The marriage line on your palm: where it is and how to read it

The marriage line, or vivah rekha, is one of the first things people look for on their palm. It sits on the outer edge of the hand, below the little finger and above the heart line, on the small mount of Mercury. Palmists in India and the West both call it the relationship line.

How to find it

Turn your palm upward and look at the edge under the little finger. Short horizontal lines that start at the edge of the palm and run inward are the marriage lines. There may be one, two, or several faint ones.

What palmists read

• A long, clear and deep line is read as a strong and steady bond.
• A short or faint line suggests a lighter or less formal relationship.
• A line that curves up toward the little finger is said to show a focus on career.
• A line that curves down toward the heart line suggests that emotions run strong.
• A fork at the end is read as two paths or a time apart, and not as a break.
• A line closer to the heart line is linked to marrying earlier, and one closer to the little finger to marrying later.

The number of lines

A popular belief says that each line is one marriage. Most careful palmists do not read it that way. They treat each as a significant relationship, not a legal event, and no serious reading counts marriages from the palm.

The marriage line changes with time, and so does every line on your hand. Read it as a mood of your relationships rather than a fixed promise.