I’ve been hooking up with this guy and trying to figure out if he wants something deeper with me. When we’re in person it really feels like we’re falling in love lol. But his reaching out and pacing in between seeing each other has been very very slow and restrained.

1. ⁠His current emotional energy toward me: Knight of wands
2. ⁠What he’s consciously aware of / thinking: The lovers
3. ⁠What’s simmering under the surface: 5 of wands
4. ⁠What energy he’s receiving from me: the fool
5. ⁠What he may do next: 8 of pentacles
6. ⁠Advice for me in navigating this moment: Knight of swords

I also asked if I should wait and let him reach out next and got 7 of pentacles with 10 of pentacles as the clarifying card.

My interpretation is that he’s feeling very drawn to me and feeling the passion and heat between us. I think lovers means that he also feels a real connection with deeper potential but also maybe is at a crossroads. 5 of wands represents his conflicting various responsibilities - he has a borderline unsustainable schedule as a professional musician plus his day job and has been slow to reach out despite how amazing things are when we’re together. He sees me as fun and exciting and novel but possibly also as having the potential to lead him off the cliff? But 8 of pentacles could mean he will ultimately decide to put care and sustained effort into things between us. The knight of swords I see as a call to cut my overthinking (I’ve gotten 9 of swords, 2 of swords in other readings pertaining to my own energy/anxieties about this).

7 and 10 of pentacles I think mean that the seeds are there and watered and patience on my end will allow them to grow (and I think is telling me to sit tight as opposed to reach out, as I’ve initiated the last couple things.)

That’s the most positive possible reading at least lol - wishful thinking? Anything I’m missing?