The obligatory "What does your screen name mean?" poll.

[The Suckling]

Mine is quite simple. A suckling is nursing baby. This is a symbol of my Cancer sign, 69, which to me represents a desire to mother and be mothered, a steady flow of thoughts and feelings. This describes my ideal human relationships. Also, it has the bonus feature of pissing off homophobes, one of my favorite passtimes. ;)

[UnSolon]

well lets see now. Well I've used UnSolon for awhile now, so it does not really have much meaning other than sentimental.

However, Solon was a real person. Solon was a famous Athenian Senator. The story goes, as told by Herodotus, the FIRST historian, that Solon agreed to pass a series of laws imposed by the people of Athens, and in return he would be ruler for TEN years. After installing these laws, which he did not create, but the people there did, he LEFT Athens, for a span of ten years as it ended up to be... so that he would not have to repeal any of these laws when, I assume, the people of Athens realized they were bad.

So the UN part of UnSolon is my personal statement to not give up on commitments... mind you almost no-one would be able to figure that out besides myself, and thats how I like it.

Peace

[bansidhe]

ive used bansidhe ever since...whenever!
umm, cos im from ireland, thats why its spelt the gaelic way, and cos im really noisy and my screams are famous! :p its juss always been a nickname and its something ill remember i guess. i usually do neways! :)

[Raindancer]

Its what I do, one way I connect one to one with God and Goddess.
Raindancer

[Old Witch]

Old....I am....Witch....I am. Simple, to the point.;)

[Myst]

Myst is one of my magickal names - it symbolizes who I was - ever growing, ever moving, mysterious, etc. People always ask me if it came from the computer game - actually I've played Riven and love Exile but I've never played the first game, Myst. :)

[Saeryn]

Mine is a spelling variation of the old Welsh "seren" which means "star".

It fits me since I have always loved astronomy and I have been a stargazer for as long as I could remember. I enjoy looking at the night sky through my telescope every chance I get.

I can't wait for the meteor shower this weekend! :boing: :D


BB,
~Saeryn

[talamh]

Talamh anEiac is Gaelic for Newfoundland and the word can be traced back as far as a book 400 years ago which talked of Basques witches riding on broomsticks to Talamh an Eiac. Celtic peoples have come here to fish the cod for longer then that. Gaelic was the mother tongue on the south coast of my island until a hundred years ago. It's all part of what makes this place so very special. bb talamh

[MammaStar]

Lady Starlight--is taken from my most favorite Scorpians song. Nothing mysterious about that.

[Andromeda]

In Greek mythology Andromeda was an Ethiopian princess. daughter of King Cepheus, and Cassiopeia. Poseidon sent a sea monster to prey upon the country. Andromeda in sacrifice was chained to a rock by the sea, Perseus saved her, and slayed the sea monster. They were later married.

Andromeda is also a constellation.

But it really has no special meaning to me. Its just the name I chose.

[Chibi-Fallon]

Mine was really luck of the draw. ^^; I've grown more attached to it now, but I got it because I love Jimmy Fallon (from SNL) and some email I was signing up for Fallon was taken so I thought Chibi sounded better then Neo (and I'm short ^^) so it just kinda stuck.

[Radocs]

Radocs is the word "dracos" with the letters mixed around. ^_^

[Amethyst Rose]

Amethyst Rose is my magickal name. It represents everything that I want to be, (amethyst symbolizes things like being sharp, clear-minded, regal, cool-headed, sober, resistant to social pressure, attractive, honest, a warrior, trustworthy friend and poor enemy, and strong psychic abilities) and everything that I am (rose represents romance, passion, strength, endurance, loyalty, purity, friendship....it is soft, and beautiful, but if you're not careful it will hurt you....it protects itself.)

[mysticvik]

Mystic was my old college name because i have been known to have premonitions and i sometimes pick up on things before they happen and vik because my name is Vikki

[flar7]

In the land a Yahoo there came a novice. New to the land he was forced to choose a name to be known by. So as not to give his true name, he gave the name of a hero from the sacred text "Dragonriders of Pern".
He submitted his name to the grand vizier of Yahoo, and lo, and behold there was already a flar! Perplexed, he asked the vizier, "Is there a flar2?" to which the vizier answered, "Yes."
"Just how many flars are there?" asked the petitioner novice.
"6" answered the vizier. "Then I will be the 7th!" cried the novice.

and they lived happily ever after.

