Chapter Three: Right or Left – Which Hand to Read?

“Which hand do I read in palm reading?”

This is one of the most debated questions in palm reading. Although I have briefly explained this in the earlier chapter, discussing this more elaborately is vital to your understanding of palm reading. The hand is the single most crucial thing in palm reading. Without the hand, reading cannot take place. As important as the hand is in reading, reading the right hand is even more critical. In this context, the right hand may refer to the right or left hand, depending on the palmistry variation a palm reader uses.

There is a sort of dissonance between the ancient and New Age forms of palm reading. They are both split on the hand to read and the one to exclude during palm reading. Some palm readers believe that the right hand should be read for men and the left hand for women. This is how reading is done in India, where the left hand

represents the goddess Shiva and the right, Shiva’s male consort, Shakti. In the Chinese variation of palmistry, though, it is the opposite. Chinese palmistry believes the right hand should be read for women (Yin) and men’s left hand (Yang). This doesn’t make the Indian technique more effective than the Chinese technique, or vice versa.

One thing generally agreed on is that the hand you use for reading makes a big difference in palmistry. Another thing that palmists generally agree on is that both hands should be used in a reading.

So, as a palmist, never mistakenly read just one hand. It does not matter whether the hand you read is the right one to read – there will be inconsistencies in your reading. Any experienced palmist understands the essence of reading both the right and left hand and their reading differences. There are several differences in reading the right and left hands, based on the many palm-reading variations.

Still, the only difference that matters is what they show to a palmist.

Overall, palmists agree that the hand you read in palmistry determines what is revealed to a palmist. This means that palm reading isn’t about right vs. left hand. So the difference is based on hand dominance; you channel your energy through the hand you use the most. It is not advisable to make assumptions about the hand when doing a reading. For example, to do a reading on a friend, it is best to ask them for their dominant hand and their passive hand. The dominant hand represents a person’s outer persona, which they reveal to friends, colleagues, and loved ones. Your outer world persona is whom the surrounding people interact with every day. The active hand gives insight into how you interact with the world and how the world perceives you.

But your passive hand represents your inner self – the part of you you only reveal to those that are closest to you. This is the side of you that comes to play when you are alone. It is whom you feel like when you are alone with yourself.

What if you use both your right and left hands equally?

This means you are ambidextrous. Ambidexters are harder to read for palmists. To determine which hand to read in an ambidextrous person, you have to check only their thumbs’ strength in both hands;

whichever hand has the more robust thumb is the dominant hand.

Regardless of how one uses both hands skillfully, there will always be one more dominant than the other. Now, if you do your reading from the view of the left or right hand, both will give different insights.

The left and right hand both focus on two versions of yourself: what you are and what you will/could be.

The left hand is often associated with what could/will be, rather than what it is presently. Your left hand can give insight into the opportunities you were born with. For example, if you read a person’s left hand, you can tell whether they have a wealthy background. The left hand reveals information about the family, background, and opportunities a person is born with. It may also disclose information about a person’s potential. Every human is born with potential, big or small, but only the right hand can reveal what is achievable with your potential, i.e., what you will be if you put that potential to work. So, the left hand only reveals what could be. The left hand can also provide insight into your personality and character.

The passive hand can also do this, whether or not it is the left or right hand. Since the left hand is passive and less action-oriented in most people, it can expose your fears, quirks, and admirable qualities.

The right hand is the dominant hand in most people, which means it’s used to engage in many daily life activities. This also means that the right hand carries the most action-based energy. In palmistry, the right hand reveals information about what you do with your potential.

It tells you what you are. It can show you what you did to maximize your potential or where you fell short of that potential. Your right hand may also tell you your destiny or the likeliness of you fulfilling that destiny. It may also reveal your purpose to you. More importantly, your right hand can provide you with a broad scope of your present life, the actions you are taking, and how they can shape your future. This is what some misconceive as predicting the future.

Essentially, the most crucial thing in palm reading is to read both hands. Reading just one hand is akin to watching a movie halfway; you will never get to know the whole story or the outcome. By reading one hand exclusively, you are leaving out important information that can affect your interpretation. The best thing is to read both hands to get different details and consider when making

your interpretation. For example, if you read your right hand exclusively, you might find you are about to experience a career change. Unless you read the other hand, you will not know the reason for the career change. If you read both hands, you might find that the career change resulted from a new opportunity you were privy to.

