Heart Line
Energy first enters the body through the finger of Jupiter. The first line
the energy reaches is the Heart line.
Doesn't have definite starting or stopping place.
COLOUR
PINK - Warmth and health, genial and sympathetic people produced by a strong
heart pumping plenty of blood.
WHITE - Weak and flabby heart pumping the blood current with lifeless force,
produces lack of warmth, and consequent weak or less magnetic or energetic quality
of affections.
MISSING If there is only one line beneath the mounts it is nearly always the
head line which is missing. For the line to be onsidered as the heart line,
it must rise high on the mount of Jupiter-or in that vicinity, and must trace
its way across the hand just under the Mounts, and not be low enough to be in
the location of the head line. Missing indicates a lack of sympathy and the
affectionate side of the disposition, and warms us of one who is cold-blooded,
selfish, and who desires personal success even at the expense and detriment
of others. It is a bad marking, which easily leads from mere selfishness into
hypocrisy, deceit, lack of candour, and positive dishonesty.
STARTING POINT
1/ Rising from the mount of Jupiter - Development of the sentimental side to
the affections. The subject is one whose love is ideal, to whom love is an adoration,
and to whom love, even with poverty attached, is attractive.
2/ Rising between Jupiter and Saturn - Shows common sense, practical "middle
ground" with the affections, indication one who is not carried away with
sentiment, but who views love from a practical standpoint; is not "soft",
but is inclined to thing that love in a cottage without plenty of bread and
butter is a myth. This person is never carried away by sentiment, and while
strong in affection is sensible and not foolish.
3/Rising from the Mount of Saturn - shows the sensualism in the affection of
one whose love is tinged with the idea of pleasures
from sexual relation. This is infallible if with it is seen a large Mount of
Venus of pink or red color, and with strong Life and Mercury lines.
Rising from all three of these sources indicates the union of sentiment, common-sense,
and passion, showing that heart is the strongest factor in the make-up of your
subject, and a very fine Head line and a strong thumb must be present to prevent
Heart from ruling head. This always produces an affectionate person, who has
a warm heart, a great deal of it,
and loves friend, relation, and mankind in general. His danger is too much heart,
and he does not look after his own interests when considering whose of others.
This will be increased if the fork form Jupiter is strongest, and decreased
if the middle branch is strongest, because the practical side will then be prominent.
The fork of the Heatl ine will not alwoays be well pronounced, but every variation
of it can be read BASED uon the full indication here given.
Sometimes the line will start in several forks on Jupiter along, in which case
it increases the sentimentality of a single line starting from that point. The
same rule apples to the other staring points.
The general rule apples that a single line tends to make the affections more
self-contained, and the subject loves family and friends strongly, but does
not reach out to everybody as does the one whose Heart line forks at the start.
The deeper and clearer the line at the start, the deeper, but more likely to
be selfish, are the affections. The more the branching, the
more they go out to many people. The line beginning with a fork makes a successful
subject, for he has many friends.
THE HEART LINE FALLING TOWARDS THE HEAD LINE AT ITS START
This shows the head to be powerfully in the lead, and that when it comes to
a choice between sentiment and utility the heart will be second best. Sometimes
the Heart line starts from the line of the Head, in which case it will show
that head has control of heart and completely dominates it. This is especially
true it the Head line be deeper and clearer than the Heart line. If this is
so marked, read with confidence that the head completely rules. If the Heart
line originates from the origin of the Head line there will be a continual struggle
between then for supremacy, with the chances in favour of the head as the Heart
line droops or takes its source from it.
5/ Heart line originating from the course of the Head line. In this case the
time at which the Head line obtained control of the
Heart line can be read by the intersection.
LENGTH
SHORT The subject will have serious difficulty at the time
at which it ends, even if all the other lines go on to their normal
length. This abrupt termination of the Heat line means either that the heart
will stop beating or else that the subject has little heart of affection for
others. Poor sign.
LONG Crossing the entire hand shows that the subject has too
much heart and will allow sentiment to guide him in everything. In business
he will not choose employees because they are best fitted to do his work, but
because they "need a job", and in all walk of life he will be guided
by sentiment. Older palmists read a line rising well up into the finger of Jupiter
and running clear across the hand, "failure in all enterprises".
One who is ruled by sentiment cannot cope with cold schemers.
COURSE: Runs along at the base of the mounts, ends under the
mount of Mercury on the percussion.
RISING to one of the mounts shows a love of these qualities
and persons possessing these qualities. The age can be found from the position
of the rise. If the subject has attractions at other ages, they will be shown
by a chance line leaving the Heart line, or some other line, at the age at which
the attraction occurs, and running to the Mount to which it is attracted.
