#storm magic

[deckofflora]

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[psychopomp-recital]

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝

Let’s talk about working with the Water Element; divination, magical waters, workings and cultivating a relationship with it and its spirits.

🎶Sharing my experiences and thoughts, don’t rely on just this make your own experiences and thoughts.🎶

How do I grow my relationship with Water itself?

Begin opening yourself up to it more and incorporating it into your daily life. When I began building my relationship with it this is what I did:

To be done over a months period

Washed my hands & face with cold water when waking up and letting them air dry as much as possible.

Brushing out my hair and braiding it, picturing my hair flowing like a river with every movement of my fingers.

Beginning my day by intentionally drinking a glass of water, sitting down to really appreciate it and how it aides your body. I like cold water because you can easier feel it flow through you, I also like charging it beforehand.

Visit as many water sources as possible during this period. I am lucky enough to live by the pacific ocean and I would go and swim in it everyday to cultivate my relationship. However, if that is inaccessible for you there’s options such as sitting by a public pool, taking a bath, standing in the rain, eating your lunch by a river, etc.

While you’re spending time with water just talk to it. Tell it stories, sing it songs, ask it questions, water is living and it longs for a connection.

Record your progress throughout the month either in written journal entries, scrapbooking, or digital trackers. Just have a way for you to look back at how you’ve changed during this period.

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝

Examples of Magic that can include water:

research topics

Magical or Blessed Waters

Baneful Folk Workings

Release / Banishing Spells

Water Plant Workings

Elemental Spirit Magic

Death Work

Charged Sprays

Travel Magic

Weather / Storm Magic

Meditation

Shell Magic (like crystal magic)

Hydromancy

Carromancy (wax in water)

Magical Baths / Showers

Glamour Magic

And Much More...

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝

What can I benefit from working with water?

Regardless on where you are from, what path of life you are following or anything else we are connected by our need for water. It is not only our connection to other humans but our connection to the natural world as well. It makes up 3/4 of our planet and 60% of your body. You can get a better understanding of yourself just by going back to that fundamental need to sustain yourself with water as a life-force. The element itself is well known to be a very introspective force and most spirits representing or associated are similar (spg). When you are inviting it into your home you are inviting that connection and energy in too.

Water takes life without discrimination, just as it gives life. Working within that provides a confidence and at least in my experience a sense of balance within ones self. If you are feeling like you are being tossed by the path of life, as if you are a lone ship at a storming sea, this might be your sign to stop fighting the current and start moving with it. If you can make the waves move at your asking then what is there to stop you.

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝

Hydromancy

hy·dro·man·cy /ˈhīdrəˌmansē/

noun

divination by means of signs derived from the appearance of water and its movement.

Some argue this is the first form of scrying Hydromancy is a very useful tool. It can be done with natural bodies of water, or things like tubs, cups and bowls. It can be frustrating to begin so this is how I would begin if I were you: (works better with an established connection to water)

Go somewhere quiet and still, I prefer outside at night but do what is safe and comfortable for you.

Prepare your space and yourself however you normally would set the tone for a divination reading. Some choose to say a blessing prayer, drink a divination tea blend, or anoint themselves with particular salve or oil. I will usually ritually prepare myself (let me know if you want me to go more into this).

In a shallow dark colored bowl (or scrying bowl), pour your preferred water of choice. I usually go with waning moon water.

Relax and begin to gaze into the water. Let yourself open up to messages. Sometimes it comes as scenes of images, or a shape or even words that can come through.

Write down anything you receive to interpret later on.

If you are struggling try this ritual but use the light of a candle or the moon to interpret those shapes. Or meditate with the bowl and pour it out onto the ground and scry the shape it leaves behind.

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝

Magical Associations

✦ Death & Life ✦ Duality ✦ Change ✦ Rage ✦ Grief ✦ Peace ✦ Creation ✦ The Moon ✦ Ice ✦ Emotions ✦ Mental Health ✦ Cleansing / Purification ✦ Storms ✦ Distaster ✦ Dreams ✦ Cancer / Scorpio / Pisces ✦ Psychic Abilities ✦ Shape-shifters ✦ Travel ✦ Corrosion

Irish Divine Beings Associated

✦ Brigid (keening mother & keeper of the sacred well) ✦ Boann (river personification) ✦ Aengus (The Young Son) ✦ Lir (sea personification) ✦ Manannán mac Lir (son of the sea)

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[lailoken]

Wuthering winds shall do no harm...

