Long or deep
A closed, well-defined triangle is read as an aptitude for accumulating and keeping.
Formed where the head, fate and life lines intersect
The money triangle
The money triangle formed where the head, fate and life lines intersect. It is read for the ability to hold on to resources. Palmistry attaches meaning to its length, depth and breaks — none of which has been shown to predict anything.
Short or faint
An open triangle is read as money passing through rather than staying.
Breaks and markings
Gaps at the corners are traditionally read as leaks — spending faster than earning.
Anatomy, not divination
What is actually known about the money triangle
How it forms
Not a line at all — a shape formed where three other lines happen to intersect.
What it physically is
A coincidence of geometry rather than a feature. Whether it appears depends on the angles at which unrelated creases cross.
What the numbers say
It is closed and well defined in a minority of hands, because it depends on three independent lines meeting at the right angles.
Everything above is checkable. Everything in the sections before it is tradition. Keeping the two apart is the difference between reading about a practice and being sold one.
Versions of the money triangle
Where it starts, where it ends and what it does on the way — these are what a reader actually looks at, and they differ from line to line.
A closed, well-defined triangle
Read as an aptitude for accumulating and holding resources.
An open triangle
Read as money passing through rather than staying.
A gap at the head line corner
Read as loss through poor decisions rather than bad luck.
A gap at the life line corner
Read as loss through generosity or family obligation.
No discernible triangle
The majority of hands. The lines simply do not intersect that way.
Where the money triangle is read
Formed where the head, fate and life lines intersect. Timing runs along its length, so a mark near the start is read as early life and one near the end as late.
A shape on your hand does not describe your bank balance.
Marks along a line — islands, breaks, forks, stars — modify it wherever they sit. They work the same way on every line, so they are explained once rather than repeated: the full table of marks is on the main palmistry page.
Worth being clear about
A shape on your hand does not describe your bank balance.
Other lines
Life line
Vitality, physical constitution and major changes of circumstance.
Heart line
Emotional life, attachment and how you love.
Head line
Thinking style, concentration and how you make decisions.
Fate line
Career, direction and the degree to which life feels externally shaped.
Sun line
Recognition, creativity and public success.
Marriage lines
Significant partnerships.