How has he been thinking of me lately?

Something has been real between you, but lately it reads more like he's keeping you in a frame he can control than like he's deciding anything about you.

Three cards came out, all upright, no Major:

• Past — Two of Cups. There's a genuine basis here: a stretch where the two of you actually met each other, warmth that was mutual, not invented.
• Present — Queen of Swords. What this reads is composure and boundaries — clarity, keeping things level, saying the useful thing rather than the warm thing. A mind that's decided to be sensible about you rather than close. It can look, from your side, like careful attention or like distance; those are the same posture.
• Future — Seven of Cups. If the present frame continues, the next few weeks are options he is sorting through rather than a decision he's made — several versions of you in his head, none of them settled.

The relationship holds an open question rather than an answer. And one line to keep straight: cards don't report what's inside someone else's head — this is what his posture looks like from where you're standing, plus what you may be projecting into that spot.

Here's a conditional read: if his warmth lately only shows up inside work settings — the calendar, the project, the convenient hour — then this reads as a colleague's comfort zone keeping him safe. If instead it reaches past the work frame and you can trace specifics he remembered about you, then the Two of Cups is still alive and the Queen of Swords is just him protecting it.

One step, inside 48 hours: write down this week's actual contact — every time he started a conversation, what prompted it, whether it stayed on task or went somewhere else. Not to test him, just to see the ratio with your own eyes; that's a record the cards can't hand you.

Want this three-card layout rendered as a picture, or the reading saved to your journal?