-flar7

[mato]

:rotfl:

Mine is simple, its the iriquis word for bear, which I have always been drawn to. Its also the shortened version of my chosen name.

[oskila]

oskila is a trunkated version of óskila munír, which is icelandic for lost goods department. Don't ask why I got it :)

[xjsjaglvr]

Though I've been told mine looks like a typographical error it breaks down this way;
xjs=a model of Jaguar featuring a V12 engine
jag=Jaguar, obviously the manufacturer of the car
lvr=is lover, as in I love mine
I am an English car fan and have had many over the years, the XJS was the one I always wanted to own. Several years ago my wife gave me one.

[Avena]

Avena is the Latin word for oat. Frantically looking for a screen name I finally opened a Latin book, and here we are!

[AradiaSupernova]

Aradia Supernova is my magick name, though for this I left out the middle name. hehe :) Aradia just kinda stuck to me while I was studying the origins of the gods and goddesses. She's the queen of the witches and I was told to call on her when we need protection. I'm considered the mediator and major protector of my sisters and anyone I care about, so that stuck. Supernova was a brain storm my sister came up with when we were trying to figure out a family magick last name. So there ya have it :)

[keelyoherne]

I took on Keely O'Herne earlier this year as my use-name.

Keely is Irish for grace and beauty. I've loved the name ever since I read book six of the 'Chronicles of the Cheysuli' series by Jennifer Roberson. I believe the title of the book is "Daughter of the Lion" or something like that.

O'Herne is a different spelling of the common O'Hearn or O'Hearne Irish name that I've seen, but that is not why I use it. My patron deity is Cernunnos, aka Herne.

So we have the Grace of Herne. :D He likes it, anyway. :lol:

Keely

[UlricDagon]

Ulric = wolf or master of wolves

Dagon = the earth

I have always had an understanding of our K-9 friends and I am a child of the earth!

Bright Blessing

[StormChaser]

Flar: Dragon Riders GOOD BOOK!!!


As for Storm Chaser... perhaps one of these days i'll settle on ONE magickal name. But I doubt it.

Storm Chaser is just my personality. I seem to go where the wind goes, follow the rains. Disaster Relief in a way, but also a seeker of adventure, and mayhem.

But I can also be a storm, my temper is.. well.. one of a kind as far as i know. Think of all the ways in which storms come and go.. and there you have me when angered. But like all storms.. eventually it does dissapate. I simply cannot hold a grudge to save my life.

Storm Eldon is also one of my favorite book charachters... shes got quite a bit of the Irish temper in her too... hehe


~Storm Chaser

[lucidfire]

lucidfire is this word I sort of came up with after my journey last year. Something my spirit guide told me, it's hard for me to explain past that. It's related to the heart though, in a way. I wrote a poem about it once, a short little one:


I am the attainment of will;
I am the lucid fire, power of youth
Riding the dawn's shadow mirrored sidhe
Lucid as the concious dream, cradled in myth
telling the muse's tale in our familiar song
Wherever you go, wherever you hide,
I am connected to your source

[bluebear]

Thats interesting. Mato is also the Lakota (Sioux) word for bear.

[Flaire-FireStar]

Hmm.. This one'll be fun to explain! :P

In the rpg chat group I'm in we use 'guardians' of the elements and since there was no fire *coughcough ^-* I took up the challenge using the handle Flaire (as in Solar Flare...although it doesn't look as nice like that).. And anywayz, that's why my signature (if I still have it on there) is Guardian Flaire-FireStar. ^_^;; It's just too annoying to do the whole nick everytime so I use "Flaire" for almost everything now. :)

[SingerK]

Ermm...mine's really simple, compared to most. I'm a Singer, and my name, Katie, starts with K. SingerK

[Lunamoth]

Okay, well, this is the way my name had a sort of backwards evolution. Back years ago, I read a book by Piers Anthony, in which there was a character called Luna (can't remember the title anymore, it was one of the Incarnations Series) and Luna's sister Orb called her "Moth", while Luna called Orb, "Eyeball." Anyway, so, I was using a BBS (the kind you had to dial in to and there was only ONE node <--Lunamoth shows her age) and used the handle of Luna. My friend on the BBS called me "Moth" teasingly because of that book. So, I eventually changed my screen name to "Lunamoth" and it stuck.

