Palmistry of Fingerprints - An Introductory Talk

All right. So, welcome everybody. My name is Christopher Jones. I am going to give you a little presentation today about fingerprints of the hand.

So, I have been studying hand reading for over 40 years. And the most important features of the hands are the fingerprints, which you probably know. You have fingerprints on the end of your fingers and you probably know two things about your fingerprint patterns. One thing that everybody knows is that the fingerprint patterns are unique to everybody. So everybody's fingerprint patterns are unique to each person. And the second thing that's important about fingerprint patterns is that they don't change over time. So they are permanent markers of our identity over time. So when we can identify what those fingerprint patterns are, we can learn something about the kind of characteristics that we have in ourselves that will endure throughout our whole lives.

So, what we're going to do today is we're going to try and identify what the fingerprint patterns are that you have on your hands. And then once you have an idea of what they are, we'll give you some idea of what they mean as well. Okay? All right.

So now whilst there are an infinite number of fingerprint patterns like because everybody has a unique set of fingerprint patterns there are actually only seven types of fingerprint patterns or seven main types of fingerprint patterns. So it's not that complicated but we do need to look at what those are and I will bring some slide on the show now so you can see what the fingerprint patterns are and what they look like. All right let's do that. Can everybody see that illustration? Can you see that? Give me a thumbs up if you can see it. Cool.

All right. So the three main fingerprint patterns are called the the loop, the arch, and the whirl. So the loop is the most common fingerprint pattern. And you can see that it basically looks like a wave. I think that's the easiest way to imagine it is like a wave crashing up. If you can imagine that. Um, the second most common fingerprint pattern is the whirl, which is the spiral pattern that goes around like that. And the third most common pattern is the arch, which is like a little bridge or a little mountain that looks like that. So, we're looking at the shape of the pattern that occurs on the end of the fingers, and we're trying to discern whether they have one of these distinctive forms or not. The arch, the loop, or the whirl.

Now, how do we know that they're different? Well, we can look at the shape, but we can also look at what is known as the triadius, which is this little triangular formation here. So if you look carefully on the side of the print, you can see you have they make a little triangular formation just here. Can you see what I'm pointing to on the side there? So that's called a tri radius. This is the characteristic that tells us the type of fingerprint pattern. The arch has no triadius. The loop has one and the world has two. Unfortunately, this diagram doesn't show two, but there's a second one just about here like that. So the way we need to look at for a combination of the little triangles and we need to look for the for that and for the shape. So we're looking for two things when we look at the fingerprint pattern.

Most of you will have loops. So have a look at your fingerprint patterns and see if you can see the wave. So look on your finger, see if you can see the triangle. You might want to use your phone to shine the light on your phone. That's a really good way to do it to kind of to get the extra light. See if you can see the fingerprint on your index finger. Have a look at your fingerprint pattern. Now try and view the ridges in the finger and see if you can see the shape of it. There are there are more than these three, but these are the most common three. It's very likely you will have one of these three. All right. So, start looking at the fingerprints.

All right. In addition to those three main patterns, there are a few minor patterns as well. Oh, no. This is this is a variations on the alner loop. So most of you will have a na loops. So mo the ner loop as I said you can see it on the print here. If you look carefully you can see the triangular formation here and you can see that the loop comes up and over like that. You can see the little triangular formation here. So this is real these are real life fingerprints. You can see that the pattern comes up and around like that. Again, the tri radius on the side, the triangle on the side, the pattern coming over like that. And you can see it makes a little sort of pocket inside like that. Can you see that? Is that all Is that all clear for you to see? Can you see that on your finger? Who's got that on their index finger? Has anybody got that on their index finger? You can put a thumb up if you've got it on your index finger. All right. If you haven't got it on your index finger, look at your little finger. This finger, this pattern is really common on the little finger. Like about 85% of little fingers will have it.

So, first of all, we need to kind of get to identify the fingerprint patterns. It's a little bit technical to to to see these, but once we clearly see the the the different designs, then we'll be able to work out what fingerprint pattern we have on each of our fingers. So, the the the loop fingerprint pattern has one triadius, whereas the arch fingerprint pattern has no triadius. So, you can see here with the arch, it's just a ridge that goes up and down, up and down. And there's no little triangle formation in arch. So here's some variations. Here are the arch variations. So this is some good examples of lots of different types of arches. Can you see how they all make these little bridge, little hump, little mountains or little hills? They all go up and down like that. If you've got one of these, it's most likely going to be on your index finger. The most common place to find an arch is on the index finger.

