Mount
Upper Mount of Mars
Everything here reports what named old books claimed about hands. None of it is a statement about you or about anything to come.
In an older source
It denotes passive courage, self-control, resignation, and strength of resistance against wrong.
Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)
About this entry
Palmists divide Mars into two mounts, and the books describe their places in different words. Benham 1900 puts the upper mount on the outer edge of the palm, above the head line. St Hill 1893 puts the second of her two Mars mounts below the Mercury mount, with the heart line between them. Cheiro 1897 places his second one between the Mount of Mercury and the Mount of Luna. Neither St Hill nor Cheiro uses the word upper, so reading their second mount as Benham's upper one is this page's own step.
Cheiro reads the quoted qualities in that second mount. It stands for courage of the passive kind, shown as self-control and steady resistance, set against the active courage of his first mount.
St Hill places the plain of Mars between the two mounts.
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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