#storm magic #storm protection #protection #protection magic #house protection #traditional witchcraft #ritual magic

[cloudselkie]

Sound of rain, thunder rumble

Whisk make water froth an tumble

Round the bowl the hours go

Always forward as time does flow

Speak your conditions, declare your right

And send your spell into the night.

#it's a new way of recording spells i'm trying out #all the instructions are there #weather magic #water magic #storm magic #witchcraft

[thecactuscottage]

Honestly at this point it it rains when I hang out my laundry so often that that I’ve started to use it as a storm summoning spell.

#witchblr #witch blog #witchy #green witch #storm witch #green witchcraft #witchcraft #weather magic #storm magic #spell craft #spellwork #spells #literally every time

[stormwaterwitch]

Sang my little rain song last night and by gods did it actually show up and rain

#sww personal #storm magic

[starthereligious]

Ways to call a storm

Hi there! I've been calling storms for pretty much my entire life, sometimes subconsciously, sometimes consciously. There's not a lot of variety in posts about calling a storm, so I decided to gather all of my methods in one post.

Some things to note:

- As storm witches, we are still bound by the laws of science. Read up on the actual scientific process of the water cycle, types of clouds, etc. The best results come when you know what you are trying to do, and the type of cloud that corresponds to the storm you want.

- Speaking of clouds, the more clouds there are in the sky, the easier a storm-calling will be. I have never been able to call a storm from a clear sky, and if you have, then teach me your ways. In storm magick, you seek to speed up the water cycle in order to bring rain quicker.

- Storm magick is intrinsically tied to water and sea magic. More on that below.

This brings us to method 1-- interaction.

Method one is best for when you don't need a storm-- use it to practice on a cloudy day. This method is like a meditation. Depending on your practice, you may prefer complete silence, or gentle music, the traditional meditation position of crossed legs and hands on your knees or something different-- it's up to you. I've practiced this in classes before, so it doesn't really matter. In this method, focus on the actual process of what is happening to the clouds. Based on what you know about storms, what cloud do you want to form? Try to form that shape. Feel the clouds get heavier and heavier, closer and closer to the ground, until they're too heavy; and they let go of the water. Rain.

This method is the least effective, in my experience, but the most important to practice. With practice of this method comes more understanding of how your interactions with the sky work.

Method 2-- manifestation

Method two is very loose and depends on your favorite manifestation methods. In my experience, I repeat things over and over again in my head and try to experience the emotions of the storm. When I was forced onto the swim team by my parents, I used this method in the car to try to call a storm so it would get rained out. It always made a storm-- without fail. I was even able to call rain from cirrus with it. My parents ended up taking me off the team because my mom is aware I do magick.

Method 3-- petition

When I was a kid, I used to speak directly to the weather, as if it were an imaginary friend. I still don't know if I was making these interactions up or if I was speaking to an actual spirit, but I called her (quite creatively) Weather. When I needed something, I would say "Hey Weather, I really don't want to do yardwork today. Can you hold off on raining until xyz time so that it lasts longer and I won't have to?" I would either hear (or imagine, I don't know) a response, like "Yes, if you could help me move that cloud over than we'll be okay." This was the beginnings of my practice. Sometimes I was joined by an entity (or imaginary friend, still don't know) called Wind, except Wind couldn't speak. They were just kind of... there, and would help Weather move the clouds. (Side note, I had really awful allergies and was allergic to everything in my backyard, which is why I never wanted to do yardwork. Someone please tell me if I was contacted by deities as a child, because I still have had no interactions with deities after growing up.)

Additionally --

- While doing method 1, I sometimes get a cup or small container of water to touch to help ground me and remember what I'm doing. If that helps you, do that!

- Don't be discouraged if you don't get it right away. Storm magick is hard, and doesn't work right away. It will take a lot of practice. I still have trouble, and I've been practicing my entire life.

- Mix and match your methods! Remember, this is just my practice-- yours may be completely different.

Have fun!

#witchblr #witchcraft #storm magic #storm witch #weather witch

[delightingintragedy]

"According to the extraordinary confessions of the Auldearn Witches in 1662, a rag dipped fully in water, and a 'cursing stone' were employed within storm conjurations. The stone was beaten with the wet rag with the thrice spoken charm: "I knock this rag upon this stone, to raise the wind in the Devil's name, it shall not lie until I please again." Thrice spoken also was the charm to lay the storm: "We lay the wind in the Devil's name. It shall not rise until we wish to raise it again.""

Wisht Waters by Gemma Gary, pg. 69

#weather #weather magic #storm magic #water magic #spells #spellwork #weather witch #storm witch #witchcraft #witches #witch #witchblr #storms #gemma gary #quotes

[hearth-and-veil]

Hurricane Magic

I’m being hit with a hurricane right now, so instead of stressing that a tree is going to fall on my house, I’m going to yap about hurricane magic. 

