Learn to Read Palms

Palmistry is an ancient, ancient practice of fortunetelling. One would hope that it's more accurate then astrology because it's so individualized. Just like no two people's finger prints match, no two palms are alike (plus they change over time). But frankly, why do people believe that your date of birth influences your personality? I have higher hopes for palmistry.

To get a general overview of how to read palms, I decided to answer a palmistry questionnaire myself. After studying my hands and answering numerous multiple choice questions (a little easier than the SATs, I promise), I was ultimately rewarded with a free palm reading. I ended up doing this twice because the first palm reading wanted money for the results (ugh).

From answering the questions I got a good feel of what to look for when reading palms. First you look at the shape of the palm, hand, fingers, thumb: widths and lengths. Next you study the most important lines in order which are: Life (vitality not longevity), head (beliefs and philosophy), and heart (emotions and love events). You look to see how long or short the lines are, if they're straight or curved, whether they touch other lines or not, how deep they are, if there any breaks, if there are lines intersecting them, if there are circles in them (I have no idea what this means), if they fan or fork, where they begin and end...etc.

So I finished and here are my results.

I'll break down my "character".

You have a Fire hand Cool, fire!. This is known as the instinctive hand. You are creative and imaginative sure. You surround yourself with people Yeah, more comfortable in groups than alone not sure about that. You are generally unafraid to take risks Fine. You launch yourself enthusiastically into all your endeavors Uh, ok, driven by your passionate nature huh?.

You have a very unadaptable nature What?? I'm leaving for Albania next month.... Your inflexibility has left you with few life path options it has?. You have to work harder than most to adjust to new situations I do?. You have difficulty dealing with change, and you are fairly set in your ways Yikes.

You relish luxury, enjoying the finer things life has to offer Who doesn't?. You are highly sensual and social fine. You must be careful as you may be prone to addiction and overindulgence Spot on.

You are intense and full of vitality at times. When you make your mind up to do something, you commit fully to that objective and never settle for halfway ok.

You can be unpredictable sometimes I try. Most of the time, you are methodically minded, but occasionally you will make decisions based solely upon emotion and passion maybe.

You are a fairly straight forward person Yup. You don't typically worry too much that's for sure, though you may occasionally be prone to bouts of stress news to me and need to be careful not to keep things bottled up, only to explode later Explode?!.

 It goes on...

By now I'm completely turned off by palmistry. I will continue no more with this hocus-pocus, mumble-jumble. Here's what I learned: If you're ever reading someone's palm, just make it up.

Sources: http://onlinepalmreadings.com/
http://www.ofesite.com/spirit/palm/lines.htm