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Key in Coffee Grounds: What It Means
A key in the coffee grounds is a sign that you are close to working something out - a choice or an answer already near your hands, and a door you have long wanted to open. The grounds don't foretell your fate, and in the key you read what is on your mind now.
First layer · what tradition says
What the folk omen says
The key is the sign of a decision and an opening: a door giving way, a way out found, the chance you needed turning up. Two keys together were read as a particularly good turn in your affairs.
Second layer · the honest read
What the sign actually shows
A key surfaces when you are close to working something out or close to a choice. Out of a hundred shapeless blots you picked the one that unlocks things, which says the answer is already in your hands. Which door have you been wanting to open for a long time?
Key by place in the cup
A key near the rim says the decision will show itself within days. Sunk toward the bottom it belongs to an old riddle, or to a way out you have been hunting for a long while. Beside the handle the door is in your own hands, opposite the handle the opening is one other people will make for you. A large clear key carries more weight than a small smeared one.
FAQ
Is a key in coffee grounds a good sign or a bad one?
In the cup the key is neither good news nor bad, because the grounds do not prophesy. The key 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 key at the bottom of the cup mean?
The bottom of the cup is the distant and the deep, so the key down there is read as an old story or as something coming out of your past. The key 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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