Will my ex come back? Start from why it ended
When someone stays on your mind after a breakup, wanting to see them and not wanting to repeat the same mistakes usually live side by side. This reading puts the reason you drifted apart in the first place. From there it looks at how they feel now and whether the two of you could reconnect.
Your reading
Reading your cards
The three-card spread for getting back together
Most people want to jump straight to the chances. Checking the reason first changes how you read the third card, because it shows whether that reason is still there or has already changed.
Why you drifted apart
What started the breakup or the distance. It can be a clear event or small frictions that piled up. Whether this card is still true today is the key to getting back together.
How they feel now
How they feel about you and the relationship now. Nostalgia, regret and how far they have moved on all shift between upright and reversed.
The chance of coming back together
Where the two of you are heading as time goes on: toward each other again, or down separate roads.
Cards that matter most for reconciliation
Judgement
Something that had stopped starts moving again. A message or a meeting is on its way. Reversed, regret about the past is still too heavy to act on.
Death
One form of the relationship has ended. It will not return as it was, but there may be room to know each other in a new way.
Wheel of Fortune
Meeting again through circumstance. Waiting for things to turn can work better than forcing it.
The Hierophant
Rebuilding trust is the theme. Honest words, or a friend you have in common, can open the door.
The Tower
The breakup came from something that collapsed all at once. In the third place, unexpected news changes the picture.
The Devil
The pull of attachment. Ask whether you want them back out of love or out of loneliness.
Sample reading: six months after a breakup
The reason you drifted apart is Justice, reversed. One of you had been holding back for a long time and the balance between you had tipped. There may have been a long stretch where the real things went unsaid.
How they feel now is the Hanged Man. Their feelings are on pause while they look at what happened from a different angle. They are not about to act, but they have not written you off.
Where things are heading is Judgement, something that had stopped starting to move again. What decides it is whether you can talk about a new, more balanced version instead of going back to the old one.
A sample reading about an ex from six months earlier.
Should you try to get back together?
Even with a bright third card, if the reason in the first place is still there, you are likely to trip over the same thing again. Even with a hard third card, if that reason has already been dealt with, it may be worth giving it time.
If cheating or a third person was part of the breakup, watch for the Devil and the Moon. Both come up when there are feelings or circumstances nobody has said out loud.
Questions about getting back together
Can the cards give me a percentage?
Cards do not produce probabilities. A bright upright third card points toward reconciliation. A reversed or hard card says this is not the time to move. Read it as a direction.
I only want to know what my ex feels now.
That is the second card here. To split it into how they act and what they really feel, use how do they feel about me.
I keep getting the same cards.
The cards stay the same for the same topic on the same day. When you feel the urge to check again and again, that is the time to wait a day.
Should I message them?
To settle whether to reach out, the yes or no tarot answers one written question.