Chiromancy

[JBird]

Hi Crepuscule,

Let me start by applauding you on your effort, and the overall picture that your poem portrays of having given birth and continually doting on your newborn child.

For me personally, I tend to steer away from poetry that includes the over-use of pompous wording as I find it detracts from the reading experience if one has to reach for a dictionary every few paragraphs. This piece isn't too bad aside from a few instances, including the heading unfortunately.
It might pay to remember that just because you know what something means doesn't necessarily mean that everyone else does; also that the use of astronomical words doesn't automatically make a poem, a poem.

Punctuation needs refinement also.

Edit 1.5

Chiromancy

A simpler, albeit catchy title may appeal to your audience better.

I woke and lay and watched
The nascent sun seeping,
Diluting the screen of dark:
Forms emerging...
Your arms and your hands.
I read your fortune as you slept.

Colon use is wrong as it isn't referring to explanation, expansion, enumeration, or elaboration.
Ellipses use is also wrong, for a pause effect-- try using a double dash.
I'm sure there would also be lots of other forms emerging: in line 1 you say you woke & watched, maybe you could specify that you were watching "someone" in particular.

I traced the lines.
Head line, heart line,
Fate and, below the rest,
Concealed by beads and
Woven thread:
Bracelet rascettes, augmented.
Carved from Venus to the Moon.
Epithelialized.
Stretched, still-pink, fading.

Colon use incorrect.
Had to look up the word "Epithelialized" to be honest and I can't see how it fits at all as it refers to membranous cellular tissue concerning animals or plants. I know technically humans are animals, but I'd bet there's a better word choice out there. Unfortunately I don't understand the reference to Venus and the Moon?
The confusing part to me here is whether or not the child is actually newborn as in the first stanza you imply that you're laying and watching as the child slept, therefore how can it still be covered in epithelium?
"Still-pink" — Why is this hyphenated?

You woke and smiled and
I smiled back.
But I knew your smile was newborn,
Vulnerable. Exposed.
I held you and said nothing.

I like this stanza