6. THE MARKINGS ON THE PALMS
掌中特殊符号
The markings on the palms are prone to change over relatively short periods, when there has been an alteration in lifestyle or circumstances (sometimes influenced by a palm reading that puts life in perspective).
These markings are especially positively influenced by pendulum healing and in using your palm stone or pressing your hands together to balance energies.
Using a magnifying glass is the best way to examine the markings.
On the whole, there are more markings on the Active hand, but those on the Hand of Potential can represent unresolved past life matters, potential weaknesses, or indeed untapped strengths in this lifetime that can be modified or activated once recognized.
For example, the already-mentioned fork at the end of the Head line, the Writer’s fork, the mark of the writer and communicator, can appear on the hand of Potential as a dream yet to be awakened.
So too on the Active hand, the same signs may appear along the length of the line, in past, present, and future.
Maybe a parent has always interfered with or discouraged you and is still doing so whenever you have wanted to make a major change or resolve a sticking point, and the markings will disappear over time.
Though I describe each of the markings separately, they will always have the most significance in relation to the lines, mounts, or areas of the palm they cross or cover.
Despite some gloomy old-fashioned palmistry books, death, disaster, or serious illness are never predicted in the hand, though markings may suggest that you should take more care of yourself.
UNDERSTANDING THE MARKINGS
Markings can be both positive and negative and indicate a blockage, interruption, or sometimes additional source of power on a line or mount.
Markings are best initially felt with the hand or pendulum to see if they are dead energy, a tangle, or a build-up of power.
You can then talk about their significance and offer a bit of pendulum healing if appropriate.
Look at other strengths in the hands that can offer positive resources to get things moving and turn challenge to opportunity.
Chains
CHAINS, JOINED CIRCLES: Obstacles you are facing/have faced (especially as past-life conflict on the non-Active hand).
• HEART LINE CHAINS: If in the past on the Active hand, earlier setbacks in love that you have not fully resolved; if ongoing, current relationship concerns that need dealing with.
• A DEEP CHAIN COVERING THE PRESENT AREA OF THE HEART LINE: Overemotional/possessive connections or even co-dependency.
• ANY HEAVILY CHAINED LINES: Energy draining away, a lifestyle change, reduction of stress, a healthier diet, or gentle exercise may help.
• HEAD LINE WITH CHAINS: Many alternative directions and distractions from life path, having too many projects going at once, completing none satisfactorily.
Islands
Islands, ovals that may be single or recurring, indicate unfavorable interruptions in life.
If ahead, see how forward planning can avert.
But sometimes an island indicates the need for leisure, self-time, or reprioritizing.
• ON LIFE LINE: Daily stress or depression.
• ON FATE LINE: Money worries that may have built up over a period.
• ON HEART LINE IF REGULAR: Unresolved emotional issues from childhood (see if they start near the beginning), creating trust or commitment issues in later relationships.
• AN ISLAND OR MORE ON JUPITER: A previous setback in ambitions that should not deter future efforts, consider alternative strengths such as a powerful finger of Jupiter or thumb that may offer new resources.
• A SINGLE ISLAND ON THE MOUNT OF VENUS: Temptation to have an affair, an indication of discontentment in an existing relationship.
• BRAIDED ISLANDS: Looking like embroidery—building up of family tensions, maybe over years—worth spending time talking about, maybe healing.
Worry Lines
• NUMEROUS FINE LINES MAINLY, FROM BASE OF THUMB TOWARD LIFE LINE, EVEN CROSSING IT BUT CAN BE FOUND ON OTHER PARTS OF PALM: If on Potential hand, indicates a natural worrier, needing more relaxation, meditation to avoid burnout by worrying about what may never happen.
Squares
Squares on the Life line are positive, mitigating any less-than-positive signs they are near.
Especially lucky after a triangle, a square amplifies the strengths and good fortune of its mount or line, a virility/fertility symbol especially on the mounts of Venus and Luna/the Moon.
• AROUND THE MOON MOUNT OR THE INTUITION LINE: The close presence of your Guardian angel or Spirit Guide; if in the future, finding the right mentor or guru or becoming one yourself.
