![]() ![]() ![]() The Rainbow Kipper includes a 112-page-colour-printed-guidebook which includes a preface, information upon the colour coding within the deck, a double-page guide upon each of the cards and their meanings, information upon how to read the colours, a guide upon setting intentions, various spread examples, and a conclusion. Inside the box is a built-in fuscia pink, cardboard template for housing the cards and space to store the guidebook included. The Rainbow Kipper deck arrives perfectly packaged in a beautiful, pale blue box featuring a magnetic-close clasp at the side of the box. ![]() The Kipper deck was born out of necessity during a time and a place where Lenormand and Gypsey cards were shunned due to their roots. I rather appreciate that the Kipper cards refrain from including religious or symbolic references as I myself am not particularly religious and rather like the simplicity of these cards. It depicts people, societal roles, and personal states of being.īack in the nineteenth century, Bavaria was not the place we know today, the climate was not too friendly to the card reading community, and readers often struggled to find a deck that they were able to use without the worry that they may upset or offend others. Kipper cards reflect both on the highest and the lowest possibilities life may contain and does not depict objects (like the Lenormand deck). Whilst the Kipper deck isn’t a deck that has the capacity to address larger, societal issues, it works on a much more personal level, aimed at the everyday realities of people’s lives. The Kipper deck is comprised of thirty-six cards, and it’s very possible that the creator of the Kipper deck was inspired by the Lenormand, which itself may well have been inspired by the ‘Game of Hope’ deck, which was created by a German businessman with the intentions of being used as a family game around the year 1800. However, it’s been gaining popularity outside of Germany in recent years, quite possibly due to alternative decks such as the Regula Elizabeth Fiechter’s Mystical Kipper, Ciro Marchetti’s Fin De Siecle Kipper, and the very modern-looking ‘The Card Geek’s Kipper Deck’. Inspired by an 1890s sensibility and order, the Kipper deck has mostly been used in Germany and its environs over the course of its history. Kipper cards first came about in Germany during the 1890s. Steven is the co-founder of the Esotoracle Magazine and alongside his own book ‘Tarot: Your Personal Guide’ (Wellfoot Books, 2018) Steven has also written for various periodicals. Toni is the founder of the World Divination Association and is the author of ‘The Card Geek’s Guide To Kipper Cards’.īorn in London in 1972, Steven Bright is an author, artist, and the creator of the Spirit Within Tarot (Schiffer Publishing 2017). Toni Puhle & Steven Brightīorn in Sheffield in 1975, Toni Puhle has studied and researched the traditional systems of Lenormand, Kipper, and Gypsey cards in England, France, and Germany. Merging tradition with contemporary art, these thirty-six, colour-coded Kipper cards are designed specifically to aid readers to explore their day-to-day environment, and to make for easy fortune-telling. Though I’ve worked with numerous divination decks throughout the years, I’ve never yet used Kipper cards until this week when Schiffer/ Red Feather very kindly sent me the bright and beautiful ‘ Rainbow Kipper‘ cards designed and created by Toni Puhle and Steven Bright. ![]()
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