I liked the examples you used. This is the way I’d been going about it but I’m not very intuitive and my tricky ADHD mind is always coming up with new angles to look at stuff at, even if it’s not particularly welcome. Like “we could look at it like this…or the complete opposite! Or this way!” Not helping brain! Doing a reflection at the end of the day on my daily advice readings has helped me trust myself more when I’m leaning towards an angle, and I feel like this style of reading offers the most flexibility. Ooh that makes a lot of sense. The example of the tower saying ‘don’t catastrophize’ makes a lot of sense to me. It kinda reminds me of cognitive behavioral therapy. You look at your automatic thoughts and label the pattern the thought seems to be part of and try to form a rational response instead. So the malefic cards in advice positions could be alerting you to unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and asks you to recognize them and respond in a different way. I feel like this style seems simple but it’s direct and clear and powerful. I like this. I feel like I’ve kinda tried to do this but I always second guess myself. It gives proper credit to the idea that there aren’t really negative cards, and whether a card is negative or positive depends on the context and position it shows up in. Sometimes you do have to be crafty, or lie, or in the case of the tower - take a sledgehammer to it, haha. I feel like this could also allow for a bit of moral grayness instead of black/white thinking. I feel like this can be an empowering way to look at things too. Sometimes things are bad, but it’s how we respond to it that counts. It kinda reminds me of how in astrology there are benefic planets and malefic planets but even the malefics are necessary and can teach us lessons and give us gifts. The 10 of swords stalked me for at least a full year, maybe longer, a while back. I even got the card “defeat” from the vessel oracle, a deck that doesn’t have a ten of swords. I was like persistent much??? Glad that’s over. Lol. Hmm yall gave some really good answers. I’ll have to give it a good think or try different approaches out until I see what fits.

I found a review, in BR portuguese on the deck, watching now the full video. Gilded Reverie Lenormand "Extended Edition Review" - BR

Nice! I had this ideia, to search for his name and first book and found it! It's fairly cheap, less then 17 reais, a good pizza here costs like 50 reais so... I was just a little concern to buy it and not be able to read it (format). But I google it (again) and the answer was (https://share.google/aimode/BsVIAB84BoPY21koQ) that I can read on my notebook so... hehehe! Aparently I'm getting old... It's been awhile (more like 15y) that I spent my time on online forums, so... 👀 But I guess for me to participate I'll have to comment 5 times, also for having my own signature and edit my posts. I'll try to be less a noob hahaha! >.<'