{"id":9799,"date":"2014-05-01T01:10:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T06:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=10173"},"modified":"2014-05-01T05:34:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T10:34:21","slug":"seeing-the-signs-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2014\/05\/01\/seeing-the-signs-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Itchy Palms: Money In, Money Out<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I was nineteen years old, I got my first \u201creal\u201d job. I had worked, like all kids do, at babysitting and yard work, and I had done a little sales. But I had never worked a full-time job, Monday to Friday, forty hours a week. Just looking for work was almost a full-time job. The summer of 1979 was my punk rock summer \u2013 I had self-butched hair and wore too much black eye-liner and I looked like a fraud in office clothes. Eventually though, I landed a job at a coffee company. They must have been really desperate to find help, because I was hired as the assistant bookkeeper and I didn\u2019t know a thing about bookkeeping, other than my grandfather had been an accountant and I could add in my head.
\nThe head bookkeeper was a woman named Ginny and she was about forty, which was old to me in those days. But looking back, she was really hot. She had legs to die for and always wore form-fitting clothing and high-heeled mules. She smoked cherry-flavored cigars. And she knew her stuff. She had me trained in no time. She was no-nonsense but nice; we got along perfectly. I had to make entries in a huge ledger, one check after another, adding them all up on an old adding machine with a lever like a one-armed bandit in a western casino. It used to get stuck every so often and I\u2019d had to play with it until it worked again.
\nIt was Ginny who told me about the meaning of itchy palms. I can\u2019t remember if it was my right palm or my left palm that was itchy that particular day, but she told me that if it was my right palm that was itching, it meant that money was \u201ccoming in\u201d, and if it was my left palm, money was \u201cgoing out.\u201d In my experience, this has held true.
\nWhen I checked on the internet to see what other people had to say about this, most other sources agreed with Ginny \u2013 an itchy right palm meant \u201cmoney in\u201d, while an itchy left palm meant \u201cmoney out\u201d. However, a few asserted that it was the other way around. One 73-year old woman felt her left palm itch, and believing that money was coming in, got off the bus she was riding, and bought a Mega-Millions ticket. She won the jackpot. (CBSnews.com)
\nUrban Dictionary agrees with Ginny about the right and left\/in- and out-flow of money but also advises against itching the right palm while it is itchy or else the money will never materialize. It also says that an itchy left palm means sleeping with an ugly \u201cchick\u201d and regretting it. (UrbanDictionary.com)
\nOther sources say that if you can\u2019t bear the itchiness of your right palm and don\u2019t want to ruin the magic of incoming money, then rub it on wood. Wood being a lucky element, this will ground the magic, hence the term \u201cTouch Wood\u201d. (buzzle.com)
\nAll cultures have sayings about itchy palms and it is a subject that could be researched and written about in much more detail that I can here. Myself, I am sticking to what Ginny told me thirty-five years ago \u2013 an itchy right palm means money in and an itchy left palm means money out.
\nBlessings to all!
\nReferences<\/span><\/strong>
\nCBS News. \u201cGranny\u2019s Fateful 64M Itch\u201d. http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/grannys-fateful-64m-itch\/<\/em>
\n\u201cItchy Palms Superstitions\u201d. http:\/\/www.buzzle.com\/articles\/itchy-palms-superstitions.html<\/em>
\nLagerston, Kenneth. \u201cPalmistry and Hand Analysis\u201d http:\/\/palmistryandhandanalysis.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/itching-palms-and-money.html<\/em>
\n\u201cUrban Dictionary: Itchy Palm\u201d. http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=itchy%20palm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Itchy Palms: Money In, Money Out When I was nineteen years old, I got my first \u201creal\u201d job. I had worked, like all kids do, at babysitting and yard work, and I had done a little sales. But I had never worked a full-time job, Monday to Friday, forty hours a week. Just looking for work was almost a full-time job. The summer of 1979 was my punk rock summer \u2013 I had self-butched hair and wore too much black eye-liner and I looked like a fraud in office clothes. Eventually though, I landed a job at a coffee company. They must have been really desperate to find help, because I was hired as the assistant bookkeeper and I didn\u2019t know a thing about bookkeeping, other than my grandfather had been an accountant and I could add in my head. The head bookkeeper was a woman named Ginny and she was about forty, which was old to me in those days. But looking back, she was really hot. She had legs to die for and always wore form-fitting clothing and high-heeled mules. She smoked cherry-flavored cigars. And she knew her stuff. She had me trained in no time. She was no-nonsense but nice; we got along perfectly. I had to make entries in a huge ledger, one check after another, adding them all up on an old adding machine with a lever like a one-armed bandit in a western casino. It used to get stuck every so often and I\u2019d had to play with it until it worked again. It was Ginny who told me about the meaning of itchy palms. I can\u2019t remember if it was my right palm or my left palm that was itchy that particular day, but she told me that if it was my right palm that was itching, it meant that money was \u201ccoming in\u201d, and if it was my left palm, money was \u201cgoing out.\u201d In my experience, this has held true. When I checked on the internet to see what other people had to say about this, most other sources agreed with Ginny \u2013 an itchy right palm meant \u201cmoney in\u201d, while an itchy left palm meant \u201cmoney out\u201d. However, a few asserted that it was the other way around. One 73-year old woman felt her left palm itch, and believing that money was coming in, got off the bus she was riding, and bought a Mega-Millions ticket. She won the jackpot. (CBSnews.com) Urban Dictionary agrees with Ginny about the right and left\/in- and out-flow of money but also advises against itching the right palm while it is itchy or else the money will never materialize. It also says that an itchy left palm means sleeping with an ugly \u201cchick\u201d and regretting it. (UrbanDictionary.com) Other sources say that if you can\u2019t bear the itchiness of your right palm and don\u2019t want to ruin the magic of incoming money, then rub it on wood. Wood being a lucky element, this will ground the magic, hence the term \u201cTouch Wood\u201d. (buzzle.com) All cultures have sayings about itchy palms and it is a subject that could be researched and written about in much more detail that I can here. Myself, I am sticking to what Ginny told me thirty-five years ago \u2013 an itchy right palm means money in and an itchy left palm means money out. Blessings to all! References CBS News. \u201cGranny\u2019s Fateful 64M Itch\u201d. http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/grannys-fateful-64m-itch\/ \u201cItchy Palms Superstitions\u201d. http:\/\/www.buzzle.com\/articles\/itchy-palms-superstitions.html Lagerston, Kenneth. \u201cPalmistry and Hand Analysis\u201d http:\/\/palmistryandhandanalysis.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/itching-palms-and-money.html \u201cUrban Dictionary: Itchy Palm\u201d. http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=itchy%20palm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}