I thought a lot about my Craft name (Akacia Moon Shanda) my real name is Casey and "Acacia" is a form of it: i spell it with a k for the k in magick....Moon is for the Tripple Moon Goddess, and the fact that I have always been facinated by the moon, Shanda means "The Greatest Goddess. I have three name (like a first middle and last) because three in the Celtic tradiotion is a sacred number, it represents the three worlds...all multiples of 3 are also sacred and "Akacia" and "Shanda" each have 6 letters (a mult. of three.) Moon has 4 letter to represtent the 4 elements. "Akacia" is from the acacia tree and tress serve as links to the 3 worlds in Celtic Wicca....Akacia also is similar to the sacred 5th element akasha or spirit.

I simply chose my name because it sounded nice...now that I have offically used it for about 3 yrs, i now find that it has all these magickal meanings.

Blessed Be,
Akacia Moon Shanda
Date Added: 11-22-01

I found my Craft name a short while after I decided to start practicing Witchcraft. I had been researching for a while, had made a decision, and was feeling very good about myself (and I still do). Then I thought that it was time to choose a craft name.

I looked through my books and sheafs of photocopied and printed information for inspiration. I marked a few of the names that I liked, but there were a few that really appealed to me. I wrote a list on a sheet of paper, then looked at them all. I wasn't sure how to decide. I looked at each of the names. if they were the names of Goddesses, I looked at what that Goddess represented. If it was herbs, I looked at what they were used for magickally. Trees, I looked at what they represented in the Celtic Tree Calendar.

I ruled out some straight away, as I knew that they were not right. What I was left with, I translated into Runes and looked at what the different runes stood for. Two names really stood out. So I looked at the numerology behind the two, their individual letters, and their added name values. I found one.

I gave myself a night to dream about it and woke up feeling absolutely wonderful. So I adopted the name. So really, for me it was just a matter of looking, and finding the one that suited me best.

I have since told one of my close friends, who is also practicing Witchcraft, and she just smiled and told me that it suited me. Because, really, it IS me.

I dont think that there is any right way to find your craft name. Some will look, like I did. Others will be found. Others will meditate long and hard. Some will divine their names. But I dont think that it matters how you come about your Craft name, as long as it feels right.
Rue
Date Added: 11-22-01

~Merry Meet~

I feel that your Magickal name is a reflection of how you see yourself, not just as a person, but as someone who has learned to use Magick. I feel one should choose a name that says something about the purpose for which he or she practices Magick. For example, I chose the name Lilliana, which to me is an extension of Lily. Lily-of-the-Valleys , to any of you who don't have a green thumb, bloom every year from late April to mid-May, and they are resilient little flowers that look like tiny white bells climbing a staircase. And they don't hinder the rooting and growth of other plants. To me, they embody the notion that nothing in this world is stronger than gentleness, because they don't need to harm others to procure their own survival. My Magick has always been for the protection, healing and happiness of others, and not about being the "tallest plant in the flowerbed". Wicca, to me, is not about exerting control over your environment; it's about using yourself to harmonize the energies that surround you.

But anywho, that's how I came to acquire my name. Basically, I think that if you are to tell someone else your Magickal name, that person should get a pretty clear indication of what your intentions are. So I wouldn't call myself something like Cobrabreath or Angel of Death-unless I really wanted everybody to leave me alone!

Blessings and Love
Lilliana
Date Added: 11-22-01

My craft name "found" me, after a fashion. I was doing genealogical research on my family, and the name of one of my ancestresses in the direct female line just "jumped" out at me. I later found out that she had fled the old country in order to escape an accusation of witchcraft. Hmmmmm..... I took the name to honor her freedom.
Ellender Rose
Date Added: 11-22-01

My name was givin to me by my husband. while not a witch he is a kindred spirit, and I told him that I was going to dedicate myself to witchcraft and I was going to take a new name. He told me it should mean someting special to myself and that I should think about it. I said it had to have something to do with water since that is my sign and I have a great affinity for water in my life. He woke me up in the middle of the night and gave me my name....Fathom
Fathom
Date Added: 11-22-01

I am a hereditary pagan and I don't have a craft name- however I chose my current name so I guess that its pretty magical to me.

