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Snake 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
Folk coffee reading takes the snake badly: a hidden enemy, envy, someone sly close by. It stands as a sign to be careful, a warning that somebody in your circle is not worth your trust.
What the sign actually shows
A snake surfaces for a person who already senses something is off. It is about your own wariness and about what you keep an eye out for while awake. Take it as a reason to listen to your instinct and pass no sentence on anyone. Who have you gone quiet around lately?
Snake by place in the cup
A snake at the rim asks you to stay alert over the days just ahead. Gone down to the bottom, it is about an old hurt or a coolness that has been dragging on out of the past. Beside the handle the snake is tension inside your own circle. Opposite it, something unkind from outsiders. A large clear snake unsettles far more than a small smudged one you would happily wave away.
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 snake 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 snake works as a mirror here and sets nothing in your future.
What does the snake at the bottom of the cup mean?
The bottom of the cup is the distant and the deep. The snake 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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