Coffee is an important part of Turkish culture. During the Ottoman period, the women living in the palace would organize coffee hours and make comments by adapting the grounds left at the bottom of the cup to their own lives by likening them to animals and shapes.
What is a coffee fortune? What are the materials we need for coffee fortune-telling? Let’s explore the details together.
What is a coffee fortune?
“Turkish Coffee” began to be drunk in Ottoman palaces during the reign of Yavuz Sultan Selim in 1517. This special coffee culture preserves its value for a long time in the palace cuisine. On the other hand, it is rumored that coffee fortune-telling first appeared in the Ottoman palaces.
What do you need to look for a coffee fortune?
First we will need a coffee cup and a good cup of coffee. In order to interpret coffee fortunes effectively, it must first be cooked in the consistency of coffee. The fact that the coffee grounds are low will greatly affect the shapes in the fortune telling.
How to look at coffee fortune?
There are some techniques that should be known to look for coffee fortunes. Before you start looking for coffee fortunes, the most important thing is to interpret the grounds well. The shapes created by the grounds sometimes remind a letter, sometimes a number, and sometimes animals for the fortune teller.
What are the coffee fortune-telling techniques?
Letters on the coffee fortune
If letters appear in the coffee fortune, this also points to some meanings. For example, the letter A is for resentment, the letter B for power, the letter C for a long journey, the letter C for separation, the letter D for loss, the letter E for conscience, the letter G for the need for prayer, the letter H for marriage, the letter N for the feeling of tension, the letter P for lies and deception, the letter S to meet new people, the letter V indicates being unhappy and sad
Numbers in coffee fortune
So what do the numbers mean in coffee fortune telling? Numbers usually indicate the time period associated with an event and also symbolize the number of people who come into your life. In coffee fortune, numbers are narrated to good and auspicious works. 0 indicates that expectations will not come true, 1 indicates love and goodness, 2 sickness and bad luck, 3 a successful life, 4 luck in life, 5 backbiting, 6 marriages, 7 domestic peace, 8 arguments and chaos, and 9 meeting new people.
Animals in a coffee fortune
Almost each of the animals seen in fortune-telling points to something different. Seeing a horse in a coffee fortune signifies nobility. Butterfly symbolizes short-term happiness, dog or wolf represents salvation from a difficult situation. While ladybugs indicate that there will be a fruitful period, seeing a bee symbolizes that one’s work will rise to the value it deserves. The mouse in the cup represents an unreliable personality, the monkey hypocrisy, and the predators represent greed and malice
Road in coffee fortune
If you see the way in the coffee fortune, it means a new beginning. On the other hand, if this road is a long winding road, it indicates that it will take time to create the conditions you want. If symbols appear around the road, comments can be formed accordingly. If there are seven paths in fortune telling, it indicates marriage, and if there is a pigeon at the end of the path, your fortune indicates that there will be news from far away.
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