How best to learn and be with my DPO

Okie.. so on AT there is a lot of talk about Individual Deck Studies and Primary Deck Reflection exercises. A few years back I took part in the One Deck Wonder experiment, committing myself to using one deck and no others for reading etc, and I found that such a rewarding exercise. It deepened my love of tarot, opened me up to what tarot really is rather than just pretty cards and working out what the message of the reading is (although that helps a lot!).

However, I dont know if it will be really beneficial to do something like this with an oracle like the DPO. Do I keep to one oracle and still flirt with other tarot and oracle decks? Am I limiting myself in a way that the plants won't like?

So I've drawn a card from the DPO to shed some light on this riddle - What advice can you offer me on how I learn and be with the DPO that benefits us both?

Well, as I was shuffling Primrose fell out, but the top card from the pack was Bramble.

Primose - A new cycle, a new development, a new spiral on the circles of Abred. I feel here that the Primrose is suggesting to me that being with the DPO and learning with it is the best way to be with it.. for to learn and be with it you have to use it!
The book also suggests the idea of 3's, the 3 drops of Awen from Ceridwen's cauldron, so perhaps I could keep 3 decks about me? lol maybe Im just deck greedy! lol

Bramble - a plant that suggests boundaries and restrictions... how keeping to them can protect what you are creating, so that the fruit can grow.

I feel that whilst Primrose is suggesting to just USE the deck, read with it, ponder with it etc, that Bramble is saying that you need a bit of an idea of what you want to do, what you want to achieve and how to achieve it. The romantic idea of spending time with the deck (Primrose) needs plans so that you a)actually do spend time b) dont get so caught up in the rules of it that you dont play with it at all!

So.... with that in mind I have guidelines (well, the Creirwy DPO Code)

• I hope to have this oracle as my Primary Deck for a least the whole of January. On Febuary 1st I will think over what I have achieved (if anything, this might be my only post you never know!) and how I want to move the project forward.
• I can use other tarot and oracle decks during this time, but any readings for myself I will try to use the DPO and post it here, but wont get too hung up about it if I use other decks.
• I will post a reading here once a week, be it just a daily draw or (as I wont have time to draw and post here as Im busy with work and studying etc) something more complex. These will be readings for me. Any readings I do for others with the DPO on the AT forum will not be shared here, even if the reading was openly done on the forum.
• I can freely muse about the deck and the plants as often as I like, including any insights I have got about the deck and how to use it when I've read for other people
• Any 'deck study' wafflings I will post on the AT forum in the study group, rather than here. I want this blog to be about musings and practical workings with the deck, not just pondering about plants. This is to focus on the use of the deck as an Oracle, not about herblore (although that helps!)
• If I use the deck in magic or meditation I will share here what I have experienced if I can :)

And if something crops up that isnt address in the Code, then I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

So I guess that reading counts as my first reading on my Blog! Groovy!