Shuni Mudra is a mudra, a symbolic hand-gesture of the Indian religious traditions, known in Sanskrit as Shuni Mudra and signifying the seal of patience.
Form and meaning
In this seal the tip of the middle finger meets the tip of the thumb. It is associated with patience, discipline and focus, the middle finger standing in this scheme for Saturn.
Mudras appear across Hindu and Buddhist ritual, iconography, classical dance and yoga, where a fixed position of the hands carries a settled meaning or is held to direct attention and breath. The gesture is described here within those documented traditions.
Sources and caution
Shuni Mudra, the middle finger and thumb tip pressed together, is presented within the same modern finger-element scheme as governing akasha, space or ether, the fifth of the classical tattvas, and is popularly described in mudra-therapy literature as cultivating patience and inner discipline. Shuni is one of the names given to Saturn in Indian astrology, and some popular sources link the mudra to Saturnine qualities of restraint and endurance on that basis, an association layered onto the finger-element scheme rather than drawn from an independent classical source describing this specific gesture under this name.