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User names.  

Why did you choose your TC user name? Is it significant to your path? a nickname? Something you use elsewhere? etc

mine was an old nickname from when i was in a different country and nobody knows it who will remember it so if by the off chance anyone i know is on here (unlikley) they wont know its me

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Inspired by a thread on the old forum
User names.  

Why did you choose your TC user name? Is it significant to your path? a nickname? Something you use elsewhere? etc.

Rhyshadow is a name I've been using off-and-on on the net since it first opened up - just kind of popped into my head

Then I did some Celtic numerology with it (Per Mike Nicols' treatise on the subject) and guess what - it works out to be my birthday :whis:

It's my public name - my working name is quite different

Inspired by a thread on the old forum
User names.  

Why did you choose your TC user name? Is it significant to your path? a nickname? Something you use elsewhere? etc.

 
Back when Thoth was my patron, I had just finished reading the Tir Alainn Trilogy by Anne Bishop. My favourite character from that series was called Morag; also the character I identified with most.

I liked the name a lot and wanted to use it as my pagan name, but felt like it would be hubris, or delusions of grandeur, so I resisted.

However, it never really left my head, until finally I heard this exasperated voice say "Just take the damn name already!"

So with the go-ahead of Thoth, I took it. Been using it ever since (that was 5/6 years ago).

My former pagan name was Grayheart, and for a while I continued to use that as a last name for Morag. However, I've recently switched to Morag Spinner, which fits better.

Inspired by a thread on the old forum
User names.  

Why did you choose your TC user name? Is it significant to your path? a nickname? Something you use elsewhere? etc.

Your turn...

 
My grandmother called me Annie Roonie after the old comic and maybe the song too. I forget now. I was the only one who received a nick name from her and it quite embarrassed me when I was young. I've misspelled it by accident.

I chose to use on TC because when I came here I was amid research into neopaganism and had discovered many connections between what my grandmother had taught/shown me and things I had learned about different pagan paths. Also, I realized a while back that it was a privilege for her to have singled me out. So I thought I finally honor it somewhere.

I have a persistent pseudonym elsewhere online and a few other names for other purposes, but this one is reserved for when I am feeling in the stream. I only use it here and for a flickr reserved for pics of wild plants and animals.

I'm half Korean, and when I really gained an awareness for what language was, I chose a chinese character-based meaning for my Korean name (if you know Korean names, they have a traditional chinese meaning that goes with it).  The translation of the meaning of my name, EunGyung, means "silverlight".  I've been using silverlight pretty much ever since.

Your turn...

My name is Irish for tempest, it seemed to fit

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No significance. Popped into my head when I signed up for another forum and I just used it again when I moved over here. :p

Inspired by a thread on the old forum
User names.  

Why did you choose your TC user name? Is it significant to your path? a nickname? Something you use elsewhere? etc.

I'll start..

Arcadia is a name given to me by one of my patrons. It has layered meaning. It seemed only natural for me to use it here.

If this name hadn't been available on TC I'm not entirely sure what I would have chosen..... I'm terrible at choosing names .

Your turn...

Vermillion is the name of a song by a favorite band of mine. I understand there's another pagan poster on the net who uses Vermillion. I'm not her, I use a different username everywhere I go.