Heart line
The Forked Heart Line
A heart line that splits into two branches.
In the tradition
A forked heart line is read as caring for someone without taking on their view.
How commonAbout 1 in 10
In a study of 4,520 palms (Park et al., 2010), about 1 in 10 heart lines forked.
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In a reading
- It is drawn on the Love & closeness card.
- When it is the most distinctive shape in a hand, it names that hand on its Mark.
- A line too faint to see in the photo is drawn in pencil, and the card says so.
The heart line
The uppermost of the long horizontal creases, running across the palm below the fingers. Tradition reads the heart line for emotional style rather than romantic fate.
Other shapes of the heart line
Palmistry is an interpretive tradition, not a diagnostic tool. These pages say what the tradition reads into a shape, not what a hand proves.