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Monday, November 15, 1999
Students discover future through palm-reading
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McAfee’s experience is not
unique. People from New York to
Los Angeles spend money on
palm readers with hopes that
they may catch a glimpse into the
future of their career, love life or
family life.
Jeremy Bartlett, a senior in
dustrial distribution major, went
to a palm reader a few years ago
with some friends. He was in Irv
ing, was bored and had time to
kill so he and his friends found a
palm reader on the side of the
road, went inside and paid for a
palm reading.
“The room we were in was re
ally contradictory,” he said.
“There were Stars of David next
to crucifixes, posters of palms
with the lines drawn on them and
Christian candles next to Meno-
rahs. It was weird. And I think the
lady lived there because we
would hear a baby crying in the
back room.”
Bartlett said the palm reader
gave him a lot of information re
garding the future of his career
and love life.
“She told me someone with a
name starting with P was looking
for me,” he said. “She said I would
marry in five years and would
have three kids — a boy, girl, boy,
in that order. She said I was very
loved and would make good mon
ey at a job I liked.”
Bartlett said the lady described
his personality well, which made
the reading more fun.
“She told me my friends are
my life, which is true,” he said.
“And she said I have a lot of love
to give. She did mention that I
was going to take a tropical vaca
tion sometime soon, but that was
three years ago, and 1 haven’t
taken one.”
Those who practice palm read
ing consider it an art and a trade
that must be learned and prac
ticed to be mastered.
Hazel Whitaker, author of
Palmistry: Your Highway to Life,
has studied palmistry, numerolo
gy and Tarot card reading for
more than 30 years. In her book,
she states that it is important to
take into account both hands
when reading palms.
The hand used to write with is
the major hand and the other is
the minor hand. The major hand
is supposed to show the potential
a person is born with while the
minor hand shows if and when a
person has reached that potential.
The most easily identifiable
lines on the hand are called the
main lines, which consist of the
life, heart and head lines.
The life line runs in a curve
from in between the thumb and
forefinger down to the wrist. The
life line is a timeline of significant
events in one’s life, and a long
and unbranched life line indicates
a long and “perfect” life.
The heart line runs horizontal
ly across the top of the palm, usu
ally starting where the joints of
the fingers begin. This line is an
emotional barometer of the per
son and can also answer ques
tions about one’s health given
other clues from other lines.
The head line runs horizontal
ly through the middle of the palm
between the heart and life lines.
From this line, a palm reader can
judge which intellectual activities
are most stimulating for any giv
en person, a handy reference to
have when one is torn between
becoming an accountant or living
the life of a beatnik. The head line
may reveal phobias as well.
The fate line is also considered
by some palmists to be a main
line, but it does not appear on
every person’s hands. If a person
has one, the fate line runs verti
cally through the middle of the
hand, and an experienced palm
reader can tell an interested party
what kind of trials and triumphs
they will experience.
Loraine Fano, a senior psy
chology major, had her fortune
told at the Texas Rennaisance Fes
tival a few years ago.
“I did it for kicks,” she said. “I
don’t take it seriously. I went in
with a predisposed notion of want
ing to hear stuff about a specific
person. I was really skeptical, but
for a few days after, I kept thinking
how wonderful she was and how
gredt the things she told me were. ”
Fano said palm readers feed off
the reactions of the people whose
fortunes they tell.
“They’ll feed off your facial ex
pressions, your body language and
tell you what you want to hear,”
she said. “You can apply what they
say to anything in your life.”
JEFF SMITH/I’m Battalion
McAfee said he probably would
not have his palms read again be
cause it is too expensive. Howev
er, McAfee said if a palm reading
was free, he would do it again.
Not everyone is a skeptic.
Bartlett said he believes people do
exist who possess an extra sense
who can actually read palms and
tell fortunes.
“The people who can really do
it aren’t charging for it,” he said.
“There are too many people out
there making too much money for
them all to be real.”
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