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Spider in Coffee Grounds: What It Means
A spider in the coffee grounds is a sign of something being woven around you - or of the patient weaving you are doing yourself. There is nothing sinister in it, only a question of whether you hold the web or sit inside it. The grounds don't foretell your fate, and in the spider you read what is on your mind now.
First layer · what tradition says
What the folk omen says
Coffee reading takes the spider two ways: patience and gain caught in the web, and also scheming, a net being spun quietly around you. A spider at work on its web was read as slow, steady profit.
Second layer · the honest read
What the sign actually shows
A spider surfaces when you sense something being woven around you, or when you are the one patiently doing the weaving. The grounds handed you a shape and you gave it this name. Are you caught in the web, or are you the one who owns it?
Spider by place in the cup
A spider at the very rim hints that the web will be finished soon, within days. Closer to the bottom it belongs to an old intrigue, or to patient work that has been going on for years. By the handle it is what you are spinning yourself, opposite the handle it is a web other people are winding around you. A large clear spider carries more weight than a faint one.
FAQ
Is a spider in coffee grounds a good sign or a bad one?
In the cup the spider is neither good news nor bad, because the grounds do not prophesy. The spider 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 spider at the bottom of the cup mean?
The bottom of the cup is the distant and the deep, so the spider down there is read as an old story or as something coming out of your past. The spider 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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