Apollo Mount

The third Mount type is the Apollonian, and the parts of the hand which
identify him are the Mount and finger of Apollo. This is a pleasant type to
handle, because it is a good type, and, while the Apollonian sometimes
becomes mercenary and shoddy, he does not often become bad or criminal. As
has been already noticed in the study of the types, the two which become bad
and vicioius are the bilious types - Saturn and Mercuy and, while the others
are sometine coarse, they do not often descend to criminality. When they do,
we have sen, it is the result of sudden emotions or circumstances, and not as
a result of inherent badness.

As single signs, or in combination, the star, triangle, circle, single
vertical line, square, or trident, strengthen a Mount of Apollo.
The cross bar, grille, cross, island, or dot show defects of the Mount,
either of health or character. Nails, color, etc, will determine which.

The normal Apollonian is a healthy, vigorous person, consequently happy,
genial, and attractive. He is a spontanious type, and versatiliy, brilliancy,
love of the beautiful and artistic in everything, are his attributes.
Standing alongside the Saturnian, he is the direct opposite of that gloomy
fellow. The dark side of life is in the background with him and, as the
Saturnian was needed as a check to over enthusiasm, so the Apollonian is
needed in order that darkness and gloom may not dominate. Play and diversion
must follow work if we are to keep ourselves healthy and vigorous, and
someone must provide these recreative things, these rests from seriousness.
We must have comedians for laughter is a tonic to the tired brain. The
Jupiterian is engrossed in the schemes for aggrandizement; the Saturnian is
absorbed in wisdom, sobriety, or gloom; who then shall provide the bright
things which shall make life worth living? That task is the Apollonian's.
This type has been completely musunderstood. It has always stood for art and
brilliancy, and the temptation has been to ascribe to every hand which has
a good Mount of Apollo great artistic talent, frequently far in excess of that
really possessed by the subject. All Apollonians are not artists ar actors,
and never can be. But Apollonians love beauty in dress, home, business
surroundings, and every walk in life in which they are found.