If the line in so rising loses itself in the Mount to which it deflects and
ends there instead of at its usual stoping place, it
shows that the attraction has overcome the affections and that the heart has
surrended completely. You can, by noting now long the line is deflected from
its course, tell, by reading the age on the line, what period of years was covered
by it. You will not often see a line pulled wide of its course, for generally,
before such a great deflection can occur, a chance line will split away from
the Main line and rise to the point of attraction.
DOWNWARD If the line dips downward in its course it shows
that at the time of this deflection the head has exerted a powerful influence
over the heart. During this period, reason and head dominate sentiment and heart
leading to indifference to others, avaricious, selfish and cold-hearted behaviour.
If it is lost in the Head line, it shows that these qualities have swallowed
all further independent action of the affections.
CUTTING HEAD LINE in two instead of merging with it or going
back to its original course. In this case serious injury and damage to the Head
line are indicated, and at the time at which such a cut takes placer the subject
will have either an nbalancing of the mental faculties, serious brain fever
or death. Such a marking cannot take place without a disaster.
TERMINATION
A Heart line which begins under Jupiter and ENDS UNDER SATURN shows that the
heart which began with the right sort
of affections soon changed, and the coldness and dislike of mankind peculiar
to the Saturnian quickly changed the nature, which
was warm in the beginning, to one which has little heart left.
TERMINATES UNDER APOLLO shows that Apollonian ideas of beauty
and art strongly attract the subject, who will be unsatisfied in marriage except
with and Apollonian or one approaching that type. If with this termination the
line rises on Jupiter it will give ideal love, which, added to that for the
Apollonian character, makes one indeed fond of beauty, love, and grace.
ENDS HIGH ON MOUNT OF MERCURY Shows that the affections are
largely influenced by finances, The Mercurian shrewdness guides the Heart line,
and it must always have money in sight before love is recognised.
From Jupiter ENDING EARLY ON THE HEAD LINE = Pours a double current into the
Head line.
It operates to make the subject cold and heartless, and should be read like
an absent Heart line. These people are very ambitious, as the line leads down
from Jupiter, but will consider the welfare of no one when furthering their
ambitions.
RUNNING INTO MIDDLE OF HEAD LINE = Same as pouring energy into the beginning of the head line only modified. It is practically a Head line beginning with a fork, with the Heart line absent.
TERMINATES ON UPPER MARS (Lower on the percussion) - It leaves too wide a space under the Mounts, and the ffections will centre on one of the Martian type. This will cause these subjects to love ardently and with Martian brusqueness and strength. It also produces a narrow quadrangle, and consequently a secretive disposition.
ENDS ON MOUNT OF THE MOON It makes the subject extremely jealous, for there will be too much Heart line, backed by the imagination of the Lunarian, which will magnify every act of one be loves into some form of unfaithfulness. This formation is a most unhappy one.
ENDING ON THE PLAIN OF MARS After cutting the Head line - will be a serious
menace, for it will cut the head line squarely, will pour its current into the
plain of Mars (the seat of temper and excitability), and will consequently endanger
life by cutting the Head line, and will also show the subject to be exceedingly
irritable, and hard to get along with. Be careful not to confuse this marking
with a Saturn line rising in the Plain of Mars. If the line goes well up into
Jupiter, read it as the Heart line; if it goes will up into Saturn, or only
to the edge of Jupiter, red it as a Saturn line with the Heart line absent.
ENDING ON THE MOUNT OF VENUS is a serious indication, for it cuts both the lines
of Head and Life. In this rare marking, note carefully the condition of lines
where the cutting takes place, and the condition of Head and Life line afterwards.
CHARACTER OF THE LINE
The PERFECT LINE is one which is deep cut and smooth, is not broken, islanded,
or defective in other ways, is well colored, and of proper length. Such a line
indicates a good physical condition of the heart, good circulation, strong affections
constant and smooth in operation, one reliable in love matters, but not frivolous
nor sentimental. These subjects are brave, courageous, and fearless. Such persons
love ardently and remain constant, but they do not make a display of their feelings,
neither do they enjoy great demonstrations from others. He will have confidence
in those he loves, and a disappointment will affect him severely, for, while
quiet and undemonstrative, the Current runs deeply.
SMALL AND THIN -the person has little care for others, is narrow-minded, cowardly,
timid, unsympathetic, and has no
real affection for anyone. All display of love which he might make is from a
desire to further selfish ends. Make sure that the Heart line is thinner than
the other lines for this reading.
