Palm reading guides
Every guide on the site, on every line, mark and mount, and on what the evidence says. If you only read three, start with these.
Learn to read a hand
Start with the guide, keep the chart beside you.
- Palm reading guideRead a whole hand in six steps, on one worked example, with a checklist to follow.
- Palm reading chartEvery line and mount on one page you can print.
- Mount of Venus and the other mounts of the handThe pads of the palm, named for planets, and where they sit on yours.
- Palm reading for female handsWhich hand to read: who says left, who says right, and why they disagree.
The lines
Eight lines, one page each. Three the scan traces, one it asks you to check, and four that are yours to place.
- Heart lineWhere it starts and ends, and how three old books read each shape.
- Head line on your palmSlope, length, and whether it starts with the life line.
- Life line on your palmWhy it doesn't measure how long you'll live, with all three studies in one table.
- Fate lineIts four starting points, and what it means if you have none.
- Sun line in palmistryWhere it rises, and what the old books tied to it.
- Marriage line on your palmThe short lines on the palm's edge, and what the books disagree about.
- Palmistry signs for number of childrenWhere three old books locate them, and why no hand can say.
- Money line on your palmThree different lines get this name. Here is which sources mean which.
The marks
What people notice on their own hands and look up.
- How rare is the M on your palm?How the M forms, and how rare it is: nobody has counted.
- Simian creaseOne crease across the palm: what it is medically, how common it is, and the old readings.
- Mystic cross on your palmThe old definition, and three things that look like it and aren't.
- Mole on the center of your palmWhat sources claim by position, set side by side so you can see them conflict.
- Rare palm linesReal frequencies where they exist, and old texts where they don't.
About you
If you came with a question, not an interest in palmistry.
The tradition and the evidence
Where this comes from, and what testing it has found.
If you're paying someone
People, apps and what they charge.
Every line on one tappable hand is on palm reading lines. To try any of this on your own palm, go to the tools.
The Complete Palm Reading reads the rest of your hand for $9.99.What's in it