Product Description: For beginners and long-time tea lovers alike, this engaging book explains the practice of tasseomancy, or reading tea leaves. The hands-on exercises and activities are complemented by background information on the history of tea, growing tea plants, tea drying and processing, and the best equipment and techniques for brewing...read more

Learn how to predict the future with the ancient art of tea-leaf reading ... perform a reading as a daily meditation for general guidance. Includes a comprehensive directory of 300 shapes you might find in your cup and how to interpret them -- Publisher description.

Product Description: The art of reading tea leaves has been practiced for centuries by everyone from Buddhist monks to Bedouins to Gypsies. Once very popular in Britain and Ireland and all the countries they settled, including our own, the practice has all but faded away...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Tea-Leaf reading is an age-old custom that spans many cultures and nationalities, from the misty highlands of Scotland to the sun-baked Greek Islands. Since tea itself was discovered thousands of years ago, tea drinkers have been drawn to the foretelling shapes formed by the leaves settling in a cup and to the inexplicable metaphysical energy that surrounds them. Now, for the first time, this irresistible package makes the complicated skill of tea-leaf reading accessible to anyone, whether to foretell the coming day, week, or year, or to find out more about a certain life topic. With 200 illustrated cards, each portraying a traditional symbol in tea-leaf reading, along with a discussion of the history of tea, how to read tea-leaf fortunes, and interpretive information on the 200 symbols, Tea Leaf Fortune Cards are perfect to use alone or in a group-a fun, fascinating way to discover what the future holds to plan for it and to correct course.

Discusses the philosophies of tea leaf reading, tells how to prepare and analyze the cup, and lists symbol meanings for common configurations

Details the principals of reading tea leaves, defines the different patterns and their meanings, and tells the history and philosophy of telling the future through tea leaves