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Chapter 9

The Lines of Heart

by Ranald
6 minutes  • 1100 words

THE line of heart (see plate 27, above the line of head, number 3), running across the shows emotional steadfastness and palm intensity. This line must be read in conjunction with the indications of hand as a whole and particularly in relation to the line of head. The quality of the heartline is of course significant. As with all the the other lines of the hand, its best formation is a clear, deep drawing, neither too broad nor too narrow, and of good color. A line which is uniformly of this character, throughout its entire length, will show strong, consistent affections, loyalty, sympathy and balance. If the heartline is thin, your subject will be self-centered and cold. This lack of feeling is conventional attitude. the other lines of the likely to The hand line to be combined with a narrow-minded, must, however, be thin in relation to make this interpretation a correct one. A broad, shallow line of heart discloses affections easily given and as easily withdrawn inconsistency, changeableness. Fickleness of indicated by a deeply chained line of heart. With be may great intensity but still no reliability. The person with a deep, chained line of heart meets this one-and-only love every a different sort such, there isLINE OF HEART 57 other day, feels the world reborn and then dying through the course and is immediately off to the next. of each affair, Lines cutting across the line of heart tell of worries and obstacles in the course of true love. In its path across the hand, the line of heart may give off many small branches or splits. Splits rising from the heart line towards any one of the mounts show the attraction of the mount’s characteristics over the affections of the subject. For ex- ample, a person with many little hairlines rising from the line of heart toward the mount of Apollo will be much attracted by someone whom the artistic sensibility and gaiety of the Apollonian pre- dominate. Lines falling from the line of heart towards the line of in head show conflict between judgment and the emotions, often also disappointments in love. Of course, in studying the character of the line of heart, we must it in segments. The line frequently changes its nature a look at number of times during its course across the hand. In such case, the emotional vagaries associated with a particular type of line apply only to the period of life spanned by that section of the line. A naturally affectionate person may, because of uncongenial surround- ings, become extremely self-contained and apparently cold, only to flower out into sympathetic warmth on receiving understanding. As with the line of head, the origin of the heartline is of great The line of heart may start anywhere from the very edge of the palm to a position more than halfway across the hand. If it begins far out at the edge (see plate 40), you have an emo- significance. tional extremist, blindly enthusiastic in love, submerging every other ambition and desire in his intense emotionalism, losing all reason and balance. The nature of the line will show whether a person is given to periodic emotional extravagances or combines constancy with intensity. In either case, his emotional abandon is likely to bring he follows the dictates of his feelings without regard to the cautionings of his mind. A line of heart beginning under the finger of Jupiter (see plate 41) still gives us the idealist in love, one who sentimentalizes both his grief, for affections and the object of them, but measure of control. With outstanding trait, for its this heartline, bearer is this position does allow is likely to be a an constancy almost as well satisfied with theANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION 58 shadow of romance as with the actuality and with an ideal if the reality fades. A will console himself forked beginning on Jupiter in- creases the sentimentality. When the line of heart originates betwen the fingers (see plate 42), we have first the realist in love and second who combines Such a person is likely to be cautious in his choice of those he loves, but warmly devoted after he has come to a decision. He will coordinate ambition with love and will be practicality with his affections. strongly held by family ties. line of heart rising from the A mount of Saturn (see plate 43) indicates the sensualist, a person whose love is more passionate than sentimental or affectionate. This will be particularly true if theLINE OF HEART mount of Venus is well developed at its 59 base and pink or red in color. When the line of heart begins in a three-pronged fork, one branch under Jupiter, one under Saturn and the middle branch between it shows a balanced union of idealism, and indicates that the heart is the and usually passion practicality dominant factor in the personality. With this forked origin on the heartline, a strong line of head and a well-developed thumb are needed to keep the individual from being submerged in his emotions. the two fingers (see plate 44), The line of heart varies in its termination as well as in its begin- it cross the hand completely, from one side to the other (see plate 40), the strength of the emotions is increased, giv- ing us a person who is buffeted and torn by his feelings. Such a per- son will be jealous and possessive, especially if the plain of Mars ning. Should shows excessive development. A termination of the line of heart directed upwards towards any mounts shows unusually strong influence and attraction from persons having the attributes of those mounts. A downward bend at the end of the line of heart gives the affections dominion over rea- son. When the heart line actually cuts through the line of head (see plate 43), you may look for serious mental disturbance as a of the result of emotional instability. Sometimes you find only one line in a hand instead of two sep- arate lines, one governing the head and one the heart. Even when this line is placed high in the hand, in the normal position for the line of it must be considered as the line of head, not of heart. I have encountered this formation only rarely and always in the hands of heart, men who had an unchangeable intensity of purpose, an overwhelm- ambition. Sir Basil directed ing, Zaharoff, the munitions king and merchant of death, had this single combined head-and-heart line, and so had Andrew Mellon, the American financier.ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION

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