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  1. Myths about Palmistry : What’s REALLY in it for you

    July 29, 2011 by Peggie

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    I had my hands read in 2004 at the urging of my marketing coach.  At the time, I had a successful business and all the trappings of a lovely life.  Still, I felt like something was missing.  My coach, wise woman that she is, urged me to learn my life purpose and more in a palmistry session.

    As soon as I got off the phone with my coach I called the palm reader who lived across the country and asked about having a session.  We made the arrangements and I waited with anticipation for the ink kit to arrive.  I sweated the idea that I might make my prints incorrectly, and I sent the reader about a dozen versions of my left and right hand print.

    I mailed off the stack of hand prints and paperwork and waited, anxiously, for her to call and schedule our appointment.

    You see, I hadn’t been fully honest with myself (or my coach for that matter).  My marriage was in trouble and I knew it.  I think he knew it, but I can’t be sure.  I was miserably living out a limiting belief – that you can’t be successful in business and love.  Where I cultivated that belief is still a mystery.

    When the time came for my reading I thought that she’d predict my future and give me a list of proclamations on how to live a purpose-filled life.

    Boy was I wrong.

    The reading was enlightening.  It was confusing.  It was emotionally engaging.  The reading was not a magic pill or elixir that would magically fix everything that was wrong in my life.  I left the call wanting more – I wanted to know how to apply this knowledge to the life I already had.  I wanted guidance for making shifts and changes.  I just didn’t know where to get it.

    The reading started me on a long adventure – one that, hopefully, won’t end anytime soon.  It sent me looking inside for my true answers and pushed me beyond my comfort zone to find out why I was settling in some very important places in my life.

    This is the point I make with all my clients – a reading isn’t the end of your quest.  A hand analysis is actually the beginning of a journey to bring you back in alignment with your purpose.  It’s not meant to stand alone.  It shouldn’t get buried in the back of your overworked mind.  It’s meant to be a useful, living tool to move forward.

    This is why I’m changing the way I work.

    People used to come to me and expect that after a hand analysis session they’d have complete and utter clarity and everything in their life would change for the better.  They thought (as I did when I had my first reading) that they’d suddenly be able to make the hard choices in their life and that they’d be in the flow with the Universe.

    That’s just not the way it works.

    There’s so much to be covered in a reading of your hands – we could talk for a weekend or more just about a particular set of your finger or the way your heart line winds and breaks on your left hand but is strong and steady on your right.

    Your hands are the starting point and the guide for you clearing out cobwebs and refocusing on your values – your purpose and your passions.  It’s a one-size-fits-only you map for living bigger and making your hidden dreams come true.

    It’s not a way to predict your future or even decide “should I stay or should I go” (Believe me, back in 2004 I wished it was!)

    Here’s some of what you can expect from a reading:

    • You can know yourself better – with a deeper understanding of your motivators, values and even your excuses (with knowledge comes power)
    • Learn more about where “you’re coming from” in a spiritual way – why are you drawn to certain activities and not others?  How come you keep dealing with the same pitfalls over and over again?
    • Gain insight into breaking outdated patterns and beliefs.  Your beliefs and habits have been formed throughout your life.  Usually they came about because of a “good” reason – to keep you safe in some way, shape or form.  Now they maybe holding you back.  Perhaps they’re not useful.  Your hands help us see what these habits are and give you clues to creating new patterns for growth and wholeness.
    • Understand where you’re going.  Your hands cannot predict your future – after all, you have complete free will.  Still, they can help us make an enlightened assumption about where you’ll end up if you continue on the path you’re on.

    Your hands help you shine light on what’s been hiding.  They help you figure out where you really want to go and most importantly they give you specific sign posts for getting there.

    None of this happens in an hour or overnight. 

    It comes with a commitment to do the inner work and outer work necessary to align your entire life with your purpose.

    That’s why I’m phasing out stand-alone readings.  Sure, they’re a lucrative part of my business – so this decision scares me from a financial point of view.

