MUMBAI: If you have already visited a dozen palmists, astrologers and tarot cards don’t seem to excite you so much, here’s somebody who has got a brand new way to gaze into your future.
  
But the way she does it definitely sounds a little weird: Soniyaa P Bhaagiyaa get a peek into your future by ‘judging’ the way you drink your tea! What’s more, Mumbai is slowly warming up to this new ‘technique’ of future gazing and Sonia’s client list already boasts of celeb clients like Manini and Mihir Misra, Rekha Bhardwaj (Vishal Bhardwaj’s wife) and the late Kuljeet Randhawa.

Sonia claims that she can predict your future, guide you on the important decisions, get rid of the negative forces and even help you connect with your spiritual self. She says that she takes help of colour therapy, psychic reading, past life and age regression therapies and hypnotherapy (she is a certified clinical hypnotherapist certified by the Indian board of alternative medicine).

So how is it exactly done? Says Sonia, “We make the person drink tea with ground tea leaves. I ask the person to think of the question that is bothering him while drinking tea. After that, the cup is kept upside down. The patterns that the leaves leave behind, suggest the person’s future. This is done by reading the symbols and tapping the subconscious waves of people with the help of the patterns.”

Elaborating on the technique, she adds, “We have a symbol dictionary which we learn. For example, a bird suggests good news, an apple indicates achievements and a butterfly indicates a transition in life. It is a science in itself where intuition plays a big role in determining the person’s future.”

Quiz her on how different it is from other sciences and coffee mug reading, and she replies, “My experience indicates that the answer in all forms of techniques is mostly the same. However, it is a person’s preference that I keep in mind.”