To put it more succinctly, a better understanding of who you are and who you could be is only achievable through dual-palm readings. By reading both your left and right or dominant and passive hand, you will understand your potential, where it can take you, and, More importantly, how you can utilize your potential to improve your life.

I should note there are cases where single-hand readings may be ideal. For example, if you just want a quick look into your personality traits, a single-hand reading can do that for you. You can get this information by reading only your left hand. You are unlikely to need a right-hand reading unless you want guidance on what personality changes to make. One more thing to note in reading is that you may change your reading styles depending on which hand you are reading.

Superstitions that Influence Hand Choices in

Palm Reading

There used to be many superstitious beliefs about which hand to use in palm reading. Unfortunately, although most of these superstitions don’t exist anymore, many traditional palmists still use them to determine which hand to read. Some palmists believe that hand choice in reading should be based on the gender of the person.

Some believe that age is a determiner in the choice of hand for reading. Others believe that luck, accuracy, and line changes all play a determining role in which hand to read. Suppose you want to take the use of your palm reading knowledge beyond yourself. There, you must understand the reasoning behind these superstitions.

In the past, gender was often used to determine which hand to read, even though it makes no actual difference. Traditional palmists prefer to read women’s left hand and men’s right hand. Sometimes, they disregard reading the other hand, based on this belief. This belief was then because the right hand is the dominant and active hand in most people. Men used to be the ones with career and economic power, and as a result, palmists used to read their right hand.

On the contrary, women were more passive, with fewer career options and little to no economic power. So, traditional European palm readers disregarded reading a women’s right hand. Instead, they focused on their left hand to discover more about their personality traits. As women’s rights expanded, readers took a more egalitarian approach to palm reading. Still, some palmists stick to this technique regarding traditions.

Another belief that affected hand choice in palm reading is that the right hand should be read for people above 30, while the left hand is read for people under 30. This belief was because reading the right hand reveals what you become as an adult. Palmists then believed that reading the right hand for people under 30 would reveal too much information or, sometimes, divulge inaccurate information.

Fortunately, this belief is not common among modern palmists because its validity has been disregarded over the years. You can find accomplishments and changes in the right hands of anybody,

even children. There is no age-limit to accomplishments; hence, age shouldn’t affect which hand you use for reading.

Traditional palmists used to believe that luck plays a part in hand choice for palm reading. The left hand used to be associated with bad luck. Actually, the word sinister originates from the Latin word for

“left.” Being left-handed used to be a form of stigma for many people in those days. If you were left-handed, you were automatically believed to carry bad luck. So, palmists often avoided reading the left hand because they don’t want to spark lousy luck for themselves.

Although this belief is almost nonexistent, many palmists still use it as an excuse to get out of reading both hands during a palm reading session.

The bottom line is that it does not matter which hand you read if you read both hands in a palmistry session. You cannot read one hand without the other. If you wish to unravel the truth about your life, you must read both hands. Reading each hand individually is the key to discovering their unique qualities. But dual-hand reading is crucial in interpreting what you learn separately from both hands to arrive at a wholesome outcome.

Now that you know which hand (or both) to use in palm reading, let’s look at how to read hands based on size and shape.

Chapter Four: Reading Hand Size and Shape

The size and shape of your hands say more about you than you even know about yourself. Your hand size reveals a lot about your personality explicitly. If you are just starting in palm reading, hand size is one of the easiest things to learn and practice off the bat. This is why I am introducing you to actual reading with hand size. A person’s hand size can either be small or large. But before I delve into what a small hand means and what large hands represent, you need to know what determines a large or small hand first. How do you know whether your hand is small or large?

It is easy to make assumptions about small and large hands. At first, you may think that. When you consider that short people tend to have hands smaller than taller people, and adults generally have

hands bigger than children, you will realize that the answer is not that simple or obvious. To determine your hand’s size and whether it is small or large, you have to measure it relative to your body proportions. You cannot get your correct hand size if you measure it in relativity to other people. It doesn’t matter whether your hand appears smaller beside that of another person.