    I know from personal experience that the greatest alignment with purpose comes with on-going commitment to growth. As a result, I work best with peeps who are in it for the long-haul.  Working one-to-one with a handful of my perfect people, and watching them make shifts and changes – sometimes almost imperceptible changes – is amazing and fulfilling work.

    What that means is that come December, readings will be available only in conjunction with deeper life purpose work – where we spend 3 months, together altering the habits and beliefs that you think are ingrained to get to the heart of you and your purpose.

    If you’re on board with committing to positive change in your life, be sure to sign up for the weekly ‘zine (up there in the right hand corner) – where you’ll get specific tips and insights on moving forward on purpose, as well as early bird announcements about these upcoming changes and opportunities to work directly with me to use your hands as your life purpose guidance system.

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  2. Focus on Finances with Claire Tompkins

    April 14, 2011 by Peggie

    Happy Thursday!

    Today’s volunteer is Claire Tompkins The Clutter Coach.

    Question: Why haven’t I achieved the kind of financial success I want? I have great friends and family, and a full life with creativity, physical health, emotional support, fun, spiritual peace; all that good stuff. [Well, I would like to find a sweetie too.] But money doing something I love (which I am doing) has eluded me so far. I’ve been feeling like I’m on the right track for a long time now, years, so sometimes I doubt myself. Maybe I’m standing in my own way, but I’m not clear how. I feel frustrated about this.

    Answer: Claire, thanks so much for being honest in your question and in your note to me.  Often it’s so hard to own our truth that we avoid it – which never leads to anything useful!  Step one is knowing what you don’t want.  Step 2 – what specifically do you want?  Step 3 – Why do you want it?

    Let’s look at your right hand first.  You’ve identified yourself as a righty who does her best to include her left hand in activities.   We’ll use your right hand as representative as you in the world.

    Claire's right hand

    Your hand is stretched pretty thin. There are many lines, mostly running vertically – along the fingers and across major lines in the palm – this indicates that you feel stretched thin – at least a good portion of the time.

    You may be moving, moving, moving simply for the sake of doing and saying you’re DOING.  This also allows us to hide out a bit from what’s really underneath all that whirly energy –the core of you.

    Your Saturn line (marked in light blue) is fairly straight but it starts nearly in the middle of the hand , which indicates that you like to make sure you have all your ducks in a row before starting. (Read more about Saturn lines here). This could be starting any individual project, a business, a relationship, etc.  There is a line connecting your Saturn to your life line (I’ve marked that connector in light blue as well) which shows that you are carrying some influence from your family about your work – how you earn money.  This is neither good or bad, but it’s an observation to spend time with.

    What does financial success mean to you?  What does it mean to the members of your family?  Where are they the same and where are they different?  How does that influence you in your work?

    The fact that Saturn stops at your heart line means that you can be ready to drop a project, job, client, etc. if you feel that you’re heart is not in “it.”  You may be apt to take the little headaches and heartaches in running your own business as “signs” that you shouldn’t be doing the work you’re doing.  Now I know you love what you do, but I wonder, what are you forcing yourself to do that you’re heart doesn’t embrace?  It sounds almost counter-intuitive to say this – but I will anyway – outsource the work that sucks your heart dry.  You’ll make more money when you’re free to focus on your gifts.

    The line that I’ve marked in Green on your right hand is your line of Clairvoyance.  It’s quite lovely and nearly “textbook”!  A Line of Clairvoyance (and not coincidentally I see these often on people named Clair!) is a gift marking.  Gift markings show up to remind us to use our gifts in a bigger way in our every day life.  In other words, while you’re likely aware of your gift, you’re not using it – addressing the messages you receive and applying the inner knowing in a way that serves you and those around you in a regular, daily way.

    Perhaps you can focus on working with healers, psychics, intuitive, etc?  That may be a good use of this line.

