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 High Priestess represents inner wisdom and the mysteries of the subconscious. Listen to your inner voice and trust your intuition. The answers you seek are within you, accessible through meditation and silent reflection.
Read against this connection, The High Priestess puts the weight on intuition and mystery. 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, it may indicate you are ignoring your intuition or secrets are being revealed. Perhaps you seek answers externally when you should look within. Reconnect with your inner wisdom.
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.
Quiet your mind and listen to your heart. The answer is already within you.
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.