Parents of the Astro/Spirituality forum: was anything spiritual or paranormal involved in the...

[BlueIris]

...naming of your child or children? Did the idea for the name come from a vision, message or other psychic/intuitive experience? Did you name your kid(s) after a spiritual hero or role model? Was astrology, Tarot or another divination art a part of your name-selection process?

Mostly, I'm just curious. Gimme a break, the Sun is in Cancer.

[MorningGlow]

1. Interesting question, BI

I have one son, and we didn't have any paranormal experiences regarding his name. In fact, we had a hell of a time picking one (didn't use any divination to determine it). We brought him home from the hospital without a name, and the "baby naming official" kept calling us, demanding that we make a decision. Eventually we chose one we had been bandying about for months. It's a name from Arthurian/Celtic legend, a tradition I feel very strongly about (past life experiences etc.).

The one cool spiritual thing that did happen was we brought him home around 4:00 in the afternoon, and I settled in with him in our bed to feed him a couple of hours later. Mr. MG came rushing upstairs, saying, "Do you hear that?" A pair of snowy owls were in the pines outside the bedroom window, hooting a welcome. It wasn't their mating season, so they shouldn't have been together, and it was kind of too early in the day for owls to be out. It was ambassadors of the Goddess and the God welcoming him to this life.

[BlueIris]

2. That's a great story. But..."baby naming official"? What?

Pardon the cluelessness from a non-parent, but...do hospitals really have "baby naming officials"? Do they work for the hospital or the state or what?

[MorningGlow]

9. Hee--I can't remember what her job was

It was the "registrar" type individual at the hospital who filled out our paperwork for the birth certificate and gave him a Social Security number (which I was shocked to learn all babies now get right away--I thought that wasn't done till they were older, for either a passport, or even later, for a job). She couldn't finish the paperwork and close our file till we picked a name. It was driving her crazy--I think we held out for nearly 10 days or something!

[Cleita]

17. Yeah, there is some kind of a cabal out there in the maternity wards of

hospitals. A friend of mine who had her baby at Kaiser Permanente was told she couldn't go home with the baby until she and her husband gave it a name. I thought it was rather weird. I mean how could they force you to stay, but I guess they were pretty firm about this.

[BlueIris]

19. Jesus Christ. Kinda makes me regret that I'm not

really a candidate for home birth (don't ask).

[DemExpat]

3. I chose a boy's and a girl's name

at the beginning of each pregnancy purely on a name which I liked, an intuitive impulse, as it were. Names I had heard in the recent past and which then, before I conceived, stood out for me.......

Of course I discussed this with preferences of the father. :evilgrin:

I really felt strongly that I loved these names and that they would very well fit the child.

Later on I looked up their name in numerology and such, but at the time I went purely on intuition and good feeling about the names.

DemEx

[Dora]

4. We were convinced we were having a girlbaby.

We didn't want the doctors to tell us the gender because we wanted to be surprised. I insisted I was having a girl, and Scott and I kept talking about girl's names.

When our child was born, we got the surprise we wanted all along because he was a perfect and alert boybaby. We had no names selected, we'd discussed using our grandfathers' name as a middle, but didn't have anything solid. I was reading one of the Dark Tower novels during labor and after, and I'm pretty sure I pulled the name Jacob from there, because one of the characters is a boy called Jake. Little did I know that Jacob had been the most popular boys name running for the previous three years.

Jacob Donald is his name. He's a treasure.

[BlueIris]

11. Awwww. (Good name.) But..."The Dark Tower" during labor?

I like the "Tower" books, but damn. Not exactly where I'd want my head to be at any point during the birthing process. Unless it was a relative deprivation thing ("well, at least I'm not Roland...").

[Dora]

15. I knew it would be my last novel for however long.

I had been cramming books throughout my pregnancy in anticipation of the reading drought to follow. I think the book was the 5th in the series, and it was fantastic reading. I don't recall reading during labor (I eventually took the epidural and then I took a nap) but I did read it immediately following delivery while they were cleaning him up and I was eating my bean burrito.

I think King is a genius, and I'm looking forward to being able to get back to reading the series - someday.

[BlueIris]

22. You're a wise woman, Dora. nt

[Celebration]

5. not here

We just used the normal methods that parents use when they choose names. But I wasn't as into energetic things back then.

Today, I think I might actually consult a numerologist.

