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Facial Quirks of the Leading Democratic CandidateNow for the fascinating ways you can tell the candidates apart! In the 3,000-year-long tradition of physiognomy, VERY = VERY. What’s physically extreme is inwardly important. So what you do you notice about facial quirks as we go through the candidates, face by face? His down-angled eyes relate to being a problem finder, then a problem solver. Potential challenge? The kind of compassion shown here may not be glamorous. Both facially and inwardly (also aurically), Kerry lacks glamour. Note the Senator’s very high cheekbones. He’ll take a stand for integrity, and against wrongdoing, every time. Will that necessarily make him popular? Oboy, that’s the potential challenge. In fact, you’ll see evidence that he’s suffered from this challenge on both cheeks, especially the left one. Check out the cheek dents, indentations in the cheek that you might take to a body shop if your face were a car. One of the face traits I most admire, this corresponds to having undergone assaults to your power and having bounced back inwardly, if not facially. Muscular lips got Dean in trouble recently. The gift is a knack for moving people’s emotions. The challenge is having the emotional intensity of all communications be magnified. Poor Dean may never live down the “howl,” when attempting to rally supporters after being defeated in the Iowa primary took on an undertone of rage. Dean’s underbite signifies grim determination, a useful inner resource but potentially off-putting. Full, even eyebrows remain a great asset, suggesting a powerful intellect with unflinching grasp of detail. Look carefully and you’ll find wild hairs, especially on the left brow. Easy cognates of the soul to read, they symbolize the occasional wild idea, especially in his personal life. Bland this man is not! You may have to look carefully to see the most extraordinary thing about this candidate. Here’s a hint: Ordinarily found on just 1 in 2,000 faces, both George H. Bush and Bill Clinton have it just where Edwards has it—on the right side of the face. Yes, behold that rare even-angled eye. To see angles on eyes, read them one at a time, because often they’re asymmetrical. Then look on the level, imagine a dot at each corner of the eye and connect the dots with an imaginary line. Does that line go up, down or straight? Edwards’ even eye angle means that he has an uncanny ability, while in public, to see the truth of a situation. He won’t see it as better than it could be, nor will he go for the problems like Kerry. To personal acquaintances, the degree of realism can be frightening (Hey, I know that from personal experience. My husband has an even-angled eye on the left!) but for a politician it’s an undeniable asset. His nose bonus (that extra chunk of nose between and below his nostrils) suggests a strong need to help others through his career. And that need not mean helping lobbyists. Of all the leading candidates, Gen. Clark has the biggest lower eyelid curve. That circular shape at the bottom half of each eye indicates exceptional openness to people, a genuine interest in connecting with them at the deepest level possible. If you also have this face data, you know the potential challenge: Getting your feelings hurt. (That aspect is best read on the level of auras where, indeed, there’s much more to Clark than meets the eye.) If the election were waged sheerly as a competition of eyebrows, Clark would win. Check out those copiously well endowed brows, verging on unibrow. On the positive, they signify an active intellect, with enormous complexity, strong attention to detail and (given the strong angle subtly tucked into his seemingly straight right eyebrow) a deft management style, where people can be given their orders without knowing what hit them. Still, unibrows also correspond to problems with being over-cerebral. Clark’s brows are scattered as well, with the ends of his brows having fullness not completely filled in by hair. This suggests potential difficulty that projects, despite being thoroughly outlined, will not be brought to completion. Still, Clark (like Kerry, Dean, Edwards, Lieberman, Sharpton and Kucinich) may triumph yet, aided by what my colleague, Lailan Young, calls Blarney Lips, mouth proportions where the lower lip is at least twice as full as the upper lip. Persuasiveness, with the typical politician’s temptation to exaggerate, helps to make a candidate appealing. If you’re an ordinary mortal, your chance of having these lip proportions is just 1 in 50. Nonetheless, you have your share of quirky talents, as shown in your face. Use your best gifts—and most educated opinions—to cast your vote in every phase of this important presidential election. © Rose Rosetree, 2004 |