Tasseography
Reading the tea leaves and the coffee cup is known as the Tasseography,
although this practice rooted in the ancient Chinese art of reading the
tea leaves, it also practiced by the clergies. Later this art moved to
the Middle East, where the milled coffee took the place of tea leaves,
but the Greeks and Turks those who have presented the coffee cup reading
to India.
*How to read the cup? *
It is by turning the cup on the saucer then returning it to its normal
position. The remains and images that shaped by the rest of the coffee
interpreted by the reader of the cup and describe its meanings. Also
some conditions must be fulfilled before reading the cup such as to
drink the coffee from a cup, not from a glass because the lines in the
cup become short and easy to read unlike the glass or the transparent
glass cup and the reading should be in clockwise direction.
*The Meanings of Signs*
The rest of the coffee may forms figures such as letters, numbers,
geometrical designs , straight lines , wavy lines or shapes which
resemble animals or birds. Where the non-dry upside down cup for a long
period indicates a future grief for the person who drank it, according
to claims, the trees indicate to life and success , the shape of heart
indicates to love, and if the shape of ring appeared on the cup wall ,
this indicates to sooner marriage, and if a flag or a banner appeared ,
it will be good news of great triumph and achieved win, and death
indicates long life for the person who drank the cup, and if a clock
appeared , it indicates to much livelihood and welfare, while numbers
indicate to money.
1 - Forms : lines and curves
Straight lines indicate to accurate design and peace of mind, while the
shape of the cup indicates to love and harmony. The lines may refer to a
journey or a road to be taken by humans as if the line was straight with
no curves , it indicates that it is the right way, and vice versa if the
line curved and exceeded its way, that means that there are coming
problems to the person who drank it. And when there are points precede
the line, it means that this person is about walking in this road, while
if it just a point , it means that the road is close maybe after an hour
or a day or a week or a month or a year.
2 - Animals
A camel indicates that the person who drank the cup is expecting a lot
of goodness (money), because the camel is a symbol goodness convoys, and
also the image of whale indicates to a lot of goodness and good fortune,
and the image of pigeons indicates to good news because pigeons are
messengers, while the repulsive graphics such as wood board indicates to
the death to a relative of the person who drank the cup and other
graphics that indicate to the grief and distress. The snake means a
mortal enemy that lurks the person who drank the cup.
*Famous Cup Readers* Below are some famous female cup readers in the
Middle East:
1 - Nawal Ghandhi
is 46 years old, of a Syrian descent, became famous for this art in
India, as she reads the cups of eminent personalities such as "Sonia
Ghandhi" who leads the Congress Party, and her daughter "Priyanka", and
the former Indian prime minister "Atal Behari Vajpayee", and a lot of
famous Indian businessmen and filmmakers. Ghandhi claims that she
inherited reading the cup of coffee from her grandmother and her mother
who were experienced in this art. Amazingly, despite her claim about her
ability to read the cups of the others, she has no idea what her cup
says. After her divorce in 1991 and for taking care of her children ,
she left India to the UAE to become a teacher and then a policewoman.
Having lived outside India for 15 years, finally she took reading the
cup as a career, knowing that her parents emigrated from Syria to India
in 1936.
Nawal Gandhi says that the coffee cup reading is difficult and depends
on the senses and the sixth sense. It is basically a psychological
reading made by using a cup of coffee, which in most cases be « milled
Arabic or Turkish or Greek coffee, which is very tasty».
2 – Mrs. Fathia
She is famous for "Om Mohammed" and lives in the high-class district
"Al-Mohandseen" Giza, Egypt, she is famous for her ability to read the
upside down cup and interpreting its lines and symbols, where she says
:"My career is not new to the community but it may have taken a
particular significance in these days because the increase of people's
concerns and their fondness to know what lurking them and awaiting them,
and perhaps their concern at the failure in solving their problems". She
denied her knowledge of the unseen, and confirmed that her reading for
the cup does not disappoint, but it is all , as she said ,"She reads the
signs and the drawings of the cup by which she concludes what the coming
days hide to the person who drank the cup".
*The Psychological Explanation *
The mental health expert Dr. Hamdi Yassin says that the spread of the
fortune-teller profession, especially the cup female reader and the
palmist and shells reading were known by humans from ancient time and it
has a historical meaning, and it is believed that humans tend to know a
part of the unknown by nature, especially in matters that the
laboratories and the scientific theories failed in finding an
interpretation of it, which known as the conduct of uncertainty, which
is a part of human life and is not limited to a particular class of
people, where there are scientists up to the great scientific degrees
but they be haunted with those ideas from time to time because it is an
ancient inheritance and still fixed in our human behaviors, clearly
appears in the illiterates and nomads, while it appears less in academics.
*The Power of Inspiration *
Dr. "Hamdi Yassin" explains that who practice the fables just like the
cup reader, the palmist and shells readers and so on , have a special
abilities in inspiration and manipulating with the people feelings
beside the psychological preparedness for some people to hear those
fables and believe in it because we recognize that there is a
metaphysical thought and our tangible life which we live is not the
entire life, where there is a Metaphysical world lives with us which is
known in the psychological science with the metaphysics science, and
which refers to everything that conflicts with the concepts of the human
mind.
The cup female reader inspired the famous Syrian poet Nizar Qabani
(1923-1998) to write a poem that holds same name "The Cup Reader" which
later sang by famous Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez (1929-1977).
Lyrics tells about a man loved a woman but he lost her so he seek help
of a woman who can read his coffee cup in his attempt to know where is
she , but unfortunately signs tells that there is no future of this love
and she will be lost forever!
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