Now, years later, this year in fact, I ended up with cancer and the location happened to be in the roof of my mouth (please note that I have never smoked and don't even drink much, so that's not what caused it). So I had to have surgery to remove the tumor and later went through 8 weeks of radiation to kill the microscopic cells. During these times I was unable to eat much. Indeed, during raditation I lost a lot of weight because I was getting less than half of daily recommended calories and most of that was from drinking Ensure.

What has this to do with anything? Well, I found out that lunamoths, a member of the silk moth family, once they have actually become moths, don't have mouths and thus do not eat. thus, the backward evolution of meaning for my name. Wow, I rambled a bit there didn't I.....

Blessings,
Lunamoth

[TheWordWitch]

Word Witch:
1) one who practices the craft of Word-Magic.
2) a Witch who haunts libraries and bookstores, beckoning Searchers to the best books, guiding us to the right pages, to needed knowledge.
-Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language, Mary Daly & Jane Caputi

[Niamh]

I LOVE it, WordWitch! Being a Librarian and all...

I took my name from Irish mythology... she was a princess with golden hair... there are lots of great stories about her!

[Psyche Ague]

My favorite goddess is Psyche. I've also taken that name for my "magick name." Ague. Well, it means something close to "trembling or shaking" and since Psyche also means "soul," I thought "trembling soul" would be slightly rad. And it is. And the legend lives on...

(sorry! I'm in a really strange mood tonight...)

[Illuminatus]

Hah... well here it is appropriate to repeat a phrase I've heard from women's mouths more than once: "If you don't know, I'm not going to tell you!"

[Danustouch]

Mines' pretty simple. My Matron Goddess is Danu, and she's touched my life, in many ways. So..Danus' touch.

[Starlight]

My mom always says that love is what makes the stars shine bright. She also says that I am full of love ! Soooooooooo! Starlight it is! (that may sound concieted but she thought of it not me) :lol:

[AmberLion]

I have used the name AmberLion for so long it feels more naural to me than the Christian name my parents gave me.

The first part of my name "Amber" is for the Nordic goddess Freyja and her amber necklace Brisingamen. (My ancestry is Norse - Germanic) and the "Lion" is for my power animal, the African Lion.

:)

[Sequoia]

ooh a name-telling thread!! hehe

Puma Hime.

Ok first off "hime" is NOT any rude, derogatory term, nor is it english. It's Japanese, for "princess" or "lady of noble birth."

Puma is, quite simply, a cougar or mountain lion. But I prefer "Puma." I've had a connection to them for a very long time, and I've always called mountain lions "pumas". . . though I have no CLUE who told me that. It's almost as though my spirit guide told me what to call her, and I called all cougars "puma" hehe ^_^ yes, I know it's a commonly used thing. But I never heard it except for when I said it hehe.

so Puma from my SG, and because I love those creatures, and I've been told I act like one at times. . . and Hime because dangit! I'm a lady of noble birth, no matter what ANY of yas say! ^_~ hehe

(btw, Hime's roughly pronounced "hee may" or "hee meh.")

[Illuminatus]

Originally posted by AmberLion
I have used the name AmberLion for so long it feels more naural to me than the Christian name my parents gave me.

The first part of my name "Amber" is for the Nordic goddess Freyja and her amber necklace Brisingamen. (My ancestry is Norse - Germanic) and the "Lion" is for my power animal, the African Lion.

:)

Welcome and Merry Meet. Nice site too, and it's good to see another Ordained Minister of the ULC kicking around.

- Ill

[SpikesPet5150]

Wow.. mine is going to be the lamest one ever...

