About Your Secret Name

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I will define what a secret name is.

A secret name is a name you should keep secret from other people. It could heal you, but your secret name could give someone full control over you if you share it with them. Keep it a secret.


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Added to on Sep 06, 2014
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Jan 06, 2019
How do you know your secret name?

Jan 06, 2019
You make it. It will not heal you by its use alone nor will someone have complete control over you if they know it.

Feb 16, 2019
Can anyone tell me what's a secret name

Jun 16, 2019
A secret name is a special name that is not your original name. If someone knows your secret name, they can use it against you. Good day.

Jan 10, 2020
I meant to say ... I call upon myself In secret this name...The Purple Magicaian.

Jul 28, 2019
How does on decide on their secret name? Are there any guidelines or anything?

Aug 19, 2019
Honestly no, i chose mine on a rare name and it kind of called out to me. You can google it, you can look back in your family, you could take a look at some gods/goddess to help you decide

Mar 13, 2024
I was talking to my late past life mother and brother And was given my name from my past life, it was a name id never heard in this life, was a very special time, with them

Aug 28, 2020
good point and I think you are right

Oct 26, 2020
May I ask what one does with a secret name?

Nov 19, 2020
My secret name is Darkfire because my CB handle was the Firebird

Nov 20, 2020
It's meant to hold power over you and should be used when working with deities [which is different from your witches name] If another spellcaster was to learn of your name, it's believed they can gain power over you and do great harm.

Mar 14, 2024
This little block of text, while on its own, is accurate. However there is much to add in order for it to have context.

Your 'secret' name usually is also referred to as either your Soul-name or your 'true' name. There are a few ideas behind them, which run in parallel to how people Carry many names in their life; The name given to you by your parents, The family name of where you come from, your nickname which is often a play on your given name, or inspired by your personality or as you are seen by your peers. For people of a spiritual bent, they often have a chosen name, a name used to be symbolic of their ideal self or the path they see themselves following. More recently, with the overwhelming presence of the internet, I would include a person's online name as well-arguably it is used as a personal monitor within an otherwise anonymous medium. People choose their name as the core of their identity, and they often are representative of an individual's nature and personality.

All these names represent you and your overall nature, but only a fragment at a time. Each name represents you, how you present yourself, within the context that it dwells but not from any other angle. Online I am Spiritrunner. And here, it represents me. My attitudes and goals, what I practice and do. People read that name and associate it with the summ of their experience with me. But if I were to be called that at work, or by my mother, or among my friends, it would not fit nearly so well. It isn't associated with me as a professional. 'Spiritrunner' isn't what a friend would yell as they grab me from a shadowy doorway to make me jump and scream in a *ahem* manly falsetto.

However someone's true, or secret, name is all of these things. It is a name that would represent the entirety of you. In all of your contexts, attitudes, presentations, roles, and actions. It is a name for the 'you' that is everything about you. A true/complete representation of who you are in mind, body, and soul. Including across your many potential identities across many potential lives/incarnations if you ascribe to such ideas (as I do).

As such it is a name that is not just some word or title. It is a sound, an image, an idea, a collection of energies and emotions and associations brought together into a representation of the whole of your identity. Which means, in essence, it is neither chosen, nor given. It is just you, and everything about you now, as you were, and as you wish to be.

Heavy philosophy about the nature identity aside, what this means practically is that your true identity is both always safe, and always present to be seen. You can't give or take your name away because you would have no way of reproducing it by word or sound alone. There is no word that can be applied to you that would represent the whole of you.

Yet as I said, your true name is always present. Always there to be seen. Well... experienced is perhaps a better term. Because it is you. As you are. Right now. In this moment.


Mar 14, 2024
As for how this applies to magic and caution, is that magic is guided by intent, sympathy/relativity between things, and drawing together connections. A magic worker who understands this will work a spell and direct it at you through using your name. But we have many names (as I mentioned). And some names might be common among many different people. Such as a family name (carried by an entire lineage) or a given/first name. There can be dozens of people named 'frank' in a single city if it is large enough. But maybe only a couple 'Frank's within a living family tree, under the same family name. The 'target' is much more in focus.

When people talked about the need to guard their names, it usually meant less about one 'true' name and more about guarding against the wrong people learning more of your personal names than necessary. Especially if other associations can be applied like titles, families, and jobs. There is ''I want to punch that guy Frank'' and then there is ''I want to punch Frank, The son of Jane and John, who is known online as 'x' and on this forum as 'y' who works at Walmart in Kentucky.''

One is a vague reference, the other is a road map with GPS routing through Google maps.

Interestingly, this is why it is important to refer to and call on God's in a similarly specific way. Especially ones from some cultures where they have had multiple roles and even personalities in their cultural history. If a God has different titles and epitaphs, it is wise to learn about them and what they represent. That way you can appeal to not just a specific deity but also in a specific role/form


Mar 28, 2024
Wait I don't understand how it could heal or hurt you? Is it like an alter ego type deal or what?

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