Pagan Blog Project - Fawn

My Wiccan name is Fawn.  For months I tried to come up with a cool name.  Raven is a popular Wiccan name and I love crows anyway, what with their being guides through the underworld and all.  But it didn’t quite fit.  I tried variations, such as Bran (Welsh for crow).  Still not right. I moved on to the relatives: magpie, rook, blue jay – you get the idea.  No click.  Then one day during meditation, a name just came to me…Fawn.  I wasn’t happy.  I was going for wings and coolness and I get a timid, helpless little creature?  But there was no denying it fit my nature.  So I tried it out - fawns are cute, they’re gentle, sweet, playful and even kind of mysterious if you count that elusive factor.  OK, Fawn it was.  I found a tiny raffia fawn at Pier 1 and it lives on my altar.

And of course, it can also mean Faun – that mischievous half-human, half-goat creature featured in myth and Shakespeare.  Being a Capricorn, I have an affinity for Pan and Puck.  It seems to have been a pretty inspired name after all!

So don’t despair if you’re having trouble naming yourself.  Give the gods and goddesses some time, listen and they’ll whisper it to you!