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Any system of Hermetic divination, from the Nordic Runes, Kabbalah and I Ching, to Palmistry, Astrology and Tarot, is a self-contained cosmology of meaning that embraces the dualistic nature of the universe. This universe of symbols will gather the yin and yang of time and space, night and day, male and female, and balance these oppositions of energy against a quadrant of primary elements. An array of major and minor symbolic elements are added in a hierarchy which itself carries great meaning.

The symbolism and cosmology of all the Hermetic arts can be found within the discipline of Palmistry. The quadrant of the four elements can be found on the open palm with male and female elements on either side of the palms, as well as in the opposition of the left and right hands. Astrological glyphs will sometimes appear at significant locations on the palm as well as lines similar to those seen in the Runes, the Hebrew Alphabet or I Ching.

"The Tarot is a perfect symbolic picture of the cosmos as seen through the eyes of man," writes Godfrey Dowson and Stuart R. Kaplan. Dowson, creator of the Hermetic Tarot deck (US Games Systems), combines Astrological and Elemental symbolism and the Sefiroth–– “tree of life” of Kabbalah––with traditional elements of Tarot.

A simple, vertical seven card spread of Godfrey's Hermetic Tarot selected and laid out in conformity to the seven chakras in the palm of the hand yields an encyclopedic complexity of meaning. The cards should be selected from first to seventh starting with the base chakra. The seven chakras in the hand, from the (bright red) base chakra located just under the heel of the palm to the crown (purple) chakra at the tips of the fingers also introduce a world of meaning from Hinduism and the Vedas.

The point of this exercise is to overlay different symbolic systems onto the "three worlds" of the hand, the three levels of the physical, emotional and spiritual worlds we all carry within us and reflected quite plainly in the structure of the hand. The "Tree of Life" itself might be quite fruitfully overlayed on the palm of the hand and yield great insight. The individual markings on the hand, and mounts of the hand, relative to the individual nodes of the Tree and their respective meanings can bespeak volumes about the querent.

As beautiful and complex as all these Hermetic systems are, an intuitive reader could also make do with just a handful of stones or sticks, leaves or rice, and interpret the relative positions of these objects by the "throw" of the querent and gain great insight. Of all systems of Hermetic divination, however, the hands are most directly connected to the outer and inner life of the querent and most illustrative of that life.

As a student of Palmistry, I frequently purchase Palm readings. In particular, I wish to examine how "scientific" the Palm reader might be in their methods and I will always point to an individual line in my hand and ask them about its meaning. It usually becomes apparent that the reader is operating intuitively and has not read William Benham's book on The Laws of Scientific Hand Reading.

Intuition is necessary and will carry a reader very far. But in this realm the uses and intentions of the individual Palm reader may most vary from the sacred to the venal. Always, the reader should practice with humility in the face of the daunting complexity of the art itself.

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