It's my chosen name. We Pagans have a tendency to change our names at different stages of life; this is my third (nonPagan birth name, then the second, my first Pagan name was Wren, which I'm keeping as a middle name). Plus this one isn't gendered, as I've come to peace with being trans. It will be legal when I have hundreds of dollars that I can spend doing so (it's absurd the cost to legally change names).
Basically, Phoenix came to me in a meditation; wrens are sacred to Druids; Velitas is the ancient (ancient, like 2000 years old, not "old Irish," which is middle ages) Irish word for "bard."
Interesting I have a couple friends who have done that as well. When I met them, I was like, there is no way their names were there given names. They had them legally changed to Phoenix Frost (I was like fire and ice?) and Fenris Forseti (basically lead wolf) He kind of looks like a wolfman... lol.
You are quite welcome... BTW Is there any significance behind the username?
It's my chosen name. We Pagans have a tendency to change our names at different stages of life; this is my third (nonPagan birth name, then the second, my first Pagan name was Wren, which I'm keeping as a middle name). Plus this one isn't gendered, as I've come to peace with being trans. It will be legal when I have hundreds of dollars that I can spend doing so (it's absurd the cost to legally change names).
Basically, Phoenix came to me in a meditation; wrens are sacred to Druids; Velitas is the ancient (ancient, like 2000 years old, not "old Irish," which is middle ages) Irish word for "bard."
Interesting I have a couple friends who have done that as well. When I met them, I was like, there is no way their names were there given names. They had them legally changed to Phoenix Frost (I was like fire and ice?) and Fenris Forseti (basically lead wolf) He kind of looks like a wolfman... lol.