EVERYDAY ORACLES · LESSON 4 OF 9 · 15 MIN
Tea Leaves and the Cup
Tasseography from the Victorian parlour to the Scottish spae-wife, how to prepare and read the cup, and coffee grounds.
Reading the leaves left at the bottom of a teacup — tasseography, from French tasse, "cup", and Greek graphein, "to write" — is the most domestic of oracles. It needs a cup, loose tea and a quiet ten minutes, and it grew up wherever tea did.