MOUNT OF THE MOON

IMAGINATION
FANCY
MYSTICISM
COLDNESS
SELFISHNESS

As single signs or in combination, the star, triangle, circle, single vertical line, aquare, or trident strengthen the Mount of the Moon.
Grilles, crosses, cross-bars, islands, dots, or badly formed stars indicate defects of the Mount, either of health or character.
Color, nails, and other matters detailed in the course of this chapter will determine which. The mount of the Moon must be judged both by the strength of its curve outwardly on the percussion of the hand and by the size of the pad it forms on the inside of the palm. If it is seen forming a decided bulge outwardly, call it
a WELL-DEVELOPED Mount; if in addition it is exceedingly thick, forming a large pad on the inside of the hand, it must be regarded as a VERY STRONG
Mount; and it the outward protuberance and the thick pad are both unusually large, you have an EXCESSIVE Lunarian subject. In this type vertical lines on
the Mount add strength to it and cross lines show defects. If you see a strong verical line extending the length or nearly so of the Mount, it will indicate
and added strength, and a number of vertical lines if lying close together will also increase its power. These lines on a Mount developed at the side,
but flat in the palm, will be nearly as powerful as if the Mount showed a medium develpment inside the palm. If the outward development and the large
pad in the palm is seen, which has ALSO a deep, well-cut vertical line or lines, it will show an EXCESSIVELY developed Lunarian reaching to the danger
point of the type.

HEALTH DEFECTS
The mount must be divided into three sections, the upper, the middle, and the lower, corresponding to the three worlds of the fingers in their qualities, each section enabling one also to locate health difficulties peculiar to the type.
Grilled, cross bars, or crosses on the Mount, badly formed stars, islands, dots, chained or wavy lines will locate health defects, and when seen, the health indications of color, nails, Life line, and line of Mercury must be examined in connection with the Mount to aid in confirming the indications. The health defects of the Mount of the
Moon are important, especially with women, as they bear directly on diseases peculiar to them, affecting life, temper, maternity, and future happiness.
The upper, middle, and lower thirds of this Mount each show separate health difficulties, and when defects are seen on any particular third, you are at
once warned that the health troubles peculiar to that third of the Mount are present. In this manner you can not only tell that your subject has a health defect, but as well what this defect is.

CROSS LINES
Error Horizontal Lines at the side of the hand= Travel lines =journeys by land Error Vertical lines = voyages by water cross
REASONING - These readings have come from the fact that the Lunarian has a penchant for water, is naturally nervous, restless, loves change or travelling,
and when strong line have been found on the Mount, his restlessness has been accentuated, making him want to travel, which he will do it such
a thing is at all possible.
Vertical lines, strengthening as they do his typical love of travel and also
his typical love of water, make him the more likely to choose journeys by
water rather than by land.

The entire percussion of the hand is often found covered with cross lines. This shows that the subject is delicate in more ways than one, even if no sign of it has appeared to make him conscious of any health delicacy. They are always hypernervous, which precedes actual disease. These cross lines are also seen on the hands of old persons, often those who did not have them when young. They have appeared as age has weakened the constitution.

UPPER MARS
The health defect of upper Mars, which are throat
and bronchial difficulty, intestinal inflammations, and blood disorders, are all shown by these cross lines on that Mount, which lies on the percussion.

Those of the Mount of the Moon, which will be enumerated later, arte also shown by cross lines on the Mount, and thus acrossing of the WHOLE SIDE, or
percussion of the hand, would show delicacy of the entire structure from throat to kidneys and bladder. If any portion of the percussion is more
thoroughly cross-lined than the others, or lines run across from it to the Life line, with health defects of nails, color, etc, shown, you can tell
WHICH ONE of the delicate parts will give ways, by the portion of the Mounts at the side of the hand on which these markings occur most strongly, or from
which a line runs to a delicate life line. This will be more fully treated in the study of the lines.
While the Lunarian is not often seen in pure development, still he is to be found, and a PART of his typical qualities will be present in nearly all of
the subjects met.

