After enjoying the taste of your Turkish coffee, the old fortune-telling ritual begins. Right after taking the last sip of your well-cooked coffee, the coffee plate must be closed on top of the cup. Put down the closed cup on a flat surface for it to cool off. Touch the cup from its top (I said top because it's placed upside down) in a certain period of time to check whether it's cooled off or not.
Once it's cool, you may wanna start looking inside the cup to see what's waiting for you :) I uploaded a picture for you to get an idea.
So this is my cup as you can see :) I drank my coffee and put the cup upside down on its plate. When it was ready I lifted the cup and here is the result.. From this part, it's up to your imagination. But there are some images which are symbols of things. For example:
- Horse / horse head: mean that your aim, wish, desire... what ever you call it will become true.
-Turtle: means that you will move your house or make any kind of difference in your house.
-Key: means that you'll buy something with a key... a car or a house.
-Ring: means you'll get engaged or married, or someone around you will.
-Small lines going to the edge of your cup: means you will travel, or set off on a journey, or someone close to you will, or you'll get a visitor.
-White paper: means you'll have news from government, maybe you'll get the job you applied to, or you'll get money from the government.
-Fish: means money :)
So you got the idea now, symbols are obvious, you just have to use your imagination and guess what symbols are telling to you.
When you are finished with the cup, take your plate, and pour what's left on it into your cup. You may wanna guess what the shapes on the plate are telling you..
Be sure to clean your cup and plate once the fortune telling is finished. It's believed that it's bad luck not to wash them..
Enjoy your coffee :)
Once it's cool, you may wanna start looking inside the cup to see what's waiting for you :) I uploaded a picture for you to get an idea.
So this is my cup as you can see :) I drank my coffee and put the cup upside down on its plate. When it was ready I lifted the cup and here is the result.. From this part, it's up to your imagination. But there are some images which are symbols of things. For example:
- Horse / horse head: mean that your aim, wish, desire... what ever you call it will become true.
-Turtle: means that you will move your house or make any kind of difference in your house.
-Key: means that you'll buy something with a key... a car or a house.
-Ring: means you'll get engaged or married, or someone around you will.
-Small lines going to the edge of your cup: means you will travel, or set off on a journey, or someone close to you will, or you'll get a visitor.
-White paper: means you'll have news from government, maybe you'll get the job you applied to, or you'll get money from the government.
-Fish: means money :)
So you got the idea now, symbols are obvious, you just have to use your imagination and guess what symbols are telling to you.
When you are finished with the cup, take your plate, and pour what's left on it into your cup. You may wanna guess what the shapes on the plate are telling you..
Be sure to clean your cup and plate once the fortune telling is finished. It's believed that it's bad luck not to wash them..
Enjoy your coffee :)
