I'm an Air hand, with a splash of Water.. What do you make of my hands? I see only my flaws.. There are many systems of hand types in palmistry and there are several ways to categorise a person by analysing their hand shape. Chinese palmists often use 5 hand shapes, palmists of the 19th century used a system of 6 with a 7th 'mixed' hand. Cheiro used this, and many still use this system today. Some palmists have developed their own methods of hand character assessment, like Ge