Love in the Palm of Your Hands...

in #naturalmedicine5 years ago

Having a little fun with the Natural Medicine "Love It Up" contest looking at Love in Palmistry.
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There's something so real about holding hands, some kind of complex simplicity, saying so much by doing so little. I love it. - unknown author

As kids we use to play around with palmistry seeing if we would get married and have kids, live a long life and such.

Back in the 1800s it was considered a science and as cited from the "Handbook of Modern Palmistry" published 1888

" Man's past history and future destiny are written
upon the palm of his hand." Is this proposition to be accepted with implicit faith ?
We assert that it may, and we add that its truth is established by the following considerations:

  1. By the history of the science called Palmistry (a name derived from the Latin palma, the hand).
  2. By physical and physiological discoveries of modern times, especially those relating to the influence of
    the heavenly bodies upon terrestrial creation and still more those which reveal the wonderful effects produced by the action of electricity and magnetism.
  3. Finally, the truth of the axiom with which we began is demonstrated by the constantly repeated observation and experience of thousands of incredulous persons.
    Let us briefly examine each of these points before proceeding to furnish the reader with the means of making investigations and discoveries for himself, the accuracy and certainty of which will fill him with genuine astonishment.

Source is the public domain book "Handbook of Modern Palmistry" downloadable from Google Books.

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They described those using palmistry to be like doctors diagnosing, knowing the symptoms that they would read the signs in the hands to see if they were there.

With their discussion on symptoms and the signs revealing if they were there - in their words:

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There was a section on LOVE I've included it here for your perusal...

Love How It Shows on the Palm from "Handbook of Modern Palmistry" 1888

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Are you ready to read your palms? Want to predict your love life?
Check this out:

Images: Top image from Pixabay and the rest were taken from the public domain book "Handbook of Modern Palmistry"

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Do you do this? Maybe we can take photos of our palms and send to you? I'd be happy to pay you $TEEM or SBD.... Do you know if it matters which hand?

My TCM doctor looks at palms, as well as face, eyes, etc... it was part of TCM, but not something we're taught nowadays.

No, sorry I don't do this, just a simple curiosity but I picked up a public domain book that you can download free off Google Books called "Hand-book of Modern Palmistry"
By V. Metz (de) 1888 with some good info in it.
Here's a link from my search https://books.google.ca/books?id=adg8AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Hand-book+of+Modern+Palmistry+By+V.+Metz+(de)&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi41rvyg7LgAhVkilQKHcRIBJ4Q6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=Hand-book%20of%20Modern%20Palmistry%20By%20V.%20Metz%20(de)&f=false

I just ran into a new Steemian who has in her profile hand reading you might want to check her out - https://steemit.com/@tarahgreen

As for which hand to read you should look at both but it's your dominant hand that is given the most importance to.

Here's some good info concerning that from the Indian Palmistry Institute

The passive hand tells the past habits and incidents of life. These past habits and behaviors were the results of his environmental and genetic influences (from parents). The active hand tells about the present and future. The active hand tells the present behavior of the person and what changes this person has brought into his life. So it can be easily understood that if a person has different lines in both of his hands, then he has brought many changes into his life. If he has better lines and signs in his active hand, then he is making positive changes. However, if his passive hand has better lines then it clearly means that he had better potential and had good chances, but he could not make use of them.

Cool. Thanks.

Palmistry is fascinating, thanks for sharing this. When I was a kid a gypsy read my palm. I remember the predictions were good ones but not the specifics. Regardless of the validity of this particular palm reading, it has been nice to have good omens of the future to carry along with me.

Yes that's so true that they give you those good omens to carry with you. I remember looking at my two different palms and see what i would become was much stronger and that gave me an added confidence and belief in myself moving forward. In other cultures it is more valued.
My husband tell tales of being in India and sitting on the bus and the person beside him would ask "Where exactly are you from" (being he was a westerner) then he would grab his palm and begin reading it. Very different.

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Fun read! Brought back memories of reading palms at summer camp. :) Thanks for sharing!

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