Mount
Mount of Venus
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
This mount denotes affection, sympathy toward others, benevolence, a desire to please, love and worship of beauty
Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)
About this entry
The Mount of Venus is the fleshy pad at the base of the thumb, and the life line curves around it. Cheiro 1897 reads a mount that is not abnormally large as a favorable sign, and lists affection, sympathy, benevolence, a wish to please and a love of beauty, color and music. He reads an overlarge one as strong passion.
St Hill 1893 gives a close list that adds grace, charity and a love of dancing. The last of the seven types in Benham 1900, the Venusian, is read from the base of the thumb.
Cheiro also links the mount to health, because it covers a large blood vessel of the hand. This page leaves that claim aside. A grille here he reads as caprice in passion.
Where this text comes from
Statements credited to an older writer follow the scanned or typed text named here, and those writers often disagree. Modern practice is labeled as modern.
- Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)
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- Katharine St. Hill, The Grammar of Palmistry (1893)
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- William G. Benham, The Laws of Scientific Hand Reading (1900)
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Our own plain wording. Quoted lines keep the spelling of the scanned source.