“In my house there are many mansions” and there are mansions in the hand too. We have mansions of the emotions, the intellect, career path, diet and health, but perhaps the most intriguing to lay people has always been that aspect of karma that deals with who we really are and how we got here, and to where will we go when our allotted span is done. These 7 mounts or planetary rulers are often a direct match if used with overlays of the horoscope.

Any house is only as good as its foundations, and in the illustration we see the two lower hand mounts Venus which governs our loves, life energies, and primary drives, and the Moon which governs our ancestral memories, intuition, primal instincts, and all body fluids. These form the base to our foundations of personality, and should be even in size, depth, color and height.

The door to this house covers the area known to palmists as the “mount of Neptune”.

This is the door to the hand because with any reading you must start at the beginning of the fate line at this doorstep to see why the person has come into incarnation, and to look along the destined path. Interestingly this same door that governs our entry into this life, will also govern our exit. For just as we are born into this life we die to the world we knew before, and as we die to this one we are born into the next.

The Bracelet lines, which cross the wrist hand boundary will give further detail. They should be clear even and unbroken. Tibetan palmistry teaches that these lines have important future health messages.

This destiny line was called in biblical times “the measuring line” as it was used against the life line to assess a mans life span. Physicians would look for this when administering to the sick, and they would judge who to help and who not by an examination of these two lines.

We next need to look into the top window by the thumb in the mount of Mars sector.

To assess the start of the line of life to confirm the reasons for entry into the world, and to examine the time spent in the womb. The curve of the life-line is representative of the curve of the fetus in the womb and color variations in the line reflects potential discomfort areas. Everything that affects the mother during this period will affect the baby so a lot of detail shows here.

The apex of the roof shows its central point between the two middle fingers. If we trace a line down from this to the door at the palmer base, we can separate the hand into palmistry’s two halves, the thumb side covers the conscious or outward side and the heel of the hand to the Mercury finger covers the inward unconscious side.

Carl Jung based his unique theories on introversion and extroversion around these factors, and with the building blocks of houses, or personalities will need balance in all areas. The cement is always harmony, both inner and outer as covered by the windows. Carl Jung’s “thinking, feeling, sensation and intuition” are these windows we use to see inside the individual. The roof relates to the highest in ourselves, the spiritual and emotional drives. The lines and fingers particularly the tips will give the finer detail.

The fingers themselves will give pointers in the 12 phalanges to the life’s loves.

In medieval palmistry these were related to the apostles, one of whom was assigned from each astrological sign. The four elements: Air, Earth, Fire and Water, are shown by the four palmer windows.

During my time working with alternative health clinics in Britain, and writing summaries for traumatized or abused children, the drawing of a house can be very revealing in the healing of any damage to their emotional or intellectual landscapes. Particularly in the terminally ill it can show great diagnostic power in their drawings. At one point in an ordinary classroom environment, I asked the new class to draw their houses for me, and in one case I blurted out “whoever drew this see me after class” and my classroom assistant burst into tears and revealed a hurt from long ago. It was released later that day.

The palm centre or ”plain of mars” shows the battle field for life struggle during the middle years of life; mid thirties, to early fifties when we are consolidating our material positions in society, work and family. The material mansion perhaps blindfolds us to what is of real value in our lives. Each finger governs bodily organs and is given a planetary ruler.

One of the rules of palmistry is that single signs must never be accepted on their own, They are often unreliable, for just as if you examined a load of wood, slate and bricks, you would get no idea of what the finished house would look, or feel like, when it was all put together.

The golden rule in palmistry is: Always look for confirmation and corroboration, the skill lies in the analysis of all the building blocks that go into the making of a stable and well rounded personality. Bear in mind the responsibility you have in what you say, healing must always be your goal so always using gentle diplomacy and tact.

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