Read your own palm

Look at your hand in good light and answer ten simple questions. The reading follows Western palmistry after Cheiro and the hand elements of Fred Gettings. Your non-dominant hand is traditionally said to show what you were born with, and your dominant hand what you have made of it. No photos are needed and nothing is stored.

Which hand are you looking at?

1. Shape of the palm

Compare the length of the palm, from wrist to the base of the fingers, with its width.

2. Finger length

Compare the middle finger with the length of the palm.

3. Life line

The curved line around the base of the thumb.

4. Head line

The line across the middle of the palm, below the heart line.

5. Heart line

The top line, starting at the edge of the hand below the little finger.

6. Fate line

The vertical line up the middle of the palm towards the middle finger.

7. Sun line (line of success)

A vertical line rising towards the ring finger.

8. Most prominent mount

Press the fleshy pads below the fingers and at the base of the palm.

9. Index finger compared with ring finger

Compare the height of the tips of the index and ring fingers.

10. Thumb

Gently push the tip of the thumb backwards.

Skip anything you are not sure about. Nothing you enter is stored.

New to palmistry? See our guide to the palm lines.

Sources: Cheiro, Cheiro’s Language of the Hand (1894); Fred Gettings, The Book of the Hand (1965); Johnny Fincham, The Spellbinding Power of Palmistry (2005).

Read your own palm

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