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The Real World Tarot Podcast

The Real World Tarot Podcast

By: Izolda Trakhtenberg
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A woman sat down across from me at a Renaissance Festival and asked about her writer's block. The cards didn't say a word about her book. They said: go to the doctor. Tomorrow. Whatever is going on in your lower abdomen, deal with it now. She came back a year later with a bouquet of flowers and the book she wrote about surviving stage four ovarian cancer.

That's what tarot actually does when you use it right.

The Real World Tarot Podcast is your weekly guide to the most practical, purposeful, and honest tarot system ever created. The Functional Tarot deck has 84 cards, six more than any traditional deck, including Process, Purpose, Passion, Envy, Adventure, and Meditation cards, plus an entirely new suit: the Suit of Voices, built specifically to help you find and live your full purpose through your work and your lifetime.

Every episode, we go deep on what the cards are actually saying, how to read them with honesty and precision, and how this ancient system can give you the insight, clarity, and direction you've been looking for, not someday, but right now.

If you want fortune-telling, this isn't your show. If you want to know yourself better, act with more purpose, and finally stop waiting to live the life you're meant to live, pull up a chair. The cards are ready.

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Episodes
  • Welcome to the Real World
    Jun 27 2026
    What if tarot had nothing to do with predicting your future and everything to do with clarifying your present?

    In this first episode of The Real World Tarot Podcast, host Izolda Trakhtenberg introduces the show, the Functional Tarot system, and the question that drives everything here: what does tarot actually do when you use it right?

    Izolda shares one of her most unforgettable readings: a woman who came to her at a Renaissance Festival asking about writer's block, and left with something far more important than writing advice. It is a story that illustrates exactly what the Functional Tarot's 98-card system is built to do: cut through the noise, reflect what is true, and point toward the action that changes everything.

    You'll also get a preview of what's coming next week, a deep dive into the 98 cards themselves, why the Functional Tarot expands the traditional 78-card deck, and why the six additional Major Arcana and the brand-new Suit of Voices might be the most important additions to tarot in the system's entire history.

    If you've ever wanted a tool for genuine self-knowledge, clearer decision-making, and a more purposeful life, this is where you start.

    The Real World Tarot Podcast is produced for educational and informational purposes only.

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