Palm Reading: the Chicken Or the Egg?

"Remember that palm-reading is for entertainment purposes only. There is no scientifically-substantiated evidence of correlation between palm features and psychological traits. If you are going to do this, then keep it light, don't make any dark predictions that the sitter will worry about." (www.wikihow.com/Read-Palms)

DISCLAIMER: I personally don't believe in astrology, The Bible Code, The Celestine Prophecy, neither Ouija boards nor tarot cards. I don't think the placement of your facial features (personology) has anymore control over you than the placement of your home furniture (feng shui), but I'm all for people and places that are aesthetically pleasing. What can I say, I guess I'm no fun.

If my last couple blog posts seem like the answers to random Google Searches, it's because they are. I'm finally getting around to all those inconsequential topics I've been meaning to research, like palm reading. What I learned is that there a lot more variations on palm reading than I could have imagined, including chirology (which covers the spaces between the lines on your palm).

I feel obligated to mention that while I'm only including the findings for my right hand below (since I'm right handed), there's something to be said for both hands, the left traditionally showing potential and the right showing realized personality. Also, the lines in your hand change over a lifetime and anyone can consciously contradict their own palm reading.

1. Heart line - Mine is long and unbroken (meaning I freely express feelings and face no emotional trauma), beginning under my middle finger (meaning I'm selfish in love), with a faint fork crossing my head line and getting deeper down parallel to my life line (meaning that I should put matters of the heart over matters of the mind - I made that up).

2. Head line - Mine is short (meaning I prefer physical achievements over mental ones, maybe), curved, sloping downward (meaning creativity), separated from my life line (meaning I'm adventurous or enthusiastic for life) at its starting point but connected at a later point by a faint line (no idea what that means).

3. Life line - Mine is a complete half circle (meaning strenght) from just below my index finger down to the base of my thumb almost to my wrist (long = vitality). There are forks (meaning extra vitality) at 1/4 of the way down between my index and middle finger (meaning I'll be getting a second wind soon or overcome something terminal) and at 3/4 of the way down below my thumb (meaning the same thing but after I'm 70).

4. Destiny/fate line - Mine is almost nonexistent (meaning freedom, right???). It starts faintly at the bottom middle of my palm parallel to the my second life line fork (maybe something about my childhood or old age, but what?), then disappears, picking back up at the faint line which crosses my head line and connects to my heart line (see above).

5. Hand shape - Mine is squarish with flushed, pink skin and my palm is longer than my fingers, which makes me Fire (meaning I'm spontaneous, optimistic, egoistic, instinctive, insensitive, bold, and an extrovert - I would agree with all of these but I would also agree to some of the characteristics of Earth, Air, and Water).

6. Sun line - Mine starts on my ring finger and extends faintly almost to my heart line (meaning some fame for me).

7. Girdle of Venus - Mine starts very faintly between my ring and pinky fingers but ends before my sun line (meaning some emotional intelligence and ability to manipulate others).

8. Union lines - I have five (meaning strong relationships, not necessarily romantic). The deepest is halfway between my pinky finger and heart line (meaning my marriage probably) and extends nearly from my knuckle and around to the middle of my pinky finger on the palm side. The next deepest is halfway between that one and my heart line but only half as long (I don't know which direction means earlier or later in life). There's a faint one between the above two that's just as long as the deepest (maybe meaning I'll know someone as long as my spouse but we won't be as close). The other two are very faint, very short and located between the deepest line and my pinky finger.

9. Mercury line - Mine is totally nonexistent (meaning no health issues, business acumen, communication skills - check, check, but I don't know about that last one).

10. Travel lines - I have four deep ones, five faint ones, and six or more very faint ones (meaning personally significant trips in my lifetime).

So check back with me in 50 years and we'll see what's what. Going back to the title of this post, I find palm reading to be a little like "the chicken or the egg" riddle. If you're looking hard enough for something, you'll find it (numerology). How can you really know if something would have happened with or without your reading it? All I know is that there's one thing the devil desires and has always desired and that's our free will.