Palmistry
Hast Rekha Shastra, Indian palmistry, reads the lines, mounts and shape of the hand. Upload a clear photo of your palm and the reading identifies the main lines and mounts, and explains what each one traditionally indicates about temperament, health habits, work and relationships.
The life line curves around the base of the thumb and speaks of vitality and the course of life, not its length. The head line runs across the middle of the palm and reflects the way you think. The heart line runs below the fingers and reflects feeling and affection. The fate line, running up the centre toward the middle finger, is linked with career and duty, and is not present in every hand.
The raised pads of the palm are named after the planets. The mount of Jupiter below the index finger relates to ambition and leadership; Saturn below the middle finger to discipline; the Sun below the ring finger to recognition; Mercury below the little finger to speech and trade; Venus at the base of the thumb to warmth and enjoyment; and the Moon on the outer edge to imagination.
Classical texts describe four hand types matched to the elements. Earth hands are square with short fingers; air hands have square palms with long fingers; fire hands have long palms with short fingers; water hands are long with long fingers. Each suggests a basic temperament.
Indian tradition reads the right hand for men and the left for women, though many palmists now read the dominant hand for the present and the other hand for inborn tendencies.
Use daylight, hold the hand flat with fingers together and the palm facing the camera, and fill the frame from the wrist to the fingertips.
Lines change slowly over a lifetime. A palm reading describes tendencies, and your choices shape how they unfold.
Beyond the four main lines, palmists read the Sun line below the ring finger for recognition, the Mercury line for health habits and business sense, and the girdle of Venus for sensitivity. Small marks are also noted: a star on a mount is said to bring sudden distinction, a square to protect, and an island to mark a period of strain. The reading names these where the photo shows them clearly.
Upload both if you can: the dominant hand for the present, the other for natural tendencies.
No. It relates to vitality and changes of direction, not the length of life.
Many people do not. It often means a self-directed path.
Yes. Minor lines change over the years.
The pad at the base of the thumb, linked with warmth and enjoyment.
Yes. It is used only for your reading.
Daylight, a flat hand and the full palm in frame.
It is a related Samudrika tradition, often practised alongside astrology.
When the head and heart lines join into one, suggesting intense focus.
Short lines on the edge of the palm below the little finger, read for close relationships.
It notes traditional signs of energy and habits, not medical conditions.
Yes. The thumb's shape and flexibility are read for will and logic.
Yes, though lines are still forming in young children.