Why is he not trying to contact me anymo

The cards don't report what's happening inside him — they read the shape of the silence from your side of it, and what they show is a suspension, not a verdict.

Past — The Magician reversed. Before the silence, something got performed rather than offered: charm, competence, a good line, an opening that pulled you in — and the reversal says the tool didn't match the real situation. So the pattern underneath this silence was built on presentation, and you may be able to check this: in the last three months before things went quiet, was what he said matching what he actually did, or was it all words?

Present — The Hanged Man upright. This is the loudest card in the spread. It is a pause that is deliberate in shape, even if it doesn't feel like it. Nothing is in motion — no escalation, no breakup, no frantic last text. That is what the position describes, not what he is thinking. Eight of Cups reversed in the third position is the other half of this: the deck is not showing a clean walk-away under these conditions, it is showing stasis — something unfinished and unresolved, not concluded.

Here's the conditional: if the silence came after a moment of tension or after you asked for something real — then the Hanged Man in the present says a deliberate pause, and Eight of Cups reversed in the future says that whatever unresolved thing sits between you tends to pull toward contact again rather than close out cleanly. But if the silence came after nothing — no tension, no ask, no weather change — then the same spread reads differently: the Magician reversed in the past and the Hanged Man in the present describe a person whose attention moves elsewhere rather than one who is holding something back for you. The cards can't tell you which of those it is, because only the pattern in your actual history can.

One step, inside 48 hours: go back through the last ten weeks of the actual record — messages, dates, who initiated. Write down, for each of the last three contacts, who sent the first message and how long the gap was before it. That number is not something the cards can supply and it is the only thing that separates the two readings above. Whatever he means, the pattern of who reaches first is already on your phone, and it has been there longer than the silence.

Would you like this spread drawn as a picture, or saved to your journal so you can pull it again later?