Choosing A Magical Name Options

so theres many rituals that I've come across where you must utter your magical name/motto/handle to the entities that you invoke as part of it

trouble is, I never decided on one

what goes into picking a magical name? what do you need to consider when coming up with a motto or handle for yourself? and does it really need to be in latin or greek?

help pls

And also remember . . . you don't HAVE to have a magical name to do those rituals. You can perform them using your given name, and they will / can be successful.
Part of what a magical name does is to set apart a magickal mind or persona, so that you can operate your magickal work in a more purely magickal environment. So that:
Joe Friday - husband on the slight outs for not getting his wife a gift with that anniversery card
or
Mr. Friday - engineer at the pulp plant (that he knows is still secretly dumping mercury into the the water)
or
Joey - who spend some evenings at the pub (and is sure two of his "pub" friends are alcoholics)
or even
daddy - who just this evening had to give his six year old daughter a spank (in public) for saying a cuss word. (where do they learn that shit . . . probably this bitches across the street)

Its easy to carry some aspects of those into your magickal work. Its easy to have that effect your magickal mind . . and magickal environment.

A magickal name can do alot of things . . . one is to seperate your magickal "self" from you mundane "selves". In that sense, its like a magickal robe or anything else that helps you achieve and maintain a purer magickal mind.

Plus, its cool to call yourself The Incarnate God of Light and Darkness (I hear roman horns) in Greek . . . or is that just me (be honest)

But you are who you are, magickal name or not . . . and it is up to you (not some special name) to define and operate in your normal or magickal moments.
Any name (that you decide is you at that moment) will work . . . even the boring one your parents gave you.
It will work!

This post has been edited by palindroem: Nov 15 2006, 06:10 AM