Guide · About two minutes
How to use Palmistry
A guided reading of your own palm: ten illustrated questions about your hand shape, the major lines, the mounts and your thumb.
Open PalmistryStep by step
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Use your dominant hand
Hold up the hand you write with, in good light. It shows the life you are building; the other hand shows inborn traits.
- 2
Add a photo if it helps (optional)
Keep a photo of your palm beside the questions to compare as you go. It stays on this device.
- 3
Answer the ten questions
For each one, compare your hand with the diagrams and pick the closest match. You can go back and change any answer.
- 4
Read your palm
Your answers become a reading on love, career, decisions and energy.
What happens behind the scenes
Hand shape first
Your hand type (Earth, Air, Fire or Water) comes from two measurements: palm width against palm length, and middle-finger length against the palm.
Lines and mounts
Each answer maps to the classical meanings in Cheiro’s and Benham’s palmistry: where a line starts and ends, its depth and shape, and which mounts are full.
Reading your results and tips
Reading your results
- The heart line describes how you love, the head line how you think, and the life line your vitality; it says nothing about lifespan.
- Lines can change over the years, so read your palm again after big life changes.
Tips
- Bend your hand slightly to make the lines easier to see.
- Compare both hands: differences show how you have grown.
Words to know
- Heart lineThe heart line is the uppermost of the three major lines, running across the palm just below the fingers. Palmists read it for your emotional nature: how you love, express feelings and connect with others.
- Head lineThe head line is the middle of the three major lines, starting between the thumb and index finger and running across the palm. Palmists read it for your thinking style: how you reason, focus, imagine and decide.
- Life lineThe life line is the curved line that sweeps around the base of the thumb. Palmists read it for vitality, energy and the major changes of life. Despite the myth, its length is not read as the length of your life.
- Fate lineThe fate line is the vertical line that runs up the centre of the palm towards the middle finger. Palmists read it for career, life direction and sense of purpose. Many hands have a faint one or none, which is quite normal.
- Mounts of the handThe mounts are the fleshy pads of the palm, each named after a planet: Jupiter, Saturn, Apollo and Mercury below the fingers, Venus at the thumb, Luna on the outer edge and Mars in two places. Each shows where energy gathers.
- Hand shapesPalmists sort hands into shapes that reflect temperament. The modern system uses four elements: Earth (square palm, short fingers), Air (square palm, long fingers), Fire (long palm, short fingers) and Water (long palm, long fingers).