Finding out the contents of something with Kipper card divination!

I'm always on the look out for new ways to practice my cartomancy. I recently came across a really fun way to find out what's inside something....

I recently purchased some Kipper cards (Ciro Marchetti's Fin De Siecle), which are similar to Lenormand cards, and have been trying to get some practice in with these. They are used in a different way to Tarot, the focus is not on the imagery. Instead each card representing a situation,  rather than a word as is the case for Lenormand. So this has been something quite new for me to learn and somewhat challenging.

There are not as many resources out there for Kipper cards, but I came across one lady on YouTube who does videos on Lenormand and she showed a really fun way to practice with cards by finding out what is inside a Kinder Egg! Well, I guess you could use anything, why not a Kinder Egg? I just had to have a go myself, and as I like chocolate I'd get two things out of it - getting to know the cards and some chocolate! The only Kinder Egg I could get was a Barbie one, but since I'm not up on Barbie these days I didn't assume that I could guess what would be inside.

So, first of all I wrote down 3 questions I wanted to ask:

Q1. What is the item inside this Kinder Egg?
Q2. What is this item used for?
Q3 What colour is the item?
Q4 Tell me something else about the item?

Next I shuffled my cards and asked the first question and drew the card. I repeated this process for the remaining three questions. Here are the cards I drew:

Kipper Card images ©Ciro Marchetti

 Q1: 31- Bad Health
Q2: 15 - Lovers/Good Outcome
Q3: 18 - Child
Q4: 34- Occupation

I wasn't too sure about 15-Lovers as this fell out. Sometimes those cards jump out at you and you use them, I was on the fence with this one...

I admit I was puzzled by these. The Bad Health card can signify ill health, set backs, sickness, medical issue or items, medical rooms. So my first thought was a nurse or doctor. The second card 15-Lovers stumped me, but my first immediate reaction was that it was saying that it's used to make someone feel better.  Some associations for this card can be heart health and tools to complete a job (depending on the context of course).  Card 18-Child has mainly pink and white colours. There's a brown bunny toy in it but my first reaction was that the item was pink. The last card 34-Occupation seemed to be relatively straightforward, indicating the item was used for a job.

Okay, so what was the item in the Kinder Egg?

Kipper Card images ©Ciro Marchetti

It was a figurine of a scientist:

Looking at the cards again, there is a connection to 'bad health', and not just the white coat reminding me of doctors...scientists of course investigate matters to do with health and sickness, and on the figurine, behind her legs is a a DNA strand, another connection to health. So I'd say that's pretty good card to describe what the item is, and is the closet card there could be in the deck for a scientist.

As for card 15 (traditionally called Good Outcome/Lovers), i.e. what the item is used for, in this case the scientist, there are a few possible connections. One of the card meanings is a good outcome, another in the context of health and objects, is heart health and tools to complete a job. So we could say this was indicating the scientist is used to get good outcomes regarding health and well being (the DNA strand) , and in the figurine's hand is a lab bottle with bubbling contexts (the tools). Which is kind of right.

The colours shown in the card 18-Child were correct - the figurine has a white coat and stands on a pink base.

The last card, 34-Occupation, does indeed show that the item is about an occupation, a scientist.

So all in all I thought that was an interesting result, and a really fun way to get to know the cards! I'm sure I'll be trying this again (especially if chocolate is involved!).

Do you have any novel ways of getting to know your cards?

Here's the video where I first saw this approach. If you try it too let me know in the comments below!