Reading palms is an art that has been practiced for several centuries. Its origin can be traced to ancient China and India. It is particularly popular among Hindu scholars who are mostly grounded in Astronomy and Astrology.

Aristotle went into detail about this great phenomenon in his work "Historia Animalium", meaning the "History of Animals", which became the backbone of Zoology. He echoed that the markings in our palms are there for a purpose.

Character traits can be hidden in faces but cannot be hidden in palms, to make a better judgment of people you deal with, take note of their palms rather than their faces. Another significant reason to pay close attention to our palms is that the brain has more nerve connections to the hands than any other part of the body. According to a famous palmist, William John Warner popularly known as Cheiro, "the palm is the servant of the brain.
In the Igbo language, someone's destiny or fate is translated as "akara aka" loosely meaning the markings of the hand.

The four main shapes of the palm are represented by four elements; earth, fire, water, and air, and they are correlated with the person's zodiac. Each shape tells a lot about the person. If someone has an air-shaped palm (a square palm with decent long fingers) but the zodiac is Aries which represents fire then it means the person has a clash of personalities and will be an uneasy person.

Lines and Mounts on the palm also tell explicit information about the person's life, health, future, and major events that will occur in their life.
The three major lines are the "Life line" which goes just under your thumb, the "Head line" which is the major middle line, and the "Heart line" which draws after the head line and under the four fingers. How curved, straight, broken, long, prominent, and intersecting they are all telling auspicious and inauspicious facts about our lives and their future. Other important lines are the "fate line", the "Sun line", the "Health line'', the "marriage line", Solomon's bracelet around your inner wrist, and so on.
Is your Head line prominent and long? It means you are amassing knowledge and have studied a wide variety of topics. On the other hand, if it is faded and short it tells
that the person is a dummy who shies away from learning. Is it curvy? You are a person who thinks in unique ways, if it is straight you have a traditional approach to life.