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Letters in Coffee Grounds: What They Mean
Two readings: what folk coffee cup reading says about this sign, and what it actually shows.
What the folk omen says
In the folk tradition letters stand for initials: whichever one shows up, the news concerns that person. A clear letter was tied to someone close, a smudged or uncertain one to a person still off to the side of your life.
What the sign actually shows
Letters surface when you already have one particular name in your head. Behind the shape you are looking for a living person, and your mind hands you the letter you need. Have a look at whose initial came up first while you were holding the cup.
Letters by place in the cup
A letter at the very rim speaks of a person whose news arrives within days. Settled toward the bottom, it is someone out of the past who keeps coming back to mind. By the handle the letter is a person close to you, on the far side it is a stranger walking into your life. A large clear letter carries more weight than a small smudged one where you can read two or three at once.
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
Are letters 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. Letters work as a mirror here and set nothing in your future.
What do letters at the bottom of the cup mean?
The bottom of the cup is the distant and the deep. Letters down there are 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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