The handprint shown here is of a good friend, Leah Tioxon. Witch hands exude multiple markings of intuition, healing gifts, and a spiritual life purpose. More recently, I’ve coined the term witch hands after reading the hands of many magic-practicing friends whose hands broke the mold of what I would have expected to see knowing their personalities. I’ve validated the meaning of this mark in many palm readings since. I interpreted this forked line as a marker of an opening to the spirit world, and now call it the mark of a medium. One day I read the palms of two mediums and noticed both of their hands held a forked line in this area, resembling the letter y laying on its side. Typically, a hand will have two or three lines living in this location, signifying a handful of spirit guides-angels, people who have passed, fairies, or whatever your interpretation of Spirit. For example, lines on the outside of the hand in the few centimeters directly underneath the pointer finger represent spirit guides. Over time I noticed patterns I hadn’t read about in my palmistry books. Atlanta has a wonderful and close-knit metaphysical community, so I regularly read the hands of mediums, psychics, astrologists, and witches. I’ve been reading palms for two years out of a vintage camper, at festivals, shops, and pop-up markets in my hometown of Atlanta and around the United States. That’s the inspiration for my book Handful of Stars Guidebook and Hand-Printing Kit, to make the process of printing and reading your own palm accessible and easy. I recommend making a print of your dominant hand, the hand that you write with, in order to clearly explore its design. It’s a visual art, learned through practice and play. Palms also describe one’s innate archetypes and record formative life events. Hands can tell us about the level of emotional sensitivity of a person, if a person is rational or open-minded, a realist or a spiritualist. Modern palmistry instead looks to the marks and characteristics of hands to gather information about an individual’s personality and life path. It’s a common misconception, that palmistry is about telling fortunes by interpreting the lines on the palm.

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