Palmistry – A Common Palm Reading Guide
July 31, 2025
Palmistry
Palmistry, also known as chiromancy, is the practice of interpreting the lines ad features of the hands to gain insights into a person’s character and predict future events.
Palm reading, is an ancient art of divination that interprets a person’s character, abilities and future by analyzing the lines, shapes and mounts on their hands. With roots in Indian and Chinese traditions, it’s a symbolic system that provides insights into personality, emotional wellbeing, intellectual capacity and life path.
Palmistry’s origins are uncertain, but it is believed to have begun in ancient India and spread to China, Greece and Europe.
Today it is most often encountered as a form of fortune-telling within New Age spirituality. Those who practice palmistry are generally called palmists, hand readers, hand analysts, or chirologists.
Sanskrit texts such as the Hasta Samudrika Shastra describe systems of hand-reading, while in classical Greece, Aristotle is reputed to have referred to chiromantic doctrines. Roman sources attest to its circulation alongside astrology and physiognomy.
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