When the mystical goes mainstream: how tarot became a self-care phenomenon

 Posted on May 29, 2024  |  10 minutes  |  2105 words  |  Delta Gatti

Life and styleTarot used to be seen as the domain of the credulous. It’s now seen as a means of coping with the present, thanks to psychology-minded practitioners like Jessica Dore When Jessica Dore was growing up, her mother had a tarot deck from which she’d pull cards – much to the mounting mortification of her daughter. As a child, Dore went along with it as fortune-telling fun. But “as an adolescent, it was sort of like ‘Mind your own business’”, she says wryly. [Read More]

Woman enters court without pants after jail 'fails to provide hygiene products' | Kentucky

 Posted on May 29, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  406 words  |  Delta Gatti

A woman entered court apparently not wearing pants.Kentucky This article is more than 7 years oldWoman enters court without pants after jail 'fails to provide hygiene products'This article is more than 7 years oldLouisville judge asks: ‘Is this for real? Am I in the Twilight Zone?’ Lawyer: woman not given hygiene products or pants for three daysA Kentucky corrections facility is under scrutiny after a woman was brought into a Louisville court apparently wearing no pants, having allegedly been offered no hygiene products for three days. [Read More]

Working on a beauty counter had a devastating effect on my self-esteem | Elizabeth McCafferty

 Posted on May 29, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1018 words  |  Brenda Moya

Why I quitMakeup This article is more than 1 year oldWorking on a beauty counter had a devastating effect on my self-esteemThis article is more than 1 year oldElizabeth McCaffertySelling makeup was a dream come true. But my confidence was shattered by relentless criticism of my appearance As I chatted away with a bride-to-be, gently dabbing blusher along her cheeks and lifting her lashes with mascara, I felt proud to have found a home within the beauty industry. [Read More]

Anatomy of a Suicide review a startling study of mothers and daughters

 Posted on May 28, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  910 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

TheatreReviewRoyal Court, London Alice Birch’s radically experimental play, directed by Katie Mitchell, tests the theory that trauma can pass across three generations of women What determines our character? Nature or nurture? Genetic inheritance or social environment? It is an age-old debate, and Alice Birch now adds to it with this startling theatrical triptych about three generations of mothers and daughters. Whatever my doubts about Birch’s conclusion, the play is odd, arresting and, in Katie Mitchell’s immaculate production, highly original in its form. [Read More]

Gone in two transfers: the email scam that cost Australian homebuyers their life savings

 Posted on May 28, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  962 words  |  Brenda Moya

Banking NSW residents Simon Elvins and his wife lost nearly $250,000 to a payment redirection scam – and they are not alone Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Simon Elvins and his wife were excited – they had spent 10 years saving for their first home and they had finally got there. The New South Wales man had just been sent an invoice from his conveyancer, asking him to pay the first lot of his home deposit for a property in the Blue Mountains. [Read More]

Good luck: could Jupiter and Neptune give us months of wealth and good fortune? Just ask an astrolog

 Posted on May 28, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  427 words  |  Brenda Moya

Pass notesHealth & wellbeingThe planets have transitioned through Pisces, something which last happened in 1856, and has ushered in better times ahead – apparently Name: Good luck. Frequency: Once every 13 years. Appearance: An amazing conjunction of planets. Really? Astrology in the Guardian? Is that what things have come to? Oh, I’m sorry. Too good to hear about rare and wonderful interplanetary events, are we? Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying. [Read More]

Judge warned last year of Colorado suspects shootout plans, files show | Colorado

 Posted on May 28, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  448 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

Colorado This article is more than 1 year oldJudge warned last year of Colorado suspect’s ‘shootout’ plans, files showThis article is more than 1 year oldQuestions raised after remarks by Robin Chittum, who dismissed separate kidnapping case against Anderson Aldrich last year A judge who dismissed a 2021 kidnapping case against the shooter in November’s Colorado LGBTQ+ nightclub tragedy warned last year that the defendant had been stockpiling weapons and planning a shootout, and needed mental health treatment or “it’s going to be so bad”. [Read More]

Ten Hags Manchester United stand up and die at club stranded in the past

 Posted on May 28, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1109 words  |  Christie Applegate

SportblogChampions LeagueUnited suffer European exit to a Bayern side who are a good version of whatever it is the hosts are trying to piece together As the seconds ticked down at the end of a Champions League season‑ender that felt like a gentle, even quite tender, act of sporting euthanasia, the only noise inside Old Trafford was the sound of the Bayern Munich fans singing an impressively sustained version of Football’s Coming Home. [Read More]

Top 10 seaside novels

 Posted on May 28, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1282 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

Threshold between order and chaos ... sunset over the pier at Lytham St Annes, Lancashire. Photograph: AlamyThreshold between order and chaos ... sunset over the pier at Lytham St Annes, Lancashire. Photograph: AlamyTop 10sFictionFrom Graham Greene to John Banville, many writers have been drawn to the dangerous transformations of stories told on the shore. Not exactly beach reading, these are some of the best Through the lens of literature, something interesting happens to the world of sand and sea, harbours and hotels. [Read More]

Belinda Carlisle: I wouldnt take back the drugs, but there are a few boyfriends I would edit o

 Posted on May 27, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  701 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

The Q&ALife and styleThe Go-Go’s singer on admiring Pamela Anderson, being told she sings like a goat and choosing sex over fame Born in California, Belinda Carlisle, 64, played drums in the punk band Germs. In 1978 she co-formed the Go-Go’s, which became the first all-female band who wrote their own songs and played their instruments to have a US No 1 album with their 1981 debut, Beauty and the Beat. [Read More]