An Introduction to the Main Points of Palmistry

Here is a wonderful post covering everything you need to know to start off with palmistry. It was written by Jack Bird, of Stepping Stones in Greenwich.

As the name suggests, palmistry involves the reading of the lines on your palm and the shape of your hand, all to help recognise who you are and where you’re headed in life. It’s more about personal understanding than something like fortune-telling, which would detail exterior factors.

Our palms provide a map to our energies; with the right hand offering a look at the past and the left indicating character traits and destiny. These are reversed for left-handed people, but palm reading can’t be done accurately without training. Professional palm readers and psychics train for years to understand what each crevice and crease can represent, and flipping through a book on palmistry won’t cut it. However, if you want a basic understanding of what the lines on the palm represent and what palmistry is, then this post is perfect for you.

The Major Lines

Our palms contain three major lines – the head line, the life line and the heart line.

Head line: This line sits between the thumb and index figure, and runs horizontally across the palm. This details psychological and mental information about the person, as well as information about their intuitive abilities and intellectual levels.

Life line: Beginning between the thumb and index finger, the line the runs down the base of the thumb to connect with the wrist. It is a misconception that the line reveals how much longer you will live and instead focuses on your general wellbeing and the challenges that may come your way.

Heart line: This is located above both lines and starts under the middle finger, reaching towards the little finger. Many people take an interest in palm reading to find out more about their love life, and this is where the heart line comes in – which is appropriately also known as the love line. This usually represents a person’s outlook on love, how deeply one can love and how smoothly a relationship may be going.

What else can be read on a palm?

Outside the major lines just detailed, there are also secondary lines that reveal more about you. They are generally fainter than the major lines, and reveal things about your strengths, weaknesses, talents and interests. They can also cross over bumps, which palm readers refer to as ‘mounts’ and believe are related to planets along with our emotional/physical selves. Each palm has seven mounts that coincide with Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Venus, the sun and the moon.

Markings are not like lines, in that they come in many forms and can symbolise both negative and positive interruptions in the lines and mounts of the palm. They can resemble stars, grills, triangles, circles and squares and can be warnings of events like separations, health problems and trauma. However, they can also represent resolution and recovery too, with the location of them on the palm being an important factor.

If you want an accurate interpretation of all the complexities of these marks without taking a study course yourself, talk to a fully trained palm reader. The psychic vision of the reader can fill in any gaps that palm reading cannot reach.

You can contact the team at Stepping Stones of Greenwich find out more about palm reading as well as other psychic and tarot services.

Source of  top image: https://pixabay.com/en/the-palm-of-your-hand-hand-palmistry-2704020/

Links and previous related posts
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/08/review-palmistry-made-easy.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2016/07/charity-shop-find-ceramic-palmistry-hand.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2008/06/jack-or-jill-of-all-trades.html
http://www.steppingstonesgreenwich.co.uk/

Charity Shop Find: Ceramic Palmistry Hand

My latest charity shop find is this ceramic palmistry hand. When I bought it, the young man behind the counter seemed so disappointed to see it go that I offered to leave it for him if he had been hoping to buy it himself, but he said that it was OK.

When I got home I had a look on the internet to whether palmistry hands like this are readily available, and it seems that they are. You can order them reasonably easily. However, mine was cheaper than the new ones on sale, so I'm still very pleased. And, of course, the charity

I'm not sure how useful the hand actually is as an aid for learning palmistry - it only shows the very basic hand lines - but it does look just the part on display in my witchy room, along with my besom, cauldron, crystal ball and esoteric books.

Links and previous related posts
Ceramic palmistry hand
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/08/review-palmistry-made-easy.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2008/06/jack-or-jill-of-all-trades.html

This Week's Pagan Events In and Near London

Here are events in London and other parts of the UK that could be of interest to pagans.

Now until 15 March: From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia. Art exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, London, SE21 7AD. It is open every day except Mondays. Tickets: £10/£5. http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/

Friday 6 March; Shakespeare and Self-Knowledge with Elizabeth Crofts. Venue: Theosophical Society, 50 Gloucester Place, London W1U 8EA. Starts at 7pm. Tickets: £5, £3 concessions, £2 TS members. Later in the day, at 6pm. http://www.theosophicalsociety.org.uk

Friday 6 March; Demonstrations of Mediumship plus question and answers session with Anthony Kesner. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2EB. Time: 7pm-8.30pm. Cost: £10/£12 Advance booking advised. For details call: 020 7589 3292 or visit https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Saturday 7 March; Seriously Possessed Conference co-organised by ASSAP (the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena) and the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Venue: Goldsmiths College, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW. Time: 10am - 7pm. Advance tickets booked online £15, regular tickets £30. More details and ticket booking: http://assap.ac.uk/Possessed/

