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Candle in Coffee Grounds: What It Means
A candle in the coffee grounds is a sign that you need light and something to lean on - your hope, and the person whose small flame may be warming you right now. The grounds don't foretell your fate, and in the candle you read what is on your mind now.
First layer · what tradition says
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.
Second layer · the honest read
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.
FAQ
Is a candle in coffee grounds a good sign or a bad one?
In the cup the candle is neither good news nor bad, because the grounds do not prophesy. The candle works as a mirror here, showing what you are turning over now, and whether that is light or heavy is yours to weigh.
What does the candle at the bottom of the cup mean?
The bottom of the cup is the distant and the deep, so the candle down there is read as an old story or as something coming out of your past. The candle near the rim would speak of the days just ahead, and on the far side from the handle, of other people.
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.
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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