Thunder Magick

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.

Mercury Retrograde - right and wrong

I find people cringing over Mercury Retrogrades more than any other planet, and really, it's not that bad.  In fact, we spend less time in a Mercury Retrograde per year than we do with any other planet.  (Pluto spends just shy of half a year at a time, grinding away in reverse...)  It's just that you can't fight the flow here: this time is meant for REVIEW, and for catching your balance again before you move forward again, if you leaped-before-you-looked.  It's all in how you look at it.  And so, at the risk of another shameless self-plug for GreenCorvid.com, here's my example of a Mercury Retrograde put to GOOD use: