{"id":1379,"date":"2007-10-06T02:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T06:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astrologybay.com\/palmistry-art-of-palm-reading"},"modified":"2007-10-06T02:53:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T06:53:00","slug":"palmistry-art-of-palm-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrologybay.com\/palmistry-art-of-palm-reading","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Palmistry – The Art of Palm Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Palmistry<\/div>\n

Palmistry is an ancient art wherein its practitioners and followers believe that the past, present, and future are all written in the lines in the hands. Read on to know more about this.<\/p>\n

“To see a world in a Grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.” \u2015 William Blake<\/p>\n

Do we hold the secrets of our past, present, and future in the palms of our hands? Are those mysterious lines traced on our hands the blueprint of our character, our fortune, and our destiny?<\/p>\n

The ancient art of palm reading, also called palmistry or chiromancy, dates back thousands of years. Prehistoric caves in Spain and France have hands drawn on their walls with all the major lines shown in amazing detail. Taking into consideration the number of such paintings of hands in prehistoric caves, it is quite evident that humans have been fascinated by the lines on our hands since the Stone Age. Archaeological findings have uncovered hands made of ivory, stone, and wood by ancient civilizations. Information about the practices and laws of reading the hand has been found in ancient Vedic scripts of India, early Semitic writings, and the Bible. Aristotle, one of the greatest Greek philosophers who lived in 384-322 BCE, found a dissertation on palmistry on the altar to the Greek deity, Hermes. Galen and Hippocrates, both Greek physicians, were well-versed in the use of palmistry as an aid to healing. It is also said that Julius Caesar used this technique to judge his men.<\/p>\n

Fortune tellers, or palm readers, believe that the lines and patterns on an individual’s hand, if read properly, can reveal insights into the events of the past, present, as well as future of the person. Apart from the lines, there are various other factors taken into consideration in palm reading, such as the hand’s shape, the shape and length of the fingers, how flexible the fingers and hands are, the thumb’s position, the mounts which are interpreted by their relative sizes and the intersections on them, and other qualities. In some traditions, palm readers also examine the characteristics of the nails of the fingers, fingerprints, the skin patterns on the palm, the color and texture of the skin, and so on.<\/p>\n

A palm reader starts with the obvious and carries on via numerous intricate steps of interpretation and judgment, to minute details. The conclusions that are made are not about certainty, but of the tendency or probability. A practitioner of palmistry usually starts by studying both hands; if you are a right-handed person your left hand is thought to be the birth hand<\/em>, which reveals character predispositions that are inherited, while the right hand is considered as reflecting individuality, potential, and flexibility. For left-handed people, it is the other way round.<\/p>\n

Here is a general explanation of the various types of hands according to the art of palmistry:<\/p>\n

The Fingers<\/h2>\n