Line is long and deep, then this represents a long life full of vitality and health. A short line, if strong and deep, also shows great vitality in your life and the ability to overcome health problems. However, if the line is short and shallow, then your life may have the tendency to be controlled by others.

• Extra lines are often noted as vitality lines. If your Life Line is doubled, or even tripled, then this shows a great vitality in your life, and positive forces around you. 

Fate Line(line of destiny)- 

• If the Fate Line starts joined to the life line, it indicates that you are a self-made individual. Often you will know very early in life just what your life's aspirations are.

• If your Fate Line starts clearly and at the wrist, but joins the Life Line, this indicates a point where you have to surrender your own interests to those of other people. If the Fate Line separates again from the Life Line, it indicates that you are now in control of your life again

• If your Fate Line starts on the base of your thumb, inside your life line's curve, it indicates a point where family or close friends are supportive of you

Heart Line-

• A normal and content love life is represented by the line that starts beneath the index finger.

• A selfish and materialistic look at love is characteristic to those whose Heart Line start below the middle finger. A slight disregard to the true meaning of love and its responsibilities are indicated by the line that starts between the middle and index finger. The person tends to easily give their heart away

• If the line extends boldly across the entire palm, then the person tends to look for those whose status rises above their own, and has great respect for them. If such a line is very straight and parallel to the Head Line, then it shows strong emotional control. 

Head Line-

• If your Head Line and Life Line are joined at the beginning, this indicates that your strong sense of mind generally rules over your body. You also look at childhood with a cautious and fearful outlook. Separated lines show a love for adventure and an enthusiasm for life.

• A deep long line stretching across the palm indicates a logical and direct way of thinking. The straighter the line, the more realistic the thinking, and the deeper the line, the better the memory. If the line is short however, it tends to indicate limited mental aims, and the shift towards "physical" thinking rather than reflection.

• If the line is wavy then you tend to have a short attention span, with a lack of deep thinking, however, this does not affect your intellect.

Health Line (Line of Mercury)-

The Health Line deals with the material well being as much as the physical. This is especially so when the Life Line may be missing or faint. If a person has very faint fate, fame and success lines, then the Health Line also plays a strong part in the development of material wealth.

• ·         If the line is missing, it indicates no health problems. Generally however, the line can be divided into three parts to help judge when certain health problems might occur: The top (1) represents youth, the middle (2) represents adult, the bottom (3) represents old age.

• ·         If the line is strong and undisturbed, then you tend to have a strong business sense as well as the strength to work hard to make money

• ·         Wavy lines show potential health problems as a result of anxiety and nervousness.

• ·         A broken line, tends to show that poor health will create problems in your business situations.

The Girdle of Venus-

• The Girdle of Venus is positioned on the upper portion of the palm and runs from the index finger to the little finger. While in some people a complete ring is formed by the Girdle at the base of the fingers, in some hands it does not occur at all.

• Girdle of Venus appears on the hands of individuals who tend to be ultra-sensitive. Symbolically it can indicate a need for shielding or creating emotional boundaries

• A strong and healthy girdle of Venus correlates to a strong and healthy sensuality and wholesome emotions. It can also indicate a deep aesthetic sense and love for art and beauty, whether it is found in another person or in artwork. Persons with a girdle of Venus can be poets, writers, or artists.

• However, a broken line can mean a fragmented sense of love, with too many flirtations and fickleness and too little devotion to the love object. It can also mean too much sensitivity, an inability to control the emotions, depression, or constant upheavals.

 Not finding the specifications of your palm in this post? Check out my Source to find more descriptions and meanings!

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Divination Series - Part 3 - Palmistry: Palm Types, and Charts to Try This Practice on Yourself and Others! (Post 1 of 2)

Now, I was going to also cover dream interpretation today but the whole thing just got overly long. Splitting it into 4. Classic 7 Palmistry Hands and Basic Lines today, 4 Element Hands and more in-depth Features tomorrow, Most Common Dream Symbols Interpretation the next day, and Most Common Dream Themes Interpretations the next day. That said, let's talk about:

Palmistry!

