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Candle 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 candle is read as hope, help and a light of the spirit: support in a hard hour, clarity, good counsel. A flame burning evenly was taken for calm ahead, a smoking one for worry.
What the sign actually shows
A candle comes through when you need light and something to lean on. It holds your hope and it holds the person who might keep that hope burning for you. Whose small flame is warming you right now?
Candle by place in the cup
A candle near the rim points to support arriving any day now. Sunk toward the bottom it belongs to an old hope, or to a light that warmed you somewhere in the past. Beside the handle it is your own small flame, on the far side it is help that someone else will hold out to you. A big steady flame counts for more than a smoking, uncertain 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 candle 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 candle works as a mirror here and sets nothing in your future.
What does the candle at the bottom of the cup mean?
The bottom of the cup is the distant and the deep. The candle 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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