Mao Zedong –Wise or Wicked?

Mao Zedong, also known as Chairman Mao, is a famous historical figure, but controversial. He is revered in China by many, but there are those who want him to be held responsible for human rights abuses.

What does his hand tell us about this man, who has been hailed as a hero? He was the founding father of the People's Republic of China (PRC), which he ruled from 1949 until his death in 1976. No one can deny that he ruled with an iron hand but was Mao a great wise man as well, as some people firmly believe? 

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Mao's hand has a large palm, more rectangular than broad, and his fingers as compared to the palm are on the shorter side. The first

Saddam Hussein's hand – does it show that he was evil?

One assumes that the hands of men known for their evil deeds will show a hand with an evil personality. People do evil deeds but there is no hand which is evil per se. If one comes across a person who does bad things, the hands usually show a selfish, out-of-control personality, someone with a brute will and strong impulses. People are not usually heartless. They are just out of control.

There are several hand readings of dictators on this website, and each of these characters tend to be different from each other although almost all of them have a base, primal side to their nature. What this means is that the instincts prevail and dominate and these people give in to these primal instincts. You will find such people in everyday life as well and they usually land up in prison if the country they live in is not lawless. If people of this type come to power, as they do in weak countries, they will destroy the very fabric of society, cloaking their criminal behaviour in either religious or political ideology.

Saddam’s Hussein’s hand shows the base of the hand developed, with heavy Moon and Venus mounts. The Lower Mars mount is developed as well, and the Apollo (ring) finger is long, too long. The thumb is of average length and possibly a little low-set with an average first phalange which bends backwards. The second phalange of the thumb is a little thick and quite long. The fingers are fairly straight with tapering, rounded ends. The Jupiter finger is quite low-set. There aren’t too many clear pictures of Saddam’s hand available on the net, however.

You can check out Saddam Hussein's hand photos here.

In Saddam Hussein’s case, there doesn’t appear to be a religious bent of mind. His hand in fact shows is a man who hungers for

The Hands of Dictators!

Is there such a thing as a typical dictator’s hand? There certainly isn’t a typical engineer’s hand or a doctor’s hand. Hands don't reveal professions because people with all kinds of temperaments populate a particular profession. There isn’t even a typical criminal’s hand because there are different types of crimes and different types of criminals!

 

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When it comes to dictators’ hands, the more I study them, the more inclined I am to think that dictators do share some personality traits. Managers have different styles of managing but a dictator has just one style – authoritarian. I have read several hands of authoritarian leaders on this website, like Gaddafi, Morsi, Idi Amin, Hitler and Kim il-jong. So, what is similar about their hands? 

The hand reading of Xi Jinping, the Chinese President

China’s powerful President, Xi Jinping, has been criticised, particularly after the way in which China handled the Covid19 crisis. But the President's hands show that he is a compassionate leader, with a great love for his people.

His hands have developed mounts of Moon, Venus and Mars, particularly Lower Mars. The hand, squarish with a broad palm and short fingers, appears to be stiff. The fingers, on the shorter side, are straight, have short middle phalanges, good, slim first phalanges and thick third phalanges. Tips are conic, more so on of the Jupiter and Mercury fingers. The ring (Apollo) finger is a little too long and it’s possible that the index (Jupiter) finger is a little short. The heartline is dark, medium length and curved (which makes it long) but does not reach the Jupiter mount. The headline is straight and fine, fainter at the end, and overall not that strong.

These hand features tell us about a person who is down-to-earth and for whom

Rodrigo Duterte's Hand Reading

If I hadn't known that these were the hands of the President of the Philippines, Robert Duterte, I would never have guessed it.

The lower portion of this hand is dominant, the thumb high-set and closely held (near the palm), the second phalange of the thumb is thick, the quadrangle (space between the head and heart lines) is narrow, and the headline is average. The Jupiter (index) and Mercury (pinky) fingers are pointed, a fairly unusual sign in a successful politician. And the Mercury (pinky) finger is long as well. The mounts are mostly well developed, particularly the Mount of Moon, and the Jupiter (index) finger is bent. When read together these signs do not paint a pretty picture.

This hand shows a personality that is impulsive, and idealistic to an extreme, but one cannot help but wonder about the depth of these ideals. The ideals that the owner of this hand holds are not always practical and doable. So finally, it's all about talk. There is also a certain coldness

Is Donald Trump a bigot?

Some people may love Donald Trump, the potential Republican nominee for the US President, but others call him a bigot and a racist. (Update: Donald Trump went on to become the President of the US. 

This post is not about Trump’s chances of winning the Republican nomination, leave alone his chances of becoming the next President of the United States. This is about what his hands tell us. Is he really the racist bigot that he is accused of being?

Trump’s palms are broad, but the hands are small, and he has a thick palm, short fingers (some bent), long lines, and a supple, waisted thumb all of this tells us a story and a very revealing one! The mounts of Venus, Moon and Jupiter are heavily developed and the Mars mounts developed too, though a little less. The lifeline sweeps across the palm, the headline is gently sloping, and the heartline goes up in a curve, reaching the area in between the first two fingers.

