Low Set Ears

Low-Set Ears Spiritual Meaning

People with lower ears are often called "trustworthy faces," even to complete strangers, the kind you'd ask for directions to, or the kind you'd see a lost child running toward in the crowd. In my research these are lovely, kind people. 

The Chinese believed that the shape of a person's face, their eyes, forehead width and ears, tells you about their character, their success and the patterns they are likely to follow in life. I have been reading faces for years and sometimes we find our ears are slightly lower, and yes they are normal. There is nothing funny about having these ears, it means spiritually (if you have these ears) that you are kind. Chinese face reading came to similar conclusions over centuries of pattern recognition long before modern facial-perception studies could confirm this instinct.

Low-Set ears what are they?

In chinese face reading terms, ears with a top point level with or below the eye line rather than above it are ears with a low set. If you draw a imaginary horizontal line across somebody's eyes and they have ears at or below that line, they are low-set. This is in contrast with more commonly described "high-set" ears, which are above the eyebrow line and associated with quick thinkers and early achievers. I also feel that ear position isn't something people think about until it's pointed out to them, but when you look for it, it's one of those little physical details that face.

What if you have Low-Set ears?

If you have low ears, you may have had a nickname along the way. In my face reading experience, ear placement is connected to a protective temperament. These are the people that know your coffee order and show up with soup if you get sick, just kind people. They are the sort of people who you can talk to when you are having a stressful day. 

In terms of spirituality, as a medium, the ears are among the organs closest to "water" in Chinese five-element theory, having a lower ears may bring out the water side of people, causing people to feel other people's emotions almost as strong as their own.

There is many benefits of having this trait, but on the lower end of the spectrum it is found that lower set ears can mean people take advantage of the persons kind nature. Another trait that I find with low-set ears is the tendency to plan and forecast rather than take action. These people turn problems over in their heads for some time before they make a decision. They plot five plans while everyone else is on plan A. So I kind of think when I learned face reading from May, she said lower ears mean over thinking.

People with these ears tend to do so much caring that their own foundation gets forgotten, financially, emotionally or otherwise. They aren't selfish at all but instead in their desire is to build stability for themselves. We think that they are the type who is going to work hard, to really extend a hand when someone needs help. They just seem to have a trustworthy face which we can generally trust. You can tell just by looking at them for some reason, that they are the kind of person who will do whatever they can to bring you happiness should you need a good lift when a day has been bad.

These kinds of people are sometimes easy to walk over as well… so they have to be careful to protect themselves emotionally and from over extending themselves in their need to help others. If you are a person with Low Set Ears you may often find that you experience great joy when helping other people, and you are often referred to by different motherly/caregiving kinds of names, such as ‘mother hen,’ ‘nurturer,’ grandma/grandpa’ and the like just referring to how well it is that you look after those who you care about.

It is also said of those with Low Set Ears that they tend to be pragmatic in their thinking when it comes to projecting into the future and seeing how they can solve a potential problem or even avoid one. As a result they spend a lot of time thinking and not necessarily a lot of time doing.

What is the advice of having these ears?

Sometimes those with Low Set Ears get kind of lost in the present moment as well, even though they care so much about the future and as a result can have a lot of anxiety in their everyday experience. It is very important for person with low set ears to continuously work on physical stress relievers so that they can organize their thoughts and concerns in a fully functional way.

The tension that they feel often makes it so that they tend to get sick more often than others of a different ear sort, so finding balance in physical pursuits is a generally excellent way of self-therapy because this will allow the stress and anxiety to get purged and that makes it possible for the love of self and the love others to shine through the tension.

Final thoughts

May Chung, my chinese face reading teacher always said that people with low-set ears have trouble staying in the now. So, if you have these ears (that are a bit lower) try to protect your own time, move when your mind wants to not what people want if you know what I mean by that, and believe that the qualities that make you kind for others are qualities worth protecting in yourself.

My face reading teaching happened in 1990, I was taught by a lady called May Chung who has since past. I met her at a spiritual fayre and she held tuition for Chinese astrology and facereading. 20 years later I did an MA in psychology and we touched on the face features and how these show different personality traits. May has since past, but I have fond memories. This section of my website shares this amazing face reading wisdom she told me all those years ago.