Why do I keep thinking about my ex?

You keep circling back because what ended wasn't really a person — it was a vision you were still building together. The Two of Wands in the past shows a moment when you and they were holding a plan about the future, choosing a direction. That's the image that keeps replaying, not them specifically.

Now you're in the Seven of Pentacles: standing in the garden, watching what you planted and wondering if any of it ripened. You're not grieving them — you're auditing what the relationship actually produced. That's why it loops. The mind keeps re-checking the harvest.

If you keep circling that garden without ever deciding what's ripe and what isn't, the tendency the High Priestess reversed points to is this: you drift further from your own knowing, and the loop gets quieter but doesn't break. You stop missing them and start missing the story.

If you finish the audit — name what you got from it, and what was missing while you were in it — both true at once — the loop closes on its own.

One thing to try before the next time they cross your mind: open the most recent text thread with them and read it cold, top to bottom, as if a stranger had sent it. Write one sentence at the end about what you actually see. That's the part the cards can't hand you — the record.

Want me to save this to your journal, or sketch the three cards as a picture?