    When you’re not using your line of clairvoyance regularly you’ll suffer the consequences – feeling stagnant, isolated and even sometimes alienated.

    The gift of the line of clairvoyance is “understanding the rules of the Universe – a meanings expert.” (Read more about the Line of Clairvoyance).

    I encourage you to dig deeper, using this gift, to speak to your perfect peeps with your work. Again, it seems counter-intuitive to “target” some people and “leave out” the rest, but that’s not what I’m saying here.

    There are some people that are your perfect fit – find them and help them.

    The key here is this – you have your own healing work to do – (we all do) and the people you’re meant to help are those that need healing around the same things.

    Claire's Left hand

    Your left hand, representing the “inner Claire” is slightly less stretched – perhaps on the inside you know how to relax a bit more?

     

    Your Saturn line on your left hand starts on the outer edge of your palm – low and below the Mercury (pinky) finger.  What it means is this – when you follow your gut/intuition/Guidance – you are in the flow. When you’re in the flow with your projects things are easy and as a result financial success is more likely.  However, Saturn insists that you are clear on what financial success is – on your own terms.

    It’s also important for you to heal any negative beliefs you have around money – for instance, if Money were a person (a potential Sweetie, let’s say) what type of person would Money be for you?  It’s a worthwhile exercise for you to write down the attributes of this Money person.  Then ask yourself if you’d spend time with him?

    Finally, I’ve marked a line on both of your thumbs in red. This line runs horizontally across the upper zone of your thumb.  This upper zone represents a number of things, among them your “can-do” spirit, and your ambition and your vision of things you want to accomplish in the material world.  It also represents the Crown Chakra – representing your connection to the Divine.

    This horizontal line indicates that you’re cutting off (or making it harder than it needs to be) your “can do” spirit, your vision of what you want as well as your otherwise easy connection to the Divine.

    Bringing us full circle to the question posed in Step 2 – What specifically do you want? (in this case in terms of money – is $30,000/year the goal or $160,000? or something else all together?)

    To sum up:

    Your hands indicate that you work VERY HARD DOING.  This is neither good or bad.  You simply want to ensure that what you’re doing is in alignment with what you want to BE.  Your hands also indicate a potential  for narrowing your niche from “everyone/all women with clutter” to something more specific and in alignment with your sensibilities.

    You have an innate sense of intuition/clairvoyance/connection to the Divine and finding ways to bring that more fully into your work will suit you and your clients. This will also allow you to focus on what is RIGHT pay for RIGHT work.  Both parts of that equation are required to feel fulfilled financially and in your life.

    Claire, I see so much power in your hands – the capacity to do things in a new and innovative way that will pave the way for others to do their best work.  Thank you for sharing your hands with us this week!

    Friends, feel free to leave questions or make comments below.  Additionally, if you’d like to submit your hands for this weekly showcase, please follow the instructions here and here.

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  3. Hand Wisdom for You: Alexia P

    March 24, 2011 by Peggie

    Yesterday I asked you to lend me your hands, but unlike Marc Antony, I wasn’t burying Caesar.   I decided to combine some of my very own superpowers to show you precisely how much information is in YOUR hands.

    (superpowers = writing + reading hands)

    It’s one thing for me to show you random hands and prattle on about them – which apparently I can do for a loooong time according to my family and close friends – and another thing altogether to give you a glimpse of what’s going on in your hands and how the wisdom in your hands can help you answer your own questions.

