The three phalanges
Each finger has three sections: the top for the mind, the middle for practical sense, the base for the material.
- 6-minute lesson
- Basic course: Hasta Shishya
- Palmistry
- Three worlds
- An example
A first look at the lesson
Each finger has three phalanges. The top (with the nail) is the mental world, the middle the practical, the base the material. The longest phalange shows where that finger's energy goes.
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More lessons on this subject
- Anguli: fingers and thumbEach finger belongs to a graha, and the thumb shows will, reason and love.
- Hasta Parichay: reading the handSamudrika Shastra reads the body's marks; palmistry starts with the hand's shape and which hand to read.
- Cheiro's seven handsElementary, square, spatulate, philosophic, conic, psychic and mixed: the seven types in brief.
- Parvata: the mountsThe raised pads of the palm are mounts, each named for a graha; a full, firm mount gives that graha's qualities.
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