BROAD AND SHALLOW = the heart action will be physically weak,
the affections will correspond, and if the subject's
-hand is weak = fickle affections
-hand is good = sentimental and loving a display of affection
These subjects fall violently in love, but quickly change their affections to
the next attractive person who comes along. Their Heart line is broad and shallow;
the affections are the same. They like to be told how much you love them every
time thy meet you, and they are often the people who love you during prosperity,
but turn their backs in time of trial. There is in their nature no true ring
of deep, strong affection; they are incapable of a lasting attachment. This
is what we call a sentimental Heart line.
CHAINED - Shows a constant uncertainty in the affections.
The subject thinks one day that he is in love and changes his mind the next.
He will rush up to you and smother you with a great demonstration of affection,
and the next time you meet he will hardly speak to you. He vacillates and changes,
is cowardly, uncertain, and weak, The constantly interrupted Current has no
deep permanent channel, and the result is no permanent health or affections.
Note whether this chained condition applies only to the Heart line, and whether
all the other lines are deep and well cut, in which case red the Heart line
in a pronounced manner; if
all the lines are chained, the Heart line is not more defective than everything
else.
In nearly all Heart lines their start is deep and well cut, while they are
generally broad and shallow, chained or tasselled at the end.
This is easily explained when we remember that during the first twenty years
of life the heart is strongest in action; it has not exerted itself and become
worn as is the fact in later years. At this time of life the subject has not
had experiences which make him doubt the sincerity of mankind, consequently
the line is more perfectly marked. As old age comes on the action of the heart
grows weaker, and the line becomes defective, the subject loves petting and
display of affection from others, and the line, instead of the self-contained
depth which shows at the beginning when such things are not sought so much,
becomes shallow and sentimental.
COLOR
It is useful to press the line from source to termination with the finger, and
note the facility with which the blood flows under this
pressure. This will indicate the strength of the blood stream and will help
to distinguish the color of the line. In some lines the blood flows freely,
and in others the whiteness under pressure shows the weak blood supply.
WHITE Indicates a weakening of the heart functions leading
to cold heartedness.
PINK Will make a deep line operate properly, and all the warmth,
steadfastness, and reliability of this good line will be accentuated. Pink color
will make a thin line less selfish and narrow; it will make a broad and shallow
or a chained line less fickle, and often with these formations pink color is
the thing which saves the subject from being entirely inconstant.
RED color is the intensity of rich, warm blood, and in the Heart line makes
intense all the fires of affection. It shows a heart so strong that is may be
dangerous. On the martian type we expect it, but it is too strong to be good
for any of the other.
YELLOW will tinge the affections with morbidness and will make even th the subject
the good, deep line suspicious of those he loves. Bile spoils everything, even
a good heart line, and adds its pessimistic view even to love. A yellow Heart
line, though it may be deep, is less to be depended upon and is more inclined
to double dealing than even a white one. Yellow Heart lines mean a poisoned,
bad heart, so they pull down every type.
BLUE Color in a Heart line tells of the congestion, the sluggish movement of
the organ, and the type must at once be located, for if the Apollonian it is
serious.
The Heart line indicates
1/ The physical state of the organ
2/ The mental characteristics and qualities of the affections
3/ It often shows when this mental attitude has taken such hold as to powerfully
draw the subject in different directions.
The 1/ and 2/ are always shown in the hand but not always 3/. As strong brain
impressions alone produce changes in the lines, manifestly the third will be
seen only in those hands where the brain has been so profoundly impressed that
the effect has been transmitted to the line. If you encounter an unusual formation
of the line, or any change from the normal, you wonder whether it is health
or character that is indicated. Your first thought should be that it is a health
indication. Then tie this with other health signs and the mount types.
DEFECTS
SPLIT If you find it to be a health defect, it is serious in proportion as it
splits the A Main line in two and divides the current,
directing part away from its proper channel. Split lines as health defects show
a weakened condition of the heart with impaired circulation. As character indications,
the place they occur, size of split, and the place to which they run must be
guides in reading them.
ALL LINES WHICH RISE FROM A MAIN LINE ARE MORE FAVOURABLE THAN LINES WHICH FALL FROM IT.
Split lines which rise to a mount will indicate that either the characteristics
of the Mount, or someone belonging to that
type so strongly attract the heart as to split off part of the line and draw
it up toward the Mount.
-Split line rising to Jupiter will show that ambition will guide live, and the
person who will attract this subject will be someone on
the Jupiterian order. He does not necessarily have to have money, but he must
be prominent, or one who gives promise of rising.
