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Cat in Coffee Grounds: What It Means
A cat in the coffee grounds is a sign that you sense a false bottom in someone - a soft surface with the claws still folded, or something you yourself are quietly keeping back. Take it as a nudge to trust your read. The grounds don't foretell your fate, and in the cat you read what is on your mind now.
First layer · what tradition says
What the folk omen says
Coffee reading is wary of the cat: slyness, a hidden grudge, someone near you who cannot quite be relied on. It also carries a warmer meaning of independence and a woman's own cunning.
Second layer · the honest read
What the sign actually shows
A cat surfaces when you sense a false bottom in someone, or when you are the one keeping something back. Coffee has no opinion about people, and you brought this suspicion to the cup yourself. Whose softness around you has the claws still folded up inside it?
Cat by place in the cup
A cat at the very rim asks you to take a closer look at someone within days. Closer to the bottom it belongs to an old grudge, or to a slyness that has been going on for years. Near the handle it is what you keep to yourself, on the far side it is the false bottom in somebody else. A large clear cat stands out more than a small smeared one.
FAQ
Is a cat in coffee grounds a good sign or a bad one?
In the cup the cat is neither good news nor bad, because the grounds do not prophesy. The cat 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 cat at the bottom of the cup mean?
The bottom of the cup is the distant and the deep, so the cat down there is read as an old story or as something coming out of your past. The cat 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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