This union of Head and Life line allows the subject to be very sensitive and impressionable, and a victim to severe headaches; but it also shows much cautiousness, a lack of self-confidence, and is an indication that the early life of the subject was sheltered and guarded by others so that responsibility was not felt at a tender age; in such a case as this, faith and confidence in self should best imulated. When these lines are joined together, the thumb strong, and other favourable signs are present in the hand, it is merely an in­dication of caution, prudence and circumspection; a tendency to think a matter well over before deciding. If the Headline does not leave the Life line until it arrives opposite Saturn's mount, it is an indication of education and brain development being acquired late in life.