Kipper: Reading & Practicing Pairs Of Cards

How might you read Kipper card pairs or combinations?

As is the case with other oracle card decks, Kipper cards are rarely read alone, but usually as part of a bigger ‘story’. We’ve already seen how the directions of the images on the cards can impact those stories and influence the cards around them, but how might you read the card pairings that make up the bigger Kipper readings, all of which require reading pairs of cards.

Luckily, you’ll find that in practice, this is usually fairly straightforward. Personally, I think most people will find these more intuitive than Lenormand cards, say, where you are combining concepts and “essences” to make new meanings, rather than the events and people you’ll find in Kipper.

Obviously, being able to read combinations of cards in any system requires a good understanding of each card meaning, and should always be applied to the topic or general context of the reading. You can check out the card meanings including directionals, from the Kipper Card Meaning Index you’ll find below:

So here, we’ll take a brief look at how the Kipper People cards combine with other cards, how the non-people cards combine, and then practice with some example pairings.

People Cards In A Pairing

We already know that with people cards, events in the cards behind them tend to be influences moving into the past, and situations, people and events in their eyeline (in the direction they’re facing) those to come. Generally speaking, cards above a Kipper person card represent what’s "on their mind” or influencing a situation, and cards below them, actions and events that they have more control of (although I sometimes read these as “underlying” factors). In other words, people have influence on the cards below them in the same way.

So for instance, here’s how you might read the following pairings. Please note, these are just possibilities, and you’d have to take the context of the other cards in the reading into account to clarify: