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    Tea Cup Reading: A Quick and Easy Guide to Tasseography
    Tea Cup Reading: A Quick and Easy Guide to Tasseography
    Tea Cup Reading: A Quick and Easy Guide to Tasseography
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    Tea Cup Reading: A Quick and Easy Guide to Tasseography

    By Sasha Fenton

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    The art of reading tea leaves has been practiced for centuries by everyone from Buddhist monks to Bedouins to Gypsies. Once very popular in Britain and Ireland and all the countries they settled, including our own, the practice has all but faded away. Now, this concise book provides quick, easy, and fun instructions for practicing tasseography today.

    The book includes everything needed to become an accomplished practitioner:
    a brief history of tea and coffeeadvice on brewing and servingbasic rules of tea leaf and cup readinghandy tips for instant readingsan illustrated dictionary of 361 symbols with precise definitions

    Tea Cup Reading is an essential reference for this fascinating interpretive art.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Wheel Weiser
    Release dateMar 1, 2002
    ISBN9781609256845
    Tea Cup Reading: A Quick and Easy Guide to Tasseography
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    Sasha Fenton

    Sasha Fenton is a best-selling astrologer whose books have sold over half a million copies world-wide. She is well known for her chatty, accessible style, and is the astrology columnist for ‘Woman’s Own’. Her other books include ‘Tarot in Action’, ‘Fortune-Telling by Leaves’, and ‘Understanding Astrology’. Fenton has presented her own radio show on LBC and appeared on national television programmes in the UK such as ‘This Morning’ She has been professionally consulting since 1973.

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