- Are on the Mount of Venus and inside the Life line are a set of lines, some of
which run parallel to the Life line and others which run across the Mount.
Influence lines are the first introduction in this book to any factors
outside of the subject himself, forming a part of what is called his
"environment". Only thos indications which my own epxerience as well as that
of other careful invertigators has fully verified are here considered, and
all matters which are traditional or hypothetical have been left out. Only
lines which run inside the Life line are porperly lines of influence, and I
have found that they indicate person who have strongly influenced the life
either for good or ill, and that they generally represent members of one's
own family or the closest of friends. If the latter class, and blood
relationship is not present, they are those who have grown into the life nad
have become a part of it. In all cases they have strong INFLUENCE. In some
hands few of these lines are seen, in others there are many, and the more
there are the greater the number of persons who have exerted strong
influence. The less the number the more self-contained is the subject; he
makes few close frienships, and even blood relations do not greatly influence
him. The reason these lines are seen is because the influences have made
strong impressions on the mind of the subject, and these mantal impressions
have shown thenselves in the hand. The Lines of Influence, both vertical and
horizontal, form what is commonly called the Grille on the Mount of Venus.
This generally indicates an increase of Venusian qualities, particularly the
sexual appetities. This GENERAL reading of a large number ofInfluence lines
on the Mount of Venus is correct, as has been clearly demonstrated in the
hands of subjects known to have strong sexual appetites. Every line of the
Grille represents an influence which has affected the life, and the more of
these there are, the more the Mount will have Currents which excite it, and
consequently fire its qualities. The absence of lines on the Mount of Venus
shows an absence of electrifying Currrents, and this calm Mount expends its
energy in a live of beauty, gayety, color, art, and dress, instead of in
sexual desires.

