What does he feel about our connection t

What the cards don't do is tell you what's going on inside him — they can only show the shape of the connection from your side of the table, and the signals you'd be able to see yourself.

Past is The Hanged Man reversed: something about this went into suspension and then stalled — a period where neither of you moved it, and the waiting became the status quo. Present is the Page of Pentacles upright: what's actually live between you right now is small and concrete — a text that arrives, a plan that gets made, something practical being offered rather than declared. Future is Eight of Pentacles reversed: under that same condition, the pattern that tends to follow is repetition without progress — the same small exchanges going around in circles, effort spent on a form that isn't quite the thing you want.

So the honest conditional: if what he's sending you already has some practical substance in it — he initiates, follows through, makes plans you can put in a calendar — then the connection is in the Page's stage, real but early, and it grows the way a student grows, by actual contact rather than declarations. If what you're getting is warmth and attention but nothing that changes your week, Eight of Pentacles reversed says that's the loop: more of the same careful repetition, which will feel like effort without moving the thing.

Cards don't read his mind or report his next move — so this is a read on the pattern, not on his hidden heart.

Before the next time the two of you talk, write down one sentence of what you actually want from this connection, phrased as a plain request rather than a question about his feelings — and let the answer you get back tell you which branch you're in. The cards can't hand you his interior; that request can.

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