Editorial Standards at ReadMyPalms
Our editorial mission is to make palmistry, astrology, tarot, and related symbolic traditions accessible, honest, and reflective — never deterministic. This page explains how our content is produced, what we draw from, and what we explicitly do not claim.
What We Cover
ReadMyPalms covers a handful of related symbolic traditions. We don't pretend these systems are interchangeable, and we try to be specific about which tradition we're working in at any moment.
- Palmistry — Three distinct traditions: Indian (Hast Samudrika Shastra), Chinese, and Western. Each has its own history, vocabulary, and interpretive frame; we attribute by tradition rather than treating them as one body of knowledge.
- Astrology — Primarily Western tropical astrology, the system used in most contemporary English-language astrology. We occasionally note where Hellenistic or sidereal traditions diverge.
- Tarot — Rider-Waite-Smith iconography and symbolic vocabulary, the most widely referenced modern tarot tradition.
- Aura color systems — The modern aura color framework with Theosophical, early-20th-century origins. We treat it as a symbolic vocabulary, not a verified phenomenon.
- Numerology — Pythagorean basics: life-path numbers, expression numbers, and related symbolic associations.
How Our Content Is Produced
Content on ReadMyPalms falls into three distinct categories, and we think it's important to be transparent about which is which.
AI-generated readings
The palm scanner, aura scanner, tarot interpretations, and the Ask Stella chat are generated by large language models from providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Groq. The models are prompted with traditional symbolic frameworks (Western astrology, classical palmistry, Rider-Waite tarot, etc.) and given your inputs — a photo, a zodiac sign, a question. Each reading is personalized to those inputs, but it is not predictive, and it is not a human reading. See our AI Disclosure for full details.
Editorial articles (AI-drafted, human-reviewed)
Palm-reading guides, blog posts, and zodiac sign profiles are AI-drafted from a detailed editorial brief that specifies structure, tradition attribution, source framing, and the reflective/symbolic voice this site uses — then reviewed and edited by the ReadMyPalms team before publication. We do not claim these articles are human-written; we claim they are AI-drafted to a human-defined editorial standard and approved by a human editor before going live. We are actively sourcing a credentialed human palmist reviewer; once that reviewer is publicly named, articles they have reviewed will be attributed accordingly. Until then, articles are presented as AI-drafted editorial content reviewed by the ReadMyPalms team.
Programmatic content
Daily, weekly, and monthly horoscopes; compatibility readings; tarot card profile pages; Chinese zodiac pages; and birthday pages are generated programmatically from data templates. The templates are filled in with traditional astrology calculations (real planetary positions for horoscopes, drawn from the Swiss Ephemeris) and LLM-written prose grounded in the relevant symbolic tradition. The structure of the page — the headings, the sections, the calls to action — is hand-designed by the team; the prose that fills it is model-generated against that structure. Where it is meaningful, we mark this content as programmatic.
We make a clear distinction between these three categories because they call for different reader expectations. An AI reading is a personalized prompt; an editorial article is a researched piece; a programmatic page is a templated reference. They are useful in different ways, and conflating them would be misleading.
Sources We Draw From
Our editorial articles are grounded in the following primary and reference texts. Individual articles will not always cite every source inline, but the symbolic vocabulary we use comes from this body of work.
Palmistry
- Hast Samudrika Shastra — the classical Indian palmistry tradition, with roots in ancient Sanskrit literature
- Cheiro (William John Warner), Cheiro's Language of the Hand, 1894
- William G. Benham, The Laws of Scientific Hand Reading, 1900
- Joyce Wilson, The Complete Book of Palmistry, 1971
Astrology
- Robert Hand, Planets in Transit
- Liz Greene — psychological astrology essays and books
- Stephen Arroyo — chart synthesis and the four elements
- Hellenistic primary sources: Claudius Ptolemy (Tetrabiblos) and Vettius Valens (Anthologies) for historical context
Tarot
- Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1910
- Rachel Pollack, Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom
Aura
- C. W. Leadbeater, Man Visible and Invisible, 1902 — the origin of the modern aura-color system
Chinese astrology
- Theodora Lau, The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes
- Suzanne White, The New Astrology
What We Don't Claim
- ◆We do not claim that palmistry, astrology, tarot, or aura reading are predictive sciences. They are symbolic traditions with historical depth, not falsifiable scientific frameworks.
- ◆We do not provide medical, legal, financial, psychological, or professional advice. Nothing on this site is a substitute for a qualified human professional.
- ◆Our readings are reflective tools and entertainment. They are designed to prompt thought, not to dictate decisions.
- ◆We honor tradition and describe it as faithfully as we can. We do not guarantee any outcome, transit forecast, or interpretation.
Corrections and Updates
If you spot a factual error in our editorial content — a misattributed source, an incorrect tradition claim, a date or name gone wrong — please email hello@readmypalms.com. We treat factual corrections as a priority and update affected pages as quickly as we can verify the fix.
Articles on ReadMyPalms are reviewed periodically. Major updates — substantive rewrites, new sourcing, or changes to a tradition claim — are noted on the page itself or in the page's last-modified date.
Editorial Independence
ReadMyPalms does not accept payment in exchange for editorial coverage. We do not let advertisers influence the content of our articles, the framing of our readings, or the recommendations we make. If we ever add affiliate links or sponsored content, those relationships will be disclosed on the page where they appear, in plain language, near the relevant link.
Display advertising (via Google AdSense) appears on some pages and is clearly labeled as advertising. Display ads are separate from editorial content and have no influence on what we publish. The presence of an ad on a page does not imply endorsement of the advertiser by ReadMyPalms, and ad targeting is handled by Google's ad systems, not by us.
Our editorial voice tries to stay grounded: skeptical where skepticism is honest, descriptive about tradition where tradition is the point, and quiet where we genuinely don't know. That orientation is the same whether the page is heavily trafficked or barely visited, and it's the same whether ads are present or not.
Related: read more about how we work.