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Episode 75: Tasseomancy
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Welcome back Witches! This week's episode is going to be all about Tasseomancy. We're going to discuss some of the history, the how to, and some tips on how to have a successful tea leaf reading. So get in losers and let's learn about Tasseomancy.
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References:
- The History of Tea Leaf Reading. (2023). Sips By. https://www.sipsby.com/blogs/news/the-history-of-tea-leaf-reading
- Youtube:Hearthwitch
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Touch of Magick - Wigington, Patti. (2021, September 5). Reading Tea Leaves. Retrieved from https://www.learnreligions.com/how-to-read-tea-leaves-2561403
- Tasseography. (2021). https://tasseography.com/
- Two Wander. (n.d.). Tasseography: Tea Leaf reading symbols and meanings. https://www.twowander.com/blog/tasseography-tea-leaf-reading-symbols-and-meanings
- Blyth, Maria (2020, September 7). Divine Intervention: Tasseomancy. Cunning Folk. https://www.cunning-folk.com/craft-posts/divine-intervention-tasseomancy
- Books on Tasseomancy:Tea and Tasseomancy: A Guide to Reading Tea Leaves by K. Henriott- Jauw
Fortunes in a Tea Cup: Tasseomancy: The Ancient Art of Tea Leaf Reading by Jane Struthers
Fortune Telling with Tea Leaves: A beginner’s guide by Sophia Buckland
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Transcript
Introduction and Podcast Overview
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Do you feel drawn to learn more about witchcraft in the occult but feel lost on where to start? Then welcome to Get In, Loser, We're Doing Witchcraft, a podcast all about what it means to be a witch and where to get started on your journey. Join us as we navigate through various witchy topics and share what we've learned about
Tassieomancy: Beginnings and Tech Troubles
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the craft. So get in, witches, because it's time to learn about Tastyomancy.
00:00:42
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Oh, technology. It's beautiful. I hate you, technology. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing. It's a terrible thing. I'm just kidding. But now, on to take two of Tassie O'Mancy. Right. And if this doesn't work, I'm throwing my computer against the wall. No, I'm just kidding. Let's not do that.
00:01:07
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I'm so irritated and I've had zero coffee. I think that's why I'm extra irritated. Michael, Peter, bring her some coffee. We're out of coffee. We have espresso, but we don't have coffee beans and I really don't want
00:01:24
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like a nice coffee right now. I want a hot cup, like cup of coffee and just a hot cup of espresso. I don't want that. So the plan is once we're like finally done recording seven years from now, we're going to go to the grocery store, but we have to get, get done first. So, and then I'll be able to have some coffee. I'm going to make them stop and give me something. So,
00:01:53
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hopefully take two of Tassie O'Mancy is the last take of Tassie O'Mancy. Right. Exactly. Yeah.
00:02:03
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So I guess just jumping right in.
History of Tassieomancy
00:02:08
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Let's discuss some history and background of Tassie-omancy. So Tassie-omancy is sometimes known as Tassiography, and essentially it's a blend of two words from two different cultures. And so what I was reading was that Tassa is Arabic for a small cup or goblet, and the Greek word
00:02:30
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mancy is a suffix indicating divination. I also read that sometimes mancy can be translated to be either writing or reading. And so then it became cup reading or cup writing, which was really cute, I thought in terms of like tea leaf reading, you know? Yeah, I think that is really cute. I like that better than I mean, I think it's cool that they have a suffix indicating divination. But I like that.
00:02:58
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if it were to mean like cup reading or cup writing, that's really cute. Yeah, yeah.
00:03:03
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So if you didn't already gather, Tassie and Nancy is the ancient practice of interpreting patterns made by tea leaves in a cup. Included in this is the reading of wine sediments and coffee grounds as well. Tassie and Nancy is not an actual application of magic, but it's a way to help tap into your subconscious by applying meditation with pattern recognition and symbolism. Really, it's just a way to spend a quiet moment with yourself, work on your creativity,
00:03:32
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and get in tune with your inner voice. So there's a lot of different takes on what the history of Tassiomancy is and where exactly originated from, and we'll go into that here soon, but the history of Tassiomancy is linked to the history of tea itself. So the origins of tea trace back to China's middle and lower Yellow River Valley during the Shang dynasty, and this occurred roughly around 1500 to 1046 BC.
