Coffee Reading
Coffee Reading & Its Different Traditions
Prediction of future is a state of mind, which is the most explored and interesting part of anyone’s life. People take the help of numbers, birth date, birthplace, etc. to get an idea of the same. In a similar manner, coffee reading is a part of seeking the future in an intuitive way. It is somewhat similar to that of the tea-leaf reading, where the future is predicted with the help of the various patterns formed at the bottom of the cup. The residual coffee gr...
ounds leave patterns and shapes of dynamic symbols and omens, which leads to the prediction. It is an instinctive branch of astrology, in which the reader needs to be connected to the universe in order to get an accurate prediction of the seeker’s fortune.
Cafeomancy is another name for the coffee cup reading, which initiated among the people who were prone to drinking coffee. The people of Middle East practiced this form of divination with the Greek, Lebanese, or Turkish coffees. This process is accomplished by drinking the most of the coffee. The residual liquid is kept in the cup to settle and form a particular shape, which will help in predicting the future. It is even believed that the person who seeks the future should never read the cup as it might attract bad omen.
Even in coffee reading, there are various techniques involved and the selection of a particular technique depends upon the reader’s preference and also varies from culture to culture. The practice that is followed by most of the people is to cover the coffee cup with a particular saucer after the coffee grounds settle completely. Then the entire cup is turned upside-down in order to read the future. Romanians believe in a different method, where the residual is stirred in a circular motion until a particular shape is formed.
Turkish people divide the sediment into horizontal halves, where the bottom part denotes a message of the past and the upper portion indicates the future. In some regions, the future prediction seeker puts the right thumb inside the cup and twists it clockwise. The shape formed post the action is regarded as the emotions and inner thoughts of the drinker. This might be an uncertain way of predicting future; however, is followed by various people.
