About the Author Vinay Aditya has a degree in Civil engineering from IIT/Kanpur, a prestigious institution in India. Most of his professional life he was engaged in printing and publishing, mainly catering to the design & print requirements of the NGOs. He has authored two books on ashta kavya rga, Dots of Destiny and Practical Ashta kava rga. Both the books have been published in Russian also. Dots of Destiny have its Hindi version too that goes by the name Bhagya Bindu. He has been teaching Vedic Astrology in India with ICAS for about a quarter century. He has also taught at ACVA (America), BAVA (England), and EWA (Europe), the well known organizations devoted to Vedic Astrology. He has been a visiting faculty at EVVA, where he is also an examiner of their students of Vedic Astrology. He was the Associate Editor of Vedic Astrology (VA), (edited by Dr K S Charak) in which he contributed regularly on varied astrology subjects. He wrote Lessons in Palmistry which appeared in VA, the bi- monthly magazine, in a series of 14 articles. Those articles have formed the back bone of the present book. He has been conferred by ICAS the titles of Jyotish Kovid, Jyotish Vachaspati, Jyotish Kalamani and Jyotish Brihadacharya, and has been appointed a guide to the research students. He was nominated as a National Vice President, Academic Advisory Council headed by Justices N Kapoor. He started learning palmistry while in college and has continued doing so for the last 50 years. He has been teaching Palmistry at ICAS Delhi Chapter-1 since the year 2000. Preface As a 20 year lad I had declared that all phi