00:04:00
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and its roots in Europe, as far as tea goes, dates back to close to the 17th century. During the Middle Ages, the Romani fortune tellers would practice divination based on splatters of lead or wax, but this was replaced with tea leaves when the tea trade boomed.
00:04:18
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And so tea was first brought to Amsterdam and then to England, where it first appeared in the 1650s. In the 1800s, Tassiomancy became popularized as a parlor game, and Romani Tassiomancers were brought into tea rooms and parlors to read for affluent Victorians.
00:04:36
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I also read that these readings were often only offered to upper class citizens because prior to World War II, tea was not so readily available to everyone. And then after World War II, women would start opening up their homes for tea leave readings.
00:04:52
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And they would serve like light snacks and discuss the readings as a way to build community amongst the women, which I thought was really cute. And then it was at this point that the practice started to be like passed down by the women from generation to generation.
00:05:07
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I love that. That's really cute. It's so cute.
Cultural Developments of Tassieomancy
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Yeah, and something else that I was reading about when it comes to the history, and this is something that I referenced earlier, is that Tassio Mancy seems to have arose independently in different places throughout the world. So in Asia, the Middle East, Greece, Scotland, Ireland, and throughout Eastern Europe. And one historical account details that Tassio Mancy
00:05:33
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Was one of the most popular divination practices of the peasants of Scotland and it was said to go back throughout generations of Scottish fortune tellers called spay wives and so obviously during this time like they weren't necessarily using tea, especially if
00:05:50
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they didn't have access to it and it wasn't even brought to Europe yet, but they were using different things like sentiment and things like that. I pulled this quote from the Tasciamancy website and I didn't even, like there's a whole website for Tasciamancy, but there's not a lot of information on the history, which sucks. But the authors who, they didn't have like a name or anything listed. So I'm not even crediting like the actual author except for the website in our
00:06:20
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show notes. They mentioned that cross-cultural and historical pervasiveness of tea, coffee, and wine sediment reading is related back to the human desire to understand the self. And I love that because that just kind of explains how throughout all these different cultures, everybody developed this method of reading like sediments and
00:06:40
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and things like that, but it didn't all trace back to one particular historical account and that structure of the world. They all basically were doing their own thing and were doing their own thing.
Tools and Personal Interpretation
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I love that.
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So in talking about practicing tasseomancy, basically everything you need is going to be loose leaf tea, a tea reading cup and a saucer, a paper towel or a kitchen towel, and a journal. It's really important to remember, especially when you're just getting started, that tasseomancy is very dependent on the person doing the reading.
00:07:16
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especially if you're just using a general teacup or a mug, not one that's like marked specifically for tascamancy. And what you see and what that means to you is going to be like specific to you. Someone else may interpret certain shapes or symbols very differently than you and that's okay. This practice is very rooted in your own intuition.
00:07:38
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your subconscious psyche and there's what i was reading is that there's two main methods so the first one is to use a pre-marked cup designed specifically for reading tea leaves and these cups tend to be shorter and really wide that and that gives them like
00:07:56
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almost like a bowl-like shape to make it easy to not only just like see the tea leaves but in practice you swirl it at the end like right before you dump it and it creates like the perfect shape for swirling the tea leaves to make them fall and then some of these are even going to be divided into several sections with various symbols that help
00:08:18
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like with learning how to read tea leaves. And I've also read that some of them have like astrological symbols too to help you like place time frames to everything. I think it's really cute. I really want to get one of those with the astrological signs and all. I think it would be really interesting to try with that.
00:08:37
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So I was also reading about that there's like two different methods. And whatever I was reading about this method, they the website that I was referencing, they called it the standard image interpretation method. But I mean, you could call it whatever you want, essentially. Yeah, whatever it is.
00:08:57
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you want to call it but a lot of the images and symbols that people use in this standard image interpretation have been passed down from generation to generation and each symbol and image has a universal specific meaning and so like for example
00:09:12
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if you see something that looks like an apple in your cup that is linked to development of knowledge or education and if you were to see a cat in your cup that is linked to deceit or an untrustworthy friend and there are a lot of books online that list these symbols and I have a few listed in our show notes but again like you were saying Tiffany it also just depends on who's interpreting it because my apple might be your cat you know what I mean like
00:09:38
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Yeah, and that's what a lot of what I came across with saying it was like, you know, some people like one of the examples given was like the symbol of a bat. So if you see something that looks like a bat to some people that might be like a bat omen or you know, bad things to come and then for other people about it represents like protection. So like, it's, it's just more rooted in like, what you're seeing what that means to you specifically.