• ON OR AROUND THE JUPITER MOUNT: A gifted conventional teacher or facilitator of workshops or courses on personal interest/alternative therapies.
Crosses
Despite their name, crosses can have positive meanings, heralding major changes where results, even if initially disruptive, open new opportunities.
Less positively (feel the energies), crosses signify outside influences that can be causing stress, someone or something railroading you into a decision.
If a cross feels heavy, talk about what is causing doubts.
Maybe it’s not what you want deep down, even to keep the peace.
• ON THE JUPITER MOUNT: Readiness for new experiences, especially if there is a restrictive grille marking nearby.
• THE MYSTIC CROSS, AN UPRIGHT CROSS BETWEEN THE HEAD AND HEART LINES: Gifts in the psychic arts/therapies and, if wished, a career in them.
Grilles
Grilles tend to be found on mounts rather than lines, representing the need for freedom in an area of your life where you often hit a brick wall.
Identifying and overcoming a grille releases energy and frees you from an old attitude or pattern or a person who deters you from traveling or trying new things.
Grilles are very responsive to pendulum healing.
• IF GRILLES APPEAR ALL OVER THE PALM: Take a step back and see who or what is causing an energy leak or annoyance.
Dots or Spots
Dots appear in a row anywhere on the palm and are filled in, different from chains or islands.
Especially if worry lines are present, they represent worries about health or fears about job loss or relationship failure.
They do not predict disasters, but ask what grounds there are for the fears: whether, for example, fear of infidelity comes from past letdowns or whether there is behavior around you that gives rise to valid fears.
Whatever the fear, a health check if you have symptoms you are ignoring, a discussion with personnel at work instead of listening to rumors, or an honest talk with a partner generally causes the dots to disappear.
Stars
Stars on the palm indicate success and good fortune in the area/mount/line where they appear, enhancing the strengths represented by the lines or mounts.
The only drawback is if people have it too easy and don’t push themselves or settle for second best.
• STARTING AFTER A STAR: Great accomplishments, but a long road.
• ENDING A LINE: Total success, often involving travel, even fame.
• ON THE MOUNT OF THE MOON: A sign of celebrity and media success.
• ON THE MOUNT OF JUPITER OR SATURN: High profile, achievements in public office.
Tassels
• TASSELS OR FRAYED LINES: Temporary confusion, or an impasse linked to the relevant line or mount. They can disappear rapidly once the confusion is cleared; step back if the chaos is coming from someone else.
Triangles
Lucky, heralding success in the area of the palm or on the lines where they are found, especially in multitasking and when more than one opportunity presents itself.
• ON THE MOUNTS OF SATURN OR THE MOON: Psychic and healing powers that may lead to a media career if chosen.
• ON THE SUN/APOLLO OR MERCURY MOUNTS: A razor-sharp mind, promising financial, scientific, or business success and recognition, even internationally.
• A SMALL TRIANGLE RIGHT IN THE CENTER OF THE PALM: The ability to earn money through your own abilities.
• A CLOSED MONEY TRIANGLE: Money will be easily conserved.
• An open money triangle: You may spend a lot but can earn well too.
• A second triangle inside the first: Investing the money in property or shares will bring long-term dividends.
Great Triangle
A more permanent marking created by the conjunction of the Life, Head, and Fate or Health lines, a sign of lifetime success.
• IF WIDE: Breadth of vision and lateral thinking.
• IF NARROWLY ANGLED: Conventional thinking and traditional beliefs.
Tridents
• A TRIDENT ANYWHERE ON THE PALM: A luck-bringer for health, wealth, and happiness, generally enhancing the qualities of lines and the hands.
• A TRIDENT POINTING DOWN: Don’t let opportunity drain away or take good luck for granted.
READING THE PALM BY ADDING THE MARKINGS
Once you have learned the significance of the markings, run your pendulum or your Active hand (or your Inactive hand if studying your own Active hand) a few centimeters above each of the lines and mounts to feel the intensity and positivity of the markings.
Impressions, images, and words will come spontaneously into your mind.
Complete your own hand prints and those of the person with whom you are working closely by adding the markings to the diagrams you have already started.
Note how the markings amplify or negate the energies of the related mounts and lines.
Since you have added to each hand using the information in each chapter, you can make comparisons of how potential and actual relate.
