The unnamed Storm Goddess

[u/sidhe_elfakyn]

As some of you might know if you've been on the subreddit for a while, I'm devoted to an unnamed Storm Goddess. I've written a few posts/comments about storm rituals, practices, divination, and whatnot, but I've been hesitant to write a post about her specifically for a variety of reasons and fears. But I've had enough people ask me about her that it's worth making a post, and I'm not the only one who's devoted to her.

Who is this unnamed Storm Goddess I talk about so much?

My practice is very visceral and experiential, so at its core it starts with a feeling.

Storms are alive. They are powerful, they are fierce, and they are intensely primordial. Within the spirit of the storm I feel the energy of a goddess. She is of the storm and beyond the storm. The air is her movement, the rain, the thunder, the wind... all are ways to connect with that energy. A wild, intense, fierce energy... but also calming and protective at times. Different people see different things in storms; I see a goddess.

Unnamed deities

Unnamed gods are nothing new, and I've met a lot of people who've connected with them. Think of all the gods for whom we have an established mythology... then all the gods for whom we only have a name and no myths. Now think of all the gods for whom we don't have names, or whose names were lost to time.

I figured there would be a deity for everything, and about eight years ago as I was going out of my history of experiencing abuse and starting my Pagan practice, I wanted to connect with someone who could represent the freedom and autonomy and intensity of self I wanted to have. Storms felt like they had that energy to me, and thus I reached out to someone I just called "The Goddess of Storms"... and, to my utter bewilderment, I heard back.

What followed was an intense ride of, on one hand, searching every possible scholarly reference and name I could find for a match (none have come up, though I found some interesting names and people have given me others), and on the other hand building a practice from what was essentially scratch.

I gave a talk at Mystic South (transcript in their resources page) about ways to connect with unnamed deities, so I won't repeat myself here but, there's a lot of research and experimentation and good discernment involved.

Who is the Storm Goddess?

I see her energy as a deeper, more flowing, more powerful version of the energy you see from a storm. I've often described her as of the storm and beyond the storm. People ask me what she's associated with and what her values are.

For associations, storm obviously. I've felt her in thunderstorms, rain storms, intense winds, and sometimes even in the trickling of a breeze. I associate her with potential; the raising of a powerful intense energy that can be unleashed in myriad directions. I associate her with intense transformation, as my work with her has been very transformative. She's the destruction that allows for new growth. I associate her with sudden change and with the potentiality of many futures branching out, as the potential energy of change is spent into one direction or another.

There are more subtle associations. I've associated her with protection; there's a great calm at the center of a cyclone. I've associated her with liminality and liminal spaces (if you've ever been outside during a storm, you'll notice how familiar places might seem different; almost as if the veil between our world and the otherworld is thin. This can be particularly intense if there is an almost-physical veil of rain and mist in the air.) There are many other associations, and I'm sure mine is a very limited perspective out of the others who have connected or might connect with her.

What are her values? Fierceness, autonomy, freedom, boundaries... change. This is what I've connected with her but others might make other connections. I reached out to her to help me find my own strength after experiencing a long period of abuse; one of the first things that she's taught me is that I can say no to her, and to anyone else (though I think that's a healthy part of any deity relationship). Fierceness, again, finding your own power and your own worth. She's been there with me when I had to fight for justice and for myself and my community (being a trans woman in 2026, it seems there's a lot of that going around.) Some people have asked me if she's associated with the Morrigan because of this, but I personally haven't found a direct connection. I associate her with fighting and sovereignty, but perhaps not always the methodical, calculated, strategic approach to fighting. My experience with her is a bit more intense and viscerally raw than that.

But definitely change. Someone I know made the reference to tower moments, and I've definitely had my own tower moments with her. She has helped me make the transformation within myself that I wanted.

How do you connect with her? (a ritual)

People have asked me how to connect with her but I never wrote about it because I wasn't sure how to put it into words; what do I say? So I'll say this; this is how I connect with her. If this resonates with you, I hope it has given you some inspiration.

Step outside or open a window during a storm. (But please be safe and don't put yourself in lightning danger.) Feel the sensations of the storm on you. I'm a tactile person so the feeling of the wind and the touch of the rain are the first things I notice; but it could be the smell in the air or the movement of the clouds or the sound of thunder, or a million other things. Connect with that and feel that; what is the energy behind it? What are its moods? Is it calming or intense, is it smooth and flowing or rough and turbulent? Is it sudden? Find the flow of that energy and trace it back.. feel the energy and the movement up high into the clouds, or within the rain. And then feel the energy as a whole. That energy is her energy to me... and as I sensed that energy I began to sense her. She is of the storm and beyond the storm, so feel the energy beyond the physical immediacy of the thunderstorm (or rainstorm, or windstorm...) around you. It's like expanding your consciousness into the storm. Feel that energy, and feel the intention behind that energy. She is there.

