Palmistry is not a single, unified practice. It is a collection of traditions spanning centuries and continents — Indian palmistry, Chinese palmistry, Cheiro's Western system, modern psychological palmistry, and dozens of folk traditions. Each has its own rules.
One tradition counts any vertical line above the union line as a child. Another counts only deep, clear lines. One reads a heart line fork as balance; another reads it as a love triangle. One sees a broken fate line as career change; another sees it as an inheritance.
Add to this the fact that palm reading is an interpretive art, not a science, and you have a recipe for beautiful, endless disagreement.