00:10:04
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Yeah, I think that's probably why a lot of people that I came across like a few people that talked about like, not really liking it, or it would be like in the comments of videos that I was watching on tasks, you know, Nancy saying that it was like too hard. And I think it's like really hard for people to connect with that, like,
00:10:20
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that enter intuition to really connect what that means to what they're asking or what their intention is. The second method is just using any teacup or mug for your reading. This isn't going to be one designed specifically for reading tea leaves. It's just going to be a regular mug.
00:10:42
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this method requires you to use your own intuition in terms of the reading since they aren't pre-printed symbols and I don't know like which one personally I think I would prefer like if you have one that's marked of course that might make it a little easier but I feel like it also could make it a little bit harder if like you are just trying to like
00:11:03
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get a general reading or you know it could I guess even for like specifics if you're looking at pre-printed symbols maybe some of those don't have a meaning to you so I don't know like I don't know which one I would prefer I don't either I feel like it would be interesting to look at the like especially for the astrology one that I was saying especially like if if you were looking at it based on okay I know this symbol appears in
00:11:30
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under Scorpio. So I know around this time of late October into November, maybe this is something that's going to relate to that time. And I really like that. But I'm not a huge fan of like, okay, well, I see this symbol, it looks like a cloud. And let me look that up. Like I like the idea of just intuitively looking at it and really like connecting with what's in the cup. I feel like I would like that better. And being able to like try and figure it out myself.
00:11:59
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I also noticed that when I was reading about this, I thought I put this in my notes and it might be later, but in terms of the cup, if you just have a cup that isn't marked with symbols for Tassie O'Mancy, I believe it's the right half of the cup is the future, the left half of the cup is the past, and then depending on the height of the tea leaves on the sides of the cup, it depends how far into the future or how far into the past or how far back. And so when you have the ones that have symbols on them,
00:12:29
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it doesn't have that because the symbols are different all the way around. It's not like half the cup has these symbols and then it's duplicated on the other side. So you also lose the past and future element with a symbol. So I don't know. Yeah, that is definitely something later on. Okay. I was like, how's the
00:12:50
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Yeah, because I came across something that was also completely different from that on like how you should interpret the leaves in the cup. And so it just honestly depends on what you connect with and how you want to do it.
00:13:06
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In the intuitive method though, this is much like other methods of divination such as tarot and scrying. And when the tea leaves are red intuitively, what you're doing is essentially interpreting the leaves based on what you think and what you feel. This method depends on you trusting your instincts. And so when I was reading a bit more about this,
00:13:29
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A lot of people recommend writing down prompts in your notebook to help guide you along your way whenever you're reading it. You could write down, for instance, what you saw first. Did you see any letters or numbers? Did you see any animal shapes? Did you see any celestial symbols or any other recognizable symbols? Having those as prompts in your journal or wherever you're writing down
00:13:55
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your interpretation of the tea leaves is a great way to kind of make sure that you're hitting all the points that you need to be hitting and that you're reading the tea leaves in a, I guess, more efficient manner. I didn't come across that, but I like that. I know a lot of it, a lot of it is like, make sure you're writing it down. Make sure you're writing it down. You need to have a journal for it. So I like the idea of having the prompts because it
00:14:21
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especially if you're just learning that's a good way to like guide yourself into like okay I'm looking at it what am I seeing at first now if I take a deeper look am I seeing this symbol or that symbol so I think that's really great yeah it's also important too like when you're choosing your cup you want to make sure that the cup the color of it like is pale because you want to actually be able to see the tea leaves and then that the brim is wide again like making it easy to see your tea leaves because there's a lot of room there and you want it to like
00:14:51
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you know, like I was talking about earlier, having that almost bowl-like shape, so shorter and whiner. And then, of course, that it's comfortable to hold because you're going to be holding it a lot. So you don't want something that's uncomfortable that you just don't want to work with.
