Simple Palm Reading
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About this reading: Palmistry reads fortune and personality from the shape and depth of the lines on your palm, and it has a long history of independent development in ancient India, China, Greece, and beyond. Lines like the Life, Head, Heart, and Fate lines are each said to carry their own meaning, read from clues such as length, curve depth, and whether they branch.
Palmistry is known as a reading that changes, because the lines on your palm aren't fixed at birth — they're said to shift subtly with daily habits and changes in your state of mind. When the same person's palm looks different from a reading taken years earlier, that's said to reflect how they've been living since. As we see it here, palmistry works less as a prediction of the future and more as a mirror for your current state, one worth checking back on from time to time.
Lore column: Where Did the Idea That a Short Life Line Means an Early Death Come From?
A short read on the legends and strange tales around this reading, with this site's own view.
Of all palmistry's folk beliefs, the one that has unsettled people most is probably the claim that someone with a short life line will not live long. Linking palm lines to lifespan is an old idea: the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle is said to have written in his History of Animals that long-lived people have one or two lines running right across the palm, while the short-lived have lines that do not extend so far.
In the twentieth century, the belief was even put to scientific test. A 1974 study found no link between lifespan and life line length, but a 1990 report claiming a significant correlation among 100 cadavers drew attention. Later, researchers in Australia compared hand length, life line length and age at death in 60 cadavers and, in results published in 2019, found no correlation.
That a belief voiced for more than two thousand years has been tested again and again on the dissecting table shows how firmly it has gripped people's minds.
As we see it here, the life-line belief grew from a wish to know, somewhere on one's own body, when an unpredictable death might come. This is our own conjecture, but in times when medicine offered little, looking into one's own palm may have been one of the few ways to face an unseen lifespan. There is no need to fear a short life line, but the wish to live that lies beneath that fear may be the very reason palm reading has been loved for so long.
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In-depth article:We have an in-depth article covering this reading's origins, how to interpret it, and our own analysis.
What Is Palmistry? Why the Lines of the Palm Have Been Believed to Reflect Fate and CharacterSimple Palm Reading
No photo upload needed. Look at your own palm and, for each of the seven lines — Life, Head, Heart, Fate, Sun, Money, and Marriage — pick whichever description comes closest (just the ones you can tell are fine). You can also tick any of 18 special lines and marks you find, such as the Masukake Line or the Buddha's Eye. Try the Simple Face Reading too, and you'll also see a "Palm × Face" comparison of the two.
Life Line (the line curving around the base of your thumb)
Head Line (running from between your thumb and index finger, across your palm toward your pinky side)
Heart Line (above your Head Line, running from beneath your pinky toward your index finger side)
Fate Line (running vertically up your palm from near your wrist toward your middle finger)
Sun Line (the vertical line running up toward your ring finger)
Money Line (also called the Mercury Line — the vertical line running up toward your pinky)
Marriage Line (the horizontal line or lines between the base of your pinky and your Heart Line)
Special lines and marks (optional): tick any you can find on your palm — it's fine to have none
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