Also called: alms bowl · begging bowl

Where on the hand: Palm surface.

What it looks like: A simple open hemisphere — a half-circle with a flat or slightly cupped chord across the top; no lid, no spout, no handle.

The native is a recluse: a wandering, ascetic, solitary life. This is the classic case of a mark whose 'good' is spiritual rather than material — read as auspicious only within a renunciate frame of reference.

Read with care: Listed among the auspicious signs, but the life it predicts is renunciate rather than prosperous; the sources themselves flag it as a mark whose 'good' is spiritual, not material.