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    Tea Leaf Reading: Your Guide to More Than 500 Symbols
    Tea Leaf Reading: Your Guide to More Than 500 Symbols
    Tea Leaf Reading: Your Guide to More Than 500 Symbols
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    Tea Leaf Reading: Your Guide to More Than 500 Symbols

    By Jacqueline Towers

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    A fun beginner’s guide to reading the symbols found in tea leaves!

    The ancient practice of tasseomancy, or tea leaf reading, originated in ancient China and became popularized throughout Europe by the Romani, who were renowned for their fortune-telling skills, and eventually became a widespread practice of divination around the world. It is one of the easiest forms of divination to learn—all it takes is tea leaves, some hot water, and a creative mind!

    Tea leaf reading is a form of fortune-telling that uses the symbols and images left in a cup by the tea leaves after the liquid is gone. Those images—much like the shapes we see in cloud formations—can be interpreted by the tea leaf reader. It is a special and intimate form of divination since the questioner must hold the cup in their hands and drink from it. It allows for the innermost aura of the questioner to enter into the warmly held cup of tea, and for the cup itself to have close contact with the boundaries of the questioner’s body. This easy-to-use guide will teach you all the basics of getting started with this simple form of fortune casting:

    • How to properly prepare a cup of tea
    • How to interpret different surfaces of the interior of the cup
    • The meanings of over 500 common symbols and images
    • Common astrological and tarot-related symbols
    • How to modify the practice using coffee grounds instead of tea


    This A-to-Z guide will help you discover the meaning(s) of almost any shape you find at the bottom of a tea cup, from anvils and anteaters to yachts and the zodiac signs.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Wheel Weiser
    Release dateJul 1, 2018
    ISBN9781612833989
    Tea Leaf Reading: Your Guide to More Than 500 Symbols

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      Tea Leaf Reading - Jacqueline Towers

      INTRODUCTION

      Many people will remember hearing about a great-grandmother or a great-aunt who read tea leaves, and some of you might even be old enough to remember seeing tea leaf reading during your own lifetime. Indeed, some of you might have had such a reading.

      While tea leaf reading has become an unusual activity, coffee ground reading is still popular. Not surprisingly, tea leaf reading was once popular in Northern Europe, while coffee ground reading is a Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Greek, and Middle Eastern skill. People still read coffee grounds in those countries and in the countries where the descendants of these people live. Thus we can find coffee ground readers in the Middle East, in the United States, and in Central and South America. Tea leaf reading probably originated in China, but it did so far back in time that one can't be categorical about its origins. Coffee ground reading seems to have originated in Turkey.

      So why should people read leaves and grounds rather than other things? Why not read coins, peanuts, clouds in the sky, or anything else? The truth is that intuitive people can read just about anything. For example, it used to be common for people to read the flames in the fire as the coal or wood burned in the household hearth. Africans still read messages from the shapes in clouds, as well as reading stones, shells, bones, and seeds. In Europe, there were specialist readers who asked their clients to bring them a few dried leaves, and then crumple them in their hands and let them fall onto the ground, so that the reader could then read the shapes. My friend David Bingham sometimes amuses his friends with this party trick: he asks a questioner to crumple up a packet of potato chips, then open it and pour the contents out onto a plate. David then reads the crumbs.

      So, we discover that a good psychic can read anything. When it comes to reading shapes, the best readers are those with an artistic eye, who can see shapes forming that look like boats, trees, rabbits, and the like. Once the reader has a mental dictionary of a few dozen shapes in his head, he can give a reading. For instance, if drifting pieces of cloud, pieces of dried leaf, a darting flame in the fireplace, or a few potato chip crumbs can look like something, how much easier it is to read the shapes made by tea leaves!

      One major difference between tea leaf and coffee ground reading and these other ancient forms of divination is that the questioner must hold the cup in her hands, and she must drink from it. This means that the questioner must hold the cup and its contents within the innermost part of her aura for around ten or fifteen minutes. Indeed, if you think about it, a little bit of the cup will have entered the boundaries of the questioner's body. This means that the questioner will transfer her vibes to the cup and its contents in a very personal way. This creates a more personal contact than merely shuffling a deck of cards, and goodness knows there are enough people giving highly successful card readings around the world these days.

      So can anyone learn to read the leaves? Yes, anyone can. Obviously those who have an artistic eye will pick this skill up more quickly than someone who is not so artistic. Having said that, it is a matter of practice before even the least artistic person can pick up the skill. One tip here is not try too hard, but to allow your eyes to go slightly out of focus for a while as you gaze into the cup. After this, sharpen your focus again, and you will find the leaves almost gathering together in the cup (or in your mind) to create shapes and symbols.

      DO YOU NEED TO BE PSYCHIC?

      When reading the tea leaves, will you need to call upon your psychic ability? Not really, but the more you read for others, the more your intuition and psychism will develop. And the more it develops, the better you will become at reading the leaves. You will probably have no psychic or intuitive feelings at first, but that's where the tea leaf dictionary in this book comes into its own. All you need to do is to pick out the shapes and look them up in the dictionary, and you will then be able to give anyone a reading. But if you keep going and if you read for more and more people, you find yourself in a kind of reverse Catch-22 situation. The Catch-22 theory is like a nightmare, where whatever you try to do is stymied; but the reverse of this is that the more you do, the more you can do. Your ability will grow in various ways. First, you will find the shapes gathering together more quickly in your mind's eye; and second, you will start to build up a repertoire of leaf meanings in your own mind. The more obvious ones, such as those connected with relationships (rings) and those concerned with money (dots) or travel (train lines and vehicles) will be the first to stick. As you go on, your psychic ability will grow—and as long as you allow it to come through, it will do so.

      WHAT IS PSYCHIC ABILITY?

      Psychic ability is the advanced use of intuition. Being psychic is as natural as breathing. We are all psychic to some extent; all it takes is a willingness to become aware of this, and to act on what one begins to notice. So let's look at the psychic side of things, in the specific context of tea leaf reading. The most common reasons for people to develop their psychic gifts are for channeling messages from the other side, for healing, or for reading tarot cards, or perhaps as an aid in some other form of divination. However, the main thing that you will need to develop is your ability to visualize shapes, and that ability will soon start to translate itself into true clairvoyance.

      ARE YOU ALREADY PSYCHIC?

      There are four groups of psychic ability, and you may fit into one or more of them because it would be a very rare person who would not be able to fit into of one these groups. The four types of psychic sense are psychic feeling, psychic intuition, psychic hearing, and psychic vision. The best known psychic sense is clairvoyance, or psychic vision. Clairvoyants are psychics who see images or pictures. Clairvoyant literally means clearseeing, so the clairvoyant psychic must learn to interpret the pictures or images that he sees.

      HOW DO YOU DEVELOP YOUR ABILITIES?

      An open-minded attitude is essential to our being able to receive (and distinguish) anything. There has to be a willingness to respond to non-physical stimulus, and an ability to trust the information received. So why not become an optimist, allow yourself to be psychic, and trust yourself sufficiently to use the natural ability that is in you?

      Most of those who say they are amateur or professional psychics have recognized the signs at some previous point in their lives, and they have focused their attention on their workings. Such people became familiar with the presence of the subtle kind of energy that is involved, and perhaps in what we might call a sixth sense. There must be both a desire and willingness to develop and tune

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