Is my ex currently at our mutual friend'

The cards do not report where he is tonight — but here is what they do put on the table, and one thing you can check that settles it faster than any pull.

Past — Queen of Wands Reversed. The reason this question is loud for you sits in how you've been holding it: warmth and pride turned inward, heat that no longer goes anywhere outward. That's the history with him, not tonight's whereabouts.

Present — Ten of Pentacles Reversed. The picture you have in your head tonight — the friend, the party, him with his girlfriend, all sitting in a neat social frame — is the part that is off. Something in that arrangement isn't holding the shape you're imagining it holds. Where the Ten sits reversed in the present, the setup itself needs re-reading before anyone walks into it.

Future — The Hierophant Reversed. If you keep treating this as a question with one correct answer and a position to take, it stays stuck. This is a card about the rule you are following — the one where you should already know, by now.

Conditional on the check below: if the friend's own public record tonight doesn't show him there, then this whole question was a feeling with no fact under it, and the evening is yours to spend however you like. If it does show him there with her, nothing about his presence is a verdict on you — it just means the frame you were measuring yourself against was never the one that existed.

The step: tonight, before you decide anything, look at the one source that would actually answer this — the mutual friend's own story, live posts, or the guest list they sent out. Not a question to your ex, and not a test; just the public trace.

Want this three-card spread drawn as a picture, or kept in your journal?