Post by Professor Belrak Arken-urden on Dec 10, 2008 20:54:59 GMT -5
Chapter 1: Tasseography
This chapter of your lesson is over the art of Tasseography, or the reading of tea leaves
The Process:
Start water boiling in a tea pot. While it’s heating up, place some tea leaves on a plate and ask your friend to stir them briefly, and then throw some into the pot. Let the leaves stay loose in the pot while brewing; it’s important not to use a strainer.
When the tea is done brewing, pour some into a tea cup, loose leaves and all. Let the tea cool in the tea cup until it is almost at room temperature. Have your subject sip the tea slowly from the tea cup, concentrating on a specific question or issue they have. They should leave a small amount of liquid and all or most of the tea leaves at the bottom of the tea cup. When they’re through, take the tea cup in your left hand and swirl it around three times in a clockwise direction.
While those who take tea reading seriously believe it’s a bad idea to use a symbol dictionary, beginners have to start somewhere. When interpreting tea leaves, first look at where the leaves are placed on the tea cup. A symbol or pattern on the rim of a tea cup indicates something very important—and very likely to happen. A symbol on the side of a tea cup indicates events that matter, but that aren’t as earth-shaking as events symbolized on the rim of the tea cup. Symbols at the bottom of the tea cup are considered more likely to change.
Next, look at the patterns and lines you see in the tea cup. Straight lines in the tea cup indicate events that are very likely to happen. If you see curved or waving lines in the tea cup, this indicates upcoming change. If you see a shape that’s very sharp and clear in the tea cup, it indicates something that’s more likely to happen.
Symbols:
ACORN - at the top means success and gain: At the bottom means good health.
AIRCRAFT - journey; if broken means danger of accident; can also mean a rise in position
ANCHOR - cross, Jesus, at top rest, stability, constancy; at bottom means clouded, inconstancy
APPLE - computer, knowledge, achievement
AXE - difficulties; if at top overcoming of difficulties
BABY - something new, pregnancy
BALL - completion, variable fortunes
BELL - harmonics, creation, spiritual, unexpected news
BIRDS - ascension, good news, bird headed beings
BOAT - lifepath, (note size and speed of boat), and visit from a friend, protection
BOOK - you will find your answer by something written, if open it's good news; if closed you need to investigate something
BUTTERFLY - transition, transformation, Butterfly Effect
CANDLE - sacred light, creational flame, help from others
CAT - deceit, a false friend, Cat Headed Beings
CHAIN - DNA, engagement, a wedding, chain link, karma
CHAIR - a guest
CIRCLE - success, completion
CLOCK - alchemy of time and consciousness, better health
COIN - change in financial status
CROSS - protection, sacrifice
CUP - reward, bloodlines
DAGGER - warning, danger from self or others, power
DOG - friend, Sirius, celestial connotation, Egyptian god, Anubis
DOOR - opening (to something new) or closing (old issues and relations), spiritual (portal)
DUCK - money coming, a man named Bill, 'ducks in a row'
EGG - good omen, creation, new beginnings, sacred geometry
ELEPHANT - wisdom, strength, luck, Ganesh, trunk up indicates overcoming obstacles
ENVELOPE - message coming, positive or negative
EYE - creation - open (awakening) - closed (something not seen)
FAN - hand held (pleats) - rotary (4, time divination, numerology)
FEATHER - ">ascension
FENCE - limitations, minor setbacks, not permanent
FINGER - which finger, pointing in what direction,pointing to god
FIRE - sacred flame, at top achievement; at bottom danger of haste
FISH - Jesus, Creation - Vesica Pisces, Amphibious Gods, good fortune, Christ Consciousness, return of the soul to higher frequency or god
FLAG - denotes nationality
FLY - domestic annoyance
FORK - speak with false tongue, false flattery
FORKED LINE - decision
FRUIT - fruitful, prosperity (depends on the fruit which goes to seeds and planting something new)
