Nirmala Devi's hand reading

The hands of Nirmala Devi, popularly known as Mataji (1923 –2011) show a personality with intelligence, pragmatism, aggression and boldness, and these qualities are developed to a high degree. Generally speaking, people with these qualities are successful in life. However, if I had not known that these were Mataji’s hands I would not have been able to pinpoint the field in which her success lay. Her hands do not show any great talent in

Varun Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi - a comparison

As far as the hands go, neither Varun Gandhi nor Rahul Gandhi's hands show the kind of leadership ability that the Gandhi family is famous for. However, Varun has some qualities that could make him a better politician than his cousin Rahul. Not many details can be seen from web photos but one can get a sense of what Varun is like.

The major features of Varun’s hands are

Richard Stallman's psychological make-up

People hold extreme views for a variety of reasons and palmistry can reveal why they think that way. People are often suspicious of radicals, especially of their motives. Are these people genuine or simply trying to attract attention or manipulating the public in some manner? Are they kooks of some kind? The hands can unmask a person's character quite well.

The dominant aspects of Richard Stallman's hands are the well-developed mounts of Moon and Venus, although Moon appears to be stronger. These developed mounts overshadow other mounts considerably, and this can create a lack of balance. The Saturn (middle) finger is a

Pratibha Patil's hand reading

One wonders whether the public's disappointment with Pratibha Patil is more because she succeeds the eminent scientist Abdul J Kalam, or whether the Indian public is right in thinking her wanting in character? What do Patil's hands reveal about her real self?

Patil's hands show some good personality traits. Her hand reveals analytical ability which will enable her to perform the tasks she undertakes quite well. Small things will not escape her notice. This type of ability is useful for academic work. However, at the same time, it must be mentioned that her hand shows

Rihanna's hand reading

Palmistry can tell us a lot about a person's character, and Rihanna's hand reveals that she is a smart, capable woman, driven strongly by worldly ambitions. However, she is of an idealistic disposition as well, and this makes her a little complex and contrary.

The main features of Rihanna’s hand are her long head and heart lines. The headline is straightish, although it is a little wavy as well. The heartline ends in between her first two fingers. In addition, there is a wide gap between her head and heart lines as also between her life and head lines. The lifeline sweeps across the Venus mount and is broken. Her headline too seems to have tiny breaks, giving it that wavy appearance. She also has a Mercury line, and also the Girdle of Venus. Her fingers are long and tapering and the Mercury (pinky) finger is low-set. The other fingers are of normal length. The thumb is also long and tapering and held close to the hand. The mounts of Venus and Jupiter are the most well-developed mounts. The mount of Moon also seems developed, being more high than wide.

An image of Rihanna's hand is here. To read hands, I usually check out scores of photos but give links to only a few.

Rihanna is idealistic, maybe a little too much and thus will not like to compromise even when something is in her own interest. It is not as if she expects too much from people or puts people on a pedestal, it’s just that she has certain principles that she swears by, particularly in relation to her work.

When it comes to talent, Rihanna’s hand shows above-average talent. Her greatest asset is her bold and confident personality which is well suited to the stage and to the entertainment industry. Her hand also shows charisma and sex appeal, a rare quality any star would consider an asset. By itself, this quality would enable her to hog the limelight.

Rihanna has some inner demons that are likely to trouble her. Her intense emotional sensitiveness, secretiveness, idealism, are not that great a combination for peace of mind although she has a stable and sensible approach to things mostly. 

Her hands show her to be a compassionate human being, and people-oriented, but she is not that easy to approach. She could be a little difficult to live with. Her hypersensitiveness and moody nature along with her cynicism would be hard to handle. Being critical and dissatisfied is another quality that would make it difficult to understand her. There is a tendency of jealousy towards those more talented than her, one of the several reasons for her dissatisfaction.

Her hand shows periods of intense stress in the childhood and teens and also later. Every time she bounces back. 

After the first break, the headline continues strong, showing a good recovery. She is likely to have several crises in her life but our future is not fixed and Rihanna can take some basic precautions.

