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Complete Idiot's Guide to Palmistry

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ISBN-10: 0028631137

ISBN-13: 9780028631134

Edition: 1999

Authors: Robin Gile

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Irreverent in their approach, these guides include tips and advice from leading authorities, aiming to help with life's big decisions and challenges, as well as hobbies and sports. This work offers advice on the ancient art of palmistry.
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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 5/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English

Your Future's in Your Hands
I Want to Hold Your Hand
Your Hand Is a Map That Moves
What Is Palmistry?
A Short History of the Hand
How Does It Work?
Why Does It Work?
You Can Learn to Read This Map
Oh, Say Can You See?
Observation Is All
You Light Up My Life
Staying in Focus
Using Your Intuition
The Five Questions Robin Is Asked the Most
What Your Hands Can Tell You--And What You Can't See
Every Hand Tells a Story
The Hand Is a Microcosm of the Self
Know Thyself
How Well Do You Know Yourself?: A Handy Quiz
We Are the Stories We Tell
How the Stories You Tell Reveal More Than You Realize
How Your Hand Tells Your Story
Why We Tell Stories--and How Stories Work
What Do Archetype and Myth Have to Do with Your Hand?
A Myth Is Not a Lie
An Archetype Is Not a New Kind of Bridge
Telling Stories: A Handy Exercise
Look, Ma--Two Hands!
The First Things to Look at When Reading Palms
It Takes Two Hands
Measuring Tools: Calipers and Rulers
Ch-ch-ch-changes: A Story
The Shapes of Hands
The Elementary Hand
The Practical Hand
The Spatulate Hand
The Conic Hand
The Philosophical Hand
The Psychic Hand
The Mixed Hand
Yes, But How Does It Feel?
Pressure, Pressure, Pressure
What Color Is Your Hand?
Cold Hands, Warm Heart?
What Your Skin Is Saying
Some Handy Anatomy
A Hand in Your Future: Keep a Journal
Let Your Fingers Do the Talking
Every Finger Tells a Story
What Your Palmist Knows at First Sight
Hold Out Your Hand
A Who's Who of the Fingers
A Closer Look at the Fingers
Phalanges: Strength in Sections
How Long Are Your Fingers?
Throwing Out Those Curves
Tiny Signs in Little Lines
Joints: How Smooth Is Your Thinking?
Distance to Cross
The Shapes of Your Fingertips
Square Tips: Everybody Needs the Farmer
Spatulate Tips: Hands On, Can Do
Conic Tips: The Pragmatic in All of Us
Mixed Tips: A Little Bit of This, a Little Bit of That
And Then There Are Nails
Nail Shapes
Are You a Biter or a Decorator?
How Many Reps Can Your Nails Do?
Finding Your Finger Profile: An Exercise
There's Nothing Like a Thumb
The Most Important Digit
The Volume and Length of the Thumb
The Tip of the Thumb
The Set of the Thumb
You Take the High Road, and I'll Take the Low Road
How Generous Are You?
How Stubborn Are You?
Bend Me, Shape Me
Phalange Is Not a Dirty Wood
The Shape of the Thumb
The First Phalange
The Second Phalange
The Third Phalanges: Does Love Make the World Go 'Round?
The Heart Chakra on Your Hand
Are You a Giver or a Taker?
Is the Love You Take Equal to the Love You Make?
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues: Some Thumb Stories
Which Thumb Are You?
Your Mercury Finger: How You Communicate
Take Care of Business, Healing, and Teaching
The Length of the Mercury Finger
The Set of the Mercury Finger
The Leanings of the Mercury Finger
The Angle of the Mercury Finger
A Look at the Mercury Phalanges
The First Phalange
The Second Phalange
The Third Phalange
Mercury Fingertips
Square Mercury
Spatulate Mercury
Conic Mercury
Pointed Mercury
Picture This: Some Mercury Stories
Which Mercury Are You?
Your Apollo Finger: Oh, You Beautiful You
Musicians, Actors...and Fortune-Tellers
The Length of the Apollo Finger
The Shape of the Apollo Finger
The Angle of the Apollo Finger
A Look at the Apollo Phalanges
The First Phalange
The Second Phalange
The Third Phalange
Apollo Fingertips
Square Apollo
Spatulate Apollo
Conic Apollo
Pointed Apollo
Beauty and the Beast: Some Apollo Stories
Which Apollo Are You?
Your Saturn Finger: Rules and Regulations
Property and Responsibility
The Length of the Saturn Finger
The Shape of the Saturn Finger
The Angle of the Saturn Finger
A Look at the Saturn Phalanges
The First Phalange
