If someone walks out of my life during V

The cards don't say whether to let them go — that's not something this spread can hand you. What they do say is that the decision you're actually making is about your own posture, not their leaving.

Past — The Moon, upright. How this went in before you got here was never fully lit: things said sideways, things you half-knew, a story you assembled from fragments rather than from what was said. Venus retrograde is a popular frame for that fog, and it explains a season — it doesn't excuse it or settle the account.

Present — Four of Cups, upright. This is the seat that matters most. You are sitting under a cup with three in front of you and not reaching. This reads as withdrawal and re-evaluation — not anger, not grief. The withdrawal is the story: while you wait to be chosen, the offer on the table is going untasted, including the ones still standing.

Future — Two of Cups, upright. If the present posture continues, the trajectory is a real two-way exchange: mutual, level, equal. Read it as a description of the *shape* of what's possible, not a promise that this particular person returns. A Two of Cups describes a kind of meeting, not a named person.

The through-line is Cup suit across the whole spread (Moon → Four → Two of Cups), so this is an emotional register the whole way down: it starts unclear, it stalls in disinterest or re-evaluation, and it only moves if you start reaching for something. The present card is the hinge, and it's yours to move.

Cards can't report what's in their head, and I'm not going to tell you a planetary phase is telling you either — I'd only be dressing the same uncertainty up nicer.

One thing to do before the week runs out, and it's a records check, not a mood check: open the last three months of your own messages with them and mark the last two times you plainly said what you needed, and what they actually sent back the next day. Not what you felt — what arrived. If the answers are there and you've been reading the last ten exchanges instead, that tells you more than this spread can. If you find you never said it plainly, that's the Four of Cups sitting in your own court.

Want me to draw the spread as a picture, or keep a copy in your journal?