are they expecting me to reach out?

The cards won't tell you what they're expecting — nothing in this draw reports another person's mind — but they do say the shape of the waiting is on your side of it.

All three cards are minor and all three are reversed, so this is ordinary, workable friction rather than a structural verdict.

• Past — King of Pentacles reversed. The last stretch between you was handled the way a careful provider handles things: holding the frame, keeping things steady, keeping the lid on. Reversed, that reads as control turned inward, or a posture that stopped being generous somewhere along the way.
• Present — Five of Cups reversed. This is the seat that matters for your question. The spilled cups are already behind you; the reversal is the turn itself — you are still counting what was lost instead of looking at the two cups still standing. Whatever you're actually asking them, you've been rehearsing the loss version of the conversation rather than the live one.
• Future — Ten of Pentacles reversed. Under that condition, the next stretch tilts toward weight, inheritance, obligations, the frame other people built. Not doom — a sense that the thing you're about to enter has an existing shape that isn't yours, and you'll have to decide how much of it you take.

If you go back to the actual last exchange and find that they left an open question, a pending date, or a thing they said they'd get back to you — then the Five of Cups reversal says the first move isn't asking permission to make contact, it's simply closing that loop, and the answer comes back faster than you're budgeting for. If instead their last message was a clean ending with nothing pending, then Ten of Pentacles reversed points at the weight, not the person: the thing worth following up is whatever practical, concrete reason put you two in the same conversation — and that can be said in one sentence without the emotional archaeology.

Cards can't tell you their side; only the thread can.

Action: Within the next 48 hours, open the actual last message thread and write down one line — who sent the last message, and whether it ended with something asked of you or of them. Don't send anything yet; just get that one line down. It answers the question the draw can't.

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