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Butterfly in Coffee Grounds: What It Means
Two readings: what folk coffee cup reading says about this sign, and what it actually shows.
What the folk omen says
The butterfly is read as lightness, joy and change: a bright stretch, a flirtation, something pleasant passing through. It also stands for inconstancy, the kind of happiness that is lovely and short.
What the sign actually shows
A butterfly comes through when something in you is asking for lightness and a change of air. It is the pull to flit about and stay unattached to anything heavy. There is a corner of your life where you are short of room to breathe, and you know exactly which one.
Butterfly by place in the cup
A butterfly at the rim belongs to a light bit of joy that flutters in within days. Gone to the bottom, it points to something fleeting in the past, or a flirtation that burned out long ago. Near the handle it is your own pull toward lightness, on the far side it is a flighty person close to you. A large clear butterfly stands out more than a small smudged one.
In coffee cup reading the place of a sign tells you when and about whom: nearer the rim is sooner, toward the bottom is further off or out of the past, by the handle is you and your home, opposite the handle is other people.
FAQ
Is a butterfly in coffee grounds a good sign or a bad one?
Neither one on its own, because the grounds do not prophesy. The sign shows what is on your mind, and whether that is light or heavy is yours to weigh. The butterfly works as a mirror here and sets nothing in your future.
What does the butterfly at the bottom of the cup mean?
The bottom of the cup is the distant and the deep. The butterfly down there is read as an old story or as something coming out of your past. The days just ahead are told by signs near the rim, and other people by the far side from the handle.
The sign in your cup reflected one minute of your life. The chart of the sky for the minute you were born I can work out for real.
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