What are this guy's intentions with me?

Something real opened between you two, but what he's doing right now is holding that warmth at arm's length — and if that continues, his own hesitation gets louder than his approach.

Past — Ace of Cups: the beginning of this was genuine feeling on his side, not small talk. Something opened warmly and it wasn't nothing to him either.

Present — King of Pentacles reversed: this is his posture, not his verdict. Reversed, the King of Pentacles is the man guarding his resources — his time, his pride, his schedule, whatever he considers *his*. It reads as someone weighing what this would cost him in a practical sense, not someone with his heart closed. If his actual messages and plans stay modest and easy-to-undo while the warmth shows only in small moments, that fits this card: interest held at a controlled size.

Future — Strength reversed: not a prediction, just the direction this posture leans if it keeps running. Self-doubt, softening, an approach that arrives weaker than the feeling behind it. Strength is the gentle, patient kind; reversed it often shows hesitation rather than force. So the risk here isn't that he disappears — it's that he approaches at a pace you read as half-heartedness when it may be uncertainty.

Cards don't report what's inside his head. What they can point at is the pattern he keeps showing you, and only you can see that.

Your move, in the next 48 hours: start a one-line note — just dates and what he actually did: who texted first, whether he suggested something outside the context you met in, whether he made a concrete plan or kept it to the moment. After a week of lines you'll have an answer no card can give you, and you won't have had to ask him anything or put him on the spot.

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