What Hands Can Tell You About
Travel and Adventure

Are there really lines that speak of travel and adventure in your hands? There are, but to understand what they really mean, we need to turn back the clock and take a look at what ancient practices were really trying to tell us.

Hand Analysis is one of the oldest forms of divination on the planet and understanding its roots gives us greater insights into its modern evolution. The lines that speak of travel and adventure are a primary example of this. There are two main lines in this category and we will discuss one here today.

The Life Line (the major line that starts between the thumb and the forefinger and curves down around the thumb in the direction of the base of the palm) does not speak of how long you are going to live. It speaks of family and grounding and security—first charka issues—but it also is a clue to the gusto with which you live your life. A Life Line that hugs closely to the thumb suggests a holding back, perhaps a tentativeness about life, or even a vehement keeping of one’s self from adventuring out.

Conversely, a Life Line that curves out widely and allows for generous space between it and the thumb says this person probably has a healthy sense of adventure. Then, a line (as shown highlighted in yellow on the pictured hand) that extends farther out still from the average Life Line path, speaks of a fairly radically adventurous individual. Someone, perhaps, who would be willing to give up a successful graphic arts business in Northern California to go raise Labrador Retrievers in the mountains of Colorado or a Midwestern housewife that was willing to leave her husband and six children, sight unseen, for an acting career in New York City.

This line, in ancient times, was named “Death in a Foreign Land.” Romantic, huh? What the name means, is that this individual is extremely drawn to travel and adventure. They need to experience other cultures. They are going to be prone, at least once in their life, to making radical changes in lifestyle.

Why the ominous title? Well, when the name of this line was coined, travel was an arduous task. To uproot and visit another country took months, perhaps even years, of physical, mental, and emotional strife. The person that was willing to risk making this trip in the first place, was not likely going to venture back again under those same circumstances, even if they wanted to. Hence, they would spend the remainder of their life (and die) in this foreign land.

Many of the ancient names for other areas of the hand have similarly distressing titles, like the condition of experiencing a redness in the palm along the outer percussion on the pinkie finger side. This is called “Death by Drowning,” but has nothing to do with actual drowning or even death! That, however, is a story for another article. Maybe in my next newsletter…Stay tuned!

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