Tasseomancy

Tasseomancy, or Tea Leaf Reading, is currently conducted all over the world in private establishments and tea rooms. In Canada and the United States, it is primarily practiced in larger cities in "Gypsy tearooms" and in restaurants and other establishments, which furnish back room fortune-telling services.

Tradition has established a generally accepted canon of symbols and their implications, but reading leaves are among the more imaginative and intuitive of the divinatory arts, and discovering the patterns and their deeper meanings in the bottom of a cup is much like seeing shapes revealed in cloud formations.

Occult lore finds a correlation between the bowl shape of the cup and the celestial dome of the Heavens, and between the leaves and the stars; some companies market teacups with the signs of the Zodiac printed in the bowl to facilitate such readings. This is an unnecessary complication, for tasseomancy is really just a homey variation of geomancy, the reading of seemingly random marks and patterns on earth or ink on paper.

Among the most accessible of divinatory systems, tasseomancy requires nothing more than a plain cup, a bit of tea, and a quiet receptive mood.
 

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