(In this section they are supposed to be in their regular normal position.)

The principles ruling the existence, absence or undue prominence of the Mounts are the following:

Normal and in position - The quality at its best.

Absent - The quality absent also.

Abnormally prominent - The quality in excess, hence the defect or vice corresponding logically to that quality.

These readings, and those referring to the Displacement of the Mounts, only concern Smooth Mounts without any independent Lines or Signs. A long chapter is devoted to the meaning of each Mount, when marked by this or that line or sign, For the present, let it suffice to lay down this rule:

"A Mount is considered present and active, athough it be not marked by any rising, if it is marked by lines and signs."

The readings below are supposed to be made from a "good" or. at least "fairly good" hand. In a hand otherwise "bad" the reader will Have to radically modify the readings, in accordance with logic and common sense.

The Mount of Jupiter.

WITH

NORMAL.

IN. EXCESS.

Lacking

Pointed fingers.

High religious ideal.

Superstition.

Absence of veneration.

Conical

Lolty pride.

Artistic conceit.

No respect for others.

Square

Pride in everyday life.

Vanity.

Absence of self respect

Spatulate "

Pride in great enterprises.

Boasting.

Vulgarity

Meanings

The Mount of Saturn.

WITH

Normal

IN EXCESS,

LACKING.

Pointed fingers

Poetic melancholy.

Intense morbidness.

Cares nothing for the supernatural.

Conical

Morbidness.

Saddest view of art, etc.

Realist in art matters

Square

Loveofsolitude, not misanthropy though.

Hatred of mankind,

Chronic indifference.

Spatalate "

Love of agriculture and other safe, but active, occupations.

Aggressive hatred of others

Works hard but cares little for others' society.

The Mount of the Sun.

Pointed fingers.

The exquisite dreamers

Genius confining to insanity.

Art has no place in their dreams.

Conical

Idealistic artists, writers. etc

Talent overrating itself.

Clever, but not truly-gifted.

Square

Artistsof high stamp, but practical.

Cupidity stifles real talent

No love for or intellectual enjoyment.

Spatulate

"Artists fond of excitement and noise who picture them on canvas or in books.

Braggards, without any talent; always on the go, doing wretched work with a great noise.

Hatred for art and all mind-culture.

The Mount of Mercury.

Pointed fingers.

The master's intuitive science.

Dreamers of new religions.

Fine thoughts ill combined.

Corncal

Divine eloquence.

Inventors of practicable things

Eloquence handicapped by some physical or moral defect.

Square

The great inventors.

Dangerous schemers.

Nti scientific gifts nor business ability

Spatulate "

The great discoverers.

Adventurers who stop at no crime.

Active to no useful par-pose.

The Upper Mount of Mara.

Pointed finders.

The courage of the martyr

The violence of the religious persecutor.

A coward in his creed

Conical "

The courage of the patriot.

The violence of wounded vanity.

A coward in facing the public

Square "

The courage of the soldier

The violence of the disappointed schemer.

A coward In everyday life.

Spaiulate "

The courage of the explorer.

The violence of the ruffian

A coward in the field of battle.

The Mount of the Moon.

Pointed fingers

Imagination at its best.

Sheer insanity.

(Never seen.)

Conical "

The gifted artist.

Extravagant vanity

Imitation in art matters:

Square '

Healthv love of poetry etc..

Absence of common sense.

Humdrum existence

Spatulate "

Love of nature

Often violent insanity

Action never brightened by one thought of "what could be."

The Mount of Venus.

WITH

NORMAL..

IN EXCESS

■

Pointed fingers.

Ideal Love.

Above even the idea of love,

Vicious imaginings..

Conical

Material love of a. poetical character.

Artist wedded to his art.

Inconstancy

Square

Honest family love.

Indifferent to the charms of the other sen

Sensuality

Spatulate '

A lover or husband who wants in his mate x comrade in his incessant agitation,

Finds the other sex an incumbrance in bis active existence..

A Mormon or a Turk; will have a wife or sweetheart in every

State in the Union.

The Lower Mount of Mars.

Pointed fingers.

Heavenly resignation.

Sensitive SOUl.

Unhealthy chasing of the flesh

Conical

Stoicism

Easily offended.

Hard-heardness

Square "

Patience

Much afraid of physical or moral pain.

Passive cruelty.

Spatulate "

Ignores what pain or fear means.

A coward.

Active cruelty