Tea Leaf Readings

== Chapter One: The Ritual ==
Tea Leaf Readings are one of the most basic forms of Divination, often being used by teachers to tell if one has an aptitude for Divination at all. How they can tell isn’t fully understood, but it is described as a faint tugging sensation when they witness another successfully perform the art.
In order to perform a tea reading, the following steps are taken:
* The one having their fortune read, the ‘Customer’ as it were, drinks a cup of tea, leaving roughly a teaspoon's worth in the bottom.
* The Reader will take the teacup and swirl gently while trickling mana into the contents and focusing on either the vast unknown, or a deity of their choice.
* The Reader flips the cup on the table, allowing the remaining contents to drain.
* The cup is gently turned back right-side-up so the Reader can read the Customer’s fortune.
Leaf Locations:
* Bottom of the Cup - Remove Future
* Side of the Cup - Not so remote Future
* Rim - Near Future
== Chapter Two: Symbols and Meaning ==
=== Good Fortune ===
* Triangles - Always a sign of good luck and unexpected legacies.
* Stars - A lucky sign; If surrounded by dots foretells great wealth and honors.
* Clover - A very lucky sign; happiness and prosperity. At the top of the cup, it will come quickly. As it nears the bottom, it will mean more or less distant.
* Anchor - A lucky sign; success in business and constancy in love; if cloudy, the reverse must be read.
* Tree - A lucky sign; a sure indicator of prosperity and happiness; surrounded by dots, a fortune in the country.
* Flowers - A good fortune, success; a happy marriage.
* Bridges - A favorable journey.
* Arches - A journey abroad.
* Crowns - Success and honor.
=== Bad Omen ===
* Coffins - Long sickness or sign of death of a near relation or great friend.
* Clouds - Serious trouble; if surrounded by dots, financial success.
* Crosses - A sign of trouble and delay or even death.
* Serpents - Spiteful enemies; bad luck; illness.
* Rats - Treacherous servants; losses through enemies.
* Wild beasts - Foretell misfortune.
* Hourglass - Imminent peril.
* Umbrella - Annoyance and trouble.
* Sword - Dispute, quarrels between lovers; a broken sword, victory of an enemy.
* Bow - A sign of discord and slander.
* Raven - Death for the aged; disappointed in love, divorce, failure in business, amd trouble generally.
* Owls - An evil omen, indicative of sickness, poverty, disgrace, a warning against commencing any new enterprise. If the consultant is in love he or she will be deceived.
* Monkeys - The consultant will be deceived in love.
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