Mounts of the hand
The mounts are the fleshy pads of the palm, each named after a planet: Jupiter, Saturn, Apollo and Mercury below the fingers, Venus at the thumb, Luna on the outer edge and Mars in two places. Each shows where energy gathers.
Also known as: palm mounts
Press gently across your palm and you will feel raised pads and hollows. Palmists call the pads mounts, parvat in Hindi, and name each after a planet: Jupiter under the index finger, Saturn under the middle, Apollo (the Sun) under the ring, Mercury under the little finger, Venus at the base of the thumb, Luna (the Moon) on the outer edge above the wrist, and Mars in two places between them.
A well-developed mount shows that planet’s qualities are strong in you; a flat one, that they play a smaller part. An overdeveloped mount suggests too much of a good thing: Jupiter’s confidence tipping into pride, or Venus’s warmth into indulgence.
Read the hand as a whole. The fullest mount is often a person’s dominant theme, and lines that run up to a mount carry its qualities: the sun line to Apollo, the fate line to Saturn.
A raised mount is not automatically good, nor a flat one bad. Balance is the ideal, and palmists read each mount together with the fingers, the lines and the shape of the hand.