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Letter M

On about 35% of hands

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Also called: M sign · M on the palm

Where on the hand: Across the centre of the palm, where the heart, head, life and fate lines meet.

What it looks like: The shape formed where the heart, head, life and fate lines overlap into a capital M — the heart and head lines forming the outer strokes, the fate line the central V.

Good fortune, intuition and trustworthiness. This is a popular modern reading, not a classical one.

On each line

**Heart line** — supplies the upper part of one outer stroke.
**Head line** — supplies the crossbar of the M.
**Life line** — supplies the first descending stroke.
**Fate line** — supplies the central V that makes the shape an M rather than an H.
**Independence caveat** — by the independence rule this is precisely an artifact of main lines crossing, which is why careful practitioners give it no classical weight.

On each mount

**Plain of Mars / palm centre** — where the figure sits.
**Rahu (Indian mapping)** — the same central region, where Indian sources read confusion and sudden events rather than good fortune.
**No mount table** — the M is defined by the four lines, not by a mount.

Where it is positive

**Everywhere it appears** — the reading is wholly positive: good fortune, intuition, trustworthiness.
**Its weakness** — the sources themselves note it is a popular modern reading, not classical.
**Compare the Mystic Cross** — the other intuition sign in the same region, which by contrast must be independently formed to count.

Read with care: The M is explicitly flagged in the sources as a popular modern reading rather than a classical one, and it is formed entirely by main lines crossing — exactly what the independence rule says should be read as nothing.

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Letter M

On each line

On each mount

Where it is positive

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Letter M

On each line

On each mount

Where it is positive

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