Tarot Tips: Guide to Kipper Cards (and more!)
Published: Wed, 08/01/18
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http://TarotSchool.com ISSN: 1529-0565 Vol. 10 #6 / August 1, 2018
In this Issue: - Welcome
- Tarot Tip: Who On Earth? Guide to Kipper Cards with Toni Puhle
- Tarot School Aphorism
- Diviner's Corner: Divination with the Hanafuda Flower Cards - Best Practices: Clients and Boundary Issues - Cool Tarot Project - Upcoming Events Welcome to a new issue of Tarot Tips!
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WHO ON EARTH? GUIDE TO KIPPER CARDS
by Toni Puhle people in a daily read? Who on earth are they? A mountainous obstacle in many a Kipper Reader’s life. In fact, the single biggest reason readers give up on learning Kipper. If you haven’t picked up a Kipper Deck yet, let me expand a little. Kipper is a 36 Card German System dating back to the 19th Century. Out of those cards, 8 are “people” cards and many more cards feature people on them. Countless Tarot or Lenormand readers have come to the system and found that they cannot tell an essence read from a person read and thrown the Kipper towel well and truly in. But fear not! Kipper peeps are quite friendly and accommodating with who they are portraying, so much so that we can navigate a Kipper Grand Tableau (using all 36 cards) and easily pick out who is who, and whether they are guilty of popping Ms Peacock off in the Dining Room with the Candlestick! Our Kipper Family Tree: ![]() always the Querent and their partner. It doesn’t have to be a romantic partner – where a lot of readers fall flat on their face. No, it can be anyone who plays a major role in your life. If your Querent’s GT is clearly work related, we could see their “work husband” or a colleague! ![]() ![]() Card 5 and Card 6 are usually people – fancy that! Our Mummy and Daddy of the gang, a few years older than our Querent and providing a service most likely akin to mentorship, nurturing and supportive in their natural way. Sometimes the 5. Good Gent can bring good news with him, likewise our 6. Good Lady can bring an air of joy, but mostly they are everyday skin and bones that help our Querent in some way or another. ![]() ![]() “All the party people in the house say what!?” The young and hip life-loving 12. Rich Girl and 13. Rich Gent, if you are over 30 remember back to your early 20’s and what (if any) cares you had at the time. Card 12 and Card 13 are just like that, all about the fun and freedom that comes with a little independence and a whole lot of naivety. If you are in your 20’s then enjoy it! These two peeps can be your best friend or a back biting “frenemy” depending on their position. They can also show a colleague who is aching to get ahead and thriving on the energy needed to do it! ![]() of the gang, most likely an essence card (meaning rules and regulations mixed in with a little aggression) but he sometimes does chime in as a peep. He can show a brother, uncle, or a uniformed – official type peep in the Querent’s life. He can be somebody who doesn’t quite fit on the standard family tree – if you are unsure when reading, interpret using his aggressive side (Mr Blockage) and see if the shoe fits the cards surrounding! ![]() to have a lot of Querents with work and financial (stocks and shares etc.) reads like me, then you may forget now and again that 18 is in fact a child at its core! The youngest generation of the Kipper Family Tree and literally anyone who is underage. Its nature is playful and new, but with negative cards we can see our child throwing their toys out of the pram and tantrums ensuing. Child isn’t always a child – it can’t be – not every Querent has a child in their lives. A lot of your reads will see Card 18. Child as a new project or new situation in the Querent’s life. So that’s it – easy peasy lemon squeezy!! You are probably asking, what about the other characters? Well, that is where Kipper is misrepresented. The other cards which show people on them aren’t even people cards. They are situational cards, cards showing situations in which querents will find themselves. Chill out a little on the “people” in the deck and understand that some cards are …. Just …… situations. The End. About Toni: Toni Puhle is the author of The Card Geek's Guide to Kipper Cards and founder of the World Divination Association. www.thecardgeek.co.uk Tarot School Aphorism ![]() Diviner's Corner DIVINATION WITH THE HANAFUDA FLOWER CARDS by Fortune Rebecca Buchholtz ![]() Who hasn’t been charmed by the Japanese Flower Card deck? And when we see a beautiful deck, don’t we long to divine with it? Let me introduce some concepts anyone can use to begin exploring these lovely cards. These tiny flower cards are known in Japan as Hanafuda or Hwatu in Korea. Arising in the late 18th cent., Hanafuda have spread across the globe, as migration has carried the tradition. A living culture, games such as Koi-Koi and Go-Stop are widely played, as well as appearing in manga and video games. Playing Hanafuda is common on New Year’s Day and birthdays at home with the family. During these holidays, it’s not unusual for older female relatives to use Hanafuda to tell light-hearted fortunes for the coming year. But is deeper divination possible? Of course! Even though they’re not one of the most traditional forms of Japanese divination, contemporary professional diviners use them based on their symbolism: correspondences to classical poetry; months/traditional seasons; planets; body parts; flowers & plants; animals; folk tales; yin/yang; and fused with reading concepts adopted from the highly popular Tarot. This gives a rich basis for serious divining work. Yin/Yang associations even let you do the I Ching. Structure of the Hanafuda The deck has 12 suits of 4 cards each, featuring a key card with a symbolic animal or item, as well as one with a scroll, like those used for wishes or fortunes (omiyuki) at Shinto shrines. The two remaining cards display plain suit pictures. Each suit corresponds to a calendar month. The antique Japanese solar/lunar calendar, based on that of ancient China, consisted of 72 mini-seasons of anywhere from 3 to 6 days. Each card can represent roughly 1.5 mini-seasons. Since the Japanese adopted the Western calendar, each card can relate to about a week, with one card serving for the whole New Year’s festival time to fill the gap. As each month bears a traditional association with a plant, an elegant language of flowers emerges. Flowers with key words evoking the seasons are essential to classical Japanese poetry, giving the suits allusions to literary works that are as deeply embedded in Japanese culture as Shakespeare is in English-speaking culture. Popular