And then the third pattern is the whirl pattern. And here you can see the two tri radially. Can you see the little triangle formations on both sides of the print? People say the world is very pretty. People like wells. They look they look they look quite attractive. They're quite intriguing in their shape. But you can see sometimes it's a very tight little spiral pattern. Um, and sometimes it makes a nice big big round circular motion like that. But you always get the the two little triangles on either side. So that's the first thing you have to look for. Have you got a tri radius? Is it one try radius, two tri radius, or no tri radius? And then look for the shape. Who's got who's got a well? >> Who's got a well? Fingerprint. If you've got a whirl fingerprint pattern, the most likely place you're going to find a whirl is on your ring finger. So have a look at your ring finger. You may have three or four or five or six wells. That's also possible. So this is the thing. The fingerprint patterns occur on different fingers. They don't all occur on all the fingers. You may have different fingerprint patterns on every finger. All right. So, let's go to So the two two try radi from this on this fingerprint pattern. So, here's some here's some examples of the different types of wells that you might see. Okay. So, as I said, some wells are very tight little circles like this one. And then some ones are some of them are really long elliptical shapes like that. You can see that there's quite a lot of variation in the shape. That doesn't matter. Um, so they can be anywhere. As long as they got a spiral in the middle and as long as it's got the two triadi on the sides, it's a world. So you need to look for little triangles and you need to look for the spiral shape.

All right. So, these three fingerprint patterns make up 85% of all fingers fingerprints. So, the majority of fingerprint patterns be one of these three types. And it's what's interesting about these patterns is they they're distributed differently amongst different people around the world. So loops are most common in the hands of Europeans. Uh and in the hands of Europeans you get you find about 60 to 65% of fingerprint patterns are loops. and worlds are about 20%. But in New Zealand, it's very interesting because in New Zealand, the the world the Maldi population, the indigenous people of New Zealand, they have about 65% whs and correspondingly less loops. So you get different distributions of loops and whs and arches amongst different populations around the world. And I think that's important to describe something of the characteristics of the kind of societies that people around the world create by virtue of the fingerprint patterns that they have. The the highest incident of arches were found amongst tribal people in in continental Africa.

So let's go on to looking at how to identify the other 15% of fingerprint patterns. So there were four minor patterns and the four minor patterns are the tented arch sorry the tented arch which is up here. I'll go through these in more detail. the peacock's eye, the radial loop, and the double loop. The rad the radial loop is exactly like the ordinary loop, but it's you can see that's the loop that goes around one way, but the radial loop goes in the opposite direction. So this is the index finger in this person's hand and the the only place where the radial loop occurs commonly is on the index finger. So you can see that it's on the thumb. It's open on the thumb side and it points towards the little finger. It goes that way. It's a very distinctive pattern. It's the fourth most common fingerprint pattern, but it only occurs commonly on the ring on the index finger. It's not on any other fingers really. It's very rare on the other fingers. Mostly you'll find it only on the index finger. So it's about 22% of index finger. It occurs about 2% of the middle finger. and almost not at all on any of the other fingers at all. So, if you have this pattern, you most likely you're going to see it only if it's on your index finger. So, we will check that. So, you might have a wave on your on your index finger, but you need to check the direction that it goes in. Does the wave go up and point towards the thumb or does the wave go up and point away from the thumb? So you need to check the directionality of that fingerprint on your index finger if it's a loop. One's called a radial loop, one's called anal loop, and they mean quite different things.

Then there's another pattern you can get is called a double loop. And the double loop looks like like this. Can you see how it goes down and up like that? So the double loop is two loops going in two directions. So there's one loop going up and around like that. And the double loop has another like has another loop going over the top of it. So it's like two loops going in two different directions. You might see that this is like a sort of yin-yang sign. If you know what that looks like, it looks like that. There you go. Something like that. So it looks like a yinyang sign. So that's a good way to think about this pattern. This pattern is like the yin-yang sign of the fingerprint patterns. And the this this if you have this pattern, it's most likely you'll see it on your thumb. It's a great pattern for creating indecision and duality for people, especially when it's found on the thumb. Right. Yeah. About 3% of index fingers have this pattern. So here are some variations on it. So again, like with the other patterns, they can be big loops like this one here, making a big sway through it, or it can be a tight little loop like that. So you can still see the you can still see the yin-yang effect. Can you see the yin-yang sign in the middle of this pattern? If I just draw it around like that, it looks like a little yin-yang sign, I think. People say the people with these patterns are very spiritual. I think they kind of are in a way. Um, because what they like to do is they like to sort of see how how opposites reconcile and they're very fond of integration. Most commonly seen on the thumb.

