Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft by Raymond Buckland

Author:Raymond Buckland
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: OCC026000
ISBN: 9780738717722
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2008-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

Tea leaf reading

to take hold of the handle and rotate the cup slowly, three times clockwise, allowing the remains of the tea to come up to the rim of the cup and so to be distributed. Then she or he is to invert the cup completely on its saucer.

Taking up the cup from there, you can begin your divination. You are going to interpret the various shapes and forms made by the tea leaves on the sides and bottom of the cup. To do this, with some sort of accuracy, there is a time scale you must remember. The rim of the cup, and close to the rim, represents the present and the coming two or three weeks. As you move down the sides, so you go further into the future. The very bottom of the cup is the very far distant future. Your starting point is the handle of the cup. This represents the subject, so that symbols close to the handle affect her or him directly, while symbols on the opposite side of the cup may only have a passing effect.

If the symbols you see are particularly well defined, then she or he is very lucky. The less well defined, the less decisive and more prone to hindrance. Stars denote success; triangles fortune; squares mean protection; circles mean frustration. Straight lines indicate definite plans; wavy lines uncertainty; dotted lines mean a journey. Any numbers you see could be indicators of years, months, weeks, days, or hours. Usually, if you see them in the upper half of the cup you can think in terms of hours or days; in the lower half, weeks, months, or years. Letters are the initials of people of importance to the subject, be they friends, relatives, or business associates.

As with most forms of divination, you should interpret what you feel about what you see, rather than going by hard and fast “meanings.” As a start, however, there are the traditional interpretations of some of the most common symbols in this chapter. You may find it interesting to compare them to the symbology used in dream interpretation (lesson 7).

A form of tasseography, known as geomancy, can be done using dirt or sand. Mark a circle, about three feet in diameter, on the ground and have the subject throw a handful of dirt into it. You then interpret the symbols made by the dirt in the same way that you would the tea leaves. Similarly, on a smaller scale, draw a circle on a sheet of paper. Blindfold your subject and let her fill the circle with random dots, with a felt-tip marker or similar item. These dots can then be interpreted in the same manner. For both of these you would need to make a mark where the subject stands/sits, to indicate the equivalent of the cup handle.

Numerology

You had a brief introduction to numerology in lesson 3. Pythagoras said, “The world is built upon the power of numbers.” It was Pythagoras who reduced the universal numbers to the nine primary ones.

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