She has to be careful while taking decisions as some of them might be sudden and rash. She may not listen to advice. Besides,  emotions play a big part in her decision-making. There is also a certain naivety in her personality that exacerbates the situation. She needs to set the over-confidence aside, keep her emotions under control, keep a cool head, and not make any decisions unless they are well thought out. In this way, she can avoid any impending crisis.

But does the future really change? That is what a reader who firmly believes in fate asked me. My answer is that yes, a hundred per cent of the time! We are the master of our own fates. However, if we continue with faulty driving, we will not avoid accidents. The worst thing is to say it is "written" in my hand or birth chart and therefore it will happen. If someone tells you that if you don't drive carefully you will have an accident, you don't say oh no, I'm going to continue to drive rashly because whether I have an accident or not has nothing to do with my driving, it's written is my Destiny! 

We are lucky that our hands show us the pot-holes along the way if only we pay attention to them.

(Robyn Rihanna Fenty is a popular 23-year-old singer from North America. She is originally from Barbados).

You can find out the personalities of other music stars like Maddona, Jennifer Hudson and Beyoncé Knowles or you might also like to read about Britney Spears or Justin Beiber or  Lady Gaga or Miley Cyrus, Michael Jackson and many more!

Or just check out the label "Music Stars" to find out more about the characters of singers and musicians from America and from the rest of the world as well!

Jennifer Hudson's hand reading

Jennifer Hudson’s broken headline has been interpreted as being caused due to the shock of a personal tragedy (the murders of her mother, brother and nephew) and perhaps it is so. However, as her headline does not break at the precise time when the tragedy took place (age 27), the answer is a bit more complicated than that.

I would interpret Jennifer’s headlines as two headlines, rather than a single

Akshay Kumar's hand reading

At times there is nothing spectacular shown on the hand but the hand does show a balanced, sensible person with plenty of energy and a reasonable amount of talent. This is so in Akshay Kumar’s case. His hand may not show an extraordinary intellect or remarkable talent but his broad and wide palm, well-shaped fingers and slightly large hand shows his

About Cheiro's hand

William John Warner, known as Cheiro, made palmistry well known but there are those who feel that his books do not explain exactly how he arrived at conclusions and it is something of a mystery as to how he made such accurate predictions. I tend to agree with this and believe that it is unlikely that Cheiro himself knew how he did it. His extraordinary ability probably came from strong intuition, bordering on sixth sense.

His hand corroborates this. It shows

Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan's hand reading

Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan* was a towering personality and this is all too evident from his hand, which is in fact, awe-inspiring. The long, deep, headline plunging into the Moon mount is often found on the hands of intellectuals and well-known authors and poets. A headline like that can show a high level of intelligence, imagination and brilliance in the character (as in the case of Dr Radhakrishnan) as long as it is a balanced one. But one has to read this sign with caution. In palmistry, the quality and strength of the headline as well as its overall balance

Sarah Palin's hand reading

Sarah Palin's hands show her to possess useful politician qualities, although nothing spectacular. Certainly, her hand tells us that she is an active, energetic personality, fully engaged in life. Someone who has the organisational ability, is action-oriented, efficient, quick, and concerned with getting jobs done. 

The main features of her hand are her slightly short fingers with a low-set mercury finger, and a supple and waisted thumb. The fingers are bent except for the Apollo (ring) finger. The Venus mount on her hand is average and the palm is broad and pink. The fingers are neither too long nor too short and are of normal length. 

She has a strong heartline, an even, medium length slightly sloping headline, and the Jupiter mount is the most developed on her hand and the Jupiter (index) finger is a little high-set. Overall, the mounts on her hand are not too developed, although the Moon mount is developed to some extent.

Palin may not be an intellectual, but she is sharp and practical,

Rani Mukerji's hand reading

Rani Mukerjee’s hands are not like that of a typical film star. Her hands show a personality with a love of order, punctuality, security, and also a sensible and practical attitude toward most things. It is because of this down-to-earth attitude that she is able to keep her ego in the backseat. It's not as if she doesn’t have an ego, because she does. It's just that she is too practical to let it interfere with her work.

The main features of her hand are her broad, large palm, short fingers with knots and squarish tips, and developed mounts, particularly Jupiter, although the Moon mount is developed as well. What makes these features significant is that these signs are fairly pronounced. Her lines are dark and the headline is long and slightly sloping. The heartline is also long and curves up into the Jupiter mount. The thumb is long as well, with a long first phalange. The phalanges of her fingers are more or less normal, although the third phalanges are a little thick. The Mercury (little) finger is long.

These hand features tell us that Rani has plenty of common

Salva Kiir Mayardit's hand reading

A good statesman needs to have the qualities of compassion, a strong sense of justice, leadership abilities, integrity, and of course good administrative ability and vision. Do Salva Kiir Mayardit's (President of South Sudan) hands show these personality characteristics?

The significant features of Kiir's hands are the longish shape of the hand, deeply etched lines, a few conic fingers or normal length, a very wide mount of Venus, a high-set and sloping headline, large supple thumb and a comparatively clean hand, with not too many lines crisscrossing each other. Either that or the finer lines are not visible on the hand.

No doubt that Salva Kiir’s hand is that of

Nelson Mandela's hand reading

When one sees the hand of a legendary figure like Nelson Mandela, one expects his hand to be a certain way, a hand which corroborates his known personality. Knowing his character to be that of a humanitarian, and of a great leader, someone who stood steadfast during his years of incarceration by the apartheid government of South Africa, one expects a large thumb, a broad hand, and deep lines. These signs are present, but I found something more, some of which were a little surprising.

Nelson Mandela was born with a good intellect and equally good concentration abilities although his heart was always a little

Bipasha Basu's hand reading

Bipasha Basu, a Bollywood actress, is known for her strong personality, but is she a diva as some say? Strength of personality is a composite of different personality traits, and at times not everything about a strong person is considered pleasant. Let us see what Bipasha's hands tell us when we delve a little deep into her persona through palmistry.

Bipasha has a broad palm, almost squarish, with medium-length, flexible fingers and they are quite conic, particularly the finger of Jupiter (index finger). The Saturn (middle) finger is strong and the first phalanges are slim, though not particularly long. The third phalanges are slightly thick and long and the second phalanges are average. The lines on her palm are dark and the headline is straightish, starting on the Jupiter mount, with a gap between it and the lifeline. The mounts of Jupiter, Moon, Upper Mars and Venus are developed. She has a fairly deep fateline (line of Saturn). The thumb is long and conic tipped.

Her hand shows a broad-minded, sensible and ambitious personality. There is some intensity about her, as she is focused, with a striving attitude to life from a young age. She has willpower as well as self-control and her hand shows common sense and a very stable mind. Her hand also shows immense mental

Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley

Lisa Marie Presley's personality was quite a complex one as was her relationship with Michael Jackson, to whom she was briefly married. She had talked about her split with him on the Oprah Winfrey show (originally aired in October 2010). Lisa claimed that Michael pushed her away, built a wall of sycophants around himself and she had no place in his life. She also that he was a very manipulative person. This is likely to be true as it can be seen in his hands. But at the same time, Michael Jackson was very vulnerable, very sensitive, and a lost soul. 

It seems strange this Lisa Marie did not see this. She was married to him and was supposed to know him better than anyone else. I could not help but think that the whole picture was not

The secret of Oprah's success as shown by her hands

The striking aspect of Oprah Winfrey's hand are her deeply etched and clear lines which are in balance with the shape and texture of her hand. This balance is critical when it comes to overall personality balance. 

The major features of her hand (which reveal Oprah's personality characteristics) besides her strong lines, are her evenly set fingers of normal length (relative to each other) except for her Mercury(pinky) finger and thumb, both of which are long, although the Mercury finger is a little low-set. These hand features are also critical to analysing a person's character if one is using palmistry. Often, they play a significant role in an individual's eventual success.

