Mount of Apollo (mount of the Sun)
The mount of Apollo, or mount of the Sun, is the pad at the base of the ring finger, the finger of Apollo. Palmistry tradition reads it as a sense of beauty, creativity, and a taste for recognition and light. It is beneath this mount that the Sun line ends. A full mount suggests the artist and the radiant soul; a faint one, a more private creativity, less turned toward the eyes of others.
Where to spot it
Place a finger at the root of your ring finger: the fleshy rise just below is the mount of Apollo. It is also where the Sun line comes to rest. Compare its volume to the neighboring mounts, Saturn on one side, Mercury on the other, to sense whether it dominates the row or recedes.
What tradition reads in it
Cheiro and Benham placed the aesthetic sense and the need to shine here. Well developed, it speaks of an eye for beauty, a talent that loves to be seen, an infectious joy; overly marked, of a taste for appearance; discreet, of a creativity lived in secret, for oneself. Read it with the Sun line above it: together they sketch your relationship to light.
Sources
- , The Laws of Scientific Hand Reading (1900)
- , Cheiro’s Language of the Hand (1894)