The Fate Line: A Line of Work, Responsibility and Direction
The line that runs up the middle of the palm, from the wrist towards the middle finger, is called the fate line. The Mount of Saturn sits below the middle finger, so it is also called the line of Saturn.
The name makes it sound as if this line writes out your destiny, but that is not how we read it. Tradition links it to your attachment to your work, the way you carry responsibility and your sense of direction in life. This line tells neither which work will come your way nor how much money will.
Where to find the fate line
Start looking just above the wrist, in the middle of the palm, and move up towards the middle finger. If you see an upright line heading that way, that is the fate line. Sometimes it runs the full length, sometimes it shows only in the upper or lower part, and sometimes it comes in several pieces.
It is easy to tell apart from the sun line: the fate line heads for the middle finger, and the sun line runs beside it, towards the ring finger.
If you cannot see a fate line
On a great many palms the fate line is not clearly visible, or is not there at all. This is completely common, and there is nothing lacking in it.
Tradition often links the absence of a fate line to flexibility: a nature that is not tied to one fixed path, that tries out different kinds of work and makes its own way.
Where the line begins
Tradition pays special attention to where the fate line starts:
- Near the wrist: This is linked to a sense of your own direction and of responsibility from early on.
- Near the life line: This is linked to making your way through your own effort, and to what you have learnt from the people close to you.
- From the side of the Mount of the Moon: A line rising from the lower outer part of the palm is linked to connecting with people, the support of others and an interest in creative work.
- From the middle of the palm: When the line starts in the middle, tradition reads it as a clear sense of direction that formed with experience.
Deep, faint, broken or several lines
A deep, straight fate line is linked in tradition to following one direction with dedication. A faint line is linked to a nature that changes its plans as circumstances change.
If the line breaks partway, shifts a little and starts again, it is linked to a change of direction in your work or interests, such as a new field or a new responsibility. If several thin lines appear together, tradition links them to many interests and kinds of work at once.
Where the line ends
Most fate lines head for the Mount of Saturn below the middle finger, which tradition links to seriousness, patience and responsibility. Some curve towards the index finger, which is linked to leadership and an interest in high goals. Some lean towards the ring finger, which is linked to creativity in your work and the wish to make a name of your own.
The fate line on both hands
Tradition holds that the hand you write with shows what you have built through your own experience, and the other hand shows what was in your nature from the start. If the fate line is clear on one hand and faint or missing on the other, tradition reads it as a sense of work and direction that formed or changed with experience. If the line looks alike on both hands, it is linked to that sense having been with you from the start.
What the fate line does not tell
Whatever its name, this line does not answer these questions:
- Which job or business you will get, or when.
- How much money will come in.
- Whether a plan will come through or not.
- What your effort will lead to. That is shaped by trying, by chances and by the people around you, not by any line.
In the end
Read your fate line as a reason to reflect on your own direction. Do you like to keep to one path, or to try out new ones? What tradition says makes the question interesting, but the answer lies in your own experience. Read it together with the head line and the shape of your hand, and the picture becomes clearer still.
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For entertainment purposes. Not medical, legal or financial advice.