THE HAND THE MIRROR OF THE SOUL

Preface and Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. The Fundamental Principles of Hand Reading

3. Some Comments about the Spirit of Chirology and being a Chirologist

Part One: At First Glance: Observing the Hand

4. The Basic Features of the Hand

5. Right Hand, Left Hand

6. Types of Hand Structure

Part Two: A Deeper Look

7. The Lines: Energy Currents of Consciousness What are the Meanings of the Lines on our Hands?

Can the Lines Change?

What is a "Good Line?

8. The Major Lines: Three Basic Levels of Human Existence

The Life Line: Vitality and Energy

The Head Line: Mental Functioning The Heart Line: Emotional Needs and Their Expression

9. The Minor Lines: Balancing Markers

The Mars Line: A Support for the Life Line The Ring of Venus: Reinforcing the Heart Line -

The Destiny Line: Adaptability and Stability

 

FOREWORD

It was thirty five years ago when I was first introduced to chirology. I turned to Jungian analysis when I was a young woman and mother and a fledgling psychologist. The analyst I was with requested I get a "hand test, suggesting a choice between two chirologists. Since I was curious, I made an appointment with both. Thus, within three months I was exposed to a new world of assessment.

The similarity between the two "readings" amazed me, and filled me with questions about the methods of psychological assessment that I had learned, and about the issues that revealed themselves from the lines on my hands, mirroring my inner world. After this initial experience. I ceased using the expression: "I know it like the palm of my hand." The perception of my hands-seemingly so familiar had changed

Years later, when my friend Talma Brill honored me with the request to read her book and write its foreword, I became aware, in retrospect, about how chirology had shifted my inner myth about the essence of man, about what is known to us and what is hidden from us about the conscious and the unconscious levels of the psyche, about the fixed and the changing and about psychic dynamics and development in general.

The "hand test," and the Jungian analysis that followed it, opened for me a professional and personal path which emphasized the importance of inner dialogue, as well as interpersonal dialogue. This orientation encourages a connection between opposites;