Um, then there's a pattern called a central pocket world which is a kind of like a a little world inside a loop. You'll see these mostly on the on the ring finger. Um, I count these as just variant oil patterns really. They're they are um like a whirl because they are it's got this spiral shape in the middle. The difference is it's kind of like a whirl inside a loop. So it's kind of there's the loop pattern and there's a little whirl on the inside. So you can get this variation too, but it's really effectively a well they're quite rare on most of the fingers except the ring finger. So you won't see this on your hand unless it's on your ring finger likely. But we'll have a we'll have a look and we'll have a see. We'll have a check.

And then the rarest fingerprint pattern of all is what's called the tented arch. Um, and this is a pattern with a central thrust in it like that. So, it's kind of like goes up and and it has the ridges that go up and over it like that. You can see that same thing here. Big spike in the middle and the ridges coming up and over that. But this is really, really, really rare, this fingerprint pattern. Like you will find this on hardly any h any fingerprints at all. It's uncommon even on the index finger. So, it's not it's not a pattern that you're going to see very often, but if you do find it, it's probably only going to be on your index finger because it doesn't it almost doesn't occur anywhere else on the hand. So, here are some variations of it. So you can see the the thrust here going up and over like that. So it looks like a it looks like the ridge pole of a tent has a very distinct has a very distinctive meaning.

All right. So, what I want to do now that we've kind of looked at all the different fingerprint patterns, what I'd like to do is kind of invite you to kind of look at your own fingerprint patterns and try and work out which fingerprint patterns you've got. So, maybe we can just do a little moment of doing that, do a little bit of identification, and then we can come back to talking about what they what they mean. So, can everybody see their own fingerprints? All right. So, try and work out whether you've got first of all whether you got let's just look at the fingerprint on the index finger because that's the most important finger. Okay. So, have a look at have a look at that fingerprint pattern on there and see if you can work out what shape it is. If you're not sure, you can put it up to the camera and maybe we can have a look and see it together. Yeah, if you're older, your mom's shaking her ju. If you're older, it can be difficult to see fingerprint patterns cuz they do get a bit they get a bit fainter. But what you can see Philipper here, she's got a very bright light. That's really helpful. So, use a bright light or maybe the your torch on your phone. That's really helpful. Okay. What have you got there? Juliana is trying to show us her fingerprint. What have you got there, Juliana? Yeah, I can hear you. Yeah, I could hear her as well. Yeah. Okay. I think you have to go back to Portuguese for them to hear you. >> Juliana, if you speak, I will better I should I should I should see you. forchech. scared to put the finger to the camera. Maybe I can not so close. Further back. Yeah, good idea. >> Go back a bit. Okay. The other way we can do this that we can make this work is if you take a photograph of your fingerprint and then we can share the image. That's another way to do this. So with your camera, take a photo.

>> All right. Everybody wants to have a tented arch because it's the rarest fingerprint pattern to be found. It's true. Everybody wants one. But there's not it's not necessarily the be it's not necessarily the best fingerprint to have. So I will talk a little bit about the fingerprint patterns and what they mean. Then you can get an idea of that. Okay. But I think looking at that the best way we're going to do this is if we want to see to share the fingerprints if you can take a photograph and then we can we can share you can display them on your screen and we can share the screen. So maybe you want to try that way of doing it.

All right. So, let me talk a little bit about the the meaning of the different fingerprints because I think that's really important that we do that first of all. Um, so let's go back to the main. Okay, there we go. Last one. There we All right. So, the different fingerprint patterns have different significations. The loop is the most common fingerprint pattern and the loop is ruled by the element water. So people have lots of loops are very sociable and like being amongst other people. There's an easygoing characteristic that they have. Um, they like to connect with people. Having a sort of friendship circle is important. Having a kind of sense of relationship to other people. Um, it's like wanting to belong is a really big big part of their life. Wanting to be part of something. And this is in contrast to the world which is because of its nature is very self-contained and very private and very individual. People with lots of worlds want to spend a lot of time on their own. Want to do things in their own way. People with lots of loops want to do things with other people and join in all the time. So there's this kind of tension that exists between these two fingerprint patterns. The loop is sociable and the world is antisocial in many respects because the world prides itself on being different and prides itself on being separate from other people whereas the loop enjoys the company of other people and wants to be amongst other people. So it's interesting that most people have loops because most people pref prefer to be in the company of other people. We human beings are social animals as they like to say. So when you see someone with lots of loops, you know that that that's very important part of their life that they want to be a part of something. They want to join in something. They want to be connected to other people. Um, there's so there's a an ease of assimilation. The loop kind of shows a mind that takes things in easily, is very accepting, is very inclusive. Um, democratic is a very good word to describe people with lots of loops because it's about the people. the people, the people, the people. It's for it's important for people with lots of loops. Are we all in this together? Are we working this together? Whereas the world has the kind of opposite philosophy. It's all about being independent, about being self-reliant, about being autonomous, having freedom. And the more worlds you've got, the more that's important to a person. So having having four or more wells is a kind of good indication that you're a very well type person. So if you're if you're counting up the wells, you want to look at the wells on the index finger and the ring finger and then the thumb. The most three most common places you find wells. Once people start getting four or more wells on their two hands, then the world pattern starts dominating and the person wants to spend more time on their own wants to do things their own way and not want to do things with other people. It is possible to find people with eight or nine or 10 worlds, but that's unusual. Um, and the more worlds that person has, the more they want to spend uh time on their own, live by themselves. They're like hermits. they they spend all their time doing their own thing and going their own way and they don't really care about socializing other people. That's not really what they they're designed to do. So these two patterns describe something of the relationship patterns that we create with other people. So loops are groups and worlds are individuals. So people with worlds tend to have one-on-one relationships and very few friends. People with lots of loops tend to have lots of different friendships in lots of different groups and that sense of connection and belonging to a big group of people is really really important to them. So that's it's very simple way to kind of work it out. You know, if you if you if you if you know that you're somebody who likes spending time on your own, you've probably got lots of worlds. If you like spending, you know, if friendships and belonging and being part of something is really important to you, um, then loops are really important. So, Philip Silva is in is in Lisbon. So, and she said, "Oh, it' be lovely to join in with all the people speaking on kology in in Portuguese." So, so because she's got loops. So, this is a really good loop motivation um to do something. It's like feel like I'm connected to people who do hand reading in Portuguese. It's a really good loop motivation. She's smiling because she knows exactly that's why her motivation is, you know. So, um, and Philipper, I think Philipper's got worlds if I remember rightly. Philipper just does her own Philipper in Wellington does her own does her own thing in her own way. So, she's the only English speaking person here. So, >> two worlds. >> You got two worlds. Yeah, >> only two worlds and eight arches. >> But on my thumb >> and my ring finger. >> Okay. the thumb, the word on the thumb is the classic indication. So like, so Philip is like, Philip is the person who shouldn't be here because she's she's she's not Portuguese and she's not Brazilian, but she is. And she is because she's got a whirl on her thumb and people with wells on their thumb always do their own thing in their own way. So where you find the world is important as well. I'll come we'll go back a little bit more in detail in a moment but just to look at just to finish on these three main points first.

So so loops are people and groups worlds are individuals doing their own thing. Arches are about family and security and stability. The arches are the providers in the world. So where you see arches, you got the carers, the nurturers, the teachers, the people who are the pillars of society providing and supporting. I always think of the arch as like a bridge, you know, like it's it's the whole it's the it's the arch that holds up the bridge and the br you know the arch is very very strong. the resilience of the arch like architecturally it's a very strong uh geometry and and the br the arch holds up the bridge the bridge holds up the road the roads holds up the traffic so this is the supporter this pattern is someone who who will care for and provide and support for themselves and for their family so whereas the loop likes people but the arts likes people if they're related to them so there's a kind of I always think of it as tribal. There's a very strong need for the tribal connection. So family is really important to people with arches. And that sense of security and stability that comes with that, the sort of close-knit family group is really important to people with arches. And so they have a very different orientation towards life than other people. So they're not common. The arches are not common. The arch is only in European population, the arch only occurs on about 8% 8% of of fingers. That's really relatively rare. The only two large patterns are found commonly are the loop and the and the whirl. These two here, they're very common, but arches are the third most common pattern, but they're very distinctive in terms of their orientation and needs. And another really big thing for for arches is well, it's a couple of things. I'm thinking justice. Justice is really important. things being fair is always really important to people with arches and reliability is really important. So when I say reliability, I mean that in lots of ways. I mean that emotionally they they create emotional bonds with people that are very loyal. They're very loyal to their friends and their family, but they want reliability in knowledge as well. So you tend to find arches interested in history or science, archaeology or criminology subjects which are basically to do with can we make can we find out about how things work and how societies are run and can we understand the rules of things which is why there's interest in science. We want everything to be grounded on a reliable and solid base. That's the arch. It wants to be solid and reliable all the time in everything. uh the loop wants to be flexible and adaptable and connected all the time and the world wants to be independent and autonomous and free. Sovereignity, freedom and autonomy is really important for the world. So can you see how that these these are descriptions from the from the shape of the pattern. Can you see how that's coming out? Just to clarify that again. So the world is self-contained. It's in a circle like that. The loop is like a wave. So, it's like flowing like that. And then the arch is holding things up and supporting things like that. So, that's how we that's how we approach the interpretation of the pattern. What we have with the fingerprint patterns is we have a kind of energetic signature. So I think that the cause of the fingerprint patterns is the way that consciousness impresses upon us when we're when we're born because the fingerprint patterns form in the womb. They form around the 16th week of gestation. So about 4 months of fetal development and then that's when the fingers are forming and then the fingerprints form. And this is to me this is like an impression of the energetics of consciousness coming through. If you look at the sea when the tide goes out, you can see how the sea has made ripples in the sand on the beach and that is the effect of the water moving over the sand. And I think that's a very good analogy for consciousness's effect upon the body and it kind of consolidates and leaves this impression within the physical form of the body on our fingerprints. And so that's the energy that we have. That's how the how the energy moves within us. So it either moves kind of very intensely in focus like a a whirlwind or a spiral or it's very fluid like a wave moving up and down like that or it has a sort of desire to kind of hold and support which is like the arch. It's hardly moving at all and there's very little movement in the arch pattern. So it's quite a good way to think about that.

So when it comes to the minor patterns, we can employ the same motif and we can see them doing the same thing. So with the tented arch, what we have gone gone back the wrong way. Go back again. All right. With the tented arch, we have this thrust. So the tented arch is like a volcano. The tented arch is someone who's very enthusiastic and expressive, has a desire to lead and to initiate. It's a really rare rare pattern to find, but when you have it, they're usually quite excitable, intense kind of people with a big focus on something in their life. They got a mission that they need to fulfill. So that's kind of like that gives this idea again this this energy is thrusting up through the fingerprint like that. Um, and you only ever find this on the index finger. It's you almost never find it on any other finger except the index finger. So, it's it's all about their personal leadership and their personal authority and their personal vision.

The peacock's eye, well, that's a a whirl inside a loop. And I think of that very much like just basically as a whirl. It's a kind of softer world. Can you imagine being an independent person who wants to be in a group of people at the same time? That's the combination that it represents. It's got the individuality of the world and the the the gregariousness, the sociability of the loop, but it's I think on balance um the way that works is the world tends to dominate. The most famous example probably I can tell you about with a peacock's eye um is Jimmyi Hendris who had it on his index finger. So Jimmyi Hendris is obviously very famous for someone with a unique guitar style but he was also very much influenced by the zeitgeist of his time and was very much very important social figure obviously in the late 1960s. So he's kind of a good example of the combination of those two patterns together. But if you have one of these, I would I would er on the side of on of on of on of on of the side of the of the world. We tend to think of Jimmyi Hendricks not as a a social metaphor and an icon. We think of him as someone outrageously original, different and brilliant, which is kind of much more the world characteristic. So it's probably good to think of the this pattern as a world.

The radial loop pattern. Well, the radial loop pattern occurs again mainly on the index finger. So when it occurs on the index finger, it shows a very strongly person who's very strongly influenced by forces from the outside. These are really sensitive people uh very responsive people, people who are uh aware of the other people's reactions to them and are very affected by the people situations and circumstances around them. As I mentioned before, this pattern only occurs really on the index finger and the index finger is to do with our sense of self-confidence. So people with the radial loop on their index finger, their sense of self-confidence is very strongly affected by people around them. So you find this pattern in in what you people call empaths. You find it on carers, counselors, people who are very responsive to the needs of other people um but can who also can get easily overwhelmed by other people. So they have a curious mechanism by which they can be very defensive sometimes particularly men. Men are supposed to be strong and not vulnerable but they when they have this pattern they feel very vulnerable so they get very defensive. Women women are allowed to be sensitive and empathic. So when they have this pattern, they tend to take on too much from other people and it can end up in people pleasing behavior. It's one of the most difficult fingerprint patterns to have. And if you have it, it will only be on your index finger. As I said before, it hardly occurs on any other fingerprint pattern, any other finger. So it's really important to notice if you have this pattern. As I said, the loop, you need to look at the loop. Which direction does it go in? Does it point towards the little finger or does it point towards the thumb? The radial loop points towards the little thing towards the little finger. So this is on the left hand. This is a left hand index. Does anybody have this pattern on their fingers that they can see? You have a radio loop on your index fer. Hang on. You're muted. You have to speak up. I can't hear you. Sorry. No, I have a peacock's eye on my ring finger. Yes, you. That's the most common place to find the peacock's eye. Yep, that's true. Has anybody got a radial loop on the index finger? You can't see. police in a porn card. >> Juliana, I'm going to ask you to take a photograph of your fingerprints because you're very keen to take a photograph. >> Take a photograph. I can see them.

All right, the last print to look at is the double loop. And the double loop is, as we saw before, these two loops going in two different directions like this. So the double loop creates duality and uncertainty. And the most common place to find it is on the thumb. So if you have a double loop, it's probably on your thumb. And if it's on your thumb, it's going to give you a sense of indecision about your life and where you want to go in your life and what you want to do. If it's on your index finger, which is rare but possible, then it creates a sense of confusion in your sense of selfidentity. But it's always seeing things from two points of view because you got you got the up and you've got the down. So you can see both the yin and the yang. You can see the positive and the negative. So this is somebody who takes some time to make decisions because they're weighing up the pros and cons. It results in people being very good mediators, very good at adjudication because it's the ability to see both sides of the coin and to to weigh up all those options. But it's relatively rare. As I said, these fingerprint patterns are relatively rare when they're found on the on the on on on any other fingers other than the thumb for the double loop. So it's kind of quite important to understand that the different patterns occur on different fingers in different distributions. So the radial loop as I said only occurs commonly on the index finger. So you can see this is the radial loop on the index finger on the right hand. So have a look if you got that one. The almost not any on any other digits at all. The double loop occurs on 3% of index fingers, but is most commonly seen on the thumb. >> So the peacock's eye, as Philip said, well, that occurs mainly on the on the ring finger, but very very rare on any other finger. So if you have a peacock's eye, you have a very unusual fingerprint as well. And the tented arch fingerprint pattern is so rare. It only occurs on about 4% of index fingers and almost never on any other digits at all. So you won't necessarily see that on any fingers at all. It's almost non-existent on the thumb. 0.006%. That's how rare it is on the thumb. So we can say we're never going to see that. I've never seen one. So that's the four minor patterns. The radar loops about 5% of the total. The double loops about 4% of the total fingerprint patterns. The central pocket world or peacock's eye is 3%. And the tended arch is 1%. So they're all very rare as compared to the loop the world and the arch. So this is a the numbers here are population from from England. So this is a British population sample. um it's fairly common amongst European distributions of people around the world. So it's probably a good working number. It's not true for indigenous people in Africa or in Polynia uh or in in remote parts of the world are they have different distant but that accounts for 99% of all known fingerprints. Okay.

So, there are some very weird fingerprint patterns. I'm going to show you these as well. Would you like to see some more weird fingerprint patterns? Because there are some extremely interesting variations of fingerprint patterns. All right. So, I can show you some interesting designs, too. All right. So, there's some patterns are called Newton loops. So, the Newton loop is like a loop that falls over. You can see on this handprint here. You can see how it's kind of falling over like that. Kind of goes up and it kind of falls down. Really, really rare. Less than 1% in the hands of men. There is another pattern called a lateral pocket loop is where you get two loops coming in from the side like that. Yeah. going up and over. As you can see in this this fingerprint here, got one going like that. And then you got another one going like that. So these are all really rare fingerprint patterns. It's 0.154%. It's incredibly rare. And then other patterns become crazy. You get these crazy formations whereby you get the pattern doing kind of crazy things in here and it's not quite sure. This one looks like a little mushroom. I think it's kind of like an interesting little shape, but they there are sometimes there are crazy patterns that don't really fall into any of the other major pattern types. So, you need to you just need to know that they can exist. And these are accidentals. These are tiny little worlds. Again, very very rare patterns. So there are there are anomalies and sometimes fingerprint patterns become unclassifiable and they're kind of very weird in malformed ways and sometimes you get fingerprint patterns which run right off the end of the finger. So you can see here that the fingerprint pattern just goes straight off the end like that. Doesn't do what fingerprints normally do which is to curve over at the top. So that one's a tented arch. You can see that's a really good example of a tented arch. But this one is something else. We're not quite sure what they are. They are incredibly rare fingerprint patterns. So there's an enormous amount of variation that can be found in these different patterns. Uh and they do look very odd and very weird.

So, what I what I want to do to for you guys, it's kind of really hard to do this um through the Zoom call. So, you're all interested in your fingerprints. So, what I want to invite you to do is if you take a photograph of your hand, you can email it to me and I will tell you what your fingerprint patterns are and then you can uh and I'll send you a little write up about it, too. Unfortunately, it will be in English. Um, but if you'd like that, you can you can send me an email with a photograph of your fingerprints. How does that sound? Does that sound like a good idea? All right, cool.

Now, um, of course, the other thing you can do is you can wait you can wait for my book to come out, but that might take you a while. My book's coming out in in January, and I'll just show you a little bit about what the book has to what the book's in, what's in the book, and what's what's going on in there. All right. So, I'll just show you that now. All right. So, the book that I've written, it's called The Palmetistry of Fingerprint Patterns. So, you can see that's the title of it there. That's the the cover. Um, and in the book, I talk about all the different fingerprint patterns and what they mean. But I talk about the meaning of every fingerprint pattern on every finger. So, you can work out the psychological significance of the fingerprint patterns. There are also patterns that occur in your palm. So, we will be able to look at the patterns in your palm. And you there are all patterns on under the fingers and in the base of the palm as well. They all have very specific uh significations as well. There's a chapter on uh the medical fig significance of fingerprint patterns and also about your personal identity and your karmic path as well. So it's kind of covers a whole range of different aspects of fingerprints from genetics to medical qualities to anthropology to psychology. But I've written it as a book so that you can go through the book and identify the fingerprint patterns and work out what fingerprint patterns you have on your fingers and then it gives you the capacity for interpreting them as well. So I've written a paragraph of the of the psychological significance of each pattern and a paragraph outlining the meaning of each fingerprint pattern when it's found on each finger. and then a whole section on the meaning of all the patterns that you find in the palm and how commonly they occur and what they all mean as well. The first thing to do really when you're looking at the prints is to find out what your dominant fingerprint pattern are. Are you a dominant loop person? Are you a dominant well person? Or are you a dominant arch person? or is your hand dominated by dominated dominated dominated by the one single individual pattern that you have that's a bit different. We need to know the significance of the distributions of the fingerprint patterns how common and rare they are. The more rare the fingerprint pattern, the more important it is as an as a signifier of what it is to be you. A couple of appendices include the genes the embryo genenesis of fingerprints. Then I've written done some writeups of the fingerprint patterns of some famous people including Jimmyi Hendris and John Lennon and Malcolm X. And if you want to order the book, you can get it from the publisher um directly or from Amazon. Um, and it's available online right now for ordering. So you can actually order it. It's only in English at the moment, but it will be translated into Portuguese at some point. Um, and if you want to get hold of me, you can get hold of me through any of these channels. Um, so or you can just email me, uh, master handreadergmail.com as well.

All right. So, Deborah's raised her hand. Deborah has a question, I presume. Deborah, what do you want to say? >> Hi. Um, can you hear me? >> Yes, we can hear you. >> Okay. Uh so once you trying to see the pattern you need to look at your 10 fingers like all of them or just in one hand to be the dominate one. >> Yes. Exactly. Good question. All right. So the question is do you need to look at all your fingerprint patterns or just the one in your dominant hand? Well yes all of them. So the way I the way I work with this is the way I work with this is I say you look at you add up the total on all the digits. So the first thing is what's the total out of 10 that tells you your general type. The second thing is you must look at the fingerprint on the index finger because the index finger is the most varied fingerprint. The the the there's more divergence on this finger than any other finger. And also the fingerprint on the index finger shows your sense of identity. So in some ways that fingerprint pattern is the most important fingerprint pattern because it's what the person will identify with. The third thing is you need to look at which finger is different. Which one is the odd one out? Which one kind of shouldn't be there? Which one is the fingerprint pattern that's kind of uh unusual. And to know that, you need to know how common or rare a fingerprint pattern is. So there's a guy in America called Andress Washington. He uh has been studying fingerprints completely independently of me for about 40 years. And he is he studies the rarity of fingerprint patterns. And what he's found is the rare and unusual people have rare and unusual fingerprints. That's how I got the hold of the h fingerprints of John Lennon and Jimmyi Hendris and Malcolm X because he has them all on his website. And how does he have them? Because he has access to the FBI database. So he has access to a database of 18 million fingerprint patterns. >> Oh wow. >> Yeah. I have a database of maybe 2,000, you know, 2,000 hands or whatever 20,000 20,000 prints. But >> yeah, because it's a really interesting mix that you find in here like it's >> it's confusing even because uh it's >> is an like in some hands is dominating one type, the other hands dominated, but like the thumbs normally they are swirl. >> Exactly. And then and then you say, "Well, I don't have a like a a dominant one. I have all of them." >> Yeah. >> But it's really >> so that's that's where it gets a little bit complex, but that's what I explain in the book. So I explain in the book >> how to to to process that information. The first thing is identification. What type have I got? >> Yeah. The second Sorry, my internet's gone a bit unstable. Did you hear that last bit? I'll just repeat that last bit in case it got lost. You got it. Okay. So, and that's what's interesting about Andrew Washington because he studied Eisenhower, um, Richard Nixon, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Jimmyi Hendris, Billy Holidayiday, John Lennon, all these Elvis Presley, Einstein, all these interesting and unusual people all have interesting and unusual fingerprints. And so his his study is about the correlations mathematically. he's a statistician you know he's it's all quite mathematical but so I was working with him when I wrote the book because that's how I got the handprints and we've been exchanging a lot.

of information on this particular topic. So, um, so there's a, there's a, I've kind of created some rules in the book for how you approach that. But simply to begin with, look at all the fingerprint patterns, add them up out of 10. And if you have seven or more loops, you're a loop dominant person. If you have five or more whorls, you're a whorl dominant person. If you have three or more arches, you're an arch dominant person. And if you have any of the minor diamatics, those will dominate just because they're so rare.

