Why do you want to know your future?

By Nita Jatar Kulkarni

People want to know when they will die (even when they are healthy); if they will get divorced (even if they are in a happy marriage); or if they should start a business. Queries like these are very common.

My response is usually an apology. I tell them that I am unable to answer their questions because the hand cannot reveal the answers with any accuracy because predictive palmistry is not reliable. Not surprisingly, I never hear from them again.

I know they will go to others who will give them exactly what they want. Those predictions can come true 50-60% of the time, the accuracy depending on how good the guesswork is of the person doing the guessing.

I regularly get emails from people who are frightened out of their wits, asking me

Ashton Kutcher's hand reading

Ashton Kutcher may not be a very big movie star, but he is a popular one. He was always a bit of an enigma because he married a woman much older than himself – Demi Moore. What brought him into the news again was when he married his childhood co-actor, Mila Kunis, who is nearer his age. What do Kutcher's hands tell us about his personality?

The actor has a broad palm and fine lines, with a gap between his head and lifelines, and a larger gap on the left, passive hand. His heartline dominates the hand and the headline in comparision is not that deeply etched or long. He has a strong Apollo finger, and a slightly bent, low-set Jupiter finger. He has a good thumb, a little low-set and also with a good balance of both its phalanges. These hand features reveal some interesting facts about Kutcher's personality.

Ten Frequently Asked Questions about Hand Reading (PALMISTRY FAQS)

Here are some FAQs on Palmistry or Hand reading. And the answers to them. 

1) Is palmistry a legitimate, proven science or an art of intuition? Even worse, is it merely unreliable speculation? 

There is a vast ancient knowledge about hand reading and this knowledge has been built upon by many good modern authors on palmistry. When it comes to actually using this knowledge, some palmists and hand readers use intuition, astrology, psychology and superstition, and combine it with tidbits of ancient palmistry knowledge to draw conclusions. This tends to discredit palmistry.

Even if intuition is accurate at times, to rely on it or to act as if it is about hand reading is not correct. From the number of emails I get every week from people who have been victims of palmists who make dire, frightening predictions,