Hurricane magic combines storm magic with sea magic, and it’s one of the only ways someone like me, who lives hours inland, can do sea magic. Technically, a storm can be both the energy source and the method, depending on what you’re doing. That’s part of why storm witches are so powerful. 

What can you do with a hurricane?

A hurricane is going to be good for banishing, cleansing, and releasing. It’s a pretty basic method for no matter what you’re doing: the winds take something away, the rains cleanse and nourish. 

Here’s what I’m doing with this hurricane:

I took a walk in the rain (before the winds got truly dangerous!) and asked the hurricane winds to take away something I have been struggling with. Then I asked the rains to wash away the effects I had been suffering from because I couldn’t get rid of that thing.

Later, I went and stood in it again, and braided the storm energy into my hair. I asked the hurricane for its permission to keep some of its power for myself, and I used my hair - which is my connection to the earth - to take that energy in and tie it to me. I plan to do that three times during this hurricane.

I set out a jar to collect some of the rain, to use that in cleansing rituals later.

I am going to put one of my veils outside in the rain, let it get soaked, and then let it dry naturally. 

Some of my friends and I are going to coordinate times, then go outside and just scream into the winds. A primal scream is a great way to get rid of entrenched negative emotions, especially those that you can’t even put a name to. 

Before the storm ends, make an offering to those who have died from the hurricane. Nature is not cruel, it does not harm with intent, but we should still honor those who have lost their lives to it. Do not neglect this or you will come to regret it later.

#witchcraft #witch #witchblr #hurricane magic #storm magic #magic #spell #cleansing #banishing

[hyacinthuspetals]

Friends, talk to me about weather magic

What do you do? How do you incorporate it into your craft? Do you do weather/cloud divination? Storm water? I recently realized that this kind of magic/witchcraft REALLY excites and inspires me, and if anyone has any recommendations or inspiration I would love to hear it. Spring storm season is coming in Appalachia and I think now is a really good time to workshop ideas and learn new skills

#one of my earliest hyperfixations that i can remember is tornadoes #and storms #i get so excited during storms #is it any surprise i worship thor #lugh has also been tugging on my sleeve and i want to wait until i feel i understand celtic gods more #but i think it may be a good place to include him #hyatt.txt #storm magic

[thecovenhouseco]

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[unimportantweirdo]

oh my godddd we finally have a storm we haVE A STORM THERE'S LIGHTNING AND THUNDER AND EVERYTHING

#listen i love storms #i love everything about them #god i feel better than i have in days #my window is open so i can let the air in #i dont have a bucket list but if i did #dancing with someone or some people in a storm would be one of them #storm magick #storm magic

[lostwoodstarryskies]

Days of Rain-

If you have followed me or seen my posts at all(which thank you, I appreciate it, and I will be posting more witchy/religion stuff soon since its more fulfilling than my day job) you know how the naming system on my calendar works.

Days: more than 3 days, Feast: 3 days, Festival: 1 day.

So the Days of Rain is the 2nd full week of April/the week of Easter. Its is 7 days long, and relates to water and other associated deities. I don’t currently work with OR worship any water related deities, so mine is a time of cleansing as rain is a cleansing thing. It also is where I am exploring if I want/need to work with any water deities or spirits(Queen Lucy the Valiant, I’m looking at you 👀).

Here is how this week works. Its a combination of the Storm Cycle/Water Cycle.

Day 1- Humidity Rising-Sun in relation to water

On this day, think on the invisible water. Think on and honor the role of fire in the water cycle and it’s place in daily life. This is a POWERFUL day for Sun Water!

Day 2-Cloud Formation-Air and Water

On this day, honor the cloud formation. Cloud divination is especially relevant on this day. Wind or cold air helping water vapor turn into clouds is a power force, if less obviously so than the evaporation.

Day 3: Rain Approaching

The clouds have formed. You know the rain is approaching and now you must anticipate what you need to do- or spiritually cleanse- when the rain arrives. It is a day of anticipation.

Day 4-Rain Arrives-The Drizzle

On Day 4, rain falls. Collecting this rain water(if it falls) is a powerful cleanser and create for creating success spells.

Day 5-Storm Warning- A storm is building

The rain is changing- there is a feeling if danger rising. You know that you can expect the clouds to shatter the sky with thunder or lightning or worse. Prepare yourself for anything baneful you need to do.