Ok, we all know I have an obsession with Buffy, moreover, Spike. :) So, Spike came along... then he's english, so he says stuff like luv, and pet and kitten alot... so.. SpikesPet came along... And I love Van Halen... and I love their album 5150, not to mention their guitar amp, Peavey 5150... so SpikesPet5150 came along. The End.
~Bree

[Niamh]

You're not at all lame! :)

[crickett]

im not honestly sure why i picked it? but i like it, it s has stuck for three years, and my friends sometimes call me that now to in rl....i guess its just me..a little plain bug that makes pretty music...but only when you really dont want it too? lol

[Mnemosyne]

I really like the arts. Although my favorite branch of the arts is history, I feel a connection with all fields. In Greek mythology, the muses are the goddesses for the arts. Since I love all fields, I decided to choose Mnemosyne, the goddess' mother, for my screen name. Also, Mnemosyne is the goddess of memory in Greek mythology, and I think that being touched with a good memory is a special thing to have. Finally, I follow the Greek pantheon, so it was natural for me to choose a Greek name. For those reasons, I chose Mnemosyne as my screen name.

[Dancin Girl]

Hmmmmm why did I choose this name and why.... Ahhhh there are a few reasons, First of all someone else very special gave me the nick name, it felt right, it has a great deal of special meaning and memories for me and it does have something to with my finding my way on this path of life this time around and remembering some past paths.

[fey]

Hmmmm, there's not a great story behind my name. It came to me years ago, and I've used it ever since. :)

[Kaylara]

Originally posted by flar7
In the land a Yahoo there came a novice. New to the land he was forced to choose a name to be known by. So as not to give his true name, he gave the name of a hero from the sacred text "Dragonriders of Pern".
He submitted his name to the grand vizier of Yahoo, and lo, and behold there was already a flar! Perplexed, he asked the vizier, "Is there a flar2?" to which the vizier answered, "Yes."
"Just how many flars are there?" asked the petitioner novice.
"6" answered the vizier. "Then I will be the 7th!" cried the novice.

and they lived happily ever after.

-flar7

F'lar? I didn't know that you took your name from Dragonriders... (I can be such a doof)

That's kind of where I took mine, except that I interjected a few more vowels into the name of K'ylar. I can't remember who the character was, but the name has stuck with me since I was much younger.

Kaylara

[shnen]

This might just help some of you SPELL it correctly ;)

One night quite a few years ago (in highschool), I was with a friend in the front of my house laying in the yard staring at the stars and the moon in the sky...
We were just chatting, and one of us (probably me) jumbled one of the words... so with that came the idea to talk without vowels.
Well, not totally, but here's an example of what was said...

lok t th strs in the skii Kri. oh an urplin!
-look at the stars in the sky Kari. Oh an airplane!-

My name is Shannon... so it became Shn-n...
well, no one could get it, or say it, so we changed it to shnen!!!

It's been with me ever since that night on the lawn staring at the sky!
:D

[GreenDawn]

I wish I could say something deep and meaningful, but to be honest, it is a combo of my name and my eye color. It started on Bnet and I meant to change it, but it just kinda stuck with me;)

[WandererInGray]

*ponders* Hmmm...where did this name come from?

:) My first one was much easier. For close to 4 years I've been Honor. That was taken from the David Weber, "Honor Harrington" series.

Circumstances in my life and elsewhere led to a brief change to Kali's Honor when I was "adopted" by the Hindu goddess Kali-Ma.

My current name is a result of a need to be safe (wrapped in a dark gray cloak) and the call of my gypsy blood to wander again.
She's also a character I've been exploring.

[Sequoia]

HONOR HARRINGTON RULES!!!! she is so dang cool!!! *.* I love her!

^^; although I've only read the first book, "On Basilisk Station." but it was good! I gotta find the others. . .

[MagickHLHgurl]

ahhh it goes back to my grammar school days- i think the magick explain itself...but HLHGurl was my screenname backbefroe i losst aol the first time and i ouldnt use it once i got aol back so i creaed MagickHLHGurl...now the HLH= Happy little Hyper cause well in grammar school I was happy short and always hyper!