BB & regards,
Willa
Date Added: 11-22-01

My spirit guids call my by a specific title. It very personal, I don't use it infront of anyone. Usually I just use my name unless I am doing a private ritual.
LokiEternal138@aol.com
Date Added: 11-22-01

For many weeks I had been tossing around names that I could chooses for a craft name, things I liked - colours, animals etc - but nothing felt right and I seemed to want to put lots of things into the name making it really long.

But one day, I was writing some names down and I wrote the name "Nightfire", because I liked both night and fire, and it just felt right and me. So I decided that that was to be my name.

Blessed be
Nightfire.
Date Added: 11-22-01

my craft name "flickerbat" came to me because of the pull these two airborne critters have for me. since childhood i was drawn to the beauty of the flicker. i often found myself following it into beautiful places, such as the dim floor of leafy glades. i have a sense that most of the time i've spent observing flickers, they have been flying away. they fly with a distinctive flap hard then swoop-coast for a short stretch style. flickers also have a white patch on their rumps which is only seen when the bird flies. it has always seemed a magical creature to me. its song also has an otherwordly characteristic that never fails to capture my full attention when i hear it.

i combined flicker with bat because of a similar feeling bats evoke in me. a couple years ago we had a bat in our house and my wife was very distressed. our cats were very interested. the bat ended up shut in a room into which i had to go to open the windows to let it out. it spent several minutes circling the room and then flew out. i felt no fear of the bat, but rather felt privileged to share such proximity with it. like flickers, bats (at least those i have seen) have distinctive quirky flying styles. also, as one who likes to stand on his head, i feel linked to a creature that sleeps and rests upside down.

bats and flickers flying both make me think of my own senses, mental processes, and spiritual or "other" processes which often seem to flit, swoop, and zig-zag from one direction to another, alternately transcending and obeying gravity or consensus reality.

finally, i liked the ambiguity of flicker as noun or verb. i suppose bat could be a noun or a verb as well although that doesn't resonate for me the way flicker does.
tbrown@nplhub.org
Date Added: 11-22-01

merry meet!

my craft name just came to me one day after experimenting with many names. it was always there but i didnt realize it til one night in a dream people i didnt know were calling me In.Anna. then i had these ancient powers i was just begining to use and was awed and wondering where they came frome. and someone was teling me i always had them and that it was my birthrite. after i woke up i did lots of studying on the name In.Anna and Shumer otherwise known as sumer and thats how i found out my dream had shown me even the correct spelling of these ancient words.and to mamke a long story short, that is how my craft name came about.
Inanna (Irene)
Date Added: 11-22-01

Merry meet,

As to how I found my craft name I just wanted a name that showed who I am. I wanted a name that fits my identity and personality. Of course, choosing the name was the easy part and explaining it is the hard part.

First, the name itself is Ares Windrider It is a simple name. It fits two sides of my personality.

Ares. Ares is the God of War. Of course, he is also the god of soldiers. Soldiers being loyal, dedicated and strong willed. All of these fitting my persona to a tea.

Windrider. Windrider because I am known as a funny and carefree typoe of person. The carefree nature alows me to ride the wind. Nothing like a happy go lucky wiccan!

So I guess that just about sums up another not so interesting stroy about me =).

Thank you for listening.

Merry Part & bright Blessings,
Mickey ~Ares~
Date Added: 11-22-01

magik name: AquaZephyrus

I'm a commercial fisherman so my name come to me this way: Aqua for water and Zephyrus for west wind cause "when the wind blows from the west thats when fishings best" so, there u have it, AquaZephyrus!
beachbum@roxboro.net
Date Added: 11-22-01

I started practicing the craft when I was about 15 as a solitary. It was about 2 years before I recieved my craft name and it was a gift from the Goddess. I have always written poetry and occasionally one pops into my head fully written. One night a poem about the Goddess popped in and after writing it down recieved my name to write beneath it.
Rihanna
Date Added: 11-22-01

About five months ago, i suddenly felt that my birth name wasn't ME anymore. It felt like practically nothing to me. So i started trying to come up with a different name. (I'm a fantasy author so i have to come up with names often.)