Day 6- The Storm is Here

The Storm breaking over you is THE DAY to collect storm water. Do ANYTHING baneful, or empowering. The day is here and you need to collect that energy into your self to gain a better life.

Day 7-Storm clearing/Sunshower

The day has come. Storm is clearing, but a hard steady rain still falls. Celebrate life, celebrate the sun and rain, celebrate surviving danger.

While this is my first time celebrating this, I have been building this holiday since I thought of it last year. I hope this makes other people happy and helps people connect to the element of water, and any deity that is associated with those.

Blessings to you!

-lostwoodsstarryskies

(Ori)

#water magic #storm magic #sun water #storm water #rain water #pagan holidays #Days of Rain #pop culture paganism #mention of narnian paganism

[cloudselkie]

The Seven Golden Patterns

1. When clouds get lower, bad weather is more likely. This sign grows more useful with our awareness. Many people notice a low, heavy, leaden sky, but far fewer realize it has been creeping lower for hours, sometimes days. This is about tuning in to trends. Consider the following traditional saying: “When the clouds are upon the hills, they’ll come down by the mills.” This makes more sense in light of the trend than the height of the clouds. It is the fact that the clouds are coming from high to low that is significant, not that they have touched the hills. 

2. The more different cloud types you can spot, the worse the forecast. If we see a lot of different cloud types, it guarantees that the atmosphere is unstable at some levels, which increases the likelihood of bad weather. At this stage we aren’t trying to identify cloud types or to name them, just to recognize that there are different types out there. 

3. When small clouds grow, the forecast gets worse. It sounds so obvious, but most people don’t spot this. The casual weather observer notices when the sky has become more cloudy than clear, but not that the small clouds have been growing for hours. The opposite is also true: When clouds shrink, the forecast is improving. We will learn to refine this in many ways, but it is a general pattern that is worth picking up as early as we can. 

4. Clouds that are much taller than they are wide indicate that bad weather is likely. A very simple pattern that carries an equally simple but powerful message about instability in the atmosphere. 

5. Spiky or jagged cloud tops are a warning sign of unsettled weather. The shape of the tops of clouds is a map that shows us what the air is doing, and pointed shapes or any sharpness mean that unsettled weather is more likely. The last two patterns lie behind the following lore: When clouds appear like rocks or towers, Earth’s refreshed by frequent showers. It refers to the overall shape of the cloud and the rugged texture, especially near the top. By the same token, smooth, rounded cloud tops are a more positive sign.

6. The rougher the cloud base, the more likely rain becomes. The base of clouds tells us whether rain is imminent. If a cloud has a smooth, flat base, it is not a rain cloud. 

7. The lower the cloud we use, the shorter the forecast. Low clouds can only reveal what is just about to happen. As we will see, if they start low and grow significantly taller, that is different, but by then they will have reached greater heights and don’t count as low clouds. In these patterns, there was a loose progression from long to short forecasts. A lowering cloud base can give you as much as two days’ warning of bad weather, but noticing the rough base of a dark cloud may give you as little as a few minutes. 

The Cloud Families

The Cirrus Family: high, wispy clouds Cirrus clouds are the highest clouds we see regularly. Because of their altitude, cirrus clouds are always ice crystals, and this gives them a pure white color. They have many shapes but almost always appear as a collection of thin, wispy strands. They can look like white cotton candy, feathers, scratches, or hairs. Their height makes them appear to be stationary or moving very slowly, but this is relative: They are actually moving fast. The final golden pattern told us that the lower the clouds, the shorter the forecast. The opposite also holds true: Cirrus clouds offer some of our earliest warnings of change. Cirrus clouds are joined up high by other members of the “cirro” family. Any cloud with the prefix cirro- is a high, icy cloud. 

The Stratus Family: layered clouds Stratus is Latin for “flat” or “layered,” and this is the defining feature of the stratus family of clouds: wide, flat sheets. They can bring rain but more often don’t, but whatever they bring will have constancy. And this is the first sign that the stratus clouds offer: no change for a while. If the sky in the direction that the weather is arriving from is filled with wide, flat stratus clouds, there will be little change for hours, and it will be gradual when it comes. The flat nature of stratus indicates a stable atmosphere. 

