A guide
A modern guide to palmistry
Palmistry is the practice of reading the lines, mounts, and shape of the hand to understand a person's temperament, tendencies, and likely paths. It's old — older than astrology in most parts of the world — and like astrology it spread along trade routes, picking up a different vocabulary in every place it landed. What follows is a working guide: each major line and mount, how the Indian (Vedic) tradition tends to read it, how the Western (Cheiro) tradition tends to read it, and what to do when the two disagree.
The major lines
Heart Line
How you love, how you trust, and what your relational style says about you.
Life Line
Vitality, energy, and the rhythm of how you move through change — not, contrary to myth, lifespan.
Head Line
How you think — analytical or intuitive, focused or wide-ranging.
Fate Line
Career trajectory, sense of direction, and external forces shaping your path.
Marriage Line
In Indian palmistry: long-term partnership, emotional unions, and significant relationships.
Sun Line (Apollo Line)
Recognition, reputation, and the part of life where your light shows publicly.
Money Line
Financial intuition and how wealth tends to come to you — earned, gifted, or built.
Travel Line
Movement, migration, and meaningful journeys — physical and circumstantial.
Children Lines
Parenthood, nurturing energy, and the relationships that come from it.
Health Line
Physical constitution and the patterns that show how your body handles stress.
How to read a palm
How to Read Your Palm
The complete beginner's guide — which hand to read, which lines matter, and the order to read them in.
Left Hand vs Right Hand
The single most-asked question in palmistry. Different traditions, different answers — here's how to decide.
Mounts of the Palm
Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Apollo, Mercury, Mars, Luna — the raised areas that frame how every line is read.