Mount
Lower Mount of Mars
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In an older source
This, the first, gives active courage, the martial spirit, but when large, shows a very quarrelsome, fighting disposition.
Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)
About this entry
The lower mount of Mars lies inside the life line, next to the Mount of Venus. Benham 1900 describes it as under the life line and above the Mount of Venus. Cheiro 1897, who numbers the two mounts instead of naming them upper and lower, says his first lies beneath the Mount of Jupiter but inside the life line. That matches Benham's place. Cheiro never says lower, so treating his first mount as this one is an inference made on this page.
St Hill 1893 also puts one Mars mount below Jupiter, separated from it by the life line. Cheiro reads this mount as active courage and the martial spirit, and an overlarge one as a quarrelsome temper.
Benham joins both Mars mounts in a single Martian type, the fifth of his seven.
Where this text comes from
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- Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)
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- William G. Benham, The Laws of Scientific Hand Reading (1900)
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- Katharine St. Hill, The Grammar of Palmistry (1893)
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