Let’s Talk About Palm Symbolism: Pinky Promises, Pointer Fingers, And Some Sign Language!
Before reading this if you haven’t already, check out my Onychomancy section of my index for more background on what I’m gonna be speaking on:
Taisoleil.com/index
So let’s start with the hand. The hand has 5 fingers. Five is Mercury ruled in Numerology, and Gemini rules over the hands! Virgo also has a Hasta Nakshatra, which means the hand!
Thumb
The thumb is Mars rued. Remember 1, 2, 3, 4 I declare a thumb war? Well! Mars rules over war as the war god is Ares.
Index
The index finger is Jupiter ruled. When we point, we are often looking for something or bringing direction to something/exploring. Jupiter rules over exploration, so that alone says a lot!
Middle
The middle finger is Saturn ruled. This is usually a running joke in the astro community because as we know, Saturn doesn’t give a fuck! Also, Satan was always having orgies and things of that nature, so we can also take this “fuck” literally 😂
Ring
The ring finger is Solar Ruled. The Sun rules over the heart. The ring finger also has a direct connection to the vein connecting to the heart sooooo yeahhh. I kinda find it funny how you put your ring there bc not only love/marriage but again, westerners correlate everything to the ego, which is why many marriages fail because of finances. People forget that marriage is a contract, not really a sort of love bond.
Pinky
The pinky is Mercury Ruled. When we make pinky promises, we are promising something on our word. Mercury basically rules over communication, so it’s not a surprise we correlate promises to the pinky promise!
Other examples:
In Clubhouse June 2nd, I was talking about onychomancy with Kikimancy. Someone asked me what the symbolism is behind thumb sucking. This depends on the hand:
Right hand: External world
Left hand: Internal world
When a child is a thumb sucker. This is due to pacification. When we think of pacifism, we can look at this as Libra energy where one looks towards calmness. Pacifism has a direct correlation to war, and when one doesn’t feel protected, one needs stability and has to go out and get it themselves. The thumb offers this sort of stability because Mars is a protective planet. The child may feel like they aren’t being properly protected from a parent that isn’t active in their protection, and seeks to thumb sucking to balance the energy. Remember that eating with the hands stimulates digestion, so we can use our fingers in some way to counter any energy we feel we aren’t getting.
When we make the peace sign, this is actually Saturn and Jupiter fingers that we use. Jupiter and Saturn, as I’ve said before, aren’t enemies. Saturn gives Jupiter structure, while Jupiter gives Saturn the positive outlook they need to keep going. All peace 💚
🤞🏽
When we hope for something and we cross our fingers 🤞🏽, we are bringing the strength of Jupiter and Saturn closer to hope that our efforts/discipline (Saturn) come to fruition (Jupiter expanding on our results). Fingers crossed also means good luck and Jupiter rules over luck!
Update 2/4/2022: Also I meant to add that the crossing of the fingers represent Jupiter/Saturn energy to cancel out a pinky promise. This is because Jupiter/Saturn energy are complimentary as energies. One prevents the other from getting too big or small. This is why Aquarius (Saturn)/Sagittarius (Jupiter) and Capricorn (Saturn)/Pisces (Jupiter) sextile in the chart as well.
I give an example of this here: https://www.taisoleil.com/articles/2021/11/3/hsrqjnrm4x2j8qc1x6vz32i0ls8w16
When we do finger guns we take the peace sign, and add the thumb finger which is Mars, which means the breaking of peace. The Gun is also a symbol of war.
🤘🏽
Even the rock on 🤘🏽 gesture is a combo of Jupiter and Mercury. Jupiter is the excess of the rockstar lifestyle while the Mercury is the “cool” attitude one has to have about life during that phase.
🤌🏽
(not the best emoji example of this hand gesture but you get it I already used 👌🏽)
When we make hand gestures to say something is small 🤌🏽, it’s ironic we use the Jupiter/Mars finger because we usually use that to insult someone or that we are this close to doing (Mars) something extreme/big/dramatic (Jupiter).
Even the way snapping creates a popping friction is funny because Saturn ruled Planet Capricorn is exalted in Mars, so for the friction (Mars) to produce sound from your bones (Capricorn is bones) is very interesting.
👌🏽
When we we say okay 👌🏽 or that’s perfect we are combining the Mars and Jupiter finger to affirm an action is going well. Even with the thumbs up 👍🏽 for good job we are saying you are doing (Mars is action) a good job!
🤟🏽
For the I love you hand sign 🤟🏽 I was gonna not for this because I couldn’t find any sort of connection because the symbolism seems inauthentic and meh based on finger planets. I just found out that in ASL, American Sign Language, that the hand sign is general and superficial. It’s not used in the context of depth at all, and just an expression like how we say we love an artist we don’t even know!
This is because Mars is outward expression, the Jupiter is exaggeration, and Mercury is Neutrality in communication. Makes sense because it really doesn’t come off a deep way energetically at all.
But yeah that’s it! Been meaning to type this stuff but as y’all know I always be busy.
Tai 💚