00:15:06
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Yeah and I was also reading like definitely don't use a strainer like so if you usually use a strainer or something like that to brew your tea in don't use that because this will eliminate the leaves and you won't be able to read anything so just like put the tea in the cup and then the water which we'll get into later. I was going to read the tea. You're going to need tea. You need tea not in a strainer.
00:15:34
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And then something that I came across too, because again, this is something that I'm not like well versed in, I've never really done. So I was like, okay, well, like, what do you have to use a special kind of tea? And the answer to that is no, like you can use whatever tea you prefer, as long as it's loose leaf.
00:15:51
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and a tip that was given by hearth from the hearth witch channel on youtube is that you need to be mindful of using teas that have heavier items blended into them like dried fruit pieces because those are going to make it more difficult to read because they impact the way that the tea leaves fall which will in turn like impact your reading
00:16:10
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She also suggests that beginners use a lighter tea leaf, like green tea, and to keep in mind that there will also need to be some tea leaves in your cup, like Sam was saying, to be able to practice tasseomancy. So if you don't want all of the leaves in your cup, you can remove some, but tasseomancy is obviously going to require that there's at least some of those loose tea, like the loose tea in your cup. So you're gonna have to like have a few in there, even if you don't like it.
00:16:40
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Maybe if you don't like it, Tassie O'Mansie might not be for you. Right. Exactly. You can't
Preparation and Mindfulness Practices
00:16:44
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deal with a little bit of things floating around maybe, maybe, maybe not Tassie O'Mansie. Maybe just drink some wine instead. Like, yeah, coffee, heavily-bodied wine, like something like that. I was also reading that it's advised to use blends like Darjeeling and Earl Grey because they tend to have larger leaves. And I mean, those are just some examples of like teas that a lot of people, I guess, who
00:17:09
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do Tassio Manzi recommend just because of the leaf. But I was also reading that it's advised to avoid using Indian blends because the leaves are generally smaller. And often those blends include things like dust and small twigs, which again, like fruit, like you were saying, it can affect the reading because it affects the leaves fall.
00:17:32
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Really, the hardest part of this is going to be connecting what these things mean to you. And this is why, like we were saying earlier, journaling your readings is very important. You should always go back and reflect on your past readings as you get better and more comfortable in your readings, because you might be able to add context to the ones that you've done in the past as you learn and better your skills.
00:17:55
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And then just kind of like for anyone that wants to try this out, I kind of just put together a little bit of a step-by-step guide and Sam has added some things into it. So hopefully like if Tassieomancy is something you're interested in and you want to try it out, like hopefully this will help you. A lot of what I have in here I took from the Hearthwich account on YouTube. She has a great step-by-step
00:18:20
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and she, you know, kind of explains it as she goes while she shows you how to do it. But again, just as a disclaimer, remember that getting a feel for tasselmancy can take some time, like don't let yourself get discouraged if you don't like really understand your tea leaves right away. Learning to read tea leaves or coffee or wine drags even can take practice, but you'll get there if this is something that you're really interested in.
00:18:43
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Yeah, and I was reading, I mean, obviously you don't have to do this, but I thought this was interesting, especially if you're incorporating Tassiomancy in a ritualistic practice. A lot of Tassiomancers will start by grounding themselves and cleansing their space before they begin. And I think that that is really cool and a easy way to incorporate, if this is something you want to do, incorporate this into your witchcraft and into your practice.
00:19:09
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So to start, you're going to want to gather your stuff. So get like your tasseomancy cup, your saucer and towel, and then your preferred loose leaf tea. For water, you can use moon water, but just make sure that you do so safely, like meaning make sure that the water is safe and drinkable and not older than three days if it's been sitting outside of your fridge. Otherwise, you can just use regular like filtered or tap water.
00:19:33
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and then you want to heat it to just past boiling so once it starts boiling let that go for no longer than one minute probably like 30 seconds would be good because you don't want to like burn your tea leaves if you've ever done this like if you've made tea and it's like really bitter that means like you scorched your tea leaves so you don't want to do that because then it's just not enjoyable while you pour the water over your tea leaves you want to think of your intention for your reading you can also stir it clockwise while thinking of your intention to stir it into your tea
00:20:03
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And then another thing to keep in mind is that adding things to your tea like honey or milk is going to change the thickness of the liquid which could affect your reading. The recommendation is to try a tea reading without any additives first to get a feel for it and then from there you can like play around with adding things if you need to for your own tastes.
