Spring arrives, melting the mountain snows and ice into water that flows deeply and nourishes the land. Just as water permeates and nourishes our world, those with water hands are magnanimous and thoughtful towards others. The water-hand type accommodates, adapts, and is considerate and supportive to those around them in the same way that water takes its shape from what contains it. Known as the sensitive and intuitive type, water-handed people are generally refined, spiritual, and idealistic. More than any other hand type, they are able to access deep emotions and experience life’s currents profoundly. This hand type is more common among women than men, and the most infrequent of the hand types in general.
Palm
Typical water hands have narrow, rectangular palms. Often the whole hand, including the palm, looks like it has been stretched out. These palms are also very pliable and flexible. Narrow palms are associated with imagination, subjectivity, instability, and uncertainty. The elongated palm forms the foundation for the water-hand type’s strong emotionality. Water hands share rectangular palms in common with fire hands, just as both types of hands can be said to be emotional. But the difference between these two types is that the fire-handed person will tend to direct their emotions outward towards life, always alive, moving, enthusiastic, and curious, while the water-handed emotions are more protected and internal. A natural introspection sometimes leads the water-handed type to escape from the world into a private inner reality.
Fingers
Water hands have the longest fingers of all the hand types, and the fingers are often delicate and very flexible, like those of some fashion models. This flexibility reflects the adaptability inherent in the water element. Just as water spreads and fills any space, water-hand people are empathic, compassionate, and kind. They are able to truly sense what other people are experiencing emotionally, and their deep need for peace makes them reach out and support those around them so that all may be in balance. The evolutionary journey for water-handed people therefore includes a lifelong dance of learning how to establish appropriate boundaries. Their need for external harmony, coupled with their versatility, can often lead them to compromise their own needs for the sake of others. Learning to stay centered helps those with water hands maintain useful boundaries and avoid excessive self-sacrifice.
Skin texture
The water hand is the most refined of all the hand types. The skin is smooth to the touch and often appears shiny and satiny, even from a distance. Refined skin mirrors a refined view of life.
Those with water hands are often so idealistic and imaginative that sometimes it is hard for them to stay connected to the objective world; they are dreamers who prefer to ‘feel’ things instead of ‘think’ about them. Because water types see things more deeply than others, it is not always easy for them to articulate their experiences simply and precisely. They often just hope that others will sense what they are feeling and act accordingly. Sometimes this leads to others perceiving the person as moody,
Lines
The palm of the water type is covered with a great number of fine lines, with the principal lines standing out from the rest. The lines are usually thin, forming a shallow, web-like, tangled mass. You will see many vertical lines and lots of crisscrossing.
The water hand generally displays the greatest number of lines among the hand types. A palm so full of lines reflects how profoundly the individual’s environment affects them. The things that happen around them leave traces on their inner being. This helps explain why the water-handed person is the most prone to psychosomatic disorders, fear, anxiety, and digestive complaints that have an origin in the emotional realm. They naturally have a need for lots of sleep, and a calm and peaceful environment is essential to their emotional balance and stability. Water-handed people must be careful not to push themselves beyond what their bodies are capable of.
Fingerprints
The fingerprint pattern most associated with the water hand is the loop. Loops flow in and out of the top part of the digit from one side and never turn into a whorl or closed shape. A person whose fingerprints are mainly loops tends to be easy-going and fit in well with others. The loop-dominant water-hand type is quiet and receptive, and gravitates towards situations that enable the expression of their innate sensitivity to people and beauty.
A water-handed person’s natural inspiration and gentleness spontaneously arises from an understanding of life as flexible and changeable. In its most subtle form, this hand type’s capacity for inner reflection becomes the seeker’s impulse towards the divine.