One easy way to measure your hand size accurately is to hold your hand straight in front of your face, leaving the base of your palm to rest on your chin. Your fingers should be facing upward. Let the hand be straight, and try not to curve it around your nose. If your nose keeps you from holding your hand straight, leave some space between your hand and your face. If you have a large hand, you will find that your hand stretches beyond your forehead’s middle point.

The larger your hands, the more it stretches above the midpoint.

In contrast, a small hand reaches just below the middle point of your forehead. The smaller your hand, the farther it is from the midpoint.

Suppose your hand reaches the midpoint of your forehead. There, this implies it is average-sized, and it likely combines qualities prominent in both small and large hands.

People’s hands are relative to their body size. But there are people with disproportionate hand sizes. So, just because a person has a large body does not mean they have large hands. This goes for people with small bodies too. An individual can have a small body and somewhat large hands.

People with small hands tend to look at the bigger picture when making a decision. The smaller your hand, the more likely you are to consider the big picture when making any decision. Small hands mean you pay little attention to the tiny details; you focus on the critical details. This means you don’t appreciate the details that may help break down a problem into smaller parts. Small-handed people try to solve a problem as a whole instead of doing it in parts. They are the definition of all-or-nothing.

Also, small-handed people tend to work in practical and creative fields. A small-handed person is more likely to be a sales manager than a large-handed person. They also delegate work to several people instead of participating in that process themselves. They

want to see the progress of multiple endeavors at once, so they’d rather not be the one to deal with one problem in small, deep steps.

This is because dealing with things on their own requires them to pay attention to the intricate details. As resourceful as small-handed people are, they prefer to work behind the scenes without seeking recognition for what they do.

Small-handed people may not like solving problems in steps and paying attention to the tiny details because they are prone to be quick-thinkers. Due to this, they like doing things fast and snappy.

Solving a problem in steps while paying mind to the tiny details is a long process that takes quite a bit of time, and that is why small-handed people don’t like to do this. This process is more suitable for people who take their time to solve a problem or address a need.

If you have small hands, then you are likely a quick decision-maker.

You don’t like to mull over things. You’d instead do it quickly and be done with it. This might make you act impulsively or take risks without analyzing all the details first. You may also prefer a busy life and complicated social situations where everything is fast-paced due to you being a quick thinker. You thrive best when things are busy and fast-paced.

The larger the hand of a person is, the more they like getting into all the details. Large-handed people find paying attention to details, no matter how small, enjoyable, and satisfactory. More importantly, they prefer to do things on their own rather than delegating to others. This attention to detail makes them notice problems faster than others. It also makes them more critical than small-handed people.

Regardless of gender, large-handed people tend to focus on one thing at a time. They cannot get involved in several processes simultaneously. To solve a problem, they carefully consider all the facts and figures before they arrive at a conclusion or use the outcome to decide. Because of their need to consider all the details, decision-making is a relatively lengthy and slow-paced process for them. Slow and steady is the best way to describe a large-handed person. The negative of paying attention to all the details is that a large-handed individual may get lost in the details. They often fail to see the bigger picture. Because of that fact, they need someone in their life who will regularly remind them of the bigger picture.

In palm reading, hand size is associated with the earth element. The larger your hands, the more earth element you have in your hand. As you will find in a later chapter, the earth element makes people steady and grounded. So, large-handed people tend to have those qualities that define steadiness. Even in social situations, they tend to be observant, patient, and thoughtful.

When doing a reading, you cannot make your conclusions by reading just the hand size. You need to consider the size in relation to the shape and other things such as the length of your fingers. It is common for palmists to see a small-handed person with other hand features that only make them potentially impulsive. Here, they may be less impulsive and more analytical in certain situations. For example, suppose you do a reading on a small-handed person. You get one sign that shows them to be impulsive and two other signs that imply they are cautious thinkers. This might mean they are generally cautious thinkers, but they often have moments of quick thinking and impulsiveness.

One of the most important things to consider when analyzing small or large hands is the hand’s shape. The shape of the hand determines the kind of hand a person has. Below are the types of hand you will find when doing palm readings.