Heart Lines/Love Lines Overview

Welcome to the world of your communication style for expressing feelings and emotions. One of my favorite conversations about hand analysis topics is the line that is all about expressing feelings – it impacts all relationships: The Heart Line.

Heart lines are also called “Love Lines” because they tell you how your style of communicating and expressing love and feelings/emotions.

Here is a hand print that shows the location of the heart line. It’s the horizontal line closest to the fingers. About 99% of the time, the line begins under the pinkie (Mercury finger). It then goes towards the thumb side of the hand.

Your heart line type is determined by where this line ends.  Under the middle finger? Or the index/pointer finger?

The other significant factor is the shape of heart lines: is it straight or curvy?

Of course, the heart line is only one line in your hands. It’s not the whole picture. However, it is the emotional expression line and that clarifies a lot for people.  

Heart lines begin formation in the womb at 11 weeks and complete by 13 weeks after conception.

~ Your heart line identifies your emotional system telling you how you are designed to express love, your emotions and feelings.

~ These lines also identify how you want to be treated in relationships and the ways you prefer love is expressed to you.

~ Some nonnegotiable relationship needs are reflected in your heart lines.

~ And they determine what motivates your behavior with others, both in personal and work environments and why you find some people’s emotional behaviors irritating while others are greatly aligned with your style.

These markings provide an easy way to gain understanding of yourself and others without knowing much else about the hands.

Identifying how you feel and then expressing feelings are two separate things. You could know what you are feeling, like anger or sadness or joy or pleasure, yet not share it in any way, verbally or non-verbally.

Below is a chart with the archetypes of the endings and shapes (curvy or straight) of the four heart line types. 

Curvy heart lines (Passionate and Big Heart) NEED to express how they feel.

Straight heart lines (Hermit and Romantic Idealist) are cautious and reserved about expressing feelings. 

Short heart line types that end under Saturn/middle finger are fabulous at identifying how they feel and what they desire - what works for them at a personal level (Hermit and Passionate.)

Long heart line types (Big Heart and Romantic Idealist) focus on other people's emotional desires before they focus on their own - highly attuned to what matters emotionally to other people.

Just knowing about straight/curvy and short/long can provide some tangible insights about how a person's heart lines are focused for expressing love and receiving love.

One more note: Approximately 2/3 of the population has more than one heart line type, It may show up as different heart lines on left and right hands. Or multiple heart line types on one hand. Meaning more than 2/3 of people have complex emotional needs and complex communication styles in relationships. Thus, only about 1/3 of the population has the same heart line type on both hands

There is a very detailed book on heart lines called 'Your Love Design" available here. It's in paperback and can be shipped anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside the US and need a PDF, please email me at [email protected]