(Yay for our GT’s! ) If there ever was a deck to keep in your handbag or jeans/skirt pocket: this is the one! It could also be THE deck to lose amongst a stack of papers or other materials, but that’s just me 😉 (I do not do clean-desk policy). Since the companion is the large book I reviewed here (link), there is no LWB and the cards are exactly those tiny Original Kipper size the tuck box is especially small and thin. You won’t ever pick the wrong box out of your closet that is for sure. The Card Geek’s Kipper is delivered in a fitted little tuck box with the same print as the book-cover: red with a mixture of card examples and a yellow coloured title. A deck with a modern 21st century take on the art while honouring ALL directional cues as per the Bavarian reading way (1890. With the release of her English ‘How To Book’ The Card Geek, a.k.a Lenormand & Kipper teacher Toni Puhle, also hired German artist Sabine Lumpe to create a new Kipper deck. That waiting has definitely ended…unless you do not like the art of course. Directional reads and other visual clues were lost, so a lot of readers were still hoping for another new and fresh deck, but this time one honouring all the directional and visual cues. As was the case with the Mystical Kipper, Fin de Siecle Kipper might have been a welcome change to the art, but certain changes to the contents made sure the Bavarian method could no longer be used a 100%. It needs to be completely reinterpreted*** – could not change the fact that longtime Kipper readers, or those newly trained in the Bavarian way, wanting to use all the options Kipper has to offer, turned back to their Original packs again. It was sold out in a jiffy, was reproduced by US Games, and many others tried to create their own Kippers, sadly in the misconception they were simply making a Lenormand 2.0**.Įven the enormous popularity of Kipper Fin de Siecle – I am still a fan, though ever since my training in the original way of Kipper I’ve failed to use it.
2016 saw Kipper entering the international stage when popular designer Ciro Marchetti introduced his English titled Fin de Siecle deck. The Mystical gained some favor (Leiding’s deck not so much), but too many adaptations resulted in a lot of Kipper readers remaining faithful to Original Kipper (or Salish). The 90’s and the early 21st century saw two new decks being entered in the Kipper mix with Hildegard Leidung’s Leidung Kipper* and Regula Fiechter’s Mystical Kipper. You had the Original Kipper since the start, that pattern repeated in the style of Salish****, and in 1920 the Original was printed in a (mistake!) transposed way. For years and years there was little variety for any Kipper reader. It has a few things in common with Gypsy Cards and Lenormand, but definitely works in a different way. Kipper cards originate from Bavaria, Germany around 1870-1890. The Card Geek’s Kipper Cards deck might just’ve changed history.įirst, al little background (don’t want or need that: jump to paragraph 3). Original Kipper was THE deck and while some designers added new material in recent history, taste and usefulness made sure most Kipper lovers forcibly stayed with their Original Wahrsagekarten. Anyway, if you are a Kipper reader that was your reality for over a hundred years (if you started eh…young). Now, there are hundreds if not thousands of cartomancers doing that on purpose – but if you were one of them you would not be on a review site -). Imagine you love a certain card system and basically having only just one or two decks to read with.
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