Turkish coffee reading

Since I've started to write this blog, I've been receiving many emails, comments and messages from visitors to read their cups. Tough I tried my best to answer all those requests, it reaches to an almost impossible point to reply all of them.

On the other hand, It really became hard to keep this blog live without support.

To solve both of these problems, here is the solution. Please make a donation to my blog, if you want me to read your Turkish coffee cup. After the donation, please send me photo or video of your cup with and indication of the donation date. I hope you understand and support me.

Thanks. :-)

Meaning of Symbols at Turkish Coffee Fortune-Telling

Traditionally, it is believed symbols created by the grounds left in the cup have some meanings. There are hundres of them. I summarize some of the most popular ones and their meanings:

• Angel: Good news and happiness approaching.
• Ant: Determination in an activity will bear fruit.
• Baby: Minor worries will occupy you.
• Ball: Someone known to you involved with sport or short periods of luck and misfortune.
• Beans: Financial difficulties.
• Bear: If it's facing handle: Think carefully about new decisions. If it's looking away from handle: You will go on an important journey.
• Bee: You will make new friends and hear good news. If it's near handle means old friends are gathering. If it's going away from the handle then it means old friends are seeking you.
• Beetle: A difficult task will test your mettle.
• Bell: Surprising news.
• Bird: News.
• Butterfly: You've a changeable friend. You should move together.
• Candle: Another person will help you succeed. Knowledge and learning.
• Cat: A quarrel will disrupt your life but only for a short time.
• Chain: A legal union, a marriage or business partnership.
• Chair: An unforeseen guest.
• Circle: Success coming around.
• Claw: Enemy.
• Clover: Affection.
• Daisy: Love.
• Devil or horns: Beware of influential people around you. Danger approaches.
• Dog: Good, reliable friends. Faithful partner. If it's near bottom of cup means your friends need your help.
• Dolphin: Good news.
• Eagle: Great improvements in your life.
• Ear: Surprising news will reach you.
• Earring: Careful explanation needed.
• Egg: Wealth and success.
• Eye: Envy, jealousy.
• Face: Concern for you by a loved one.
• Fish: Financial good news.
• Flag: Danger-in-wait.
• Fruit: Prosperity in your endeavors.
• Gate: Opportunities for success.
• Garland: Success.
• Hand: Friendship and family.
• Heart: Love, faith and trust.
• Horse: Nobelness.
• Key: You may move. If it's near a leaf then you have to be silent nowadays.
• Knife: Enemies plotting. Danger ahead.
• Letter: Good financial news coming.
• Lines: If line is straight, trouble free progress. If it's wavy then it points out difficult progress.
• Man: Money.
• Monkey: Curiosity.
• Moon: If it's full, love. If it's crescent then religious calling.
• Owl: Disreputable person. Scandal.
• Pear: Financial security.
• Purse: You will receive money, but you've to save it.
• Ring: Marriage. Broken ring means marriage in trouble.
• Scissors: Arguments in the home.
• Spider: Unexpected money on its way.
• Square: Happy marriage.
• Star: Journey or investment.
• Sun: Power. Success. Rising sun means sudden success.
• Sword: Enemies will fall.
• Tie: Happy news, such as engagement.
• Tree: Changes for the better on there way.
• Triangle: A change is coming.
• Y (as letter): A friend will stop by suddenly and bring good news.
• Wheel: Fortunes will change.
• Wild animal: Ambition.

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Fortune-Telling with Turkish Coffee

You just finished your delicious coffee. Does your coffee experience end here?? If it's not Turkish coffee, the answer is definitely yes. But in case of Turkish coffee, your adventure continues even after last sip of the coffee :-)

Along with way it is ground and almost boiled, Turkish coffee is unique as it allows your fortune to be told by looking at the cup!

Coffee and fortune-telling? I know it sounds a little bit strange. But, reading future from Turkish coffee cup (fincan) is an ancient tradition in Turkey. Also, around the world Turkish coffee is the most known way of tasseography.

The idea behind Turkish coffee fortune-telling (kahve fali) is actually very simple. It is believed that the shapes and patterns left by the grounds on the cup and saucer have some meanings.

Here is the step-by-step explanation of Turkish coffee fortune-telling:

• The person whose future will be read should drink the coffee. The person should be in a relax mood and drink it slowly. (Actually, Turkish coffee NEVER should not be drunk in hurry! It's a drink for complete pleasure...) Also, the coffee should be drunk always from the same side of the cup.
• After the last sip, put the saucer on top of the Turkish coffee cup and make a wish. Traditionally, at this step, the person says "Let my fortune match my state!" :)
• With the saucer still covering the top, the cup is held at chest level and turned counter-clockwise a few times. Then, turn the saucer and the cup upside down (flip over).
• Wait until the cup cool. Sometimes a coin may be placed on top to make the cup cool faster and to dispel bad omens that could be read from it. Then remove the saucer and look into the cup. Fortune teller predict the future according to the symbols created by the coffee ground left in the cup.
• Starting from the cup's handle, imagine a horizontal and vertical lines. So, you have four different imaginary areas in the cup.
• Look at the symbols clockwise.
• The symbols that stay at right hand side of your imaginary vertical line are read as positive things. The ones staying at left hand side are negative.
• The symbols staying over the imaginary horizontal line are interpreted as things that will happen in the short-run. The symbols, which are below the line, are believed to happen in the long-run.
• Color of the grounds has also a meaning. Light color means the wish will become true easily.
• After reading the cup, the symbols over the saucer can be read too. To do it, first, drain coffee residue in the saucer. Then, hold the saucer vertical, not horizontal, and start to read the symbols. Some people believe that the saucer reading is just to verify things read from the cup.

In Turkey, it's believed that some "special" people can read fortune from the cup better than others. Even there are people make fortune telling out of coffee cups professionally.

There are some common believes about certain types of symbols. However, two different people can read the same cup and saucer in a different way. Because, the crucial point of fortune-telling from Turkish coffee is to put your personal interpretation.

There's a Turkish proverb "Don't believe in fortune telling, but don't disregard it, either!" :)

Here are meanings of symbols at Turkish Coffee Fortune-Telling.


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Tasseography - Fortune Telling with Coffee

Do you want to look at your future from your coffee cup? Just prepare your Turkish coffee, drink it, and then read the articles below to read your future! :-)

▪ Fortune-Telling with Turkish Coffee
Basics of reading future from Turkish coffee cup

▪ Meaning of Symbols at Turkish Coffee Fortune-Telling
Explaining meanings of symbols at coffee reading