Casual Little Miracles

THE BLURB:
They've Done It Again!

Hard on the heels of their recent book "Quick Commercial
Card Readings" comes the newest from two of the best minds
in the business. Another in their series of "real world"
books on readings, Larry and Ron have focused this time on
tea leaf readings. And it's more than "just a book" -- it
contains everything you need to set up at least one business
(more about this in just a moment) as a professional reader.

As a publisher and editor, it was fascinating to see CASUAL
LITTLE MIRACLES evolve from a simple premise -- how to do
tea leaf readings -- into a comprehensive treatise on how to
combine multiple systems for amazingly accurate and
effective readings for a number of different settings.

"Tea leaf readings!?!" you might ask. "Aren't they kind of
... archaic? You know, little old lady stuff?"

Fine. Don't buy this. Then wonder why your competition is
getting all the repeat business you are still struggling
for.

To paraphrase a classic commercial, "This ain't your
grandmother's tea leaf reading system." Needless to say,
when Larry and Ron take on the subject of tea leaf readings,
they inject a lot of creative thinking into the process.

Multiple Systems for the Serious Worker

Both Ron and Larry have been approached over the years to
provide tea leaf readings, but they (and party organizers)
quickly realized that you couldn't hurry a roomful of
clients through a quick tea leaf reading like you can with
card or palm readings. So they tackled the problem of how to
give more readings per hour, and in the process developed a
number of systems for this purpose.

Along with other "hidden systems" that they've used so
successfully in other kinds of readings, they realized that
many of their new systematic methods, with only a little
re-engineering, could also be used to give many other kinds
of reliable and satisfying client readings. In this book,
you'll find several methods -- some very simple, others
requiring a bit more study -- that makes finding things to
say to a client a breeze. These are (like using a memorized
deck in card magic) for the most part methods that offer
nothing visible to your client.

And here's the best part: these systems are fully applicable
to readings vastly different than just tea leaves. Whatever
system you might be comfortable with, these methods will
give you more information than you'll probably ever need for
any client ... or several dozen clients, for that matter.

Take a look at the Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: The Basic Requirements
Chapter 2: The Ritual
Chapter 3: The Setting
Chapter 4: Reading the Leaves
Chapter 5: Cup Maps
Chapter 6: Common Sense Symbol Interpretations
Chapter 7: The Tea Leaf Reading
Chapter 8: Unseen Systems
Chapter 9: Larry's Triple Prediction
Chapter 10: The Universal Shapes Strategy
Chapter 11: The Tarot Tableau
Chapter 12: Ron & Larry's Tarot Card Meanings
Chapter 13: Qabalah Connection
Chapter 14: Ceromancy/Diloggun
Chapter 15: Cowrie Shell Readings
Chapter 16: Further Ideas

As you can see, there's a whole lot more than just tea leaf
reading in this book, including the answer to the age-old
question ... "How do I distinguish myself from every other
reader in my area?"

How To Set Up A Tea Leaf Reading Business

Start with the comprehensive "how-to" information that will
turn you into an expert tea leaf reader in no time at all.
Larry and Ron take you from the very beginning -- the right
cup, the right tea, the "no-brainer" systematic approach to
reading the tea leaves, how and where to present tea leaf
readings, plus a lot more. Then, add the
professionally-designed extras that make the difference
between the run-of-the-mill reader and the professional,
including:

• A full-color table display that doubles as a cue sheet

• A table tent card for group gatherings

• A tea leaf reading handout for every client

• A full-size, 18-page pitch book for additional sales

Admittedly, it would take a good deal of memorization and
years of experience to remember the hundreds of possible
things you might see in a client's cup. But with the
full-color table display that Larry and Ron have designed
for you, you'll be able to give detailed readings from the
very beginning. While it looks like a professional table
display for the benefit of the client, there is a
deceptively simple cue sheet built right in, allowing you to
talk for as long or as short as the situation calls for.
You'll be able to talk about things that matter to them:
conflicts, loves, careers, home, family, events and more.

Every client walks away from their reading with a
professionally-designed handout that includes not only
details on their personal reading, but everything they need
to contact you for future business. And, to establish you as
an instant expert on tea leaf reading, there's a full-size
(8.5" x 11") pitch book that comes in both Microsoft Word
and Adobe Reader PDF formats, so you can customize it with
your own contact and marketing information.