The line of Mars is a sister to the line of Life, running inside of that line
and parallel to it, This is really an Influence line, but it is an influence
upon the health of the subject, sustaining and strengthening it, and does not
relate to the influence of other persons. The line of Mars is comparatively a
rare marking ,and the greater number of lines seen along alongside the Life
line are simply Influence lines. The Influence line which runs closest to the
line of Life is the closest influence. This may be mother, father, a brother
or a sister. I have noted that a line staring near the beginning of the Life
line and running close to it is generally the mother, as a mother's
influence begins earlier in life than taht of any one else. Next to this
line, counting from the Life line, comes a line representing the father and
line line which represents this parent is usually found to be deeper than the
others. Next follow other relatives grandparents being generally the fourth
line. The length of these lines tell the duration of the influences as
factor in the life of a subject. In most hands a new Influence line is seen
to appear at some age between twenty and thirty. This is generally the
husband or wife, as it is at about this age that most marriages occur. This
line becomes the dominating influence of the subject from the time of its
appearance it the marraige is happy, but it only shows faintly if the marriage
has made no more than a passing impression on the subject.
In many cases there is a fine line connecting this Influence line with the
Life line, showing that the influence has merged into the life of the
subject. On the Mount of Venus, then, are congregated the close influences
of a subject's life. Many things which happen to the persons who infuence the
subject are also shown on the lines of Influence, but they are events which
have made a considerable impression on his mind. A star on the end of a
line of Influence will indicate the ceasing of that influence, whatever it
may be; and, while you cannot state definitely who the person is, yet by
noting the distance between this Influence line and the line of Life, you can
determine whether the line represents one closely connected with the subject or
a more distant relative. This is an important indication to master
thoroughly, for the death of a relative will often change the course of a
life, and if some indication be encountered which cannot be explained in any
other way, a line of Influence with a star on it may give the clue. In
connection with the lines of Saturn and Apollo it is of constant service. The
death of relatives also seriously impairs the health of some subjects, and
thus in all directions Influence lines are valuable indications.
When lines of Influence are deep, strong, and well colored, the influence is
powerful; when they are thin, shallow, chained, uneven, or broken in any way,
the influence is not strong. When an Influence line egins deep and then grows
thin, until it gradually fades away, the influence was strong in the
beginning, but has gradually grown weaker until it has no effect. If this
line should be revived and gradually grow stronger, the influence will return
into the life of the subject and grow in power. If an Influence line draw
away from the Life line and grow thinner at the same time, the influece
gradually grows away from its nearness to the subject, and finally
disappears. This is an indication of the estrangement of some near one. The
ages of each one of these occurences can be read from the Life line. If an
Influence line, beginning early and aending in a star, habe beside it a line
more distant from the Life line, which grows stronger after the star, it
indicates that the mother or father has died at the age shown by the star,
and that a distant relative has come into the life and taken the parent's
place. If an Influece line beins thin and grows stronger and breaks, and is
replaced by another line, and this by another, it shows that, one after
another, relatives have replaced each other as the leading influece with the
subject.
If the Life line be very defective, being thin, chained, broad, and
shallow, islanded or broken, and a line of Influence be strong, it indicates
that while the subject's health has been delicate, some relative has been his
mainstay in life. This line just described has the same effect on the subject
as a line of Mars, and the influence may, by constant nursing, have kept the
subject alive. I incline to this opinion rather than to the idea of the line
being a line of Mars.
If the Head line be poor early in life, and gradually
grow stronger, an an Influence line be strong in the beginning and grow
farther away from the Life line or become thinner, the weak mental condition
of the subject in early life is sustained by the strong influence of someone
during the time such help was needed, and, as the head grew stronger, the
influence was no longer needed and faded away.
The rising branches from the Life line indicating an upward tendency in the
life of the subject are sometimes cut by Worry lines. This marking shows an
impediment to the career of the subject, a check to the upward tendency.
These worry lines frequently start from an influence line, and this will
indicate that the influence has caused the check. In a large number of cases
these Worry lines cutting an upward branch from the Life line have been
verified as indicating a legal difficulty. Older palmists used this marking
as an indication of divorce. The single indication must not be given this
reading, but with tyhis marking and other confirmatory signs it can be so
interpreted, viz, if the line cutting the rising branch from the Life line
cross the hand and cut a line of union which is forked, this reading will be
found correct.
If the Worry line start from an Influence line, the influence has made the
trouble. By itself the marking indicates a check to the upward career. If a
Worry line start from a star on the end of an Influece line and cut a rising
line from the Life line, it indicates that the death of a relative caused the
trouble.
If the Influence line be deep, then thin, and alternates in this way, the
influece is strong, then weak, and only exerts its power spasmodically.
If an Influence line begins away from the Life line and gradually comes
toward it, growing stronger as it progresses, it indicates that the influence
of some distant relative is gradually coming nearer to the life of the
subject and growing stronger. This line may cut through other Influence
lines lying closer to the Life line, showing that it is becoming more
powerful than they. If a line of Influence break and after a short space
startagain, kand this be repeated, it shows that the influence of the person
on the life of the subject vanishes and then begins again, having
disappeared and returned several times. If inside of a broken line of
Influence, starting at twenty to thirty, there be another line which begins
early in the life of the subject, and continues uninterupted past these
breaks, it shows the intermittent character of the wife or husband's
influence, strengthened by the constant influence of the mother or father.
Often such a marking will heal and correct a poor marriage.

Islands on Influence lines parallel to the Life line indicate a delicate
condition of the influence, and such a line ending in a star, cross, dot, or
cross-bar will indicate that the delicate influence dies, the age to be read
from the line of Life.
Horizontal lines - hand held vertically - on the Mount of Venus are persons or
events which have crossed our lives and impeded them.
Parallel lines are not impediments, and while they may be weak or defective,
they are not influences strongly hostile to our best development.
WORRY LINES = Cross Lines
Cross lines both impede influences and worry and harass us. This is why these
cross lines cutting the Life line have been called WORRY lines. If deep and
red, they are serious impediments; if thin and puny lines, they are only
annoyances. these Worry lines which continually cross the Life line must be
regarded as more or less serious, according to their depth and extent. When
deep, they indicate illness of a serious nature. If these horizontal lines
cross the entire Mount of Venus and Life line, from top to bottom, they are
continuous worries. If only short lines, they are temporary annoyances. If
they cut some particular Influence line repeatedly, that influence will have
a continual life of worry and impediment.

