The Art & Science of Face Reading

A complete, illustrated guide to the ancient tradition of reading the face to gain insight into health, personality, relationships, and career

• Details how to read the profile, front face, features, and musculature of the face to reveal temperament, personality traits, health predispositions, and mental state

• Explores the history and development of face morphology from its origins in Israel and Egypt more than 4,500 years ago to its modern use in French medical schools

• Examines the Foursquare diagram, developed by French occultist Papus, for highly accurate and detailed facial readings

The face is a unique reflection of our genetic, inherited inclinations as well as the effects that life, nature, and relationships have had upon us. By looking at a person’s face, you can gain valuable insight into their personality, health, and how they navigate in the world.

In this illustrated guide, Jennifer Lamonica reveals the sacred tradition of face morphology, an esoteric system that has been passed quietly from rabbi to student as an unbroken oral tradition for more than 4,500 years. She explores the history and development of this ancient art from its origins in Israel and Egypt to its use as the major diagnostic system in Europe until the Enlightenment and its current applications in French medical schools. Sharing the techniques of master face readers, the author details how to read the angles of the profile, as well as palm color and nose shape, to determine a person’s temperament, providing health and career insight into each of the four temperaments, including nutritional needs, digestive issues, sleep patterns, health predispositions, and ideal occupational paths. Exploring the Foursquare diagram, developed by French occultist Papus, for highly accurate and detailed facial readings, she explains how to read the front face in combination with planetary shapes, which reveal a person’s character; the major facial features, such as eyebrows, which reveal personal inclinations; and the musculature of the face, including expressions, which reveals a person’s current mental state. Providing case studies, she examines how to apply face morphology in relationships and in parenting.

Exploring the meaning of each facial variation, while also honoring the intuitive impression received at first glance, Lamonica reveals how the ancient science of face reading allows you to compassionately help your loved ones, students, or clients, as well as overcome personal obstacles and better know yourself.

Jennifer Lamonica, D.C., L.Ac., DACBN, a student in the lineage of Colette Aboulker-Muscat, is a doctor of chiropractic, licensed acupuncturist, certified nutritionist, certified imagery therapist, and a face morphologist in the Western spiritual tradition. Also a certified medical technologist, she has taught at New York Chiropractic College, at the New York College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and for the New York State Chiropractic Association. In private practice since 1984, she lives in Mineola, New York.

Foreword by Rebbie Straubing, D.C.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Foundation in the Basics
The Art of Face Morphology • What’s in a Face? • The Practice of Face Morphology • About This Book

1 Reading the Profile
The Bilious Profile • The Nervous Profile • The Sanguine Profile • The Lymphatic Profile • A Short Summation • A Return to the Number Four • Balance and the Law of Reciprocity: How the Masters Read the Face • The Profile Angles That Determine Temperaments • Reading the Nose and Temperament • Reading the Foursquare • Quiz: Identifying the Four Temperaments

2 Reading the Front-Face
Big Face and Little Face • Balance • Measurements of the Face • Dividing the Face into Three Zones • Front-Face Shape: The Greek Tradition and the Four Temperaments • A Collection of Real-Life Front-Faces • All about the Forehead • Seeing Colors Clearly • Planets, Colors, Numbers, and Their Meanings • Traditional Chinese Medicine: Another Tradition That Reads the Front-Face • A Quick Recap for Assessing the Face

3 Reading the Facial Features
The Meaning and Shape of the Eyes • The Color of the Eyes • Reading the Eyebrows • The Cheeks: Reservoir of Energy • The Nose: Spine of the Face • The Philtrum • The Mouth and the Lips • What Teeth Can Tell Us • Reading the Chin • What We Hear from the Ear • The Hair

4 Reading the Muscles of the Face
Facial Muscles and Mental Significance • Practical Application of Reading the Facial Muscles • Muscles That IndicateParticular States of Mind

5 Applying the Knowledge of Temperament beyond the Face Temperament Indications of the Body • Evaluation and Supplementation by Temperament • Temperament Type: Pure or Mixed? • Relationships

Conclusion

Appendix: Face Morphology Reference Tables

Bibliography

Index