But none of them fit me. They didn't say anything. They were just names. I don't quite know when my name found me. It might of come in a dream. Or during math class. All i know is that now i'm known by my best friend as Silkeara Algar.

Merry and Blessed be!
Silkeara
Date Added: 11-22-01

My name was given by my grandmother. We are of the scottish clan mcfarland of the celtic traditions. I am an hereditary witch on both sides of my family.

My fathers side is of the Teutonic tradition. My family originates in switzerland directly descended from the Baoron Von Wolfensperg who had a dark side and moved his family to germany. My mothers mother came from scotland, so we are of the first generations in the U.S.. I was raised with the craft and it is all I remember.
Brenna Moon
Date Added: 11-22-01

Well, it took me a while before i actually found a name that suited me best. I first had the name Lilly, because i liked those flowers, but i soon came to realize, that wasnt the name for me. Then i had Luna (which is spanish for "moon" ) because i love to look up at the moon. and that name too, wasnt the one. then i didnt have a name for a while. Recently, I went by MoonlightMyths, and as u can guess, that wasnt the one either. Well, i was looking through my skywatching book at all the beautiful pictures of the stars and whatnot(i LOVE the stars and planets and all that stuff) when i came across a pictures of the northern lights. i rememberd how much i have alsways wanted to see them. well since i love the stars, i came up with 2 possible names: NightSky, and NorthStar. well i couldnt decide. so i did a spell. i wrote NightSky on 2 small pieces of paper, and NorthStar on 2. i placed the paper in small box. i lit some candles.i said"guide me to the name that is right for me", then i closed my eyes, and picked a piece of paper from the box. It said NorthStar. Which suits me perfect. to the north are the northern lights, and i love the stars.

So, there is my long story about how i got my name.

Blessed Be
~*NorthStar*~
Date Added: 11-22-01

Though I have not dedicated myself yet and am still studying the ways of the craft as that I may know as much as possible at the time of my dedication, I have chosen my craft name.

My whole life my beleifs as a christian did not fit me. THey were not my beleifs, they were given to me and told to be the Right Beleifs. I never truely beleived in Christianity, but for most of my life I have known Wiccan people and I always wanted to learn more about it. I sought out the truth that I had previously be afraid of looking for as my parents are agianst Pagan religions. I still seek thr truth. The truth being where my beleifs are right, where I will not be cast out for refealing what I truely beleive. The Craft is what I have beleived. I finally found my truth. My craft name represents my life leading up to finding the Craft- Seekatru (Seek the Truth).
Sekatru
Date Added: 11-16-01

I was at a renaissance fair when I was about 10 years old and they had rune talismans. It just so happened that the first one I picked up was Raidho. I read about how it was a travelers rune, we had moved around a lot when i was a child and it struck home with me.

Years later when I was just taking my first baby steps into wicca I found out about magical names ad how all witches need one and the only thing that kept popping into my mind was that talisman from the fair years ago. So my name eventually became a slight deviation of the original -Raide-

I also took on a last name. It was given to me by the first Wiccan I met. She gave me the name Arkin and that is what i have used ever since.

Blessed Be!
Raide Arkin
Date Added: 11-16-01

I have been practicing for 12 years now and my craft name has evolved some.I took the name raven because it was my spirit animal and also fit with my personality but their are so many ravens that i thought it should be a little more personal.And although i practice alone some of my friends helped me to take on Amberaven because of ambers properties it seemed to fit well.With the balancing properties and wisdom that amber brings to my name it is a great fit!
Amberaven
Date Added: 11-16-01

Hi,

I contemplated a craft name very intently for about two years. I looked in books, researched on the 'net, and doodled names on paper, but nothing ever looked or felt "right".

I spent many years of my childhood living with my grandmother, whom I loved beyond belief. I grew up thinking it was the norm for people to have little diamond shaped mirrors on their doors, and candles on altars in their bedrooms. She supported us by "reading cards". We sang songs to good spirits and hollered at bad ones. She also taught me how to "talk to the Moon". The Moon was (and is) very sacred, and all answers to any questions could be found by simply asking her. All in all it was an unusual childhood, looking back, but I loved it.

My grandmother recently died, and while going through her things, it struck me that I'd had my craft name all along. I just never realized it.

My given name is Kim, but my grandmother insisted on calling me Kimberly. She said it was the name I was always meant to have. Being a Leo, I was very prissy and showy as a little girl. She encouraged this, and we often played games of dress-up. It was a lot of fun. She always called me "Kimberly Queen", and when she would read cards for me after I grew up, she always referred to the Queen of Spades (it represented me in the reading) as the Kimberly Queen.

I was given my craft name long ago by the woman who also gave me an early love of all things spiritual, but it took her death for me to realize it.

So, I am now Kimberly Queen, the name given to me by my beloved Molly.
Kimberly Queen
Date Added: 11-16-01

Well, my craft name is SilverFire, and I came about it after reading Silver RavenWolfs book, To Ride a Silver Broomstick. Well, I just thought of it. Then I went through this stage where I wanted to be Silver ShadowHawk. Oh well, I have gotten over that. so yeah. Also, if you permit me to put this in, this is to BANSHEE from the Craft (wb asks) part of this site. Let me get one thing straight. I am NOT Wiccan. Never have. Although I have leant many Wiccan practices, I am still Witch, Not Wiccan. And thats just that. Many people reading that post may have been Christian, Witch, even Pagan! If you were really Pagan you would have known to have some RESPECT to those Wiccans that read it. I dont put laws to my magick, I just keep the natural law of karma in mind. Nothing else. I dont abide the Wiccan Rede. Also, there are many Wiccans/Pagans/Witches out there who have moral issues and choose NOT to cast loves spells. Harming or not harming. Either way, you have to think about what you write before you spit. Your post insulted me more than the Craft movie! Just please, Get over yourself! Jeez! Now, back to the Craft name. I didnt get it from anything, like clues or anything. I just made it up. I think I did it off Silver RavenWolfs name...:)
SilverFire
Date Added: 11-16-01

I found my Craft name by a series of coincidence.

I had been looking and feeling around for a name for over nine months. Then, my good friends mother passed away on my birthday. This woman had been a part of many things in my life. Firstly, through my childhood she was my friends mother, she attended my bridal shower, and my wedding, she attended my baby showers and knitted blankets for my three babies. So, she was an important influence in my life.. Her maiden name was Rose. I gave her my first needlework at age 9, it was a rose, and she kept it hanging in her home for many, many years. She passed away on my birthday, and was buried on Yule. From her graveside I was handed a rose from her casket spray. When we were at the reception after the funeral, a mutual friend handed me an unexpected gift. It was a purse with the trademark name of Raisa on it. I went to the library a few days later and found out that Raisa is a Russian name for Rose.

I had found my name. Or rather it had found me.

I had gone through numeral searching, and characterizations, and God and Goddess names and found nothing that really stirred me. But this name touched me, and still fits well nearly a year later.

Love and Laughter,
Raisa
Date Added: 11-16-01

Salutations! I took the first part of my two-part (groan) craft name from "The Ulster Cycle" of Irish mythology. "Maga" was the name of Cuchulain's grandmother, and she was the wise-woman of her clan. She was an illegitimate daughter of the Dagda, born to a mortal woman. In her old age, she taught warriors the healing arts, after they were trained in the arts of war by the warrioress, Scatha. Good plan! This venerable grandmother represents, to me, the power of the Crone--not as she-who-reaps, but as she-who-comforts. If any of you readers have one of those really special grannies, then you know what I mean.

I bear the name to honor ALL grandmothers, and the stories and lives which are written upon their faces and hands-think of your grandmother's hands as you read this. So many of these now-frail women have endured things that would probably kill the youths of today. If you are lucky enough to have living grandmothers, I beg you to KNOW them, learn their stories, before it's too late! They have much wisdom to impart, if the progeny to whom they dedicated their lives will be patient enough to listen.

The second part of my chosen name requires no explanation--at least, I HOPE NOT!!!!

Love and Light to you all!
Maga Lorekeeper
Date Added: 11-16-01

Bright Blessings To All!

My Craft name is Nightsky Child of Brid. I really only use Nightsky.