GATE - opportunity, future success, ancient civilization, portal, doorway
GLOW - enlightenment
GOAT - be careful of enemies
GUN - anger, sex
HAMMER - hard work needed, getting a point across
HAND - of god, creation, if open means friendship; if closed means an argument
HARP - creational harmonics, love, harmony
HAT - head, consciousness, improvement
HAWK - Horus, jealousy
HEART - chakra, pleasure, love, trust, compassion
HORSE - if galloping means good news; if just the head means a lover or nebula, new
HORSESHOE - good luck, attraction, Earth's magnetics, Omega or Leo, closure
HOURGLASS - time running out, need to decide something, synchronicity, illusion, creation
HOUSE - security, change, success
ICEBERG - danger, planetary meltdown, ice age, consciousness frozen in Time
INSECT - depends which one
JEWELS - DNA, Pearls, Diamonds, Star Tetrahedron, sacred geometry, gifts
KANGAROO - harmony at home
KITE - wishes coming true, flying free
KNIFE - broken friendship, hidden enemy
LADDER - promotion, a rise or fall in life, DNA
LAMP - turned on means enlightenment, at the top means a feast; at the side means secrets revealed; at the bottom means postponement
LEAF - new life
LINES - if straight means progress; if wavy means uncertain path
LION - Leo, Omega, Closure, influential friends, strength, Zoroaster
LOCK - obstacles if closed - new information unfolding if open, lock and key are phallic symbols of creation
LOOP - loops of time and creation, avoid impulsive actions, slinky effect
MASK - something hidden
MOUNTAIN - obstacles or a specific area
MOUSE - theft, computer
MUSHROOM - at top means journey or moving to the country; near bottom means rapid growth; if reversed means frustration, psychedelics
NAIL - injustice, unfairness
NECKLACE - DNA, complete, admirers; if broken means danger of losing a lover
NEEDLE - recognition, admiration, sewing, eye, weaving
OAK - health, long life, tree of life
OCTOPUS - danger, 8, infinity
OSTRICH - travel, not seeking a truth
OWL - gossip, scandal, aliens owl symbology
PALM TREE - success, honor, place were they grow
PARASOL - open (you will glean insightful information), closed (something hidden), raining (water symbology of creation)
PARROT - repeating something, a twin, a journey, people talking and saying nothing
PIG - greed
PURSE - at top means profit; at bottom means lose
QUESTION MARK - need for caution
RABBIT - need for bravery, time and illusion, Alice in Wonderland
RAKE - watch details, planting seeks, reap what you sow
RAVEN - bad news, death that leads to new beginnings
RING - phone call, coming full circle, near the top means marriage or the offer of marriage; at bottom means long engagement; if broken means engagement broken off
ROSE - Rose bloodline, creation, flower of life, love, may be accompanied by a fragrance in the room
SAW - interference, tear apart, something viewed
SCALE - legal issues; if balanced means just result; if unbalanced means unjust result
SCISSORS - quarrels, possibly separation
SHEEP - good fortune
SHELL - good news, nautilus, golden ratio, sea of creation
SHOE - sole/soul, condition of shoe is important, transformation
SNAKE - DNA, wisdom, or if the snake is attacking, an enemy
SPIDER - weaving together, Spider Woman Prophecies
STAR - health and happiness, hope, heavens, Isis and other goddesses, female energies,
SUN - happiness, success, power
SWORD - arguments
TABLE - social gatherings, UFO platform, outside the box
TENT - travel, cover, hidden truth
THIMBLE - changes at home
TORTOISE - criticism, usually beneficial, slow moving, Turtle Island (Earth)
TREE - improvements, of life, creation, book of life, your life path
TRIANGLE - something unexpected, 3 in a relationship, pyramids, 3, third dimension
URN - wealth and happiness
VASE - a friend needs help
VOLCANO - harmful emotions
WAGON - a wedding, wagon wheels (wheels within wheels)
WASP - romantic problems
WATERFALL - prosperity
WHEEL - if complete means good fortune; if broken means disappointment
WINGS - messages, winged beings
WOLF - jealousy
YOKE - domination
ZEBRA - adventure, especially overseas, black and white