Discover Yourself Through Palm Reading: Learning How to Read Yourself and Your Future, Line by Line

by Rita Robinson

Overview

This book is about discovering inherited personality traits, temperament, likes and dislikes, strengths and weaknesses, and abilities and talents through the study of your hands.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781564145420
Publisher:	Red Wheel/Weiser
Publication date:	12/01/2001
Pages:	221
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	Introduction	11
Chapter 1	Hands Reveal Genetic Influences	17
	Knowing ourselves	18
	Personalities and temperaments	19
	Where do the lines come from?	19
	Survival traits	20
	Marriage, friends, and genes	20
	What can we change?	21
	Why certain characteristics predominate	24
	How do we get the genes we have?	24
	Family traits in sports	25
	Fingerprints	29
	Everyone's palm is unique	33
Chapter 2	Right-Hand vs. Left-Hand Dominance	35
	Dominant or non-dominant hands	35
	Right-hand dominance	35
	What causes left-handedness?	36
	Left-handedness	37
	Right- and left-hand readings	39
	What about people who use both hands?	41
	How important is all this to palmistry?	41
	Birth hand and the inner life	42
	Markings to note for comparisons	43
Chapter 3	Hand Shapes and Textures	45
	Hand structure	45
	Changing shapes	47
	The four hand shapes	48
	Other conditions to consider with palm shape	60
Chapter 4	Thumbs	63
	Human development	64
	From beginning to end	64
	Thumb shapes	65
Chapter 5	Finger Names and Shapes	73
	What forms the fingers?	73
	Finger names	74
	Fingertips	79
	Other characteristics of the fingers	80
	Phalanges	83
	Putting it all together	86
	Fingernails	89
Chapter 6	Major Lines of the Hand	93
	What forms the lines?	95
	Imperfect lines	95
	The line of life	96
	The line of heart	101
	The line of head	104
	Combined head and heart lines	109
	The line of fate	110
Chapter 7	Palm Mounts	115
	The two major mounts of the hand	116
	The mounts of the fingers	119
	The minor (lesser) mounts	122
Chapter 8	Minor Lines and Their Meanings	125
	The line of Apollo	125
	Health-related lines	127
	Lines related to mental nature	130
	Minor lines concerning relationships	133
	Some general marks affecting lines and formations	137
	Travel lines	140
Chapter 9	The quadrants, quadrangle, and great triangle	143
	The quadrants	143
	The quadrangle	146
	The great triangle	146
Chapter 10	The Right Fit at Work	149
	Presidential fodder	150
	Limelighters	153
	Independent workers	154
	Touching base with your personal skills	159
	Professions and potential markings	159
Chapter 11	Marriage and Love Compatibility	165
	What is takes to make love work	165
Chapter 12	Harmonizing with Friends	179
	Friendship	180
	What characteristics make people good friends?	180
Chapter 13	Leisure Activities and Hobbies	189
	Combining work and play	190
	Characteristics of leisure activities	192
Chapter 14	Hand Gestures	197
	General hand and finger movements	198
	Cultural hand gesture differences	199
	Hand meditation	201
Appendix	Time Lines	203
	Glossary	207
	Index	215
	About the Author	221