Tag Archives: Quareia

Shock, awe, and crazy magical ideas

Posted on November 12, 2022 by Josephine McCarthy

Well… what a ride! I expected the deck pre sales and art sales to take a couple of months to raise the money to go to print … and it took 4 days! I am gobsmacked. And once I had … Continue reading →

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Deck paintings at the teen angst phase – fighting names, and going out into the world

Posted on November 6, 2022 by Josephine McCarthy

Well this has suddenly turned into a bronco ride! The website for the deck is finally up, the paintings are going up for sale in batches, the fundraiser for printing is launched, and meanwhile the images have turned into a … Continue reading →

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Deck Process and Places

Posted on October 26, 2022 by Josephine McCarthy

New deck – the process and places Continue reading →

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Religion and Magic?

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Josephine McCarthy

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 →

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The inside scoop on writing a magical course

Posted on August 28, 2015 by Josephine McCarthy

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.

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Watching the world through the window

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Josephine McCarthy

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 →

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Magic needs a curious mind – the learning dilemma for magical students

Posted on March 21, 2015 by Josephine McCarthy

As my work is becoming more known in general, I now tend to get a lot more correspondence than I used to, and the incoming tides of emails highlights to me a major issue that is developing on the horizon … Continue reading →

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Quareia Apprentices being put to work….

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Josephine McCarthy

Although I am still writing away on the module that teaches working with the planetary spirits, the recent events around the world have made me focus on the direction I take the last module in the apprentice section. That last … Continue reading →

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Surfacing for Air

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Josephine McCarthy

I have been so silent recently, I thought I had better pop my head around the door and see if the world was still spinning. I have just finished module eight of the Quareia course and that along with module … Continue reading →

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Quareia Apprentice Module Five -The Magical Tools

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Josephine McCarthy

Having just sent off Quareia’s module five for formatting, I am taking a day off from course writing so I can tell y’all how it is going, and let you know I am still alive and kicking. The course itself … Continue reading →

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