Astrology | Aura | Body | Cartomancy | Coffee Grounds | Colour | Crystals | Crystal Ball / Skrying | Crystals | Face | Handwriting Analysis | I-Ching | Medium | Numerology | Palm | Pendulum | Psychic / Intuitive | Runes | Spiritual | Tarot | Tea Leaf | Telepathy

There are over 80 reading tools or divination methods available for any reader anywhere to use. The following twenty-one are the most known to the general public and are tools that a 3 of Cups reader is likely to use.

All tools can look at a number of different life areas such as work, career, business, love, finances, health, family, relationships, past lives, predictions, and personality as well as social, local, and world events such as politics, sports, and weather. Some tools are ancient wisdom while others use psychic or beyond our world wisdom. There is no one tool that is better than the other. In fact, it's the reader, their approach and personality, personal preference, and expertise using the tool that is most important in a reading.

One thing that is important to keep in mind is that the outcome a 3 of Cups reader strives for is meaningful personalized entertainment with accurate results. Ultimately it doesn't matter which tool (Tarot, Astrology, Palmistry for example) that we use because they all lead to the same goal: entertaining your guests and providing accurate insights.

Think of a reading tool (Tarot, Numerology, Palmistry) like a writing tool (pencil, pen, marker). Depending on the situation and desired effect, a pencil may be better than a pen but ultimately both reach the goal of making thoughts tangible on a piece of paper. So unless an event requires a specific effect, any of our reading tools will reach the same objective of providing quality accurate event entertainment.

Having said that some tools make more sense to be used than others. For example, if you are having a High Tea, a Tea Leaf Reader would be a perfect fit for the ladies or if you are a Pen manufacture, a Handwriting Analyst would wow your clients at a trade show. And lets say it's Chinese New Year, an I-Ching Reader entertaining your guests really fits the theme. However, in 50-75% of the events we do ANY tool can be used with wonderful effect so please be open minded in this.

Astrology

Did you know there were more than eight different astrologies like Chinese, Western, Arabic, Vedic, and Celtic? Astrology is most used in an event setting as a tool to analyze character and personality traits, advising on suitable careers, and best love matches just by knowing a guest's zodiac sun sign. However, some readers are able to either print up a full report or use a computer to delve more deeply into the area of guest interest. TOP

Aura

Everyone has an aura or energy about them. Some readers can feel or see this aura. The aura can be seen or felt as many different colours and each colour tells a different story about the guest. TOP

Body

Every gesture and movement of your body has meaning and your body is speaking all the time. Body language lets us know all sorts of things about you like whether you are happy, sad, indifferent, skeptical, open, closed, bored, uncomfortable, fearful, etc.. Many readers understand body language as we tend to be very strong observers of the human condition. Reading body language helps us build rapport with others and get into their space so that the reading can be a stronger impact. TOP

Cartomancy

Cartomancy is similar to Tarot in that a) it uses cards and b) it's the minor or 56 card section of the Tarot. When someone thinks of a Fortune Teller this is one of the tools that comes to mind of an old Gypsy lady reading the future. Cartomancy usually uses a normal playing deck with the symbols of hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades; numbers, three court cards, and a Joker. There are no pictures on the cards except for the Joker. TOP

Coffee Grounds

Turkish, Greek, or Arabic coffee leaves a thick substance at the bottom of the cup after drinking and by using a certain method of turning the cup over and then back again it leaves symbols and pictures that can be read. Psychics often use this tool for focusing their sense. TOP

Colour

What colour is your top or shirt today? The colours you wear tell a lot about how you are feeling today or in general. For example Pink can signify the desire to be loved while blue can say "I need a rest", "I want to tone down my excitable energy", or maybe "I'm feeling unhappy". A colour therapist is able to help a guest choose colours for their clothing and environment that improve their love life, health, career, financial condition, learning ability, etc.. TOP

Crystal Ball / Skrying

Skrying can use anything that reflects. What's interesting about skrying though is that the reader is bypassing the reflection and manifesting a cloudy or swirly substance out of which symbols and pictures arise to be interpreted. Examples of skrying tools are crystal balls, mirrors, a bowl of water and ink, or a glass. Psychics often use this tool for focusing their sense. TOP

Crystal

Crystals and gems from the earth are quite magical. Crystals and gems have certain metaphysical properties related to the human condition and experience. In crystal magic a number of stones or cards with stones on them can be tossed about and the guest can be told about an area of life that needs improving and how to go about improving it. TOP

Face

Have you ever had someone really "look" at you and then you felt understood? Perhaps they were giving you a Face Reading. When we read a face we are looking for markings and features rather than expressions and movement. Face reading is different from body language. Your face is more like a map in that it tells us where you have been, where you are, and where you are going. It is most often used for personality readings; however, it can look at the energies and behaviours brought to situations, interests, and life events as well. Face reading originates in China, as many divination tools have! TOP

Handwriting

Handwriting Analysis or Graphology is often used to look at samples of the guests writing to determine personality traits and behaviours. TOP

I-Ching

The book of changes is a collection of wise words edited and authored from various ancient wisdom guides such as Confucius. I-Ching can be used to divine through the Bibliomancy method, use Chinese coins, or Yarrow stalks (the most traditional, time consuming, and involved method). TOP

Medium

A medium mainly connects with passed over loved ones. They can also connect with spirit guides, angels, and other entities beyond the veil to help a guest with a problem or issue. A psychic is not necessarily a medium and this is an important thing to know as there's often confusion about this. A medium's purpose is to confirm that there is life beyond the world we live in.

