Hello. I am catherine yronwode and this is a catalogue of the material culture of fortune telling, with an emphasis on the lesser-known and more unusual forms of divination, especially as perpetuated through my own collection of ephemeral artifacts of the 19th and 20th centuries.
This site is a book-end or companion-piece to The Mystic Tea Room , my web site devoted to the material culture of tea leaf reading or tasseomancy.
The unique spelling of Your Wate and Fate -- that is, the substitution of Wate for Weight -- comes from the slogan on the narrow side-panel of an American Scale Company penny scale that i happen to have in my downstairs bathroom.
The Mystic Tea Room - Mystic Tea Room
The Mystic Tea Room - Mystic Tea Room
Your Wate and Fate
The Mystic Tea Room - Mystic Tea Room
The Mystic Tea Room - Mystic Tea Room
The Mystic Tea Room - Mystic Tea Room
The Mystic Tea Room - Mystic Tea Room
The Mystic Tea Room - Mystic Tea Room
The Mystic Tea Room - Mystic Tea Room