Hanafuda/Hwatu Keywords Acquire the Hanafuda/Hwatu at your local Asian store, or by ordering the classic Nintendo deck from Amazon. I also like Jason Nakano’s Hawaiian Hanafuda and Veronique Brindeau’s Franco-Japanese deck. It often comes with a slim instruction sheet, including variations on simple keywords like: ![]() Note: the Hanafuda/Hwatu often swap November/December between Willow/Rain and Paulownia. The Hwatu also comes with bonus cards, which there isn’t room to discuss here. As always, journal to discover how the cards & their meanings work for you. Beginning Method A traditional method is to play suit-matching solitaire. This is a great way to get a reading for yourself as you learn the cards. Perhaps the most popular way is a variant of Klondike: shuffle & lay out the first 4 cards (of different suits) in a row, face-up. Lay out 4 columns of cards face-down, reserving 1 card in your hand. Turn over the bottom cards and try to match them to one of the suits on the top row. If you match a card, turn over the one underneath it, just as in Klondike, and continue. No special order is needed; just pile same suit cards together until you can’t turn over any new cards. If the card in your hand matches a suit above, play it and take a new one from any pile. If not, pick up a card from any pile and swap it with the one in your hand. Some traditions allow you to do this once; others 3 times. When you’re stuck, you’re done. If you have matched all 4 cards of a suit or suits in the top row, use those keywords to address your question. If not, your question has no answer at this time. Some readers are more generous, and read the cards that do make it to the top row. Let your intuition guide you. About Fortune: Fortune Buchholtz has been deeply involved in cards since 1998, when she was gifted a Visconti. Moving to Europe in 2014 allowed her to devote herself full time to research in the card museums & libraries. She returned to the US and read for sitters in the lovely boutique Journeys of Life in Pittsburgh, as well as writing for Ciro Marchetti's Kipper deck. Back again in Europe, she did editing for Königsfurt-Urania before returning to her own teaching, writing & client work. https://www.notfortunesfool.com/ We’d love your suggestion or submissions for this column! If you have an idea or would love to contribute, please contact us at [email protected]. Best Practices for Professional Readers CLIENTS AND BOUNDARY ISSUES By Gina Thies www.tarotadvisor.com / www.facebook.com/tarotreaders www.tarotcoupling.com / www.oraclesoup.org The word boundary is tossed around a lot in counseling or advisory circles. In terms of therapy or counseling, boundaries keep the relationship professional and keep objectivity from becoming questionable. These boundary lines can become blurred as your clients frequent you for your services. For reading professionals, we can all agree that healthy distances are a must for our practices. Relationships are complex, so the clients we serve may not always see, know or respect our boundaries. I recognize when a querent has crossed a boundary with me when a red flag is raised by their behavior. One example is unsolicited contact for something other than an appointment. Another one is discussing their reading or problems outside an appointment. Responding to a seemingly simple text or email can put you in a really compromised position. Once it starts it can be challenging to correct. “Boundary issues are disruptions of the expected and accepted social, physical, and psychological boundaries that separate physicians from patients.” writes V. K. Aravind, V. D. Krishnaram, and Z. Thasneem in the article ‘Boundary Crossings and Violations in Clinical Settings’ in © Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine. This definition is also applicable in the setting of the reader and querent. Boundaries often becomes ambiguous because in the tarot reading setting, a querent may feel as if they are talking to their best friend. Setting strict boundaries does not relieve the practitioner of caring about or empathizing with a querent’s woes, but boundaries do need to be clear at all times. Some professionals deal with this by not accepting appointments from clients too close together in time. Others adhere to a code of ethics that is presented in either written or verbal form. I once had a client who would send very long text messages to my business number at all hours of the night. I did not respond. I would see these messages when I checked my phone the next day. Yes, it could happen to you! How do you handle them? When I get clients who do this, I respond during my business hours, state my business hours, and inform them that they are welcome to make a paid appointment during regular business hours. I don’t go into what they said at all. If a querent does not respect your boundaries, more than likely they won’t listen to any insight that comes from your session. If you feel uncomfortable with a client, then it is time to refer them to someone else. Cool Tarot Project THE TRANSFORMATIONAL TRUTH OF TAROT GAME CHANGER How wonderful would it be to have a household board game on how to live in beautiful connection with oneself, the universe and others? Tiffany Crosara has created the Transformational Truth of Tarot Game Changer — a new way to use the tarot to re-connect with yourself, your ancient wisdom and your loved ones. Up to 6 players can play together, or enjoy it all by yourself. “The object of the game Is to get at least four cards, one of each: (e.g a Sword, a Cup, a Wand and a Pentacle). These are found in the Minor Arcana Karma Card Deck and are acquired by getting stuck and digging deep into your karma! Once you have at least one of each of the four suits you can then win by making your way to and landing on The World… Unlike other games it's not about the destination (winning) it’s about the journey. As you play, you’ll see your journey is anything but linear, you’ll be going forwards, backwards, round and round and you’ll get stuck in certain places, and as you do the Gods will ask you questions to prompt the clearing out of your karma, the process of getting stuck gives you the very things you need in order to get to The World and complete your mission!” You can get a signed First Edition by supporting Tiffany’s Kickstarter campaign! The game includes a beautifully illustrated Game Board, 6 Crystal Pieces, 56 cards, 3 Dice, and a Step-by-Step Instruction Book. There are only 13 days left to the campaign so check it out now: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/790302209/the-transformational-truth-of-tarot-game-changer Upcoming Events:
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