Chiriku
AJ, don't think I've ever eaten SPAM, although I actually quite like one of its distant relatives, Vienna Sausages (shhh, don't tell).
I separated the decks into reading decks and "activity/exercise/study" deck (the one I am IDS'ing with). The former were what I used anytime I interacted with cards in a reading sense: reading exchanges within this group's circle; occasional one-card draws/cards of the day, etc.
The IDS deck was reserved for non-reading things such as storytelling, meditation, journaling, etc.
It was theoretically easy to keep from reading with the IDS deck because the particular deck that I'm IDS'ing with is arranged in cycles of cards (a few Majors and several Minors) that the creator ties together using lunar astrology. Originally, I was journaling/storytelling about each card in the order it appears in the cycle. Then I realized I felt very confined by that system and last week shuffled just the cards within a particular cycle. Now I think I will go all out, at least for Halloween, and do a proper reading with the whole deck.
However, even if I decide to keep the IDS deck shuffled, I still will not be using it for the same things I use the deck of the week for. Deck of the week is reserved for minor topics, daily wisdom, etc. The study deck is used for more "out of the ordinary" things such as the rare "big" reading and for the non-reading exercises I described above.
You could also consider Mary K. GReer's "21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card" as a means of studying your IDS deck; I've heard that book is good.
I separated the decks into reading decks and "activity/exercise/study" deck (the one I am IDS'ing with). The former were what I used anytime I interacted with cards in a reading sense: reading exchanges within this group's circle; occasional one-card draws/cards of the day, etc.
The IDS deck was reserved for non-reading things such as storytelling, meditation, journaling, etc.
It was theoretically easy to keep from reading with the IDS deck because the particular deck that I'm IDS'ing with is arranged in cycles of cards (a few Majors and several Minors) that the creator ties together using lunar astrology. Originally, I was journaling/storytelling about each card in the order it appears in the cycle. Then I realized I felt very confined by that system and last week shuffled just the cards within a particular cycle. Now I think I will go all out, at least for Halloween, and do a proper reading with the whole deck.
However, even if I decide to keep the IDS deck shuffled, I still will not be using it for the same things I use the deck of the week for. Deck of the week is reserved for minor topics, daily wisdom, etc. The study deck is used for more "out of the ordinary" things such as the rare "big" reading and for the non-reading exercises I described above.
You could also consider Mary K. GReer's "21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card" as a means of studying your IDS deck; I've heard that book is good.
I'm taking a week off this week. (I mentioned it in the week 12 thread) Last few weeks have been rather swordsy and my psyche needs a break. 
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