Produced by David Garcia, Tiffany Vergon, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves HOW TO READ YOUR FATE IN A TEACUP BY CICELY KENT _With Twenty Illustrations_ CONTENTS CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION TO THE DIVINATION BY TEA-LEAVES II. PRACTICE AND METHOD OF READING THE CUP III. GENERAL THEORIES IN READING THE CUP IV. DIVINATION BY TEA-LEAVES AS AN AMUSEMENT AND AS A MORE SERIOUS STUDY V. SOME HINTS FOR DIVINERS. REMARKABLE INSTANCES OF PROPHECY BY THE TEA-LEAVES VI. WRITING IN THE TEA-LEAVES. SOME FREQUENT SYMBOLS VII. THE "NELROS" CUP. TWO EXAMPLE READINGS OF ITS SIGNS A DICTIONARY OF SYMBOLS SOME COMBINATIONS OF SYMBOLS AND THEIR MEANING SOME EXAMPLE CUPS WITH THEIR INTERPRETATIONS TELLING FORTUNES BY TEA-LEAVES CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION TO THE DIVINATION BY TEA-LEAVES At no time in the history of the world has there been such earnest searching for light and knowledge in all matters relating to Psychic Phenomena as in the present day. The desire to investigate some new disclosure has resulted in yet other discoveries. Such will be handed on in their various forms to be studied and used by those who seek to learn. Few subjects need more patience than those dealing with Psychology. Even those who put their knowledge to a practical use in such studies as divination by tea-leaves, must still plod patiently along a path thickly strewn with new knowledge. The powers of clairvoyance, for instance, cannot be forced or hurried; such arbitrary laws as time have no meaning for the subconscious self, therefore the need for hurry does not exist. I was once told by a very mediumistic woman that she had sat in the same room at the same time for an hour every day for seven years, because she "wished to develop Clairvoyance." Here was patience indeed! In some manifestations of the clairvoyant powers within us, it is spontaneous, the closing of the eyes to shut out all material surroundings being all that is necessary to bring a vision of what is happening, or shortly to happen, possibly hundreds of miles away. In all dreams the clairvoyant powers are spontaneous; but for the development of clairvoyance at will, great perseverance is necessary. Its interests and powers are unlimited, so that it is well worth the patience and time spent upon it. In the use of tea-leaves as a means of divination, the more developed the "clear sight," the more interesting and accurate will be the interpretation. Practice is most necessary, especially for those who have less natural clairvoyance than others.