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badstarDo you have a "Pagan" name or a "Magic" name?
Do you use it in public?
Do you find that a lot of the pagans in your area use magic names? Do they use them more than their given names?
If you don't have a magic name, do you ever get od reactions for not?
I'm just curious because a few weeks ago, I was talking to someone from the community at a gathering, we'd met a few times before at rituals at the Grove, and seen each other around town...she asked me to remind her what my name was, so I did...and then she asked if I had a magic name. When I responded that I didn't, she looked at me as though I had just grew a 3rd arm or something. Not the first time I'd had such a reaction. It was a little weird. So just curious of anyone else has seen this.
To everyone else: feel free to Nod and Smile. Pagans Are Weird :-P
Do you use it in public?
Do you find that a lot of the pagans in your area use magic names? Do they use them more than their given names?
If you don't have a magic name, do you ever get od reactions for not?
I'm just curious because a few weeks ago, I was talking to someone from the community at a gathering, we'd met a few times before at rituals at the Grove, and seen each other around town...she asked me to remind her what my name was, so I did...and then she asked if I had a magic name. When I responded that I didn't, she looked at me as though I had just grew a 3rd arm or something. Not the first time I'd had such a reaction. It was a little weird. So just curious of anyone else has seen this.
To everyone else: feel free to Nod and Smile. Pagans Are Weird :-P
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Date: 2006-01-30 06:06 pm (UTC)As I mentioned in an above comment, I see everything as magic. It's just..part of everything. Life, the world is magic. So if everyhting is magic, then my name is too. Renee means reborn...that's a fairly magical concept if you ask me. Fuego, my nickname...means fire- Pretty Damned Magical (but its origination as my nickname has nothing to do with any sort of magica working. at least, not outside of my normal realm of activity. Playing with fire? Magic like no one's business! hehe) . Any other name that I were to give myself would be no different, and in my mind it kinda borders on turning it all into a role-playing game. I'm not role-playing. I don't need another identity.
This is fast becming its own post.
incidentally, a few months back in a fit of silliness and boredom I gave myself a magical name one day...Lady something-or-other Moondrivel. I'll have to find it and perhaps i'll try it out on the next person who asks me what my magic name is..hehehehe
Now I'm just being silly.