Reading Tea Leaves

How to read tea leaves:

1. You should drink the contents of your cup, leaving about a teaspoon of liquid in the cup.

2. Take the cup by the handle in your left hand and silently ask your question or ask for guidance about your future.

3. Swirl your cup three times in a counter-clockwise direction.

4. Carefully invert your cup over the saucer, leaving it there for about a minute so all the liquid can drain away.

5. Carefully turn your cup up the right way. 

Where the leaves are in the cup means something!

The Handle

• The handle represents you or the person who is receiving the reading.

• Traditionally, the tea leaves are read starting at the handle and moving clockwise around the cup.

• Any tea leaf shapes or groups that are close to the handle describe things presently affecting the person having the reading. It might indicate something on the person’s mind or events they are experiencing.

• Anything to the left of the handle is the past and is leaving the person’s life.

• Anything to the right of the handle is the present and immediate future.

The Bowl of the Cup

• Symbols near the rim and the top third of the cup will occur quickly, usually within days.

• Symbols in the middle third of the cup are in the near future, usually a couple of weeks.

• The bottom third and base of the cup are in the more distant future, possibly a month away.

• In all three cases, the closer the symbols are to the handle, the sooner they will occur.

Tips!

• It’s usually best to start with the largest shapes and work down to the smallest.

• The more shapes there are in a cup, the more the important phase of life the questioner is experiencing.

• Look to see if the shapes are spread out evenly throughout the cup or if they are concentrated in one of the sections.

• Keep a journal of your tea leaf readings. You may want to write things down as you go through your reading, noting both the shapes and your interpretation. The more details you add the better. You can then go back over your reading at a later time to see how accurate you were. Make notes of what did happen. See what you can learn to help you in future tea leaf readings. 

I hope this was helpful! Remember to do your research, practice safe witchcraft & enjoy yourself! Blessed Be!