What does the new year hold in store
for us? We can’t know. Or can we?
The ancient art of tasseography, or tea leaf reading, might offer a
clue.
Griffith & Griffith (ca. 1897) Telling Fortunes by Tea Leaves, ca. 1897. Philadelphia, PA: Griffith & Griffith [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress.
For an interesting overview of the
origins of tea leaf reading in the English-speaking world, see an article
entitled “For Centuries, People Have Searched for Answers in the Bottom of aTeacup.” This article came out on National Public Radio in 2015 as a part of
the Tea Tuesdays series.
If you want to read the full text of
the oldest English language book about tasseography, visit Project Guttenberg
where you can read Tea Cup Reading andthe Art of Fortune-Telling by Tea Leaves which is attributed to an author
called “A Highland Seer.”
Some people take divination tools
like reading tea leaves very seriously, while others regard them skeptically. Whether you fall into one camp or the other,
a quick reading of your tea leaves can be, at the very least, an entertaining
diversion.
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