Points on the hands

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There's no need to read between-the-lines when you learn the principles of palmistry... the lines on a person's hand are a chart of the individual's life for the trained eye to follow and the informed mind to interpret.

It takes many years of study to become an expert at hand reading but by mastering the information on these pages anyone can soon learn to be a party palmist.

One of the most important rules to remember when unravelling the secrets contained in the hands is the following:

If you are righthanded, your left hand is "passive" and shows your inherited potential -- those qualities, abilities and tendencies with which you were born. Your right hand is "active" and reveals how you have either developed or changed those natural inborn characteristics.

If you are lefthanded, the reverse applies, so your right hand is the passive one while your left hand being active reveals what you have consciously and deliberately done with the potential you have inherited.

In many cases the shape, colour and texture of the hands and fingers plus the formation of the major lines will be similar in both hands. These are the people who for one reason or another have followed the physical, emotional and mental roads in their original life map.

However, you also will find some cases where there are one or more marked differences between the right and left hands. These belong to people who have changed the original, inherited pattern in some way and have developed new traits, abilities or health conditions which were not handed down by their ancestors.

A quick glance at both hands will reveal to which of the above categories you and your friends belong. By noting whether the changes are found in the life line, head line, heart line or other areas, you can see that the health and constitution, mental interests or emotional nature have undergone some type of transformation, for better or worse.

While the pages in this section are not an attempt to show you how to read any one person's complete horoscope in conjunction with the hand but you will find it helpful to know his or her star sign because, in a general sense...

Fire Signs: Aries, Leo and Sagittarius increase the striving, creative, active, idealistic or spiritual qualities of the individual.

Air Signs: Libra. Aquarius and Gemini emphasize the mental, intellectual, reasoning faculties.

Water Signs: Cancer. Scorpio and Pisces give prominence to feelings, emotions, intuition, the love nature.

Earth Signs: Capricorn, Taurus and Virgo are more basic, fundamental, realistic, practical, down-to-earth.

Also remember that many people born during the first three days or the last three days of any one sign are fairly complex in nature because they have qualities of both signs, so you often will find they have a complicated network of lines on the palms or, alternatively, there is a marked difference between the line formations on both hands.

The key diagram gives points to look at on both hands. Always remember to compare them to see what factors in the passive hand have been changed in the active one.