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What might be mistaken as stuff at the bottom of your tea cup could actually be messages from the Universe.
Read Tea Leaves
Reading tea leaves isn't as mysterious as you might think. Divination requires two basic elements: 1) A Question 2) An Answer.
Tea Leaves
What can be more natural and fulfilling than sipping a cupful of steaming tea? The webmaster of this site shares his family's tradition of tea drinking.
Divination
Here's how tea leaves and coffee grounds fall into the ancient traditions of augury, divination and prophecy.
Divination 
Robert Todd Caroll includes tasseomancy among types of divination in his Skeptic's Dictionary. He doubts them all!
Laws Against Divination
The 1st Amendment prohibits the restriction of free speech in divination.
Omens, Signs, and Symbols
Toward the end of this article, there are some great quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Colin Wilson about divination.
Tasseomancy
According to Mystica, tasseomancy and tasseography are the older terms for the practice we call tea leaf or tea cup reading.
Tea Leaf Reading
Crystalinks speaks of tea leaf reading from her experience. She includes a list of images you might see in your cup.  
Tea Leaf Reading
You won't have the pleasure of sipping tea, but the messages in this online reading make up for everything.  
A Tea Leaf Reader T-Shirt
I thought this t-shirt with very pretty. There's an old fashioned girl peering into her cup, just as we do today!
What is the Occult?
Tea cup reading has its place in this amazing list of practices dealing with secret knowledge and "psychic" phenomena.  
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