A place to begin exploring how you may get along with another person in a friendship or business relationship is by looking at the shape and lines of your hands for similarities and differences. Remember that it is not only the similarities that draw persons together but also the differences that complement each other. These allow people to explore new interests and make the most of their own characteristics through the influence of their friends.

Hands of the Earth

Two earth-handed people can make for a good and solid relationship, as both are hard working and practical. They will learn to trust each other quickly and be able to count on each other. An earth-handed person and an air-handed person can be put at odds, as earth faithfully gets on with the task at hand day after day, while the air-handed one seeks new challenges and wants to talk about them before taking action.

Both earth-handed and fire-handed people are willing to put a great deal of time and effort into a relationship. The fires' exuberance needs their partners' down-to-earth practicality to help stay on target, and earth partners need fires' passions to stir them to new enterprises and activities. An earth-handed person mixing with a water-handed person can muddy the waters with fighting and incompatibility. Water may find the earth partner seemingly unfeeling and too blunt, but earth does offer a way to bring water's hopes and dreams to fruition with logic and practicality.

Walking on Air

Two air-handed people working together as friends or colleagues will put their brain power to use to achieve rational goals and pursuits, with no side trips into suspicion about other relationships or excessive passion. They should get along well. However, an air-handed person and a fire-handed person love life and socializing with other people — and although this could be fun, the fire-handed person may be too possessive and the air will need to learn to show commitment to the task at hand without feeling overwhelmed by the fire's demands.

An air-handed person with a water-handed person can be a good pairing, but air must learn to live with water's need for complete loyalty and provide emotional support. Air benefits from water's aesthetic sense, and water enjoys air's cosmopolitan nature.

Fire and Water

Two fire-handed people are like two sparks with a single flame — intense and sensitive. They will need to learn to involve each other and be attentive to each other's needs rather than concentrating solely on themselves.

Two water-handed friends or coworkers will become immersed together in their quest for art and beauty, but someone will have to remember to take the bus fare. They will get along just great, but will they be able to survive in the world?

A fire-handed person and a water-handed person will get along as they are both full of life, emotion, and energy. Fire may have to guide water onto the material and practical plane and away from more ethereal pursuits.