Pulling a card like this for yourself is fundamentally different than reading it for someone else.
Whenever the Ace of Clubs shows up in a self-reading with my favorite deck, I have to actively fight confirmation bias. I want it to mean the greenest possible light. Every time. So I started doing this thing where I pull a clarifier specifically to challenge the Ace rather than support it. Felt weird at first, almost adversarial toward my own reading.
Keeps me honest, though.