Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves: How to Read Your Fate in a Teacup

NCES OF PROPHECY

is sometimes won

en that sit above

le." It is useless to point out that these objects are perfectly represented by the leaves. That is of no practical satisfaction. The simple fact that each langu

e symbols in the tea-leaves on the authority of past experience, reaching over several centuries, I would recommend a careful study o

n place with these notes, and I think there will b

ll probably be almost universally understood. The day will undoubtedly come when it will be accepted as nat

ty for consistently attributing the same meanings to the symbols. Do not be tempted to change their interp

the future which are outside the limited knowledge of the no

u thus change the meanings of the symbols, wil

. The tea-leaf symbols are obstinately unfavourable, and display ominous signs of forthcoming sorrow. If you gloss over this fact completely, and predict a rapid recovery from

unpleasant facts, but to do this in the face of obvious con

necessary. This is one great argument in favour of its unerring truthfulness. Th

eer should ever deliberately give a wrong interpretation of them to please her consultant. The business of th

others announce it frankly without modification. It seems impossible to lay down any hard and fast rule. There are so many things to be taken into account, and each case should be treated on its merits and acc

her misfortune, nor should symbols of ill omen be exaggerated. As students become proficient, they will find many meanings in the

gs should be carefully noted and v

argely to the interest and usefulness of the divination. It is important to point out this to consultants, so that they may not be too ready to fix the whole reading of

will appear, probably without even a forecast of t

e should seem to be reserved for those who p

lling of public events, which have quite recentl

y. This symbol, as will be seen in the dictionary which follows, stands for "labour trouble and strikes." A spade was also in evidence at intervals, a further sign of "tro

ogether with an engine, and a signal at the angle of "Danger." This seemed ominous. But within a few days the signal was evident once more; but on this occasion set at "All C

een indicating the strike. This symbol appeared at the top of the cup standing out clearly by itself, evidently predicting the miners' return to work within a short

e by a friend a short time ago. On Monday morning, October 2

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the death of King Alexand

eath. It was particularly gratifying that these signs should have appeared in my friend's cup for she is a mathematical genius, and rejects every symbol which she cannot recognise at once. She was so struck by these signs that she ca

cup, with other signs pointing to news of a personal nature. She was puzzled, for, as far

et someone who had recently come from India, and who had brought back messages of remembrance and affe

arly depicted two natives creeping stealthily, their attitude making this evident. In their hands were what appeared to be knives, and they were making towards a

em being a man, who, although interested in psychic subjects, despises the tea-leaves! Without remarking upon what I saw, I suggested that he should look at my

his witness should have been one of the male sex added to its value! This prediction of danger for someone in India was borne out by facts that were d