Taseomancy, or the art of coffee grain and tea leaf reading is a craft that has been practiced for centuries if not millennia. Some use it as a form of divination and others merely to gain some insight into the mind and into circumstance that is external to themselves.
As a species we have tendency towards pattern recognition, and in the chaos that is our world it allows us to grasp a semblance of order by piecing together disparate parts of the puzzle of life.
It is not so much the telling of a fortune, as it is the reading of a story. The Avenue to unpack the unconscious mind through a conduit that gives you the opportunity to do so.
Be it through the leaves of tea and the grains of coffee, the symbols in the archetypes and cards, or the threads that lay bear your inner workings from the sleeping mind, The Djinn explores with you the symbols, their meanings and the insight they let us glean.
Paying homage to tradition but unbound by it, embracing the old world and the new. Leaning into the philosophies and the sciences, the psychology and the neurology, the spiritual and the mundane, history mythology and human nature, The Djinn irreverently uses the tools of this world to help peer through the cracks of reality.
Some take this with a grain of salt, others place on it a weight that guides their path, but all get to enjoy this ancient craft shared by cultures around the world and persistently maintaining its relevance through the eons, be it for a laugh or a revelation, and a lot of the time both.
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.
Karl Kraus
Entrance into the Old Ways begins with the pricking of a finger with a rose thorn, which produces a drop of blood. This opens the way into the Thorned Path, a system, which uses five rose thorns to symbolize the five arts of Witchcraft that one should master. These arts are Herbalist, Fortune-Teller, Spirit Medium, Mystic, and Magician. We call mastering these aspects ‘the gathered thorns’ –thus the Thorned Path.
Raven Grimassi
