Most people have heard about reading tea leaves, but did you know you can also read coffee grounds? It's called "tasseography." I have a friend who has been doing it for years, so I asked her to explain it to me. Here's what she wrote:

Reading Coffee Grounds - Tasseography       by Cynthia                       

 

Reading tea leaves is something I remember my mother doing when I was a child. Mum would say, "There is a letter coming," or, "a stranger will come to our door today," and it would happen. This was my introduction to fortune telling. It is still one of my favourite ways of getting messages from Spirit. Tasseography is a good way of developing your intuition and learning  to interpret symbols. The cost is minimal and it's good fun. Your intuition works better when you are relaxed and having fun so don't make hard work out of this.

 

Reading coffee grounds was introduced to me years ago by a friend from a non tea drinking family. Like him I found that coffee grounds give more detailed pictures than tea leaves because the grounds are finer and there are more of them. To do a reading, finish the drink until there are only a few drops of liquid left, then turn the cup upside down and turn it around three times. Leave it upside down for a minute for the grounds to settle then look at what you have. I like to ask Spirit if there is a message for me today while I wait. This puts me in a frame of mind to See.

 

It's O.K. to turn the cup around anyway you want until you see a picture. Traditionally pictures or symbols near the top of the cup represent things in the near future - the further towards the bottom the further away the event. I have found tasseography to be rather immediate. The events foretold  happen in the next few days or weeks. This is probably because I practise it on a regular basis.

 

There are books on the subject of tea leaf reading with lists of the traditional meanings of the symbols. I have found these of limited use as often what I see doesn't appear in the lists and the traditional meanings are sometimes out dated or irrelevant, for example, a computer would not appear in a traditional book. I suggest that you use you own imagination, intuition and experience to determine the significance of the pictures and symbols.

 

Sometimes the same symbols will appear repeatedly until the event happens, moving further up the cup as the event gets nearer. Sometimes different symbols mean the same thing. A new boy friend  can be heralded by a horse, a heart or a posy of flowers, a new platonic friend by a dog or a deer.

 

Recently I had a beautiful five pointed star in the bottom of my cup. There was a face in the star which looked like it was singing. Beside the star was a man playing the fiddle. It looked to me as if I was shortly going to have something to sing and dance about. I looked up the symbols in a book and a star in the bottom of the cup meant a reversal of my fortunes and a fiddle meant either a reclusive person spending time with books, or, if I followed another book, a fiddle meant pleasant entertainment with good friends. Two days later I had a parade in my coffee grounds - a horse and rider followed by a parade of people, big and small. Some were dancing. There was even a juggler. I'm going with my feeling that something really good is coming my way!

 

To start you off, here are a few symbols and the meanings I have found to be true for me and my friends:

     

Dog - a platonic friend or news about a friend. You can sometimes tell by the type of dog who the friend is. Use your imagination.

Deer - a new platonic friend - a doe for a female, a stag for a male.

Dragon - there is going to be some trouble that can't be avoided. The quicker I deal with it the less damage there will be.

Cat - this depends on what the cat is doing. If it's a sitting or lying down cat it foretells a happy or contented time at home. If it's a spitty cat it means an argument with a female.  Pretty obvious, eh?!

Flowers - a compliment that will boost my self esteem. (Traditionally, success in love).

Man - a man coming to the house on official business.

Moon - a love affair. A moon surrounded by little dots means a marriage with money - this has yet to appear in my cup!

Mouse - traditionally this means a theft, but when I got mice in my cup I also got them literally in my kitchen cupboard.

 

Thanks, Cynthia! Good luck with your own experiments with tasseography!