I came to JM’s work when I picked up her Magical Healing book. I then got several of her other books at my local shop because I love supporting Magic brick and mortars!

She mentioned that there is a time when we should no longer do visionary magic because of health. I’m curious if there is an age ceiling to explore the Quareia training?

I would like to share a bit of my highly personal story because it has been heavy to keep it all to myself, and it might interest some here. I also believe that Quareia has played an important role in this, helping me understand how fate works and pushing me in this direction, especially now that I am in Module 3 - Lesson 6, about fate patterns. The overall feeling is that "I know more than I should."

Recently, I started a complicated romantic relationship where themes from my past have resurfaced. While coincidences are natural given the kind of person I am and those I tend to connect with, this experience echoes significant patterns from two previous relationships that profoundly shaped who I am. I believe this is the essence of a karmic bond: the right people at the wrong time, with instant connections that face tensions from differing life stages, bringing growth, anxiety, healing, and, ultimately, unexpected changes.

My first love ended tragically with the other person’s suicide during our teenage years. This event defined my career choice, altered my personality, and brought me closer to people who would later become pivotal in my life.

The second ended after the death of someone we both knew, triggering deep wounds and personal crises for both of us. That person (who I was dating) had a superficial interest in esotericism, and this breakup led me toward magic, initially through "practical magic" to solve problems. However, as I deepened my studies—especially with Quareia—I abandoned this approach and began to see how certain events shaped my fate. This breakup also led me to a transformative trip overseas that changed again my worldview, career, and even my name.

After this period, I had a peaceful relationship that lasted two years with someone who entered my life many years ago due to the impact of the first connection. Despite our mutual trust, we parted ways over future incompatibilities. The trigger for the breakup, aside from Quareia, which seems to guide me toward where I need to be, was meeting a new person who made me realize the limitations of that bond. A few months later (last month, November 2024), I met someone new who reignited the karmic pattern. Interestingly, this person shares striking traits—appearance, profession, origin, and zodiac sign—with the catalyst for the previous breakup. This is where I am right now.

By the way, an anecdote: Two and a half years before this, I had posted my birth chart on Reddit for fun, asking about my romantic future. A random user made surprisingly accurate predictions about my love life: a two-year relationship ending because of my reluctance to commit too deeply and the encounter with a "karmic lover" between October and December 2024. They even suggested this person could be the one I'd have children with. I had forgotten about this until recently, and have never been able to contact that user again.

Now, I am experiencing this third karmic connection, which, like the others, began with an instant bond and intense exchanges, and now is going to a similar direction of "right person, wrong timing". The difference is that this time, I feel more prepared. I’ve avoided painful ruptures, approached things with wisdom, and used tools like tarot and astrology to guide my actions. Moreover, the person I'm having this affair with, is older and more self-aware and better equipped to face challenges. For the first time, I understand how my role also impacts the other person’s learning, and I see this cycle as a chance to resolve these karmic lessons once and for all.

I hope this can lead to a positive outcome—perhaps marriage or something lasting—but I also recognize I might be projecting personal desires beyond the magical framework that has guided my journey. It's a weird sensation of being able (and expected by the universe) to bring some kind of change, but also of powerlessness and being tied to some sort of destiny.

Hope you're all doing well! Best regards.

My daughter will soon be 4. I have read I shouldn't be doing certain practices until she is at least 7. But I am not sure which ones are safe to do meanwhile.

A friend--a very spiritual one--and I are talking about a visit to a hot springs site. We've been to others before, and just did the hot springs soak, with whatever each of us had in mind for spiritual cleanse.

I have told her, and she is agreeable, that I would love to prepare a ritual bath for her. To my chagrin, this is not about romance, but strictly (other than the aforementioned chagrin) spiritual and the love of 'siblings' for one another.

Does anyone know whether a hot springs is good for that, and whether any consecration is needed on the already-mineralized water? Interpolating, I note that the modules say that tools that come naturally to you are already ready... same for mineralized water?

If any clearing or consecrating is needed, how would that look?

