Why did he ignore my question when I ask

I'll pull three cards on this — past, present, and what's underneath that silence. Let me check your saved preferences and draw.

He didn't dodge the feeling — he just doesn't process direct emotional questions at speed. The silence is the Knight of Pentacles pace, not a verdict.

Past — Knight of Pentacles (upright): He's a slow, methodical responder in general. Direct questions about how he feels catch him in mid-process; he hasn't finished deciding what to say before you're already reading the silence. This isn't new — it's been his rhythm with you for a while.

Present — Six of Cups (upright): The "missing" is in the room. Six of Cups is straight nostalgia and longing — he does feel the pull. The problem is that your question forced him to either admit it out loud or deny it, and he has no third option in his toolkit. So he picked the silent one. The feeling is there; the word for it isn't coming.

Future — The Hierophant (upright): If nothing changes, he'll keep defaulting to the "proper" script — what a guy is supposed to say, the safe answer, the conventional move. He won't get more honest until the conversation format itself gets less direct.

The real check, in the next 48 hours: look at the actual pattern, not this one moment. When you've asked other emotional questions before, did he come back to it hours later in his own words? Did he ever answer a sideways version (a memory, a song, "I saw this and thought of you")? If he always circles back in his own time, the Knight pace is the truth — and the move is to ask less directly and read his indirect replies. If he never circles back, the Hierophant is the bigger story, and you want a direct conversation, not a better question.

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