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The Art of Kipper Reading - A guide to decode the Kipper cards
In 1890 in Germany, appeared the Kipper Fortune Telling Cards, ever since, this deck had been one of the favourites of Germain cartomancer. Very few books are available in English explaining how to work with this amazing deck. Alexandre Musruck, a popular card reader and designer, well known for his work on Lenormand another cartomancy system, has been working with these cards for many years and through this book he brings this system to a new level. A great book to help you decode the messages of the Kipper Oracle
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350 pages, Paperback
Published December 25, 2016
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October 22, 2022
Honest review from a pro Tarot Reader with 19 years of experience ~
I read The Card Geek's Guide to Kipper Cards by Toni Puhle in conjunction with The Art of Kipper Reading by Alexandre Musruck . Unfortunately, I didn't personally find any positives about Art of Kipper Reading when comparing the two, and am only keeping Card Geek's Guide to Kipper moving forward.
The amount of historical information and cultural context from 1800s and 1900s Bavaria in Card Geek's Guide to Kipper vastly overshadows anything in Art of Kipper Reading.
The bulk of Art of Kipper Reading is just lists upon lists of single sentence card interpretations paired with other cards in various contexts. The layout of Card Geek's Guide to Kipper is more like Essential Lenormand by Rana George , which I think is the best Petit Jeu Lenormand resource. Card Geek's Guide to Kipper not only references the historical meanings of each card and their positions, but modern interpretations in a variety of contexts as well.
Card Geek's Guide to Kipper features traditional Bavarian Reading methods, whereas Art of Kipper Reading simply rehashes Petit Jeu Lenormand Reading methods. Since PJL and Kipperkarten are two different systems, I feel the latter does a disservice to the essence of Kipper.
I also personally found it annoying how often Art of Kipper referenced the author's Youtube subscribers and social media presence -- it felt like reading a blog rather than a go-to resource on Kipper.
All that being said, Card Geek's Guide to Kipper is not without its flaws. The main drawback to me is the lack of professional editing. There are numerous run-on sentences and a major lack of proper punctuation -- not just commas, but periods as well. The other issue is the tiny print on the cards images; I'm unsure if the author intended the book to be read with the deck shown, which I don't have, but it can be difficult to see which cards are in the Spread example.
I read The Card Geek's Guide to Kipper Cards by Toni Puhle in conjunction with The Art of Kipper Reading by Alexandre Musruck . Unfortunately, I didn't personally find any positives about Art of Kipper Reading when comparing the two, and am only keeping Card Geek's Guide to Kipper moving forward.
The amount of historical information and cultural context from 1800s and 1900s Bavaria in Card Geek's Guide to Kipper vastly overshadows anything in Art of Kipper Reading.
The bulk of Art of Kipper Reading is just lists upon lists of single sentence card interpretations paired with other cards in various contexts. The layout of Card Geek's Guide to Kipper is more like Essential Lenormand by Rana George , which I think is the best Petit Jeu Lenormand resource. Card Geek's Guide to Kipper not only references the historical meanings of each card and their positions, but modern interpretations in a variety of contexts as well.
Card Geek's Guide to Kipper features traditional Bavarian Reading methods, whereas Art of Kipper Reading simply rehashes Petit Jeu Lenormand Reading methods. Since PJL and Kipperkarten are two different systems, I feel the latter does a disservice to the essence of Kipper.
I also personally found it annoying how often Art of Kipper referenced the author's Youtube subscribers and social media presence -- it felt like reading a blog rather than a go-to resource on Kipper.
All that being said, Card Geek's Guide to Kipper is not without its flaws. The main drawback to me is the lack of professional editing. There are numerous run-on sentences and a major lack of proper punctuation -- not just commas, but periods as well. The other issue is the tiny print on the cards images; I'm unsure if the author intended the book to be read with the deck shown, which I don't have, but it can be difficult to see which cards are in the Spread example.
April 6, 2020
This review originally appeared on The Magical Buffet's website on 04/06/2020.
What the heck is Kipper? I had never heard of it until I was offered the opportunity to “The Art of Kipper Reading: Decoding Powerful Messages” by Alexandre Musruck and its accompanying oracle deck.
So, what is it? According to Musruck, “In 1890, in Germany, appeared the ‘Kipper Fortune-Telling Cards’, a deck that clearly reflects the founding period, an era in which Germany was in the economic boom. The illustration clearly shows that the deck is from Bavaria, a state in the southeast of Germany. The deck, like Lenormand, bears the name of famous fortune teller Madame Susanne Kipper, but here again there is no evidence that it was created by her or simply a marketing strategy. In 1920, the publishing rights went to the company FX Schmid and in 1996 on to the Altenburger Spielkartenfabrik.”
The art is delightful, depicting all kinds of situations, emotions, and events. And what’s truly interesting it that the cards are read by direction, like an actual story! In many ways, this makes the Kipper more intuitive right out of the box, on the other hand, the accompanying book is VERY thick because each card has a different interpretation depending on what cards around it. There are 3 card readings, 5 card readings, 9 card readings, and most impressively, the Grand Tableau which utilizes the entire deck of 36 cards.
Alexandre Musruck did an excellent job of introducing me to the divination method of Kipper. He, with Red Feather Mind, Body, Spirit packaged up a beautiful deck, and he wrote an easy to comprehend accompanying book. If you want to learn about Kipper, you’ll want to check this out!
What the heck is Kipper? I had never heard of it until I was offered the opportunity to “The Art of Kipper Reading: Decoding Powerful Messages” by Alexandre Musruck and its accompanying oracle deck.
So, what is it? According to Musruck, “In 1890, in Germany, appeared the ‘Kipper Fortune-Telling Cards’, a deck that clearly reflects the founding period, an era in which Germany was in the economic boom. The illustration clearly shows that the deck is from Bavaria, a state in the southeast of Germany. The deck, like Lenormand, bears the name of famous fortune teller Madame Susanne Kipper, but here again there is no evidence that it was created by her or simply a marketing strategy. In 1920, the publishing rights went to the company FX Schmid and in 1996 on to the Altenburger Spielkartenfabrik.”
The art is delightful, depicting all kinds of situations, emotions, and events. And what’s truly interesting it that the cards are read by direction, like an actual story! In many ways, this makes the Kipper more intuitive right out of the box, on the other hand, the accompanying book is VERY thick because each card has a different interpretation depending on what cards around it. There are 3 card readings, 5 card readings, 9 card readings, and most impressively, the Grand Tableau which utilizes the entire deck of 36 cards.
Alexandre Musruck did an excellent job of introducing me to the divination method of Kipper. He, with Red Feather Mind, Body, Spirit packaged up a beautiful deck, and he wrote an easy to comprehend accompanying book. If you want to learn about Kipper, you’ll want to check this out!
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