A Toronto comedian has been prosperously pulling tarot cards before World Series games
Do professional athletes hire tarot readers? Maybe they should!
It’s a historic day in Toronto. For the first time in 32 years, the Blue Jays are in the World Series, and with game six tonight, they could win the title. (If they lose, they could win it tomorrow!) We need all the magic we can muster, and that includes witchcraft.
Fortunately, Toronto comedian Tamara Shevon has been reading tarot cards ahead of Jays games, and her outlook is good. As hilarious as Shevon’s comedy is, these readings are serious and specific—Shevon is a loyal Jays fan and a seasoned tarot practitioner, so she’s not messing around.
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Before game one of the series, she prepared her grounding crystals—obsidian, emerald and aragonite, for the witches at home assembling their TV altars—and predicted based on the cards that the game would be stressful, but with a path to victory.
“Maintaining roots is how you pull yourself from darkness,” she said, referencing a guidebook to interpret the cards. “It’s easy to get grounded or do your spiritual practice when things are going well, but it’s an entirely different ball game when you feel defeated and broken.” That can’t be a coincidence. We trust her wholeheartedly.
In today’s game six reading, Shevon’s tarot pull pointed to generosity, wealth, gifts, investment and a bonus—a World Series–winning bonus, perhaps? (We choose to believe that the cards aren’t picking up on the prosperity of Jays ticket resellers.)
“We are going for it, which is what we should be doing. We just want to make sure we’re not cocky about it,” she says.
As long as the team can follow this sound spiritual guidance until the game ends, we should be okay. We’ll be clutching our obsidian in any case.
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
