Marriage lines

Cheiro 1897 places the marriage lines on the Mount of Mercury, at the edge of the palm under the little finger. He starts by saying that the hand does not recognize the mere fact of a ceremony, civil or religious. In his account it registers the influence of other people on a life, the kind of influence and its effect.

The books disagree on counting. Cheiro and St Hill 1893 say only the long lines relate to marriages. Cheiro reads short ones as deep affection or a marriage that was contemplated, and St Hill reads them as love affairs. Benham 1900 goes further. He calls them lines of strong attachment and finds them reliable when read that way. He rejects the habit of announcing one marriage for every line as an unsound method.

On the form of the line, Cheiro asks for one that is straight, without breaks, crosses or irregularities. He reads an island as great trouble in married life and a separation while the island lasts, a break in two as a sudden break, and a fork drooping toward the center of the hand as divorce or a judicial separation. St Hill reads a forked marriage line as a broken engagement.

Cheiro 1897 and Cheiro 1916 also claimed to count children from the hand and to tell their number and sex. Benham's chapter on these lines has no section on children and rejects line counting for marriages. This site gives no method for counting children, and none of these readings is a forecast about anyone's marriage.