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 in palm reading
In palm reading, the money triangle is formed where the head, fate and life lines intersect. It is read for the ability to hold on to resources — a tradition, not a tested prediction.
- Cheiro, 1916
- Ch. II The Line of Head or the Indications of the Mentality
Cheiro, Palmistry for All, 1916.
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.
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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 evidence says
It is closed and well defined in a minority of hands, because it depends on three independent lines meeting at the right angles.
Primary source
What Cheiro wrote about the money triangle
“If the Line of Head itself should curve upward, especially at the end towards the fourth finger or Mount of Mercury […], it denotes almost without exception that the longer the person lives the more his desire for money and his determination to possess it will become stronger every year.”
Cheiro, Palmistry for All (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1916), chapter II, “The Line of Head or the Indications of the Mentality” — read the original text.
Cheiro’s book has no “money line”; the nearest he comes is this reading of the head line. Cheiro was William John Warner (1866–1936), the best-known palmist of his day, who read for famous clients and took his pen name from cheiromancy, the old word for palmistry. The anatomy above is what can be checked; this is what the tradition says.
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 is the money triangle on your palm?
Formed where the head, fate and life lines intersect. Islands, breaks and forks on the money triangle are read with the same table of marks as every other line.
Highlighted: the money triangle, which is formed where the head, fate and life lines intersect.
Worth being clear about
A shape on your hand does not describe your bank balance.
Other lines
Sources
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