The Cumulus Family: heaped clouds Cumulus clouds come in several forms. In their smallest, kindest guise, they are best known as the fluffy white sheep of fair weather. On their meaner days, they can grow to alarming towers. Whatever their exact shape and size, cumulus are individual clouds that have well-defined bulges above flatter bottoms. If you see a silken white sack of balls dumped on a glass ceiling in the sky, you are looking at a cumulus cloud. If you have ever watched the opening sequence of the The Simpsons, or seen clouds against a blue sky in other cartoons, you were looking at cumulus clouds. The key to understanding cumulus clouds is to recognize that they are bubbling up. But what does that shape signify? All cumulus clouds form as a result of warm air rising through convection because of local heating from below. This is an absolutely critical point. It doesn’t matter if you’re looking at a tiny picnic-friendly marshmallow or a towering giant that looks intent on causing trouble: All cumulus clouds indicate that something local has caused the air to warm and rise vigorously. The rounded bulges at the top are a sign that the air is still rising. 

Meeting the Cousins 

Cirrostratus: Cirrostratus is high, like all cirro- clouds, but looks distinct and different from cirrus. As the “stratus” part suggests, this cloud spreads over wide areas. But unlike the normal stratus clouds, which are much lower and totally opaque, cirrostratus covers a blue sky as a milky high veil, imperceptibly thin at first. It is always possible to see through cirrostratus—it rarely hides the sun, the moon, or even the stars very well. Like all cirro- clouds, it is high enough that it is made entirely of ice crystals, which can play with the light of the sun and the moon, creating halos—circles of light with a bright sphere at the center. Halos aside, cirrostratus, being both high and translucent, is the sort of cloud that is rarely commented upon or even spotted, unless we choose to look for it. It is worth the effort to pick out, though, because it offers much in return. Logically, it is a sign of moisture high in the atmosphere, and this, as we shall see, taken with other signs, can be a useful indicator of change on its way, usually things getting worse. In terms of weather signs, cirrostratus is the most humble, modest cloud. It offers much to those who take the time to get to know and look for it, but it passes over most people without their choosing to take that time. 

Altostratus: You will have deduced from the stratus part of this cloud’s name that this is another flat blanket. The prefix alto- indicates a middle-height cloud that sits between the high cirrus and the low, friendly cumulus clouds. Altostratus is a wide, often thick, opaque rug of a cloud. It can cover a small country. It sometimes reflects rich colors at the beginning or end of the day, but it’s not known for its beauty. In the whole history of weather watching, I doubt anyone has felt rapture, lost in the wonder of nature, when looking at the shape of altostratus. However, sign readers come closest to that state because we see the part it plays in the broader cast of characters. It is much thicker and lower than cirrostratus, so when it follows that cloud it gives us two of the golden patterns: Clouds are growing and getting lower. Worse weather is on the way. 

Nimbostratus: Nimbo- comes from nimbus, the Latin word for “rain,” and nimbostratus is simply a stratus cloud that is rain bearing. It is the least cheery cloud in the sky, a dark grey duvet of dreariness. If it’s been raining for half an hour continuously, you’re probably under nimbostratus, and because it is a stratus cloud, it will stretch for many miles. There is little prospect of things improving in the next half hour, either. 

Cumulonimbus: This is the cloud that everybody recognizes as trouble, but rarely as soon as they might. As the cumulus part affirms, it is a heaped cloud, and as the nimbus part adds, it bears rain. The cumulonimbus is the storm cloud. It is the turbulent dénouement of an experiment in what happens when air is so unstable it runs riot. Warm, wet air rises through cooler air, lots of vapor condenses, and heat is released much faster than the expanding cloud can lose. It is a cloud with an upward heat accelerator that overpowers the cooling brakes of expansion. The cloud towers up until finally gravity takes over, as growing lumps of ice, water, and air rush down and up in this big engine of trouble. Friction leads to electrical charges, then bang and rumble—lightning and thunder. Better the devil you know, and later we’ll take this troublemaker to one side of the party and get to know him better.

- From The Secret World of Weather, Chapter 3 : The Talk of the Skies, by Tristan Gooley

#weather #clouds #the secret world of weather #weather witchcraft #storm witchcraft #weather magic #storm magic #sea magic #sea witchcraft #witchcraft #classical witchcraft

[laconic-nightmares]

it seems the storms still hold us in some favour despite our unfortunate depature from that path. here's hoping it lasts through the night. i'll admit the drenching was quite invigorating, though. perhaps we are being called home.

#current nightmare; soleil #witchcraft #storm magic #a storm warlock #that does sound pretty bad of ass #.... you know im not sure that variation of badass works as well as 'dumb of ass' #a shame

[sednascove]

A little about storm magic

Many sea and water practitioners enjoy working with the energy of storms in their magics.

This includes hail, rain and thunder, and winds.

Rain or hail water can aid in workings and cleansings.

The energy a storm produces itself can be great to draw upon.

Storm magic can add another layer to sea or water witchcraft that can energize workings further.

#storm magic #sea witch #witch tips