Overview: The Palmistry of Fingerprints is a comprehensive look at the significance of the skin ridge patterns found in your hands.

Verdict: While the forensic use of fingerprint identification has been in use since Victorian times, over the last one hundred years the modern study of dermatoglyphics has established the psychological, genetic and diagnostic value of the finger and palmar patterns.

As biometric markers of that which is unique and individual to each of us, this book enables the reader to unveil the significance of their own fingerprint patterns and engage in a journey of personal meaning and psychological self-discovery. Your life is literally in your hands.

I have been a HUGE fan of old school detective shows, such as Sherlock Holmes and Murdoch Mysteries, for many years now and both have showcased low key versions of the origins of fingerprinting, BUT as it turns out modern day fingerprinting for identification was first implemented in July 1858 by Sir William Herschel in India; who required local residents to stamp documents to prevent fraud. While ancient civilizations used handprints, systematic, scientific identification using fingerprints was developed later in the 19th century by Herschel, Henry Faulds, and Francis Galton.

BUT, in 1686, a professor in Italy at the University of Bologna was one of the first people to earnestly analyze fingerprints. This professor, Marcello Malpighi, found fingerprints to have common patterns, including arches, loops, whorls, and ridges.

However, these patterns would not be confirmed until 1823 when another professor, Johannes Evengelista Purkinje, documented nine different fingerprint patterns. Despite these findings, it would still be several more decades before fingerprints were found to be a viable form of identification.

But I digress, for here in The Palmistry of Fingerprints: The Secret Patterns Hidden in Your Fingers and Palms by author Christopher Jones, we not only get to learn more about why the patterns of the hands have aways fascinated the human mind, but that Palmistry - which a long time ago was once called chiromancy, divination from the hand - was mainly more concerned on predicting how long someone was going to live and the nature, and even the manner of their death.

However, one of the major limitations of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Mark Twain times was that it places an emphasis upon the lines of the hand and, by virtue of this comes the generally held understanding that the lines are indicators of our fate or destiny. This is what most people think of when they go to a handreading, they want to know what’s going to happen to them, what is in store for them.

But what most people are not aware of is that the lines of the hands change over time. This is a very important and significant fact - for if it is true that the lines can change, then it cannot be true that the lines reveal a fixed fate or destiny. A fixed, unalterable destiny could not be so easily affected by hormonal changes or levels of stress.

Moreover, if it is indeed true that the lines of the hands change over time, then we cannot actually make a prediction from the lines of the hands either. For if the lines change, we could not possibly know how the lines of the hand are going to change in advance of them changing!

Ergo, what we have here is a highly comprehensive, dutifully sculpted and wholly impassioned new guide on one of the most fascinating subject matters to have ever been thought of (in my humble opinion). An invaluable resource for any and all people interested in the study of fingerprints and Palmistry, therein, we may already know that fingerprints offer a valuable means of personal identification - for whilst a person’s hair color and other personal characteristics can change over time, fingerprints remain permanent - but within these well researched pages we get a much deeper dive into the subject matter; bringing everything we need to know professionally into the palm of our hands!

About the Author - Christopher Jones has been a leading figure in the world of handreading for 40yrs and was the Secretary of the Cheirological Society from 1989-1999 writing for and publishing their Quarterly Journal of Studies. During that time, he taught many handreaders who went on to become the expert cheirologists in their countries, including Israel, Spain, Croatia, Australia, Sweden, South Africa, Canada and the UK. The written works of his students are amongst the most esteemed books on handreading available today. He lives in Waihi, New Zealand.

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