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Sprig

Only ~6% of hands have it

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Also called: Twig cluster · Branching cluster

Where on the hand: On the Mount of Jupiter — the only placement Saint-Germain gives it.

What it looks like: A twig-like cluster of tiny branching lines, like a small sprig of a plant, sitting on the mount.

One of Saint-Germain's odd named terms. He gives it a single, grave medical reading on the Jupiter mount: it “portends apoplexy” — a stroke.

On each mount

**Jupiter** — “portends apoplexy.” The only placement in the sources.
**Other mounts** — no readings recorded.
**Compare the ladder on Jupiter** — Saint-Germain's other Jupiter-specific oddity, ladder-like short lines meaning a difficult life of repeated losses.
**Compare the grille on Jupiter** — a full mesh there reads as domineering vanity and loose morals, a character rather than medical verdict.

On each line

**Not a line mark** — the sprig is given only as a Jupiter-mount formation.
**Distinguish from rising branches** — fine lines branching upward from a major line are the benefic rising branch, an entirely different reading.
**Distinguish from a tassel** — a frayed line ending is a tassel, not a sprig.

Where it is positive

**No positive reading** — the sprig has only the one grave meaning.
**Weak attestation** — it rests on a single line of Saint-Germain and appears nowhere else in the corpus.
**Easily confused** — its resemblance to benefic rising branches is itself a reason to distrust the reading.

Read with care: “Portends apoplexy” is a medical prediction of stroke read from a skin marking, resting on one Victorian sentence. It has no evidential basis, and stroke risk is a matter for a doctor.

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Mount of Jupiter

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