Saturday 7 March; Digital workshop - Ancient Egyptian journey to the afterlife. Venue: British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Time: 11am-4pm. Free event, just drop in. For more details visit: https://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar.aspx

Saturday 7 March; Spring Goddess Temple at Treadwell's Books, 33 Store Street, London WC1E 7BS. Various events taking place from 10am-5pm. Caroline Wise will be offering a mini-Goddess workshop on Elen of the Ways and the Return of the Sun from 11.30am - 12.45pm. The cost for this is £10 and advance booking is required, contact info@londontemplecreative.co.uk to reserve a space. At 3.30pm there will be a spring celebration Ritual. Cost: Free, but donations appreciated. For the rest of the day people can come in to meditate with the Divine Feminine free of charge. Details: https://www.facebook.com/events/294267320783471/ or http://www.londontemplecreative.co.uk/

Saturday 7 March; Spirit of Me - Celebrating Women in Paganism. Organised by the Pagan Federation London with talks by Christina Oakley Harrington of Treadwell’s Bookshop; Fiona Mackenzie, lead Seidrkona for the Kith of Yggdrasil; Philip Heselton, author of Witchfather: A Life of Gerald Gardner;Michelle Hawcroft and Avril Price, of The College of Psychic Studies. Venue: Dragon Hall, 17 Stukeley Street, London WC2B 5LT. Time: Noon-5pm. Tickets £10/£8. For details and tickets: http://london.paganfed.org/spirit-of-me/

Saturday 7 March; Wicca: The elements of Wiccan ritual and practice - South London Wicca Meetup meeting at a private house in Tooting hosted by Wiccan High Priestess Caroline Westbury. Start time 7pm, ends 10pm. Free but you must reserve a place in advance. Details at: http://www.meetup.com/South-London-Wicca-Meetup/

Saturday 7 March; Hendon Heathens Moot, Venue: Greyhound Pub, Church End, Hendon, London, NW4 4JT. Time: 6pm. Hendon Heathens meets at this pub the first Saturday of every month.

Sunday 8 March, Learn to Read Tea Leaves. Workshop with Inspiral Mediums. Venue: Chopsys Cafe, Grays, Thurrock, Essex. Time: 1.30pm. Cost: Price £35. Advance booking required via: https://www.facebook.com/inspiral.mediums

Sunday 8 March, Spring Goddess Temple at Waltham Forest International Women's Day Hosted by London Temple Creative. Venue: Walthamstow Assembley Hall, London E17 4JD. Admission is free and for women only. Time: noon - 6pm. For more details visit: http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/Pages/Events/International-Womens-Day-Waltham-Forest.aspx

Sunday 8 March, Let Go and Get Unstuck! Design your Life Masterclass with Mary Daniels, organised by Alternatives. London venue. Time: 1pm - 5:30pm. Tickets £50/£40. Details: http://www.alternatives.org.uk/

Sunday 8 March, Crossbones Garden Fund-raising Launch at Crossbones Garden, Redcross Way, London SE1 1HA. Opening ceremony at the gates at 2.30pm to remember the 'Single Women' on International Woman's Day, followed by short tours of the garden. Free. Donations welcome. Time: 2.30pm to 3.30pm: For more information on the BOST events contact Nicola: info@bost.org.uk or visit http://www.bost.org.uk/ Also visit: http://www.crossbones.org.uk/

Sunday 8 March, Beginners' Tarot - part of a series of six classes with Cobwebs at Cauldrons at Romford Shopping Hall. Time: 1.30pm - 4pm. Cost £20 per session, £20 deposit to secure place on course. http://www.cobwebsandcauldrons.co.uk/ Email: cobwebsandcauldrons@gmail.com

Sunday 8 March; Schroedinger's Cat, Quantum Mechanics and the Inner Planes. Talk by Gwyn Hocking. Venue: 50 Gloucester Place, London W1U 8EA. Starts at 6pm. Tickets: £7, £5 concessions, £4 TS members. For full details: http://www.theosophicalsociety.org.uk

Monday 9 March; Treadwell's Open Circle. Wiccan-style ceremony for those with some experience led by Lisa Grace and Ellie Hughes. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 7.15pm for 7.30pm start. Tickets £7, advance booking required. For further details: info@treadwells-london.com http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Monday 9 March; On Liberty. Talk by Shami Chakrabarti. Venue: Alternatives. Venue: St James's Church Piccadilly, 197 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LL. Time: 7pm - 8.30pm. Tickets £12/£8 online. For more details and to book tickets: http://www.alternatives.org.uk/

