Lines of Hand

Line Formations

Lines should be clear and well marked, neither broad nor pale in colour they should be free from all breaks, islands, or irregularities of all kind.

Lines very pale in colour indicate, in the first place, want of robust health, and, in the second, lack of energy and decision.

Lines red in color indicate the sanguine, hopeful disposition; they show an active, robust temperament.

Yellow lines, as well as being indicative of billiousness and liver trouble, are indicators of a nature self - contained, reserved, and proud.

Lines very dark in colour, almost black, tell of a melancholy, grave temperament, and indicate a haughty, distant nature, one usually very revengeful and unforgiving.

The line of life, is the line which, rising under the Mount of Jupiter, goes down the hand and embraces the Mount of Venus. On it is marked time, also illness and death, and events foreshadowed by the other importent lines are verified.

The line of life should be long, narrow, and deep, without irregularities and free from breaks of any kind. Such a formation promises long life, good health, and vitality.

If the line is perfect, without breaks, crosses, or irregularities of any kind, it promise that such a life should be healthy and extremely long. When the line is made up of little pieces like a chain or found splitting into little hair lines, it is then sure a bad sign of health. When the line starting stoping downward from the mount of Jupiter it denotes an ambitious life. When the line is connected with that of the head it is a good sign denoting caution, carefulness.

A medium space between head and life line is an excellent sign.It denotes that the subject is more free to carry out the plans of the life and have great energy and self confidence. All lines that rise upward from the line of life towards the mount of Jupiter shows that all ambitions of the subject are fulfilled. A line rising from the life line evolving on the mount of Saturn shows a golden period of life. A line from the life to the mount of the Sun indicates glory and success due to the subject's own life, and not to outside circumstances or to chances. Lines running in the opposite direction cutting the line of life show worries and obstacles.

When the lines of life, head, and heart are all joined together at the commencement, it is a very unfortunate sign, denoting that the subject, through a defect in the temperament, rushes blindly into danger and int those arising from dealings with other people.

The line of head relates principally to the mentality of the subject to the intellectual strength or weakness, to the temperament in its relation to talent, and to the direction and quality of talent itself.

. It is of extreme importance in connection with this line that the peculiarities of the various types be borne in mind as, for instance, a sloping line of head on a psychic or conic hand is not of half the importance of a slopping line on a square hand.

The line of head relates to intellectual development. The line of head may rise from three distinct points, the Mount of Jupiter, the line of life or from the mount of Mars inside the life line. Rising from the Jupiter, such a subject would have great brain power, ambition, and power. The line of head from the line of life indicates people who are very cautious and extremely sensitive. The line of head rising inside the life line on the mount of Mars is not a favourable sign - it indicates a frightful worrying nature, one is always involved in quarrels and conflicts. When the entire line has a long gentle slope the general tendencies are imaginative, it denotes love of act, literature, music and such like. When very sloping on the mount of Lunar it denotes intense idealism, imagination.

The generalities indicated by the line of head are as follows:

When straight, clear and even, it denotes practical common sense and a love for material things more than those of the imaginations.

When straight in the first half, then slightly sloping, it shows a balance between the purely imaginative and the purely practica such a subject will have a level - headed, common - sense way of going to work, even when dealing with imagination denoting, in accordance with the type of hand, either music, painting, literature, or mechanical invention. When very sloping, romance, idealism, imaginative work, and Bohemianism. When sloping, and terminating with a fine fork on the Mount of Luna, it promises literary talent of the imaginative order.

When extremely long and straight, and going directly to the side of the hand (the percussion), it usually denotes that the subject has more than ordinary intellectual power, but is inclined to selfish in the use of that power.

The line of heart is naturally an important line in the study of the hand. Love, or the attraction of the sexes from natural causes, plays one of the most prominent parts in the drama of life, and as in the nature so in the hand. The line of heart, otherwise called the mensal, is the line which runs across the upper portion of the hand at the base of the Mounts of Jupiter,Saturn, the Sun, and Mercury.

The line of heart should be deep, clear, and well coloured. The Line of Heart may rise from three important positions, the middle of the Mount of Jupiter,between the first and the second fingers, or from the mount of Saturn.

Rising from Centre of Jupiter, it gives the highest type of love-the pride and worship of the heart's ideal. A man with such a formation is firm, strong, and reliable in his affections, he is as well ambitious that the woman of his choice shall be great, noble, and famous-such a man never marry beneath his station, and will have far less love - affairs than the man with the line from Saturn.

