Do old palmistry books still hold up for modern hands?

✋ Palmistry · CCosmicComet451 · 3 weeks

I inherited a palmistry book from the 70s and it talks a lot about 'simian lines' and 'girdles of Venus' like they're rare, but I feel like I see those all the time now. Were hands really that different back then, or is it just that I'm finally paying attention?

2 comments

SStellarComet624 · 3 weeks

Honestly, the bone structure and major line patterns haven’t changed in a few thousand years, so the old books still map fine — the real shift is in how stress and screen time show up in the finer lines.

LLunarWolf811 · 3 weeks

Honestly, the old books still work because the core shapes and lines haven’t changed — what’s outdated is some of the doom-and-gloom interpretations, not the hand reading itself.