COMMUNICATION
His realm is the world of imagination; he keeps humanity from becoming too material, and enables us to see with the "minds eye". It is entirely because of the possession of imagination, a quality of mind which does not belong to the lower animals, and which gives to man the ability to form mental picures, that certain words, sounds, or signs convey meanings - in short, that we have the power of speaking and communicating with each other.
If I write the word HOUSE, it brings to mind a building and you mentally picture some sort of a structure. If I add, "A white frame house with low root and red chimneys," you mentally see the house in "minds eye".
This is the power of imagination, and if we did not have it we would be unable to communicate with each other, would have no ability to express
ouselves. Thus the Lunarian was necessary, as he represents imagination, which makes possible communication, and he was made one of the seven types.

MORE REFINED LUNARIAN = the greater the power of well-balanced imagination a subject possesses, the larger will be his vocabulary; the power
of description will be greater and the ability to evolve new ideas increased. The more dense the subject, the more material ar his imaginings, the more
restricted his vocabulary, and, instead of catching an idea quickly, you have figuratively "to beat it into his head." This faculty of imagination and speech is what makes a high type of Lunarian brilliant.

LESS REFINED LUNARIAN = lack of imagination and speech makes the clodhoper, who can never say just what he wants to, who never mantally rises above the earth. Those subject who can believe in nothing that they cannot touch,and who cannot carry in their minds mental picures, lose much enjoyment and have little expansiveness of mind to help them through the
world.

DEGREE OF DEVELOPMENT OF MOUNT³

When we find a subject with a well developed Mount of the Moon, we have one who expresses himself well and can enjoy the pleasures of
imagination.
DEFICIENT = Picture nothing to himself.
EXCESSIVE = Easily becomes flighty, imaginative to a dangerous degree, and who even loses control of the mind entirely, becoming insane.

Manifestly we care to find no excess nor deficiency with this Mount, but a good medium development, showing the presence of a healthy imagination, one that lifts the world above the place of materialism into the realm of fancy. In the hands of the greatest, linguists, musicians, composers, fiction or romance writer, we find this Mount strong. They are able to see their character in the "mind's eye," clothe them with proper attributes, and make them living realities in the minds of their
readers. It is the power of imagining how sences described look, and how character portrayed appear, that makes it a delight to read. If the power of
imagination were gone from us, we could onceive nothing but the bare things we see. Beauficul scenery, birds, flowers, color, or form would have little
meaining to us, and pure, dull, monotonous reality would be all we had, If there were no imagination there would be no HOPE for the future. Many have no
such hope; they can picture no future toward which to press. These subjects are deficient in Lunarian qualities, and spend their lives arguing that
nothing is true, and that life is a vain struggle. Ganting that imagination may sometimes lead to false conslusions, it is better to have some of them
than to be unable to see beyond a limited horizon. The Lunarian is tall in stature, fleshy in build, with the lower libs thick
and the feet large, He is often quite stout, but his flesh is not firm and his muscles are not strong. He is soft and flabby and instead of muscular
vitality, his flesh has a spongy deeling. His complexion is dead white, giving him a decided pallor and marking him as the victim of a weak heart's
action, anemia, kidney trouble, and often of dropsy. His head is round, thick through the temples, bulging over the eyes, and with a low forehead. The hair
is not thick, but straggly and fine in quality, blond or chestnut in color, and quite stright. His eyebrows are scanty , uneven in contour, and often
grow together over the nose. the eyes are round and starey in appearance, often bulging, and frequently atery. The color is gray or light blue, the
white are clear, and the pupil has a luminous appearance, seeming to refract light and showing a prismatic gleam. The lids are thick and flabby, giving
them a swollen look. The nose is short and small, quite often turning up at the end, and sometimes showing the nostrils very plainly. Frequently is is
what we call a "pug" nose. The mouth is small and puckers, giving the appearance of being drawn together. The teeth are large and long, wellow in
color, airregularly place in the gums, which are prominet and bloodless-looking. The teeth are soft and decay early. The chin is heavy, hanging in flabby fold and receding. The neck is fleshy, flabby, and weinled, connecting this peculiar loooking head with the fleshy-looking chest, which
is agin flabby and spongy in consistency. The voise is thin and pitched often in a high hey. The ears are small and set close to his head. The abdomen is
large and bulges forward, giving an awkward look, and the legs are not graceful, but thick and heavy, having a dropsical appearacne. The feet are
flat and large and the gait is a shuffle or is shambling, very much like the gait of a salor when he walks on land. The hand of a Lunarian is often
found puffy in appearacne, blabby in consistency, white in color, fingers short and smooth, with tipe conic or pointed; the thumb small in size, with
the first phalanx pointed or deficient in length. The Lunarian is contralled by imagination, consequently he is dreamy, fanciful, and idealistic. He is one who boilds air castles, plans great enerprises, which are never put into operation because they generally have no practical value. From the flabby, spongy character of his hand and muscular development, he is lazy in the wxtreme, preferring to live in cloudland rather than to dwell in an abode upon earth. He is constantly a prey to his
imaginings, thinks he is ill, and has divers ailments, is fickly, reslness, and changeable. It is hard for him to settle down to humdrum life for he is
always yearning for thins beyond his reach. Therefore he is never satisfied long in one place, but desires a constant change of location and scene. This
restless disposkition lead him to spend his last dollar for travel, and often the Lunarian becomes a great traveller. The more lines there are on the Mount
the more restless he becomes and the greater is his desire to go from place to place. So while the lines on the Mount of the Moon do not per se
especially indicate journeys, they DO strengthen the Lunar qualities of the subject, and this Lunar reslessness makes him a traveller if he has money to
gratify this desire. If the hand is firm and the wealth equal to it, you may be sure that a subject with these lines will gratify his love of travel by
taking long voyages. If the cricumstances do not permit the subject to gratify his love for change you will find that these lines produce in him a
yearing for travel. The Lunarian, bu his physical construction, has white color and white coldness of temperament. To him "self" is a great word. He is
lazy physically and lazy mentally. He loves to dream dreams, and work, which means either mental or physical exertion, is extremely distasteful to him. He
is dreamy in look, his eyes have an uncanny expression, and their light blue or gray color speaks of coldness and dreaminess. Thus he becomes mystical,
often melancholy, and grows superstitious. He believes in signs and omens, and has wonderful visions and hallucinations which grow to be real to him and
influence him greatly. He is slow in his movements, phlegmatic in disposition, and extremely sensitive. He imagines slights when nine are
intedned, and shrinks into himself and away from company. He does not love nor seek society. He realizes that he is different from other people, so
retires to the woods or secluded places ehre he can enfoy himself by himself. He loves nature, birds, flowers, and all things which elevate the senses and
excite the imagination, and to such surroundings he goes when out of touch with the world and its inhabitants. He is fond of poetry, but it is the epic
kind or verses which bring to mind a chain of new material to dream about. He loves music, but of the deep classic kind, not the gay, sparkling meody that
attracts the Venusian. He is a composer, and in seclusion and retirement produces profound classics. The Lunarian is very fond of water. As far as he
is able he lives near water, and is ON it as much a possible. The Lunarian makes a good sailor. He is never generous; to him selfishness is innate. He
is a big eater, though not sensual nor amorous. In his case the sexual appetites are excited by imagination, and not by physical heat. The lunarian
is lacking in self-confidence, and feels his unfitness for the active pursuits of life. He also lacks energy and perseverance, consquently is unsuccessful in the business world. If he is of a common type he has a hard time to get along. If of a high type he becomes a good Writer of romance or fiction, and even of history. This type will be much assisted if he has a long finger of Mercury with the first phalanx long. With this latter combination, conic tipe will add to the imaginative tendencies of his
writing; they will become more prctical if the tips are quate, and active and original if spatulate. Thus we see in the Lunarian a peculiar subject, in
whom imagination and fancy are always the dominating motives. It is a blessing that the pure type is not common, but is is necessary to have SOME of the imagination common to it. top 308