One rule can be safely made for guidance on this point. Do not minimise
danger when a timely warning may avert an accident, or other misfortune,
nor should symbols of ill omen be exaggerated. As students become
proficient, they will find many meanings in the tea-leaves in addition
to those which they learn from this book. Much will depend upon
circumstances and individual temperaments.

These personally discovered meanings should be carefully noted and
verified with events as they occur.

It is necessary to remember that divination by the tea-cup is by no
means limited to personal information. Forthcoming public events are
frequently revealed. This adds largely to the interest and usefulness of
the divination. It is important to point out this to consultants, so
that they may not be too ready to fix the whole reading of their cups to
purely personal matters. It will be found that public news is usually
foretold in the cups of those who seek information of the future as a
regular practice.

For those who rarely do so, private affairs alone will appear, probably
without even a forecast of the weather to be expected within the next
few days.

It is a curious fact that the wider knowledge should seem to be reserved
for those who practise divination constantly, but so it is.

Some remarkable instances of the accurate foretelling of public events,
which have quite recently been brought to my notice, may be interesting.