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Head line

Everything here reports what named old books claimed about hands. None of it is a statement about you or about anything to come.

In an older source

The line of head can rise from three different points

Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)

About this entry

Cheiro 1897 says the head line relates mainly to the mind: its strength, the temperament as it bears on talent, and the direction and quality of the talent. Benham 1900 gives it a similar job. He treats it as the gauge of how much mental power a person has, what sort it is, and how far that person can focus and hold back.

Cheiro lists three starting points. The line may rise from the center of the Mount of Jupiter, from the start of the life line, or from the Mount of Mars inside the life line. A long line from Jupiter that touches the life line he rates the most powerful of all, and a gap between the two lines he reads as more haste and less control. A line joined to the life line he reads as more nervous and cautious, and a line from the Mars mount as less favorable.

Cheiro also reads the path of the line across the palm. A straight, clear, even line goes with practical common sense, a slight slope with a lean toward imaginative work, and a steep slope with romance and idealism. He adds that a sloping line weighs less on a psychic or conic hand than on a square one. Benham pairs the head line with the thumb, and holds that a strong thumb and a sound head line can make up for a weak life line.

Features the books describe

  • Starts under the first finger and touches the life line

    Cheiro 1897 reads a long line of this kind as the most powerful form, with talent, energy and determination joined to reason.

    Source: Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)

  • Starts under the first finger with a gap from the life line

    Cheiro 1897 reads similar qualities with less control, so more hasty and impetuous, and foolhardy if the gap is very wide.

    Source: Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)

  • Joined to the life line at its start

    Cheiro 1897 reads a more sensitive and nervous temperament, with excess caution.

    Source: Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)

  • Straight, clear and even

    Cheiro 1897 reads practical common sense and a liking for material things over those of the imagination.

    Source: Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)

  • Sloping down across the palm

    Cheiro 1897 reads a slight slope as a lean toward imaginative work and a steep slope as romance and idealism.

    Source: Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)

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