Also called: Crux · X mark · क्रूस · St. Andrew's Cross · Croix Mystique

Where on the hand: Anywhere on the palm — on any mount, across or beside any line, in the quadrangle between head and heart lines, on the phalanges of the fingers, and above the bracelet.

What it looks like: Two short independent strokes intersecting near their midpoints to form a + or ×. Arms roughly equal, typically 3–8 mm, and NOT made of main lines. A St. Andrew's cross is drawn diagonally (×) rather than upright. The Mystic Cross is a single free-standing cross lying in the quadrangle, touching neither the head nor the heart line.

The classic obstacle and warning mark — troubles, disappointment, danger, adversaries, external stress, lasting problems and major life changes. Indian Palm Reading gives it as “trouble, danger and loss.” Cheiro treats it as the exact opposite of the star: only favourable on Jupiter. Because crossing lines produce a cross shape by accident more readily than any other mark, the independence rule bites hardest here.

Western reading: Cheiro treats the cross as the exact opposite of the star, favourable only on Jupiter. Saint-Germain supplies the detailed and often grim sub-cases: the wavy-head-line cross at the Triangle, the two crosses in a woman's hand, the religious-mania combination on the Sun line, and the square-around-a-cross neutralisation.

Read with care: The tradition asserts that a cross on Saturn means violent death, that a cross where the head line stops at the fate line means premature death, that a cross above the heart line means the sudden death of a loved one, and that a cross on the marriage line means the death of the spouse. These are Victorian and Indian fatalistic claims with no evidential basis and a high capacity to frighten. Note also that Chinese tradition reads the Saturn-mount cross as outright positive — a direct contradiction that undermines the Western claim's authority. Term correction: गुणा चिह्न is the arithmetic MULTIPLICATION SIGN (×), a school-maths term, not a samudrika one. No traditional Sanskrit term for the palmistry cross was found; the entry previously offered only an English loanword (क्रॉस) and this maths term.

only favourable on JupiterCheiro, Palmistry for All (1916)

troubles, disappointment, dangerFindyourfate

the intelligence of the subject saves him from the worst consequencesSaint-Germain