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Sun line

Everything here reports what named old books claimed about hands. None of it is a statement about you or about anything to come.

In an older source

The line of sun (Plate XIII.), otherwise called the line of Apollo, the line of brilliancy, or the line of success, must, like the line of fate, be considered with the type of hand on which it lies

Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)

About this entry

Four names for this line appear in Cheiro 1897: the line of sun, the line of Apollo, the line of brilliancy and the line of success. He prefers sun as the clearer one. It must be judged with the hand type, as the fate line is, and he says it weighs more lightly on philosophic, conic and psychic hands than on square or spatulate ones.

In his account it adds to the success shown by a good fate line, and gives fame and distinction when that fits the career the other lines point to. Without such support he reads it only as a keen taste for art, with appreciation but little power of expression. He objects to calling it an art line, since the talent shown by the head line and the hand type decide whether the success comes in art or in riches.

Cheiro varies the reading by where the line starts. From the life line on an artistic hand it means a life given to beauty. From the head line it means success from the person's own talents, but only in the second half of life. From the Moon mount it means success dependent on the help of others, and never a sure one. On the plain of Mars it means success after difficulty.

This page draws on Cheiro, with one caution from Benham 1900. Benham lists the same names, line of the Sun and line of Brilliancy, and warns that reading the line as a sure gift of art, wealth or fame has misled practitioners. Calling it a fame line drops a condition in Cheiro's text, which is that the rest of the hand must bear the line out.

Features the books describe

  • Rising from the life line

    Cheiro 1897 reads a life devoted to the worship of the beautiful if the rest of the hand is artistic, and success in artistic pursuits if the other lines are good.

    Source: Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)

  • Rising from the head line

    Cheiro 1897 reads success from the subject's own talents alone, without the caprice of others, though not before the second half of life.

    Source: Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)

  • Rising at the outer side of the palm

    Cheiro 1897 reads success and distinction that depend largely on the fancies and help of others, and never a certain sign of success.

    Source: Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)

  • Rising in the center of the palm

    Cheiro 1897 reads sunshine after tears, his phrase for success after difficulty.

    Source: Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)

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