By the way, the tea leaf reading pitch book doubles as a
script for giving lucrative "Tea Leaf Reading" classes and
workshops; Ron has been doing this for a while now, with
great results.

And that's just in the first seven chapters of this 116-page
e-book! If all you wanted to do was open a tea leaf reading
business, everything you need could be found in this book.
But, as they say on the TV infomercials, wait ... there's
more:

The Unseen Systems

A lot of people might have stopped there, and had a very
useful book on how to read tea leaves. But Larry and Ron are
just getting started! Building on the first seven chapters,
they proceed to show you how to weave in additional unseen
reading systems to make the reading even more personal,
including numerology, body type theory, the Universal Shapes
Strategy, the Qabalah, and ... the Tarot.

That's right -- the Tarot.

Larry reveals for the first time his ingenious Tarot
Tableau, a system that can be used stand-alone, if desired,
to provide easy, unique readings for an unlimited number of
people. Used with the tea leaf reading system, however,
Larry's system allows you to create an even more detailed
layer of meaning for your client.

And, in the interest of making this book even more of a
"turnkey" solution, Larry and Ron have devoted a chapter to
their own meanings for the Major Arcana, including lines
from their own professional repetoires.

As Ron says at the end of Chapter Thirteen ("The Qabalah
Connection") ...

"With the common-sense meanings of the original symbols,
adding the numerology information, the Tarot Tableau, the
Qabalah images and your intuition, you should be able to
read anything!"

No kidding.

But we're not done yet ...

How To Wax Poetically

Chapter Fourteen of CASUAL LITTLE MIRACLES teaches you ...
step-by-step ... the ancient art of Wax Reading, based on a
system taught to Larry by an authentic Santeria
practitioner. This very dramatic presentation of divination
is perfect for entertainment venues such as theme parties,
Mardi Gras and Halloween events. This chapter includes a
reprint of the actual chart given to Larry by the Santeria
reader, plus how the five Santeria deities correspond to
numerology, the Tarot and the Earth elements.

In addition, you'll learn how to apply tea leaf reading
techniques to wax and cowrie shell readings, and as icing on
the cake, Ron has designed a beautiful full-color Ceromancy
chart that will look great on your reading table.

For Every Skill Level

Although Ron and Larry are consummate pros who have years of
experience, this book is designed to be immediately useful
for a wide range of people, from the beginner to the
experienced professional. It's for readers, mentalists,
magicians, and everyone in between.

Whatever kind of commercial readings you may do, you should
have this book in your library -- and in your mind! Written
in the usual comprehensive, "no-filler" Martin Baukin style,
this is a book you will come back to again and again.

Each "CASUAL LITTLE MIRACLES" Package includes:

• The CASUAL LITTLE MIRACLES e-book (naturally!)

• Tea Leaf Reading table card

• "Reading Tea Leaves" pitch book/workshop guide

• Tea Leaf Reading tick sheet/handout

• Tarot Tableau cue sheet

• Authentic Ceromancy chart

MY COMMENTS:
This is a must-have book for anyone who's interested in
doing quick, interesting readings, especially tea-leaf
readings. This is one of those types of readings that
readers think is very archaic and unpopular, but nothing
could be further from the truth. The image of gypsys, or
other fortune-tellers, reading tea leaves is one that many
laymen know and are quite interested in. In this follow up
to QUICK COMMERCIAL CARD READINGS, Ron Martin & Larry Baukin
have provided an incredible package of information that's
pretty much all you need to know about putting on, and
profiting from, tea reading parties.

The blurb is accurate. Not only do you get the 117 page
e-book that contains everything you need to know about
tea-leaf readings, but you get a pitch book, a clever table
card, and a tick sheet to be used in a handout. As the
blurb says though, you get more than just tea-leaf reading
info. There's ceromancy (candle drippings into water on a
plate) and the Universal Shapes Strategy. Finally, there is
Larry's Triple Prediction and the Tarot Tableau, which will
enable one to do very quick readings based on Tarot but
without the need for any card to be selected. For those who
are into readings, you get quite a bit for your money and I
certainly recommend this.