Palmistry, Symbolism, and the Stories Hidden in Your Hands
Today we’re turning the spotlight on Kooch Daniels, one of the Live Track presenters for StaarCon 6 and StaarCon 6 Virtual. Kooch N. Daniels, MA, is a professional intuitive, author, and palmistry expert based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the kind of teacher who has spent decades following her curiosity wherever it leads, and that curiosity has carried her a long way, including all the way to India.
Her fascination with esoteric traditions and what lies hidden behind the veil sent her traveling to study palmistry, and that trip turned out to be a turning point. It set her on the path to becoming a professional hand reader and, eventually, the author of The Art and Magic of Palmistry. Along the way she studied eastern mysticism with a number of teachers, most significantly the Tantric scholar Harish Johari and the beloved hugging saint Sri Mata Amritanandamayi. That blend of scholarship, devotion, and hands-on practice runs through everything she does.
A Lifetime of Books and Divination Tools
Kooch is remarkably prolific. Working often with her husband and frequent co-author Victor Daniels, PhD, she has written and created a long shelf of books and divination decks, including Stars, Cards, and Stones, Tarot at a Crossroads, Matrix Meditations, Tarot D’Amour, Awakening the Chakras, and Sacred Mysteries: The Chakra Oracle. Her newest project is The Zodiac Light Oracle, a 48-card deck built on the nakshatras, the 27 lunar mansions of Vedic astrology, illustrated by Pieter Weltevrede.
Tarot is only part of the picture. Through her practice at Mystic Secrets, Kooch offers readings across tarot, astrology, palmistry, runes, and chakra work, and she teaches all of it too. If there is a thread connecting these systems, it is her belief that they speak to one another, and that learning to read one deepens your ability to read the rest.
What is she bringing to StaarCon 6?
On Sunday, October 4th at 9:00 am on the Live Track, Kooch is presenting Divination Skill Building: Unveiling the Secrets in Your Palm. It is, by her own description, informative and fun, a relaxed look at how to actually read a hand.
Rather than a lecture, this one is a show-and-tell class. Kooch will share the essential techniques she uses to read palms, then put them to work on the hands of willing volunteers, exploring the symbols there and talking through what they might mean. The goal is to help you build real confidence with palmistry and, in true tarot-community fashion, to give you a new tool you can fold right into your existing readings. Bring your questions, and maybe your own hands.
This will not be Kooch’s first time at StaarCon. She previously presented Using Your Birth Chart to Create Astrological Tarot Spreads at StaarCon 5 and Finding Tarot Secrets in Your Birthdate at StaarCon 2023, so longtime attendees already know she has a gift for making complex systems feel approachable.
The presentation will also be streamed live on StaarCon 6 Virtual through StaarCast.com, so if you cannot make it to Palm Beach Gardens in person, you can still pull up a chair and read along.
About Kooch Daniels
Kooch N. Daniels, MA, is a professional intuitive, author, and palmistry expert based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of The Art and Magic of Palmistry and co-author, with Victor Daniels, of many books and decks including The Zodiac Light Oracle and Stars, Cards, and Stones. You can find her readings, books, and classes at mysticsecrets.net and follow her on Instagram at @kooch_daniels.
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