You asked:
Where is this connection going?
This question is almost always more about your own readiness than about another person's choices. Notice, before you draw, which outcome you are hoping to see confirmed and which one you are hoping to be spared. A card cannot forecast another person's decisions, but it can hold up the shape of your own attention in this connection, and that is usually where the useful information has been hiding.
Select one card. Trust the first pull.
You are asking about a direction, not a destination
"Where is this going" is a question about trajectory, and trajectories are made of small repeated things, not grand ones. Not the weekend that was perfect. The Wednesdays. Who suggests plans and who agrees to them. Whether you tell them about the small annoying thing that happened at work, or whether you've quietly started saving your real news for someone else.
If you want an honest read on trajectory, look at the last month rather than the best month. The best month is a highlight reel and highlight reels are, by design, unrepresentative. The last month is data.
The readiness question
Here is the part people skip. Before you ask where it's going, ask whether you want it to go anywhere: actually want it, in the body, on an ordinary Tuesday, and not just in the specific hour when you're missing them. These are genuinely different states, and the ache of missing someone is very good at impersonating certainty.
It is also fair to notice if you are asking because you are afraid to decide. Sometimes "where is this going" is a way of handing the decision to the universe so it isn't yours. Nothing in this deck will take that decision off your hands, and honestly, you wouldn't want it to.
Reading the draw
Take whatever card arrives as a description of the current terrain, not a map of the road ahead. Temperance describes a connection being slowly blended, patiently, at a temperature that doesn't scorch. The Chariot describes forward motion that is being actively steered — by someone, and it's worth asking by whom. The Hanged Man describes suspension, which is not the same as being stuck, though from the inside they can feel identical.
None of these are outcomes. They are the weather you are standing in while you decide, and you are the one who decides.