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Mushroom in Coffee Grounds: What It Means
A mushroom in the coffee grounds is a sign of an easy, fast gain within reach - your own temptation to grab whatever has sprung up in front of you, and a quiet question of how firmly it stands on its stem. The grounds don't foretell your fate, and in the mushroom you read what is on your mind now.
First layer · what tradition says
What the folk omen says
The mushroom is read as sudden growth: quick luck, an opening that sprang up overnight. It carries a warning too, since plenty of what looks tempting in a wood turns out to be the wrong thing to pick.
Second layer · the honest read
What the sign actually shows
A mushroom comes through when there is an easy, fast gain somewhere within reach. It is your own temptation to grab whatever has popped up in front of you. Coffee cannot weigh a chance for you. How firmly does that one stand on its stem?
Mushroom by place in the cup
A mushroom near the rim points to a sudden opening popping up in the next few days. Sunk toward the bottom, it belongs to an old temptation, or to a gain that has been beckoning for years. By the handle it is your own itch to reach out and take it, opposite the handle it is something tempting that other people push your way. A big firm mushroom looks more solid than a small slimy one.
FAQ
Is a mushroom in coffee grounds a good sign or a bad one?
In the cup the mushroom is neither good news nor bad, because the grounds do not prophesy. The mushroom 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 mushroom at the bottom of the cup mean?
The bottom of the cup is the distant and the deep, so the mushroom down there is read as an old story or as something coming out of your past. The mushroom 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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