Does he like me?

The cards don't say he does or doesn't — they say what you're seeing from your side of it, and what settles the question isn't in the deck.

Past — The Tower, reversed. Something here didn't blow up in a clean way; it got pulled back at the last moment. Whatever was shaken between you two has been held in place rather than dealt with, and one or both of you has been avoiding the awkward conversation. That residue is the reason you're asking now.

Present — Two of Wands, upright. He's holding an option, not a commitment. This is a planning card: someone's watching something from a distance with a decision in their hands, not closing it. Whatever interest exists right now is live but unspent — no move has been made toward you yet.

Future — Four of Swords, reversed. A pause that stops being a pause. Read as a tendency, not a forecast: if the current standoff simply continues, it drifts from "he needs space" into something more like stalling — and rest stops being rest.

Put together: a Tower reversal feeding a Two of Wands feeding a reversed Four of Swords is one continuous shape — something got shaken, then frozen, then frozen harder. That's a read on the *state between you*, not on his inner life; the cards don't report what he feels, and I won't pretend otherwise.

So, conditional on what you can actually observe: if over the next stretch the concrete signs are him making plans that include you without being asked — times, days, actual plans — that's interest being spent, and Two of Wands resolves into motion. If the signs are the opposite — warm replies, no times, you always the one who suggests — then Four of Swords reversed describes the stall, not a hidden affection you're failing to see. The Tower reversal means the deciding conversation already got postponed once; a second delay doesn't read as caution here, it reads as the same avoidance repeating.

Your step, in the next 48 hours: the next time he could have done something specific with you and doesn't — or does — write down the fact before you interpret it. One line, the day, what he did or didn't do. No confrontation, no test, no question asked afterward. Two weeks of that written down tells you more than any spread, because it records behaviour rather than feeling, and it keeps you from reading a text tone three times in one night.

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