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Hand 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 hand in folk reading stands for friendly help and support: someone puts out a hand at the right moment, and there is a shoulder nearby to lean on. An open palm was read as help and care, a hand raised in farewell as a parting or a departure.
What the sign actually shows
The hand surfaces when help is on your mind, the kind you are ready to take and the kind you could offer. It is about your need for support and the shoulder you are short of just now. Have a look at who you could hold a hand out to and who you want it from.
Hand by place in the cup
A hand at the rim points to help arriving in the next few days. Sunk toward the bottom, it is old support or a parting that still reaches you out of the past. By the handle the hand is your own care and the people close around you, on the far side it is help or a goodbye involving someone from outside. A large clear palm carries more weight than a small smudged one you can barely make out.
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 hand 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 hand works as a mirror here and sets nothing in your future.
What does the hand at the bottom of the cup mean?
The bottom of the cup is the distant and the deep. The hand 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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