Here’s a quick rundown on what the two hands represent in hand reading:

Left hand meaning

The left hand is associated with the yin part of the yin yang – that is the feminine side.

On a related side-note, you may have heard of the left brained vs right brained scientific classification of people; whereby people have a dominant brain hemisphere. It’s interesting to note that the brain hemisphere that is linked with the left-hand (ie the Yin feminine hand) is linked to feminine-linked qualities like intuition, emotion, memory, music, imagination and creativity.

The left hand is also considered the more personal hand; the hand that’s related to your private, inner self. So the left hand is associated with how you are in the privacy of your home, how you behave with your nearest and dearest, and how you are in the privacy of your own emotional and psychological mind. Some palmists take this idea further to say that the left hand represents your unconscious mind – the things that even you aren’t aware of but that are there.

The left hand is also associated with your in-born-potential – your natural tendencies and talents; whether or not you are using them right now in your life.

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Right hand meaning

The right hand is associated with the yang part of the yin yang – that is the masculine side.

Again, as a related side note, in the left-brained vs right brained scientific theory, the right hand is connected to the hemisphere of the brain that is linked to more masculine qualities like rational thinking, logic, language, science and business.

The right hand is also associated with your public face – the face you show when you’re at work, with strangers, with friends who you aren’t that close to – the face you show when you are facing the world.

Reading the right hand reveals information about the state of your conscious mind as well as how you are currently living your life right now (as opposed to your in-born potential which may or may not be visible in your life).

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A memory aid to help you remember which hand symbolizes what, is remembering that when we shake hands with a stranger, we always shake with the RIGHT hand. The right hand we said, is associated with our public face, so the right-handed handshake is effectively confirming that we are offering our public face at the first meeting.
It is only in more intimate situations that your left hand touches other people. The left hand comes into play in a hug, a massage or in other more private situations.

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Since the right hand is about the conscious mind; about the way we are living our lives right now; and is the face we show publically most frequently, the right hand is usually the one that is most informative about how a person is currently living their life in a conscious way. But you get the most complete view of a person by examining both hands.

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Does right or left handedness affect how you read the palm?

Some hand readers reverse the meaning of the hands if you’re left handed, but most hand readers maintain the standard left/ right meanings regardless of which is your dominant hand.

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References:

(1) R. Lown. 2014. Palmistry lectures at the College of Psychic Studies
(2) Clifford F. 2002. Palmistry 4 today (link to book on Amazon.com) (on Amazon.co.uk)

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So before we dive into what different signs and markings on the hands mean, let’s first start with a bit of background.

Hand Reading can be divided into two main parts

Within hand reading, there are two main parts:
1.) Chiromancy = Reading the Lines on the palm
2.) Chirognomy = Reading hand qualities like hand shape, color and texture, and finger qualities.

We’ll be looking into both these parts of hand reading over the course of this article series.

Why do we have lines on our palms in the first place?

Usually the first thing people think about when it comes to palmistry is reading the lines on the palms. But have you ever wondered why we have lines on our palms?

A common misconception is that the lines on the hand are there through the folding of the skin that occurs due to repeated hand movements. Research by palmists has found that this is not the case. Some palm lines have been found to already be present when the baby is in the womb and the lines develop throughout life. During puberty for example the lines that relate to emotional and sexual development are often seen to change, and at other times, new lines can form and old ones can fade, in accordance with what you’re going through in life.

In a text written by palmist Frank Clifford (1), he says that the lines on the palm are directly linked to nerve endings from the brain, which may explain why a lot of hand markings relate to brain-based traits like talents and psychological tendencies.

Are palmistry markings and hand signs something that can change or are they set in stone?

One thing that’s important to note about hand reading is that apart from fingerprints, many lines on the hand can change over time and there are also more fleeting hand signs like hand colour and texture that can change from moment to moment and day to day. So if a palmist gives you a reading, whatever he says isn’t something that has to be true forever – it’s most likely accurate just for the time of the reading.

The most important message I’d like to get across in this introduction to hand reading is that no matter what your hand signs say right now, if there’s something in a hand reading that you don’t like, remember that signs and lines can change.

Palmistry cannot predict your future

Another important note about hand reading is that palmistry is not an accurate predictor of the future. I’ll repeat this because it’s important: palmistry cannot predict your future in a certain way.

Hand readers can give you a guess at which path you’re heading towards, but you always have the power to choose a different path if you wish.

Never read a hand marking in isolation

Yet another important point that I wanted to include in the introduction is that generally, it is best to interpret hand signs whilst considering the whole hand. The interpretation of a certain hand sign on its own could be different if it’s found alongside other signs on the hand so reading it in isolation could lead to an inaccurate reading.

Throughout this series, I will be talking about isolated signs but as you hear about them, please do bear in mind that all signs need to be interpreted in the context of the whole hand.

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Ok! That’s it for the main background points!
In the next lesson we’ll be looking at understanding the difference between reading the right hand vs reading the left hand.

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References:

(1) Clifford F. 2012. Palmistry Today: Modern Hand Analysis (link to online article)
(2) Clifford F. 2002. Palmistry 4 today (link to book on Amazon.com) (on Amazon.co.uk)

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