Palmistry or chiromancy (also spelled cheiromancy, is the art of characterization and foretelling the future through the study of the palm, also known as palm reading, or chirology. The practice is found all over the world, with numerous cultural variations. Those who practice chiromancy are generally called palmists, palm readers, hand readers, hand analysts, or chirologists. (wikipedia)

Palmistry is not a difficult form of divination, for the most part. However, it can be very enlightening.I've compiled a basic guide of description and pictures from a variety sources to help get you started! The first picture will help you to more clearly identify the lines of your palm, and the 2nd will give you a brief, basic meaning. 

At the end I've included link if you want to learn more, and am offering an e-book on Palmistry to anyone who follows and asks.

"Which palm should you read? Well, ideally, you should read both. The theory is that the left hand shows potential, while the right hand shows what you’ve done with that potential. Some palm readers believe that “the left is what the gods give you, the right is what you do with it”."

- Source

 

 Types of Palm

According to "The Science of Palmistry", the palm can be classified in a variety of ways. Cheiro's way (a famous occult figure of the early 20th century) gives 7, which is what we will discuss below:

1. Conic- the artistic type.
2. Spatulate - nervous active type
3. Square - useful hand
4. Philosophical - jointed hand.
5. Psychic- the idealistic hand.
6. Elementary - lowest type 
7. Mixed

 According to another Source:

The Elementary

As its name implies, the Elementary is the lowest type of all. It is just a little above the brute creation. This type is extremely short, thick set and brutal-looking.
People having such hands naturally have very little mental development or ability. They are found engaged in occupations requiring only unskilled labour and the very lowest even of that.
They are violent in temper, and have little or no control over their passions or their anger. They are coarse in their ideas, possess little or no sentiment, no imagination or feeling, and it has been found that even the nerve system of such types is more or less in a state of non-development. They do not feel pain as the higher types of humanity feel it, and have little ambition except to eat, drink, and sleep


The Square
The Square Hand is also called the practical or useful hand. People who possess this type are essentially practical, logical, and rather materialistic. They belong to the earth and the things of the earth. They have little imagination or idealism, they are solid, serious workers, methodical and painstaking in all they do.

They believe in things only by proof and by their reason. They are often religious and even superstitious, but more from habit than from anything else.
They are determined and obstinate, especially if their thumbs are long and the first joint stiff.

They succeed in all lines of work that do not require imagination or the creative faculties, and as business men, lawyers, doctors, scientists, they do extremely well, and are generally to be found in such callings.

The Conic Hand
From another Source:
The conic hand has a medium-sized palm, tapering fingers and conical nails. The nails are pointed and the hand as a whole gives the appearence of a cone. Its shape is similar to the next type of hand known as psychic hand which is again a long and narrow hand with extremely long and tapering fingers

The main characteristics of the people with a conic hand are that they are impulsive and instinctive. Such people may be clever in thinking and quick learners but the hurdle lies in their impulsive nature because of which they are unable to carry out their intentions. People with this kind are artists and are good conversationalists. They live life for sensual pleasures. Such kind of people win people in conversations and grasp the subject very quickly. This quality makes them vulnerable to the influence from outside world. They are easily influenced by the people with whom they come in contact with or by their surroundings.

The Spatulate Hand
Source 

A spatulate hand is one that is narrowest at the wrist end of the palm and tapers outwards towards the base of the fingers.

The person with a spatulate palm is a creative sort- an inventor, a maker, a fabricator, an investigator. He finds things or makes things. Artists have this kind of hands, and artisans, and craftsmen, and inventors, and explorers, and scientists (mad or otherwise.)

The person with a spatulate palm moves into a space and makes it his own, and when he moves out again, there is something there that was not there before, whether it's something concrete like a painting or a building, or more abstract, like a philosophy or a revolution.
He can sometimes get so focused on his next big project, that he forgets how that project and the effort he is pouring into it affects his life and those of the people around him.

