Mount of Saturn

SOBERNESS
WISDOM
SADNESS
SUPERSTITION
BALANCE WHEEL

The higher the Mount of Saturn is developed, the larger and longer the finger, and the squarer the tip of this finger, the more pronounced is the type of the subject. A highly developed Mount of Saturn is a rarity, and in the greatest number of hands there is instead a depression. A long finger of Saturn is quite common, however, showing the presence of some Saturnian
qualities, and the Mount, though it may not be prominent, often shows, by the lines upon it, that is is of more than ordinary development. Great care must be used with this Mount, as it shows strong characteristics.

As single signs or in combination, the triangle, circle, trident, single vertical line, or square increase the strength of the Mount of
Saturn. The cross-bar, grille, cross, or island indicate defects of the Mount, either of health or character; nails, color, etc. will determine which.

*** The largest number of Saturnians will be known from the fact that the apex of the Mount of Saturn is central, and the apices of the other Mounts all lean toward it.
A more pronounced identification of the type, and also a very common one, is to find the finger of Saturn standing upright, with the other fingers drawn toward it. (This is much more common than the high Mount)

He is a man who can show you "how the other half lives" and thus makes your appreciate your own blessings. Socially, he lacks the ability to enter into the spirit of the occasion, and, therefore, he is often called a "wet blanket". I consider him the BALANCE WHEEL, a necessary evil, if you choose, but a type the world could not do without. The Saturnian type, to bring out its better side, should be only slightly developed. It is a bad type, as will appear later, if found in excessive degree, and not the happiest type for the possessor, even when present only in normal quantity.
The typical Sauturnian is the tallest of the seven types and his finger is the longest on the hand. He is haunt, thin, and pale, his skin is yellow, rough dry, and weinkled, handing in flabby folds, or else drawn tightly over the bones. He is the purely bilious type, and yellow is his distinctive color.
His hair is thick and dark, often black, staight and harsh. He loses it when quite young, adding badkness to his otherwise unprepossessing appearance. His face is long, commony called "hatchet shaped" from its thinness, his cheek bones are high and prominent, with the saffron-hued skin drawn over them. The cheeks are sunken, with skin flabby and wrinkled. The eyebrows are thick and stiff, growing together over the nose and turning up at the outer ends. The eyes are deep set and extremely black, with a sad, subdued epression which changes only when flashes of anger, suspicion, or eagerness stir in his mind. Being bilious, the whites of his eyes show yellow color. His ears are large, and stand out from his head, often seeming to be acturally heavy. His nose is long, straight, and thin, coming to a sharp point at the end. The nostrils do not dilate as he breathes, but are rigid and stiff. His mouth is large, the lips thin and pale, the lower jaw and lower lip large, lips thin and pale,
the lower jaw and lower lip quite prominent and firm. He has good teeth in his youth, but they are soft in testure and decay early. Neither are the gums healthy, having a pale, sickly, bloodless look. It the Saturnian has a beard it is dark, stiff, and stright, growing thickly on the chin and lip, but very sparse on the cheeks. The chin is prominent and large, the neck lean and long, with muscles showing prominently like chords, and the blue veins standing out under the shrunken and flabby skin. His Adam's apple is plainly in evidence. His chest is thin, the lungs seem cramped, as if operating in narrow, contracted quarters, and his voice as it comes through the thin lips is harsh and unpleasant. The shouldrs are high and have a manner at his sides. His step has no spring, and his gait is a shanbling one, seeming to proclaim a person who is miserable, bilious, and gloomy. The hwole appearance
of lack of healthy blood supply, and its lean gawkiness; the hark, sad eyes, stiff, black hair , narrow chest, stooping, shoulders, and shuffling gait all combine to bear this out. He is a man to whom a bright side in life does not often appear, one whose life is lightened by no joy of exuberant magnetism, but rather with ewllow biliousness, mingled with white coldness. The insufficient blood current, poisoned with bile, is weakly flowing though his body, pumped by a flabby heat, and reaches the outer skin with a diminished
force, casting over his spirits the depressing effect of a vilious influence.
This is the typical Saturnian. It is small wonder that, when the dashing Apollonians or Venusians, handsome, attractive, and magnetic, filled with the joy of living, meet him and try to fill him with their enthusiasm, the Saturnian cannot feel their joy, or share their enthusiasm, but shakes his head mournfully, and thinks of how much sorrow there is in this world.
As the Saturnian is the represser, you will appreciate the wisdom of constructing him ugly, gloom, and sad, in order that he might accomplish the purpose of his creation. If he were only wise and formed in the Apollonian mould of physical beauty, the love of gayety would run away with his wisdom. Mere wisdom, if he were beautiful, bright, strong, and healthy, could not hold in check the Apollonian enthusiasm. But the Saturnian is PHYSICALLY built so that he commot be carried away with enthusicastic, joyous, or frivolous amusements. No matter how much he may WANT TO BE, he CANNOT, with his ugliness, have Venusian power of attraction; he cammot be other than the Saturnian that he is.
In addition to all this, he is cynical, lacks veneration, and is a born doubter. Instead of seeking the society of others he avoids it, and his tendency is to withdraw himself from the social world. He prefers the country to the city, is often a student, and chooses agricultural persuits, chemistry, and other laboratory occupations, which do not require him to come in contact with people. He is not a "mixer", has not the faculty of attracting and holding friends, so does not succeed well in business hwere he has to depend upon genial ways or attrctive manners. His love of solitude makes farm life perculiarly attractive to him, andhis penchant for earthly things makes him by nature a horticulturist, market gardener, florist, or a botanist. By reason of his love for digging and exploring in the eath, he has often found wells of oil, or mines of coal and minerals. This has led people to consider him lucky, and for this reason Saturn has a love for all occult studies, and is proficient in them. He has a mystical steak that makes him extremely superstitious. He loves chenistry, for the compounding of drugs and elements has an air of mystery about it, and physics is also a congenial study. Higher mathematic and medicine are strong favorites, and in both these fields he is very successful. The Saturnian is no shallow fellow, but is deep and a true scientist. While others are spending their time in gayety he
is engrossed in study, has secluded himself from society, and, surrounded by his books, retorts, and figures, is working out difficult problems.
He is eminently cautious and prudent. He is suspicious of both the fidelity and honesty of his fellows, and does not readily go into business enterprises with them. Real estate, farms, and buildings seem to him less risky than stocks, bons, or mercantile enterprises, consequently these are the investments he chooses. He is, of course, a conservative person, and does not do anything hastily, for prudence and caution are his watchwards.
The Saturnian can be led, not driven. He instinctively dislikes to obey, but feels flattered at an attempt in INDUCE him to do anything. He rebels if rubbed the wrong way, talks a great deal, what he says has wight because he has the reputation of being profound, so he often makes all kinds of trouble. His caution, howver, enables him to get away and not get hurt in the uphealvals he causes. In all his surroundings he likes soberness, and gray, black or brown will be apt to predominate in his apparel, nor will his home have any starling colors in it. His physical heat being under normal, he is not amorous. He shuns society rather than courts it, he repels the opposite sex rather than attracts. Thus the fervor of warm passions does not glow within him, and he does not care to marry. In fact, a pure Saturnian would not marry; the idea would be abdolutely repugnant to him. In handling the
marriage question, for a subject strongly Saturina, you will know that marriage is not likely, so ABSOLUTELY plain indications must be found before you commit yourself on the subject. His prudence gives him another quality, - he is saving and even stingy and miserly. The stronger the Saturnian indications, the stronger these avaricious tendencies. He is slow,- one so cautious could not be otherwise, - but is a patient, indefatigable worker. The Saturnian loves music and is often a fine performer and a Composer, but his music has a tinge of sadness and melancholy and is severely classical.
He is not a great lover of art, though he admires ural scenery, flowers, and the product of field and forest. He writes well, produces histories, fine treatises on scientific and occult subjects, books on chemistry, or short articles on agriculture. He sometimes writes excellent ghost stories or tales, in which morose heroes go into monasteries. For amusement the
Saturnian seeks his books and and studies which takes him away from the haunts of men. He is opinionated, does not like to be contradicted, is independent, and dislikes restraint. Under the surface the Saturnian dislikes mankind. He is not beautiful or attractive, is less loved than others, and feels his ugliness, knows his ungainliness, and withdraws himself from his fellows, having in his heart jealousy and hatred of them. This feeling is present even with a Saturnian who cannot be classed as belonging to the bad type. Dislike of makind is a Saturnian quality developed in some degree even when the type is not pronounced. We may say truly this is a dangerous type at its best, and at its worst produces a poisoner and a malevolent wretch. When we see stooping shoulders, a hunched back, and the sapped vitality has produced a cropple, with perhaps crossed eyes added, scant, coarse hair, and leathery skin you have a creature capable of the deeds of Mr Hyde. This is the low mean, healous, surly, dishonest villain; a lower state of degradation than any other type can reach, except the Mercurian, but vile enough for all. These malformed Saturnians will stick a dagger into you back, and gloat over your death agonies. No more malevolent creatures live. This of course, is a picture so exaggerated as to be scarcely conceivable, but it is sometimes found.
We have now followed the Saturnian from the sober "balance wheel", through a serious of developments and characteristic to the wretch just described. You can appreicate the gravity of this type, and the handling of the Mount must be done with great care. With a pronounced Saturnian develpment, use all your powers to learn HOW MUCH of it is in the subject uncounteracted by other qualities. Some Saturnian should be present, for the absence of any makes an unbalanced character, but the subject wants only JUST ENOUGH to give the balance needed. Any excess will make a jorbit, melancholy, bloomy person, pessimistic and stingy. The very strongMount and finger, or, which occurs more often, all the fingers and apices leaning toward the finger of Saturn, will show the good type I have described, who is peculiar but not necessarily evil. The excessively grilled or crossed development of the Mount, bad Heat-line and with crooked, gnarled finger and hard hand, will show the bad type. Everything you know should be brought to bear on the case when a Satrunian is before you, in order to determine how strongly the qualities of the type are developed.

HEALTH
The Saturnian is the purely bilious type. His is not a temporary trouble of the liver, but a structural disease of the organ, hence the presence of the bile poison in the blood. This makes the Satrunian yellow, which color will be found tinging his nails, palm, lines, and Mount. All the troubles which yellow color indicates, both as to health and temperament, are to be
attributed to the subject if that color is present. As bile in the blood creates intense nervousness, the Saturnian is troubled with this as one of his health difficulties.