Tea Leaf Reading
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Learn how to read tea leaves (and develop a sought after, fun skill) Workshops and frivolity conducted by Megan Bayliss (BSW, Dip SOC, MAASW, TAE) www.meganbayliss.thejunkwave.com Learn how to read tea leaves is a 2-hour bonus workshop offered to attendees of Megan’s Founding Astounding workshops, wherever they are held across Australia. Facebook: Founding Astounding Instagram PDCoachBayliss Tea Leaf Reading: Tea and coffee drinking is part of our social fabric – a shared hot drink seems to halve problems, isolation and loneliness. But even more so, reading the left-over tea leaves/coffee grinds is fun. It draws connections between people, helps us all to think intuitively and is a most delicious way to spend time with a friend, mentor or family. Once upon a time, gatherings of women used to gaze at the magical images that their tea leaves produced, and they would intuitively interpret what those images meant in day to day life. Ribbing each other about lovers, secrets, holidays or impending pregnancies, these women formed strong bonds and aided the development of intuitive links between each other and each other’s families – there is no mistaking in the history of tea leaf reading that friendships and support systems aided emotional intelligence. With the introduction of tea bags, the delightful skill of tea leaf reading (also known as tasseomancy and tasseography) almost dried out (pun intended) ...with it went the importance placed on intuition. Isn’t it time then that we all started to take tea with our friends and reconnect with our inner voice, our feelings, our intuition, our emotional intelligence? Not only have we today forgotten to befriend our intuition we have also forgotten to spend time in a group with friends. Shame on us! The aim of this tea leaf reading workshop is to introduce you to new people, to facilitate the making of new friends, to teach you the link between what you see, what you feel and your interpretation of that. In short, we aim to reconnect you with your inner voice. About the workshop facilitator: My name is Megan Bayliss. I am a Social Worker and Personal Development Coach by profession with expertise in child protection for sexual assault and the teaching of emotional intelligence. I am published and have written a protective program around using intuition to keep us safe. I am a mother of four and a grandmother to five. I have no special psychic skills, but I am an intuitive and I am experienced and trained in helping people to interpret and rearrange the symbolic nature of their lives. I am not a professional tea leaf reader, a gypsy or a psychic. Tea leaf pictures are symbols: a means of gaining self-knowledge and a deeper understanding of the hidden causes behind how we see the world. Just as I have read the symbols in 30 years of counselling stories and sand plays, so too I now help you read the symbols that turn up in your finished cups of tea…..now pass the cake will you, because tea is best taken in the ritualistic company of friends who can do the passing. Megan Bayliss [email protected] https://www.meganbayliss.thejunkwave.com/ What to expect if you have a workshop The workshop will run for 2 hours and is only offered to people who attend any of Megan’s two-day workshops, wherever they are held. The evening gathering will begin with the selection of a symbol card and each person will briefly talk about the picture they selected and why. This is to loosen your mind, soften your eye & assist with symbolic interpretation: all in preparation for the seeing and feeling of meaning in the tea leaves. Over supper, Megan will share the role of symbolism in modern day life and the gloriousness of the abundance of symbols around us. You in turn will talk to those present, about what ever takes your fancy. Friendships are established by first meeting, then talking and then feeling the goodness of the other person. After your loose-leaf tea has been consumed, your instructions begin. All I am willing to tell you now is: leave just a tea spoon of liquid in your cup and a saucer free from rubbish. The ritual and process of the reading will be shared when we are all together. I do not get to read every single person’s cup – rather, the workshop is about teaching you how to read tea leaves. Whereas I will get to demonstrate my intuitive eye in a couple of cups, I will then mingle with you as you each attempt to interpret what you see in your own or another person’s cup. I will be there to help and offer further intuitions of course. If you would like me to read/teach your group of friends, then you need to attend one of my Founding Astounding Workshops WITH your friends. Contact me at [email protected], 0422594018, or via my web site, https://www.meganbayliss.thejunkwave.com/ to discover where my next bonus tea leaf reading workshop is. WARNING - Laughter is mandatory: I have done a lot of training and teaching throughout my career, including having taught at University. In all of my trainings, laughter is mandatory. Tea leaf reading is fun. Enjoy your Tea, relax, make some new friends and you will notice that your eye softens and your intuition arcs up – it is only in this state that you will be able to see what the tea leaves reveal. Megan Bayliss [email protected] https://www.meganbayliss.thejunkwave.com/ How to read the cup (teaography) The cup is divided into three height wise: • Bottom – Leaves creeping up the cup from the bottom suggest improving conditions. Dark clumps of leaves on the bottom may indicate heavy and buried issues so always look for the positive: a rise toward the surface. • Mid – The images that appear in this mid cup section are important – they hint at something central, something core about the drinker…it may be an event or a part of the person’s history. Rather significant though. Similarly, an up and down image may represent the normal ups and downs of the drinkers life. • Top – The closer the images to the rim, the stronger the outcome. When a leaf is sitting right on the rim, fantastic, it means that something is happening right now or within the next 24 hours. The other images hint at what it is so it is always important to read the entire geography of the cup. The cup is divided into even quarters around the circumference of the rim, starting at the handle and moving clockwise. Each quart represents a specific time period. While these quarts can be three months each or a week each, our readings are going to concentrate on the fun we will have within the next 24 hours. Therefore, you will read each quart as being 6 hours duration. • 0 – 6 hours • 7 – 12 hours • 13 – 18 hours • 19 – 24 hours The symbols closest to the handle and sitting close around the rim circumference refer to impending circumstances. Very exciting! The darker the tea leaf picture or leaf on the rim, the more powerful the symbolic suggestion is. Position and colour of images: A converse image (upside down and pointing toward the bottom of the cup) can mean the converse of the symbol is true or a weakening of the accepted symbolic traits. Images pointing straight to the top mean exactly that – you are heading straight to the top with whatever the symbolic interpretation is. Bubbles on the surface (of a full cup) mean money, honey, is coming your way. Megan Bayliss [email protected] https://www.meganbayliss.thejunkwave.com/ Lighter and brighter colours (there are grades of black even in black tea) are always more positive when juxtaposed against darker clumps or dots. Greenish leaves suggest a wonderfully energetic person or situation (the symbolic picture will guide you to know if it is a person or a situation). Bright brown or gold leaves indicate joy. Leaves creeping up the cup from the bottom suggest improving conditions. Dark clumps of leaves on the bottom may indicate heavy and buried issues so always look for the positive, look for the rise away and up toward the surface. The images that appear around the middle section are important – they hint at something central, something core about the drinker…it may be an event or a part of the person’s history. Rather significant though and areas that may need change. Similarly, an up and down image (like a series of joined w’s) may represent the normal ups and downs of the drinker’s life. The closer the images to the rim, the stronger the outcome. When a leaf is sitting right on the rim, fantastic, it means that something is happening right now or within the next 24 hours. The other images hint at what it is, so, it is always important to read the entire picture geography of the cup in relation to each other. The following guide of symbols: You may like to print out the remainder of this document and bring it to the workshop with you. It contains just some of the accepted interpretations of common tea leaf symbols: a guide to help you. Have you ever wondered why the leaves you got made such particular pictures in your cup? You called them; your subconscious has attracted them. They travelled from a bush to YOUR cup, held in YOUR hand.