LIFE

The line of Life is, according to our hypothesis, the third line which
recieves the Electric Current upon its entrance through the finger of
Jupiter. This line rises at the side of the hand under the finger of Jupiter,
encircles the Mounts of Lower Mars and Venus, and in most cases ends under
the Mount of Venus at the base of the hand. The line of Life indicates the
health of the subject during the various periods of life, his physical
strength in genral, and whether he lives during each period on his nervous
force or relies upon muscular robustness. By reason of these facts, it
record many detailed eveent is his life, and forms a basis to fall back upon
when seeking confirmations or explanations of indications found elsewhere in
the hand. It shows hwether the course of the life is upward or downward, and
will fix the year when the zenith of the subject's powers are reached. In
many cases it also shows the probable termination of the life, and often by
what disease or agency.

There is little use in discussing an absence of the Life line, for few cases
will be found where none is present. A great variation will be found in the
length of lines, but where it seens at first sight to be absent you will in
nearly every case discover a remnant of it, showing that the line has
existed in some form. I have seen a few cases where no Life line at all was
present, and in such cases have found that the subject had but little
muscular stength and vitality, but lived on nervous energy. These people were
subject to many nervous collapses, and had constantly to husband the
strength, sleep much, and avoid excitement. The absence of a Life line simply
shows that the life of the subject hands only by a hair, and for such an one
Death is a visitor who may come at any moment. These subjects have never
lived in a orbust condition, but have always been delicate. In the beginning
of your study of the Life line, I wish to say that a big thumb and a good
Head line indicate qualities that often overcome the poorest Life line,
prolonging the life far psat its natural ending place. In no case, therefore,
should absolute statements be made that death will come at a given time, for,
while you may seen great danger, will power may be strong enough to west life
from death. It is far better for your subject's course through life that some
kind of a line be present, even though it may be a weak one, for in this case
there is some resistance, some vital force, while wilth the absent line all
energy depends upon the nerves, and when these give way collapse ensues.

You will sometimes find it difficult to distinguish the Life line from the
Saturn line or from strong influence lines found inside of the Life line.
The Saturn line can take over the functions of the Life line for part of its
path. As a guide in all such cases remember that the Life line should
enclose the Mount of Venus and not run on TOP OF IT. By keeping this point in
view you can Aways properly distinguish the Life line from other lines.
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³ BEGINNING ³
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The Life line usually rises at the side of the hand under Jupiter. This is
the normal source, and marks the beginning of the life.
Sometimes, however, the line rises from the Mount of Jupiter = Life is a
most ambitious one, filled with desires for wealth, success, and fame, and
that the subject will take every opportunity to become acquainted with people
of note. If he be a Saturnian, he is ambitious for success along Saturnian
line, such as occult studies, physics, chemistry, medicine, farming, mining,
or is greedy for money, according to which phalanx of the Saturn finger
rules. If he be an apollonian, he is ambitious for success and fame as an
artist, as a money maker, or as one who makes a display in the world,
according to which phalanx of the finger rules. If he be a Mercurian, he is
ambitious as an orator, a scientist, or in many matters, according to the
ruling phalanx of this finger. The same resoning applies to the other Mounts.
In all cases this subject will be extremely PROUD.
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³ COURSE ³
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In its course through the hand the Life line varies little, the pricniparl
deflections being when the line runs close to the thumb = reduces the seze of
the Mount of Venus, thus checking the operation of that Mount, and the
subject is cold, unsympathetic, lacks sexual desire and attraction for or to
the opposite sex. This is a most important marking when your disire to
estimate the probablity of a fruitful marriage, for the less Venusian sexual
desire present, the less likely is the subject to have children. It shows
one who repels advances form the oppostie sex instead of courting them, and
for such reasons this line was used by the older palmists as an indication of
barrenness. If may for the above reaons porduce this condition, but it is not
per se an indication of sterility. this restirction of the Life line is also
an idcication of a diminished porbabitly ofr long life, as it shows an
abnormal dryness in the subject, and such conditions do not show the health
and vigor that are present in subjects full of desire and warmtyh. Coldness
indicates nearness to death, either of the physical body, or, as in this
case, of some necessary emotion.
When the line sweeps wide into the palm it increases the boundary and scope
of the Mount of Venus. This subject will be ardent, full of desire and
warmth, passionate, generous, sympathetic, and will attrat other. He will
also be strongly attacted, will marry early, and in 99% of cases the union
will be fruitful. This comes from the converse of the reasoning appled to the
restricted line. This converging line also indicates long life and a strong
vitality and constitution. It is the presence of warmth as opposed to cold.
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Generally, the length of the line is proportional to the length of life.
Experience however, that this general proposition, while in the main true, is
still capable of considerable variation. In my examination of the hands of
dead persons, many startling confirmations of their death have been found on
the Life line, but you will also find in the hands of other persons well
marked Life lines which run past the age of their decease. This might lead to
the belief that the Life line is inaccurate if we did not understand that
matter. The fact is that the Life line shows the vigor and natural health of
the subject, but we must remember that death is marked on the Heart line,
Head line, Mercury line, and is indicated by chance lines and individual signs
as well, and in those hands where death has occured and the Life line is
found intact, the indication of heath is present in one of the OTHER PLACES
mentioned. It is because severe illnesses and death have been looked for on
the Life line, that so little proficiency has been attained in palm reading.
the life line has been expected to perform a greaterfuty than it was able to
do, and recieved the blame for ill-success that belong to the practitioner
alone. In a study of the hands of those who have dies from disease, accident,
violence, handing, or electrocution, these premises have been abdolutely
verified, for the indications of death were in each hean, if only sought in
the proper place.
When the line is found strong, good and LONG, we may safely assume that the
strong constitution will uphold that life in its matural course until old age
is reached. The shorter the line, the shorter is the period that this
vitality will remain in full operation and the sooner will the usbject have
to depend upon a careful of his forces to ensure the continuance of life.
The two hands are most necessary in the examination of the Life line, for a
naturally strong constituation shown by a long, deep line in the left hand
may be found ruined in the right hand by a chained line. You can, in every
case, read the natural condition correctly form the left hand and the present
state from the right. These cahnges will be shown by the character of the
line. You will often encounter a short Life line in one hand and a long one
in the other; if the longer line occur in the right hand, this must be read
as prolonging of life and strengthening of constitution; it the shorteris in
the right hand, it must be ead as the shortening of the life. Nowhere is it
necessary to use both hands more continually than in examinations of the Life
line. In all hands where good, long Life lines are seen, feel sure that the
natural vigor will last a long time, and in all hands where a short line is
seen, these is a danger point indicated for that subject at the termination
of the short line, and this cannot with safety be ignored by him.
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³ CHARACTER ³
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The character of the Life line indicates the muscular strength, robustness,
and vigor.

