I’m someone who follows the spark. Years ago, that spark led me from Southern California to France, where I found myself at an intimate soirée, pulling cards from a magical, mystical deck steeped in French philosophy. Within minutes, I felt it speaking to me, not in words but in images, patterns, and a knowing that landed in my bones. That was my first encounter with Le Jeu du Phénix, The Phoenix Game.
I didn’t set out to create a method, but over years of playing, studying, and sharing the game, something new emerged. My background in emotional release work, energy healing, and spiritual practices began to weave with the game’s symbolic structure. A natural rhythm formed, a way of tracking thresholds, reading the board as a living map, and guiding people to the moment where new possibilities unfold.
That way of working became what Emma and I now call French Energetic Mapping™, our unique way of holding The Phoenix Game so its insight is understood, experienced, and realized.
Sometimes the cards offer a glimpse of what is ahead. More often, the real magic is in creating the conditions for truth to surface, the kind of truth that changes how you walk back into your life.
Even after all these years, I still feel the awe of French Energetic Mapping™ — like the night I pulled a card with a friend who couldn’t leave a relationship she’d outgrown. The spread revealed the exact energetic tether she was still running. Within days, she ended it, and everything in her field shifted — love, work, even the way she carried herself.
Serendipity struck in a year-long healing modality certification course, when I met fellow deep seeker Suzanne. Her trip to France and a pack of cards would bridge our worlds -- the deep green of Minnesota forests with her California crystal-blue coastline. The recognition of importance was immediate: the imagery, language, depth and dimensionality. The game felt oddly familiar while steeped in possibility.
Through years of immersive learning, attentive translation, and intentional design we have brought this powerful tool to a wider audience, in our voice and method.
I hope this finds you where it found me: passionate about the beliefs, patterns, and energies that shape our reality—and now, with a French tool of transformation, able to release what no longer serves so that something greater may emerge.
The Phoenix Game
A philosophical tool we work with through French Energetic Mapping™.
The Phoenix Game is a practice in symbolic fluency, energetic navigation, and transformational clarity. It’s the tool we use to see—not just insight, but the architecture underneath: what’s moving, what’s blocked, what’s becoming.
Played on a nine-quadrant board with a deck of 26 archetypal cards, it externalizes your internal state—revealing the energetic imprint of a moment. A board, a card, and suddenly the energetics that felt blurred come into focus. What’s scattered is held. What’s heavy softens into something you can move with. Sometimes it’s a clear yes. Sometimes, a pattern you’ve been circling. Sometimes, something you’ve always known—finally made visible.
Originally created by French philosopher Vincent Cespedes in 2011, Le Jeu du Phénix wasn’t designed for divination. It’s a tool of symbolic cognition: a structured, visual encounter that speaks to the subconscious in the language it understands—image, story, pattern.
What you’re working with now is a modern adaptation—part translation, part transmission. With Édition Clarté we’ve reimagined The Phoenix Game to feel modern, intuitive, and essential. French in design, elegant in structure, Clarté makes the energetics visible so what you’re calling in has a place to land. Through French Energetic Mapping™, it becomes a multidimensional practice for accessing your own inner clarity, again and again.
Our Story
We didn’t invent this. We listened to it.
The English edition of The Phoenix Game began with a moment of resonance—a chance encounter, a card pulled at the right time, a pattern seen with new eyes. What followed wasn’t a decision to “make a product.” It was a long, unfolding collaboration—with each other, with the cards, and with the mysterious intelligence that seems to animate the game itself.
This version of The Phoenix Game isn’t just translated. It’s been reinterpreted, restructured, and made fully playable in a modern context—while preserving the symbolic fidelity of the original. With Édition Clarté, we carried the French spirit forward while refining it to feel clear, intuitive, and alive for how we live today.
You don’t have to believe in anything to use it.
But you might start believing in the timing of what shows up.
And in your own ability to read the energetics that were always there.