[CoolJ]

weeeelllll

once upon a time, in the magickal land of the internet, I came along a site host named ... theglobe... i think...

and I wanted to make a site, wouldn't you know, I HAD TO cOME UP WITH A NAMe


so at first i called myself Chewbacca18... and then I realized i did not enjoy being a smelly furry...wookie, and i did not like being the 18th!!!

so i thought long and hard for 34 seconds, and thought, "hey I AM COOL!... NANANANANANA"...so, i wanted to put Cool, in my name... my name Jason, believe it or not, starts with a "J"... thusly, i came up with "CoolJGAMES" , my little site, (which has gone through many transitions and locations and is now,... deactivated temporarily) and CoolJ was born!!!!

this name is several years old :)

[SmackGoddess13]

Wish my name was something deep and meaningful too but I just threw together two words! Smack for GODSMACK-which is my fav band and Goddess because, well why not! Aren't all women goddesses!! Oh and 13 is my lucky #..so there ya go SMACKGODDESS13 :loveduv:

[Desert_Shadow]

Mine is quite simple also. I live in the desert(which I LOVE very much), and everyone says I move like a shadow, in spite of the fact that I am 5'9" tall. I tend to scare the dickens out of them when I walk up because they do not hear me walk down the halls.

[Starry Di]

Mine is kinda simple as well :$ I like the night alot as well as the sun, but Sun Moon Star Di wouldn't fit (hehe :$), so I just shortened that to Starry, and that is how I got the first part. And the second part comes from my name, Heidi...if you take off the "Hei" you are left with the Di :$ I recently made the discovery, and since I've never really have had a nick name (Besides Heidi-Ho, which I hate :mad:, or Heida, which is still similar to Heidi), I sorta nicknamed myself *shrugs*

[Topazz]

Topaz is my birthstone, but there was already a Topaz registered here (although s/he hasn't ever posted) so I added another Z. I don't own any Topaz, but Citrine is also my birthstone and I have one that I wear a lot, it is a good grounding stone for me. I just thought Topazz made a better-sounding name than Citrine. :lol:

I got curious to see what the properties and history of Topaz are and here is what I found ~ Topaz received its name from Topazios, an island in the Red Sea. Topazios is the Greek word for to guess. The island was almost always covered in fog and hard to find. :T (I am often in a fog myself !)

And this ~ Yellow topaz is another gemstone that is used for protective purposes, specifically against envy, jealousy, intrigue, disease, death, negativity and lunacy. :T :T This is even funnier than the first one because my screen name on Beliefnet was (TA DA) Lunacie. :lol:

[NightSkye]

the night part of my name comes from me being a night person i always stay up all night and sleep in the day time and the skye part i just thought was pretty

[Zaniah]

Zaniah is my magickal name... a year or two after I started practising I was looking through a book of birthdates with a friend (don't recall what the name of it was now). Zaniah is supposedly the name of the star that ruled on the day of my birth. Which fit, because it's hebraic and I've always held a fascination with Hebrew culture and belief (to the point of incorporating it with my practices). Even as a Christian I was far more interested by the Old Testament than the New.
It's also uncommon. I've met only one other Zaniah online, ever. It's held by a male in his 40s. It's pronounced zan-eye-ah.
BB!

[Garnet]

Garnet is my favorite gemstone, though not my birthstone. I have some nice garnet jewelry, including some antique pieces. It's part of my magickal name, too.

[Justin Wyatt]

ummmm...I just used my real name because im not good at making up names so i decided not embarrass myself by making up a bad one.

[DragonDawn]

Well its my magick name. Been with me since I started. I don't even really remember how i got it except that I like dragons and i prefer sunrise to sunset. *shrugs*

[Alphyna]

Umm...When I was about 16 or so my friend played RPG's and he invited me to play. So I made a couple of characters, and I only played one of them, the one time I played. Then I decided to make another character, but only got as far as the name:
Alphyna Epyn, she was to be a vampire queen. Never played again, but the name was so cool, so for the last 6 years I have been known as Alphyna everywhere I go on the net. So far no one has had the same name. Very original...:thumbsup:
Blesings To All, Sarah

[Flar's Freyja]

It's just my goddess' name. :cutie:

Mistress of Magick!

[Rada]

Well,i like the topic.
I have an old Slavic name.In all(I think ) Slavic languages it means ''GLAD''.
And there was a Goddess called Rada - daughter of Ra - the Sun God and Goddess of Water - Dana.

