If the line runs deep for part of the way and terminates in a wavy line (416), the career during the latter years will be uncertain, and there wilt be worries in old age.

So these defective terminations on the Mount may not mean poverty or money losses in old age, but they may mean financial checks to the career from disappointments in children, or similar troubles. I mention this in order to warn against reading defective terminations as necessarily meaning poverty when the Saturn line has previously been deep for its entire course. Breaks in the line, bars cutting it, crosses or dots following a hitherto deep line, will indicate trials and crosses in old age. If the Saturn line breaks on the Mount, and the Life, Head, and Heart lines be defective at the same age, ill health in old age will render the last days ones of trouble (417). If the Saturn line end in an island and downward branches be seen on the Life line with a long tassel, financial difficulties due to ill health will cloud the last days of the subject (418). If the line be crossed by bars which cut it on the Mount, the subject will suffer losses and trials in old age (419). If the bars be faint and do not cut the line they are troubles and worries. If the line has crosses on the Mount, great trials and misfortunes will harass the latter years of the subject (420). All of these terminations apply to the line on the Mount of Saturn, and have their various indications in old age.

If the line terminate in these signs at any age the reading will be the same, except that it applies to the age indicated on the line at the time at which it occurs. If the line be defective during its entire course and terminates in any of these signs, the indication will be worse than when these markings terminate a deep line, for in the first instance the subject will not have a prosperous life behind him, during which he might have provided for old age. No. 421 will give various examples of such defective lines.

No. 416.

No. 417.

No. 418.

No. 419.

No. 420.

No. 421.

We have now followed the Saturn line from babyhood to extreme old age, and have seen how it records success and failure, as well as the causes which have produced them. It is poor consolation for one to look back upon a life of meagre fruitage and say, "If I had only known the productive periods, the end might have been different." This oft-repeated exclamation is sadly true, for in only few lives are productive periods taken advantage of in their fullest measure. If by a careful application of the rules laid down in this chapter you are enabled to help struggling humanity to make use of the harvest portion of their lives, and thus provide for the days when vital forces wane, and labor can no longer be done, you will have wasted no time which has been spent in a study of the line of Saturn.