DEEP and well cut = the Current is coursing in a good supply through a deep
channel, and your subject is strong, vigorous, full of vitality, will resist
disease, and have few illnesses. These strong lines are found most often on
phlegmatic persons, for these subjects live on muscular strength, not nervous
energy. So the deepest lines are in the hands having the least sensitive
nerves, and consequently the fewest lines. The lives of these subjects are
more even, for they worry little and are not burdeened with delicacy and poor
health. They are capable of great exertion physically.
SHALLOW, BROAD or CHAINED Life lines, even with elastic consistency, will
notl possiss the energy of one with a deep line. the subject with a deep Life
line has more abitliy to throw of worry and remain calm in moments of
excitement. He is endowed with vigor of consitiution, is filled with
self-confidence, and inspires it in others. He is intense in everything he
does, work and play alike. If a Life line be deep and long it will show that
the vitality and robustness continues during the entire life, but most Life
lines become thin at the lower end, when the vitality naturally wanes.
Vigor, strength, health, ordor, self-confidence, intesnity, and energy sum up
the attributes of the deep-cut life line, and this line will affect all of
the tuypes. The strength and vigor will increase the Jupiterian propensities
to "eat, drink, and be merry," and from this Life line and the Jupiterian
tupe we get many drunkards. This is one of the distinguishing combinations
which tells of danger in this direction. If the third phalanx of Jupiter be
very full and the color of hand and line red, your subject is likely one who
has already indulged heavily. He has, however, only the illnesses and he can
indulge in a good deal of dissipation before it begins to impair his
vitality. This subject lives a life free from disease and generally deops
with apoplexy. The same danger is present with a strong Martian type,
especially with red color and red hair. The deep Life line makes the
Apollonian a strong, healthy fellow, one to make his way through the world
with ease. The Venusian is intensiely passionate, and so strong in health and
vitality that the exercise of natural Venusian passions is much increase. In
all cases it is the addition of good health and great vitality to the type,
and with this idea in mins you can reason out the various combinations.

A NARROW AND THIN LINE = less vitality, less robustness, less resistance to
illness, and greater liability of the subject to be overcome by various
toubles of health. The thin line does not mean that the sujcet is necessarily
delicate or sickly, but is shows that he cannot endure as much hardship.
exposure, or resist disease as will as a subject with a deep Life line. In
alll character of Life lines observe the porportion to the other lines. If
the Life linee be deep and all other lines thin or nervous, the subject will
go through life with less worry and fewer nervous spells, If the Life be thin
and the other lines deep and well cut, the subject will be continually
overstrined and health will surely suffer, for the thin LIfe line is not of
sufficient size to carry the amount of Current which is flowing through the
hand. The result of such a combination will be that the health will give way
at some point in the line. The thin Life line is not distinctly a nervous
line, yet the subject with such a line will be more nervous than one with a
deep line. He will be apprehensive of coming evils, he seems instinctively to
feel that the tension on health is great, and he fear the day when it will be
overstrained. In shoosing persons to go through great privations, cuh as
explorers and propectors select those with deep and well-cutLife lines, not
subjects with thin lines. The thin Life line is summed up when we say that it
indicates a lack or robust, muscular vitality and great endurance, and
subjects who have such a marking should never go beyond their trength. For a
Jupiterian and a Martian this thin line will reduce the tendencies to excess.
They will not have the strong impelling force ofgeat vitality to urge them,
consequently such subjects do not stand in danger from apoplesy and blood
disorders resulting from dissipation, but they suffer from vervous disorder.
This apollonian ill run on a lower exhedule of speed, and the Venusian will
not be impelled otward as great physical greatifications. As strong vitality
urges and feeds the desire of all types, so the thin Life line, indicating
lack of robustness, minimizes and reduces the operation of every type, and
makes each milder. These subjects are often lazy, and thin Life lines must
be noted even with elastic consistency, for sometimes a lack of energy is
accounted for by a lack of physical vigor.

