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Heart 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 heart should be deep, clear, and well colored.

Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)

About this entry

The heart line crosses the upper palm in Cheiro 1897, at the base of the mounts of Jupiter, Saturn, the Sun and Mercury, and he gives it a second name, the mensal. He asks that it be deep, clear and well colored. St Hill 1893 uses it as the dividing line under the Mercury mount, between that mount and the Mount of Mars below it.

Cheiro mostly reads it by where it starts. A line from the center of Jupiter is read as loyal, ideal love, and one starting between the first and second fingers as a calmer and deeper nature. A line from Saturn he reads as more passion, with a more selfish way of seeking satisfaction. Several of his remarks speak of men only, which shows the period.

Cheiro reads a fork with one branch on Jupiter and the other between the first and second fingers as a happy, tranquil nature. He reads a chained formation as weakness and changeability of affection, and a crowd of small lines running into the heart line as inconstancy.

Calling this line the key to emotional style in relationships is modern wording, and none of the books used here puts it that way.

Features the books describe

  • Starts at the center of the pad under the first finger

    Cheiro 1897 reads the highest type of love, with pride in and worship of the heart's ideal and firm, reliable affections.

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

  • Starts between the first and second fingers

    Cheiro 1897 reads a calm but deeper nature in love, placed between the ideal of Jupiter and the ardor of Saturn.

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

  • Starts from the pad under the middle finger

    Cheiro 1897 reads more passion in attachments, with a self-centered way of seeking satisfaction and less show of feeling at home.

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

  • Forked, one branch under the first finger

    Cheiro 1897 reads a happy, tranquil nature, with good fortune and happiness in affection.

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

  • Chained

    Cheiro 1897 reads a chained formation on the heart line as weakness and changeability of affection.

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

Where this text comes from

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