The Mount of Luna, also called the mount of the Moon, lies on the outer edge of the palm below the Upper Mount of Mars, opposite the Mount of Venus, and the tradition claims for it imagination, intuition, restlessness, a love of travel and, in the darker readings, a tendency to fantasy and instability. The hypothenar eminence is the anatomical structure. The pairing of Luna against Venus across the palm, imagination against appetite, is a piece of the scheme's internal symmetry and is characteristic of how such systems are built: the opposition is generated by the layout rather than observed. Palmistry is recorded in this atlas as a tradition with a real history and a large literature. The claims described here are the claims its practitioners make, and readers should understand them as such.
Traditional chiromancy reads a well-developed Mount of Luna, on the outer edge of the palm's base opposite Venus, as indicating imagination, intuition, sensitivity to the unconscious, and a restless love of travel or change, drawn from the moon's own classical association with the imaginative and the mutable rather than the fixed. An excessively developed mount is read as a tendency toward fantasy, moodiness or escapism, while a flat one suggests a purely practical, unimaginative temperament. Because Luna sits opposite Venus across the base of the palm, the two mounts are sometimes read together as a pair, the imaginative, changeable moon balanced against the warm, embodied constancy of Venus, within the tradition's own internally consistent but evidentially unsupported symbolic logic.
Sources Les Mysteres de la MainAdolphe Desbarrolles with Introductiones apotelesmaticae elegantes in chyromantiam, physiognomiam, astrologiam naturalem, complexiones hominum, naturas planetarumJohannes ab Indagine (Johannes Rosenbach)