BROAD AND SHALLOW = shows an utter lack of vitality. There is in this case no
power to resist disease, no robustness, no strong consitution, no physical
vigor, no musccular power. We find these subjects an easy prey to all kinds
of disorders. Their system is in a flabby, weak condition, and furnishes a
fertile woil in which bacteria germinate. These subjects have no endurance,
no stamina, no confidence in themselves. They have weak constitutions, and
lack energy and push. This is because they are not physically stong, and must
not be taken as an indication of inherent laziness. They are conscious of a
labored effort whenever they undertake physical exertion and from this kind
of a Life line we get the conric eomplainer and tose who never feel well.
These subjects are very dependent; they lean on friends and relative, and
soon fall into the way of being looked after. They do not often achieve great
success, for they have not the strength to beat the tide of competition and
the "hustle", of the age. They lack aggression and strength, and
consequently must be taken care of or they go under. Such Life lines arean
indication of great nervousness, and these subjects are carried purely by
their nervous force. Often when necessity forces them to make strong efforts
they will work when they feel that they can hardly put one foot in front of
the other. Only positions where the work is purely routine, easy, and does
not require much rsponsibility are suited to subjects with such Life
lines. When they are forced into vocations requiring greater physical exerton
and the shouldering of responsibilities they do not hold out a great while.
such a Life line on a flabby hand indicated the extreme of laziness. Even an
elastic consistency connot overome the lack of vital strength and energy of a
broad and shallow Life line.
Spatulate tips will be only mentally active with this line; the skill these
splendid tips give to a subject in all kinds of sports and games, in the
battle of life, will be only a shodow if accompanied by such a line , for all
the type qualities will be lessened in their force and achievement. kThe
Jupiterian willl have no strength for excess, the Martian will be too weak
to fight. Venusians will lack physical sexual power, no matter how much the
thought of sexual relations may attract them. Children are seldom born to or
from such subjects. There are many variations in this line; some are very
broad and very shallow, and show that the Current has no deep channel through
which to flow. Other lines will only approach such a condition. Estimate the
intesity of any line by its degree of breadth and shallowness. Note both
hands. If the Life line be good in the left hand and broad and shallow in the
right, the weak constitiution is browing on the subject. If the marking be
reversed, the weak constitution is growing stronger.
Note the proportion of the lines. If the Life line alone be broad and
shallow, and the other lines are good, the constitution cannot carry its
share of the life's effort, and such a subject will be unsuccessful, sickly,
despondent, and miserable. With this line study the Mount of Saturn carefully;
if it be large or gives in any way a large share of Saturnian quality to the
subject, he will be melancholy, gloomy, and wretched. Such subjects commit
suicide more frequently than any other. If the lower third of the Mount
ofMoon in a woman's hand shows female weakness the subject will be much more
strongly impelled toward self-destruction. With such a line at once locate
the type of your subject and hunt for health defect, either of his primary
type or of the secondary or tertiary types, whose qualities will be
supplementary; or health defects which may be shown on any other part of the
hand. Chance lines will often point you to these defect. No subject with such
marking should marry, for it will turn the home into a hospital. Sometimes
people are found who are strong enough to make them willing to spend a life
in nursing and humoring whims, but these cases are few.
Parents are the safest reliance for such subjects.

The Life line running like a LADDER - made up of short cross lines - has
the same general effect as the broad and shallow line. The health will be
very unstable and intermittent with this line, and not only is the subject
delicate, but he has repeated illnesses, all of more than ordinary severity.

SEVERAL FINE LINES CLOSE TOGETHER = an intensely nervous state of health
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-great delicacy, and a liability to general debility. All of these lines
reduce the vigor of every type, diminish their strength,
and render them less likely to be pushing, active persons.
Examine the Mounts to locate the health defects
present, which will be exaggerated with these poor Life lines. The very thing
that is causing your subject to be delicate, and which shows through the poor
Life line, is some one of the health defects of the types. You need have no
trouble in locating the source of the difficulty.

CHAINED = GREAT OBSTRUCTION TO CURRENT = DELICATE CONSTITUTION
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- subject will be delicate and suffer repeated annoying
illnesses. If the cahaining runs through the entire course of the line, this
poor condition of health will be alway present, but if it cover only a part
of the line, the delicacy will only extend over the part of the life covered
by the chain. The chained line is an aggravated addition of delicacy to the
broad and shallow line. Conceive the Life Current bumping over the many rocks
and shoals in the channel of a badly chained Life line, and you can figure
something of the miserable health such a line indicates.

With nearly every Life line we find the first years chained, or poorly marked
in some way. If this beginning of the line is bad for a long distance, the
child did not pass the danger point until late. If this bad beginning runs
only a short distance, the period of childish delicacy was soon over. After
this period, it the line becomes deep and well cut, and continue so to its
end, the subject will have a stong constitution which assets itself as soon
as the delicacy of infancy is passes, and continues as long as the subject
lives. If, after the delicacy natural to the early years, the line be thin
and continue so to the end, the subject has not a vigorous constution to
start with, and is never robust. If after the childish delicacy the line
continues chained, broad, and shallow, or otherwise poorly marked, the
subject will never be stong during life, but will lways have a weak
constitution. There are periods in almost every one's life when he is stonger
than at others, Even a weak constitution will have times of revival. This
will be shown by an uneven line in which the combination of the character of
the line may vary infinately.
Back of all of these delicacies of constitution there are causes which
prodcue them, and these casues are the ehalth defects of the types, which in
most cases are chronic ailments. Having discovered that your subject has a
weak constituion, endeavor to discover what has made it weak, In this
examination the type of the subject will aid, for it will tell to what he is
predisposed. After you have located, his type or combination of types, look
at the primary Mount for grilles, cross-bars, crosses, or any marking which
will enable you to locate a health defect of the type. If one be seen, go
over the list and look at nails, color, Mercuy line, and from some of these
you will be able to locate which one of his type health defects has
undermined the constitution. With this information you can tell him not only
that he is constituionally weak, but what is the cause. If you seen no health
defects of his primary Mount, look to the second, and tertiary, and all the
other Mounts for health defects. It is written somewhere, if only looked for
in the right place. Sometimes a chance line will point from the delicacy on
the Life line to the cause producing it, and generally it will be found on
one of the Mounts. The individual signs or as we have called of them,
"defects," in the line will locate specific points when illnesses occured or
will occur. These defects ar cross-bars cutting the line, islands, dots,
breaks, and splits.