Anyway, thank you so much.

Yeah, you're welcome. But if you send me a photograph of your fingerprints, I will work it all out for you and I can send you a little report for free.

Okay.

Yeah, it's quite just a bit confusing with the arch and the tented arch, like could be really, I, you really confuse if it's a tent. But, um, yeah, I have like kind of similar thumbs are whorls. The index and middle finger are kind of a tent and loops. Yeah. So, I have a little bit of everything, but I don't know if it's the tent or just the normal arch.

Okay. Well, you send me, you send me the photograph and Deborra and I will answer that for you.

Okay. No problem.

Yeah, I'll, I'll take that. Is better like a clean finger like that or like a painted one?

Yeah. No, no, just a clean finger, just like that. It's easy. That's easiest. Yeah. Like that. Yeah. Cool.

Thank you.

Anybody else got any other questions? All right. So, that's good. All right. So, let's just, we'll just wrap it up then because I mean, we said we do about an hour and a half. So, we're coming up towards the last bit. So, I'll just do some concluding thoughts for everybody because I think it's important to understand the context of all of this.

So, I think it's, it's, it's interesting. Fingerprints are really interesting because, um, everybody knows that fingerprint patterns are important. And more and more these days, we're using our fingerprints for our phones, or for, for, for going through passport control and stuff like that. So, there's a recognition, the, the, the fingerprint patterns are very unique biometric markers of our individuality. And this has been recognized for about 120 years. There's about a hundred years research into the genetics of fingerprint patterns and the medical significance of fingerprint patterns. And there's been some scientific research into the psychological significance of it. But it's people like Andress Washington who've been doing a lot of that pioneering work.

And the thing is that we know, but we know two things about fingerprint patterns. We know that they don't change. So, then we know that they're markers of our identity. So, it's, it's inconceivable that if these are patterns of our identity, that they shouldn't have be some kind of reflection of who and what we are. Our physical being, our bodies are a reflection of who and what we are. We're tall, thin people, we're short, fat people, whatever shape of our body. Our body is the hologram of what it is to be an individual. The body is in fact the marker of us as individual human beings because we are differentiated by having a physical body. So, it's, it's not that difficult to understand that the body can is descriptive of us. We, we recognize people by the fact their faces are different. This is just recognizing people by the fact that their fingerprints are different.

But what's significant about the fingerprint patterns is they are totally unique to us. And when you study the hands of identical twins, identical twins don't have identical fingerprint patterns. So, even at that level of genetic and, uh, compatibility, the identical twins don't have the same fingerprint patterns. They also don't have the same lines on their hands either. There are differences in the lines too, but we're just focusing on the fingerprint patterns today. So, what that tells us is that the fingerprint patterns are descriptive of that which is completely unique to us. And if we can understand what that pattern is and what that force of energy is, that will enable us to live a life that's kind of true to who and what we are.

So, that's a challenge, I think, for most people. We, most people are convinced or persuaded by propaganda, by government, by education, by parents, by social, by social media and social pressures to be in a certain kind of way. The, the one virtue about fingerprint patterns is it allows us to express who and what we are from the inside coming outwards. These are qualities that we have within us. They're psychological. They're emotional. The fingerprint can show our skills and abilities. They show our natural aptitudes. So, there's a kind of orientation that we have towards the world that if we're aligned with that, then our life can be an expression of those qualities from within that come from within us. And that's really, really powerful.

And that's kind of what I've written the book for is to make it as an easier way to understand those patterns so that people can read the book, look at their own fingerprint patterns, know what their special skills are, and also read the hands of of their friends and talk to them about what they're like too. And it's amazing what you'll discover about your friends when you understand the fingerprint patterns and what their motivations are. So, if you get a copy of the book, you better do all that yourself.

But I hope today you've learned something about your fingerprint patterns. Um, and as I say, the offer for everyone who's attended today is if you send me a, a photograph of your fingerprint patterns, I will tell you what your fingerprint patterns and offer you a little brief, uh, explanation of what they're all about. So, I just want to say thank you to everybody for coming along. And I want to say particularly thank you to Jo for organizing today and for doing the interpretation work. It's been a big job for him today. So, thank you all very much for your time and your attention. I hope you've enjoyed it and found something interesting and that you learned something today.

Thank you so much.

You're very welcome. Wonderful.