Also called: Matsya · Machhli

Where on the hand: Near the wrist and at the root of the hand, on the fate line, on the Sun/Apollo mount, and on the Ketu mount at the base of the palm.

What it looks like: An elongated lens tapering to a point, with a small crossed tail — described technically as a large island formed where the life line's branches curve back on themselves.

Wealth and prosperity — one of the two or three most auspicious chinha in Samudrik Shastra, and the standard counter-example to the rule that an island shape is always a defect.

Read with care: RECONCILED (this reference previously contradicted itself). The distinguishing test is the tail and the crossing: a MATSYA has a crossed tail formed by two lines crossing beyond the closed body; an ISLAND (द्वीप dvīpa) is a single line splitting and rejoining — a closed loop with no tail and no crossing. The description of the fish as 'a large island formed where the life line's branches curve back' was the error and has been withdrawn. Confusing the two is the commonest mistake in amateur reading.

great success in the world — riches and many childrenMrs. J. B. Dale, Indian Palmistry