Someone has been on your mind. Not constantly — just often enough that you have noticed the pattern, and maybe been annoyed by it. Whoever it is, the mind does not repeat a person for no reason: something between you is unfinished, or something in you is unfinished and they are the nearest name for it. Hold them in mind and turn a card.
The Hanged Man represents the wisdom of pausing and seeing things differently. Through surrender and voluntary sacrifice, we find enlightenment. Be patient and willing to let go.
Read against this connection, The Hanged Man puts the weight on sacrifice and perspective. Read against a person, a card describes the pull rather than the person. This is the honest limit and the useful one: nothing here can tell you what they are feeling. It can tell you what the connection is doing in you, which is the part you can act on.
The same card has an opposite face, and it is worth holding both. Reversed, may indicate resistance to change or feeling stuck. Reassess what is truly worthwhile.
So sit with the question you arrived with — Why is this person still taking up room? — and notice which of the two readings you flinched at. That flinch is the reading. It is the one piece of this page that came from you rather than from the deck, and it is the only piece that can change anything.
Sometimes surrender is the wisest path. Change your perspective.
We will not tell you they are thinking of you tonight. Nobody can know that. What a card can do is show you what you are actually holding on to — and that is the part that decides what happens next.