- November 25, 2024
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Debbie Davis was searching for meaning.
She was working as a secretary and felt that something was missing in her life. She wasn’t fulfilled. So, one weekend, she followed an impulse and signed up for a hand analysis weekend workshop. And, right away, she says, something clicked.
“Based on a person’s hands, I know what their life purpose is,” she says, sitting in her Flagler Beach living room, pointing to notes scribbled over an ink-pressed handprint on a piece of printer paper. “The patterns on the fingerprints will indicate what you’re wired for in this lifetime.”
The lines can say whether you’re a logistical or creative thinker. They can indicate whether you’re a mentor or a communicator.
But hands don’t tell the future, she says. They don’t say what job you should have or reveal buried secrets or any of that “woo-woo.” Davis is quick to make that distinction: “(Palm reading) is based off of hundreds of years of scientific principles,” she says. “This is not fortune telling.”
After her workshop, she jumped into a yearlong course at the International Institute of Hand Analysis and, in 2009, became a licensed palm reader.
Now, she is able to see inside souls.
“Basically what this is telling me is the neuro-pathways of your brain,” Davis says, tracing her fingers over lines cut deep into the hand-shaped ink stain resting on her coffee table. “They tell me your path. The expression of your soul.”
At the institute, Davis learned about the four elemental shapes of human hands, and what each type says about its owner. She learned that a large index finger means a person has big ideals, and that a bloated fingertip could signify money worries.
“When something’s big and really stands out … that catches my eye,” she said, pointing out lines she drew over the handprint, dividing the fingers into sections. “That tells me something.”
The deeper headlines and heartlines of the palm say other things, about whether someone is an obsessive thinker or makes quick decisions. A long heartline (the curved line closest to your fingers) is emotional, she says, and gives away whether you’re a softie, like June Cleaver, or the strong silent type, like Clint Eastwood.
To pay the bills, Davis also works other jobs. She does administrative work at a St. Augustine realty firm. But she’s a professional, she says. By mailing her clients a handprint kit and having them send back scans of their prints, she’s read palms from all over the world.
One person’s hands, in particular, that Davis remembers reading were from a woman in Thailand. Her hands were tough to decipher. As many times as Davis went over them, it kept seeming, she said, that two different trains of thought were being represented there simultaneously: a logical and a creative side, like the woman “was walking in two worlds.”
It turned out, Davis said, that she was autistic.
“What I tell (my clients), they already know,” Davis says. “It’s more about validation. … So, most people walk away feeling more self-empowered and accepting. It’s really about that. … I give them permission to be themselves.”
You don’t need any psychic ability to be a palm reader, either, she adds. Just some training and a real fascination with meaning.
“I’ve always been interested in purpose,” Davis says. “I feel that everybody, without exception, wants to share something with the world. Personally, I just felt very unfulfilled in what I was doing. I knew there had to be more.”
Curious?
For more about Debbie Davis and palm reading, visit her website, at www.yourpathofpurpose.com. To make an appointment, call 439-0177.
