Soup
Warm broth stands for comfort and recovery. Eating it with relish means harmony at home and health returning, and sharing one pot among several people means feelings easing and ties holding. The longer the soup simmered, the more your care was said to return as results. Bland or cold soup, by contrast, signals affection and attention having cooled — time to tend what you have neglected.
A pot of soup is made for more than one person, and it is awkward to make for one. Traditional reading took a pot shared at one table as household harmony, and separated the meanings by taste and warmth.
Readings by Situation
Eating hot soup with relish
A good sign that body and mind recover. Tradition read hot broth as filling your vitality back up. If you have been worn out, read it as a time to rest.
Sharing one pot among several people
A sign of harmony in the household. Tradition read eating together as affection circulating. If you have been putting off a gathering, this is a good time to make one.
Soup gone cold or bland
A sign that care has not quite reached it. Rather than a bad omen, read it as somewhere you have not tended. Whether a person or a task, more hands are needed.
Spilling soup
This reflects the fear that effort will come to nothing. Tradition read spilling food as losing something you valued. It is not a forecast of an actual loss, though.
Soup dreams are broadly favourable as symbols of comfort and recovery. Spilling it does not fix a loss in place. It also comes up often when your body is tired.