The Art of Coffee Ground Reading, Tasseography
THE ART OF TASSEOGRAPHY
with Nazli Khosravi
March 7 2020
11 am
$50.00
Join us for one of many fun and informative workshops with Nazli Khosravi.
Of Persian descent Nazli has inherited matrilineal gifts through her lineage from the Quashqai tribes.
Reading coffee grounds was as natural as reading the evening paper.
Nazli loves to share her knowledge around the brewing, pouring, drinking of the coffee and the ultimate reading of the grounds.
Always a popular workshop we suggest you express interest early!
From Wikipedia
Coffee tasseography (Greek: καφεμαντεία, Serbian: гледање у шољу, Turkish: kahve falı) is traditionally practiced using Turkish coffee or any method of coffee brewing that leaves grounds sitting at the bottom of the cup. Most of the coffee in the cup is consumed, but the sediments are left to settle. It is often believed that the querent should not read their own cup.
There are several variations of coffee reading. They commonly require for the cup to be covered with the saucer and turned upside-down. In the Turkish tradition, coffee-readers often interpret the cup as being divided into horizontal halves: symbols appearing on the bottom half are interpreted as messages regarding the past, and symbols on the top half are messages regarding the future. The cup may also be interpreted in vertical halves to determine "yes" or "no" answers as well as the overall outcome of the events represented by symbols. For example, some fortune tellers may "read" symbols in the "left" half as "negative" events or outcomes, while symbols in the "right" half are "read" as "positive". Other readers may adhere to the belief that the cup is capable of revealing insights about the past, but it cannot predict events beyond forty days into the future. The saucer may also be incorporated into the reading. As with the cup, different variations exist for what the saucer represents, including whether the saucer sticking to the cup indicates a "positive" or "negative" outcome.
Some Romanian methods require that the sediments be swirled around until they cover the majority of the cup's inside surface. Other traditions, such as Turkish and Middle Eastern, do not require this swirling but do require that the cup be turned towards the querent in revealing the fortune. The coffee grounds are given time to dry against the cup before a reading begins
