In the duration we have known each other
Question
In the duration we have known each other did they ever have a crush on me?
Answer
The cards can't tell you what they felt, and I won't speak for them — but this spread describes something real between you that stayed unspoken rather than one-sided nothing.
Past — Six of Swords, upright. A transition: distance travelled, a change in the ground between you. Something was on its way out while the connection was still live — a move, a change of direction, a period where the shape of the friendship quietly shifted.
Present — Eight of Swords, upright. Restriction that binds from the inside. This is the seat that matters most for your question: whatever stood between you was not an outside obstacle but an unspoken one. Something was known, or knowable, and not said. The Eight of Swords does not say the feeling was small — it says it was boxed in.
Future — Knight of Cups, upright. Romance, charm, an offer of feeling from the heart — but a knight is motion without arrival. Something warm is still available on this line; it does not sit still or settle.
Relations: the Six of Swords into the Eight of Swords is a transition that left one of you carrying it in silence. The Eight of Swords into the Knight of Cups is a held-back feeling that could still turn into an approach, a message, something offered — but only as a first move, not a landing.
The conditional: if you go back through that period and find that they wrote first, remembered small things, made excuses to stay in contact — then this reads as attraction that was felt and never spoken, and the Eight of Swords was their silence, not the absence of anything. If you find warm contact but nothing that crossed a line, and the initiations were consistently yours, then this reads as a friendship that meant more to you than to them, and the cards are describing your side of it, not a hidden one.
Your step, within 48 hours: open the record — their messages from that stretch — and read only two things: who sent the first message, and how fast they answered when you stopped the thread. That is evidence you can look at, not feeling you have to re-litigate, and it settles which branch above is yours.
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