How to Read the Heart Line

Classification

Classifying the subject’s type is the first step.

The following is the order of those ruled by the head:

1. Saturnian
2. Lunarian
3. Mercurian
4. Jupiterian
5. Martian

The following is the order of those ruled by the heart:

1. Apollonian
2. Venusian

Line Length

The length of the line is the next step.

If the line rises normally but runs only a short distance and stops (32), it indicates that 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 Heart line means either that the heart will stop beating, or else that the subject has little heart or affection for others.

If the Heart line crosses the entire hand (33) it 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”. He will become easily jealous, and will love much and suffer if he does not get much in return.

The older palmists read a line rising well up into the finger of Jupiter and running clear across the hand “failure in all enterprises.”

This reading was probably based on the fact that one who is in everything ruled by sentiment can seldom cope successfully with cold schemers. You can see that such a subject will not necessarily “fail in all enterprises’ though he is not likely to get along so well as one more practical in matters of heart. So our reading, “too much heart,” is the best.