The way I found it is I have a special room in my home (my son's bedroom before he moved out!) that is my, or if my Circle Sisters are at my house our, Temple. I knew when I was thinking about what color I wanted to paint the walls that I wanted them to be indigo blue and I wanted to stencil silver moons and stars on them. I kept saying that I wanted them to look like the nightsky!

And it does indeed look truly beautiful and magickal!

Those colors are also the colors of the music of my FAVORITE THING IN THE WORLD-RIVERDANCE!!!!

One night I was in the tub taking a bath when I suddenly got a flash. Magick=Riverdance=Nightsky.

The second part of my name refers to my Lady, Brid, who is the Irish Triple Goddess, more popularly known as Bridgid. I spell Her Sacred Name that way to differentiate Her from the Catholic saint completely.

"FOR SHE HAS TEN THOUSAND NAMES!"

Nightsky
Date Added: 11-16-01

To start out with, I have always had a bit of esp. Been able to know when something is wrong, or able to find something of someone else's, just get a feeling about something. For awhile when I was a teen, I could even tell who was on the phone and who it was for. So, how I found my craft name? My first name, Willow, is from a witch off of the show Buffy, the vampire slayer, and I have always loved weeping willow trees. And the rest of my craft name, Aqua-Rose; I was looking threw a wiccan almanac and it just came to me. Then, when i looked the words up in a wiccan book, they just fit. Plus, with the word Aqua, I am a pisces, and my birthstome is aquamarine. It just seemed to fit and I think it is very pretty. I know most names do not have a hyphen, but I put it there to make it more unique (like me).
Willow Aqua-Rose
Date Added: 11-16-01

I was given my name Whitestar by an old woman, who owned a psychic bookshop. She said it was my spirit family name (white) and I am the star. As a natural witch (born aware and practiced from when I could remember, healing with my hands, intuitiveness etc etc and as I grew, formulated ritual)....
Whitestar
Date Added: 11-16-01

Hail to all who honor The Craft,

In response to the question of how I "found" my craft name, put forth by the wonderful people running the Witch's Brew, I think it's fair to say my name sort of found me.

I know that others may have the opinion that a Craft name is something to be contemplated and meditated on long before it is adopted. I thought about what type of Craft name would suit me best for about a month off and on. I didn't really do any deep meditation about the subject but it was always there. In the back of my mind. I kept thinking that my Craft name had to match my outlook on this life, my path, my personality, my nature.

I had been thinking of Wildflower for my magickal name for about a week when in the mail one day, I received a card from my mom. An "Old Fashioned" card made of paper and written with ink in longhand! It was no special occasion. It was about a month after I told my mom I was studying The Craft. She had just been thinking of me and contained within her words of love and well wishes was this phrase......
...."You remind me of a Wildflower growing in the open land".

My craft name to me, is confidence, a fragile beauty, free of spirit and will, determination, and a symbol of the cycle of life for all of Earth's treasured gifts.

Lest I become too long winded, I shall make this final point: Your Craft name should be a name that feels right to you and empowers you. It should feel natural and comfortable. Should a friend hail you on the street by your magickal name, you should instantly know, it's you being called to, like a second skin.

Merry days and merry nights, Blessings to all who dance in the Moonlight :)
May the Force Be With You,
WildFlower
Date Added: 1-22-01

I researched on the web and in a friends personal library for a mystical, religious, or magickal name that i liked and had some kind of relation to who i was. it took me about a week of research to find something. i took the persian name of Zurvan, the god of infinte time. i felt it was right from the moment i found it in a book of gods and goddesses. the reason i find it fitting seems a little twisted to some folks but heres why i picked it.

i value items from our past and often times will pick something up just to keep it from going to waste or being destroyed. many times these items find there way to someone that apreciates them and thus extending its useful life by finding a new owner. though this is in no way "infinite", it does give these items a new lease on life, it keeps them out of landfills and oftentimes fullfills the new owners needs. its an active form of recycle/reuse. put something back in use instead of trashing it and getting a new one. its my way of actively recycling. this knack for finding neat old stuff has not gone without incident! its not the first time that a previous, now deceased owner of something i have picked up somewhere decides to "follow" me home. they sometimes make their presence known but nothing bad has ever come from any of it.
Zurvan (robert cruz)
miami fl
Date Added: 1-22-01