Sample palm reading

This is the free reading exactly as the code writes it, on one real example hand, with what each statement was based on. Then the Complete Palm Reading's offer, as it appears after a result.

Sample

SampleThe example palm, warped to a straight-on view, with the lines the scan traced. Photo: P1000330 by Dr. Colleen Morgan, CC BY 2.0. Cropped and warped by the scan.

Sample: the hand type

Air or Earth: your hand sits right on the line

You have an Air hand, a squarer palm with long fingers. On your photo the palm comes out about 1.48 times as long as it is wide, with a middle finger about 0.93 of the palm's length.

Palmists who use the four elements read that as curious and talkative. You want to know why, and then what else, and you tend to think best with someone to argue with. In love, the tradition would say you fall for a mind first, and that you go quiet when the conversation does.

You sit close to Earth, so read this as Air with its feet nearer the ground. Your numbers sit near the boundary, so another photo could tip you across it. Read both types and see which one sounds more like you. The scheme itself is often credited to Fred Gettings in the 1960s, and it was always judged by eye. Yours was measured instead. We set the splits at 1.60 for palm length over width, and 0.92 for middle finger over palm length.

Read "you" as the owner of this example hand. Your own reading uses your own lines.

Sample: one hand, four readings

Before the scan we ask what you most want to know. It decides which line gets read in full, so the same hand reads differently. Try each one.

Your heart line

You asked about love, so we start here. The heart line is the one the old books kept for it: Cheiro wrote that it "relates purely to the affectionate disposition". On your photo it starts at the outer edge of your palm and runs about 0.8 palm widths, ending between your middle and index fingers.

The old books read this ending kindly. Cheiro called it "a calmer but a very deep nature", and Leo Markun, surveying them, summed up the reading as "practical affection, without any great storm of passion". That's someone who shows love by turning up rather than by saying so. Which raises a fair question: does the person you love know it, or are they supposed to work it out from what you do?

It has a clear curve. A curve like this is read today as the idealist's heart line: someone who lets feeling lead and hopes for a lot from it. Its length is middling, by the scan's measure. A length like this is one to leave alone: nothing to suggest love runs your life, or that you keep it in a drawer.

The old books never agreed which end of this line is its beginning. Leo Markun, listing the rival authorities, told his readers they "may proceed to take their choice". We count from the edge of your palm.

That's the old way of reading how you love. Who you'll meet and how it goes are yours to find out. What a reading gives you is something specific to argue with, and the parts you argue with hardest are often worth another look.

Sample: the other lines

Your head line runs about 0.9 palm widths and ends towards the outer edge of your palm. Palmists read that as a practical mind that sees things through.
Your life line runs about 0.9 palm widths and ends near your wrist. We'd take that ending as stamina for what you've chosen, and it doesn't measure how long you live.
The fate line stays unread for now, because the scan too often picks the wrong crease for it. Having none is ordinary: Cheiro himself wrote that "there are some who appear to have no Fate". If you can see yours, drag it into place and it will be read.

Sample: what the scan thinks it sees

Your head and life lines look as if they start apart. Cheiro read that as "independence of thought", on condition you have a purpose to point it at.

Sample: what it was based on

The reading never hides where a sentence came from. Everything measured is an estimate from one photo.

How the scan works, and how well

Your hand type: Palm length over width about 1.48 (split at 1.60), middle finger over palm length about 0.93 (split at 0.92).; Scan is less sure
Where your heart line starts and ends: It starts at the outer edge of your palm and ends between your middle and index fingers, from the traced line on your photo.; Scan is sure
How long your heart line is: About 0.8 palm widths, measured on your photo. An estimate.; Scan is sure
How your heart line curves: A clear curve, from how far the line bows away from a straight chord.; Scan is sure
How deep your heart line looks: Clear, from the crease's contrast against the skin beside it. Light affects this.; Scan is sure
Where your head line starts and ends: It starts between your thumb and index finger and ends towards the outer edge of your palm, from the traced line on your photo.; Scan is sure
How long your head line is: About 0.9 palm widths, measured on your photo. An estimate.; Scan is sure
Where your life line starts and ends: It starts between your thumb and index finger and ends near your wrist, from the traced line on your photo.; Scan is sure
How long your life line is: About 0.9 palm widths, measured on your photo. An estimate.; Scan is sure
Whether your head and life lines start together: The distance between the first stretches of the two traced lines.; Scan is less sure
How your index and ring fingers compare: Index over ring about 0.98. An estimate from the hand points on your photo.; Scan is less sure
What the old palmists read, and the quotations: Cheiro, Palmistry for All; Tradition
The doubter's asides: Leo Markun, What You Should Know About Palmistry (1927), a sceptic's survey; Tradition
What each hand type is said to mean: The modern four-element scheme, often credited to Fred Gettings (1965); Tradition

Sample: the offer after a result

This is how the offer looks after a free result, built from this example hand. On your own scan, every tile is your own palm.

The Complete Palm Reading reads the rest of your hand for $9.99.What's in it

Now do it with your hand.

The scan traces your own lines on your own photo, and reads one of them in full.

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