[Shallah Kali]

6. No kids only cats but here is a book on prebirth communications

Soul Trek: Meeting Our Children on the Way to Birth (Paperback)
by Elisabeth Hallett (Author)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0964609703

& http://www.light-hearts.com/soultrek.htm

[BlueIris]

12. HEY. That is a great find, thanks! nt

[davsand]

7. Nope, no special insights involved.

I do want to say, however, that I do think we "knew" we were having a girl (in spite of asking the docs NOT to tell us) because we had a terrible time picking a girl's name. The boy name was like, "yeah, ok works for me" and the girl name was a debate spanning several months. At one point we threatened to name her "Dread Pirate" and my dingy SIL got all freaked out about it.

:rofl:


A boy would have been named Owen Davis Sand____ Owen is my DH's middle name and was his mother's maiden name. Davis was my maiden name.

Material Girl got a name of her very own (which I do not put out in public) and her middle name is Elena (light) which was in honor of Eleanor of Aquitaine--a woman we both admire. Eleanor of Aquitaine was married to both Louis VII of France AND to Henry II of England (Louis annulled her.) She was the mother of both King Richard and King John of England.




Laura

[ricochetastroman]

8. No

I just liked the name Taylor for my son.

[BlueIris]

13. Taylor is a beautiful name. nt

[LWolf]

10. No.

My first son's name came from his dad's 2nd choice; I vetoed the first choice in horror. I then added my deceased half-brother's name for a middle name.

My 2nd son's name was settled after a long argument. He was "supposed" to be a girl, lol, and we had not discussed boys' names at all. I vetoed several suggestions, and took the first suggestion I thought was good. We added another relative's first name in there for a middle name, and there you have it.

I've often thought about what I would have named them if I'd made the choice on my own, since I ended up raising them on my own. Their names would have been different. Role models would have played a part.

Still, we've been mostly happy with the names, except that my oldest son shortened his, officially, to the "nick name" when he went into high school. He was sick of people mispronouncing it to sound like a common girl's name.

His high school diploma, his driver's license, and his bank account all bear the shortened version.

[Celebration]

14. Boy or Girl?

Probably the easiest and most reliable thing to muscle test or use a pendulum for is

1. Pregnant?

2. What sex?

I remember as a teen I learned that a pendulum worked for this but it wasn't useful then, plus I didn't really know how to use a pendulum then.

Anyway, this sure worked for my daughter. She got pregnant immediately when she stopped birth control, and she wasn't really believing this happened so fast. It came back "boy" before there was any medical confirmation of pregnancy, even. The answers were very clear.

My daughter is slightly OCD, so she made me keep muscle testing her. Once out of about the thirty times she made me do this it came back "girl". What???? WHAT??? The reason came back that he wanted us to be surprised. HAHA.

I would at least use a pendulum now for yes/no for names, but there was no stopping my daughter on the name. It was picked out and that was it.

[BlueIris]

16. My pendulum keeps turning up "girl."

Two girls, actually, one (allegedly) to be born in 2012, the other in 2014.

I've tried using it to sluice out the first child's first name, (or at least the first letter) but have gotten wildly varrying responses.

[Celebration]

23. oh, cool

Daughters are really fun!! You can figure out the names later. :)

[stellanoir]

18. According to Native tribes

babies whisper their names to mums sometime before birth.

I knew my kid was male but the name I had in my head was taken by another local baby about 5 months before his birth. Then I loudly heard his name. It was derived from a musician who died around the time he was conceived, my then deceased maternal great grandfather, and an Egyptian Sun God.

I gave him his paternal, then deceased, grandfather's name as a middle name.

Some cultures don't think it's appropriate to name someone after the living.

Dunno if that's true but it felt right for me and him.

He screamed his full name at me.

I sung it to him repeatedly in response.

His paternal grandmother abbreiviated it in his second day of life.

It stuck

He has a nickname that really suits him.

Now he's on a first name basis with the world.

Creatrix bless him.

[BlueIris]

20. You've told me about the "being whispered before birth" idea before.

It's interesting that an Egyptian Sun god was mixed in...

When or if it's really time for me to think up a name, I hope I'm able to "get" something clear about a name the child will like.

[stellanoir]

21. You'll just know it at some point.

Not to worry.

It always comes through.

I thought I might change his name upon his birth. but I couldn't. Given the power of him screaming at me.

too funny.