Oprah's palm lines tell us of an extraordinarily

Yousaf Raza Gillani hand reading

I had assumed Yousaf Raza Gillani was a weak Prime Minister (of Pakistan) but his hands do not show a weak personality. The broad shape of his palm, slim fingers, the longish thumb with balanced phalanges, and the good headline show the ability to reason and good judgment. What can also be seen from his hand is a strong determination, the ability to see issues from different perspectives, broad thinking, organisational capability and importantly, a desire to help his people and to put them before himself - all this is shown on his hand.

In addition, the position of his fingers and their shape shows him to be

Why Arnold Schwarzenegger is unfaithful

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tiger Woods are both very successful (married) men who betrayed their wives not just for one woman but for a string of them. Oddly enough, their personalities couldn’t be more different. The one thing they share is a high sex drive.

Tiger Woods's hands show him to be a better specimen of humanity as his hands show more refinement, more heart, more balance of personality, and more control. However, Woods's hands also show a naturally deceptive nature and also a high level of impressionability. When these traits are combined with a high sex drive it often results in an inability to stick to one partner although Woods is likely to repent and repent sincerely.

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s hands show his character to be very different. Arnold has a very

What Anil Ambani's hands tell us

Anil Ambani is one of the most well-known businessmen in India and is from a famous business family. He used to be one of the most successful businessmen in India, widely believed to be a cunning one. His hand does show a personality with business ability, but something obviously went wrong. 

Prince William is not like his father Prince Charles

A cursory glance at Prince William’s hand tells us that his personality resembles his father’s, rather than his mother’s. The major features of William’s hand (which he shares with Prince Charles) are the large, broad palm with the developed mounts of Moon and Jupiter and to some extent, Mercury and Lower Mars to a lesser extent. This means that like his father, Prince William is a good human being, fairly unselfish and broadminded, and also healthy, active and mildly aggressive. There is restlessness in their personalities and a penchant for travel.

However, Prince William’s hand is only superficially like his father’s. Prince Charles’ hands show that he goes to an extreme

The difference between Anna Hazare and Mahatma Gandhi

Anna Hazare, the social activist who has been in the news lately because of the Lokpal Bill, has been compared to Mahatma Gandhi. This post explains the similarities and differences between the two men by comparing their hands. But before I begin, it needs to be said that these two men couldn't be more different!

The major characteristics of Hazare’s hand are his strong mount of Moon, the deep and dark lines on his rather rectangular palm, the development of the lower part of the hand, and slightly short conic fingers accompanied by a long thumb. Mahatma Gandhi, on the other hand, has a squarer palm with a better balance of the mounts, a larger hand and longer fingers, telling us that he is quite different from Anna Hazare, although they could share

Hugh Jackman's hand reading

The sheer physicality of Hugh Jackman’s hand leaps out at you when you first see it. The large, slightly hard-looking hand, the squareness of it, the large broad fleshy palm, the deep lines, the wide and high Venus, the pink colour and balanced finger phalanges. These signs are a strong indication of an active, healthy, and energetic personality.

Jackman may not be an intellectual, but he has the power of

Kareena, Katrina, Priyanka or Aishwarya?

Who is better? Kareena Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Priyanka Chopra or Aishwarya Rai Bachchan? They are the top actresses in the Hindi film industry (Bollywood) today. Based on their hand, they have been evaluated on 3 aspects and scored out of 10. These 3 things are 1) Talent, 2) Sex Appeal and 3) Manipulativeness. 

To reach these conclusions, the hand overall was studied. The signs taken into consideration were the shape of the hand overall, the strength of the mounts and relative length of the fingers, and the shape and quality of the lines.  

A rating of 8 or 9 simply means that the actor is near the top but only among the four. They are only being compared to each other.

1 - Talent.

A brief explanation of what acting "Talent" is about: 

Acting is the ability to emote but it is not pure acting talent that has been taken into account, as this is not the only aspect that makes an actor successful. Screen presence is important. This they say is the ‘X’ factor that successful actors possess and includes an actor's poise, confidence, intelligence and most important - concentration. It gives an actor the ability to get into the character without being conscious of the audience.

Then there is also the quality of charisma which often makes up for a lack in the acting department. Actors with charisma tend to hypnotise the audience.

