The Life Line curves around the base of the thumb. It sits directly over the great Palmar Arch (1-1), a large blood vessel. This vessel connects directly to the stomach, heart, and other important organs. Because of this close link to your major organs, it makes sense that the Life Line helps predict how long you may live from natural causes. Keeping this in mind can help you spot future health problems and illness. The 1st thing to check about a normal Life Line is whether it is clear, long, and free of breaks or irregularities. A line like this shows a long life, freedom from disease, and good energy and strength in the body (1-1). If the line is clear, your stomach and digestive organs should be in good condition.
The Line of Life and Sections of Influences from the Mounts
If the line is made of small broken pieces, or looks like a chain, this is a sign of poor health, low strength, and a weak stomach. In every sense, the Life Line acts as a map of the body, or the trunk of the body, on the palm. So the place where a split, mark, link, or island appears shows which part of the body is most affected. Remember that every line on the palm has two sides to its meaning. One side shows which disease may trouble you most through your life. The other side shows when that disease may reach its worst point. The sections of the Life Line, and their different meanings, are marked out by the Mounts at the base of the fingers. This can help you understand the importance of your birth month, as covered in the chapter on the Mounts of the Hand. It can help you read illness, health, and life dangers accurately, even ones you have not yet faced.
The Line of Life
The Life Line is a very important line. Some people have a shallow, wide Life Line, and others have a fine, deep one. People often misread what this means. If you do not study its shape carefully, your reading will be wrong. If you have a wide Life Line, you have a healthy, strong body — but this is not the same as having a clear, deep line. A shallow, wide Life Line usually belongs to people with strong physical energy. A finer, clearer Life Line belongs to people with more willpower and nerve strength. If your Life Line is fine and clear, you have the strength to recover from illness or injury. People with a wide Life Line do not have this same power to resist illness. A wide Life Line shows strong muscles rather than strong willpower. If your hand is soft and your Life Line looks like a chain (1-1), you may have poor health throughout your life. But if your hand is firm, this same pattern does not weaken you as much as it would with a soft hand. Another thing to check is whether the Life Line runs close along the edge of the Mount of Venus, making the Mount narrower (2-2), or whether it curves out in a clear arc through the hand (3-3). The first type usually shows a more refined nature with less raw physical energy. One of the most important blood vessels running from the body into the hand is the great Palmar Arch, which carries blood to the base of the thumb. If your build is weaker, this arch tends to be thinner than in people with a strong, healthy build and good blood flow. If the Mount of Venus is wide and full on your palm, this shows stronger physical energy than a narrow, thin Mount would.
Life Line and its sectionsTHE LINE OF LIFE AND ITS VARIATIONS
If the Head Line curves downward instead of running straight across the hand, this, combined with the Mount of Venus, shows a stronger pull toward artistic talent, romance, and love. In people whose Head Line runs level across the palm, the Mount of Venus shows less of this pull. You may feel less drawn to imagination or to love. This shows that palm reading follows real logic, not superstition, and deserves to be studied on a more serious footing. When the Life Line rises high toward the Mount of Jupiter (4-4), you can control yourself well. Your life is guided by the determined side of your character. If the Life Line runs low from the Mount of Mars (5-5), you have less control over your temper. When young, you may be bad-tempered, disobedient, and without direction.
Ascending Lines
If many small lines rise up from the Life Line, this shows a life full of great energy. When lines rise upward from the Life Line, this shows a real, focused effort toward whatever goal or luck you were chasing at that time. If such a line climbs toward the Mount of Jupiter (1-1), this shows that your goals and ambitions are rising in life, especially in areas where you have power over others. When one of these lines stops partway, at the Head Line (2-2), this shows that a well-started effort was blocked or broken by poor judgement, foolishness, or a mental mistake. When one of these lines stops at the Heart Line, this shows that your love or affection got in the way of that effort. When one of these lines joins and crosses the Fate Line (3-3), it gives two clear and interesting dates. The 1st date is when the line leaves the Life Line on its way to the Fate Line. The Fate Line itself can give the starting date, opposite the point where the line begins to rise from the Life Line. This shows that at that moment in your career, you made a real effort to shape your own future, and to break free from the people or situations holding you back. It is a very good sign when this line merges with the Fate Line, especially if the Fate Line looks stronger at that crossing point.
The 2nd date is found by reading down the Life Line itself. What is interesting is that similar events tend to repeat later in your fate. If you see this line cross the Fate Line at age twenty-two, a similar event may happen again about twenty-two years later, around age forty-four. This sign usually means that the 1st time, you broke free from certain ties early in life. The same kind of event may happen again at the 2nd date, later in life, when you again try to break free from ties and make your own way. These interesting marks often help in reading matters related to marriage. You may clearly claim more freedom, break away from home ties, and go out to make your own way, just as you did earlier in life. At this point, you step out from your parents’ influence and start looking out for yourself. If the rising line crosses the Mount of Saturn as a single line and does not merge with the Fate Line (6), this shows you are living out a second fate. When this line leaves the Life Line, it gives the 1st date of that event, read across onto the Fate Line. If the line is strong, it also gives a 2nd date, found by reading down the Life Line, marking the successful completion of that second fate.