Psychic doles out lottery fortune -- again

TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL
TORONTO -- A fortune-teller, who has been credited with helping a single-time client win a 6.8-million lottery jackpot, would rather do readings about a person's relationships or career than hand out lucky numbers.
"It's not my favorite subject," sighed the Hungarian-born psychic, who goes by her first name, Katerina.
Judy Mayer, 56, told reporters in Winnipeg last week that Katerina gave her all but one of the lucky numbers she used to win half of the Feb. 21 draw.
The mother of two and former night hotel and bar manager said that Katerina wrote six numbers on the back of her business card after a tarot card reading 18 months ago, and she had been playing them ever since. However, that was until last month, when Mayer decided to change the last of the six numbers given to her by Katerina from 45 to 46. Mayer can't remember what prompted her to make the last-minute change.
"I started screaming, of course ecstatically, 'I got all six of them!'" Mayer recalled about the moment she realized she had hit the jackpot.
Katerina claimed that this isn't the first time she has helped a client win the lottery. She said five years ago, she gave all six winning numbers to a male client.
The psychic, who has been reading tarot cards and palms in Winnipeg for more than 20 years, is extremely happy for Mayer, and she wouldn't decline a "small piece" of the winnings if her client offered them up. She said that since news broke about her connection to the lottery win, her phone hasn't stopped ringing.
"I'm not even looking for new business. I'm ready to retire. I will do as much as I can handle," she said.
"We've heard of many, many ways that people select their winning numbers ... but I'm not sure if we've ever heard of tarot cards being used," John Matheson, a Western Canada Lottery Corp. spokesman, said.