"How my friend/crush sees me"

I drew three cards for "how my friend/crush sees me."

How they read you, seat by seat. The Past shows Five of Swords reversed: whatever image of you formed back then came out of a hard exchange — someone left that conversation with their back turned, and that version of you never got fully revised in their mind. The Present is Death, upright and unmistakeable: something in you has changed shape as far as they are concerned. The old you does not exist in their current picture, and they have not yet built a replacement. Two-thirds of the spread is Swords, which is the register to notice — this is an image made of sentences and categories, not of warm or settled feeling.

The Future seat, Nine of Swords upright, is a tendency rather than a prediction: if nothing in the exchange changes, the image of you lands somewhere sleepless and unresolved in their head — you are there, unfinished, at night, without a settled conclusion.

Cards cannot tell you what is actually going on inside them, and this seat is about how you come across, not what they feel. So here is the conditional: if over the next few weeks what comes back is that you get brought up, or they ask you a second question about your week when you're not there — then Death is a real re-sorting, and the person is rebuilding you as someone new. If what comes back is silence and no third question about you at all — then the Nine of Swords tendency is just where the image sits: unfinished on their side, not lost.

Your move, in the next 48 hours: send one short message that names a real change in you — something small and true, like a thing you have actually stopped doing — and then watch whether they come back with a follow-up question about it. Not a confession, not a test: just one true sentence, and let their answer tell you what the cards can't.

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