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Donna McCue: Your Fate In Your Hands? If you have questions about your future, the answers may lie the palms of your hands. This is what East Hampton resident Donna McCue believes and has been practicing since she was a young child searching for her own identity. Unhappy with her homelife and her weight, she began reading as many books as she could find on psychic wisdom, palmistry, and intuitive abilities. When she first went to her own psychic reader, she was told that she possessed great talents to help people through her gift of palm-reading. She began to understand how people can gain insights into their lives and futures by learning how to read their own palms. Sitting in her airy, wooded East Hampton home and wearing a bright fuschia sweater that complemented her vivacious personality, McCue explained that after reading thousands of palms for over 30 years, and having clients ask her, "Can you really see this in my hand?," she decided to create a book, Your Fate Is In Your Hands: Using the Principles of Palmistry to Charge Your Life to empower the readers so they wouldn't have to look to others to solve their problems. "I know there is this divine energy that passes through us, that shows up on the palm of our hand," she explained. "Everything we do in life leaves a mark, which changes every three to six months. If someone had a sudden shock or trauma, it would leave a mark on the hand." Stem Cell Material She contended that there is a powerful connection between the hand and the brain, which begins at birth. "In the second trimester of pregnancy, the cerebral cortex [brain] and the distal limbs [hands] are being developed at the same time," she said. "They come from the same stem cell material, which underscores the real connection between the hand and the brain." She discussed how "each part of the hand connects with a different part of the brain including your heartline, headline, and lifeline. The lines on our hand are an original road map that we came into this world with. McCue said that her book, which she co-authored with Stacey Donovan, of Bridgehampton, and which was published by Pocket Books, "is designed for you to discover who you are, and where you are in your life. While reading it, you wig be looking at your own hand —it's really an owner's manual for your life." She told The Independent that she read the hands of the president of Pocket Books as well as the editors there. "I did this to prove my credibility to them, and I told them things they didn't expect me to know," she said. I describe myself as 'a voice for your longings.'" She has managed to obtain two local TV shows, "Psychically Speaking" and "The Good News Show", which have been airing on LTV’s Channel 27 and Manhattan Cable TV. McCue will be reading from her new book this Saturday at Book Hampton in East Hampton at 5:30 p.m. Every-one who buys a copy of her book will get a free ''mini-reading." She will also appear at Barnes & Noble Book Store at the Citicorp Building in Manhattan, at 12:30 p.m. on March 29, and at Barnes & Noble in Commack on April 13 at 7 p.m. You can reach her web site at www.donnamccue.com. Hands and Minds McCue has given workshops at Ashawagh Hall in Springs on "Love and Money in the Millennium." "The next workshop I want to do will be called, 'How To Develop Your Intuition,'" she said. Besides the workshops, McCue's two main goals were to write a book and to have a national TV show. How she started to accomplish her first goal, of writing a book, came out of a women's group she had started for local artists and writers about two years ago. 'One woman in my group had written a children's novel called, "Dive," and she said she'd help me," said McCue. The woman was Stacey Donovan, an editor at Bridgework Publishing Company in Bridgehampton, 'She wanted to weave together my stones, and she had publishing connections,' she said. McCue joked about how, when she and Donovan started seeing agents, she would start "reading all their hands and blowing their minds." Debbie Tuma |
