Also called: Effort line · Hard-working line · Improvement line · Kojo sen · Senkin mon · Line of self-help · Striving line

Where on the hand: Rising from the life line itself and running upward into the palm, most often toward the Mount of Jupiter under the index finger, or (in the Japanese 'thousand gold' form) curving up toward the Mount of Saturn.

What it looks like: A fine, clearly independent line leaving the life line at an angle and climbing toward the fingers, thinner than the life line it springs from.

The East Asian reading of the rising branch: effort that produces a result. Chinese sources say plainly that the work will bear fruit; Japanese sources call the Saturn-bound form the 'thousand gold line' and read it as wealth built by one's own hands out of adverse beginnings. The point at which the line leaves the life line dates the effort.