Fortune telling and predicting the future through coffee grounds is an ancient practice, and is considered an art form that is more commonly known as Tasseography. Tasseography is along the same lines of other forms of predicting the future or past like pyschic readings or palm reading, but coffee readings are a difficult talent to learn and can also be done through tea leave patterns and wine sedament, usually for reading from coffee it needs to be Turkish coffee to read the sedament.
Tasseography requires sensitivity and the ability to act as a medium between us and a higher power. It is hard to teach someone to be senstive and open to interpreting grounds, and acting as a medium is a spiritual openess that some people cannot grasp. Almost the same way children see clouds in the sky is how coffee readings are done. One child sees a bird, one sees a boat, one sees absolutely nothing, but the reader sees nothing more than what we do in the visual sense but they see solely through her inner eye and not everyone has the ability to act as a medium. To see things through the grounds the reader must attain a combination of deep relaxation and euphoria- creating a feeling of remoteness and solitude- some people refer to it as slipping in and out of the boundries between body and soul. Its not until they have totally achieved this that they can use the eye to see anything in the grounds, they have to be detatched from the what they see. Usually they see a shape and say the first shape that they see, not questioning themselves whether or not they see a bird, a boat, or the Effifel Tower- without understanding and trying not to think about it until they have said what they see and whether it is good or bad.
To read a coffee grounds the reader will most commonly use a saucer and put it ontop of the cup and turn it upside down, this stirs up all the sedament for a reading. in Turkish tradition, coffee-readers often interpret the cup as being divided into horizontal halves; the symbols appearing on the bottom half are typically messages regarding the past, and the symbols on the top are messages from the future. When they are read as vertical halves they are read to determine the answer to a "yes" or "no" question. But I read that a situation or event cannot be predicted further than 40 days.
All so interesting, and if we served Turkish coffee I would want to have a reader here to tell us all about what our cups have to say. :)
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