[Fear-farsain]

Its gaelic for rambler so I'm led to believe, which sums me up completely at this moment in time. I'm just rambling. As for the gaelic twist, I have celtic blood and like the language, though I'm yet to summon up the patience to do more than dabble, unfortunately. :( I am getting there though! :)

[faeriedust]

faeriedust is my magickal name. i love faeries and when i visualize a faerie i visualize her spreading faeriedust around. may be weird but me.;)

[Twig]

1967 was a year of radical change for me. I was but 9 years n this earth and my mom was with a man who was not my father. He had died 2 years back.

Without warning I was brought to Oregon from South Carolina. Once again I was "the new kid" in school. I was overweight due to GOOD southern cooking so the kids picked up on that very quickly.

Now every kid gets a nickname in grade school, we all know that. The super-model Twiggy had just come into vogue. Kids being kids, I became "Twiggy" the fat kid with the weird accent.

The rest is history.

Peace

[Topazz]

When do kids start doing that? My four year old granddaughter doesn't care if people are young or old, male or female, black or white, whether they speak English, Spanish or Chinese, whether they are disabled or disinterested. They are all an audience and she introduces herself to everyone. :D

Is it when they start school? Do they learn it from the other kids or from their parents? *sighs* What a shame that they learn it at all.

[golddust]

mine is from the fleetwood mac song golddustwoman which was covered by an early version of courtney love's band hole
i usually call myself golddustBOY, but i kinda didnt feel like a boy when i signed up, and i doidnt like golddustman so its just golddust

[MetalliKat05]

Check the poll thread "Where did you get your screen name from?" for my answer... I don't feel like typing it again. :p

[Kalika]

Kalika= Daughter of Kali.

It is part, but not all of, my magickal name.

[Mòrag Elasaid Ní Dhòmhnaill]

Saoirse Aiyana is something I put together from two languages whose culture have had quite an impact on my life and who I am. Saoirse is Gaelic for freedom while Aiyana is a Native American word meaning forever flowerin/eternal bloom. I rather liked the conotation of a name that when read together means 'freedom forever flowering.' It expresses my outlook on life and the choices we can make.

~Saoirse Aiyana

[awyrdone]

awyrdone? Because i'm strange even among the strange. Because I have a a special place in my heart for the Norns. Because things in my life have seemed so fated. I like the numerological dimensions of the name too.

[mothwench]

i'm mothwench everywhere on the net, and once i did a google search on myself, and found out there is actually another mothwench! on filipino friend finder. ( :huh: ) but there can only be one! *strikes the highlander poise*
i chose moth because i love the fluttery little beasties, once when i was little i asked my dad: where did moths used to fly to at night before lightbulbs were invented? and he said: the moon. wicked! at least i thought so at the time, not realising the vast majority of them probably flew into candle flames burning themselves to smithereens.
now to the wench: did you ever see the movie the never-ending story? remember wee little couple? where the wee little man says to the wee little woman: to the winch, wench! and he sits in this basket and she cranks this wheel and then he travels up to the lookout spot where he and the boy can see the sphinx. well, my bf thought it was hilarious, and says "to the winch, wench" to me whenever he possibly can. :rolleyes:

well, that's me, sorry about the babble, but starting a thread like this is just asking for it! ;) :smoke:

[Casanite]

i don't know....I heard the word Casanova....some dude who was gallantly attentive to women. So i took the nova off and put night on, and then just shortened it to nite. My own word i guess....

[Rowina]

it's kinda funny... I was in an art class and the assignment was,'Ifyou were an animal, which one would you be? I didn't kjow, so I asked the instrauctor for jrlpl She gave me a guided visualization abd during this a Wolf appeared anbd approached hwel She stayed and let me pet her, When I finally said that it ws ok for her to leave us in peace and good will, she did leavel
I was so inspiried and intrigued so I did some reading about wolves. I feel a strong bond toward them. It's why I picked the name Rowina.; it means Wolf.

[Cresentarm]

Oh, this is easy. I have, on my left arm, which is my powerful arm the shape of a cresent moon. It's on the upper part of my fore arm, and when it faces me it is a waning moon. However anyone approaching me will see a waxing moon, hence my screen name, Cresentarm. :floating: