PHOENIX TAROT

by Paola Angelotti

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Since I read the Israel Reagardie's Golden Dawn in 1987  I planned to draw a my own deck. Phoenix Tarot was begun in The Netherlands during 1993, the project was entirely hand drawn and gouache painted. At that time I begun studing computer graphics and, because  the result of the painted deck was dissatisfied  , I decide to vectorialize each image with CorelDraw. A venture: at that time Corel Draw released the 3.0 version and I had a 386 with a math co-processor and 4Mb ram, vectorialize an image meant a couple of days of work. The first cards are easily recognizable, are very much more less elaborated: the Tower, the four of Pentacles, the ten of Cups. Little by little I bought better processors, motherboards, RAM and the last card: the Knight of Cups, was made in Italy with CorelDraw 10 running on a Pentium. In the mean time a lot of cards were thrown away and re-drawn: I made five versions of the Strenght, three Queens of Cups, and so on, enough to make another deck. Another venture was find a name for the deck and a printer, at the end the deck had not  much pertinence with the Reagardie's teachings and a name like Chamaleon's Path Tarot or Rainbow was not  suitable anymore and also there was  the risk of a copyright infringment. An online portfolio was made and a lot of people begun to ask me where they may buy the deck, then I tried to contact tens of card printers worldwide collecting tens of  kind ways to say no. Finally I decided to self-produce the deck, another enterprize, but in October 2003 Phoenix Tarot was born in a limited edition of 500 pcs. Why Phoenix? Well, it's an esotheric deck.....