If a line of Influence, cut by a
strong cross, line, show after this cut an island and end in a star, some
disaster has happened to the influence which has brought on delicacy and
ended in death. If the cutting line be a DEEP one, and the cut line begin so
early that you judge it to be a parent, the cause of the cut has often been
verified as the father. I have seen several cases of this kind; the father
having died, or been injured, has so shocked the mother that she never
recovered. If a number of Influence lines run parallel to the Life line, and
these are cut by numerous small lines, the family life of the subject has in
many cases been found to suffer constant interruption and be unhappy.

If a cross line has an island in it, there will be something most unpleasant
connected with this impediment. It will be a bar to the subject's life owing
to some fault not of his own. If this line only cut the lines of Influence
inside the Life line, it will be expended on the relatives, but if it cut the
Life line it will affect the life of the subject. Do not confound this
marking with the island from Saturn indicating rheumatism.
If an island on a line of Influence have running from it numerous small bars
cutting the Life line, the delicacy of some relative will prove a constant
worry to the subject. If on the life line an island appear after this point
in life, these cares or worries will seriously affect the ehalth o the
subject. Probably close nursing of some invalid relative breaks the health.
If an Influence line deep at the begigging gradually grow thinner and end in
a star, and Worry lines cross from it to the Lifeline, which grows thin and
has a dot on it, the increasing delicacy of a relative ends in death, and the
worry over this case brings on delicacy of the subject ending in a severe
illness. If the Life line end on this dot, the subject will not recover; it
it go on, he will regain his strength. If an Influence line end in a star,
and a Worry line connect this with a dot on the Head line, the death of a
relative will bring on a severe illness of the brain. If a line of Influence
ends in a star, and this be connected by a Worry line with an island on the
Head line, hte delicacy and death of a relative prouce a weakened mental
condition of the subject. In each on of these cases it is understood that you
are to try and discover how near a relative has died by the closeness of the
Influence line to the Life line.
If lines rise from the lines of Influence and run to, but do not cut, the
Life line, it shows that relatives will uplift the subject, but it lines
droop from the influence lines to the Life line, the subject will be
continually pulled down by his kin. If a line of Influence which has been
diagnosed as the wife or husband have a line rising from it to the Mount of
Jupiter, it indicates that this relative is most ambitious. If the Saturn
line be more than usually good after this period, it indicates that this
ambitious partner has spurred the subject on and increased his success.
If a Line of Influence rising early be supported by one which rises at about
the time of marriage, the wife or husband has spplanted the mother
completely. If the marriage influence by thin and the mother influence deep
and stong, the wife is under the domination of the mother, maybe her own,
maybe her husband's.

The general principles which must be applied to lines of Influence are the
same in all cases as those which apply to other lines. Remembering that these
lines represent other people, and by discovering who these persons are in
relation to the subject, you can estimate very closely what effect they have
on his life. Defects on Influence lines, connected by Worry lines with
defects on other lines, will show that the influence has caused the defect.
Changes in the Life line, following defects or changes in Influence lines,
show that the influences have affected the life in a harmful manner. In all
such cases the character of the Life line will tell what this bad effect has
been. In estimating the Influence line which represents the husband or wife,
it should be borne in mind that in women's hands it will begin at from
eighteen to twenty-five, and in men from twenty-five to thirty, these years
representing the average years when marriages occur. In readin Influece lines
always proceed slowly until you have gained practice enough to work out the
combination.