If the Fate line is clear and straight, the extra line from the mount indicates the powerful influence of someone who will be a help or a hindrance to the subject, according to whether the Fate line is impaired or improved after the date where this line touches it. When lines from low down on the mount of Moon rise to the Fate line they represent the influence of other people over the subject in youth, generally of the opposite sex; some writers call them love affairs affecting the life, in as much as they affect the Fate: but they are not necessarily so, being usually the in­fluence of a trusted friend of the family, or of a benefactor, etc., and they only indicate love affairs when corroborated by the lines of Life and Heart, or the lines on the percussion of the hand.