Your Witches Name

**You’re Witch Name**

Assuming
you have embarked on your career as a practitioner of the Black Arts, you will
have to take a new, magical name to supplement your old, mundane one. Some
unkind critics have called this the nom du Diable. It is nothing of the sort;
at least, not in the sense they mean it. It is, in fact, an important part of
your newly burgeoning witch personality, and henceforth you will be known
chiefly by it to your fellow practitioners.

Many
witches or warlocks choose to take a name which is intimately connected with
magic and the supernatural, the favorites being the names of other, legendary
practitioners of the Black Arts.

For
instance, if you are male, you may choose the name of a legendary sorcerer such
as Zyto, Balaam, Elymas, or Cyprian; or, alternatively, maybe Merlin, Althotas,
Vergilius, or Vandermast.

A
witch might well choose Morgana, Armida, Vivienne, or Melusina; Brisen, Nimue,
Hellawes, or Fredegonda, Nocticula, Bensozia, Sidonia, or even Urganda!

Or
you might choose a name of more classical inspiration like Apollonius, Medea,
or Circe; or ancient Egyptian like Nectanebo or Arnuphis, or maybe something
really complicated like Diancecht, Osmandine, or Ansuperomin!

The
choice is yours. You must find one that appeals to you, that calls forth your
feeling for the unseen world, gives you a thrill, and frankly makes you feel
considerably powerful and no less sinister! Should you not wish to use a name
from legend, you may try toying with those of the gods and demigods of
mythology. Greek, Roman, Norse, Celtic— whichever you wish. A very good lead in
these matters can be provided by finding out your astrological birth sign and
planet and looking up the legends that surround them. For instance, if you are
an artist or craftsman born under the sign of Taurus, you may well decide on
the name of Daedalus, being that of the wizard-craftsman of King Minos, leader
of the Cretan Bull Cult, thus linking with Taurus the Bull. Or, alternatively,
if you are a female witch born under Taurus, ruled by Venus, you may decide
that the name "Ariadne," daughter of King Minos and Theseus' bride,
would be suitable, especially as she is indeed a form of Aradia, one of the
chief spirit powers of the witch world.

A
third method which can yield results is the numerological one. Add up all the
digits which compose the name you are best known by, using this scheme to
allocate the letters to numbers:

1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9

A B C
D E F G H I

J K L
M N O P Q R

S T U
V W X Y Z

Keep
adding the resultant numbers together till they form a single digit, thus:

J O H
N

S M I
T H

1 + 6
+ 8 + 5 1 + 4 + 9 + 2 + 8

= 20
= 24 = 44

= 4 +
4

= 8

Now
neurologically speaking the digits have the following traditional planetary
attribution:

The Sun 2. The Moon 3. Mars 4. Mercury 5. Jupiter 6. Venus 7. Saturn 8. Uranus
9. Neptune

In
John Smith's case, his name planet will be Uranus. His next step would be to
consult a book of classical myth and legend, on the subject matter surrounding
Uranus. There will be ample material to select a name from, especially if the
book is one of comparative mythology, showing the interrelations of legends
among different cultures.

Should
none of these methods yield results or appeal to you, then you should just go
ahead and evolve a name that "feels right," cooking it up for
yourself out of the blue, using your intuition to guide you. This in fact is
ultimately the only criterion; the preceding methods are merely indicators and
helps.

So,
mull over a selection of names in your mind. Ponder them in reverie if you can
and let your deep mind send up some hints if possible. This really is the best
way, as in the final analysis the deep mind is what we are really concerned
with here. The witch name is basically designed to be an indication of the true
nature of you as you really are deep down! There exists a coven of witches in
England today whose female members only use witch names of a floral derivation,
Rosemary, Japonica, Aubretia, Flora, and so on!

Some
witches like to take worthy mottoes in Latin like Sapiens dominabitur astris or
Omnia vincam, maybe a bit ecclesiastical in tone, but quite legitimate, though
to my mind again less effective than the considerably more evocative names of
legend.

Just
choose one that satisfies you. It may take a bit of time; but it is worth
considering well since once you inscribe it on your magical instruments, you
are stuck with it.

Having
settled on your witch name, you must keep it very, very secret, as it will
eventually become one of the keys to your deep mind. You will be using it
whenever you wish to "switch on" to perform a

Spell;
this will be partly accomplished by pronouncing the name silently to yourself
whenever you begin your use of the pyramid powers.

You
should only divulge it to others who are close witch friends, preferably when
you are closely bound together with them in the form of a group, or coven.

And
as already mentioned, you will also write it on all your magical witch tools,
using special witch runes to do so. Which brings me to my next topic.