Caffeomancy is a method of divination performed by reading coffee grounds. Already practiced in the East several centuries ago, it arrived in Italy (Florence) in the late 1600s and then quickly spread to the rest of Europe.
Divination is practiced using a Turkish coffee (made from a mixture of very fine coffee powder with water, to which spices and other procedures are added until a "syrupy" drink is obtained): the resulting mixture is served in a white porcelain cup with saucer, allowed to decant and cool and finally drunk without sugar. Having drunk the liquid part of the coffee, the residue of the coffee-water mixture is left at the bottom of the cup: at this point the drinker closes the cup with the saucer turned upside down by resting the fingers of his hand on it and making short rotations of the cup while concentrating on the aspects he wishes to know. When he feels ready, he turns the cup and saucer upside down on the table. The cup is allowed to rest upside down on the saucer at all times until its bottom has cooled, resting a finger on it to test its heat again. When the bottom of the cup is sufficiently cold, the cup is turned over and the coffee grounds are read.
There are various methods of reading the grounds: in general, the figures you have drawn inside the cup represent the future, while the residue slipped into the saucer represents the present situation.
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