Mustardseed -> RE: names (3/7/2007 6:28:04 AM)
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I once decided to choose a craft name for myself by making my own version of Lady Pixie Moondrip's Pagan Name Generator. Not being a programmer, my method involved a bit of data mining, a list of words printed from a word processing program, scissors and a paper bag. Basically, I looked through a lot of my mystical woo-woo books for words based around my birthdate: Western, Vedic, Chinese, Aztec and other astrologies, tarot, old wive's tales and the like produce an alarming number of plant, animal, diety, jewel, color, day, season, constellation, body part and other words. Lucky numbers, animal affinities, favorite colors and other things that had meaning to me also went into the print out. As I was cutting up words, I started putting aside ones that caught my eye while others went into the paper bag to be shaken up and drawn from. Eventually, I had a nice enough pile of words set aside that I decided to pay attention to them instead. I actually moved pieces of paper together and fiddled with them until I came up with a name that made me happy. It's kinda anal-retentive and weird, but it could be a way to piece together a name for yourself out of words that have a chance of meaning something to you. If you do this, don't be afraid to use other languages -- variations on your current scene name, legal name or on the words you select could become part of your new name.
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