what’s the purpose of this guy being in

This pull says he came into your life as a win, and the purpose is not the win — it's that what he woke up in you now has to be finished without him. The cards can describe the shape of that, not his side of it; nothing here reports what he thinks or what he'll do.

Past — Six of Wands upright. He arrived as recognition: he made you look like someone who had won something. Whatever it was — a job, a room, a version of yourself that only existed around him — he carried that energy in, and you took it as proof you were doing well.

Present — Ten of Swords reversed. The ending is already here, but reversed: not a fresh betrayal, a slow pulling-out. What hurts is being re-learned rather than news. Reversed Ten of Swords is often the moment someone realises the pain has been sitting flat for weeks and is only now being looked at — the swords stay in the bed, but you stop lying next to them.

Future — Three of Wands reversed. The tendency, if you keep waiting: watching the horizon for the payoff he promised and finding the ships aren't coming back. Three of Wands reversed is stalled expectation — plans that were built around his momentum, going nowhere.

So conditional: if looking at what he actually built for you — a job, a group, a skill you didn't have before him — turns out to still be standing without him, then his purpose was the launch, and the thing you owe him is nothing. If that scaffolding was him all along, and nothing stands without his direction, then the pull is warning you that waiting three more months costs you the whole vantage point.

The cards don't say whether this is romance, a mentor, a brother, or a colleague — the three read the same either way.

Your move, in the next 48 hours: write down the one concrete thing that changed for you in the year he was around — a title, a city, a skill, a circle — then put a date on it: the last week it still felt like his win. That date is not something the cards can hand you; it's in your own record, and it tells you whether you're standing on something or waiting on a horizon.

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