CROSS-BARS = DEFECTIVE HEALTH
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All lines which cut across the Life line interrupt or cut the Current, and at
the time the cutting occurs they produce a defective operation which in the
case of the Life line is one of health. In some cases, especially with very
nervous persons, the Life line is continually cut by little line which are
fine and do not cut the Life line in two. These lines show innumerable
worries, the result of an intensely nervous condition, and the subject is
prone to numerous small illnesses which have kept him in a intinual state of
depression or of ill-health. If these cross-bars be fine, the illnesses have
not been serious but annoying, and there have been as many as there are bars
cutting the Life line. If these bars be deep and cut the Life line, there have
been severe illnesses. If they be red the illness has been by fever. It is by
the depth of these cross-lines that you must estimate their seriousness, and
generally they will end somewhere on a Mount or line which will give you the
clue to the nature of the trouble. The age at which these illnesses occur can
be read from the Life line.
If a cross-bar cut the Life line and end in a
grille on Saturn, the illness will be a health defect of Saturn; which one
you can determine from nails and color.
If the cross-bar --> dot, island, or a break in the
Heart line under Apollo, the illness is heart disease; the
outcome can be read from the Heart line or from the termination of the Life
line. Nails and color will aid to confirm the diagnosis. If the cross-bar
runs to a wavy-line of Mercury, the illness is jaundice or severe bilious
fever; age in all cases to be read from the point at which the cross-bar cuts
the Life line.
If the cross-bar --> grille on Upper Mars, with the
Martian type strong, the trouble will be with blood disorder or throat and
bronchial trouble. Nails will confirm the latter, or islands on the line of
Mercury.
If the cross-bar --> grille or cross on the Upper Moon, bowel
trouble or intestinal inflammation is the difficulty.
If the cross-bar --> middle of the Mount of the Moon, especially if grilled,
gout or rheumatism is the difficulty. This is completely confirmed if a line
with an island along its course runs to Saturn (from the Life line).
This double indication is reliable even
though no grille or cross is found on the Mount of Moon.
If the cross-bar --> grille , cross-bar or cross on Lower Moon, the trouble
is with kidneys or bladder, or from female disease. White color and soft or
flabby hands, transparent in appearance, will confirm the former; a star in
the Mercury line, especially if at the point where it crosses the line of
head, will confirm the latter. If the life line be good with the above
markings, the type defects are natural to the subject, as shown by the grille
or other defects on the Mounts. However, the strong Life line shows a
vigorous constitution and ability to resist and throw off disease,
consequently the chronic trouble only manifests itself in a severe illness,
not by a prolonged period of felicacy. If the bars will be found more
frequently,, for the constitution is not robust and cannot shake off the
type health defects as in the case of the deep line. With all cross-bars note
the Life line after it is cut, and it will tell whether recovery is complete
or not. If after a cross-bar cutting a thin Life line and running to an
island, dot, cross, or break on the Head line, the Life line has an island
and becones broad and shallow afterwards the subject, naturally not robust,
has a severe attack of brain trouble which leaves him delicate, and from
which he never regains his normal strength. The head is also left delicate as
a result of this illness, shown by the island on the Head line.
Sometimes the cross-bars cutting the Life line begin on Influence lines on
the Mount of Venus. In these cases worry concerning the influence has caused
the illness shown by the cross-bar. This is especially true if the Influence
line be deep and strong. If the cross-bar runs to a narrow quadrangle-(Heart
and Head lines close), it will be a sign of asthma;
the narrowing of the quadrangle as a health indication shows a tendency
to suffocation, and this has been found to relate to attacks of asthma.
Always see the NARROW quadrangle before using this
reading, as that is the thing which locates the disease; a line running into
a NORMAL quadrangle would not give such an indication.
If a cross-bar --> ladder like (slanted lines) line of Mercury,
it shows that the illness comes from stomach trouble,
as that is the weakness shown by such a Mercuy line.
If the cross-bar --> islanded line of Mercury = throat and lung trouble,
that being the indication of such a Mercury line.

ISLANDS = DELICACY
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ISLANDS on the Life line show that the Current is split in two during their
continuance, and consequently operates with a diminished force. They are
always indications of periods of delicacy. The point where ithe island begins
will mark the commencement of this period of delicacy, and the end of the
island will tell when it is over, porvided the line is good afterward. If the
island be a very small one, it will indicate a single illness, and you must
proceed by examining Mounts, Head, Heart, Mercury, chance lines, and all other
health indications to find out the nature of the illness. If the line contain
a series os islands, it operates like a chained line, indicating a
continuous succession of illnesses and delicacy, and you must locate the
cause of trouble from other parts of the hand. If in this case the first
island be small and they grow larger as they continue, the trouble is
increaing. If the reverse marking appears, the tyrouble is diminishing. As
most islands appear larger than mere dots, they generally indicate chronic
state of ill-health during their presense rather than acute attacks.
Primarily the island indicates delicacy, and gives warning to look out for
trouble. You first duty is to discover what is causing the delicacy.
In very many hands islands in the Life line will be seen, and the rest of the
hand FILLED with cross-lines. This will indicate great nervousness, and that
will likely be the cause of the islands. It will certainly be one cause. On
seeing an island, at once begin a search of the entire hand for health
defects, and somewhere the cause of the island will be found. Sometimes you
will find an island in the Life line and the Head line cut by numerous bars;
if no other health defects be seen and the cutting hars are fine, this will
show that severe headaches cause the delicacy; or if the bars be deep, brain
disturbance of a more serious character is indicated.
Islands on Life line + Islands on the Head line = the head is the cause of the
delicacy, especially if the dots be red or purple in color.
An island on the Life line + Dots on the Head line = brain fevers will be the
cause of the delicacy, especially it the dots be red or purple in color.
Island on the Life line + Dots on the Heart line = heart disease will be the
cause of the delicacy. Dots on the Heart line will indicate acute attacks,
and if many are present these attacks come frequently, producing the continued
delicate health shown by the island on the Life line. Nails and color will
confirm these indications.
An island on the Life line + Islands in the Heart line = general heart
weakness will cause the delicacy. Nails and color will confirm this.
This will not indicate the acute attacks shown
by the dots in the Heart line, but general structural deficiency.
An island on the Life line + A wavy line of Mercury = biliousness will be
intense, and will cause the delicacy.
An island on the Life line + The line of Mercury be ladder-like = dyspepsia,
indigestion, and all forms of stmach trouble will cause the delicacy.
Grilles, crosses, cross-bars, and
all defective markings on the Mounts will locate the cause of the delicacy as
a type defect peculiar to the Mount on which the defect appears.
If a dot be seen before the island on the Life line, an acute attack will be
followed by a period of delicacy; the nature of the acute trouble to be
located from the rest of the hand. Sometimes you will encounter a double set
of indications. An island will be seen in the Life line, early in life, and
sime trouble may be shown in the Head line. Lter in the Life line another
island may appear, and on the Heart line islands may be seen, or a wavy
Mercury line, or defect on a Mount. this should be read as two periods of
delicacy in the life, one early, and as the defect in the Head line also
shows early in that line, this will be the cause of the first island in the
Life line. The second island shows a second period of delicacy, and the
trouble in the Heart line will explain it. The number of islands seen in the
Life line will indicate the number of period of delicacy in the Life of the
subject, but each one may by caused by a DIFFERENT DISEASE.
An island in the
Life line, with an islanded line running to it from Saturn, and a second line
from middle third of Moon, will locate gout or rheumatism as the cause of the
delicacy.
An island in the Life line with a grille on Saturn and line
connecting it with the island, with dots or islands in the Head line under
Saturn, fluted and brittle nails, will locate paralysis as the trouble.
An island in the Life line, with a line connecting it with a red or purple
dot on Jupiter, color of hand and lines red, and thin head line, will show
an APOPLECTIC tendency to be the cause of the trouble. This is more certain
if a grille or cross be seen on Upper Mars.
An island in Life line, grille on Saturn with line connecting, and wavy
Mercury line will show extreme biliousness and indigestion as the trouble.
Yellow color will confirm this, and bar frequently cutting the head line or
small islands appearing in it will show bilious headaches. In all of these
cases the island in the Life line enables one to distnguish that the trouble
is a defect of health, and not one affecting the finances or affairs of life.

