From my point of view, if you read all of the cards in a positive way, you do an affirmative read - there is a time and a place for that. It's just one style of reading, with a particular use and usefulness. If a decisive answer to a case is needed, you shift gears. Sticking with positive-only interpretations while reading a "What's to happen?" is something I'd feel iffy about. Worse, if all I knew were the sunny side to my cards - I wouldn't be able to face my people, nor could I answer their questions. Sometimes, I wonder: There are these tides in reading cards, they colour what's practiced - and there is need for a definite standpoint, especially when dealing with indefinite matter (the future, for example) so some do take recourse to "It shall be that and none other!" Which is still A-Okay! However, very often "... for you, too!" is added, either in words or in expectation, and that messes things up - it stiffles evolution. And it's wrong. There's a difference between our own reality and Reality, most markedly that the latter does incorporate way more elements and configurations of life. Which is also what makes it hard to straight out abolish the remarkably narrow-minded idea discussed here. Seeing as there is indeed a time and a place for a purely affirmative read, considering how vast reality can be, it wouldn't be too strange if there was time and space for a purely affirmative reader, too. I mean, we pretty much live in a strange place already. ETA: Just put that idea to Lenormand - some do! - Well. The hidden door lies elsewhere - it is to boldy aquaint yourself with the suit of acorns via the path signaled by the Cross. Once you have the obstacles figured out, the rest becomes much more manageable. And you can't figure them out if you shy away from them, which I'd classify as something to work on if you want to read cards. In Tarot terms, if the outcome of commitment is in question and my Devil occupies the spot, I know it is a bad idea to go there, which is a 'No.' And that is exactly what my Devil shall do: Warn me, when things aren't healthy. Be there, where things aren't healthy. Signal that area for me, so I can point it out and incorporate it into my answer. The cards dubbed "negative" are not the Negativity itself. We link them to it in order to warn us, to get a grip on things and a handle on situations. If we only link our cards to positive things, they can not talk about the negative stuff because we do not understand, and thus they can not warn us. It's operating the cards with decreased functionality. Something I do not recommend.

This is my newest deck, just arriving in my hot hands earlier this week. Honestly thus far I've been mostly drawn to deciphering the hidden messages written in Ogham, Elder Furthark, Enochian Alphabet, among others. I'd say it's a quality deck and the book that comes with it is nice. But as for doing serious work with it, I'm just not there yet but since it's so new, I really need to give it more time.

This is where perhaps a symbolic deck rather than an overly pictorial one could help. If you're experienced enough to read pip decks, that should solve any minor arcana 'scary' cards turning up. And there are decks where the majors aren't as scary as others either, without being cutesy. Personally I don't use pip decks, etc, but I've seen pictures of decks that seem designed for individual and neutral interpretation.