The Line of Marriage

What matter if the words be said, The licence paid - they are not wed; Unless love link each heart to heart, 'Twere better keep those lives apart.

CHEIRO.

While the island lasts.

When the line divides at the end into a dropping fork sloping toward the centre of the hand, it tells of divorce or a judicial separation. This is the certain entire more if a fine line cross from it to the Plain of Mars.

When the line is full of little islands and drooping lines, the subject should be warned not to marry. Such a mark is a sign of the greatest unhappiness.

When full of little islands and forked, it is again a sign of unhappiness in marriage.

When the line of marriage sends an offshoot on to the Mount of Sun and into the line of sun, it tells that its possessor will marry someone of distinction, and generally a person in some way famous.

When, on the contrary, it goes down toward and cuts the line of sun, the person on whose hand it appears will lose position through marriage.

When a deep line from the top of the mount grows downward and cuts the line of marriage, there will be a great obstacle and opposition to such marriage.

When there is a fine line running parallel with and almost touching the marriage-line, it tells of some deep affection after marriage on the side of the person on whose hand it appears.