The Heart Line rising from between the first and the second fingers, is the most favourable sign on the hands of Man or Woman, this sign goes with a calmer temperament is matters of the heart. Such individuals seem to rest between the ideality given by Jupiter and the passinate ardour given by Saturn. They are quieter and more subdued in their passions.

. The third main position for the Line of Heart is from the Mount of Saturn, The subject will have more passion in his attachments, and will be more or less selfish in satisfing affection, in home life he is never so expressive or demonstrative as are those with line from Jupiter. The Excess of this is the same kind of line rising very high on the Mount, often from the vary finger of Saturn. Such a subject is far more passionate and sensual than any of the others. It is generally admitted that very sensual people are very selfish-in this case they are extremly so.

When the line of heart forks, with one branch resting on Jupiter, the other between the first and second fingers,it is a sign of a happy, trainquil nature good fortune, and happiness in affection, but when the fork is so wide that one branch rests on Jupiter, the other on Saturn, it then denotes a very uncertain disposition, and one that is not inclined to make the marital relations happy, through its erratic temperament in affection.

The Girdle of venus is that broken or unbroken kind of semicircle rising between the first and second fingers and finishing between the third and fourth.

People possessing this mark are capable of rising to the highest pitch of enthusiam over anything that engages their fancy, but they are rarely twice in the same mood - one movement in the height of spirits, the next miserable and despondent.

When the girdle goes over the side of the hand and by so doing comes in contact with the line of marriage, the happiness of the marriage will be marked through the peculiarities of the temperanment. Such subjects are peculiarly exciting, and hard to live with. If on a man's hand, that man would want as many virtiues in a wife as there are stars in the universe.

The Line of health rises at the base, or on the face of Mount of Mercury, and as it grows down the hand and into the line of life, so does it foreshadow the growth of the illness or germ of disease which at the time of its coming in contact with the line of life will reach its climax.

The less of the Line of Health , the better for the person. When it is completely absent the constitution is stronger. The heavier the line the more the nervous system is impaired.When twisted and irregular - biliousness, liver complaints and kidney trouble. When heavily marked from the heart to the head, and red in colour-danger of apoplexy, brainfever etc.

When crossing the hand and touching the line of life at any point, it tells that there is some delicacy at work, undermining the health and constitution.

When rising from the line of heart at the Mount of Mercury and running into or through the line of life, it foretellssome weakness of the heart. If very pale in colour, and broad, it will be bad circulation.

If red in colour, particularly when it leaves the line of heart, with small, flat nails, it gives an indication of heart trouble.

When very red in small spots, it denotes a tendency in the system toward fever. When formed in little straight pieces, bad digestion. In Little islands, with long, filbert nails, trouble to lungs and chest. The same mark, with the same kind of nails, but broad, throat trouble.

When heavily marked, joining the line of heart and head, and not found else where, it threatens mental disturbance.

The Line of Fate also called the line of Destiny. The line of fate may rise from the line of life, the wrist, the Mount of Luna, the line of head, or even the line of heart.

If the fate line rise from the line of life and from that point on is strong, success and riches will be won by personal merit. but if the line be marked low down near the wrist and tied down, as it were, by the side of the life-line, it tells that the early portion of the subject's life will be sacrificed to the wishes of parents or relatives.

When the Line of Fate commences at the wrist and goes straight and clear to its termination on Saturn, it denotes a strong personality and is generally a good sign to have. It is a sign of extreme good fortune and success.

From the Mount of Luna success is far more chageable and uncertain, fate and success will be more or less dependent on the fancy and caprice of other people. This is very often found in the case of public favourites.

If the line fate rise from the line of head, and that line be well marked, then success will be won late in life, after a hard struggle and through the subject's talents.

When it rises from the line of heart extremely late in life, after a difficult struggle success will be won.

When the line rise with one branch from the base of Luna, the other from Venus, The subject's destiny will sway between imagination on the one hand and love and passion on the other.

If the line of Fate sends off shoots or lines towards any other mounts but that of Saturn, it denotes that the qualities of that particular Mount will dominate the life. If the line of Fate terminate by crossing its own Mount and is going to that of Jupiter success will be great and satisfactory. Any break in the line is a sign of misfortune.When broken and irregular, the career will be uncertain.The ups and downs of success and failure full of light and shadow.

