How to Read the Saucer in Coffee Reading
When the cup is lifted, some grounds stay on the saucer. Many readers treat the saucer as the present or the home: what is happening around you right now. Others read it as the answer to the wish. Shapes on the saucer are usually read after the cup and used to confirm or soften what the cup showed.
Look at the saucer straight after lifting the cup, before the grounds dry. A clean saucer is often read as an easy period, while a full, dark one points to many things going on at once.
Some readers pour a little of the saucer's liquid away first and then read only the shapes that stay. Read them together with the cup rather than as a separate reading.
Where it appears in the cup
Rim
Shapes near the edge of the saucer are often read as visitors or news coming in.
Middle
The centre of the saucer is read as your current situation.
Bottom
A ring of grounds that matches the cup's rim is usually not read as a symbol.
Frequently asked questions
Is the saucer more important than the cup?
No. Most traditions read the cup first and use the saucer to support it.
What does a clean saucer mean?
Many readers take it as a calm time with few worries.
Symbols to look for
More tasseography questions
Reading the cup and your future
Positions, timing, money, faces, lines and bubbles in the grounds.
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- Rim, Middle and Bottom: Positions in a Coffee Cup
- Dark vs Light Coffee Cup: What It Means
- Letters and Numbers in a Coffee Cup: Meaning
- Coffee Reading for the Future: What the Grounds Can Show
- Coffee Cup Reading Symbols for Money and Career
- When Will My Coffee Reading Come True?
- Bubbles in a Coffee Cup: Reading Meaning
- A Face or Silhouette in a Coffee Cup
- Lines and Paths in a Coffee Cup: Roads, Obstacles and Crossroads
Love, wishes and your own cup
Love, marriage, separation, wishes and reading the cup yourself.
Origins
Where tasseography comes from.
Rituals and customs
The small customs around turning and opening the cup.