Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup Postcards
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- | [[File:Your-Fortune-In-A-Tea-Cup-Anchor-Mountain.jpg|400px|center|thumb|''"You have a friend in high social position ([the] mountain of leaves) who will make you an offer shortly (three dots in [a] line). Don't worry over the gossip ([the] small leaves at [the] bottom) but accept, and you have [a] happy married life ([the] anchor) at [the] top."'' <!--A mountain symbolizes great ambition that is fulfilled though the aid of a powerful friend or ally who holds a high social position. The wish-sign or three dots in a line signify that this friend will be inclined to grant your wish. The anchor at the rim toward the handle or "home" grants safety in the home; it can be said to indicate a happy marriage, but it can just as easily represent a happy and secure single life with minimal travel away from the home-place. A jumbled scattering of indistinguishable dots and spots is called "the thick" or "the thicket," and when it is at the bottom, it is said to be "in the water" or "drowning,." The thick is a place of obstacles and the water is a place of danger, so we see here a mass of people of unpleasant character, perhaps gossips, but, as can be easily seen, the sitter's great friend, the mountain, and the anchor of safety near home rise above it all, so there is no need to worry about what is going on below.-->]] | + | [[File:Your-Fortune-In-A-Tea-Cup-Anchor-Mountain.jpg|400px|center|thumb|''"You have a friend in high social position ([the] mountain of leaves) who will make you an offer shortly (three dots in [a] line). Don't worry over the gossip ([the] small leaves at [the] bottom) but accept, and you will have [a] happy married life ([the] anchor) at [the] top."'' <!--A mountain symbolizes great ambition that is fulfilled though the aid of a powerful friend or ally who holds a high social position. The wish-sign or three dots in a line signify that this friend will be inclined to grant your wish. The anchor at the rim toward the handle or "home" grants safety in the home; it can be said to indicate a happy marriage, but it can just as easily represent a happy and secure single life with minimal travel away from the home-place. A jumbled scattering of indistinguishable dots and spots is called "the thick" or "the thicket," and when it is at the bottom, it is said to be "in the water" or "drowning,." The thick is a place of obstacles and the water is a place of danger, so we see here a mass of people of unpleasant character, perhaps gossips, but, as can be easily seen, the sitter's great friend, the mountain, and the anchor of safety near home rise above it all, so there is no need to worry about what is going on below.-->]] |
===7. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Mountain, Square with Dot=== | ===7. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Mountain, Square with Dot=== |
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In this set of 12 postcards, issued in Great Britain some time between the First and Second World Wars, we have essentially a series of study cups as flash cards or teaching instructions in cup reading. These British tea leaf postcards were intended to be sent as greetings, but they can also be used by fledgling tasseomancers as study cups on the way to learning a basic list of tea leaf symbols.
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Bottom, Journey, Leaves at Rim
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Bottom, Little Dots
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Bottom, Square with Three Dots
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Bottom, Square with Dot at Side
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Rim, Broad Leaf Below
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Rim, Mountain, Three Dots in Line
7. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Mountain, Square with Dot
Promotion and Letter With Money or Good News
8. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Heart and Dots
Voyage Leading to Happy Marriage
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Heart, Ring, Leaves at Rim
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Ring and Triangle
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Cat and Letter
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Dog and Three Dots in a Line
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