Monday 9 March; Focused Transformative Energy Healing with Aang and Vazof the London College of Spirituality. Venue: Latvian House, 72 Queensborough Terrace, London, W2 3SH. Time: 7pm. Cost: £33. Details: http://www.meetup.com/londonspirituality/

Tuesday 10 March; Learning the Tarot (Major Arcana) workshops led by Debbie Gallagher. South London Wicca Meetup meeting in a private house in Tooting hosted by Wiccan High Priestess Caroline Westbury. Start time 7pm. Cost £7. Details at: http://www.meetup.com/South-London-Wicca-Meetup/

Tuesday 10 March; Drumming Circle run by Shamanic Spirit at a venue in New Addington, Croydon, South London. Every second Tuesday starting 7.30pm. Cost £10. For more details and to book places call 07952 041477. For more information, visit http://shamanicspirit.co.uk/

Tuesday 10 March; Screening of the film Sea Without Shore. Venue: Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH. Time 8.30pm. Tickets: Standard £12/£8. https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/sea-without-shore

Tuesday 10 March; Magical Thinking and Religion. Talk by Professor Konrad Talmont-Kaminski. Venue: the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit, Department of Psychology, Room LG01, New Academic Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW. Talks start at 6.10pm. Free event. For more details, contact Duncan Colvin on d.colvin@gold.ac.uk or visit http://www.gold.ac.uk/apru/speakers/

Tuesday 10 March; Trance Lecture: The Pursuit of Happiness. Talk by Sarah Tyler-Walters at The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2EB. Time: 7pm-8.30pm. Cost: £10/£12 Advance booking advised. For details call: 020 7589 3292 or visit https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Tuesday 10 March; Life Events and Karma. Talk by Julia Dvinskaya. Venue: Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Road, London NW1 6XT. Time: 7.30pm – 9pm, Cost: £3.50 (£1 concessions, students and under 25s), No bookings required, just turn up. http://www.rsh.anth.org.uk/

Thursday, 12 March; The Last Witchtrial - Helen Duncan. Talk at South East London Folklore Society (SELFS) by Geraldine Beskin of the Atlantis Bookshop. Venue: The Old King's Head, Kings Head Yard, 45-49 Borough High St, London SE1 1NA. Entry: £2.50 / £1.50 concessions. Meetings are the second Thursday of each month. http://www.selfs.org.uk/ To guarantee a seat, email nigelofbermondsey@gmail.com

Thursday, 12 March; Spirituality at Work. Talk at Global Co-operation House, 65-69 Pound Lane, Willesden Green, London, NW10 2HH. 7pm start. http://www.brahmakumaris.org/

Thursday, 12 March; Enfield Town Circle Pagan Moot. Venue: Crown and Horseshoes pub, 15 Horseshoe Lane, Enfield, Middlesex EN2 6PZ. Time: 7pm to 11pm. This moot takes place on the 2nd Thursday of every month. For more details join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/EnfieldTownCircle/

Friday 13 March; The Human Energy Field and Beyond. Talk by Harry Oldfield at The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2EB. Time: 7pm-8.30pm. Cost: £10/£12 Advance booking advised. For details call: 020 7589 3292 or visit https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Friday 13 March; Unlucky - London Dreamtime storytelling at a secret ruin in Peckham. Time: 9pm. £3. Adults only, advance booking essential, email vanessa@londondreamtime.com. For more details visit http://londondreamtime.com/calendar/

Thursday, 12 March; Face To Face With Reality.Talk and book signing by Rajini Menon at Watkins Books, 19-21 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4EZ. Time: 6.30pm. Free event. For more details Tel 020 7836 2182 or visit the website http://www.watkinsbooks.com/

Saturday 14 March; Mysteries of spring Equinox. One-day workshop including a full ritual at the end of the day with Suzanne Corbie at Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Tickets £45 (£25 deposit, balance due on the day). Time: 11am to 5.30pm. Booking essential and limited places. Tel: 020 7240 8906 or email: info@treadwells-london.com. http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Sunday 15 March; Palmistry. Workshop at Cobwebs at Cauldrons at Romford Shopping Hall. 11am. Cost is £20. http://www.cobwebsandcauldrons.co.uk/

Sunday 15 March; Dawn of the Oak. Pagan moot on the third Sunday of each month. Venue: Upstairs at The Castle, 34-35 Cowcross Road, Farringdon, London EC1M 6DB (near Farringdon tube). Time: 3pm-6pm.

