Ah, Hawaii.
Rarely does Oahu get a good thunder-boomer going - but when we do get them, they come in from the North Pacific Ocean and generally dump torrential amounts of rain on us. They are also not the typical Hawaiian rains, in that they stick around and pour for hours (usually, if you don't like the rain here, wait five minutes.)
But this is important rain - this is what keeps the island green, and keeps this land healthy. And thunderstorms... well, a Hawaiian thunderstorm is no Great Plains boomer, carried across the land on the mighty wings of Thunderbird, but they have their place in magick, as well.
Air, Water and Fire mixed as one: a potent combination. In fact, it could be seen as the representation of the three Hebrew Mother letters, and thus as a source of Life. The ancients both revered and feared thunderstorms, and well they should have: while some archaeology has revealed that the ancients did know how to make very basic, low-power batteries (the question then becomes, what did they use them for?), the gods of lightning have always held powerful places in the ancient pantheons. Zeus and Indra, kings of the gods. Athena, the only other one Zeus dared trust to wield His thunderbolts - His own daughter. Thor, son of Odhinn, Whose great hammer Mjollnir creates the thunder and the lightning when it strikes. And the Thunderbird of the Great Plains, Whose job it is to gather and distribute the waters of the world from a gigantic bowl across his back... It doesn't take a study of mythology to understand that this is force to be reckoned with.
Basic electrical theory says that any electrical field is also a magnetic field. On the scale of a thunderstorm, the field is massive and very powerful, often covering (and disrupting) the normal patterns of entire regions. Your work, therefore, may affect a large area. Certain thunderstorms can also be quite hazardous, generating tornadoes, devastating straight-line winds, torrential rains, flash floods, and potentially massive hail. (Hail can demolish shelters and months of carefully-tended crops needed to survive in the winter months, and its Rune, Hagalaz, indicates destruction of carefully-laid plans no mater how it falls.) Do not let magickal concerns trump practical safety concerns: listen to your local weather forecasters and heed all weather warnings.
I advise caution with any form of weather magick under the best of circumstances, and with climate change disrupting the established weather patterns worldwide I would be even more cautious. It would be best to work hand-in-hand with both the gods and the local spirits of the land to bring rain (or shield against too much of it), as weather magick can have profound consequences for others not in your locale. However, energy is energy, and a thunderstorm is a natural dynamo.
Be certain that your work is truly for the highest benefit of all when working with thunderstorms: the energy is enormously powerful, as are the gods associated with it, and any karmic backlash resulting from the misuse of thunderstorm energy is certain to strike with the force of a lightning bolt - and with as little warning. Even if it goes right, depending on what you are working for you may still experience something very similar to imagery of The Tower in the Tarot.
Rarely does Oahu get a good thunder-boomer going - but when we do get them, they come in from the North Pacific Ocean and generally dump torrential amounts of rain on us. They are also not the typical Hawaiian rains, in that they stick around and pour for hours (usually, if you don't like the rain here, wait five minutes.)
But this is important rain - this is what keeps the island green, and keeps this land healthy. And thunderstorms... well, a Hawaiian thunderstorm is no Great Plains boomer, carried across the land on the mighty wings of Thunderbird, but they have their place in magick, as well.
Air, Water and Fire mixed as one: a potent combination. In fact, it could be seen as the representation of the three Hebrew Mother letters, and thus as a source of Life. The ancients both revered and feared thunderstorms, and well they should have: while some archaeology has revealed that the ancients did know how to make very basic, low-power batteries (the question then becomes, what did they use them for?), the gods of lightning have always held powerful places in the ancient pantheons. Zeus and Indra, kings of the gods. Athena, the only other one Zeus dared trust to wield His thunderbolts - His own daughter. Thor, son of Odhinn, Whose great hammer Mjollnir creates the thunder and the lightning when it strikes. And the Thunderbird of the Great Plains, Whose job it is to gather and distribute the waters of the world from a gigantic bowl across his back... It doesn't take a study of mythology to understand that this is force to be reckoned with.
Basic electrical theory says that any electrical field is also a magnetic field. On the scale of a thunderstorm, the field is massive and very powerful, often covering (and disrupting) the normal patterns of entire regions. Your work, therefore, may affect a large area. Certain thunderstorms can also be quite hazardous, generating tornadoes, devastating straight-line winds, torrential rains, flash floods, and potentially massive hail. (Hail can demolish shelters and months of carefully-tended crops needed to survive in the winter months, and its Rune, Hagalaz, indicates destruction of carefully-laid plans no mater how it falls.) Do not let magickal concerns trump practical safety concerns: listen to your local weather forecasters and heed all weather warnings.
I advise caution with any form of weather magick under the best of circumstances, and with climate change disrupting the established weather patterns worldwide I would be even more cautious. It would be best to work hand-in-hand with both the gods and the local spirits of the land to bring rain (or shield against too much of it), as weather magick can have profound consequences for others not in your locale. However, energy is energy, and a thunderstorm is a natural dynamo.
Be certain that your work is truly for the highest benefit of all when working with thunderstorms: the energy is enormously powerful, as are the gods associated with it, and any karmic backlash resulting from the misuse of thunderstorm energy is certain to strike with the force of a lightning bolt - and with as little warning. Even if it goes right, depending on what you are working for you may still experience something very similar to imagery of The Tower in the Tarot.
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