An Introduction to Hand Reading
The Hand-Mind Connection
PART ONE
The Basic Modifiers
The Attributes That Make Each Hand Unique
1 Texture, Flexibility, Consistency, Coloring, and Size of the
Hand
Texture of the Skin: Fine, Coarse, and Medium • Flexibility of the
Hand: Stiff, Flexible, Extremely Flexible, and Straight •
Consistency of the Palm: Flabby, Soft, Elastic, and Hard • Color in
the Hands and Lines • Hair on the Hands • Nails: Color, Texture,
and Shape and Size • The Three Worlds of Palmistry: Mental,
Practical, and Physical
2 The Fingers
Carriage • Setting • Structure: Bent, Twisted, and Leaning • Finger
Lengths: Long, Short, and Standard • Smooth and Knotty • Three
Worlds in the Phalanges of the Fingers • Fingertip Shapes:
Spatulate, Square, Conic, and Pointed • Sensitivity Pads
3 The Thumb
The Three Parts of the Thumb • Size and Setting: High, Medium, and
Low • How to Measure the Size of the Thumb • Carriage • Shapes:
Elementary, Nervous, Broad, and Balanced • The First and Second
Phalanges • Supple and Stiff Thumbs • Checklist for Reading the
Thumb
PART TWO
The Mounts
The Seven Archetypes of the Palm
4 How to Judge the Mounts
Physical Characteristics of the Seven Mounts • Designating Mount
Prominence • Other Factors Influencing the Prominence of the
Mount
5 The Mount of Jupiter
Archetypal Associations • How to Judge the Mount •
Personality Traits • Lifestyle • Love, Sex, and Marriage • The
Lower Type of Jupiterian • Physical Characteristics • Health •
Career Choices • Signs on the Mount • Absence of the Mount •
Jupiter and the Basic Modifiers
6 The Mount of Saturn
Archetypal Associations • How to Judge the Mount • Personality
Traits • Lifestyle • Love, Sex, and Marriage • The Lower Type of
Saturnian • Physical Characteristics • Health • Career Choices •
Signs on the
Mount • Absence of the Mount • Saturn and the Basic Modifiers
7 The Mount of Apollo
Archetypal Associations • How to Judge the Mount • Personality
Traits • Lifestyle • Love, Sex, and Marriage • The Lower Type of
Apollonian • Physical Characteristics • Health • Career Choices •
Signs on the Mount • Absence of the Mount • Apollo and the Basic
Modifiers
8 The Mount of Mercury
Archetypal Associations • How to Judge the Mount • Personality
Traits • Lifestyle • Love, Sex, and Marriage • The Lower Type of
Mercurian • Physical Characteristics • Health • Career Choices •
Signs on the Mount • Absence of the Mount • Mercury and the Basic
Modifiers
9 The Mount of Mars
Archetypal Associations • How to Judge the Mount • Personality
Traits • Lifestyle • Love, Sex, and Marriage • The Lower Type of
Martian • Physical Characteristics • Health • Career Choices •
Signs on the Mount • Mars and the Basic Modifiers
10 The Mount of Luna
Archetypal Associations • How to Judge the Mount • Personality
Traits • Lifestyle • Love, Sex, and Marriage • The Lower Type of
Lunarian • Physical Characteristics • Health • Career Choices •
Signs on the Mount • Absence of the Mount • Luna and the Basic
Modifiers
11 The Mount of Venus
Archetypal Associations • How to Judge the Mount • Personality
Traits • Lifestyle • Love, Sex, and Marriage • The Lower Type of
Venusian • Physical Characteristics • Health • Career Choices •
Signs on the Mount • Absence of the Mount • Venus and the Basic
Modifiers
12 Mount Combinations
PART THREE
The Lines
The Road Map of the Hand
13 General Principles of the Lines
How to Judge the Lines • The Checklist • Signs on the Lines:
Defects, Repairs, and Strengthening Agents • Age on the Lines
14 The Heart Line
Quality • Curved or Straight • Color • Proportion to Other Major
Lines • Beginning of the Line • Influence of a Forked Line •
Defects • Repair Signs and Strengthening Agents • Heart Line and
Head Line • Length of the Line • The Quadrangle • Branches and
Splits • The Simian Line
15 The Head Line
Quality • Curved or Straight • Color • Proportion to Other Major
Lines • Beginning of the Line • Defects • Repair Signs and
Strengthening Agents • Length of the Line • Influence of a Forked
Head Line • Deflections, Splits, and Branches
16 The Life Line
Beginning of the Line • Factors that Help Determine Life Span • The
Line of Preservation • Quality • Color • Proportion to Other Major
Lines • Chance Lines • Defects • Breaks • Splits • Repair Signs and
Strengthening Agents • Termination of the Line
17 The Line of Saturn
Age on the Line • Quality • Absent Line of Saturn • Proportion to
Other Major Lines • Color • Beginning of the Line • Childhood on
the Line of Saturn • Line of Saturn as a Sign on the Mount •
Defects • Repair Signs and Strengthening Agents • Length • Multiple
Lines • Partnership • Inheritance • Use of Chance Lines • Branches
and Splits
18 The Line of Apollo
Quality • Age on the Line • Color •Beginning of the Line • Defects
• Repair Signs and Strengthening Agents • Special Strengthening
Agents • Termination of the Line and Signs on the Mount • Branches
• Apollo and Risk Taking
19 The Line of Mercury
Health on the Line of Mercury • Age on the Line • Beginning of the
Line • Quality • Health Defects of the Archetypes • Color • Defects
• Repair Signs and Strengthening Agents • Termination of the Line
and Signs on the Mount • Branches
20 The Lines of Influence
Read Both Hands • Timing on the Line of Influence • Worry Lines •
Chance Lines • Influence Lines at Different Stages of Life •
Special Formations on Influence Lines • End of the Line • Maturity,
Friends, and the Public
21 The Minor Lines
Girdle of Venus • Ring of Solomon • Mystic Cross • Line of Mars •
ia Lascivia • Ring of Saturn • Line of Intuition • Lines of
Affection • Children Lines • The Rascettes, or Bracelets • Lines of
Travel
Conclusion. Reading a Palm
Putting It All Together
Appendix A. The Hand Classified by the Four Elements
Fire, Water, Air, and Earth
Appendix B. Fingerprints
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Authors
The Authors’ Stories • The Hands of the Authors and How They Work
Together
Ellen Goldberg, primary author, is a psychotherapist and an internationally renowned teacher of Tarot and Palmistry. She is the founder and director of the School of Oracles and has been on the faculty of the New York Open Center since 1986. This book is based on her 40 years of teaching Palmistry and the Western Mystery tradition. Dorian Bergen, assistant author, is the co-owner of ACA Galleries in New York City. A student and practitioner of palmistry for more than 25 years, Dorian is a long time student of metaphysics and has a special interest in documenting how children’s hands change over time. Both authors live in New York City.
"In this comprehensive guide to hand reading, based on Ellen
Goldberg’s 40 years of teaching palmistry and the Western Mystery
tradition, the authors make the powerful insights of the hand
accessible in an inviting and user-friendly manner. The book
presents the character traits and personality archetypes associated
with each of the seven mounts of the palm and shows how to
determine which are most influential in the nature of the
individual"
*The Edge, March 2016*
"Anyone interested in palmistry will be hard-pressed to find a book
more thorough than this one. Classical planetary correspondences
are melded with crisply defined pictures of hands, hands and more
hands. From broad general interpretations to the most minute
details, mounds, lines, spacing, phalanges and much more are
illustrated clearly, with Goldberg and Bergen helping the reader
combine all the myriad parts into a clear and cohesive reading.
Well-written and well-designed, this book is a simply beautiful
bible of palmistry. Highly recommended."
*The Witches’ Almanac, March 2016*
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