When the course first launched, I had a variety of people asking about the use of directions in the southern hemisphere and whether or not they should be reversed. I did not know as I had never worked magically in the southern hemisphere before. So I suggested that students should experiment and keep notes of their work so that between us we could figure out what was the right way to do it.
For the most part magical directional patterns in Quareia are not land based, but are inner based, but I was not sure how that would work out ‘down under’. However, now that some students in the southern hemisphere have been working the system for a while, it has become very obvious from their notes and results, that the magical pattern itself stays the same regardless of where they are. Essentially the pattern works with creation/destruction, stasis, and time regardless of location.
In the tarot exercises, the directional pattern is also imprinted with the various powers of the directions, along with listings of the seasons. What I would suggest is that students in the southern hemisphere don’t even think about the directional seasons when doing readings unless the question is specific to such seasons, and then to work with them in a way that is directionally logical for the land they are on.
If you take out mention of the seasons from the base directional pattern (which is only really relevant to the tarot directional pattern), the rest stays the same… the sun still rises east and sets west (creation/dawn, destruction/dusk). South is still future and north is still past.
I hope that helps our Quareia folks on the other side of the planet!