The old gypsy art of tea leaf reading (Tasseography) uses the art of reading random shapes to divine the future. Just as you can see shapes in the ink blots or clouds so too tea leaves will form into pictures that can be interpreted as omens of the future. You'll need to use a loose tea and no strainer. The vertical position in the cup is taken as an indication of time. Images that cling towards the rim of the cup are in the present, with those in the future towards the bottom.
TASSEOGRAPHY ORACLES
Tea leaf Oracles
 There are an enormous variety of oracles that use random patterns and shapes to tell the future. For example, a popular love oracle involved interpreting the shapes made when egg white is dropped into a glass of water. Oenomancy predicted from the patterns made by wine poured out as an offering to the gods, Scapulomancy predicted from the patterns of cracks and fissures on the burned shoulder blade of an animal and Tephromancy predicted from the ashes of burnt offerings. Even the famous Chinese oracle called the I Ching originates from the ancient tortoise shell oracle that predicted from the cracks in heated tortoise shells.
 Tasseography
Tasseography- tealeaf reading to you and me- is a popular technique used to access the intuition using random patterns. Again, it is the pictures created by the shapes of the leaves that are interpreted as oracles for the future. This method of divination is thought to have come from ancient China although the Romans used a similar technique to read the lees of their wine.
In fact, the pattern made by the sediment left in the bottom of any drinking cup has always been interpreted of great importance in predicting the drinker’s future. I know a fortune-teller who predicts the future by reading dirty plates! Again, the method is the same as for the traditional methods- he looks for pictures and interprets these as symbols for the future. |
This extract is from my book and set of cards called "The Intuition Pack" which will show you how to use random shapes for psychic readings and developing your intuition."
