Tıme for Fun 2 - Turkish Coffee Readings

Turkish coffee is a great pleasure after a delicious meal. Although some people may prefer espresso, the fortune telling from the coffee cup makes it favorable for many.

It's very easy and it's not very easy to prepare a cup of Turkish coffee.
First you need the ground coffee that comes from Turkey.

Then you have to have a cezve (pronounced as "jazz" with a short a + "ve" of vehicle) which is a pot designed specifically to make Turkish coffee.
After that, it's measuring one (coffee) cup of water (at room temperature) and a teaspoon of ground coffee; adding no sugar for "sade" (meaning black with no sugar; pronounced something like sudeigh), 1/2 cube of sugar for "az sekerli "(low sugar, pronounced something like Oz shaquerly), 1 cube of sugar for "orta" (meaning medium sweet, pronounce aurtah, last sylabble like Utah) and 2 cubes or more of sugar for "sekerli" (meaning sweet, pronounced as shaquerly) and bringing it to a near boil first to pour the foam to the cup and then boiling it two more times and filling the cup 1/3 at a time.

If you do all this carefully, you will have a great tasting coffee with a thick foam.

If you don't want to put so much effort for a cup of coffee, there's the coffee machines too. 

Now for the fortune telling part...

After you drink your coffee, at the bottom of the cup, a residue is left; this, you don't drink, it's a little dry and leaves a funny taste if you insist on drinking it or eating it with a spoon.

You take your cup, put its plate on top of it and turn it over just like this:

You wait 5-10 minutes and then you check with your fingers if the bottom of the cup has cooled. (You can put a coin or another metal on top of it to speed this up.)
When it's cooled, you separate the cup from the plate. If it resists, you leave it and predict that the wish of the cup's owner is already granted and this reading isn't necessary.)

If you can turn the cup over easily, then you shake the excess coffee  and you start to comment on the images you make out of the shapes you see in the cup. 

We both can see a ballerina, and I can say "you'll be attending a ballet recital" whereas you can see it as her taking ballet lessons, and while someone else sees it as "being so happy and starting to dance"...
Whatever comes to mind is correct.

Inside of the cup might look like this

Or like this...

If you know anything about meditating, try to relax before the reading.

There are no rules, as I've said before, whatever comes to your mind is meant to be.

Just a reminder, I have a rule of not saying anything that would make people upset and worry unnecessarily.
At the end of the day, we are here to have a pleasant time, aren't we??

Now I'll give you a few hints to get you started:

- A bird, and a fish both mean "good news". With fish it takes longer. 

- Straight horizantal lines mean "communication".

- Snake is "enemy".

- Lumps of coffee on the cup mean "money" or depending on their shape might mean the owner of the cup would get a present, a car, a house, a yacht or whatever the image makes you think.

- Flame means "a big love".

- Tree means "long and happy life ahead".

- Light bulb means "end of troubles."

This was Coffee Cup Reading 101, there will be more to come. 

Enjoy!