Category Archives: Magical Training
My latest podcast with GlitchBottle..Nov 2019
A podcast I recorded with Alex of Glitch Bottle has just gone public…. I am chatting with Alex about the environment, nature magic, working magically in service for the environment and how to approach it.. you can find the podcast … Continue reading
Posted in Magic, Magical Training, Podcast Josephine McCarthy, Quareia, Uncategorized
Tagged Earth Magic, Environmental magic, Josephine McCarthy, spirits
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Talks and Podcasts
It has been a busy time for me lately, besides working with students, preparing new texts for the Quareia page, etc, I have been doing podcasts, lectures and have a masterclass coming up at The Magickal Womens Conference in London … Continue reading
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
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
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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The struggles with Magical Training, and the Quareia Apprentice Section
Now that more people are reaching into Quareia and studying the course, more people are asking the same questions, so it maybe pertinent to cover some of those answers here in a blog. Many of the topics covered here are … Continue reading
Posted in Magical Training, Quareia, Uncategorized
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The Arbatel Module – a comedy of errors
Working with the Arbatel for a Quareia adept module was quite the farce as the editor and I came smack up against its magical guardians….. that was fun….. here is the story about the run around we had while trying … Continue reading
Posted in Magical Training, Quareia
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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