Sunday 15 March; Near Death Experiences: What Do They Tell Us About Life After Death? Talk by Philip Martyn. Venue: 50 Gloucester Place, London W1U 8EA. Starts at 6pm. Tickets: £7, £5 concessions, £4 TS members. For full details: http://www.theosophicalsociety.org.uk

I do not organise any of these events myself and am not responsible for them. Although I try to be as accurate as possible, it is always worth checking the details if you want to go to an event. If you know of an event that you want listed, please email the details to me at badwitch1234@gmail.com. Please also email me if you spot any errors in my listings as I am happy to correct mistakes.

Review: Palmistry Made Easy

I wish the new book Palmistry Made Easyhad been around when I was a kid.

Back when I was young I rather got into palmistry, thanks to my dad. He discovered he had a natural gift for telling people’s futures from their hands after volunteering to run the fortune teller’s booth at a local annual charity fete. He was so good at it that the ladies on the charity committee begged him to come back and do it again for many years afterwards. Perhaps one could say he was feted to do it (ouch!)

Of course, after finding out that he had a talent for palmistry, my dad wanted to learn to do it properly . He bought a copy of the classic palmistry textbook Cheiro's Language of the Handand practised reading the palms of all our family and friends. Inspired by my dad, I borrowed the book and tried to pick up the palmist’s art. I was never as good as my dad – but perhaps that was because I never had the right book.

I’ve just finished reading Palmistry Made Easyby Johny Fincham and I think that if I had had this to learn from I might have done better. It is, as the title suggests, aimed at beginners and is a very easy book to use for picking up the basics.

One of the tips it starts with is to take a print of people’s hands and then spend as long as you like studying the lines to discern their meaning, rather than trying to work it all out in a few minutes while the hand’s owner is pressing you for answers to their questions. The book also has lots of photographs of prints taken from real hands to demonstrate each point.

The chapters in Palmistry Made Easy are straightforward and cover each of the main things to consider when reading palms – the shape and size of people’s hands, skin texture, fingers, the patterns found on fingerprints and palm prints, the main lines on the hand and also the minor lines. None of the chapters are too long – and neither is the book too long. It is quick to read then to use as a reference when practising reading from prints of hands.

I also like the way in which the focus of palmistry seems to have moved on since I first had a go at it. Back then, it all seemed to be a bit fatalistic - prophesying things like when you would get married, how many children you might have and even how long you were likely to live. Now, it is more about understanding someone’s personality, strengths and weaknesses to help them become happier and healthier.

Our futures are not fixed. Johny Fincham points out: “The lines of the palm change over time.” To demonstrate this, the book shows prints taken from the same hand but several months apart, showing how acting on advice from a palmist can bring about change for the better.

Publisher Dodona Books sums it up on its website: "Palmistry has traditionally been blighted by superstition and hocus-pocus. It's been impossible to learn the art from a long list of signs, markings and squiggles to remember. Until now that is. Here's a simple, commonsense guide that works. You can start palm reading after a few hours of study with this book. Using the modern language of psychology, rational observation and common sense, you'll be amazed at how much you can see in your own or anyone's palm. Try it - it works!"

Johnny Fincham began the study of palms at age 25 while at university (in 1988) joined the (now defunct) chirology society, started to read hands professionally in 1996.

Links and previous related posts
Palmistry Made Easy
http://www.dodona-books.com/welcome-new.html
http://www.johnnyfincham.com/
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2008/06/jack-or-jill-of-all-trades.html
CHEIRO'S LANGUAGE OF THE HAND.

A Jack or Jill of All Trades

When I was a teenager, I went to a palmist who told me that I had a “mixed hand” – meaning that each of my fingers was a slightly different shape.

There are five different basic shapes: square meaning you have an orderly personality, spatulate meaning you are an active type of person, knotty meaning philosophic, conic meaning artistic and long, dainty hands that are supposed to indicate one is psychic.

The mixed hand, however, has bits of all of them. It shows, I was told, that I was destined to be a “Jack of all trades, but master of none”.

I was offended. For a start, I’m hardly a Jack. A Jill maybe, but the palmist must have been blind to get my gender wrong.

Then I read a bit more about palmistry. He was right in one thing. I do have a mixed hand – but that doesn’t mean I’m necessarily going to flit from one thing to another without ever having any success.

On the contrary, I prefer to call myself multi-talented and good at multi-tasking. These are all great qualities for a witch who has to balance her work, caring for her family and learning skills that are useful for her craft.

And you don’t have to be a master of anything. Being adequate is good enough.

The photo is not a picture of my own hand. It is entitled Mixed Hand by Artisan Henna. Visit: http://www.artisanhenna.com/.

Links:
http://www.paralumun.com/palmistry.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiromancy