Today palmistry is moderately popular in Canada, but in the largest cities it is quite easy to find a palm reader. Most significant is probably ‘The Birla Center for Hast Jyotish‘, which was founded by Ghanshyam Singh Birla in 1972.

In 2010 cheirologist Kenneth Lagerström presented in cooperation with VoiceAmerica The Talk Radionetwork a 12-episode radio show about hands, named: ‘Your Life is in Your Hands’. Recordings of the episodes will probably become available again later this years.

Today palmistry is quite popular in Australia, and quite a few palmistry TOP 100 authors are living in Australia, such as: Paul Fenton-Smith, Andrew Fitzherbert, Peter Hazel & Laeticia Valverde.

The extended headline became probably famous for it’s relatively high occurence in- and around Sydney a few decades ago. And in 1968 it was Purvis-Smith who named this palmar line the ‘Sydney line‘ – in a publication which described the significance of both the ‘Sydney line’ and the ‘simian line‘ in Down’s syndrome.

Singapore – a.k.a. ‘Little India’ – belongs to the very few countries in Asia where gambling is legal, and of course it is also famous for it’s ‘medical tourism hub’. But Singapore can also be recognized as a country where palmistry is relatively popular!

An interestingly variation, is presented by a palmistry expert named ‘Master Khor’ who combines palmistry with Feng Shui – where ‘hand types’ are associated with colors, in order to let people choose the color of their furniture that really fit with them. The event is organized at ‘Chair Inspiration‘.

The Netherlands has a relatively high number of active hand analysts & hand readers (amateurs & professionals). Typical for palm reading in the Netherlands is that the purpose it not focussed on the ‘predictive’ aspect of palmistry at all – all major hand reading schools in the Netherlands strive for teaching about human nature, including the spiritual, psychological & health dimension.

Today there are two Dutch hand reading schools with an impressive track record: in 2010 the ‘School for Universal Hand Reading‘ (founded by Magda van Dijk) celebrates it’s 20th anniversary, after in 2007 the Academie Antropodynamica (founded by Edo Sprong) had celebrated it’s 20th anniversary.

The most popular Dutch synonyms for palmistry are: ‘handlezen’, ‘handleeskunde’, ‘handlijnkunde’ en ‘handanalyse’.

Palmistry is extremely popular in Pakistan, and according Google trends Pakistan could be described as the no.1 country in the world where people show the largest interest for finding info related to palmistry (especially in the cities Lahore, Karachi & Islamabad).

Interestingly, last month the Gilani Research foundation presented a study which pointed out that in Pakistan: “… 57% have some belief that fate is hidden in the lines of one’s hands”.

Palmistry (cheirology) is quite popular in Africa. Especially in: Johannesburg, Cape Town, Centurion, Edenvale, Pretoria, Durban, Margate & Plettenberg Bay.

Last year chirologist Jennifer Hirsch from Cape Town presented her new book titled: ‘God Given Glyps‘ (see the picture below). In 1991 she founded the ‘Chirology Center of South Africa‘. Her book is now also listed in Palmistry books TOP 100 – and deserves a special recommendation for anyone who is interested in the basics & details of ‘Elemental hand reading’ (including the dermatoglyphics and fingerprints).