Your Face

Morphology

To learn more about the science of face reading, click here to read the article entitled "The Science of Face Reading, a Practitioner’s Guide to Morphology" by Dr. Jerry Epstein.

Did you know that a cleft in the chin has two main meanings: 1) narcissism, or self-absorption; and 2) duplicity? One or the other is operating, sometimes both. Be careful to distinguish a cleft from a dimple in the chin, which is round with an indentation in the center. This means you are searching for harmony in life, or striving to create a harmonious life or harmonious relationships.

Did you know that a women needs to coif her hair, so it does not spread in all directions? Because hair acts as an antenna, when it is unruly and goes in many directions at once, it receives static from the external environment which reflects inwardly as confusion – particularly with regard to social relationships.

Did you know that eyebrows extending beyond the orbit of the eye, i.e., extending straight across, reflect difficulty in sustaining and maintaining a relationship? The remedy: trim them back to the level of the orbital bone. Watch your relationships shift.

There is an eyebrow craze going on here in New York (maybe it’s happening elsewhere). There are eyebrow parlors charging large fees to clip, trim, shape, and otherwise diddle with them. I give a mini–course on the meaning of eyebrows. There is a good deal to know. Here I can mention two caveats:

• Don’t cut away eyebrow hair. The eyebrow means strength and stamina.
• One exception: If your eyebrows go straight across from one eye to the next without a break, make sure you cut away the hair above the bridge of the nose to create a break between them. Otherwise you will continue to have difficulties in your relationships.

Did you know that a person having a natural gap between the two front teeth means he⁄she does not feel bound to/by conventional mores? They are of the maverick type when it comes to such matters. I would advise parents having such a child not to close the gap unless you want him⁄her to become part of the herd, just a conventional Joe or Jane.

Did you know that long canine teeth (the third tooth over from the center in the upper jaw) that are disproportionately longer than the other teeth reflect having difficulty in establishing a stable and/or long-lasting relationship.

The remedy: Have your dentist file them down to come into proportion with the other teeth. And, watch your relationships come into order.

Did you know that the absence of the outer one–third of the eyebrow denotes thyroid imbalance – most likely hypothyroidism?

Also, Al Gore is morphologically best suited to be president of the U.S. He’s most truly altruistic and most honest amongst politicians. (I am not a registered Democrat or Republican. No bias here.)

* Look for an article on morphology and me in the September ’06 issue of Elle magazine and the October ’06 issue of Health magazine.

Morphology, this most ancient western diagnostic system of self knowledge, had its origins in the ancient western world. It grows out of the experience of the monotheistic and pharaonic traditions, and it was supplemented later on in ancient Greece.

The face – and the body – represents the external revelatory⁄visionary form, which reflects what is happening in your inner being on a physical, emotional, mental, social, and moral level. Not only did this sacred practice, known as the sacred science of the west, provide information for purposes of therapeutic interventions for healing, but also showed each individual his own unique way to truth; as no two faces on the earth are the same. You are your own unique, incomparable, individual (meaning undivided) self reflected in your face.

In spiritual terms, then, the effects of morphological investigation is to elevate the uniqueness of each human being, and grant him⁄her an authenticity and genuineness of being that is sorely lacking in medicine and in psychology⁄psychiatry today. Everyone is appreciated, not depreciated by being labeled or found to be wrong, bad, or abnormal.

Did you know that a thin upper lip represents a tough quality with a tendency to be cold–hearted and even cruel? Do we know any public figures who show this feature, perhaps in Washington, D.C. and in New York City?

Did you know that a cleft in the chin reveals to us that this individual feels an increased sense of self–importance. Also, this individual may be duplicitous. At any rate, people with this feature are commonly – male or female – quite good looking, e.g., Ava Gardner, Kirk Douglas.

Did you know that green eyes have the meaning of wanting to keep distance? People with this eye color can be quite sociable but don’t need intimacy (there goes your intimacy specialists). They can establish close contact with one or two select friends (maybe three). Unfortunately, they are often viewed as haughty or aloof. This is not at all the case and they are certainly not schizoid.

Did you know that if you are missing the outer one’third of your eyebrow(s) it means you have thyroid trouble – hypothyroid?

Did you know that a protruding lower lip jutting out beyond the upper one on profile view has the meaning of sadistic tendencies?

Did you know that ears located away from the skull mean independence?

Morphological consultations are available as well as married couple sessions to find out what may be done to help people understand each other through what their faces say. In my experience of over 30 years I've helped such couples change their enmity to amity.

As well, this morphological system can help you find the appropriate mate/partner for yourself and help you discover if your current relationship is compatible or not, and how to fix the latter, or at least make a valiant effort. Remember, we turn enmity to amity.

My two decades plus of working with morphology can be summarized by the following:

• Morphology is a denotational, i.e., descriptive, system, not connotative, i.e., laden with value judgments.
• It removes all guilt feelings since a person always acts naturally for his or her type. The concern of the morphologist is whether a person is acting disproportionately with respect to a certain characteristic. Acting according to one's type = no guilt.
• It removes all man-made standards of right-wrong, good-bad. One is incomparable. There is no other face like yours anywhere.
• It de–stigmatizes the individual by removing the need to name people according to a nomenclature based on an artificial standard of normal and abnormal.
• It removes the clinician from the ranks of being an arbiter of another person's reality, and therefore a judge of another human being, which no human being has the right to do. In using morphology, we are working against the will to power, not seeking to subjugate or to dominate.

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