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Palm Aside, What Do the Lines on Your Fingers Mean?

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Palmistry has been used throughout history in Indian cultures to predict the future. The life, head, heart, and fate lines on your palm can determine your personality, daily routine, and health and predict when significant events will take place throughout your life.

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The five fingers on your hands offer insight into your personality, life, and character. Each finger focuses on a specific area, personality trait, or event in your life. The vertical and horizontal lines that run through your fingers also hold meaning. Vertical lines show an area's positive, expansive, and dramatic confidence, while horizontal lines show an area's insecurities, fears, and negative aspects. Some lines are even unique to intuitive people only.

Synchronistically, the phalanges between the joints of every finger, excluding the thumb, represent one of the twelve zodiac signs, and a planet dominates every finger. Lines on these areas emphasize the energy of that zodiac sign and planet association. A detailed study of each finger during a psychic reading can reveal your identity inside and out, even according to Aristotle. You may even learn a thing or two about your future.

The Mercury Finger

The Mercury finger, commonly called the pinky finger, shows a person's communicative strength, wit, professionalism, health, and overall sexual expression. These individuals are highly creative in business and great with their words in sales.

General Lines

Pay attention to whether the lines are horizontal or vertical. Horizontal lines indicate an inability to communicate, difficulty speaking and writing, and trouble with self-expression. A person with lots of vertical lines is loud and expressive with a high IQ and is not shy in their sexual expression.

The Ring of Mercury

This line is found at the base of the Mercury finger. It is often a series of broken chains and curves above the Mercury mount.

An obvious line indicates a good head for business. If the hand is underdeveloped, the person may be unethical in their business dealings, while a well-developed hand will show a hardworking, determined, and ambitious person. Some traditions believe that this line is indicative of a person who has little desire to marry but an abundance of relationships.

The Sun Finger

The Sun finger, or ring finger, has to do with your ability to be famous, creative, and a leader. This person is intelligent, and they shine their light with passion, courage, and charisma. They have a taste for romance and art and a love for beauty.

General Lines

Many horizontal lines show your general unhappiness, sadness, worry, and anxiety. Lots of vertical lines can show a fanatic who cares a lot about their image and can be narcissistic and obsessive. The key is having a balance of both lines for overall contentment.

Star Line

Star lines look like many lines from all directions that meet in the middle and represent a shock or significant change in your life. A star on the crease and mount of the sun finger shows you can have a short fuse. It can also show that you are fortunate in your career and always in the spotlight.

The Ring of Apollo

This rare line is found at the base of your Sun finger. You may have poor judgment if the Sun finger is poorly developed. A well-developed finger or hand shows that you have talents in arts and may have multiple careers throughout your life.

The Saturn Finger

The Saturn finger, also known as the middle finger, denotes a person who is profound and wise. It is the finger of responsibility, foundation, and structure. It shows your discipline and commitment.

General Lines

Pay attention to whether the lines are horizontal or vertical. If you have many vertical lines, you might be an individual with many responsibilities. You might also have many enterprises and businesses. You may lack security, struggle with money, and live in poverty if you have many horizontal lines. You may also be irresponsible.

Cross Mark

A cross mark can indicate that you have lost faith, chosen the wrong path, and lost direction.

The Ring of Saturn

This line is found at the base of your Saturn finger. It is likely formed in a series of chains and broken lines. If this line is obvious, you enjoy your alone time. You are less social and sometimes seem dull and cut off from your environment.

The Jupiter Finger

The Jupiter finger, or index finger, represents your drive in life and path to purpose. This is where you will understand your confidence, self-esteem, ambition, and direction. A person with a high need for recognition, fortune, and career is found in this finger.

General Lines

Lines at the top joint of the Jupiter finger show an individual who is envious or comes across as wicked. Lines that run from the top to the second joint show bitterness in a man's words and problems in a woman's romantic relationships even though she has many friends. Once married, her problems will be gone, and she will endure happiness.

Star Line

In a woman, a star placed on the bottom joint above the Jupiter mount shows a powerful ability to seduce and use lust as a form of intimidation.

The Ring of Solomon

This line curves at the base of your Jupiter finger. It is the line of a teacher or educator. This person has a thirst for knowledge and can often pass it on if the line is well-developed. These individuals often become leaders and authority figures in a community and can be interested in philosophy, law, religion, and science.

The Thumb

The thumb is our nervous system; it works with our brain to make rational and sound decisions. It determines our personality and ability to think clearly. It is responsible for how we make choices and justify our actions and way of being.

The first phalange from the mount to the second joint is responsible for our willpower and the way we assert ourselves. At the same time, the second phalange has to do with our logical thinking and how we justify our actions. Horizontal and vertical lines on each phalange represent our negative insecure traits and our positive confident traits.

Give Palm Reading a Try

A palm reading can reveal a lot about yourself and those around you. It can even be used to predict your future. Whether you'd like to master another form of psychic divination or you're new to psychic readings, palmistry can be a fun and easy option. If you need some extra guidance, chat to a psychic from Kasamba or PsychicCenter to get an idea of what to look out for when giving palmistry a try for the first time.

Head and shoulders photograph of Rozalia Kieliszkiewicz
Rozalia is a Holistic Health and Spiritual Writer who writes for Top10.com. In addition, she is a professional Spiritual advisor trained in Tarot Divination, Astrology, Reiki Healing, and Dream Analysis. Her background as a Nutritionist and Fitness Trainer allows her to look at the whole Body, Mind and Spiritual Connection.