I subscribe to an archeology Substack called "Ancient/Now" and the main writer of that Substack just created a course on Ancient Egyptian Cosmogony and Cosmology with the following description: "Explore the fascinating world of ancient Egyptian beliefs with Dr. Kara Cooney’s in-depth course on Ancient Egyptian Cosmogony and Cosmology. Delve into the origin stories of one of history’s most influential civilizations, learn about the complex web of gods and goddesses, and understand the deep connections between nature, the universe, and the divine in Egyptian thought." Link to the course.

I thought this would be right up the alley of fellow Quareia students. And here's a coupon code for $10 off the course BLKFRI2024 . I really appreciate Ancient/Now because it is legit Archeology—as compared to that other guy that talks about Atlanteans and Lemurians and pre-Ice Age civilizations and all that kind of nonsense that tries to pass himself off as an archeologists and that has bamboozled so many people in the "spiritual" communities... This is the real deal!

Hope you guys enjoy the course as well!

ETA: I appreciate that this group has a better handle on this stuff than I do. -- Okay, I'll chill out about AI destroying our minds and making us lazy slugs. I appreciate everyone's input that essentially this is just one more technological invention among many. I feel like/sound like the people who were worried that automobiles on the road would frighten the horses.

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I feel a little ill. This was not available when I was in school and I'm not sure what to think of all of this assistance with knowledge work.

First of all Chat GPT knows what Quareia is. (Ask it what it thinks Quareia is if you're curious.) So then I asked it: "Could Chat GPT help make my Quareia pentagram essay better?

Here's it's answer.

"Yes, I can definitely help improve your Quareia pentagram essay. To do so, you could share its draft or key ideas, and I can assist by enhancing the structure, refining language, and ensuring clarity while aligning it with the course's esoteric principles. Here are a few ways I can contribute:

1. Clarity and Structure: Ensure your essay has a clear introduction, logical flow, and concise conclusions.
2. Thematic Depth: Help elaborate on the symbolic, ritualistic, or metaphysical aspects of the pentagram in line with Quareia teachings.
3. Alignment with Quareia Philosophy: Make sure your essay aligns with Quareia's approach to magic—emphasizing foundational understanding, interconnectedness, and ethical practice.
4. Grammar and Style: Refine grammar, enhance readability, and polish style for a professional presentation.

Feel free to upload the text or provide key sections, and we can work on it collaboratively!"

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Then I asked it if it could help me study the rituals. It had an answer for that too. Not a very good one but that didn't stop it from responding.

I feel like this is my first direct experience with Pluto in Aquarius and I'm not sure that I'm ready for the brave new world.

Hello beautiful people,

2 months ago ( I think) I posted about going to military as a sergeant, well things escalated in a way that I don't appreciate. I don't want to get into details the short is I'm going next week 😭.

So, my military program for Magick and spirituality will be Quareia's and in Sufism. I'll do meditations and visionary exercises in L3 only. I also want to practice Sufism.

Here's my plea 🙏, I read Josephine's remarks regarding Sufism and her interesting knowledge about it, and I wanted to learn where did she learn those. If any of you know good resources about Sufism I would really appreciate the help. I'm also going to word search Sufism in the course last time I did I couldn't find anything, remember anything regarding Sufism in the course? I kinda remember Ibn Arabi... I only have Bezels of Wisdom by Ibn Arabi which I highly recommend reading it.

If it's against the rules I'll delete the post deffiently, I trust this community's recommendations more rather than asking Sufism subreddit.

No snart phones, no internet, it'll be like a monk mode for me. I really really really miss this subreddit, so see you in six months 😢😭. Love you 💜❤️💜.

Yesterday when I was sipping a fine scotch while flying at 30,000 feet over the United Kingdom I found this article, and I thought that the article itself, and the video associated with the article very insightful.

I don't know how this relates to Quareia theory or practice, but I'm sure the search for perfection in the humblest activities with single minded effort has something to do with how to practice Quareia? Isn't that kind of barely relevant tangential connection enough to make something submittable here?

But it is a nice article and video. maybe it will even help you with your Quareia lessons? You are welcome!

Yes, this post , and everything written above, is satire, a reaction to the non Qualeia practice related - I had a an insight when high on drugs , I had a random thought about yoga, I had a non Quereia related mental breakdown, etc, etc - posts popping up here recently.

(EDIT: the "I was high on marijuana and had a 'profund insight' which had nothing to do with Quareia, but I though I'd submit it here" post, to which this is a reaction, has since been deleted).

My point: Posts about Tuna Kings of Japan maybe interesting, but they are not appropriate for this sub, necessarily.

I quote from a mod's post earlier, emphasis mine

"

Before posting, please take a moment to:

*. Check if your content fits the sub's main theme, all things Quareia. <--- THIS , IN CAPS, FLAMING LETTERS A MILE HIGH. Run through this step before posting random stuff here. Thanks in advance.

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Mods: Please place the "posts on this forum should be related to quareia" guideline somewhere prominently visible. you can call it the "Tuna King Rule" ;-)

I share some thoughts that I realize may be banal for someone further along the path. I hope to convey them adequately. They were stimulated by lighting the candle every day: its care, the realignment of the wick, the careful folding of the wax so that it burns straight and the flame is nice and high, made me think that the care of the candle has a resonance on more internal levels with one's own inner flame: taking care of the candle is a bit like taking care of one's own inner flame. Just as cleaning the tongue and oral hygiene has to do with taking care of one's own quality of utterance and enunciation. Just as the act of sweeping the floor has resonance with cleaning a space on an energetic level. Just as wash himself, creating, destroying, every gesture performed with awareness of this has its own deep resonance on the most internal levels and becomes a sort of external alchemy. I believe that acting with this in mind can create a channel for the flow of magic in the action that is performed. What do you think?

Within the past few months, I've found that my focus and dedication have wavered considerably. I stepped away from Q for a while to explore other paths, specifically IIH by Bardon and self-initiatory Traditional Witchcraft (I was introduced to the book Song of the Dark Man by Darragh Mason that resonated deeply with my own experiences and felt like it may have been a call to a path with no directions given). Since exploring other options, I have found myself retreading the same ground repeatedly. The main benefit of it has been some visceral experiences that removed any remaining doubt about the veracity of magick and spirits, although I know I approached those experiences in a reckless and undisciplined way. I experienced a dream that seemed to cross over to waking life with my partner and I both being woken up to a smoke alarm chirping three times at 3 AM and smelling smoke, then seeing what looked like a column of smoke ascend through the ceiling in my living room. I've never experienced something physical like that before; another person as a witness just added to the certainty that I wasn't imagining things.

After deeply reflecting on things, I have found myself back at Quareia with more clarity and more questions. My first question is if anyone has experience with balancing what seems to be a particular call from a specific entity of some type and Quareia. My first instinct is that Q would assist in discovering what exactly is expected of me and provide the tools for me to actually be of service; however, I don't feel that I have the proper levels of discernment to know if I'm making connections that aren't there already.

I have thought about starting over with a more organized and disciplined approach, but I also don't want to just discard my previous work with Q up through the fourth lesson of Module 1. Has anyone started over after an extended period of time? If so, did you preserve or purge your old records and begin fresh? Each time I reapproach Q, I find more depth in the first module lessons; however, I can't keep stopping and restarting. To anyone who has had a similar experience of falling off the wagon and then getting back on to continue consistently, what changes occurred that finally allowed you to stick to this particular path?

I understand that no single path is right for everyone, but I have not come across anything nearly as in-depth and guided as Q. I would go about things in an intuitive way and create my own path; however, I now also understand the danger of being stupid with magic lol

A bit of a strange question: very often, after doing a spread, or maybe more easily after two or more spreads, I feel decidedly cold. It's probably always happened to me but I started noticing it a few months ago. Has it happened to anyone? Maybe an energy discharge? On one hand it reminds me of the feeling I have about the Void but I don't think it's that. I will definitely do, not today, a spread but in the meantime I would like to understand if it's common.

