Some of the most important bonds you make with other people are familial bonds. While your compatibility with friends and partners is of great importance to you, it is perhaps most vital of all for you to achieve good and compatible relationships with your family members. After all, they are one element in your life that you cannot change.

Luckily, it's almost guaranteed that you share at least some of the hand elements with those of your family members. Although the lines of the hands can and do change in response to life events and our reactions to them, our fingerprints, major lines, and skin ridges show the strong influence of our forebears. And because most people choose their mates from their own group and with characteristics similar to their own, many traits are passed on from generation to generation. Indeed, we can trace family relationships through the lines and shapes of our hands.

A Sometimes-Tangled Web

A family is a complicated web of relationships, with all kinds of alliances and resemblances, favored children, and prodigal sons. The similarities between our hands show the ways we are like our various relatives, and the differences show the variety that exists within a family. Indeed, similarities can create tension and disharmony, as two members of a family may be too much alike to get along, whereas differences between family members can strengthen a family as each can make a unique contribution.

In all cases, it's important in family relationships to respect what the palms and hands tell us about how to deal with the members of our family. This is the best way to build compatible relationships and to make sure our personalities and attributes can be made to work together for mutual growth and happiness.