And Marchetti has a point: there’s no traditional Kipper card that overlaps with 39-Community. I’m not sure that 38-Toil & Labour is needed when the deck already has 34-Occupation, but I’m willing to wait and see if there’s a clear difference between them in readings. Certainly cards like 24-Thief and 32-Despair can hint at financial strain, but Marchetti’s 37-Poverty tackles it straight on. For instance, there are three Kipper cards that touch on financial gain: 11-Sudden Wealth, 26-Great Fortune, and 27-Unexpected Income (13-Wealthy Man may also count). With 36 cards trying to cover most of human experience, there’ll be some thin spots in coverage, if not outright gaps, but these look like they’ll help. Marchetti has added three cards and I’ve kept them in the deck.* When I try to think how the same idea might’ve been shown if I’d left them out, it seems like the idea could be misunderstood. On a similar theme, the Kipper card 26-Great Fortune means…great fortune.Ī standard Kipper deck has 36 cards, like the Lenormand. For this to make sense, you have to know about four-leaf clovers and how finding one is supposed to be lucky. I suppose you could have a Lenormand reading in which 2-Clover referred to a patch of Trifolium repens, the white clover, but it usually means luck. ![]() Many Kipper cards also have more literal names. Unlike Lenormand cards, Kipper cards don’t have playing card inserts. 8-False Person is both a deceitful person and the qualities of deception and treachery. People cards appear to be both people and representations of the situations they’re in, i.e. It’s hard to tell with the Fin de Siècle deck, though, because some cards that were people cards in German have become situations in English (30- Gerichtsperson (“court person”) became Judication-given the awkwardness of the literal translation, I see why) or vice versa (24- Diebstahl (“theft”) became Thief). Which is a slight exaggeration on my part: the people cards make up only about a third of the deck. Yes, there was a book (neither white nor all that little), and yes, I can read them (!).įirst impressions? Like the Lenormand, Kipper cards feel better suited to practical, “mundane” readings, rather than the more psychological readings I get from the tarot. It feels like doing a reading with a deck that’s mostly Court Cards. ![]() What I saw of Marchetti’s Fin de Siècle Kipper did appeal to me-no surprise there-and I figured there’d be a little white book or the equivalent, so I got it. I’d heard of Kipperkarten, but the few pictures I’d seen hadn’t attracted me, and most of the material I’d found on them was in German, so I didn’t know how I’d learn them even if I got a deck. Late last year, I learned that Ciro Marchetti had done a Kipper deck. ![]() Now I’m trying a third kind: the Kipper cards. I probably could’ve stuck with it forever, but a few years ago, I discovered I could read Lenormand cards as well. Not that I’ve felt restricted, given how deep and meaningful the tarot is. I wasn’t interested in learning cartomancy, and the oracle decks I tried usually didn’t work for me. Tarot was my first love, and it was the only sort of cards I read for decades. For all my love of divination, I’m a bit limited when it comes to reading cards.
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