Migrating Mouths — Face Readings for Campaign 2008

Continuing our face readings of leading candidates with Part Two of this article, we’ve looked at mouths that stay put… in the center of a face.

Now let’s look at mouths that migrate.

You may have a crooked smile or a mouth pull. Many people I’m fond of do have this. Here are some reasons why a perfectly honest person might develop a mouth pull to the right: 

• Trying to please Dad

• Overcoming shyness or a stutter

• Struggling to overcome self-doubt

Here are some reasons why an honest person might develop a mouth pull or crooked smile that favors the left:

1. Trying to please Mom

2. Childhood learning that it isn’t safe to tell others your true opinions or feelings.

3. Childhood shyness that hasn’t been overcome.

 But, for either type of mouth migration, there can be one other reason: Chronic deception. Every story is unique, just like each face.

That’s why I prefer to supplement face reading with aura reading or an empath-merge when there seems to be a significant problem relating to character.Remember, my system of Face Reading Secrets (R) interprets mouths and other face parts in terms of existing talent and potential challenge.

My system also emphasizes the role of free will, which changes face data over time, depending on personal development.

SCARY MIGRATIONS

Still, in certain cases I do find cause for alarm in a migrated mouth. When a politician has great power, integrity matters enormously, especially since we live in such an Age of Spin. Also, when a mouth becomes more crooked over time – especially during the time that a politician is in power – that is a very great cause for concern And why would that be? Let’s give you a chance to experience personally what it means to increase the asymmetry of your own mouth.

Sure, you can temporarily try on mouth pulls and crooked smiles. Before you start experimenting, or reading this trait on others, remember that mirrors reverse right and left on your face. When you see yourself in a mirror, telling left from right is easy. To do the same with a photo, or just to stare at someone across the room from you on the Convention floor, remember to cross over, as if shaking hands.

Otherwise you’ll get the directions backwards and throw off the accuracy of your interpretations.

1. Move mouth muscles so your mouth torques toward the right side of your face.
   Look in the mirror to check that you have managed to manufacture a temporary mouth pull. Put that mirror down.
2. Say out loud, “Trust me. I’m telling you the truth.
3. Close your eyes and notice how you feel inside. Just being you, what’s that like right now. Comfortable or not?
4. Smile now. Use your mirror to check that your smile is higher on the right than the left. Push this asymmetry as far as you can.
5. Repeat Steps 3-4

With face reading, what does that mouth movement mean? You’re distorting yourself. At least, I hope it feels that way. You have been pushing, as a communicator to appeal to a special interest group (of one person or more).

Specifically, the symbolic meaning in my system of Face Reading Secrets (R) is that the more your mouth pulls, or your right mouth corner lifts up in a smile, the more you are trying to please the multitudes.

RIGHT-WINGING MOUTHS

Getting approval from as many people as possible, that’s the name of this game. And guess who plays it?

Often, President George Bush moves in this groveling direction.

Or consider the late, lamented political career of John Edwards. When nominated for the Kerry ticket, his mouth was beautifully centered.

By his own recent admission, he began feeling special, had an affair, pushed his political aspirations to the limit. At the worst of it, his ethics headed south but his mouth went northeast

MIGRATING TOWARD THE LEFT 

Now let’s try the other version of crookedness.

1. Move mouth muscles so your mouth pulls toward the left side of your face
2. Look in the mirror to check that you have managed to manufacture a temporary mouth pull. Put that mirror down.
3. Say out loud, “Trust me. I’m telling you the truth.”
4. Close your eyes and notice how you feel inside. Just being you, what’s that like right now? Comfortable or not.
5. Smile with the same mouth migration. Use your mirror to check that your smile is higher on the right than the left. Push this asymmetry as far as you can.

What’s the symbolic meaning in terms of face reading when mouths move toward the left? You’re bending the truth. This suggests a private agenda, one that you keep hidden from all but the folks on your side.

The Bush administration may have hit some new lows in terms of civil liberties, torture, lying to bring our country to war. In terms of mouth asymmetries, however, it has hit highs, and also some very considerable sideways.

One example belongs to our POTUS. You see, ometimes Mr. Bush speaks in a different vein from his right-leaning mode.

No wonder he gets along so well with Dick Cheney. Maybe neither guy would like to describe himself as a lefty. But I’m just reading faces, remember.

Think I’m kidding about Cheney’s extreme left-leftist mouth? Lookey here.

And I’m especially fond of this photo of Bush with Karl Rove, where they seem to be posing as The Extreme Mouth Pull-to-Left Twins. Here’s your most entertaining link.

MORE OF THE SAME

Are Democrats crying wolf when they say that a vote for McCain means “more of the same”?

Not according to the McCain mouth.

He manages to pander in both directions, angling his smile higher on the right while simultaneously pulling significantly toward the left.

It’s really admirable in its way. Here’s a politician who has uncommon reach. You might even want to call his mouth a “maverick.”

Wife Cindy, shown at the top of this page, also smiles with a huge and chronic mouth pull.

If I had to give a prize, right now, to the politician with the most crooked smile, it would have to go to a long-time politician who is neither a Republican nor a Democrat.

Joe Lieberman, one-time veep candidate, has evolved significantly in his quest for political power. It isn’t that time hasn’t been kind to him, friends. His own choices haven’t been kind to him.

Like McCain, only more so, there’s the smile angling higher on the right while pulling out toward the left.

Try it. You’ll hate it. (I hope.)