    Before I launch into our first volunteer (Thanks Alexia!) I want to reiterate some things (loosely considered rules):

    1. I cannot predict your future or tell you what to do based on your hands.
    2. I can pose questions based on the data in your hands and I can draw your attention to what may be holding you back, frustrating you or otherwise making you feel blah/yucky/stuck.
    3. These readings are meant to be done quickly and efficiently to give specific information in one area and a decent overview of the hands and information to be found therein.
    4. These readings are not to be construed as full-length, in-depth readings by any stretch of the imagination. In some cases, I will highlight a specific area of the hand and go into detail and only give you a glance at some of the other “back up singers” in the hand that contribute to  my question, statement, recommendation.
    5. For this reason, please don’t assume what you see on one person’s hand means exactly the same thing in yours. (Really people, I’m a professional, with certification and everything, don’t try this at home without guidance.)  It makes sense to you that each hand is as unique as the person who owns it and therefore the lines and the information and the leanings which do have general meanings are also given specific meaning by me based on the OTHER information in their hands. (in other words, don’t be a Monday morning quarterback and think what I say to Alexia is what I would say to you.  I won’t.)
    6. The invitation for you to send your hands in (following the directions in yesterday’s post) is open ended or until I have a 2 year backlist.  As long as I receive your hands I’ll put them in the queue and post a column much like this one every week.

    Alexia Petrakos, is the creative guide and explorer heading the The Alternating Current.

    Alexia’s question is:

    My new site is http://thealternatingcurrent.com (ed. Note: it’s a fun and really daring site to address the needs of many of us “renaissance souls.”  Check it out!)
    My question is regarding this new direction I’m headed. what can I do to keep this up without getting bored and changing it all up again? or should I even worry about that?

    I think my biggest challenge is seeing things through. I have a short memory and keep telling myself the same story about how I “never” finish anything. When I really look at it though, I’ve done quite a bit, but there’s still that nagging feeling that finishing is just the most difficult thing in the world.”

    First – I asked Alexia if she’s right or left handed.  While that doesn’t have any bearing on a life purpose, life lesson or life school reading, it can add some insight to this reading.

    Here are her hands.

    RIGHT HAND

    Left Hand

    You can read more about dominant and non-dominant hands here.

    I learned that Alexia is right hand dominant but has some ambidextrous tendencies.    So we’ll review her hands as though the RIGHT is who /how she is in the world and how she’d like to be perceived by others in the world. (It may or may not be the same “face” she puts out there for her inner circle, but it is indeed who she puts out there in work, at play and all the places in between.)

    Her right hand is pretty clear of lines particularly compared to her left hand.  An interesting find given her concern about losing focus on her new site/business, because generally I find multitudes of lines – looking slashed across the palms – in someone who is prone to Bright Shiny Object Syndrome (BSOS for short).

    Alexia’s concern isn’t coming from the fact that she’s forcing herself into action for action’s sake to hide out from committing (usually the case with all those fiery lines) but rather from the paralyzing fear of rejection – common among what we palmists call Apollinians.

    On her right hand, she has a long Apollo line.  [Apollo is your ring finger and Apollo lines begin under the ring finger and run vertically in the direction of the heart line.  I’ve drawn lightly over Alexia’s with black to show you where it is.]

    On her left hand (circled in red and then demonstrated with the purple lines) – there are three semi-parallel, short Apollo lines.  These multiple lines show her diverse interests in a creative sense – there may always be 3 primary projects going on in her life – and for the most part, that suits her just fine.  Together they feed off of one another (in a good way) to free up the brain space necessary to produce her big work in the world.

    Alexia’s Apollo line on her right hand runs down and stops at the heart line, and then it picks up a scooch away and continues down the hand, stopping just above her head line.

    What this says to me is: Alexia is a true creative being, her calling will always ask her to let her true light shine out – thus attracting others to her (my definition of “The Spotlight”!) and her creative endeavors. What that means is that creating – the alchemy of making something out of nothing – is part and parcel of what makes Alexia’s heart sing.

    The fact that this line stops and then picks up again at the heart line says to me that Alexia may interpret a roadblock as a “sign” that her heart is no longer in her work and then feel the need to abandon what she’s created in pursuit of a deeper or more meaningful truth that aligns better with her heart (at that moment).