When there is a break in the line, it is sure sign of misfortune and loss, but if the second portion of the line being before the other leaves off, it denotes a complete change in life, and if vere decided it will mean a change more in accordance with the subject's own wishes in the way of position and success.

A double or sister fate-line is an excelent sign. It denotes to distinct careers which the subject is follow. This is much more importent if they go to different mounts.

The line of Sun may rise from the line of life, the Mount of Luna, the Plain of Mars, the line of head, or the line of heart. All of these types should reach the Mount of Sun.

Rising from the line of life, with the rest of the hand artistic, it denotes that the life will be devoted to the worship of the beautiful things. With the other lines good, it promises in artistic success in artistic pursuits.

Rising from the line of fate, it increases the success promised by the line of fate, and gives more distinction form whatever date it is marked - from that time things will greatly improve.

From the Mount of Luna it promises success and distinction, largly dependent upon the fancies and the help of others. In this case it is never a certain sign of success, being so influenced by fortunes of those with whom we come in contact.

With a sloping line of head, however, it is more inclined to denote success in poetry, literature, and things of the purely imaginative order.

Rising upon the Plain of Mars, it promises sunshine after tears, success after difficulty.

Rising from the line of head, there is no caprice of other people in connection with success, the talents of the subject alone being its factor, but untill the second half of the life is reached.

Rising from the line of heart it merely it merely denotes a great taste for art and artistic things, and looking at it from the purely practical standpoint it denotes more distinction and influence in the world at that late date in life.

A good Fate and Sun line parallel to one another with a straight Line of Head is one of the greatest signs of the acquisition of wealth. The complete abscence of this Line of Sun does not promise that such persons never attain to fame or distinction, yet it indicates that such people no matter how hard they work find the recognition of the world hard to gain.

The Line of Mars is otherwise known as the inner vital or inner life-line. It rises on the Mount of Mars, and sweeps down by the side of the line, but is distinct in every way from those faint lines known as lines, of which I spoke a little earlier.

The general characterstic of the line of Mars is that it denotes excess of health on all square or broad hands to a man of this type gives a martial nature, rather a fighting disposition, and robust strength. It also denotes that while it runs close to the life line the individual will be engaged in many quarrels, and will be subject to a great deal of annoyance, which will bring all his martial for fighting qualities into play. It is always an excellent sign on the hand of a soldier.

When a branch shoots from this line out to the Mount of Moon, it tells that there is a terrible tendency towards intemperance of every kind, through the very robustness of the nature, and the craving for excitement that it gives.

The Line of Intution

The line of intution is more often found on the philosophic, the conic, and the psychic, than on any other of the seven types. Its position on the hand is almost that of a semicircle from the face of the Mount of Mercury to that of the Mount of Luna. It sometimes runs through or with the hepatica, but can be found clear and distinct even when the hepatica is marked. It denotes a purely impressionable nature, a person keenly sensitive to all surroundings and influences, an intutional feeling of presentiment for others, strange vivid dreams and warnings which science has never been able to account for that much-used word, 'coincidence'. It is found more on psychic hands than on any others.

The Line of Marriage

The line or lines of marriage may rise on the side of the hand or be only marked across the front of the Mount of Mercury.

Only the long lines relate to marriages, the short ones to deep affection or marriage, we will find it corroborated and information given as to the change in life, position, and so on. From the position of the marriage - line on the Mount of Mercury a very fair idea of the age at the time of marriage may also be obtained.

When the importment line is found lying close to the line of heart, the union will be early, about fourteen to twenty - one, near the center of the mount, about twenty - one or twenty - eight,; three-quarters up the mount, twenty - eight to thirty -five, and so on. But the line of fate on the line of life will be more accurate, by giving almost the exact date of the change of influence.

The Three Bracelets

The bracelets have not much importance in reading the lines. There is one strainge and peculiar point with regard to then, when it is high on the wrist, almost rising into the palm, particularly when it risinig into the palm, particularly when it rose in the shape of arch, it indicates weakness in the relation to the internal organs of the body - as, for instance, in the bearing of the children.

Another significance atteched to the bracelets is that, if well and clearly defined, they mean strong health and a robust constitution, and this again, it is interesting to notice, bears out in a manner the point I have called attention to.