00:20:24
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I also was reading that once you've poured your tea into your cup, there are some mindfulness practices that you can do to further ground yourself in the moment and help with the meditative process. And so while you have the tea in your cup and it's starting to steep, you can ask questions like, how is the tea acting in the cup? Is it bubbly? Or are the tea leaves floating? Is it clumpy? Are the tea leaves immediately sinking? These are all things that you can ask yourself
00:20:53
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to really just focus in on the tea and not the whole world around you, if that makes sense. And then while your tea is steeping, take your tea to a really comfortable space, somewhere that's quiet to do your reading. And as it's steeping, think about the questions like what Sam was saying. You can watch the tea leaves bounce around in the cup as it's brewing or
00:21:15
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you know like think about a question that you want answered in your reading and like doing this like thinking about that question helps put it in your psychic subconscious so that when you're looking at your tea leaves when you're reading them your mind is already kind of like thinking about that question that you're looking for guidance on.
00:21:34
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If you're just doing a general reading that isn't geared towards a specific question, then you can just sit quietly, work on clearing your mind, or meditating for that time. And just as an FYI, most teas need to steep between 5 and 15 minutes to get their full potency. So definitely don't rush this portion.
00:21:53
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This is also a good time to prepare your saucer for the reading. You'll want to put the paper towel or your tea towel onto your saucer so that it can catch any liquid at the time of your reading. Once your tea's steeped, you'll drink your tea and enjoy it, but don't drink it all. You need to make sure you leave about like a third to half of an inch of tea in your cup. And once you've gotten down to that last little bit, you'll just want to take the cup in your non-dominant hand and swirl it three times counterclockwise
00:22:21
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and then place your saucer with the towel over the cup and tip it upside down and let the towel like absorb the rest of that liquid and whatever like dregs come out and then flip your cup back over and this is where you'll start your reading. I was also reading that some people recommend going clockwise instead of counterclockwise whenever you're swirling the tea.
00:22:42
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Oh, really? And so I don't know, obviously, you do what you want to do. Yeah. But yeah, I was reading that some people recommend going clockwise as opposed to counterclockwise. I'm not sure what the meaning is behind it.
00:22:58
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From what I read with the counterclockwise, it was when you stir clockwise, you're stirring something in, and when you stir counter, it's taking it out. So the idea with the counterclockwise is that you're swirling the interpretation out of the leaves.
00:23:14
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is what I read. And again, I've never done it. This isn't something that I practice, so I can't really give personal input to it, but that's what I read to why it's counterclockwise when you're swirling your leaves. If you're using a general cup, when you turn it upright, you're going to place it down in front of you with the handle facing toward you. But if you're reading for someone else, then you're going to place the handle toward them.
00:23:41
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The handle always faces the person that's getting the reading. That's because the handle represents the self and the present moment. Everything to the right of the handle is the potential future, and then everything to the left of the handle is going to be the potential past.
00:23:58
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tea leaves are also read by their depth. So the closer the leaves are to the brim of the cup, the sooner that thing will be happening or will have happened if it's on the side of the past. And then the closer that they are to the bottom of the cup, the more in the past or in the future that thing is going to be. So I was reading a couple of different interpretations of
00:24:19
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reading the tea leaves and so obviously with this take each one with a grain of salt because whatever fits for you and whatever works best for you and makes more sense for you that should be what you're doing. So I was reading that for the interpretation to start at the handle and start reading clockwise and if your cup doesn't have a handle to look at your cup like it's a clock and begin reading from 12 o'clock and go clockwise around your cup
00:24:45
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And I was reading that the handle is supposed to hold the person's strongest energy symbol because it's the part of the cup they're holding. And so, like, oftentimes, like, I mean, if you're holding it the right way, like, you'd be holding it by the handle, right? And so, like, your energy signature is going to be in that little handle part.