With all readings involving markings, be doubly sure to date the readings, since three months further on, some will have disappeared or changed.
Modify the energies of the mount/line or whole area.
One example would be those fine red lines you noted on the plain of Mars that signified anger.
If so, run your fingers or pendulum over the whole Mars area.
Are the energies generally overharsh? Check the inactive Mars area on the hand of Potential to see if the potential for anger is an innate family trait or caused by circumstances, such as bad experiences or unfair treatment and so present only on the Active hand.
Conversely, is the potential for anger on the Potential/Inactive hand, but being suppressed on the Active Hand, when you might expect chains or grilles (thus bad for health)?
More positively, is it being channeled into activity and achievement through a nearby square or triangle?
Equally, if there are markings on any of the mounts of the Potential hand, are they present on the Active hand, or have they been supplanted by life’s experiences or waiting for the right time to emerge, especially if lucky?
Healing or Modifying Markings
You can use the hand-pressing method in Chapter 3, the palm stone or the pendulum to transfer energy from the Inactive to the Active hand, or draw off excesses and strengthen weaknesses.
As I suggested in Chapter 4, you can use a pendulum, counterclockwise, to untangle; diagonally, to smooth energies if overactive; and clockwise, to energize, specifically on markings as well as the rest of the palm if any feel negative or blocked.
Hold the pendulum a few centimeters (an inch or two) above each troublesome marking and allow it to move in its own way for as long as necessary.
You can easily teach clients to do this.
Also, use rose or lavender oil to gently massage the markings, as well as any problematic lines or mounts.
Since the palms are powerfully linked to your overall energy field, especially through the Heart energy center, you can intervene positively to harmonize the whole-body energies.
You will feel the relief in your system and new solutions suggesting themselves.
Though you may primarily work with the Active hand, massaging the Potential Inactive hand can help to release unused potential.
Creating an Expanded Profile
Until you become totally automatic at profiling, let’s monitor just the Active hand, though of course you can, as mentioned above, make comparisons with the Inactive hand if you want to check something, such as when a marking first appeared or if an underdeveloped mount has always been that way.
Sketch in any branches or breaks.
Again, use your magnifying glass, even with a printout of a digital camera image.
Talk spontaneously, entering into dialogue with the subject as you go.
Print a new Active blank hand (reduced in size) and set it at the top of the profile so you can draw in the relevant features as well as write.
Now add the extra lines and markings listed on The Profile Sheet, both to the diagram at the top and to the expanded written headings.
Once more, create your own shorthand to indicate hollow mounts or unusual activity, etc.
If a listed line is absent, note this and what you see as the significance.
THE PROFILE SHEET:
This can be written or printed (leave plenty of space between categories for comments).
Name:
Age:
Any special questions/issues that the reading could answer:
The Lines:
• Heart line
• Head line
• Life line
• Fate or Destiny line
• Sun or Apollo line
• Health line, sometimes called the Hepatica or Mercury line
• Intuition line (optional)
• The line of Mars
• The line of Money
• Travel lines
• Ring or Girdle of Venus
• Ring of Solomon
• Via Lascivia
• Relationship/Marriage and Children lines if relevant
• Any significant interactions formed by these lines
The Mounts
• Mount of Jupiter
• Mount of Saturn
• Mount of Apollo
• Mount of Mercury
• Mounts and plain of Mars
• Mount of Luna or the Moon
• Mount of Venus
Rascettes (Bracelet lines on the inner wrist immediately below the palm):
• Bracelet 1: Health, closest to the palm
• Bracelet 2: Prosperity
• Bracelets 3 and 4: Authority and status
• Any significant interaction between individual lines and mounts:
• Fingers and Thumb
• Thumb
• Jupiter, first/index finger
• Saturn second finger
• Apollo/third/ring finger
• Mercury, little finger
• Any significant interaction between individual Thumb, Fingers, and mounts to which they relate
Markings (sketch these individually as well as on the handprint and add comments):
Summary of strengths and weaknesses of the whole hand:
Suggested action/improvements/changes in lifestyle related to the whole hand, to answer questions posed by the subject (remedies based on discussion with subject):
In the final chapter, we will put everything together.