Now, I can already hear you asking yourselves why should there be any connections between us, our character that is, and our hands.

Well, the only possible explanation I can give is that there is a large part of the brain concerned with the hand, and there are more nerve endings in the hand than elsewhere in the body, proportional to size, so it just may be and I stressed maybe that the traffic is two way, that not only does the brain gain information from the hand, but also passes it back again. So, in this way, the hand reflects the way the brain operates.

Now I'd like to say a word about the fingers, and this is where the connection with astrology can also be seen, in the names given to the individual fingers. These are taken from the names of the old Roman gods, just like the planets' names.

The index finger is the finger of Jupiter, and in this can be seen the worldly tendencies of a person, ambition, life energy, prospects for success.

The finger of Saturn is the name given to the middle finger, which reveals the presence of saturnine qualities, as the name would suggest, brooding, melancholy, that type of thing.