is my father telling the truth about the
Question
is my father telling the truth about the money? Are we going to get it?
Answer
I drew three cards for you. They don't answer "is he lying" — nobody's mind is on the table — but they do say something about the money itself, and what you can go check.
Past — Six of Pentacles, reversed. Money between people, tipped off balance. This is the pattern already in place: something was supposed to move one way and didn't, or moved lopsidedly, and the footing between the two of you has never been even. Whatever was said about the money grew out of that imbalance, not out of a clean record.
Present — Three of Pentacles, reversed. The joint work isn't being done. This is the hinge. In practical terms: the arrangement is described but not carried out — terms not met, a piece nobody has done, a document that stays in somebody's drawer. If your father is being straight with you, the honest version of his own position will show up here, in the parts he can actually produce.
Future — Wheel of Fortune, upright. A turn is coming, and it is not one you steer. As a tendency, not a promise: if the record he gives you matches what he tells you, this turn tends to move in your favour, because things that were stuck get pushed. If the two versions don't match, the turn tends to move toward whoever is holding the paper — which is a very different outcome from the one you're hoping for. Either way, this is a change in circumstance, not a receipt.
The one thing to go get. Cards can't hand you a date, a balance, or a signature, and they can't tell you whether the account he describes is the real one. Within 48 hours, ask him for the one piece of this that is checkable — the transfer or account record, the date the money was supposed to move, the note or message where he said it. Not a conversation about whether he means it: a specific thing with a date on it. What comes back in his hands is the answer to your question, and if nothing does, that silence is information too.
If it turns out this is a formal claim — an owed sum with a document behind it — the person who settles it is a lawyer who reads the paper, not a deck.