In love, the person with the spatulate palm may come up with amazing or astounding ways to express his affection. He may also look at your challenges in life and come up with the perfect resolution to them.

The Philosophical Hand - Source

The Philosophic Hand is long, bony, and angular with knotty joints, and
is as a general rule fairly thin.

People with this type of hand are
always studious. They are great readers and usually have a strong
tendency towards literature. They love sedentary work, and have a
somewhat lonely, ascetic disposition.

The Psychic Hand

This type, may in many ways be considered as the
highest development of the hand on the purely mental plane, but from a
worldly standpoint it is the least successful of all. Its possessors live
in a world of dreams and ideals. They know little or nothing about the
practical or purely material side of existence, and when they have to
earn their own bread they gain so little that they usually starve.

These beautiful hands do not appear made for work in any sense. They are
also too spiritual and frail to deal blows and hold their own in the
battle of life. If they are supported by others, or have money of their
own to live on, all may be well, and in such cases they will be likely to
develop strange psychic gifts dealing with visions and ideals that some
few may hear and understand. But if not, their fate as a rule is a sad
one, they will easily be pushed aside by the rougher types of humanity
or, in sheer helplessness, take their own lives, and so end the unequal
struggle.

In constitution they are seldom strong physically, and consequently they
are doubly unfitted for the struggle for existence.

The Mixed Hand-  

What is called the "Mixed Hand", is an aggregation
of all the types, or at least, some of them.

It is very often found having all the fingers different from one another,
as for example one pointed, one square, or spatulate, and so on. Or
sometimes the palm may be of one type, say spatulate, with all the
fingers mixed.

Such persons are always versatility itself, but so changeable in purpose
that they rarely succeed in making much out of any talents they may
possess. They can generally do a little of everything but nothing well.
They can talk on any subject that may crop up, but never impress their
listeners with depth of thought on any subject.

It is only when the Line of Head is found on such hands clear and
straight that there is a likelihood of these persons developing some one
talent out of the versatility that this type gives.

I've included below 2 pictures. 1 is to help you clearly identify which line is which on your palm, the second for a very brief, basic interpretation of the lines.

Palm Lines

The Life Line represents your vitality and the length of your life. This is the most important line on your hand and will always be present. The Life Line is the easiest to recognize and helps to determine where your other lines are. Generally if the line swoops down to about an inch above the base of the palm, then it shows a life expectancy of about 70 years for women, and 60-65 for men.

This line begins on the edge of the palm, between the index finger and the thumb. It extends across the middle of the palm and wraps around the base of the thumb.

The Fate Line, also known as the line of destiny, tells the effect society and world events have upon your life (things that come to you from outside). The stronger and deeper the line, the more strongly fate controls your life. If the line has many breaks or changes of direction, it means that you are prone to many changes in your life from circumstances you can't control.

This line begins in the middle of the palm, near the wrist, and runs towards the base of the middle finger.

The Heart Line deals with all the emotions and events that are centered around love, whether it be your ability to love, or be loved. In general, the stronger and deeper the line, the stronger and warmer your devotions.

The Heart Line is the horizontal line above the Head Line. It begins beneath either the index finger or middle finger and extends across to the edge of the palm on the side of the little finger. 

Being the second most important line, the Head Line deals with your beliefs, your philosophy, your attitude on and how you approach life. It is a representation of your mentality and intelligence. Because it is so important, the Head Line must be present on the palm.

The Head Line begins just above the life line, on the side of the palm between the thumb and the index finger, and spans horizontally across the palm. 
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Learn More:

http://astrobix.com/palmistry/

http://palmistry.findyourfate.com/palmistry-typesofhand.htm

http://www.palmreadings.org/

http://psychiclibrary.com/beyondBooks/palmistry-room

http://www.timelessspirit.com/MAR05/alissa.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmistry