How to Read the Mounts of the Palm

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Last Updated: October 8, 2025 Fact Checked

Learning to read the mounts of the palm is an advanced part of palm reading. Each mount is named after a planet, and each mount corresponds to a different personality feature.

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Jupiter: related to leadership, organisation and authority.^{[2]
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- high and firm - natural leader, intelligent, ambitious
- high and spongy - vain, proud, over-indulgent
- low - kind, more interested in respect than wealth
- missing - low self-respect
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Saturn: related to extra-ordinary tendencies.
- high and firm - responsible, hard-working, aloof, gloomy^{[3]
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- high and spongy - enjoys wallowing in morbid fantasies
- low - faith in fate
- missing - do not possess negative traits of being high and firm..
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Apollo: related to outlook on success, happiness and beauty.^{[4]
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- high and firm - adaptable, versatile, outgoing, self-confident, quick-tempered
- high and spongy - proud, flatterer, extravagant
- low - interested in beauty, practical, lack imagination
- missing - leads a very ordinary life
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Mercury: related to ability to think.^{[5]
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- high - clever, crafty, competitive
- low - impractical, insincere, inventive^{[6]
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- missing - passes life in poverty
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Inner/Lower Mars (Mars Positive): related to physical courage.
- high - aggressive, argumentative
- low - difficult to stand up to others
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- firm - makes use of the qualities of the Heart, Head and Destiny Lines
- spongy - easily influenced by others
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Outer/Upper Mars (Mars Negative): related to self-control and perseverance.
- high - strong-willed
- low - struggles through difficulties
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Venus: related to love, affection, and passion.^{[8]
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- high - affectionate, sympathetic
- low - coward, weak-natured
- missing - no interest in family life
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Neptune: related to artistic ability.
- high - artistic, charismatic
- low - little artistic talent
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Luna: related to imagination, creativity and emotion.
- high - lovers of nature and beauty, imaginative, religious
- low - imaginative, emotional
- missing - hard-hearted, materialistic
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Identify which mount is most dominant. The characteristics of this mount will be dominant in the person's personality.
- If there are multiple dominant mounts, the palm is considered "lucky" and indicates drive, ambition and confidence.
- If no dominant mounts are visible, this indicates a lack of self confidence.
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Locate the central apex of each mount at the base of the fingers. This apex is triangular skin ridge similar to a fingerprint.
- An apex located directly under the middle of the finger is a sign that this one is the most important in the hand.
- If there are multiple central apexes, each one is of equal importance.

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What are the different types of palmistry?

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Chiromancy: the study of lines; chirognomy: the study of the shape of the hand; and dermatoglyphics: the study of ridges on the fingertips.

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I have a prominent square on my Venus mound. What does that mean? It's a new thing, and like a teachers square, but on my Venus mound on my left palm.

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If the sign of a square exists on Mount Venus, then it prevents a person from the ill effects caused due to lust and passion. If this square shifts towards the Manibandh from Mount Venus, then the person also has to spend his life in solitude.

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Can a person's palm give away his/her level of physical attractiveness?

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If the mount of Venus is very strong, it means that Venus is the most prominent planet in the person's hand. If it bulges out of the hand, the person is passionate. This does not necessarily correlate with physical attractiveness, which is perceived differently by everyone.

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Keep it lighthearted and understand that you control your own destiny and the reading of palms should not determine the full potential of any outcome.

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Don't try to adjust your hand to select what outcome you want. This shows little self-respect.

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