Tea Leaf Meanings

Understanding the Art and Knowing How to Read Tea Leaves

   Experienced persons and extremely gifted readers feel that tea leaf readings might be good for the psychic adept, but bad for novices or occasional dabblers. It is entirely subjective, so use your best judgment above all else while interpreting tea leaf meanings and you will be fine.

Tea leaf symbols are broken down into four main categories and there are essentially three systems in use:

    Readings of the symbolic image-patterns seen in the leaves or grounds, readings that combine symbolic tea leaf images with zodiacal and planetary positions demarked within the cup and saucer, and readings that combine symbolic tea leaf images with cartomancy (playing card reading) images located within the cup.

    How to read the tea leafs you ask. The positions in which the tea leaves fall in are indicative of events as well. Most believe that the leaves that stick to the upper portions of the cup near the rim signify good fortune as the leaves towards the bottom tell of troubled times or challenges ahead.

    Leaves that stick closer to the handle will tell of issues related to your life, but the leaves further from the handle will tell more of family members or friends you are associated with.

   The types of animals which appear in a tea leaf reading often mirror our own hopes, fears, or dreams and can show your inner feelings.

   Symbols that resemble everyday objects represent what you are doing with your life and will show whether you have a positive or negative effect on the world around you.

   Images that are symbolic of nature reflect the atmospheres you surround your life with and can often foretell good fortune or troubled times.
   Typically things that are mostly out of your control at that time since nobody can control nature.

   Images that look like people or parts of people reflect where you are as an individual mentally and emotionally and what roles you are playing at a particular time in your life.

   Remember, when you are concentrating on your question in mind while sipping the tea, you can think about the past, present, or future of your life or really focus on someone else in your life to get answers.