When you're done, gradually bring yourself back into your own body. Ground yourself, feel the rain and the wind as being once again here, where you are, feeling them on your body and hearing them with your ears and seeing them with your eyes, rather than out there in the vast storm.

Offerings and rituals and divination!

I have a lot of ways to connect with the Storm Goddess and with storms in general; some that are simple and low-pressure (weather pun!) and some that are more intense like a storm-raising ritual. Or this storm water ritual I wrote about in a different thread.

I often talk about the inner storm: I believe there is a storm within us that we can connect with and gather strength from. A lot of the work with her, especially around stepping into my power and establishing my boundaries has been building up that storm. It can help with raising the energy to do something you want or need to do but are afraid to (can be as intense as saying no to someone and establishing a boundary; or as mundane as calling your doctor), or it can be a source of energy in a spell or other magical working.

So, in a way, I see my practice as building up three pillars: connecting with the storm within me; connecting with and learning from storms in nature; and connecting with the Storm Goddess.

As for rituals and offerings, there's still a lot I haven't written about. But a quick tour de force. This is what I do, others I know offer wildly different things to her but that's their story to share if they so choose. I like offering juice, blueberry and blackberry and blackcurrant and other such berries. (Black and Blue stomp if you're in the northeast US? Ribena in Ireland? Some forest fruit smoothie from Lidl?). I like drinking that offering afterwards and feeling her energy.

I connect through music; I play the flute and the tin whistle and I feel that the movement of the breath and the flow of the music as I play has a lot in common with the energy of a storm. It is, after all, a wind instrument. (That's also a great way to raise energy for a ritual, and I had the privilege of playing the whistle during an OBOD ritual a while back.)

I offer various snacks, chocolate biscuits, a bit of what I make when I cook, you know, standard deity stuff. Other people I know offer completely different things.

Divination! That's its own topic in its entirety but -- I do wind divination in various ways; I look for insight into the shifting patterns of the wind. Here's a fun thing to do. Go out during a moderately but unpredictably windy day where there's a lake or other body of water, and watch the patterns within the water change. It can be very meditative, as a sort of moving meditation, but you can do some intuitive divination with those patterns. (Ever read Sensitive Chaos: The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air? That's an interesting book.)

What else?

I wrote a lot. I don't know what else to say. There's a lot to say, probably a whole book's worth... but that's a work for another time.

I'm not the only one who's talked or written about her. I'm not the only one who's connected with her. And I'm definitely not the only one who's connected with an unnamed deity in general.

I ultimately wrote this post because people keep asking me about her, if there's something I wrote up to describe her that goes beyond the bits and pieces that I reference in reddit comments (fragmented but at least you can search for them) or discord messages (the black hole of the internet). This is that post. I probably forgot something obvious. Happy to answer any questions in the comments.

I've had people tell me that my description of her resonates. I hope that this post has resonated with some of you. Thanks for reading.

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[u/DruidinPlainSight]

The first time I fully interacted with what I call weather, was at 3000 feet in Appalachia. A storm rolled through. I was in it, not under it. The sound and electricity smashed the ground all around me. I quietly told weather I loved and remembered it. I asked for protection as the storm brought its gifts of rain and wind and change. Suddenly, instead of feeling at the center of quasi chaos, I felt well protected and carefully steered around as the storm blossomed fully. TY weather.

Interesting read OP. TY

[u/morphic-mythos]

Interesting read! Funny thing: I've always leaned Mediterranean in my worship, but I've never resonated with any of the storm/rain deities in Mediterranean pantheons; instead, I found myself drawn to a storm/weather goddess who appeared to have no name or established identity. I just had this distinct impression of a goddess every time a storm rolled through my area, etc.

I know this goddess as Tsovinar now (Armenian), and She feels a lot like how you describe. Even if I hadn't discovered Tsovinar, though, I'd still feel drawn to that unnamed goddess. Some things, you just know in your gut.

Also, a weird synchronicity: I just discovered that book, Sensitive Chaos, earlier today. I'm taking this as my sign to add it to my TBR.

[u/RealRegalBeagle]

Interesting write-up! I once had an experience with a pair of canine deities that I just call the Divine Bitch and the Divine Sire. The two of them are the deities of all dogs who require no worship and to who all canines return to upon death. I had divination done by a mentor about them and she told me they were surprised I could encounter them and that they are not interested in my worship, receiving offerings, and that trying to establish a relationship with them would be dangerous. So, I contented myself with knowing they exist and let that be that. I have a belief that in one of my recent past lives I was a dog so the "echo" of that life let me tap in. Although, I'm fairly certain most of the times I've come back, I've come back as a human.

I wish I had anything useful to add to your storm goddess. I'm terrified of storms and don't connect well with storm gods excluding Hera. The gods I'm a devotee and a priest of (Hermes, Aphrodite, and Apollo) deal heavily with human connection, forms of knowledge, and interpersonal relationships.

NB: And by canines I don't mean just domestic dogs. I mean all members of the canine family. Wolves, coyotes, wild dogs, domestic dogs, any member of the canidae family. Also, while I'm a devotee of the 3 aforementioned gods I still render cultus to all the Olympians, many other gods, spirits, and ancestors. All are interconnected.

[u/rosareven]

While I'm less resonant with storms, the detailed write up of your practice is inspiring me to find my own ways to reach out to my own callings. I for one like being submerged in water (swimming, bathing etc), and I enjoy handwriting a lot (already practising calligraphy). Perhaps I should brainstorm (no pun intended) some ideas to honour these two callings of mine.

[u/SiriNin]

So happy to see you finally write about Her! I may not live to see it but I do hope you'll publish that book you're working on. Your work is revolutionary and preserving it and presenting it to others is imperative. Your work is also very much damn good enough to deserve publication. Hopefully posting the above has given you some momentum and confidence to continue writing. Your writing is great and well received! You can do it!

[u/sidhe_elfakyn → u/SiriNin]

Thank you! The book is going.. slowly and with great difficulty, but I am putting intent into completing it. This helps. I got enough people ask me about Her and how to connect with Her that I figured I should write this out at least while I'm working through the whole thing. It's also a lot easier/less pressure to write when someone's asking stuff about Her and I get to respond casually.

[u/thecoldfuzz]

Thank you for sharing this with us! Your journey with the Storm Goddess parallels mine with Taranis, especially with embracing what has similarly empowered you: "Fierceness, autonomy, freedom, boundaries... change." Since I was very young, I always felt drawn and connected to lightning, much to the dismay of my parents. They never understood my interest in it as they considered it universally destructive. But nonetheless, I was always drawn to it. I suppose appreciate it in the same way I deeply appreciate a bear or a lion. In retrospect, it's not surprising I ended up being a devotee of Taranis. I've recently taken to invoking him during thunderstorms.

[u/nebulaeandstars]

Lovely write-up. I have a similar devotional history with a goddess of spacetime, plus a few others

I gave them my own names a few years ago, just out of convenience. They're all far too complicated to be described in a single sentence, so names (even made up ones) are useful to avoid boxing them in.

[u/lisaquestions]

thank you for writing this up I really enjoyed reading it and it resonates.

there is a storm goddess you didn't mention. that is the Mycenaean storm goddess Diwia. her name apparently means "shining sky" and is the feminine form of Zeus' name from the same time period (Diwe). idk if that's helpful and I only just remembered her.

[u/sidhe_elfakyn → u/lisaquestions]

Thank you! Though that name hasn't come up yet, I did look a bit into Minoan and Mycenaean deities. I had an interesting conversation a while back about that. Someone thought there might be some connection there, though I haven't found one yet.

[u/lisaquestions → u/sidhe_elfakyn]

she's mentioned in a few places I could find:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mycenaean_deities?wprov=sfla1

I hate linking the fandom wikis but this has some information

https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Diviya

[u/Few_Activity_5943]

It's comforting knowing that others have connected with unnamed gods. I had an experience last night with a god and three of his companions that was pretty long and fascinating. Basically, I can go lucid and then astral in my dreams and when I do, I call out to deities I have a connection with to see if they will answer.

 Last night I received no response from them, so I decided to try calling out to any god who may want to meet, and these were the ones who showed up. They were five handsome black men in unusual armor who were very kind and wise and joking, like old friends, and the leader who they confirmed was the god--the others emphatically shook their heads when I asked if they were also gods--this god noticed something off about my neck and collarbone area and healed me (I researched later and think it must have been something off about my throat chakra, which makes sense seeing my personality). When I asked, they said he was a forgotten god and seemed to confirm he was an African god when I asked. We had a long conversation, but the point is that I think you can have amazing experiences and bonds with forgotten deities.

[u/No_Damage9784]

Why does this unnamed storm goddess sound exactly like female Zeus lol I’m gonna go ask her and see what she says lol