How Hands Show Your Personality

The hand shape shows your personality type. We normally describe ourselves with adjectives that show what we value the most like “brainy,” “practical,” “sensitive” or “creative.” What we value is an essential part of who we are. When we group people by hand shape, we see that people with similar shaped hands share similar values. As an easy metaphor to describe the various natures, we classify hands into four main types: Earthy (down to earth/practical), Airy (brainy, intellectual), Watery (sensitive), and Fiery (intense/creative). On the following pages is an example of each of the four main hand types.