-Split line rising to Saturn will indicate that the subject is attracted by
some of the Saturnian qualities. If the subject is developed
in his mental world, it will be this side of the Saturnian that will attract
him, and he will love one who has scholarly attainments. If your clients middle
world is strongest, he will love one who has farming, mining, or horticultural
aptitudes, or scientific talent. If his lower world is strongest, he will love
one who has the saving disposition of the Saturnian. In every case this subject
will like best one who has the soberness, caution, and wisdom that belong to
the Saturnian type.
-Split line rising under Apollo shows a love of Apollonian characteristics,
and your subject will be drawn toward Apollonians.
If your subject lives in the mental world, he will love one who is ideally an
artist. If the middle world of your subject is strongest, he will love one who
is an artist, but he wants this artist able to make money from his art. If the
lower world is strongest
your subject will love one who dresses in a showy fashion and who knows how
to make a display.
-Split line rising to Mercury your subject will love Mercurian qualities; which
side will be shown by the wold which rules in his hand- the oratory and eloquence
of the upper world of Mercury, the scientific side shown by the middle, or the
money making side shown by the lower world. In the latter case the subject will
suffer love to be influenced by the amount of money a lover has, or by his ability
to make it.
If these split lines rise in the centre of the Mounts, read them confidently.
If it seems doubtful on which of two Mounts the do end, estimate which one seems
most clear and read in this case with some degree of reserve.
-Split lines which fall from the Heart line show a part of the conflict between
Heart and Head, and at the time these line fall, the
head is exerting a very strong influence.
If, as is often the case, fine lines fall from the Heart line all along its
course, there is a perpetual conflict between heart and head
for the mastery, and calculation (head) has stifled sentiment (heart). Sometimes
a large line will split away from the Heart line and
gradually fall to the Head line, merging itself in it; this will show that heart
has surrendered to head and is thereafter ruled by it. The age at which it begins
is shown by the point at which the line splits away, and the complete surrender
by the point at which the line loses itself in the line of Head.
Cross bars cutting the line are constant heart irritations, either illness,
or worries in the affection. Make a search to detect whether they are health
defects or whether they apply to the affections.
If these cross bars cut the line in many placed, it shows that the trouble is
continuous, It heart disease, it will show palpitation and
valvular difficulties, and generally with such bars present the Heart line grows
dim and more defective toward its latter end, and the cross bars become deeper
cut. If these bars do not relate to disease, then constant jars to the affections
will be indicated at the age at which these bars show on the line.
All defects on the heart line are more serious if they appear under the Mount
of Apollo.
Islands in the Heat line are always defects. They obstruct
the Current, weaken it, and most often indicate weak physical
action of the heart.
The size of the island determines the severity of the defect.
Dots are only temporary disturbances, while those which are
large and deep cut are menaces to life.
Islands found in the Heart line under the mounts will generally add a heart
complication to some health defect of that Mount type. If chance lines from
any other part of the hand run to or near an island on the Heart line, they
will give the clue by the place from which they start as to where you should
look for information which you con bring to bear on the island. If split lines
rise or fall from the Heart line at or near an island these will tell, by the
place they end, something about the outcome of the island. When an island is
seen, search must be make to ascertain whether it is a health defect, and generally
this will be the case. If not, look to
location, chance, and other lines for information bearing on some disappointment
to the affections. An island under the mount of Apollo is always a health indication,
and you will seldom fail to get the complete confirmation from nails etc.
Dots on the Heart line are generally health defects, and their degree of seriousness
is gauged by their size. When seen, always
examine for heart disease. If no indication is seen anywhere else, and the dot
is small, the case is not serious. The more pronounced the signs of heart trouble
which are seen elsewhere, and the larger the dot, the more serious the difficulty.
BREAKS
Breaks of all degrees of size are often seen in the line.
With nearly every break, one end of the broken line will go wide of its course
and will show what has influenced the line sufficiently to break it. Breaks
must always be considered as serious even though small, and when wide or when
the ends of the broken line are far apart and unrepaired, they become serious
enough in their meaning to warrant the reading of a possible fatality.
If the ends of the line lap, or have sister line joining them, squares surrounding,
or anything that will help retain the current, read it as serious heart difficulty
which is prevented from coming to a fatal conclusion by repair signs. With breaks
examine in the usual manner to see if they are health defects, and if found
to be so, read the break as denoting illness; if it is not a health indication
read it as an interruption in the affections. If the line breaks and runs up
to Jupiter it will be read the same as the line deflected to that Mount, or
as a split line running to Jupiter, showing that Jupiterian qualities attract
the client and that the break in the line, if a health defect, is due to a disturbance
of heart brought about by the Jupiterian disposition to overeat. If the break
be not a health indication, it will show that one of the Jupiterian type has
caused the break, or that it has been caused by too much ambition or pride (Jupiterian
qualities).
