The Mounts & Regions
Mount of Luna (Moon)
The fleshy pad on the outer edge of the palm, opposite the thumb — governs imagination, intuition, and inner life.
The Mount of Luna sits at the base of the palm on the percussion side, opposite the Mount of Venus. It governs imagination, intuition, dreaminess, and connection to the subconscious — the counterpart to Venus's physical vitality. A well-developed mount suggests a rich inner life, creativity, and sensitivity to atmosphere and mood. Overdeveloped, it can produce escapism or an overactive imagination; underdeveloped, a strictly literal, unimaginative outlook.
Spotting it: Look at the outer, lower edge of the palm — the fleshy area below the little finger side of the hand, near the wrist. Judge its fullness relative to the Mount of Venus on the opposite side.
Read on its own
Raised — Imaginative, idle, melancholy, fond of music, high-minded and fond of beauty; self-serving and physically weak, but with a long memory. The source also reads it as aptitude for work on the water — swimming, a sailor's trade.
Very high — Turned wholly inward, thinking rather than doing.
Flat or low — A mind that will not settle — cannot fix itself on any one piece of work.
Read level with another mount
The filled mound is this mount.
Mount of Venus
Both raised — A lover.
From Hastarekha-Bichar (1935) — Mount of Luna (Moon)
Hastarekha-Bichar (1935) closes its Luna chapter with a list of illnesses it attributes to the mount: goitre, scrofula, elephantiasis, colic, disorders of the bowels, intermittent fever, disorders of the bladder, and afflictions carried by water. It also gives, as part of the reading for a raised Luna mount, that the person is womanly in nature — a gendered judgement of the kind this course keeps out of its own voice, of a piece with the source's other gendered framing. Both are recorded here rather than used above.
Historical record of the source text, not something this course teaches or the free reading uses.
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A mound this shape, on its own — what does it mean?