Are hands mirrors of the soul?
Hands and brain are interconnected.
Aren’t two hands alike?
There have not been any in the entire history of the human species.
Like fingerprints.
The hand is a unipersonal sign. It is not a symbol like the tarot or the horoscope.
He says it with a certain disdain.
I disbelieve tarot readers and astrologers: everything in their comments is pure imagination.
And isn’t it in palmistry?
Job, 17:7: “God sealed the hands of every man so that all other men would know him.” The fact is that Moses chose his judges by the lines of his hands.
I did not know that.
This is how Rashi, sublime exegete of the Torah, glosses it. The Caesars will later do the same: choose their lieutenants by their own hands.
A selection of personnel.
Many companies today, in order to hire candidates with similar resumes, ask me to analyze their hands.
Since when do we read palms?
There are already hands in the cave paintings.
Have there been hands represented in all the cultures of the world?
In China, in India, in Mesoamerica… That’s how it has been. But in the European Middle Ages… the palmist was burned at the stake.
That’s how we were… We no longer burn, today.
Since the 18th century, a handful of palmistry treatises have appeared in Europe: by the Count of Alpini, Richard Hamond (Cheiro), Charlote Wolff…
And reading the palm of your hands is now popular culture…
Oscar Wilde tells in The Crime of Lord Arthur Saville how a palmist dies in the River Thames… pushed by a certain consultant to whom he predicted: “You will not be happy until you kill someone.”
Is it divination, palmistry?
No.
What is it?
It is an art on a scientific basis.
What does science say about it?
In 1945, a person suffered trauma to the left occipital lobe… and his hand lines were erased.
Forever?
As he recovered brain function, the lines on his hand reappeared.
Any more neurological evidence?
A Korean scientist discovered in 1988 that the entire body is reflected in the hands: all the reflexotherapy points of our body are in our palms.
What do the lines on the hands tell?
The deep emotional state, your strengths and your shortcomings, what we could improve: hands help us see ourselves.
Do you read the lines of your own hands?
Never. It would not be objective, I would be inclined to make biased interpretations.
Is it true that you can see the children you will have in some folds?
No. And today less than ever.
Because it says?
For the dogs.
What are dogs?
Dogs loved like children. In my hand I see those affections, pets or children, whether biological or adopted or from your partner.
Where on the hand do you see it?
On the mountain of Mercury and its first phalanx, that of the little finger.
And can the longevity be seen?
It is not seen in the line of life, but in the whole, in your archetype. You have three ages: sidereal, physical and energetic.
Do you see my physical age in my hands?
His physical age is about 40 years old.
Excellent. And do you see money?
The perception of money is subjective, it is different for each person…
But he will see something objective in the hands of First Division footballers.
Its lines are very elemental. I worked for Barça, during Sandro Rosell’s time, and I contributed something to the team, which was a winner.
Do you scrutinize the right palm, the left palm, or both?
The right reflects the left lobe, and vice versa. In your left palm I see the powers with which you were born, and in the right what you are doing with all that.
And what about left-handed people?
It’s just the opposite.
Have you analyzed famous hands?
Many, both in person and in photos, like the palms of the king emeritus: the lines are blurred, it happens to people who are dissatisfied with their own life.
Are the lines of the hands changeable, therefore?
Of course, and they reflect our successive life crises.
Which hands did you like the most?
Those of Usain Bolt, with colossal vital energy and will. And those of Picasso, in photo… How many lines, what complexity!