Hey everyone!

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My old RWS deck from 2016, that I no longer use because I spilled water on some of the cards, has just been sitting on a shelf and after reading some words from Josephine on the subject I've decided to part with it.

Is it OK to just throw it in the bin?

Hello friends, looking for insight on the diference between these two resources, they both seem to follow the structure of beguinner, intermediate and adept. Thank you.

This might be of interest to some. The Astrology podcast, Chris Brennan and Nick Dagan Best, did a video on the times Pluto was in Aquarius in past. The Video was released on Jan 12 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZMJ6RGpEfs

674–647 BCE

430–404 BCE

185–160 BCE

060–085 CE

305–329 CE

550–574 CE

795–819 CE

1041–1063

1286–1308

1532–1553

1777–1798

2023–2044

I've come to ask for some wisdom regarding yoga and the chakras.

I've been doing a lot of yoga recently and connecting to the different points of tension in my body which I found to be the root chakra and sometimes the heart chakra. I can tell it's working because I have noticed improvements in my overall health.

I've been struggling with anxiety for some time (well before this) and it manifests somatically (anxious breathing, nausea, dizziness, lots of tension on the back, etc).

I noticed these episodes start with anxious breathing (specifically shitty breathing habits I picked up somehow and do unconsciously, like holding breath, swallowing air, hyperventilating, shallow breathing) and then a sort of energic bottleneck happens where everything else goes out of whack (the other symptoms follow).

I asked the cards about this and I got the Threshhold Guardians on the throat chakra (I drew a card for each) and negative cards on the root and heart chakras. I also get the Voice of Truth a lot in the advice position in readings.

Through yoga and readings I figured (and later was suprised to confirm somewhere) that the physical chakras (root, sacral, solar plexus, heart) connect to the earthly realms while the third eye and crown connect to the spiritual, while the throat acts as a threshhold. And through readings, I think, the reason I get all messed up is that my physical chakras are all unbalanced and I unconsciously block the flow of unbalanced energy so it doesn't cloud my spiritual sense?

I suddenly understand why "mortifying the flesh" to connect spiritually is not balanced and why JMC advises against it (it actually blocks me off from spirituality from what I can understand, so one has to wonder about all those saints and religious fruitcakes), although it's not something I do intentionally, I'm just an introvert and a hermit and I spend too much time with my head in the clouds.

Curiously I don't feel any tension on my throat, I feel it on my heart area. It's like all the energy piles up there and I feel a horrible tension around my chest.

So my question is, has anyone else struggled with this? What do you recommend? Would neck stretches and pranayama help?

Also here's a reading on the matter (see picture) if anyone wants to take a look. I'll edit with my interpretation in a moment.

I'm sorry if this is obvious or annoying, but I'm aching to know.

I get very mixed messages reading the posts here, from commenters and from josephine...it sounds like magic is in everything and engaging with anything with intention can be magic....But then I see comments that are like completely the opposite of that, where suddenly Josephine says that "this isn't magic, this is nonsense" (like that last post about the signs in the mirror)

these types of discrepancies has me so confused because how does one draw the line over what is and isn't "real magic"? isn't magic based in consciousness anyway and as a result, it's how you look at that makes it magic or mundane? maybe I'm speaking too much from a chaos magick background I don't know...But it bugs me because most of us are out here having breakthroughs that are very personal to our own philosophy, but then it's shut down...

isn't magic limitless? isn't it bound by imagination instead of by "rules"? I guess what I'm saying here is I am really confused by all the philosophies around magic...is it clearly defined, or is it not? if it's my real experience, and it changed me, why turn to someone to subjectively honor it as real or not?

again I'm sorry if this is naive and annoying, but I just wanted to throw this out there and see if anyone secretly has these thoughts. I just really want to know what path is best to follow...there's frauds everywhere, i mean everywhere, and honestly don't know enough to know who's real and who's pretending. what do people even mean when they say "magic" here?

