Category Archives: Magic
Introducing ‘Sacred Women: Images of Power and Wisdom’
Sacred Women: Images of Power and Wisdom – the Art of Stuart Littlejohn is a new book that celebrates women through full colour paintings and accompanying texts.
Posted in Magic, magic and gender, Women
Tagged Female warriors, Goddess, Priestesses, sacred women, Shamaness, Stuart Littlejohn, Women, Women in Art
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Magic, Power, Focus and Emotion
The journey of magic that touches real power is a long and convoluted road that triggers ever deepening awareness of inner powers, consciousness and our own inner spirit and outer body. That long journey takes us down many roads of … Continue reading
The ancestry of Ancient Egypt – a long read
While listening to student’s questions and debates, there is something that has emerged in discussions a few times, and it is thorny issue indeed. Discussions on the topic in wider social media range from silly to down right offensive, which … Continue reading
Quareia and Kabbalah, and the Curious case of not knowing…..
Recently it came to my attention that a pair of leaders of a commercial magical temple had put up a blog post on the stance of Quareia and Kabbalah. I found it sad, misleading, and it brought many things into … Continue reading
Approaching the Magical Book of Gates
I thought it timely to introduce the Book of Gates: the mystical initiatory text of the Underworld and stars from Ancient Egypt. The Book of Gates is a complex, enigmatic and coded book that acts as a signpost and guide … Continue reading
Posted in Magic, Magical Training, Quareia
Tagged Duat, Egyptian Underworld, Heka, Josephine McCarthy, Magic and Egypt, Michael Sheppard, Osiris mysteries, The Book of Gates
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Quareia training – when you hit the wall, don’t headbutt it
As some of you who are studying the Quareia magical course will have come to realise, there is a point (and often more than one point) when you hit an energetic wall. You cannot seem to make progress, you are … Continue reading
Posted in Magic, Magical Training, Quareia
Tagged burn out, hitting the wall, Quareia training
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Religion and Magic?
Over the last few weeks, some blog posts have been appearing, mainly from GD family magicians, that attempt to address the issue of religion and the magician. Both magicians stress the importance of religion upon the practice of magician, but … Continue reading
Posted in Magic, Magical Training
Tagged Divinity, Golden Dawn, Nick Farrell, Peregrin Wildoak, Quareia, religion and magic
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Quareia Study Q & A
I have finally got to the last module in the Initiate section of the Quareia Course, and as of January 2016, there are people all over the world studying the course. While the first section of the course is complete … Continue reading
The inside scoop on writing a magical course
Now that I am half way through writing the course, I thought it would be interesting to take a minute to reflect on the process, and what a learning process it has been so far.
Posted in Magic, Magical Training, Quareia
Tagged adepts, Josephine McCarthy, magic, magical school, Quareia
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Watching the world through the window
I have almost reached the mid point of the course writing project I am working on, and what a strange magical journey this has turned out to be. When I started writing Quareia, I had no idea of what was … Continue reading
Josephine McCarthy 