tasseography , także: tasseomancy , także: tasseology

Tasseography with coffee is part of folk culture.

Tasseography or tasseomancy: by tea leaves or coffee grounds.

She has a dog called 'George', and likes to practise many esoteric arts, such as palm reading, tasseography and mind reading.

Some people consider it ill-advised for one to attempt tasseography using tea from a cut-open tea bag or to use a symbol dictionary.

Fenton, Sasha Tea Cup Reading: A Quick and Easy Guide to Tasseography.

The first inklings of Western tasseography can be traced to medieval European fortune tellers who developed their readings from splatters of wax, lead, and other molten substances.

Turkish coffee which is a hold-over from Ottoman times is often used the same way though with a twist of fortune telling called finjan which is a form of tasseography.

From the 1950s through the 1970s packages of Red Rose Tea included premiums, including at various times fortune telling tea cups with saucers, for use in tasseography; collectible tea cards; and small ceramic figurines by Wade Pottery, commonly called Wade figurines).

With his wife Litzka R. Gibson (née Gonser), he co-wrote The Complete Illustrated Book of the Psychic Sciences (Doubleday, 1966), a 404-page book which explains how to practice many popular forms of divination and fortune-telling, including astrology, tasseography, graphology, and numerology.