When it comes to the commercial success of female Indian actors, talent may not count that much as Indian cinema is male-oriented and female actors are not given good roles in which they can prove their talent. Their male counterparts tend to get the meaty roles. Thus, female actors are often selected for roles which do not demand high acting ability. Beauty and sex appeal

Warren Buffet's hand reading

Everyone knows that Warren is the smartest investor out there, and that he is also a philanthropist. His money-making talent is glaringly obvious in his personality as revealed by his hand, but his philanthropy is not, unlike the hand of Bill Gates.

Buffet’s hand is fleshy, the mounts well developed, and he has strong, long lines deeply etched on his broad palm. His fingers are on the shorter side, his thumb a little low-set and large, and the Apollo (ring) and Mercury (little) fingers are longer than normal, particularly the Apollo finger. These signs give us a clue as to how and why

Hand Reading of Kareena Kapoor

Kareena Kapoor is one of those lucky women born into a famous family, but that is not the only reason why she has been so successful. Her hand shows that she made the most of the opportunities presented to her. As her best qualities have developed to a fine degree, she must have grown up in a caring environment. But behind that facade, what is Kareena really like?

The major characteristics of her hand are her long hand with a broad and large palm, medium-length fingers, a fine stable headline, a good thumb with

Kim Jong-il's hand reading

It is widely believed that North Korea’s leader, Kim, Jong-il, had an eccentric character, to the point of being unstable. Well, his hand shows a coarse nature. The short hand with short, thick and slightly bent fingers, developed third phalanges, heavy mounts particularly those of Venus and Moon and Mars, the stiffness of the hand, the dark pink palmar colouring and the thick thumb all tell a story. A story of a personality governed by brute force, a person who could hold

Mahendra Singh Dhoni 's hand reading

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is known for being a cool and cunning customer and a strategist. How many of these personality traits are corroborated by his hand? What is Dhoni really like? Well, his hand does not show him to be a master strategist, but more of a person with strong instincts and a feel for the game.

And is Dhoni really as calm as he looks? What does his hand say?

Muammar Gaddafi – Hand Reading

One assumes that dictators are cruel and inhuman without a good side to them, but Colonel Gaddafi has some good personality traits.

His hand is one of the most powerful ones I have seen, showing a

The character of an unfortunate street urchin

The little boy in the sketch is not famous and never will be, in stark contrast to those who have found a place on this blog because of their celebrity status. This boy has little chance of becoming famous because he was born in poverty, and without inherited wealth, with no access to education or the caring environment of a family who could nurture his hidden talents and help him control his weaknesses, his life is probably doomed from the start.

He was on the streets, begging. Either his parents pushed him into it or he is an orphan – just one kid amongst thousands of street urchins, and reading his hand does not mean that the others on the street are like him. 

This boy has one of the saddest hands I've seen. His right hand tells us what his character is likely to be when he becomes an adult, based on his status and circumstances today. Sure, he could change, although

Beyoncé Knowles - hand reading

Beyonce’s hand looks beautiful from an aesthetic point of view. However, a beautiful hand does not necessarily translate into a great personality. The positive aspects of Beyonce’s hand are that she has fine lines, a good palmar texture and mounts which are not heavily developed. What this shows is that she is a refined, dignified, sensitive, diplomatic and sophisticated person who is

Raj Thackeray's hand analysis

Raj Thackeray’s hands were a surprise. I was expecting someone with narrow views but his hands do not show this, unlike that of his mentor, Balasaheb Thackeray. As Raj is known for his narrow politics, one wonders why it's not evident on his hands? My reading after studying his complete hand is that, unlike Bal Thackeray, Raj is perfectly able to see

Idi Amin's hand reveals his lack of reasoning powers

While reading the hands of known mass murderers like Idi Amin or Adolf Hitler, one immediately looks for tell-tale signs on the hand. Perhaps Idi Amin and Hitler had some character traits in common? Well, apart from the brutish, coarse nature that they shared, they were very different people. Both Hitler and Idi Amin were aggressive to an extreme extent – such people roughshod over others to reach their goals. But the goals of these two were different and so was their thought process.

