Where's Your Head(line) At?

Knowing how your mind works can be an important tool for success. Whether you are a completely disorganized dreamer or a compulsively organized logic jedi there are clues in your hands that will help you find balance.

Locating Your Head Line:

·                     Relax your left hand on a flat surface.

·                     Between your thumb and pointer finger, your Headline starts and moves out into the center of your palm

·                     Now locate your Headline on your right hand (it's a mirror image)*

*Your left hand indicates the tools you were born with and the right hand is what you have made of them (doesn't matter if you are right handed, left handed, or ambidextrous). The left hand will reflect how a person feels inside, while the right hand shows how we appear to the rest of the world. Sometimes the lines are exact mirror images of each other, sometimes opposing hands will tell very different stories depending on how a person has risen to meet life's challenges. The lines will be in the same place even though they can take very different shapes.

General Aspects:

While your hand is relaxed, note the depth or shallowness of the Headline as compared to the other lines in your hand. How prominent the line is will give you an idea of whether there is balance between your head and other parts of yourself.

Are you a deep thinker? The line will be deep.

Is it easy for you to accept things without pondering why all the time? Then your line will not be significantly deep.

Is your Headline deeper at the beginning or end? This is a reflection of the thought process shows a pattern of profound contemplation coupled with acceptance. Some people think deep thoughts at the beginning of an idea, others wait until the end of the process.

At The Root of Your Thinking

Look closely at the beginning of your Headline (near side of palm between thumb and pointer finger).

Does your thumb seem to push up against the base of your Headline? The more so, the more hard headed you are.

If your thumb pulls back away from the line, you might be a push over.

Your Headline may appear to be attached to your Lifeline (which arches back toward your thumb in a semi-circle) and could look like it emerges as a branch of your Lifeline.

If it is attached, you have a distinct recollection of your childhood years. This is more rare than I ever imagined and the attachment diminishes with age.

If it is seperate, you are more disconnected from these memories depending on the space between. Lines connecting your Lifeline to the root of your Headline indicate distinct memories that are conscious.

Some people say that the space between the root of your Headline and your Lifeline indicates how lucky a person is (more space, more luck). I think there are much stronger indications of luck elsewhere in the hand.

How long is your Headline?

The further the line travels across your palm, the longer you keep things rolling around in your head. Uber-long lines extending all the way across indicate you think about everything waaaaaay too long. Quite often there will be a very long left hand Headline, but the person has learned to make real world conclusions more quickly resulting in a shorter right hand Headline. You can be sure this person thinks about things long after other people think they are done.

If the line stops just past your middle finger, the world revolves around you to the point of not always being practical. (See Paris Hilton pic to the right) While there are careers that demand quick, self-preserving, no questions asked decisions to be made (trapeze artist comes to mind) you would be better off thinking more of others.

Headlines that stop abruptly under the ring finger indicate an obsession with your career.

Most Headlines wander across the palm to some point under the pinky. This indicates a healthy balance considering the self, the career, others, and a spiritual peace in a person's though process.

The Shape of Your Thoughts

The straighter your Headline is as it moves across your palm, the more linear and logical your thought process is. Words to describe this type of brain would include: pragmatic, logical, down to earth. My favorite mechanic has a solid straight line across both his hands. There is no need for imagination getting in the way when fixing an engine. Good thing he has such a strong and happy Heartline to balance out his extremely practical Headline ;)

A line that curves more toward the heel of the palm signifies an imaginary dreamer. Hopefully that curve is supported by some straightforward logic at the root of the Headline resulting in a pragmatic-visionary. Active community leaders, teachers, and successful artists tend to have this blending of logic and vision.

When the curve is dramatic it can indicate the dark side of being a dreamer. There is the potential for a complete lack of practical thought (like planning a budget) and the possibility of paranoia or delusions if left untended. This is a person who would benefit from finding a way to be more organized so they don't get lost in daydreaming their lives away.

Head Traumas and Healing

Most Headlines have at least a few stray lines, an X or two, and other signs of "head" events. Here are a few things you might notice:

·                     Xs: indicate a trauma, either physical of emotional. If the X has formed a square, the trauma is healed.

·                     Lines branching toward the Heartline: indicates your head reaching out to understand your Heart's desires.

·                     Blue skin tone under the line: temporary grief or pain from a trauma. This will pass with time.

·                     Squares: surrounding the line indicate a safety net that has been put in place to keep your head straight.