Dominant hand
The dominant hand, in palmistry, is the one a person uses to write and act: it is also called the active hand. Tradition reads it as the present in motion, what each person does with their resources, while the passive hand (the non-dominant one) would keep the trace of the starting temperament. Comparing the two palms shows the gap between what was inherited and the path actually taken.
Active and passive
Tradition tells your two hands apart: the passive one, the hand you do not write with, would hold the imprint of your starting temperament, what you were given; the active one, your dominant hand, would show what you make of it, your choices, your habits, your present in motion. Palm readers always read both, and it is the gap between them that interests them.
Comparing your two palms
Lay both hands open side by side and look: the lines are rarely identical. A longer head line on your active hand, a fuller mount, a line that has changed: tradition reads in this the work of time and of your decisions. It is a fine, very concrete way to measure your own path.
Sources
- , The Laws of Scientific Hand Reading (1900)
- , Cheiro’s Language of the Hand (1894)