Numerology

Have you ever wondered what your mission was in life? Numerology uses a guests birth date and/or name to divine all sorts of things such as career path, how you love and live, personality traits & behaviours, a past life, and why you were born. There are many forms of numerology from different parts of the world. Pythagoras brought numerology to the western world. TOP

Palm

Palmistry looks at your guests whole hand or hands -- palm, fingers, fingerprints, markings, etc.. When someone thinks of a Fortune Teller this is one of the tools that comes to mind of an old Gypsy lady reading the future. Often the first place a palm reader will go to speak of babies, marriage, life, health, and career is to the hand. However, as with every tool palmistry to speak of a guests character, personality, behaviour, love life, career, finances, etc.. in the past, present, and/or future. TOP

Pendulum

Did anyone you knew ever try to find out if someone was going to have a boy or a girl with a needle and a string? They were divining the answer through a pendulum which uses the reader's intuition and subconscious to access the answer. A pendulum is a weighted object usually made of metal, crystal, or wood that is attached to a string usually made of cloth or metal. The pendulum will swing in various directions which is often used to answer close ended questions. TOP

Psychic / Intuitive

The word or term Psychic is both an umbrella word for Psychics, Intuitives, Fortune tellers, Sooth-sayers, Seers, Diviners, Oracles, Gypsies Mystics, Spiritualists, Mediums, as well as by the tool a reader may use: Astrologist, Cartomancer, Coffee Grounds Reader, Crystal Ball Reader, Face Reader, Handwriting Analyst, Numerologist, Palm Reader, Tarot Reader, Tea Leaf Reader. However, Psychic also means (and perhaps is reflective of the most accurate use of the term) the abiltiy to use a normal sense to a heightened degree and in unusual ways.

Sight = Clairvoyance, Feeling/Touch = Clairsentience, Hearing = Clairaudient, Knowing = Claircognizance, Tasting = Clairgustance, and Smelling = Clairalience.

Many times people will ask for a Clairvoyant as that tends to be the most understood psychic sense -- probably because it appears to be the most dramatic. However, any psychic sense used well makes not one sense better than the other. The psychic part in our company name 3 of Cups Psychic Event Entertainment is reflective of the umbrella term and most popularly understood meaning of the word psychic though it's not the most accurate term as just read.

“Intuition is a combination of historical (empirical) data, deep and heightened observation, and an ability to cut through the thickness of surface reality. Intuition is like a slow motion machine that captures data instantaneously and hits you like a ton of bricks. Intuition is a knowing, a sensing that is beyond the conscious understanding — a gut feeling. Intuition is not pseudo-science.”

An Intuitive is quite a rational person. TOP

Runes

Runes are a set of symbols or alphabet that was often originally used in agriculture, for daily life messages, labelling, and more. Runes for divination usually comes in the forms of stones often made of wood, bark, leather, rock, wax, or gem and are tossed about to get assistance and messages. Runes originates as a Nordic and nature tool. TOP

Spiritual

Spiritual readings are similar to mediumship readings but can also include counseling guests on enjoying their life more or healing guests through various practices such as Buddhism, meditation, Reiki, medical intuition, and other methods. Spiritual readings can also use ancient wisdom tools to help guests find their higher self. TOP

Tarot

The Tarot is a collection of cards which contain an allegory / story of life milestones, mystical experience, archetypes, and more. Some Tarot decks have picture stories on all cards while others only have symbols similar to playing cards. In fact, many say that Tarot originates from games that used a playing deck. Tarot has it's physical origins and/or popularity in the Renaissance period (1400-1500's) and it re-emerged in popularity in the late 1800's and into the 1900's. Tarot is still wildly popular in the modern person's mind. When someone thinks of a Fortune Teller this is one of the tools that comes to mind of an old Gypsy lady reading the future. Tarot is useful for telling the story of a guests life from past, present, and future as well as past lives. TOP

Telepathy

Tea Leaf

Tea leaves can unlock the subconsious and higher mind by using a certain method of turning the cup over and then back again and then reading the symbols and pictures that are left behind. Psychics often use this tool for focusing their sense.  When the guests will not be actually drinking the tea, the reader will supply a few tea cups, plates, and other items as well as the actual tea to be used in the reading.  When the guests will be actually drinking the tea, the organizer will supply the tea, cups, plates, and most other items.  We will give instructions on what exactly is needed. TOP

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