Before you start reading palms, a useful thing to know is that the detailed meaning of hand signs depends on which hand you’re reading. A right hand palm reading differs a little from a left hand palm reading.
Here’s a quick rundown on what the two hands represent in hand reading:
Left hand meaning
The left hand is associated with the yin part of the yin yang – that is the feminine side.
On a related side-note, you may have heard of the left brained vs right brained scientific classification of people; whereby people have a dominant brain hemisphere. It’s interesting to note that the brain hemisphere that is linked with the left-hand (ie the Yin feminine hand) is linked to feminine-linked qualities like intuition, emotion, memory, music, imagination and creativity.
The left hand is also considered the more personal hand; the hand that’s related to your private, inner self. So the left hand is associated with how you are in the privacy of your home, how you behave with your nearest and dearest, and how you are in the privacy of your own emotional and psychological mind. Some palmists take this idea further to say that the left hand represents your unconscious mind – the things that even you aren’t aware of but that are there.
The left hand is also associated with your in-born-potential – your natural tendencies and talents; whether or not you are using them right now in your life.
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Right hand meaning
The right hand is associated with the yang part of the yin yang – that is the masculine side.
Again, as a related side note, in the left-brained vs right brained scientific theory, the right hand is connected to the hemisphere of the brain that is linked to more masculine qualities like rational thinking, logic, language, science and business.
The right hand is also associated with your public face – the face you show when you’re at work, with strangers, with friends who you aren’t that close to – the face you show when you are facing the world.
Reading the right hand reveals information about the state of your conscious mind as well as how you are currently living your life right now (as opposed to your in-born potential which may or may not be visible in your life).
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A memory aid to help you remember which hand symbolizes what, is remembering that when we shake hands with a stranger, we always shake with the RIGHT hand. The right hand we said, is associated with our public face, so the right-handed handshake is effectively confirming that we are offering our public face at the first meeting.
It is only in more intimate situations that your left hand touches other people. The left hand comes into play in a hug, a massage or in other more private situations.
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Since the right hand is about the conscious mind; about the way we are living our lives right now; and is the face we show publically most frequently, the right hand is usually the one that is most informative about how a person is currently living their life in a conscious way. But you get the most complete view of a person by examining both hands.
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Does right or left handedness affect how you read the palm?
Some hand readers reverse the meaning of the hands if you’re left handed, but most hand readers maintain the standard left/ right meanings regardless of which is your dominant hand.
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References:
(1) R. Lown. 2014. Palmistry lectures at the College of Psychic Studies
(2) Clifford F. 2002. Palmistry 4 today (link to book on Amazon.com)
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