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Palm reading

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Palm reading or chiromancy is when a fortune teller tells you your future by looking at lines on your palm. Those who practice chiromancy are generally called palmists, hand readers.


Palm Reading Media

  • A fortune-teller conducting a palm reading, with lines and mounts marked out on the person's left palm

  • Gold stamped front cover of The Psychonomy of the Hand

  • The Fortune Teller, by Caravaggio (1594–95; canvas; Louvre), depicting a palm reading

  • The Fortune Teller, by Enrique Simonet (1899; canvas; Museo de Málaga), depicting a palm reading

  • The infant Jesus having his fortune told whilst sitting on the lap of the Madonna by Josefa de Óbidos (1667)

  • A modern palm-reader's shop in Yangon, Myanmar

  • Some of the lines of the hand in palmistry:
    1. Life line
    2. Head line
    3. Heart line
    4. Girdle of Venus
    5. Sun line
    6. Mercury line
    7. Fate line

  • The mounts in palmistry: Jupiter, Saturn, Apollo, Mercury, Mars positive, Mars negative, plain of Mars, Luna mount, Neptune mount, Venus mount

  • A Japanese palm-reader waits along the street for a customer, 2015

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