Which hand to read (左右手)

What is the Which hand to read (左右手)?

This is the question that comes up most often in practice. Convention reads **the non-dominant hand for the grain one was born with and the dominant hand for the grain made by living** — for a right-handed person, the left is the ground and the right is the present. A large difference between the two is therefore read as someone whose given nature and current life have drawn some distance apart. That said, this rule also has variants — some lineages split it by sex or by age — so another source may advise differently. ⚠️ The Eastern lineages are especially divided — **the same claim appears in opposite forms**: that a man's left hand is the given one, and that a man's right hand is. Others say read both but weight the right, or that the leading hand switches around thirty. There is no ground for calling one of these correct. MYEONG reads whichever hand is uploaded as it is, and uses which hand it is only as context when the user says so.

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What does the Which hand to read (左右手) mean in palmistry?

The non-dominant hand for what was given, the dominant one for what was lived — by convention. This is the question that comes up most often in practice. Convention reads **the non-dominant hand for the grain one was born with and the dominant hand for the grain made by living** — for a right-handed person, the left is the ground and the right is the present. A large difference between the two is therefore read as someone whose given nature and current life have drawn some distance apart. That said, this rule also has variants — some lineages split it by sex or by age — so another source may advise differently. ⚠️ The Eastern lineages are especially divided — **the same claim appears in opposite forms**: that a man's left hand is the given one, and that a man's right hand is. Others say read both but weight the right, or that the leading hand switches around thirty. There is no ground for calling one of these correct. MYEONG reads whichever hand is uploaded as it is, and uses which hand it is only as context when the user says so.

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