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Don’t Let the Love of Your Life Sail Away
Charles was a graduate student of philosophy at a major university who wanted the security of being a fully tenured professor. Melissa was a talented musician and recent immigrant to Canada who earned a living giving private music lessons. They’d both grown up near the water—Charles on the banks of the St. Lawrence River; Melissa…...
Sister Margaret : The Girdle of Venus and the Power of Forgiveness
I met Sister Margaret two decades ago at a conference she helped organize promoting forgiveness and reconciliation to achieve peace and harmony between people and nations. A vibrant woman in her late seventies, she believed forgiveness bestowed a double blessing, benefiting both the forgiver and forgiven—and she was living proof of the effectiveness of that…...
Missing Link: Joy
Veronica is a well-educated, attractive business woman in her mid-thirties running a thriving PR company. She seemed to have everything, but she arrived at my office in a state of crisis. “Nothing works out for me! I’ve spent years building a great company but I’m constantly wondering if I should be doing something else. It’s…...
The Saturn Line: Achieving our Life Purpose
Fortune or good luck is mostly thought of in terms of an arbitrary force affecting our affairs. However, according to Eastern philosophy, both our good and bad luck are considered the result of our own actions, or karma, illustrated in the expression, “as we sow so shall we reap”. In the hand, the Saturn or…...
The Life Line: Physical Health and Well-Being
“Is my life line too short?” “How long am I going to live?” “Can you explain why I have so little energy?” The life line is one of the first places to check in determining our degree of health and vitality—essential to supporting our individual lifestyles. It is associated with our body and our life…...
The Head Line: Our Moral Compass
Excerpt from Love in the Palm of Your Hand by Ghanshyam Singh Birla, Vedic Palmist The head line is one of the three major lines. It reflects our ability to make decisions based on reason. The head line in the middle realm of the palm becomes the link between our feelings (heart line) and our…...
The Heart Line: Barometer of Our Loving Disposition
Excerpt from Love in the Palm of Your Hand by Ghanshyam Singh Birla The heart line is one of the three major lines. It resides in the uppermost area of the hand and reflects how we love. It plays a tremendous role in showing us who we are likely to attract and reveals our capacity…...
The Mounts of Rahu and Ketu: Understanding Your Karmic Mission
By Vedic Palmist Ghanshyam Singh Birla “Our present is the result of all our yesterdays, and the future depends on how well we live today.” This Sanskrit verse describes very well the relationship between the mounts of Rahu and Ketu. These two mounts denote the thread signifying our karmic bank balance—lessons learned and still to…...
The Mount of Mercury: How to Express the Real You
By Vedic Palmist Ghanshyam Singh Birla Tremendous satisfaction is derived in life by being able to freely express our ideas. We all would love to communicate effortlessly in order to be understood in our personal and professional relationships. Observing the mount and finger of Mercury in our hand is a useful tool in determining to…...
The Sun: How to Cultivate Magnetism and Success
By Vedic Palmist Ghanshyam Singh Birla In Western mythology, the Sun is Apollo, the God of light. In Sanskrit, it is referred to as Surya—“that which shines forth with unceasing rays of light.” In Greek mythology, the Sun is referred to as sol, which translates as soul. The Sun is the center of our solar…...