Disease we red from the Life line, financial affairs from the Saturn and
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Apollo lines.
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Poor health may affect these matters, but they are not read from the Life
line. It is very common to see an island in the Life line of women at ages
forty two to forty six. This will indicate the age at which their change of
life occurs, and the duration of the island will tell you how long it lasts.
kWhenever an island is seen in this location, it should always be read in the
heands of women as change of life. The line after this island will tell you
how seriously this change affects the subject. If the island be followed by a
deep line, the effect in only a delicacy during the period of the change; it
the line becomes thin, broad and shallow, or chained the subject never
recovers her full strength and vigor afterwards. If with this island there
appears a grille on Lower Moon, female weakness will be an added impediment
to a successful change. If you read this change before the change has
occurred, it is your duty at advise that the subject take medical treatment
in order, as far as possible, to remove this difficulty before the change of
life comes on. If, in this indication, a line connects the island and the
grille, the indication is more certain, and it a star be seen on the Mercury
line at or near the juncture with the line of Head, it is absolutely correct.
The change of life is shown not only be the island, but by other defective
conditions of the Life line at this age. If the line has been deep and strong,
and at this age becomes thin, it indicates the time and the trouble, but
shows that it is less serious. If the line at this age becomes broad and
shallow, it shows that the change greatly weakens the constitution, how
seriously the remainder of the line will tell.
If it remain broad and shallow or chained to the end of the line the original
stength is never regained. Complications often ensue during this period of
life: islands or breaks are often seen in the head line, indicating that
during this time mental stength is weak. Sometimes female disturbances
occur, and frequently bowel inflammations. These will be marked in their
proper places on the Mounts. Sometimes the heart's action will be
obstructed, and this will be shown by islands, breaks or dots in the heart
line at the proper age. With the idea in mind that an island in the Life line
is a period of delicate health, you will always be warned, and begin the
search for its cause. Do not be in a hurry; look the entire hand over,
consider everything, this cannot be done hastily. Bring to bear every point
relating to health and apply it to the island. Proceed with care, and you
will be able to locate the cause and effect of every one.

Dots on the Life line are rare. They are indications of acute illness or of
accident. They vary in size from mere pin points, hardly noticeable, to large
holes which destroy the line. They are found of all colors, and their
importance must be graded by size and color. White dots are the most
harmless, and their meaning must be searched for in the hand according to the
method of locating disease already explained. Red dots indicate a febrile
tendency, and the deeper the color the more accurate is this reading. When of
a deep crimson and pruplish hue, they portend grave fevers, such as typhoid,
typhus, and the like. In all cases they arte useful in locating a point of
special incident in the life of a subject, and will precede islands, chains,
and other defects, thus showing that the illness recorded was of such
severity that the constitution did not again become strong. A dot on Life
line followed by an island and a chained line, with a line running to a bar,
a dot, a small island, a cross, or a star on the Head line, will show that an
attack of brain fever undermined the constitution, and cimplete recovery did
not follow. a dot on Life line connected by a line to Upper Mars and an
islanded line of Mercury will show that the illness was bronchitis or other
thoat trouble.
A dot on Life line connected by a line to upper Moon, which
has a grille, and a line running to Mount of Jupiter, shows the illness to be
inflammation of the bowels.
A dot on Life line connected by a line with an
island, dot or a cross under Apollo shows the illness to be heart disease.
A dot on Life line connected by a line with a dot, a bar, or a cross on a wavy
line of Mercury shows the illness to be bilious fever. The dot on the Mercury
line indicate the acute attack; chronic biliousness is shown by the wavy
line.
A dot on Life line, with cross-bars, a grille a cross, or a poorly formed
star on the Middle of Moon, shows the illness to be gout. This is emphasized
by a line running from a dot on Saturn.
A dot on Life line connected by a line with a grille, cross-bars, a cross, or
poorly formed star on Lower Moon shows the attack to be kidney or bladder
trouble of an acute nature.
If a dot on the Life line is pronouncedly yellow in color, it will indicate
without further confirmations an attack of bilious fever.
When a dot is seen on the Life line connected by a line with a cross on Saturn,
it will indicate an accident, as Saturnians are predisposed to accident.

Breaks in the Life line are often seen, and vary in their seriousness
according to the kind of a line which is present, how side the breaks are,
and how repaired. When the Current, travelling along the Life line,
encounters a break, it must get past it into the line again, and it is the
ease with which this can be accomplished which makes a break more or less
serious. A break occurring in a deep, stong line is less serious than one
which appears in a broad and shallow or chained line. In the deep line the
Current is flowing with volume and force at the time it reaches the break,
and consequently it has the benefit of its own momentum to carry it past the
break and into the line again. I have seen breaks in deep and strongLife
lines where the line has subsequently cut its way through the interveing
space, forming a good line. With shallow or chained lines, the Current is
moving sliggishly when the break occurs, and there is not the momentum to
assist in lessening the damage. All breaks indicate a check or impediment to
the health, conswquently to the life of the subject, and these impedimetns
come either from illnes or accident. The matter of accidents is hard to
diagnose, but I follow the rule that in a hand which is health in every other
way, a break in the Life line should be read as an accident. Sickness in such
a hand would be shown in somw other way than by a break. In a number of hands
in jwhcih fime LIfe lines were noted and perfect health otherwise shown,
breaks were iverified as accidents. There is no quwation as to their
indicateing jars to the health whenever seen. Numverous instances are
encountered where the cause of the break is easily located by health defects
seen on the Mounts, by chance line, or individual signs. Small breaks which
are at once repaired need not be considered as more serious than islands or
dots, but wide breaks unrepaired must be considered as a menace to the life.
All tendency of the ends of the line to turn back to origin after a break
is gravely serious. The wider the separation of the ends and the more the
ends hook, the more hopeless is the possibility of recover. With every break,
note how wide it is, how the ends oppose each other, what repair
possibilities are present, and from this point of view estmate the danger.

If the line is filled with a series of small breaks, the effect will be like
a chained line, the health will be intermittent, the vitality impaired, and
the constitution unrobust. If after each break the line becomes thinner, the
vitality is diminishing, and the subject less able to resist disease after
each attack. He will greadually grow weaker until his vitality is dissipated.
This line is both an indicator of constitutional weakness and of special
attacks of disease. Each break will mark the time of some illness. With such
a line you will NOT FIND DIFFERENT ACUTE DISORDERS occurring with each break,
but the subject has a CHRONIC TROUBLE WHICH RECURS at frequent intervals. The
nature of this disorder can be located from the Mounts and by other health
indications. The line may start thin, and after each break grow deeper. In
this case after the first few years of life the breaks will not come so close
together, and it will show that the subject is gradually overcoming his
difficulties.
To diagnose what has occasioned each break in the Life line, the method of
procedure is the same as applies to other defects in the line. The Mounts
will show defects, chance line will point to special marks of disease, and in
every way the manner of locating the cause of breaks is the same as in the
case of islands, dots, and other defects. If after a break an island is
formed, the disease which caused the break creates a period of delicacy, the
duration of which is shown by the extent of the island. The same reading will
apply if a chained line forms after a break. With such a marking as this
there will be poor chance of complete recovery. When breaks occur at about
fifty years of age, with the line browing vey thin just before the break, and
seeming continually to grow thinner until the break occur, it shows the
graqdual waning of vital force until it runs out; that a period of great
weakness cones on when there is not enough strength left to resist disease,
and an illness recorded by the break occurs. If the line continues after this
break it will begin vey thin and gradually grow stronger, showing that the
health returns by degree. This breaks in a Life line may be repaired by
overlapping ends of the line, sister line, squares, and in other ways. These
repair signs, in wahtever form, will be recognized by thir tendency to turn
the Current back into the line again, and their repair of the line is
complete in proportion as they succeed in doing this.

Splits on the Life line divert a portion of the Current from the main
channel. Sometimes they only divide it, and the line continues a double line
with the splits running close together. This reduces the strength of the
constitution during the period of the split, and while it may not result in
positive delicacy, it will diminish the vitality. Sometimes such a split
will extend for only a short space, and often it will go the entire length of
the line. In any case the divided strength operates during the continuance of
the split. sometimes the splits are fine and hair-like, and do not diminish
the size of the Main line. The are generally seen accompanying a deep line,
and show the excess of strength of the line. These is, a running over of
vitality, and these fine, hair-like splits must be read as confirming the
strength of a deep, strong line. When fine, hair-like line are seen rising
from the line, it generally occurs in the early part of the line. this shows
the upward course of the subject's life. he is filled with ambition, pride,
and a desire to achieve success. The fine rising lines show that the Current
which overflows from the line is drawn upward by the force of attraction of
the Mounts under the finger. The exit of the Current, you remember, is
through the finger of Saturn, Apollo, Mercury, and these rising hair-like
line from the Life line show that the Current is being impelled in its proper
direction, with a force strong enough to pull these fine lines upward. the
period overed by these rising lines on the Life line is that of the years of
greatest power in the life of the subject. He will have his greatest earning
capacity and command of his best brain power and strength. During this time
he hsoud accomplish the most important part of his lif'es work. A time will
come when the little line do not rise form the Life line, but fall downward.
At this time there is not such strength as during the period covered by the
rising lines. The Current is not forced upward by the great power of
enthusiasm and vital energy, and the life forces, ambition, and the capacity
to do, begin to wane from the time of life when these hair lines begin to
fall downward. At the point where the rising lines cease to rise and the
drooping line begin is the turning-point in the life of the subject. This
point marks the pinnacle of his capablities, the period of greatest power,
the zenith of abitiy to perform great things, and he will never be able to do
afterward what is possible before this point is reached.
This turning point in the life was I believe place before us for our guidance.
I have made a great study of this indication, and have verified it in the
lives of hundreds of men and women. From it you can tell you client when he
must have his house in order and be ready to begin the descent of the hill
of life. In some hands it is seen early in life, in others later, but
whenever it occurs, that year marks the point of greatest power in the
subject's life. When seen early in life it is sometimes formed around an
island, which will show that a deficacy occurring at that time will
dissipate the powers so that they will vener fully recover. When the turning
point shows at near fifty, it is the natural decline of physical power
coming on with age.