So I'll start off by saying that I do subscribe to an Animist view of reality, so I am inclined to believe that the various planetary bodies/beings do have some effect on what happens here on Earth. However, i do retain a level healthy skepticism...

I've been hearing quite a bit about Pluto moving into Aquarius and all the things that supposedly implies. But the question I have is: why is Pluto getting so much attention even though we now know that Pluto is only one of several dwarf planets in the solar system? Why aren't the positions of these other planetoids considered relevant to the astrological state of things? Isn't that just arbitrary?

I created a graph with the mortality relative to the mortuary where I work in October. What I noticed (but here you can't see much because the last days of September and the first of November are missing, which I will add at the end of the month) is that the mortality increases a few days before the new or full moon, and then on the exact day of the full or new moon it goes to almost zero, as if the Micro tides were discharged before the strong lunations. Obviously I've only been here for two months (and November is already different: less mortality but almost all females) and I have a very partial vision because it is strictly linked to where I work.

I’m new here, perhaps getting settled, perhaps just visiting.

In my early browsing I read a caution about messiah traps. I get screening out people who want the Infinite to reach down and give them personally a high-five for being so awesome. Maybe that’s all is meant by a messiah trap.

But.

If not for results magic, and if not for saving the world (which I’m quite worried about and is where everyone I know lives), what’s Quareia for? I’d kinda like it to be for saving the world, actually.

It may sound like I’m being a smartass, but I intend it as an honest question.

I am asking this purely out of curiosity, though I'm unaware of the impact perspective may be having on my daily practice. When you meditate and are told to envision your body or something like breathing in smoke and breathing out smoke, do you see things through your normal vision (first-person perspective)? Or do you envision things outside yourself, seeing your body from a third-person perspective? I myself frequently seem to flow back and forth between feeling "in" my body and feeling "out" of it—though I seem to favor the latter. I'm curious how common this is for others.

I'd love to hear if anyone has insight into the advantages of attempting to maintain a specific perspective, too.

After some interesting directional readings in my bedroom recently, I thought it might be fun to play around a bit and do a silly experiment where I try to read my body with the directional reading explained in in Module 1 Lesson 2. I'm aware there are readings specifically for the body explained later in the course, but I wanted to playfully test some stuff out. I am using the Rider Waite tarot, not the Mystagogus oracle.

Quareia Module 1 Lesson 2 directional reading, with the Page of Pentacles in center position, Queen of Cups in east position, 9 of Cups in south position, The Hierophant in west position, Temperance in north position, and 3 of cups as the relationship card

And I was surprised by how different things were right away. My center card and all of my cardinal directions cards had a single figure (or in the case of the hierophant almost a single figure) but the relationships card was the 3 of Cups, showing three figures coming together. When I read physical spaces I often get a large variety of cards, some displaying a central figure, some displaying many people, and some displaying events. So I immediately felt that this was significant, and interpreted this to mean that each figure was an aspect of myself I was examining, and the relationships card was how they all came togethe

The shape things ended up taking was the center card being how I am overall in this moment, the east card reflecting the state of my intellect/mental self, the south card reflecting the state of my physical health/immune system, the west reflecting my emotional state, and the part of me affected by my relationships with others.

The north was kind of unclear to me. I got Temperance, an event card, and specifically, an event card that I was getting repeatedly for the core and the relationships in my bedroom, which is what made me want to try this little experiment in the first place. Without sharing too much about my personal life, I have been having a lot of weird spiritual pushes and growth out of no where recently, and the keyword(s) I connected to Temperance is "narrow path" which accurately describes what I'm going through. Since I kept getting it for my room, I wanted to see what I'd get for myself. I am shuffling my cards thoroughly.

I am wondering if North could be myself in the context of my relationship to material reality? Myself in the context of my relationship to my ancestors? Myself in the context of my relationship to divinity? (North and Divinity occupy the same direction of the seal constructed in M1L7) I will be thinking this over for a while lol.