Katrina Kaif's hand reading

Katrina Kaif is a bold and independent personality with a big heart, but at the same time, she is reserved, likes her privacy, and is fairly engrossed in her own internal world, and does not give out her affections very easily.

The main characteristics of Kat’s hand are her rather long hand, developed mounts of Jupiter, Venus and lower Moon. Katrina has good thumb, a curved and long heartline, a long stable headline slightly sloping, with a significant gap between it and the lifeline. The Jupiter (index) and Saturn (middle) fingers are bent, and her Mercury (little) finger is average and a little low-set

Kurt Cobain of Nirvana - hand reading

Kurt Cobain’s hands point to a personality that was bitter and melancholy. I hesitate to use the word “suicidal” because not all people who think negative thoughts commit suicide. There is some controversy as to whether Kurt Cobain committed suicide or was murdered, and a study of his hand can offer us some clues.

The shape of his palm is large and square, his thumb tending to be low-set and long, his finger phalanges slim or waisted, and he has a fairly balanced headline, from what is visible of it. All these are excellent signs on any hand, and tell us of a person with an inclusive, broad perspective on life, very generous and compassionate, giving, and with above-average will-power and self-control. Certainly not the signs that are found on the hand of a suicidal person.

The tips of his fingers are square and spatulate and the first phalanges are long. The second phalanges of his fingers are average. The Saturn (middle) finger is bent as is his Jupiter (index) finger. The Apollo (ring) finger is dominant, as it is on the hands of many famous people. The Upper Moon and Lower Moon mount on his hand bulges out and the Jupiter mount is developed as well. 

Cobain's creativity and talent are boundless, and of an elevated nature. Money by itself is not that important to him but fame and name, yes, that was important. 

You can check out a photograph of his hand here or here and the left hand here. 

However, his hand also shows critical, negative thinking and extreme cynicism. This was inherited, but enhanced in his current personality. The passive hand shows the inherited characteristics and the active hand, which can be right or left, shows the current one. Combined with a morbid imagination, it paints a grim picture of his personality. He had control alright, and this means that if he committed suicide, it was a deliberate, well thought out act

It wasn't as if he wasn't prone to depression. It was just as that he would think too much.

He wouldn't be easy to live with and had a habit of tearing everything to pieces. He was probably dissatisfied with his fame as well! It wasn't enough and he was cynical about it. 

The general moroseness of personality tends to give rise to a desire for solitariness and a general shying away from society. The hand also shows a person who nurses wounds, possibly even basking in the state of solitariness and sadness and maybe there is sense of martydom of some type. There could be some self-esteem issues. Such people find it difficult to get along with others, even superficially. It's a vicious cycle really, because it makes them withdraw into themselves further. He was not the type for keeping loved ones around him. He never would make it easy for anyone to give him the support he needed. The negativity of his personality can, in fact, be infectious.

Cobain's hand shows low mental resistance and inconsistency of personality. This vulnerability adds to the other traits, creating a personality which could easily sink into “suicidal” and “depressive,” but actually he wasn’t like that. He always knew what he was doing, he was intelligent and had the clarity of mind and the willpower, to bring himself back from the brink. But he didn't want to. That was the crux of it. 

(Cobain is a music artist, known as Nirvana. The photo used is from the Wiki: (Julie Kramer / CC BY-SA [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0])

Related Personality readings: Music star Maddona; Michael Jackson; Lindsay Lohan; and also Amy Winehouse, a singer/songwriter who committed suicide
Or you can check out the character readings of other Music Stars

Rahul Dravid's hand reading

Rahul Dravid is known as “the wall” for his enormous resistance or staying power. Is this personality trait present on his hand? Generally speaking, the “resistance” that people have can be due to several overt reasons – strong willpower and determination, a cool head and inner mental strength. In Dravid’s case, it is more to do with his extraordinary willpower and less to do with mental strength.

 

Also, his hand has some features which are quite unlike the hands which are found on highly successful people.