The Journal
Plain-spoken guides to reading the hand, understanding your sign and choosing a stone that suits you.
How to Read Your Palm: A Beginner's Guide to the Four Major Lines
Everything starts with four lines and one question: which hand? Here is how a palm reader looks at a hand for the first time, and how you can do the same with your own.
The Heart Line: What It Says About Love and Emotion
The topmost line of the palm is the one people ask about first. Here is what its length, curve, ending and breaks mean...
The Life Line Does Not Predict How Long You Will Live
The most misunderstood line in the hand measures vitality and change, not years. Here is how to read its curve, breaks...
The Head Line: How You Think, Written in Your Palm
Not how clever you are, but how your mind works: fast or slow, practical or imaginative, cautious or bold. The head...
The Mounts of the Hand: Where the Planets Live in Your Palm
Seven raised pads of flesh, each named for a planet, tell a reader what the lines cannot: how much of each planet's...
Sade Sati Explained: Saturn's Seven-and-a-Half-Year Test
The most feared transit in Vedic astrology is also the most misunderstood. What it is, when it happens, what it tends...
The Navaratna: Which Planet Each of the Nine Gems Belongs To
Vedic astrology assigns one gem to each of nine planets. Here is the full list, what each is worn for, and the...
Fire, Earth, Air, Water: How the Elements and Modalities Shape the Twelve Signs
Two simple groupings explain most of what a sign is like before you learn anything else about it. Here is how they work.
Ruling Planets: Why Mars Rules Aries and What That Means for You
Every sign has a planet behind it. Knowing which one explains the sign, and tells you which finger, which day and which...
How to Wear a Gemstone: Finger, Metal, Weight, Day and the First Wearing
A stone worn the wrong way is jewellery; worn the right way, tradition says, it is a remedy. The rules are simple once...
Real or Fake? Ten Tests You Can Do Before Buying a Gemstone
You do not need a laboratory to catch most fakes. A loupe, a lamp, a glass of water and ten minutes will expose glass...
Birthstones by Month: The Modern List and the Older Traditions Behind It
The birthstone list on every jeweller's wall is barely a century old. Here it is, month by month, with the older...
Left Hand or Right Hand? Which Palm to Read and Why They Differ
The two hands rarely match, and the differences between them are where the most interesting reading is. Here is how...