Unlocking Hidden Messages in Your Cup

There are so many divination practices that metaphysical workers use to read someone’s past, present, and future. Many know the most common forms of divination are astrology, cartomancy (oracle, playing cards, and tarot), palm reading, and runes.

However, there is one ancient divination practice that many people forget exists sometimes, which is tea leaf reading, which is also known as tasseography.

Let’s talk about its esoteric practice, the symbols and patterns in tea leaves, and how you can interpret them to gain insights into one’s life, destiny, and future. However, firstly, let’s delve into its history.

The History of Tasseography

When it comes to tasseomancy, it can involve reading coffee grounds in addition to tea leaves. However, most tea leaf readers stick to tea instead of coffee. The origins of tasseomancy are unknown. However, it is believed that medieval European fortune tellers began the practice by reading wax splatters. Slavic and Baltic countries started to pick up the practice, and fortune-tellers in those countries began to read coffee grounds and tea leaves to look into someone’s past, present, and future.

Then, in the 16th century, Ottoman Palaces began to have practitioners using tasseomancy, mainly using coffee grounds. However, in Arabic countries, at a future time, metaphysical workers picked up the use of tasseomancy, which spread to Asia and eventually the Western World. However, what tasseomancy readers did was when they were bored, they would drink coffee, read people’s fortunes by looking at the appearance of the grounds, and gossip to one another about it. Even though some of those practicing tasseomancy still use coffee grounds, it is most commonly used with tea leaves, which is likely because when the Romani people picked up the practice, they used that. Now, let’s discuss how tasseography works.

How Does Tasseography Work?

Tasseography is about directing energy the same way as other forms of divination are, which means when you focus your magical and esoteric intention on the tea leaves, they become energetic conduits that can represent your experiences, which includes those that have not yet happened, which is why tea leaf readings are popular when it comes to predicting the future based on the path you are taking.

When it comes to predicting the future, it is never set in stone because if you decide to change your path, your prediction will be different. That is the gift of free will. For example, if you are job hunting and two employers accept you after your interview but are still determining which one to select, you may need some extra insight. However, a more significant part of you is considering accepting company A over company B to work for, and you want to know if you are making the right decision by choosing to work for company A.

Therefore, you hire a tea leaf reader to ask them about your job experience if you decide to work for company A. Once the tea leaf reader does the reading, and the outcome of your working for that company does not appear to be an appealing experience, you may decide to look into working for company B.

If you have the tea leaf reader, do a reading to see the position of the tea leaves after you ask them to see how your experience working for company B would be. They say it appears more favorable, then that is the insight you need that will influence your decision to work for company B instead of A. That is why the future is always flexible because you have the free will to change your path if you don’t like how the outcome of the current one appears.

The way the mechanics of tasseography work, if you ask a question to the tea leaf reader or do a tea leaf reading yourself, the reader or you drink the tea (it has to be sipped in a specific way, which will be discussed a little later), and the leaves left will reveal your answers. The position of the leaves will show you hidden obstacles, offer insight, and show your future (based on your current path).

The shape of the wet leaves, color, density, and position give you esoteric messages. The position of the tea leaves shows themselves through symbols, and now let’s discuss how you can set the intention to do a proper tea leaf reading.

How To Set The Intention To Do A Proper Tea Leaf Reading

The first thing you do when preparing for a tea leaf reading is make your cup of tea. You will want a white teacup or a light-colored one to see the leaves. Heat your water, and you will need loose tea leaves, as tea bags will not give you what you need to do the reading. The leaves in the tea bag are ground too finely, so they cannot create the symbols you need to see in the reading. If you are new to tasseography, the recommended leaves are the loose black tea leaves, but you want to ensure you find the flavor you like. The last thing you want to do is get tea leaves that don’t give off the flavor you enjoy.

Therefore, research what tea flavor would be ideal for…