Trump’s lines are quite good, and although fairly clear, they are not very dark. However, they do show capability, intelligence, and a good heart. It is not surprising that he is a businessman because not only is he smart and shrewd, he is aggressive, ambitious, and quite the go-getter. Other hand features show some not-so-desirable characteristics. His thumb is supple and conic, with a strong first phalange, and the heartline is a little too strong. His fingers are mostly bent, with the Jupiter (index finger) low-set and possibly a little short, and the Mercury (little) finger standing apart from the rest. The fingers have rounded tips.

His hand tells us that he is a very passionate, energetic and emotional man, and quite excitable and impulsive too. He is warm and giving and yes, and capable of compassion as well although he is likely to be ruled by the emotions and there is insecurity in the personality. 

Donald Trump’s hands do not show him to be a narrow-minded bigot. On the contrary, his hands show

Lee Kuan Yew - Hand Reading

Lee Kuan Yew was the founder of Singapore and was known to be an incorruptible personality and a visionary.

He has an ideal hand in some respects: a large broad palm, fingers of medium length, mounts neither flat nor overdeveloped, well-etched long, balanced lines on a firm palm and a good, long low-set thumb to boot. All these signs point to a balanced character without personality quirks or eccentricities, a broad, progressive outlook, a strong purpose, and a clear head.

Lee Kuan has been criticized for being a dictator and curtailing freedom of speech. Where is this shown on his hand?

Actually, his hand does not reveal him to be of a dictatorial temperament, not in the sense that people

Why Robert Mugabe is who he is

Robert Mugabe, the current President of Zimbabwe, is known to be a dictator who wants to hang on to power at all costs and has brought Zimbabwe to economic ruin. What is the reason behind his seemingly irrational behaviour that is evident in his personality? His hand explains it all too clearly.

Some aspects of his hand which stand out are the long rectangular palm, wavy, uneven lines on his palm, a broken, high-set headline set distinctly apart from the lifeline, a weak Jupiter (index finger), a long supple thumb – the type of hand which can send a chill up one’s spine! This combination

How much better is Mohamed Morsi as compared to Hosni Mubarak?

Mohamed Morsi’s hand can give us some clues about the developments in Egypt and also tell us what kind of person he is. His hands reveal an energetic person, but this energy is not being directed in a positive or productive manner. As a result, there is excitability and unpredictability, changeability and emotional behaviour in the personality. Not good qualities for a leader to have, especially as some unreasonableness is also shown.

Morsi has a large fleshy palm, with medium-length fingers, some of which are bent, and the Jupiter (index) and Mercury (little) fingers are conic and the thumb is thick. The headline is weak and uneven and

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

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

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.

Hand analysis of Ayatollah Khomeini

Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini (1902-1989), Iran’s first Supreme Leader, has an interesting hand, and one that corroborates his achievements and also tells us something about his personality. He was a holy man, but does his hand shows that he was a genuinely spiritual man?

One significant character trait quite noticeable in his hand is his charisma. He has been criticised by the non-Muslim world, but it is clear why people in Iran revere him even now, years after his death. He was a leader with a powerful and towering personality.

His hands have a long, narrow palms and either medium-length or long fingers. The development of the mount of Venus on his hand, along with the long thumb and the slight gap between his head and lifeline shows that he was bold, confident, and had a love for his people. He had great self-control and control over others although his hand shows bias. He was the kind of personality with a great will to implement his ideas, without bowing down to opposition. Strong and determined

Adolf Hitler's hand reading shows him to be a poor specimen of humanity

Adolf Hitler is a well-known mass murderer. One assumes that it was his violent nature and beliefs about a “pure” race that led to the evil he let loose into the world. However, the psychological profiles of all mass murderers are not the same. In Hitler’s case, his hands reveal that his murderous nature has less to do with his so-called ideals and more to do with his coarse and brutish temperament.

It's hard to read the hand of someone like Hitler because invariably one has strong feelings when it comes to him and this can influence the reading however hard one tries to be objective. He is the greatest villain in history!

His hand reveals to a great degree who Hitler was. 

Vladimir Putin's hands give us a glimpse into his personality

Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister of Russia who is now back as the President, and his personality is that of a man of action, and a quick thinker. His hands show a personality that is impatient, of a man who wants results, a man in a hurry. The only profession he is actually suited to is a managerial one, where he manages not just people, but events and changes. It is difficult to see this man's hand as a leader of people but that is what he is – Russia's leader! 

According to his hand, he was perhaps the right man to oversee the massive changes that Russia went through as he took over the reins as the President of Russia in 1999, mainly because of his ability to get things done. He is the kind who will want to push things through come what may.

There has been some criticism about his methods, with many believing that he is fascist, and there are fears that he might go back to some of the old ways. Once we interpret his hands we can find out if this criticism is justified.