Magickal Names

Magickal Names

I am sure I have written about this before but, I can't find it. So lets have a quick chat about this frankly irritating woo woo nonsense that seems to "do the rounds" every so often shall we?

Right.

Firstly your Magickal witch name is not:

Your on-line avatar

 A way to show off

A way to re-brand or market yourself in the pagan community

A thing to prove how cool/magickal you are.

First off your name is not about creating something. It is about peeling away all the bullshit and finding something pure, your spirit, your soul, your highest of higher beings. It is like an essential oil of you. It is unlikely to be long (if it is this is not an essence). It should to totally secret, except to those you trust with your mind, body and soul. Totally secret.

If you have/want a cool on-line name, go for it. That doesn't make it your True Name. It just doesn't. I would never, ever, ever use my name as an on-line name. For a start it is not clever magickal practice. Your name (as your essence) can make you vulnerable to magick as giving someone a lock of your hair, your tears or blood. In some ways more so. You blood belongs to your meat suit, your name belongs to your soul! 

You want to use your name to show off by all means create on. The problem is old(ish), more veteran witches and pagan folks will probably think you are kind of an idiot. If Pixie Raven BloodWytche is what you are going with be aware you run the risk of pissing off people who work with Fae (Pixie is cute to you but not so much when you actually work with Fae); people who have deep ancestral reasons to work with corvids ( from First Nation people's to those who walk the Morrigan Paths) and BloodWytche offends pretty much anyone who likes grammar. Now I don't care if this your on-line handle, it just is NOT your True Name. If you want to market yourself to the pagan community or re-brand yourself this way you run the risk of upsetting or offending folks. It doesn't make you look cool. It makes you look like you read too much fiction and not enough actual pagan books. If you use this as a protection because you are firmly in the broom closet great, fine, not my business. 

It however is an artifice, not an essence. 

Your True Name has nothing to do with your birth month, your star or moon sign, your age, or books you read.

Your true name is the colour of your soul, or the closest thing in a word to it.

Some people just ARE Willow, or Skip, or Rain, or Ember. Some people are Bird, Ratty, Raynard, Heather or Pearl.

That is what someone's true name is.

It is a revelation of something divine and higher and pure. It is beautiful and sacred.

Bright Blessings xxx