The Second Phalange
The Third Phalange
Saturn Fingertips
Square Saturn
Spatulate Saturn
Conic Saturn
Pointed Saturn
Mind Your Ps and Qs: Saturn Tales
Which Saturn Are You?
Your Jupiter Finger: Take Me to Your Leader
How You Are Seen in Your Own Mirror, Spiritually, Socially, and Politically
The Length of the Jupiter Finger
The Shape of the Jupiter Finger
The Angle of the Jupiter Finger
A Look at the Jupiter Phalanges
The First Phalange
The Second Phalange
The Third Phalange
Jupiter Fingertips
Square Jupiter
Spatulate Jupiter
Conic Jupiter
Pointed Jupiter
Pundits, Pulpits and Promises: Stories About Jupiter
Which Jupiter Are You?
I've Got a Line on Your
Lines, Lines, Everywhere a Line
It's as Plain as the Lines on Your Hand
Behind the Lines
Shapes Along the Way: Dots, Triads, Squares, Channels, Islands, Forks, Branches, and Bars
A Map of the Lines of the Hand
Heart, Head, and Life: The Three Biggies
The Heart Line: How Do You Feel About This?
The Head Line: Are You Ruled by the Mind?
The Life Line: What's in a Line?
The Simian Crease: 2 for 1
Rising Lines: Is Your Karma Weak or Strong?
Where Your Paths May Lead
Other Significant Lines
There's Always a Silver Lining
The Heart Line: How Do You Love?
Finding the Heart Line
Where It Begins
Where It Ends
The Length of the Heart
The Depth of the Heart
The Curve of the Heart
Going Up
Going Down
Heart Line Extremes
Lines from the Heart
Inclinations
Affectations
Bad Choices
You Gotta Have Heart: A Story
Mapping Your Heart Line
The Head Line: How Do You Think?
Finding the Head Line
Where It Begins
Where It Ends
The Length of the Head Line
Intensity of the Head Line
The Curve of the Head Line (or Lack Thereof)
The Imaginative Head Line
The Practical Head Line
Lines from the Head Line
The Inventor
The Refiner
Read Past the Headline: A Story
Mapping Your Head Line
The Life: How (and Where, and Why) Do You Do What You Do?
Finding the Life Line
How It Begins
Where It Ends?
The Length of the Life
The Depth of the Life Line
Quality Is Everything
It Takes Two Hands
The Curve of the Life Line
Does Your Life Line Hug Your Thumb?
A Widely Arcing Life Line
Some Life Lines Have Sisters
Telling Time on the Life Line
Lines from the Life Line
Travel, Journeys, and Relocations
Other Lines to Look At
Throw Out a Lifeline: A Story
Mapping Your Life Line
The Destiny Line: How Will You Do?
The Rising Line of Saturn: Is It Fate?
Where It Begins
Where It Ends
The Saturn Line Goes Off in Another Direction
What If You Don't Have a Destiny Line?
Who Controls Your Destiny?
Changing Destiny Lines
Broken Destiny Lines
Karma and Free Will
We Seldom Know When God Is Good to Us
We Are Empowered Than We Ever Care to Notice
War Stories
Mapping Your Rising Line of Saturn
Other Lines: Supporting Roles
The Rising Line to Mercury
The Role of the Mercury Line
What If You Don't Have a Mercury Line?
The Mercury Line and Multilingualism
The Rising Line to Apollo
The Role of the Apollo Line
What If You Don't Have an Apollo Line?
A Star on the Apollo Line
The Rising Line to Jupiter
A Few Other Lines to Look For
The Camera's Eye: A Knack for the Visual
The Girdle of Venus (Patron of the Arts) and the Via Lascivia (the World According to Freud)
Mark of the Teacher: Showing Others the Way
Which Line Is Which?
Looking for Lines in All the Right Places
Ain't No Mount High Enough
The Geometry of the Palm: Squares, Islands, Triangles, and Other Shapes
All About Dermatoglyphics
Your Karma in Your Fingertips
What's in Those Whorls?
Geometric Designs
Squares Give You Strength and Enclose Energy
Ovals and Lozenges
Lucky Triangles
Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
More Than Mere Doodles
Star Light, Star Bright
Crosses of Fortune
Tridents: Forks in the Road?
Grids and Grilles: Take Warning
What the Hindus Say: A Brief Glimpse
Your Own Graphic Analysis
The Mounts of the Fingers
Mounts of the Self
Locating the Mounts of the Fingers
Which Way Do They Go?
The Mount of Jupiter
Are You Manifesting Your Leadership?
Marks on the Mount of Jupiter
The Mount of Saturn
The Karmic law Enforcer
Marks on the Mount of Saturn
The Mount of Apollo
The Golden Youth
Marks on the Mount of Apollo
The Mount of Mercury
The Great Communicator--Are You Listening?
The Medical Stigmata
Lines of Love and Children
Marks on the Mount of Mercury
Take a Look at the Mounts of Your Fingers
