Find your palm lines.

Start with three visible creases

Open one hand comfortably, with the palm facing you and the fingers naturally apart. Use soft, even light. Begin by finding the main creases rather than looking for a prediction. The diagram is a simplified map: real lines branch, overlap and vary in position.

Palmistry gives these creases symbolic names. PalmRead uses the heart, head and life lines alongside hand proportions to choose predefined passages for entertainment and reflection. A line does not establish your future, health or personality as a scientific fact.

Heart line: beneath the fingers

Look for an upper crease running across the palm below the fingers. Follow its visible path without including every small finger-base fold. In palmistry this is commonly called the heart line.

PalmRead’s symbolic themes concern connection, affection and personal space. Notice whether the path looks shorter or longer and straighter or more curved, but avoid ranking one shape as a better capacity to love. A photograph can make neighbouring marks look joined.

• Explore the heart line

Head line: across the middle

Below the heart line, find a major crease crossing the central palm. It may travel fairly straight or slope towards the outer edge. Its starting point can lie close to the life line; look at the route across the hand rather than the starting point alone.

The head-line passages in this reader offer themes about attention, practical thinking and imagination. They do not measure intelligence or ability. Treat the theme as a question you can answer from your own experience.

• Explore the head line

Life line: around the thumb

Find the arc that curves from the area between thumb and index finger around the thumb-side palm. It may end high, continue towards the wrist or sit beside another crease. The word life is a traditional label, not a countdown.

Do not turn a short line or a gap into a claim about lifespan or illness. The life-line guide compares short, interrupted and parallel arrangements and explains what the existing reader actually measures.

• Compare life-line variations

Try a three-line reading

Here is an invented example. You notice a gently curved upper line, a fairly straight central line and a broad thumb-side arc. Describe those observations first. Then choose one optional theme for each: connection, a practical plan and room for a new experience.

Bring the themes into a question: “Who could I make time for, and what small plan would help?” Write an action such as arranging a conversation this week. At review, record whether you did it. The useful evidence is your action and experience, not a prediction from the drawing.

If a line is unclear, leave it unclear. You do not need to label every mark to use a reflective prompt. A tracing, an illustration and an automatically accepted image are different things.

Choose a hand and a clear photo

Palmistry conventions differ about left and right hands. Begin with one well-lit, fully framed hand and keep your notes about it consistent. PalmRead can normalize either thumb orientation; it does not identify your dominant hand or compare two palms as a pair.

The free reader measures a photo locally using classical image processing, then matches supported features to a predefined library. It does not use AI or recognize every named palmistry sign.

• Left, right or dominant hand?
• Get the photo ready