Welcome back @Bodhiseed, @BrightEye, and @Rachelcat!

I am a firm believer that tarot (and other cards) cards are tools. We use them for what we need them for. While I've never removed 'negative cards' from a deck, when doing a reading for myself, I do occasionally remove all the court cards. I haven't got a problem reading court cards, but sometimes I just want insight into an issue WITHOUT dealing with personalities as well. I think if you want a reading but KNOW you can't deal with negativity at the moment, it's perfectly okay to remove a few cards you definitely don't want to get. Tarot will find a way to tell you what you need to know, anyway. If you know you're going to have an over-reaction to a negative card ...just take it out. I'd rather do that, than assign some happy clappy meaning to a scary/negative card. Just me, I guess. These removing a card actions don't apply when I'm doing a reading for others, though. With any luck, I can read calmly and not over-react if a negative card comes up. I'm less likely to catastrophise a reading for someone else, if a negative card appears, and often the personality cards are the most useful when pinpointing particular people. I usually look for the most helpful meaning of any card, when reading for others. When reading for myself, though ...I can do whatever I want!

@Nemia You can do some proper fortune-telling with 'em Tarots, too, as you are well aware, I bet. But... I noted that I did apparently feel entitled to flippantly diss the "Only Positivity"- stance in the end, despite my initial effort to leave it some room, which made me wonder what it is making me go "Can't! No!" - and arrived at a most peculiar answer. It undermines our instinctive understanding of form and pattern, forming part of each informed readers approach to cards. Whether instinct is present and aligned with heart, soul and understanding is what makes an approach informed in the first place. And part of that is that you just look at a card and feel something. Take XIII, TdM-style, look at it without thinking for a moment. "Look good and long, and let it step in through the inner door, now do you dare? Ah. What a nice fellow we have here, don't we?" -made up on the spot- And here is why I go "Can't!": The feeling each card evokes inside of us is an essential part of how we approach its core, how we align with it. It is part of where we go looking for what's most useful - Very often, once we are entirely clear about our resonance with the core, the character of the card has settled, too, and we say "it clicked" for us, and each "click" is so precious to us that it enriches the entirety of our craft. Here's where I arrived at: I'll discourage the above discussed praxis, it's prone to lead into accidents down the road. If someone feels the need for a purely positive read and would feel the need to make the troublesome cards less or not so to arrive there, the more beneficial approach will likely be to exclude them from the pack in their entirety for the period one is in need of affirmation. It's better for the mind, you need not doctor around with stuff and can be honest with you about not feeling up for troubling impact. There's a good chance that it will feel like you've grown a bit once you feel ready to take them on once more, too.