If the line breaks under Saturn and rises to the Mount first look for health
defects. In this case gout and rheumatism are the Saturnian health defects that
will probably complicate trouble with the heat's action, and rheumatism of the
heart is often diagnosed from this marking. If this break in not a health indication
it will show that either a Saturnian subject, or that Saturnian qualities have
caused the break in the line.
If the Heart line breaks under Apollo it will be nearly conclusive proof that
the difficulty is a health defect.
Examine closely all other indications bearing on heart disease, for while this
defect is natural to Apollonians, all of this type do not necessarily have heart
disease. See if the broken line, as it goes up into the Mount, grows deep and
red, if so
it will add to the certainty of disease. This break occurring in the line under
Apollo is at age forty-three.
If the line breaks under Mercury it will not likely be a health defect coming
from any type qualities of Mercury, from the fact that the position of Mercury
registers sixty years on the Heart line, and the heart's action generally gets
weaker at this age, and is likely to become disturbed. In seeking to discover
if this break is a health indication, bear in mind the age and consequent liability
to heart weakness. At this age it is not likely that an affection will cause
the break, for the age of youthful love is passed. If affection toward a Mercurian
has influenced your client, it will much more likely be shown by a chance line
breaking from the heart line earlier, than by the break under Mercury. The usual
investigation will probably disclose a health defect, if not reason out the
break, as is done with the other Mounts.
If many breaks are seen in the line your client has either had a constant recurrence
of weakness in the hear's action or of broken love affairs. If the breaks come
close together he is likely to have heart failure. If the end of these broken
lines turn down instead of rising to the Mounts, the head strongly influences
the subject at the time the breaks occur, and cold reason fights against warm
sentiment. If the broken ends are short, head does not rule completely, but
if the line merges into the Headline, reason obtains the mastery over sentiment.
If the break is wide at this time, the subject never entirely gets over it;
if is narrow he does, though
unhappy at the time.
If the end of the broken line drops and cuts the head line sharply, the thing
which caused the break, be it health or affection, will
seriously impair the head at the time the line crosses the Head line. If a star
is seen on the junction brain fever or even death may ensue.
If an island be seen in the Head line, following the cut by the Heart line,
the head will be left in a delicate condition
afterwards, this delicacy lasting as long as the island is present, the age
to the read on the Head line.
If after a break a well marked star is seen filling the break the subject will
die suddenly or have a very serious attack of heart
disease at the age the star comes on the line. This is more certain if seen
under Apollo.
If the line breaks and is cut by a cross bar, the current can hardly get by
at all, and sudden death, by heart failure, will occur in
95% of cases.
If a break has a cross bar on both ends of the line, death from heart disease
will occur in 99% of cases.
How serious every case is, judge by the difficulty there will be to repair
the damage and get the Current into its proper channel again. In the break with
a bar on each end of the break case, the best repair would be a sister line
joining the ends of the crass bars. In the case there would be great danger
at the time of the break, but the Current could be led back by the sister line
to its channel again. This serious defect is also well repaired by a square
in which case the Current gets into the box, and though it is a serious impediment
to the heat during the time this break occurs, it will likely find its way into
the Heart line again if the square be
a good one.
If a break in the Heart line has a dot on the end of the brocken line it indicates
a serious attack of heart disease at the age
indicated by its position on the line. A very large, deep dot will indicate
a probable fatality, a smaller dot, serious illness which may be overcome.
The star is either a brilliant sign when seen on the line, or is an explosion.
First locate whether it denotes illness or affection. If
illness, then it will be heart disease, a severe attack if it be a small star,
or a badly formed one. If seen under Saturn it will add the complication of
rheumatism of the heart. If the star is large and well formed, with the centre
exactly on the line, it will indicate the excessive formation, or, as we call
it, the explosion. This means sudden heart failure at the age on the line at
which the star appears.
If after a star the line shows chains the subject will have a serious attack
of heart disease from which he will never entirely recover.
If after a star the subject will have a severe attack of heart disease with
delicacy afterwards, most pronounced and severe during the periods covered by
the islands. The age at which each event occurs can be read from the line of
Heart. If after a star the line becomes thin and narrow it tells that the illness
shown by the star destroys the vigour of the heart, which is always weak afterwards,
and the affections become cold and views selfish and narrow.
Use color to strengthen all these matters. Remember big red stars indicate greater intensity than big white ones, and that yellow ones show more nervous, morbid, and ugly qualities. Every defect on the line means an event either of health or affection. Make this distinction by rules already laid down, and then tell what the defect means and how serious it is.