SHAPE OF HAND/FINGERS WILL ALWAYS TRUMP LINES!

Hi Martijn,

I'm back after two years (??) or so. I joined when this forum came into being (remember?). As per the title of my comment, IMHO, Palmistry is much, much more about the SHAPE of hand/fingers than about lines. Lines only provide a "potential" or "promise". It is the shape of the hand/fingers (all aspects of course) that, ultimately, provide the confirmation of the potential as indicated by lines.

Yes, I have studied Palmistry for over 40 years and this is the most important conclusion I have reached. I have found almost perfect Sun lines in hands of individuals who were mentally retarded. Yet, these individuals were institutionalized and lived in jail-like settings. Any prediction of "success" is predicated on both factors (lines and shape of hand) being present. It is actually quite logical: lines are "endowed" while shape (fingers or hand) is self-developed to a large extent. Just take a reasonably large sample (100-200) of hands of famous/successful individuals, and you will find that the common denominator is that they are all extremely hard-working individuals --- which will be indicated by the SHAPE of their hand/fingers.

I will talk about this topic further in another post.

The Truthseeker

The hierarchy of which aspect of the hand is more important is something that one only learns from experience. After you have read at least 5000 hands, certain patterns regarding hierarchy will begin to emerge. Here is a very brief outline of the most important factors (in descending order)

1. Shape of hand (this includes fingertip shapes, the relative distance between fingers, the shape/angle of thumb; and especially its tip)

2. Firmness of the hand. This is extremely important! Active, hard-working individuals will have a rubber-like texture. Soft handed individuals may dream of great things but will not put out the effort to achieve them!

3. DEPTH of the lines. This will provide the STAMINA a person has. Again, look at the images of the hands of really successful individuals. Note how DEEP the lines are as compared with "ordinary" individuals. Yes, these individuals have EARNED their success!

4. Indeed we do have lottery winners and individuals who end up marrying someone famous/rich. Their hands will NOT have the characteristics described above.

More later ....

Truthseeker

Truthseeker, I agree 1111% , the lines are my last consideration. thanks knox

Reasonability is what I think and feel is the historic direction of the human spirit. The shape and the prints show the reason skills of the person..4000 years ago I don't think there were many long fingered intellects, fingers were coarse and line were few .My readings are based some what on "what is the reason skill of this person. Like finger tips that are pointed , or a short thumb both subtract reason from the subject... Though high emotional iQ is a saving grace for some, reason skills are the real foundation.

Hello Truthseeker, very nice to see you back!

I can support you conclusion in the sense that in the field of palmistry / hand reading the value of the lines (and especially the related 'signs') tends to be overestimated.

Looking forward to see more reports from yours!

Dear Truth Seeker,

I agree with you that Hand Shape is most important. I find in my readings only 3 types of Hand Shapes i.e. Square Handed, Spatulate and Conic. The other shapes I have rarely come across.

I have not understood your Fourth Point: 4. Indeed we do have lottery winners and individuals who end up marrying someone famous/rich. Their hands will NOT have the characteristics described above.

Will you expand on this point so that I may understand better.

Pravin Kumar

TruthSeeker wrote:The hierarchy of which aspect of the hand is more important is something that one only learns from experience. After you have read at least 5000 hands, certain patterns regarding hierarchy will begin to emerge. Here is a very brief outline of the most important factors (in descending order)

1. Shape of hand (this includes fingertip shapes, the relative distance between fingers, the shape/angle of thumb; and especially its tip)

2. Firmness of the hand. This is extremely important! Active, hard-working individuals will have a rubber-like texture. Soft handed individuals may dream of great things but will not put out the effort to achieve them!

3. DEPTH of the lines. This will provide the STAMINA a person has. Again, look at the images of the hands of really successful individuals. Note how DEEP the lines are as compared with "ordinary" individuals. Yes, these individuals have EARNED their success!

4. Indeed we do have lottery winners and individuals who end up marrying someone famous/rich. Their hands will NOT have the characteristics described above.

More later ....

Truthseeker

I think what he meant by point # 4 is that even though we may have money either through lottery winnings or marrying a rich or famous the hand, shape and depth of lines, will "say" that is not necessarily because of achieved success through self made hard work.

Shape of hands or fingers may trump lines but not always. It will depend on other factors too. The original intent of palmistry was for personality assessment. Palmistry is the practice or art to analyze hands of a person as a whole which consist the shapes of hands, lines on the palms and fingerprints to assess personality and soul psychology. As no sign of hand or no sign on palm of the hand is absolute in itself whether it is shape, line or fingerprint; hand must be analyzed in totality. You would have to learn the art in establishing combinations between them to reach to a right scientific conclusion. It takes serious time to learn like learning to play a musical instrument. What is the use of a car without a driver? Lines show besides many other things the course and sense of direction and direction comes from elsewhere i.e. from directional transverse (fate line) and Head Line. There are different approaches to analyze a hand in scientific way. You cannot say shape of hands or fingers always trump over lines. We can assess through the lines quality what type of your environment is and environment is greater than man or woman. Everything effects everything. So all keys are important.

Parender

Thanks for adding your thoughts mister Sethi.

I especially like the nuance that one should not think in terms of 'always'... because everything affects everything else indeed (the AXIOM no.1 presented at the forum's homepage relates to this as well)

First comes the palm with fingers and then comes the lines in the palm. The character of a person is known through the shape off the palm. Lines only show in what direction it will lead to. Eg. A strong thumb may show strong will power as one of the qualities but in what direction it will work is shown by the lines on the palm.

Pravin Kumar