The Mounts of the Palm, Part 1
Mounts of Information
Locating the Mounts of the Palm
Which Way Do They Go?
The Mount of Venus
The Ways of Love
Marks on the Venus Mount
Active Mars
Anger in the Palm of Your Hand
Marks on Active Mars
Passive Mars
Resistance Is Futile
Marks on Passive Mars
The Plain of Mars
Vengeance Is Thine
Marks on the Plain of Mars
Some Mounts of Your Own
The Mounts of the Palm, Part 2
The Lunar Mount
Your Mother/Your Psyche
Health on the Mount of the Moon
The Three Realms of the Moon
Is There Insanity in the Hand?
Marks on the Mount of the Moon
The Mount of Uranus
The Idealistic Inventor
Marks on Uranus
The Mount of Neptune
The Engineer of Dreams
Marks on the Mount of Neptune
The Mount of Pluto
Saints and Sinners
Why Won't My Pluto Stay Put?
Marks on the Mount of Pluto
More Mounts of Your own
Looking for Love, Money, and Happiness
What Do You Want Your Palm to Answer?
Is the Future in Your Hands?
The Urge to Know the Future
Examining Your Motives: A Quiz
Reading Between the Lines: Gestalt and Potential
The Story of You
Possibilities in the Patterns
How Your Hands Can Change
Strength of Commitment
Near Misses
Some Samples for Study
Ask Your Palm a Question
Where to Look When You're Looking for Love
Finding the Love in Your Hand
Thumb Wrestling
Looking Beneath the Sun: Where Your Search Begins and Ends
Adding Together the Heart and Head Lines
Venus Is the Goddess of Love
Has Your Heart Got a Curve?
Is Venus Wearing a Girdle?
Little Lines of People
Relationships and Marriage
A Line Does Not Your Child Make
Comparing Your Hands with Your Lover's
Assessing the Compatibility of Hands
Assessing the Compatibility of Heads and Hearts
How Do Your Phalanges Size Up?
Pair Bonding: Sociology in the Hand
Can Your Hand Tell You When You'll Get Married?
Ask Your Palm About Love
There's Money All Over Your Hands
Your Money--and Other Peoples' Money
The Shape of the Hand
Putting Your Fingers on Money
Cross Your Palm with Silver
The Triangle of Earnings
Winning the Lottery
Tough Times
Assessing Your Potential
Is Your Heart in It?
Is Your Head in It?
Being Healthy Never Hurts
The Role of the Planets
Value Your Venus
Marshal Your Mars
Support Your Saturn
Joy from Your Jupiter
Making Your Mercury Work for You
The Sun Is a Question
It's Better to Be Consistent Than Lucky
Ask Your Palm About Money
The Pursuit of Happiness
What Is Happiness?: A Zen Koan
Taking a Good, Hard Look at Yourself: A Quiz
Comfort, Contentment, and the Zone of No Challenge
Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Obtaining Your Heart's Desire
Home and Hearth
Building a Comfortable Nest
A Place to Retreat
Drop By Any Time
Job Security
Security Is an Illusion; Adaptability Is Survival
There Are People Who Love Their Jobs
Finding Your Job Potential in Your Hand
The People in Your Life
Ruts and Circles: Finding and Breaking Patterns
Friends, Lovers, Brothers, Others
Lord, I Was Born a Ramblin' Man
Islands, Boats, and Journeys
Wanderlust as Disease
Ask Your Palm About Happiness
The Bigger Picture
Learning to See the Gestalt: The Whole Picture
How to Look at the Whole Hand
Being Systematic
Handy by Design
Encouraging Dialogue
What's Dominant?
Determining Dominance
It's Better to Be Lucky Than Good
The Hand as Life Path and True Destination
Risk Takers and Security Seekers
Dependence and Independence
Encouraging Potential
The Gestalt of Your Hands
Turning Self-Sabotage into Self-Fulfillment
Who's Hurting Whom?
Standing in Your Own Way
Karmic Signposts
Where to Look for Signs of Self-Sabotage
Signs Along the Head Line
It's a Mad, Mad Mount of the Moon
Criminal Behavior
Sex Is Not So Simple
Is It Sex or Is It Love?
Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
Psychometry and the Hand-Holding Palmist
Nobody Owns This Life But You
Signs of Self-Sabotage in Your Own Hand
The Future of the World Is in All of Our Hands
We Move Toward a Story of Our Own Making
The Difference Between Our World and Theirs
The Future of a Generation Is in Its Hands
The Baby Boomers
The Next Generation
A Lack of Catechism (We Are Responsible)
Little Disasters
Second Comings and Other Myths
From Leonardo to You
A Hand in the Future
Separating the Wheat From the Chaff
Being True to Yourself, Your Heart, and Your Passion
Appendices
Some Good Palmistry Books to Check Out
Palmistry Online
Glossary
Index