    In itself this is a pretty good practice, right?  If our hearts are no longer in our creation, it would be really tough to convince others to buy in (whether we’re selling paintings, plumbing services or home maintenance lessons).  Not only that, when we feel out of alignment with our heart or core, the people who were formerly coming to us seem to sense the disconnect and leave.  The business dries up and we follow our fears down a painful well of dejection.

    My question though is this – is it possible to reframe without “throwing the baby out with the bathwater”  Recognizing of course that we are all constantly growing and changing and morphing and evolving? My sense is that is what you ARE doing, Alexia, taking the best of what you’ve accomplished and learned and grown and bringing it forward into a new evolution of you and your work.  It’s important though that you see this procession for what it is – more linear than stop and start.  You are following through, but you are growing and changing (as you should!)

    I think this answers part of the question (or really speaks to Alexia’s final statement ) – she really has accomplished quite a lot, just not necessarily in the linear fashion or according to the “rules” others might play by.

    Now, onto whether or not she should worry (no, never feel obligated to worry) or not about staying focused and how can she stay focused I’ll take a quick look at her Saturn line.  I’ve circled it in Red and Green on her left hand and drawn a black line along it on her right hand.  (Both pictures have lines drawn over the actual line to make it easier to see).

    Saturn lines show us how we create and complete projects, in everything from our first book report to how we are in business and career to whether we’re the “taskmaster” with our friends – insisting we arrive on time.  (As an aside, this information CAN show up in other places in the hands, but the first place a palmist would look to issues about time/value/money/process/precision is the Saturn line).

    Saturn is your middle finger and represents time/value/money.  For a longer discourse on the Saturn line at work – read this.

    Of utmost importance for Alexia to know is this – she has Saturn lines on both her hands (many, many people do not have any) and for this reason she may actually feel more concerned about details and the administrivia that may be called consistency or project management than other creative souls. This is a gift for creative people, the ability to create safe boundaries from which to grow – and to have the instinct to understand that Step A and Step B must come before Step K.  This can also make you feel a bit a fish out of water with your creative friends who may be more prone to throwing things against the wall to see if they stick.

    It’s as though Alexia could feel that she has a foot in both “camps” – the business camp of the linear thinking methodologies and the artistic, free-wheeling, let’s just go with the flow and the hell with the business plan camp.

    Both, of course, have their advantages!

    Yet, if Alexia lets her mind wander – after the thrill of the first burst of creation is done – she may start worrying about details. And hows.  And then doubting her whys.  And that gets the heart all asunder and the whole kit and caboodle can come (in her mind) crashing down around her tiny, purple-shoed, feet.  (I really haven’t seen her feet, I’m just imagining).

    So these Saturn lines are blessings, but they’re also confusing for a creative soul, or can be.

    On the right hand, the line stops at the head line, indicating Alexia’s frustration at too may niggling, “micky mouse details” to be addressed.  That’s when she throws in the towel and wants to walk away.  She may make peace with the details (outsourcing is a good idea) and if/when she does she picks the trail back up only to have it stop at the heart line.

    The same information is true about the heart and passion and why being necessary here, as was mentioned talking about the Apollo line.  Alexia needs to FEEL with her whole heart that her project is right and that her creativity is freely expressing who she is at her best.

    She may take time off, rethink, regroup or completely start over – but eventually she brings the project to completion as is indicated by the two Saturn lines that pick up from the heart line and head to the base of the Saturn finger.

    The cool thing is now she can see that she’s hardwired this way. It’s not right or wrong, rather it’s her process that gets her the results she wants. Rather than focus on the results on someone else’s terms she can focus on her terms and let her process unfold naturally.

    Yes, there is MUCH more that can be covered and shared in the hands but I know you have work to do and posts of your own to write and dogs to walk.

    If you enjoyed this post and would like something similar for yourself, please feel free to send me your prints following the instructions on yesterday’s post.

    In the meantime, what do you think of this information?  Hooey?  Amazing?  Weird?  Confusing?  Share your thoughts in the comments, please!

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