TE XVI.

THE LINE OF HEART AND ITS VARIATIONS.]

From the centre of the Mount of Jupiter, the Heart Line gives more
moderation, but also great ideality, and is one of the best of the
variations of this Line that we are about to consider.

People with such a Heart Line are firm and reliable in their affections,
they have an unusually high code of honour and morality. They are
ambitious that the person they live with be great, noble, and successful.
They seldom marry beneath their station in life, and they have fewer love
affairs than any other class.

If they once really love, they love for ever. They do not believe in
second marriages, and the divorce courts are seldom troubled with their
presence.

The Heart Line rising from between the first and second fingers, gives a
calmer but a very deep nature in all matters of the affections (3, Plate
XVI.).

These people seem to strike the happy medium between the ideality and
pride given by Jupiter, and the more selfish love nature given when the
line rises from Saturn.

They are not very demonstrative when in love, but they are capable of the
very greatest sacrifices for those they care for. They do not expect the
person on whom they bestow their affection to be a god or a goddess.

When the Line of Heart rises on the Mount of Saturn the subject will be
rather selfish in all questions of affection (4, Plate XVI.). These
people are not self-sacrificing, like the previous type. They are
inclined to be cynical, reserved, undemonstrative but very insistent in
trying to gain the person they want. They will let nothing stand in their
way, but once they have obtained their object they show little tenderness
or devotion.

They are very unforgiving if they discover any lapses on the part of
their partner, but as they are "a law unto themselves," they close their
eyes to their own shortcomings.

The Line of Heart that rises from under the base of the Mount of Saturn
(5, Plate XVI.), exhibits all the foregoing characteristics, but in a
much more intensified form. Such persons live for themselves, and care
little whether those around them are happy or not.

The shorter the Line of Heart is on the Hand, the less the higher
sentiments of the affection make themselves manifest.

When the Line of Heart is found in excess, namely, extremely long--it
denotes a terrible tendency toward jealousy (2, Plate XVI.), and this is
alarmingly increased if the Line of Head on the same hand