LINE RISING FROM LIFE LINE TO MOUNT = AMBITIONS IN THAT DIRECTION AT A LEVEL
INDICATED BY PHALANX
When rising line or a single line from the Life line
rises to Jupiter, it shows that great ambition which lead its possessor
constantly to struggle to win You can tell in which world by the phalanx of
the finger which rules.
If a rising line runs to Saturn, it will indicate a great disire of the
subject to succeed along Sauturnian line. In which world will be indicated by
the phalanx of the finger which rules.
If a line rises to Apollo, the subject will have great desires in Apollonian
directions, the particular world being read form the phalanx of the finger.
If a line rises to Mercury the subject will have great desire to succeed in
some Mercurian direction, indicated in more detail by the ruling phalanx of
finger. This line must not be confused with the line of Mercury.
If a line runs from the Life line to Upper Mars, the subject will be
strongly ambitious in Martian directions; and Lunar qualities will
strongly influence the life if a split line is seen running to the Moon.
All of these lines must be fine lines rising OFF of the LIfe line,
and not chance lines crossing or cutting the line.

TERMINATION
In an estimate of the Life line the termination is most important, for it
shows how the life ends. In all of the changes on the line we find that they
have shown the strength of the constitution during life, various states of
health, strength, delicacy, and numerous diseases. When we come to the
termination of the line, we learn the outcome of these various conditions.
If a line is deep and
strong it may end as strong as is its course through the hand. This line
simply stops short, ending in no sign or special marking. This indicates that
the subject will remain strong till the end of life, will die of no lingering
disease. With such a termination examine the Head line, the Heart line, and
study the type of the subject carefully. If a Jupiterian or Martian, it will
make his quick ending more certain. While no sign is seen on the Life line, a
deep cut or cross, a dot or a star, may be discerned on the head line
corresponding to the age at which the Life line ends, and this will be the
sign of the demise. In this case the abrupt termination of the Life line will
give the clue to a quick end, and the sign on the head line will tell that
some affection of the head will be the cause. In the same manner in
impairment of the Heart line by some individual sign, such as a cut, a cross,
dot, or star, will show that heart failure will be the end. With sudden
terminations of the Life you should not look for chronic diseases but for
acute attacks, and these are indicated by indicidual signs like the dot,
cross, cross-bar, and star. Sometimes breaks indicate the sme thing. With the
sudden ending to the Life line, and a dot, cross-bar on a wavy line of
Mercury, a sudden attack of bilious fever will be the trouble, the wavy line
of Mercury showing a chronic tendency, the individual sign indicating the
acute attack. If a line should run from the end of the Life line to these
signs it will bake the reading more certain. In the same manner a dot on any
Mount and the sudden termination of the Life line will show the end to be
from an acute attack (shown by dot) of the health defect of the Mount. If a
line runs from the end of the Life line to the dot, it will make the
indication unmistakable. Thus while the termination of the life may not
always be read from the Life line, it is read from the other lines and Mounts.
If the Life line end suddenly and a dot is seen on Jupiter, apoplexy will be
the trouble; it a dot is seen on Saturn, paralysis, and if in the case a
star, cross, or dot is seen on the Head line under Saturn, the reading is
absolute. All of the other Mounts must be handled in the same way when
searching for a sudden termination to life. With each Mount disease the one
which would kill quickly is the probable one, and a chronic trouble will not
be the cause. When a deep Life line ends abruptly there is always a chance
that it may continue. Even though the line be short, it is not as serious as
if it ended in a cross, star, tassel, dot, or like sign. Life lines which are
deep and strong but short, and sometimes even short thin ones, often cut
their way through the hand, forming new channels; for a strong will and
determination to live, often prolong the life of many persons with such
markings. When the line ends clear, without a defect or tassel, it shows that
there is no great impediment at the time, and that care and determination can
deep the life going. If a line which begins deep and strong begins to taper
as it cuts through the hand, gradually growing thinner as the line advances
until it fades away and finally disappears. It shows that the
vitality grows lwss powerful as age cones on until it almost disappears,
leaving the subject weak, nerveless, and feeble. these subject will not die
from sudden diseases, but death will come from exhaustion. They are liable to
develop some chronic ailment as the line decreases, and any defect of their
type will be almost certain to develop. By making a thorough examination, you
can discover the difficulty. This fading Life line does not stand so good a
chance to continue the life past the age indicated by its length. If it be a
short line, the subject will begin to decline early and will not
live past the end of the line, as he has not enough vitality to create great
determination to live. A good head line is a fine possession with such a
disappearing line. If the Life line forks at the termination, it shows that
the Current separates, and, going in two directions, there is only one half
as much chance that the life may be continued past the end of the line as
with a single line. If both branches are deep, strong lines, it is more of an
indication that life may be prolonged than if the forks are thin lines. This
is a case where the vitality wanes, and as division is weaker than union,
this forked termination of the Life line shows the rapidly dissipating
vitality. If the line be short, small encouragement of long life can be given
a subject with such a termination. If these forks are close together, it is
a better indication than if they diverge widely. If the line ends in three
prongs, the dissipation of the vitality is more complete, and this is more
certain if all three of the forks be thin. In this case the vitality will be
dissipated when this point is reached. If the middle fork is strong and deep,
it may be a new lease of life beginning to manifest itself, and hope may be
given that the subject will live past the end of the line. If the line ends
in a tassel, it shows entire dissipation of the vitality and end of the life.
Such tassels are frequently seen from sixty to sixty-five years of age. In
those cases it is the natural end of the life. If the tassel appears early in
the line it shows premature dissipation of vitality, and death of the subject
at the age at which the tassel is seen. In many works on Palmistry this
tassel has been given the meaning "Poverty in old age". This is incorrect. I
have seen it in the hands of old men who were rich. The vitality was fast
diminishing, however, as the age neared the point of the tassel. Sometimes
the Life line runs to a certain age and then crosses the hand to a Mount. If
there is no health defect on the Mount it will show that the quality of the
Mount largely influences the life course of the subject. If a grille, cross,
dot, cross-bars, or any defect on the Mount is present, the indication are
that the disease peculiar to that Mount took hold of the subject at the age
the line deflected from its regular course. For instance, if at thirty the
line be so deflected and runs to the middle of the Mount of Moon to a grille,
gout or rheumatism will be the disease which afflicted the subject. When ever
the line runs to a defect, the disease peculiar to the point where it stops
is the one to look for. This marking running to Lower Moon is most frequent
in the hands of women, and indicates female weakness. If the line ends in a
cross, the life will terminate at that age, and the disease can be determined
by the usual search through the hand. This is a sudden ending of life, and
there will be no lingering illness. The more perfectly the cross be marked,
and the deeper its lines, the more certain is the indication.
If a cross-bar cuts the end of the Life line, it is the sudden ending of the
life. In all these cases the usual methods of examination will disclose the
cause. If is absolutely necessary with every termination of the Life line to
examine both hands. If the line and termination in the left hand be good and
strong, and one of the defective terminations is seen in the right, it is
certain that something has changed the natural life course. The subject may
have aquired a vicious habit which will shorten his days, or may have
developed some serious malady. In such a case locate the trouble, and by
telling him what the outcome will be, he may be induced to abandon the habit,
if such it is, and avert the catastrophe.
If the line ends in a dot, your subject will die of an acute attack, the
nature of which can be determined in the usual manner.
If the line ends in a star, the subject will die suddenly; the cause can be
located from the rest of the hand. You will encounter many combinations of
all these signs in the termination of Life line.

