About me
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been drawn to hidden patterns that guide our behaviour, as revealed in our bodies, the words we choose and the lives we lead.
Palmistry and hypnosis became my way into those mysteries. One maps out the terrain; the other lights the way through it to our goals. Over the years I’ve woven these disciplines into a practice centred on insight, pattern recognition and deep change.
I’ve read thousands of hands from babies to elders, sceptics, mystics and madmen, and I’m yet to find one that isn’t interesting. The patterns are laid down in the womb and modified by the path of life. My work is simply about letting them tell their story.
Palms: 16 years
Tarot: 29 years
Hypnotherapy: 14 years
Former reader at Mysteries
British Astrological & Psychic Society accredited
My journey into the mysteries
One of grandmothers was a psychic and the other a graphologist, but my own interest began only when I was 20, after a Tarot deck surprised me with the coherence of its communications. I was reading professionally by 26, and then immersed myself into hand reading after someone blew me away with a session.
I took six courses at the Psychic College of London, read all the books I could find and studies some Indian and Chinese masters, testing everything with my clients. It appealed to me, as my academic research bridges the history of medicine and magic. Before these fields diverged, palmistry was already mapping endocrine function onto finger length and personality onto fingerprints in ways science is only now beginning to understand.
My journey into hypnosis began when an interview about my first book went terribly, and I needed to address my fear of public speaking. It transformed my life in a minutes, and today I give talks around the world, including on palmistry.
Perhaps it can do the something similar for you.
My approach: Hypno-magic
I combine divination and trancework into a session that first maps out who you are and where you want to be, and then supports the shift to make that vision a reality. We may project through a line in your hand or a character in a card into the imaginal realms, or travel your timeline to meet ancestors or future selves, to access internal resources or unhook limiting patterns.
Every fork, loop and droplet is like a word with a clear meaning; the art is piecing the words into a story that brings self-understanding. Sometimes a reader will slip into tired metaphors about a particular mark or card, rather than contextualising it with the rest of the hand, and something is lost. I endeavour to read the whole story.
More about my approach to hypnosis at transformhypno.com.
Ancient art and modern science
“Cheiro has exposed my character to me with humiliating accuracy."
– Mark Twain
For tens of thousands of years, before we had much to distract ourselves with, the world was one long nature documentary. We studied the skies, the natural world, and each other. Nearly every culture developed a tradition of palmistry, and refined it over millennias.
What Palmistry reveals
Fresh perspectives on a situation, strategies for action informed by your strengths and weaknesses, trajectories and influences. Nor rigid predictions but insights that empower to play your hand.
What Science confirms
Testosterone during foetal development lengthens the ring finger and correlates with risk-taking, aggression and drive. Whorl fingerprints on the thumb link to more depression than average, but on the index finger it is less. Head line length and obsessive thinking, skin markings and digestive issues, nail shape and immune function… wherever science looks, it validates what palmists have known for centuries.
Aristotle, Pliny, Galen, Hipocrates, Paracelsus and other great medics and thinkers of history were palmists, and (unlike today) the scope was far broader than simple medical diagnostics. There is much to learn in your hands.
What happens in a reading
Palmistry tells us about the constitution of your mind, body and heart, as well as themes and pivotal shifts in your biography.
Tarot focuses on specific questions, mapping out current influences.
Hypnosis draws on deep resources and cements the will.
But I’d rather not know!
Really? Palm lines indicate trajectories, but they also change as patterns of thought shift. Divination can be like a GPS system: if there are cliffs ahead, it can recalculate the route.
Readings are comprehensive, solutions-focused and recorded. You’ll leave with a clear plan for next steps and potentially a hypnotic induction to return to.
Beyond the lines
I’ve also published two books on the history of science and linguistics and psychology, written pop science pieces and academic articles, and given talks and podcasts on the understanding of psychopharmacology in Indigenous tribes and the ancient Israelites, prejudice in the academy, collective intelligence in nature and much more.
Find me at: dannynemu.com | substack | Instagram.