Find your elemental hand shape in 4 easy steps!

**Martijn (admin)** Sun Jul 20, 2014 1:18 pm

Find your Elemental Hand Shape in 4 steps!

The new charts (presented below) make it fairly easy to find your hand shape in just 4 simple steps:

Step 1: measure your finger length [FL], palm breadth [PB] and palm length [PL] according the visual guidelines inside the chart.
Step 2: calculate your FL/PL ratio and PB/PL ratio.
Step 3: find the location inside the chart which represents your ratio combination.
Step 4: finally... find the hand shape inside the chart (= 1 of the colored dots) which is located at the shortest distance to your ratio-combination!

NOTICE: Each of both charts represent a different approach to measuring 'palm breadth'; one might use both approaches with the purpose of a control mechanism (the 2nd method represents likely the most stable method for adults, as 'palm breadth' measured that the metacarpals remains very stable in adults).

More details inside the article:
Find your elemental hand shape proportions in 4 steps: a handy chart!

Find your elemental hand shape in 4 easy steps! Elemental-hand-shape-assessment-metacarpal-approach-details

**Martijn (admin)** Sun Jul 20, 2014 1:37 pm

• Earth hand shape (key-combi: very short overall finger length + squarish palm):

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- Temperament: responsible, security conscious;
- Emotions: stable, usually calm & peaceful, strong sense of justice;
- Interests: gardening, animals, food, hand made work, collecting;
- Work: practical skills, outdoor work, land work.

• Fire hand shape (key-combin: short overall finger length & oblong palm shape):

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Find your elemental hand shape in 4 easy steps! Elemen11

- Temperament: extravert, intense, motivated;
- Emotions: enthusiasm, exited, passionate;
- Interests: active entertainments, socializing, challenges, sports;
- Work: enterprise, business, industry.

• Air hand shape (key-combi: long overall finger length & squad-oblong palm shape):

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Find your elemental hand shape in 4 easy steps! Elemen12

- Temperament: independent, intellectual, communicative;
- Emotions: unemotional, controlled, detached;
- Interests: finding out, reading, talking, languages;
- Work: writing, teaching, journalism.

• Water hand shape (key-combi: very long overall finger length & narrow-oblong palm):

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Find your elemental hand shape in 4 easy steps! Elemen13

- Temperament: imaginative, idealistic, adaptable;
- Emotions: highly sensitive, delicate, romantic;
- Interests: music, poetry, dreams, psychic mysteries;
- Work: caring work, charitable work, spiritual vocations.

PS. 'Overall finger length' refers to the average of the FL/PL and FL/PB proportions!

**Martijn (admin)** Sun Jul 20, 2014 1:44 pm

NOTICE:

The FL/PL proportion does not represent 'overall finger length' for a hand; only the average of the FL/PL and FL/PB proportion provide a proper assessment of 'overall finger length'!

(Nevertheless, this issue is sort of irrelevant for a correct assessment of (elemental) hand shape, because this concerns a matter of combining the ratios of the FL, PB & PL)

**Martijn (admin)** Sat Sep 13, 2014 5:26 pm

New chart featured with more detailed guidelines (+ a more solid foundation with references to the works of Gettings, Dukes & Unger) are now available inside the article (for only the so-called 'metacarpal' perspective):

Find your elemental hand shape in 4 easy steps! Elemental-hand-shape-assessment-metacarpal-approach-details

Clochette2 Mon Sep 14, 2015 10:28 pm

In regards to your post hand shape with 3 steps (lo ked) , so I take the liberty to post here.

Your comparison with American /European (I suppose Caucasian? ) and Asian
Is it taking into account the body /hand size ratio?

**Martijn (admin)** Mon Sep 14, 2015 10:46 pm

Clochette2 wrote:In regards to your post hand shape with 3 steps (lo ked) , so I take the liberty to post here.

Your comparison with American /European (I suppose Caucasian? ) and Asian
Is it taking into account the body /hand size ratio?

Hi Clochette2,

Regarding your question above:

No, body size is not involved with those materials; the materials solely relate to the proportions of the hand.

Clochette2 Tue Sep 15, 2015 11:02 am

Thanks.
As a suggestion it would be interesting to compare ratio hands/body.
I have noticed on some people hands size that do not "match" the body size, besides the shape. I wonder if it has meanings or impacts on health, psychology.

**Martijn (admin)** Fri May 05, 2017 2:18 pm

Find your elemental hand shape in 4 easy steps! Full-hand-shape-vs-elemental-hand-shape

Elemental hand shape assessment can be understood to represent the opportunity for identifying hand shape sub-variants on top of the so-called 'hand index' - which represents a measure for overal hand shape (see picture above). The unique feature involved with elemental hand shape assessment is basically all about the factor involving 'finger length' factor.

Preceding studies have already pointed out that finger length [FL] can only be assessed properly by considering both palm breadth [PB] and palm length [PL]. A quick assessment can be made with the following formula:

Elemental hand shape: finger index = FL / [(PB+PL)/2]

A more detailed description for each of the 4 elemental hand shapes (Earth - Fire - Air - Water) is described in this brand new article, titled:

Elemental Hand Shape assessment 2.0

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