Thunderstorm Spell


Ingredients:

– Measuring cup

– Pen and paper

– Water

1. First, make a sigil. I used the statement “it will storm”. Decorate the sigil with lightning bolts, raindrops, and storm clouds.

2. Fill a measuring cup with water. Fill it up to however much rain you want to fall.

3. Lay the piece of paper with the sigil over the measuring cup of water and let it sit there.

4. To finalize the spell, clap loudly once or a couple times, representing a crack of lightning. You can also play the sound of rain and thunder around the piece of paper to charge it with your intent.

5. As your spell charges, feel your energy connecting with the sky and literally drawing down a storm. Be patient and you should get one soon

Problems with the Climate

Are you troubled about traipsing through the chill of the night? Do you get singed in the sun or think an icy downpour is a downer?

Witchcarft is a spiritual tradition that includes many practices that bring the practitioner into direct contact with nature.

It seeks to harmonize the Witch with life as it is happening in this very moment.

To be a person of magical power, one embraces the entire array of life’s experiences.

When Witches routinely make space in their lives for nature, for life, in the right-here-and-now, it gradually strips away accumulated layers of social, emotional, and psychological conditioning.

It frees up the mind, heart, and spirit. It places the practitioner into direct accord with life, nature, and the direct current of spiritual power.

Can you face each moment of life unflinchingly—despite the rain, sleet, or hail?

Not everyone can go outside no matter the weather conditions.

There are always exceptions and accommodations to be made.

If your health will be jeopardized by venturing out of doors into inclement weather, by all means, try the following alternative exercise:

Fill a tray or empty pot with potting soil and rub your hands through it.

Bring a handful to your nose and inhale the earth’s rich perfume.

Weather Magick

Witches were once believed to be able to raise the wind at their pleasure.

In a confession made at Auldearn in Nairnshire in the year 1662, certain women accused of sorcery said,

“When we raise the wind, we take a rag of cloth and wet it in water, and we take a beetle and knock the rag on a stone, and we say thrice over”:

I knock this rag upon this stane,
To raise the wind in the devil’s name.
It shall not lie until I please again!

When the wind was to be allayed the rag was left to dry.

In Scotland, sailors and fishermen would buy a piece of rag with three knots within it, from witches who were said to tie up the winds to fill their sails,

The winds were released by untying the knots as follows:

The first knot produced wind to fill their sails, the second a strong wind, and the third creating a tempest or storm.

Other examples of making the rain include tossing a flintstone over one’s left shoulder or sprinkling water with a broom.

To Whistle Up the Wind

Like attracts like.

As you focus your breath, so can you use it to whistle up the wind.

Focus your energy and inhale.

Infuse the inhaled air with your energy in a command.

Whistle, and as you do, command the wind to blow as you are forcing the air from your mouth.

The sharpness and tone and length of the whistle will denote the type of wind you are summoning.

For example, a short, sharp and loud whistle will bring on a gust.

The wind may also be controlled by the use of an old magical phrase:

 Sha Gadda Galat.

When used with the proper concentration and Will, these magic words will bring up the wind and will call in magic.

Cutting a Storm

This spell should be kept for diverting severe weather only.

To cut a storm you will need your black-handled knife.

Focus on becoming at one with the oncoming storm, and when you can feel the rush of the thunderstorm within you, run screaming at the approaching storm, brandishing your knife.

Plunge the knife into the earth with the blade facing the wind.

As you do this visualize the storm being cut in two and diverting itself around you.

Weather Lore

The local Wise Woman or Cunning Man would have a pretty good grasp on predicting the weather.

So would local farmers, if they paid attention to their landscape, which, given it was their livelihood.

Get to know the weather patterns in your area, and make notes so that you can compare year upon year.

Build up your own little system, as well as research meteorology.

Here is some weather lore that applies to Britain which I use to help determine what is on its way.

Clouds are not only very pretty to look at, but can also tell us a great deal about what is happening in the skies, and what is to come.

There are four types of clouds: stratus (layered), nimbus (rain clouds), cumulus (tall white or grey) and cirrus (very high and wispy).

These form into three groups based on altitude and can help us predict the weather.

Low clouds are divided into:

•Cumulus: fluffy white clouds with rounded tops and flat bottoms.

These usually indicate fair weather.

Cumulonimbus: very tall, heaped clouds like grand castles in the sky.

Light on the top and dark on the bottom.

If you see one in the shape of an anvil, rain is definitely on the way.

These clouds can indicate heavy rain and approaching thunderstorms, even hail.

Stratus: low clouds that block out the sun or moon, either white or grey.

In coastal areas or in hilly/mountainous regions, there can be a lot of rain.

Stratocumulus: sometimes in grey sheets or like a large, lumpy grey pillow that covers the sky.

To predict the weather with these, we need to look at which way the wind is blowing.

If it blows from the north, it will be clear and cool.

From the south, there will be more rain.

From the east, expect storms and from the west clearing skies and slightly warmer temperatures.

Mid-level or medium clouds are divided into:  Nimbostratus: thick, dark skies with low clouds that have persistent and sometimes heavy rain for long periods of time

Altostratus: sun is visible through a hazy veil, white or grey uniform cloud. Periods of continuous rain or even snow on the way.

Altocumulus: the famous, rippled “mackerel sky” which provides a brilliant display early mornings or evenings.

Cold weather is on the way in winter, and in summer expect thunderstorms.

High clouds are divided into:

Cirrostratus: Thin layer of cloud, sometimes hiding sun or moon, and often producing a “halo” effect.

When these thicken a warm front is approaching.

When the halo effect is this high in the sky, no rain on the way.

Cirrocumulus: Small, wispy white clouds that indicate fair but cooler weather.

Cirrus: Very white, very wispy clouds made of ice crystals that occur in fair weather, so no rain on the way.

Another trick which I use, as from my back garden I have a great view of all the air traffic passing along the East coast of England, is to watch the contrails left behind from the jets flying off to distant shores.

If these trails dissipate quickly, it means that the air is dry, and usually will stay so for the near future.

The longer these trails remain, the more moisture is in the air, which might indicate an approaching period of wet weather.

Here are some wonderful folk sayings to help predict the weather.

Some of them are true, some of them not quite so much.

Give them a try and see for yourself!

Red sky at night, sailors’ delight.

Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning.

Flies will swarm before a storm.

When smoke descends, good weather ends. (Look out at chimneys for this one in winter.)

Rain before seven, fine by eleven.

Snow like cotton, soon forgotten.

Snow like meal, it’ll snow a good deal.

Frogs call to the coming rain

But in the sun are quiet again.