Each card made complete sense to me in the position it was in. I feel like once I figure out what north would symbolize in this context, it's a reading I would happily try out again. A throwaway comment I'll make is that the elemental makeup of the cards (2 water (cups) 1 earth (pentacles)) even reflects some stuff in my astrological chart rn. Also having West and North be the only Major Arcana makes sense because relationships and (spirituality? The divine?) have been the two things affecting me most recently. But, the connection between Temperance and north, which I will be investigating, only brings more questions to my current personal situation than answers. I have a lot to think about.

If anyone has any theories about what north could mean in this style of reading, or tries this out and wants to talk about their results, please let me know!!

Hi everyone!

It's been a while since I last posted here. A lot has happened. I thought I'd share my experience working through Modules 1 and 2, what happened during and after, and where I am right now (magically).

I started Quareia in January 2023 when I still lived in North America. I finished Module 1 and reached Module 2 Lesson 4 before returning to my home country (in Asia) in August of that year. I will pause here to emphasize that practicing Quareia brought major changes. As Josephine writes,

The triggers in the Apprentice section can change where the student lives, who they live with, what they do for a job, where their interests lie, or how they behave as a human being.

In hindsight, I could see that the changes were, in particular, triggered by working with Saturn and Pluto (regardless of how limited an extent).

When I returned to my home country, I first stayed in the city before moving to an island. From September 2023 to March 2024, I was able to work through Module 2 until the tail end, until I got, for lack of a better phrase, 'kicked out'. I not only couldn't progress (the famed wall) but something actively wanted me out of the island. Just before I left the island, an opportunity came up to move to another country (Europe). So, from April to September, I was pretty mundane other than twice monthly ritual baths. I was already sensitive before doing Quareia, so doing it heightened my sensitivity... so it's hard for me to go long without a ritual bath. Sometime in September, I decided to go back just by doing M1L1.... putting the cat food out, as Josephine once wrote here... but I felt 'kicked out' again after about a week...

Now, I've moved to that other country. Since getting 'kicked out' twice, I thought that maybe I've learned what I needed to learn from Quareia and it's time to move on. But, just today, I got a feeling that maybe now is the time to return...

If indeed now is the time, it's also maybe because a lot of self-knowledge had to be realized and processed during the time I was on break from Quareia.

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Anyways, apologies if I'm rambling... I know I must do a divination with regards to this... but I would also like to know if anyone has any perspective/similar experiences...

Many thanks.

Hello, fellow Quareians.

I'm currently in Indonesia, on Bali, until December. Can you recommend any interesting places to explore in terms of magic, please? Thanks in advance.

Do you think that wearing a mjolnir pendant (thor's hammer) and making offerings to the norse gods will interfere with the quareia course ?

Just read module 1, lesson 7 where she mentions this:

“One of the best anchors is the pentagram pattern. The pentagram was used by the original nineteenth century golden dawn magical group as a method for teaching beginners ritual patterning using sound, shape, and movement. However, it somehow morphed into a mishmash of fragmented understanding, immature use of deity patterns and divine names, and a good sprinkling of drama. This became known as The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram: the only thing it really banishes is the magicians common sense.”

I got my start in magic a year or so ago following the traditional golden dawn path drawing from sources like Dion fortune, Israel regardie, or more modern ones like Damien Echols. For the last 6 months or so I’ve been practicing the LBRP daily as well as the middle pillar and LIRP in an alternating schedule, basically trying to follow what these golden dawn associated people suggest.

Now reading this excerpt above is quite the divergence from what I’m used to reading about ceremonial magic but my intuition really resonates with the material in Quearia and I feel that Josephine McCarthy may have information that penetrates beyond these beginner “mishmash” rituals, and I’m curious what you guys think/have chosen to do in regards to the LBRP.

Is it still useful for me as a brand new magician? Should I keep using it to practice the movements and vibrations and visualization?

I have felt positive affects from doing it so it doesn’t feel energetically useless but I do resonate intuitively a lot more with the approach this course takes to the pentagram and magical protection in general, so I’d like to follow that intuitive feeling, but I am not sure where that leaves me with the LBRP.

I appreciate the thoughts friends