00:25:08
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more. And so I think it kind of goes back with what you were saying about the handle, like you weren't facing also the person as well, which is interesting. But I also was reading that a lot of people will divide the cup into three sections. And so like the rim is usually associated with things that are happening right now, the center, or you know, around the middle of the cup are things that are associated with the future. And the bottom holds the answer as a whole to your question or situation. And so again, it's just like,
00:25:38
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different methods to practice taseomancy, but not saying that any of them are like the most appropriate way or the right way because everything is subjective, especially when it comes to witchcraft and everything anyway. So it just depends on what you like to do. Well, and I feel like especially with taseomancy, because it is so like intuitively based, it's going to be like
00:26:05
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Sam keeps saying like, however feels right to you, there isn't going to be a right or wrong way to do this. What works for me might not work for Sam, you know, what works for Sam probably won't work for me kind of thing like, you know, go with your gut and what you understand and what makes sense to you. Because at the end of the day, this is like your practice and your reading. So don't don't over complicate it by trying to make somebody else's practice work for you.
00:26:30
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Mm-hmm. In terms of symbols, there are a ton of symbol variations in books or like on printouts, on the internet, etc. So it's just highly recommended that you use your subconscious psyche, you trust your own intuition, because Tassie O'Mancy is based on those things. Like you don't want the internet telling you what you're seeing. You want your intuition to like really guide you to what you're seeing and to the answers that you're trying to get.
00:26:59
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Symbols may not be as obvious to beginners, but eventually you should be able to pick up shapes in the tea leaves. Instead of googling that shape, you should sit with it and really just think about what that means to you in relation to what your question or your intention is. If you want to go and check that later, if you want to look at, you know, symbol interpretations from someone else, do that later. Like spend some time thinking about it first and thinking about what it means to you based on, you know, your intention or your question.
00:27:28
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And it's also highly suggested that you journal your tea leaf readings like we've already said a million times. Sometimes you might not fully understand the reading right away. So if you journal your reading, you can come back to it and reflect on it later. And it can help you to better hone your skill.
00:27:43
Speaker
If you're using a Tasciamansi cup, this will be less about the shapes that the tea leaves are making and more about where exactly the tea leaves are falling within your cup. You're going to do everything that we just described with just like the general tea cup reading.
00:27:59
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but the only difference is going to be the actual reading itself. So with a Tassio-Mansi tea cup, the placement of the handle doesn't matter, and the cup is not divided into past and future because every symbol is different inside the cup. They don't duplicate on each side. The placement of the leaves in relevance to the brim and bottom of the cup stays the same. So the closer they are to the brim means the closer to the event, and the closer to the bottom means that that specific thing is farther away.
00:28:28
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Tassio-Mansi tea cups come with a booklet that'll tell you what each of the symbols in the cup mean. There's not like a standard set of symbols within this practice that have like specific meanings. It's all kind of up to the artist's discretion based on the individual tea cup design.
00:28:44
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Some Tassiomancy cups will also have astrological symbols, and like we said earlier, these will relate to specific people or specific times or seasons based on like where your tea leaves fall within those sections. Tassiomancy tea cups are great for beginners too because they offer a lot of flexibility, so instead of having to really like
00:29:04
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relate those symbols to your intuition and think about what they mean to you. You can just look them up in the book if you want to, but I would still suggest journaling it and thinking about it first before running to your guidebook and looking it up because you're going to better hone your skill that way. That's just personally though. I think it would be better if you didn't just run to
00:29:28
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to look it up if you really just like thought about what it meant and how it relates to what you're looking for. You can also read the dregs on the saucer or the towel. If and when you do decide to do this, and this is where we're talking about where you take the cup, put the saucer over it, flip it over, whatever falls out, those bits are going to be more external forces or external people if you read them.
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And then after finishing, you can thank your guides, deities, or anyone you feel helped you with your reading if needed. And then spend some time journaling your Tastiomancy reading. You can also use a notes app on your phone if you're not somebody who likes to journal or just keep a file on your computer. It doesn't have to be handwritten in a notebook if you don't want to do that. And just as a final reminder,
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Again, Tassio Mancy takes practice. It takes time to hone your skill and understand what you're seeing and then just be able to relate it to your question or your intention or your general subconscious psyche. So if you try this and it feels weird or you just don't understand what you're seeing, that's okay. Just keep practicing it and it'll get more comfortable and you'll be able to see those symbols and recognize them more easily over time.
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And that's Tassie Mansey. Tassie Mansey. Tassie Mansey and Atika. Tassie Mansey and Atika.
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