Also called: Loop of charisma · Raja loop · Royal loop · Loop of noble descent

Where on the hand: In the ridge field between the base of the index (Jupiter) finger and the base of the middle (Saturn) finger — the innermost of the four finger gaps.

What it looks like: A hairpin of skin ridges entering from between the Jupiter and Saturn fingers and turning back down into the palm.

The rarest of the named palmar loops. It is read as personal magnetism: its owners are described as lively, warm, entertaining, naturally deferred to, and able to hold a room without trying. Older twentieth-century sources, borrowing the Sanskrit word for king, claimed it indicated royal or noble blood somewhere in the family line.

Read with care: The 'royal blood' reading is a piece of colonial-era romanticism attached to a Sanskrit name; it has no basis in either genetics or classical Indian palmistry, which does not use skin-ridge loops at all. Present it as folklore. RECONCILED. This reference contradicted itself on whether Indian palmistry reads skin ridges. It does: the shankh/chakra fingertip system is one of the most widespread pieces of Indian hand-lore and is explicitly dermatoglyphic. What CLASSICAL Sanskrit sāmudrika ignores is charma rekha. The flat statement that 'Indian palmistry does not use skin ridges at all' should be read as applying to the classical texts only.