Get a tea leaf reading

“After that first reading, I would got goosebumps in anticipation every time we went to my grandparents’ house. I knew that Grandma would put on a pot of tea as soon as we arrived, and I would get to see what kind of adventures awaited me when I grew up. She saw my gallivanting future in the tiny signs that the tea goddesses left behind. I would gulp down the hot drink as fast as I could (I wasn’t an actual fan of the tea until I got older),to get to the good part. She instructed me to carefully flip the cup upside down on my saucer, and turn it clockwise three times while making a wish. After that, it was up to her to interpret the shapes and designs that the leaves created. My tea-cup always held voyages and exotic escapades and at the end of the readings we were both buzzing with excitement (and maybe a cup too many of caffeinated tea.)”

“I confess that I myself couldn’t make out these images in the teacup, so I had to follow behind Tabitha’s interpretation and let her guide me. I’ve never been good with the creativity and imagination needed to see messages from abstract forms. I’m just awful at scrying. I’m better with fields like astrology, numerology, feng shui, etc. Even with tarot, I don’t necessarily scry with the cards, as some practitioners do. Now, one thing I found really…resonant, for lack of a better word– Tabitha noted that the symbols taken together seemed to indicate writing related to a combination of “instruction and divination, and history” that “reflects on the divinatory traditions of a single region.” I think that fully characterized my second book on Fu sigil crafting.”