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 is very sloping towards the Mount of the Moon (6, [Plate XVI].). In such a case the imagination will run away with itself where jealousy is concerned.
When the Line of Heart is found curving downward at the base of the Mount of Jupiter (7, [Plate XVI].), it tells of a strange fatality in that person, of meeting with great disappointment in love, and even with those they trust in friendship. He seems to lack perception, in knowing whom to love. His affections are nearly always misplaced or never returned.