Mounts of Hands
The physical construction of our palm is enough to reveal a wealth of information about our character. The palm is divided into eight mounts encircling a central plain. Each area has associations with a particular aspect of our personality. The characteristics of these aspects are epitomized by the classical name that has been given to each mount. Following are the Mounts of Hands:
The following table shows about the characteristics of the mount of Sun when it is in normal, excess, or lacking conditions according to the types of fingers.
Fingers ? | Mount of Sun | ||
| Normal | Excess | Lacking |
Pointed | Wonderful dreamers | Genius confining to mental illness | Art has no place in their dreams |
Conical | Idealistic Artists, Writers | Talent overrating itself | Clever but truly not gifted |
Square | Artists of high stamp but practical | Meanness stifles real talent | No love for or intellectual enjoyment |
Spatulate | Artists fond of excitement and noise | Without any talent, Always on the go, doing wretched work with a great noise | Hatred for art and all mind culture |
Mount of Moon: It is immediately under the mount of upper Mars, along the percussion. It is associated with the imagination and subconscious. It represents sensitivity and intuition. It reveals the extent of our artistic talent and creativity. Developed it shows closeness to nature. Overlarge shows moodiness while very lean reveals a poor imagination. Diseases of the bladder and kidneys, dropsy, stone, weakness of eye-sight and sometime blindness, anaemia, gout, female problems are to be seen from this mount.
The following table shows about the characteristics of the mount of Sun when it is in normal, excess, or lacking conditions according to the types of fingers.
Fingers ? | Mount of Moon | ||
| Normal | Excess | Lacking |
Pointed | Imagination at its best | Sheer mental illness | Never seen |
Conical | Gifted artist | Extravagant pride | Imitation in art matters, Actors |
Square | Healthy love of poetry | Absence of common sense | Everyday existence |
Spatulate | Love of nature | Often violent mental illness | Action never brightened by one thought of What could be |
Mount of Upper Mars: It is immediately under the mount of mercury, following along the percussion. It depicts integrity, moral resistance and courage of our convictions. It also reveals staying power and the ability to cope under pressure. Diseases of sore throat, bronchitis, troubles with the blood are seen from this mount.
The following table shows about the characteristics of the mount of Sun when it is in normal, excess, or lacking conditions according to the types of fingers.
Fingers ? | Mount of Upper Mars | ||
| Normal | Excess | Lacking |
Pointed | Courage of the Martyr | Violence of the religious persecutor | A Coward in the creed |
Conical | Courage of the Patriot | Violence of the wounded vanity | A Coward in facing public |
Square | Courage of the Soldier | Violence of the disappointed conspirator | A Coward in the everyday life |
Spatulate | Courage of the Explorer | Violence of the ruffian | A Coward in the field of battle |
Mount of Lower Mars: It is at the starting point of life line and at the foot of the mount of Jupiter forming a kind of triangle. It represents courage, energy, fighting spirit and sense of self preservation. When flat it denotes cowardice, but aggression and cruelty when overdeveloped. Diseases of the generative organs are to be seen from this mount.
The following table shows about the characteristics of the mount of Sun when it is in normal, excess, or lacking conditions according to the types of fingers.
Fingers ? | Mount of Lower Mars | ||
| Normal | Excess | Lacking |
Pointed | Heavenly resignation | Unhealthy disciplining of the soft tissue | Sensitive soul |
Conical | Stoicism | Hard-Heartedness | Easily offended |
Square | Patience | Passive cruelty | Much afraid of physical of moral pain |
Spatulate | Ignores what pain or fear means | Active cruelty | A coward |
Mount of Mercury: It is found beneath the little finger. It represents the ability to communicate with others. When developed it suggests a warm, receptive nature, while poorly developed tells of a lack of interest in other people. Overlarge is a sign of garrulousness. Diseases of bilious troubles, liver diseases, jaundice, extra nervous irritations are to be seen from this mount.
The following table shows about the characteristics of the mount of Sun when it is in normal, excess, or lacking conditions according to the types of fingers.
Fingers ? | Mount of Mercury | ||
| Normal | Excess | Lacking |
Pointed | Intuitive science | Dreamers of new religions | Fine thoughts ill combined |
Conical | Divine expressiveness | Inventors of practicable things | Expressiveness handicapped by some physical or moral defeat |
Square | Great Inventors | Dangerous conspirator | No scientific gifts nor business ability |
Spatulate | Great Discoverers | Adventurers who stop at no crime | Active to no useful purpose |
Mount of Jupiter: It is located around the root of index finger. It represents our sense of authority and self-worth. If nicely rounded it shows our status in life and about our self. Towering above the other mounts suggests burning ambition and business. Diseases of rush of blood, apoplexy, lung troubles are seen from this mount.
The following table shows about the characteristics of the mount of Sun when it is in normal, excess, or lacking conditions according to the types of fingers.
Fingers ? | Mount of Jupiter | ||
| Normal | Excess | Lacking |
Pointed | High religious ideal | Superstition | Absence of regard |
Conical | Lofty pride | Artistic pride | No respect for others |
Square | Pride in everyday life | Vanity | Absence of self respect |
Spatulate | Pride in great enterprises | Boldness | Bad manners |
Mount of Venus: It is enclosed between the root of the thumb and life line. It reflects our enthusiasm in our life. Their developments directly reflect our stamina and vitality. Well rounded shows a warm heart and sunny disposition. Over lean reveals delicate health. Diseases of the generative organs are to be seen from this mount.
The following table shows about the characteristics of the mount of Sun when it is in normal, excess, or lacking conditions according to the types of fingers.
Fingers ? | Mount of Venus | ||
| Normal | Excess | Lacking |
Pointed | Ideal love | Inhuman ideas | Above even the idea of love |
Conical | Material love of a poetical character | Inconstancy | Artist wedded to his art |
Square | Honest family love | Sensuality | Indifferent to the charms of the other sex |
Spatulate | A lover or husband in his companion, A comrade in his continual agitation | Will have a wife or sweetheart in every situation | Finds the other sex an hindrance in his active existence |
Mount of Saturn: It is situated beneath the second finger and deals with our sense of responsibility. Overlarge reflects a solitary person who is cynical and ungiving. A slight padding reveals common sense and a love of philosophy. Diseases of nervous irritation, hemorrhoids, fluxes of blood downward, troubles with the legs, teeth and ears, paralysis, hemiplegy, rheumatism, vice and its consequences are to be seen from this mount.
The following table shows about the characteristics of the mount of Sun when it is in normal, excess, or lacking conditions according to the types of fingers.
Fingers ? | Mount of Saturn | ||
Normal | Excess | Lacking | |
Pointed | Poetic depressed | Intense morbidness | Cares nothing for the supernatural |
Conical | Morbidness | Saddest view of art | Realist in art matters |
Square | Love of solitude not misanthropy | Hatred of mankind | Chronic indifference |
Spatulate | Love of agriculture and other safe but active occupations | Aggressive hatred of others | Works hard but cares little for others society |