Also called: Hairlines · Capillary cross lines
Where on the hand: Dropping from or clinging to any line; the cross-line variant is read on the Sun, Mercury and Venus mounts.
What it looks like: Extremely fine hairlines, far finer than the line they attach to, dropping from it or clinging along it. Saint-Germain treats them as a class alongside bars on the Line of Life.
“Weakness, loss of vitality.” Capillary lines drain rather than block: they are the faintest of the drooping-branch family, and their fineness is itself part of the reading.
On each line
- **Life line** — weakness and loss of vitality; Saint-Germain treats bars and capillaries together on the Line of Life.
- **Any line** — the same drain reading; capillaries clinging to a line show the Current leaking away in small amounts rather than being cut.
- **Compare the drooping branch** — a capillary is the finest form of the same downward split, and Benham's rule that “stronger splits indicate greater significance” means capillaries are correspondingly weak in force.
On each mount
- **Sun / Apollo** — capillary cross lines here indicate an arm wound.
- **Mercury** — capillary cross lines indicate a leg wound.
- **Venus** — capillary cross lines indicate wounds on the body.
- **Any mount** — as horizontals with no verticals, capillary cross lines belong to the crossbar family, which Benham rates as blocking a mount's current entirely.
Where they are positive
- **No positive reading** — capillary lines have no benefic placement in the sources.
- **Their fineness as mitigation** — faint, fine markings are weak or fading by the general severity rule; Destiny Palmistry's note that faint lines “may not be a permanent mark” applies naturally here.
- **The neutralising rule** — a vertical crossing a horizontal is said to neutralise it, which applies to capillary cross lines as to any transverse mark.
Read with care: Reading specific bodily wounds — arm, leg, body — off hairline skin creases is Victorian specificity with no evidential basis.
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