This being broad, of a lively color, and decently drawn in its bounds,
without intersections and points, shows the party long lived and subject
to few diseases.
If slender, short and dissected with obverse little lines, and deformed
either by a pale or black color, it presages weakness of the body,
sickness and a short life.
If orderly joined to the natural mean, and beautified in the angle with
parallels, or a little across, it argues good wit, or an evenness of
nature.
If the same have branches in the upper parts thereof, extending themselves
towards the natural mean, it signifies riches and honor.
If these branches be extended towards the restricta, it threatens poverty,
deceits, and unfaithfulness of servants.
If in this line there be found some confused lines, like hairs, be assured
of diseases, and they happen in the first age. When they appear below, if
towards the cavea, in the middle; if towards the patica, in the declining
age.
If this line be anywhere broken, it threatens extreme danger of life in
that part of the age which the pace of the breach shows. For you may find
out the dangerous or diseased years of your age; this line being divided
into seventy parts, you must begin your number and account from the lower
part thereof, near the restricta, for the number falling where the branch
is determines the year.
If the character of the sun (as commonly it is made by astrologers) be
ever found in this line, it presages the loss of an eye; but, if two such
characters, the loss of both eyes.
A line descending from the vital, beneath the congress of it and the
hepatica, to the tuberculum of Saturn, shows an envious man, who rejoices
at another’s calamity, the sight of others concurring. This also
frequently shows a most perilous Saturnine disease in that wherein it
touches the vital, and it is much worse if it cut the same.
But such a line passing from the vital to the annular, to the ring finger,
promises honors to ensue, from or by the means of some famous lady.
The vital lines being thicker than ordinary at the end under the fore
finger, denotes a laborious old age.
A line passing through the vitals to the cavea of Mars, foretells of
wounds and fevers, and also of misfortunes in journeys.