The Life Line is the most well-known line of the hands. With my clients around 1/3 of them have a question related to their Life Line in some way.

“Do I have a good Life Line?’’ – “Do I have a Short Life Line?’’ -“Am I going to die soon!?’’

It is very easy as a chirologist to reassure people with answers to these questions. And here I will explain my answers so as to relieve you of any worry or confusion!

What the Life Line Does Show

The Life Line is your anchor

The Life Line shows how stable and grounded you are. It is like your root to the earth and your anchor. It shows how stable you are both psychologically and physically. It also shows vitality, energy and how well the body is functioning (with things like digestion and sleep patterns).

What the Life Line Doesn’t Show

The Life Line does not show how long you will live! This is an old palmistry myth and does not have any science or testing behind it. There have been studies done to disprove this myth where doctors have measured the length of the Life line on people in morgues and looked for a correlation with length of life; there was no link.

An overlapping Life Line of a 27 year old who recently moved abroad.

The line shows the quality of one’s stability, their structure, routine, security, sense of feeling grounded, their vitality and health. It relates very much to ones base, roots and home. It is also the line on the hand in which events can be most clearly seen and timed. These events are of course always subjective to the person and show their relationship to them rather than the specifics of the event itself.

Some people do not have a clear single line, but have two. This can present in many different forms, but the example I am referring to in this instance is when there is a break in the line and an overlap of some kind.

The overlap and change in the life line signifies a change in the person, relating to aspects of the home and family. In my experience around 80% of the people with this mark will have considered or actually have moved abroad. The exceptions to the rule are 1). when someone is young and the break corresponds to 25 ­30+ years of age (measured chronologically down the line) and this aspect of themselves has not yet manifested; 2). when the person has a very close and intimate relationship with their family, which means the shift and change is merely moving out of the family home, village or town or 3). when there does not appear to be a physical move or change on the horizon, but there will without question be a psychological shift of some measure.