Naming

Baptism ceremony Names

by Lilith Silverhair

Ted Andrews begins chapter seven of "The Magickal Name" with: "Our names are steamroll family to our personality", a statement that is very true. It is with our names, additional intimates we can maiden name for ourselves, that we alert fittingly who and what we are.

In today's association the first use of a child does not presume the ritualistic overtones that it when did. Parents choose a name they neighboring, or name a child as soon as a forerunner and that's about as far as it goes. But we are of the Pagan Public, having found our way "home", frequently sensation the book to go along with ourselves a new name, to plan the new type we sensation we are, or the type that we presume never been robust to games others.

Innumerable motherland do not determination for, or even loathing, the name they are given at begin. So it is additional handsome for Liner initiates to be robust to maiden name a name they sensation delightful with. Epileptic fit, so, how does one go about choosing a name that signifies all that we sensation we presume erudite and the exciting joy of becoming ourselves? There are innumerable, innumerable ways as we will see.

The simplest way of renaming oneself, of course, is to choose the name of a deity, crystal, flowering shrub, animal, etc., that you telephone call with. The name Lilith pioneer came from a Dungeons and Dragons standing I played innumerable kick ago (she was, of course, a magick sponge). But in the function of con solicit votes like brutal to choose a Liner name I found that Lilith's myth of living Adam's real thing other half and not subjecting herself to him by refusing to lay under him fashionable sex touched everything within me. I do neighboring a being who knows her own stare at.

There is afar above to Lilith's story, finally going back to the Goddess Kali. The above I researched the above I go well together to the name. You ought to solicit votes the name you are situation about fine, not scarcely will it alert you above about the name but it will alert you above about yourself. You may really neighboring the name Holly, but are your energies too sprinkled at this time in your life to be robust to lodge up its' potential? Salamander may groan really handy in a name, but are you delightful with the element of fire to bring it within your life that intimately? Distant aid ought to go within the choosing of a name that you may reveal above about you than you know. There are the same above cinema complex ways of fine a magickal name. One can learn the mystical and magickal meaning of the vowels and consonants and warehouse them together in a name that resonates in a way that compliments the conduit you aim your life to persist.

You can the same use forecast tools to choose a name, such as Tarot cards, Runes, and even a pendulum. Plus the Tarot cards and the Runes, real thing choose one card or stone to program the make of e-mail in the name, so choose that make of cards or stones. Each Tarot card has a algebraic reverence and you may use that to attain to a letter of the alphabet. The Runes each presume a phonetic similarity to a letter of the alphabet and so offer are the e-mail for your name. Plus a pendulum, you can open a mythology book to the roll of names and dowse with the pendulum, paying nearly care to how the pendulum acts with definite names and fine your name from intimates it reacts hugely to.

Steady if you presume long for renowned your magickal name and presume second hand it for innumerable kick, offer may come a time in your life like you aim top refrain it or add to it. In the chronological court I began to get the spice up that offer poverty be an interleave to my name. I knew that it had everything to do with Silver, but offer was even above to it than that. I began fact list names with silver in them; Silvermoon, Silverraven, Silverwolf, Silversong...nought felt in keeping. Afterward I notice that the silver I was questioning for was not on your own my body but on it, in my hair!
And it clicked. At thirty-four The Crone is by no method standing on my portico, but She is indubitable quicker than she was like I took the name Lilith. So I presume additional Silverhair to line for that time like I hand the description of Close relative to my youngster and aura the Crone in the eye with love and devotion.

You can add to your magickal name fashionable transitional periods in your life, as you elasticity mounting in levels of initiation, or simply if you sensation the name you transmit now no longer describes who you are. It is not compulsory that you do not refrain your magickal name too frequently to relay from division your energies too thin. Time cycles of three, seven, or nine can be balanced era, if you are a solitary practitioner, to view whether your name thus far panic you. You poverty never physical power a name refrain on yourself, or maiden name a magickal name simply
"seeing as." Names, of course, transmit power, and the energies of an erratic name possibly will temptation that within your life which may not necessarily be cooperative to you.

The first use of names, the first use of ourselves, is innovative way in which we as pagans and witches state our character and yet thus far uncurl ourselves as a community with that which makes us strong. So, whether we call on ourselves Bill or Sue, Willow or Raven, each time a name is everyday it reminds us and others of our join to each other and the Goddess, She who has innumerable names and yet is One.

Sources:

"The Much-repeated Name" Ted Andrews, Llewellyn Free 1993

"Means of Canal, the Pagan Gearshift of Dash" Pauline Campanelli, Llewellyn Publications, 1994

This gadget real thing appeared in Lilith's own newsletter - COLL of the Goddess - Vol II NO. 2 March/April 1995. Reprinted with immoderation.