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pursuit or exercise.

Turning from an examination of the direction of ending of the Line of
Head, the student must next examine the indications of the beginnings of
this important Line. For example, the Line of Head may commence in three
distinct different ways.

(1) From inside the Line of Life (1-1, Plate I.).
(2) Joined to the Line of Life (2-2, Plate I.).
(3) And outside the Line of Life (3-3, Plate I.).

The first is the most uncertain of all. It denotes an over-sensitive,
over-cautious, timid person. It also indicates a highly nervous, easily
excited individual, one who has little control over himself or his
temper, who is easily put out over trifles, and liable to do the most
erratic things, or fly off at a tangent when irritated. Such people are
always in trouble, generally fighting or quarrelling with those about
them and over things that are of no consequence. They are likewise so
easily wounded in their feelings, that even a look or an imagined slight
will put them out of humour or upset them for days.

If this Line of Head farther out in the palm become straight, it denotes
that the subject will, later, by the development of his intelligence
largely overcome this failing of over-sensitiveness. If the line slope
much or bend down towards the wrist or on to the Mount of Luna (the Mount
of Imagination), then the subject will become still worse with his
advancing years. If the Line of Head is also poorly marked, or with
"hairlines" from it, it is often the indication of some form of insanity
which is likely to cause the subject to be placed under restraint in
later life.

If, with this latter indication, the student also finds all the upward
main lines, such as the Line of Destiny, etc., fading out past the middle
of the palm, the indication of insanity and restraint becomes all the
more certain.

This class of Head Line is largely found in cases where the subject is
naturally inclined towards drink and intemperance of every description.

Even in cases where there are good lines running up the palm, it will
usually be found that the subject gives way to occasional fits of
intemperance or the desire for drugs. The qualities of the fiery Mount of
Mars, from which such a Line of Head starts inside the Life Line, is
largely the cause of the peculiarities above indicated. The opposite
Mount of Mars (page 141) on the side of the hand, on the contrary, gives
mental control, so that even when the Li