Why is my Father Absent from my Life?

A more complex question that does not need a Yes/No response benefits from a longer spread.

The only figure we have is the Knight of Wands slightly to the left of centre. This is a person of movement who does not stay. I think therefore that this figure is your father. He is a younger man in this card and he holds a baton aloft which 'rhymes' with the Ace of Swords to the extreme left. The ace pierces the crown and suggests, in the context of this question, conception, yours, but maybe others also.

The knight faces away from his progeny and he looks through the 10 of Swords over to two coin cards. I think this is where his interest lies. For this question a child is asking of a parent there are no cup cards, nothing here that is denoting relationships. I think this is significant for this reading.

So to the left we have the cards portraying him in the past, assertive and ambitious.  I think his thoughts are more with more material gain (the 2 grows to a 10 of cups which might suggest he became quite wealthy).

I've left the central card until last because I think here lies an important piece of the jigsaw.

Eight scimitars form a 'vulva' with two crossed swords barring the way in. I think something has gone seriously wrong with the relationship with your mother. From his side, he felt rejected and I suspect that a man who found it it difficult to form affectionate attachments to people projected his attachments onto sex and material gain. For him this is how he loves.

The 'sex' allusions in this reading are highly symbolised through shape rather than 'in the flesh and I think this is because the cards are suggesting this is how he sees both sex and material possessions. These things for him are not just 'sex' and 'money' rather it is what they symbolise for him and how the compensate for a more emotionally satisfactory series of relationships with people.