Crosses will be found appearing in the Life line. These will be impediments
to the life Current, and generally you will find on the Saturn line or the
Apollo line some marking occurring at the same age. This change is generally
the result of illness or accident. Crosses quite frequently indicate accidents.

Stars on the Life line are a menace to the life. They have been verified many
times as indicating sudden death. The type of the subject will have much to
do with these signs. A fine line leaving the Life line and ending in a star
near it is also a dangerous sign, indicating sudden death. The star
representing the explosion in the Life line, or at least an intense
illumination, is not a safe indication ot be found.

The color of the line will be useful as a further confirmation of the
strength or weakness of the constituion. White color diminishes the power of
adeep and well cut line, and the subject will not have as much robustness and
vitality as it the line were pink. A deep and well cut line, pink in color,
wii be the best for a Life line. Then niether deficiency nor excess of
vitality is indicated, but a normal balance.
Red color, with a deep line, is too intense, and the subject will be liable
to febrile diseases, and also very ardent in everything, and will have strong
appetites. If stars, crosses, dots, or cross-bars are seen on a line which is
very red in color, the subject will ahve some violent attack at the age
indicated by the sign. Such a combination is most dangerous to the life. All
markings which indicate febrile troubles or inflammations will be made more
serious by a very red Life line. Yellow color in the Life line will indicate
chronic biliousness, and all the defects of health and character which are
induced by bile will be aggravated. With such a subject the Mounts of Saturn
and Mercury should be carefully studied, as well as all matters pertaining to
those Mounts, for being of the bilious type, yellow color in theLife line
will increase any health defect which these Mounts show. A wavy line or a
ladder like line of Mercuy will be sure to indicate severe bilious
complitcation and indigestion.
Dots, crosses, cross-bars, breaks, or islands in the Mercuy line must be
looked for, as these will point directly to severe liver trouble in the shape
of acute attacks of bilious fever or jaundice. If yellow shows in the Life
line the whole character will be influenced by the irritating bile. The
subject will be cross, nervous, liable to fits of blues, and it any of the
bad side of his type be indicated he will be vicious, and even criminal. A
bad development of Saturnian or Mercurian tupe with a yellow line shows a
trickster and chest, and it the type be very bad indicates a vicious wretch
who will delight even in murder.
Blue color shows poor circulation and conswquent heart weakness. This color
present with a defective and badly colro Hearl line and blue nails will
indicate an advanced state of heart trouble. The bluer the Life line and the
more indications of defective heart action, the more serious the esimate.
With a blue Life line, stars on the line will be accurate as indication of
sudden darth by heart disease. Crosses, dots, and cross-bars are bad
indications with blue color, but the star is the worst. Stars which are not
directly on the line but near it, will have almost as much force as if on the
line. All of the above observations in regard to color aplply to thin Life
lines as well as to deep and well cut lines. a thin line which is exceedingly
red is most dangerous, for the line is not strong enough to support the
vitality shown by very red color. Yellow thin lines will make hte subject
small, petty, and mean. With chained lines or broad and shallow lines, white
color makes them weaker. They have none of the strength which follows the
presence of pink color. Subjects with thin lines are cold, sickly,
complaining, and vacillating. They lack energy, and are not persons to be
relied upon. Pink color makes a broad and shollow or a chained line stronger.
The subject will have more vitality, and will not be despondent as frequently
as with white color. Red will add more strength, but this comination is rare.
When found, however, it should be regarded as no menance to these line, for
they need all the strength which can be given them Yellow color with broad or
chained lines is a distressing, combination. It will show inertia, intense
nervousness, and an ugly streak of meanness in the subject. This combination
produces a weak, sickly, nervous, petty person who will have a hard time to
get along in the world.