Reading the lines of your palm is like taking a look into a pool of water. Some things about your life are very clear and others are more blurry. One of the fascinating things about palmistry. The lines in your hands change as you mature, and a palm reading you had as a child or teen can be completely different from one you have later in life. Your experiences and decisions change your palm, just as they change our life.

Traditional palmistry, through inspection of the life line, attempts to answer the crystal ball question “How long will I live?” Trying to answer this question from the hand reading can be a “slippery slope” to travel indeed. However a helpful question might be “How can I learn how to care for my body uniquely by understanding the qualities in my life lines?” Your life line presents you with definite and important choices.

Your life line begins under your index finger, and winds around the heel of the hand, or the Venus mount.

Many people believe that having a short life line means a short life. However, if you care for yourself through a conscious caring lifestyle and nutrition you can live a very long and healthy life. Your life line corresponds to your health tendencies, and how well you can deal with illness, stress and other things that affect your well-being.

There are times when some or all the lines in your hands can become faint and harder to see from illness or long term stress.  When this happens, it is possible that your life force is facing a physical or emotional challenge.

Thickness, depth and strength of the line tend to indicate your health tendencies can be. For instance, a thick line can mean that you are very resilient and get sick very rarely and have an excellent immune system.

A thinner, shallower life line can mean that your body is less resilient, need more self care and abusing your body may have immediate consequences that take longer to heal.  You can become sick more easily, as your immune system is not as innately strong and you may be more affected by emotional and mental stress than a person with a thick deep life line. 

So the good news about a short or thin life line is not about a short life or illness. The length of your life line reveals how to care for yourself with more grace.

Remember, when it comes to the life line, it’s not about what you have, it’s about how you care physically and emotionally for the life line and life that you are blessed to have.