Methodology

The reader asks what you see on your own hand, one question at a time: the hand shape, then how the heart, head, life and fate lines end, curve and run, and which marks sit on them. Each answer has a drawing, so you compare your hand with the picture and pick the closest.

The reading is the set of texts attached to your picks, in the order of the questions. The same picks always give the same reading. Nothing is computed from an image, a date or a name.

Every reading is a plain-English statement of what palmistry tradition links with a sign, written for this site in its own words. The tradition itself comes from the old books on the subject, several of which are in the public domain and are listed below. Where traditions disagree, which is often, the text says so or leaves the point out.

The four hand types (earth, air, fire and water) are a modern popular system built on the length of the palm and the fingers. The older seven-type system of the nineteenth-century writers d’Arpentigny and Desbarrolles is not used by the reader.

The hand is one stylised right palm, seen as you look at your own palm, with the thumb on the right. A left hand is the same drawing mirrored. The lines are schematic: they show the kind of variation the question is about, not measurements, and no real hand looks exactly like them.

Palmistry is a tradition and a pastime. There is no scientific evidence that the lines of the hand describe character or predict anything, and the site does not claim otherwise. A reading here is for interest and entertainment.

It is not a prediction, and not medical, money, legal or relationship advice. The lines and marks on skin also change with age, work, dryness and how the hand is held, so a single mark means little even inside the tradition.

You may add a photo of your own palm to look at beside the drawings. It is shown by your browser from the file on your device. It is not uploaded, not stored and not analysed, and it is gone when you close or reload the page. The site has no feature that reads a photo.

If a text states something as fact that the tradition does not say, or a drawing does not match its question, write to us through the contact page. A confirmed correction changes the text and its date together.