Long or deep
A strong line is read as talent that gets noticed.
Runs vertically below the ring finger
The sun line in palm reading
In palm reading, the sun line runs vertically below the ring finger. It is read for recognition, creativity and public success — a tradition, not a tested prediction.
- Crease
- Minor missing on many hands
- Cheiro, 1916
- Ch. VI The Line of the Sun
Cheiro, Palmistry for All, 1916.
Short or faint
Absent in most hands. Its absence means nothing.
Breaks and markings
Multiple lines are read as several creative outlets rather than one.
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Anatomy, not divination
What is actually known about the sun line
How it forms
A secondary line, and one that many hands lack.
What it physically is
A minor flexion line below the ring finger, formed by the same folding mechanics as the others.
What the evidence says
Often missing. Any reading that treats its absence as a lack of talent is describing a great many people.
Primary source
What Cheiro wrote about the sun line
“The quality that the Line of Sun denotes is, what is generally called “luck”; with a well-marked Sun Line even a poor Line of Head promises more success, and it is the same with the Line of Fate.”
Cheiro, Palmistry for All (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1916), chapter VI, “The Line of the Sun” — read the original text.
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 sun line
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.
Long and clear
Read as talent that gets noticed. Uncommon.
Short, appearing only near the fingers
Read as recognition arriving late rather than not at all.
Several parallel lines
Read as multiple creative outlets — or as scattered effort, depending who is reading.
Absent
Absent in most hands and carrying no negative meaning whatsoever.
Crossed by a bar
Read as an obstacle to recognition — a rivalry or a setback.
Where is the sun line on your palm?
Runs vertically below the ring finger. Islands, breaks and forks on the sun line are read with the same table of marks as every other line.
Highlighted: the sun line, running vertically below the ring finger.
Worth being clear about
Also called the Apollo line. Fame is not written into a palm.
Other lines
Sources
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