What makes Kimberly’s technique and process different?

Kimberly’s special blend combines diagnostic hand reading with evidence-based coaching and coaching psychology. Instead of a Meyers-Briggs test, Enneagram, or an intake form,  your hands will serve as assessments throughout the process. (They change as you do.) The advantage of cheirology is that it does not rely on your verbal input, enabling Kimberly to achieve results faster and with less resistance.

Are cheirology and palmistry the same thing?

No.  “Cheirology” is the study or wisdom of hands. It is informed by much more than the palm: the shape of the hand and fingers, thumb and finger length, the nails, skin texture, fingerprints, mounts on the palm and palmar lines.  Also, “palmistry” is often associated with divination. Cheirology does not deal with the prediction of the future. It is more of a psychological portrait of personality, talents, and heritable traits, as well as a powerful diagnostic tool in medicine.

I always think palm readers deliver only bad news. Is that true?

No. Keep in mind many palm readers you encounter at parties or festivals are mostly entertainers who tell fortunes.  Kimberly uses hands as a lens to explore many positive traits, like your inborn talents and potential. While she can give you some “watch outs” about unhelpful behavioral patterns, she offers no bad news and lots of positive energy.

There are plenty of astrologers and tarot card readers, but why have I have never heard of cheirologists?

Outside of India or China, where hand reading is steeped in the culture, there are few teachers and a scarcity of good books on the subject. In the West, some of the best works on psychological and scientific palmistry were written in the early 1900s and are out print. Add to that cheirology takes years of study and practice to develop mastery.

What are the origins of cheirology?

Palmistry or “cheirology” pre-dates astrology. The earliest known writings on hands are Indian Vedic scriptures from 2000 B.C. From India, hand reading spread to China, Tibet, Egypt, and Persia, eventually finding their way to ancient Rome and Greece. Hippocrates (born 460 B.C.) – the father of modern medicine – used cheirology as a clinical diagnostic tool. Aristotle (born 384 B.C.) became a proponent of palmistry as a means for assessing the character of an individual and used it to mentor his student, Alexander the Great.

Cheirology found acceptance in mystical Judaism and Christianity, appearing in in the Zohar and several passages of the Old Testament of the Bible. In fact, it is an indirect result of the Crusades in the 12th and 13th centuries that palmistry was re-introduced to Europe. Among the texts that the Crusaders brought back with them from the Holy Land were copies of manuscripts on palmistry from ancient Greece and Rome that had been preserved for generations by Arab Scholars.

During the Renaissance, palmistry, along with astrology and alchemy, were part of every learned person’s education and was taught at church-run universities throughout Europe. Today, cheirology has come full circle as science validates what the ancients knew all along: you wear your personality, potential, heredity, and medical information on your hand.