SOME TASSEOMANCY TIPS
Practice, practice, practice. Tasseomancy is not easy to master. You’re having to discern shapes in a mass of wet leaves, translate those shapes into meanings and string all those shapes into a coherent story. You should practice multiple times on yourself before you even attempt reading for somebody else.
Only once or twice a week. If you only want a general view of your relatively-near future, you should attempt to read once or at most twice a week. If you’re tea-leaf reading for an answer to a specific question, then that can be done anytime.
Don’t panic. When I first looked into a tea-cup, all I saw was an indistinguishable mass of wet leaves. RELAX, park your thinking brain, and let your intuition, imagination and instincts take over. Soon, images will start suggesting themselves to you. Tea-leaf reading is very much a meditative exercise.
Don’t rely only on the Symbols Glossary. There are whole books of tea-leaf symbol meanings, but you may well see a symbol which doesn’t appear in any book. In those cases, you’re going to have to intuit the meaning or free-associate on what that symbol means to you. This is what makes tea-leaf reading an art.
Consider the overall appearance of the cup. A small scattering of a few leaves implies a tidy, disciplined mind. A great many leaves in several locations in the cup suggests a rich full life.
Take a whole view of the cup. Don’t just identify the different symbols in isolation, but consider them in relation to one another. Take into account their size, clarity, proportions, and positions in relation to one another. As with card reading in Symbolomancy, you want to be able to string the different images together in one coherent story.