Which hand to read
Traditions differ. Many readers look at both: the hand you do not write with for what you were born with, and the one you use for what you have made of it. Others always read the left. We ask for your left palm so every reading starts from the same place.
The heart line
The highest of the major lines. It starts at the edge of the palm under the little finger and runs across toward the index or middle finger. Readers take it as a picture of your emotional life: how you love, how you show it, and how you handle closeness.
- Ending under the index finger is often read as warmth with high standards; ending under the middle finger as a more self-directed heart.
- A line that curves up is usually read as open and expressive, a straighter line as more reserved.
- Breaks and branches are taken as changes of heart, not as warnings.
The head line
Just below the heart line, starting between the thumb and the index finger and running across the palm. It is read for the way you think and decide.
- A straight head line is usually read as practical and logical; one that slopes down toward the wrist as imaginative.
- A long line suggests someone who weighs things at length, a shorter one someone who decides quickly.
- When it begins joined to the life line, readers often see caution in early life; a gap between them, independence.
The life line
It curves around the fleshy base of the thumb, from between the thumb and index finger toward the wrist. Despite its name, palm readers do not read it as the length of your life. It is read for vitality and for the big turns in it: moves, new starts, changes of direction.
- A wide arc out into the palm is read as energy and appetite for life; a line that hugs the thumb as a quieter, more guarded energy.
- A short or faint life line says nothing about how long you will live.
The fate line
It runs up the middle of the palm from the wrist toward the middle finger. Not everyone has one, and that is common. Readers take it as your sense of direction in work and life, and how much outside events have shaped it.
- A deep, clear fate line is often read as a strong sense of purpose; a faint or missing one as a path you make up as you go.
- Where it starts matters to readers: from the life line, a path shaped by family; from the outer palm, one shaped by other people.
Other lines and the mounts
Beyond the four, readers look at smaller lines: the sun line under the ring finger (often read as recognition and creativity) and the short relationship lines on the outer edge under the little finger. They also read the mounts, the soft pads of the palm, each named for a planet: Venus at the base of the thumb, Jupiter under the index finger, Saturn under the middle, Apollo under the ring, Mercury under the little finger, and the Moon on the outer palm near the wrist.
How to photograph your palm
- Use daylight or a bright room. Avoid a flash, which flattens the lines.
- Open your hand flat, fingers together, palm facing the camera.
- Hold the phone straight above your hand, close enough that the palm fills the frame.
- Check the photo: you should see the lines clearly when you zoom in.
When you send us a photo, we read it once to find your lines, then delete it. It is never stored or shared. You can also skip it and be read from your birth date alone.
A reading is a mirror, not a forecast
Palm reading is a tradition of interpretation, not a science. Read it for reflection: what it says about you is worth thinking about, and none of it is fixed.