What’s in a name?
For most of my life I felt deeply embedded in the Earth - of the Earth.
I understand this is in so many ways now that I couldn’t find a way to communicate earlier in my life - it was such a deeply felt sense. Then, nearly 7 years ago, that started to shift as I was connected to a more expansive, multi-dimensional, cosmic perspective. Goodness looking back I am so grateful that I started that journey so deeply rooted. Of course I was ready for it as it brought an extra layer of inner understanding to my experiences.
Then name optimisation crossed my path. Our birth name creates a frequency that vibrates out into the Universe aligning us with our soul path - our Soul Contract in the lineage of Nicolas David Ngan
Name changes, like through marriage, are also part of our soul contract, bringing in a new frequency to align with and integrate.
As I’d been divorced for a few years I was looking to change my name and thought this would be a great way of doing it.
I’ve had a strong connection with Redwood trees, even though they are not native here - they seem to find me wherever I am - so Sequoia was an obvious choice for me. I then played with changing my first name - this is quite a process as it means a review of your life and pulling out the unfolding threads that are still travelling with you. Among various names that kept popping up was Morrighan …
‘there’s no way I’m going to use the name Morrighan’ I said outloud, as I carried a pack of goddess cards across the room - one card flew out … I knew before I turned it over who it would be - Morrighan.
So Morrighan Sequoia it was then. It was a good match to my birth name though we couldn’t quite get the spelling aligned … so I started playing with other names and the whole process started looking more like a massive soul retrieval and integration of past-life soul aspects.
I felt it was a Cosmic Joke and so put name optimisation to one side and started to use the name spirit had given me in a ceremony - Aurora White Crow.
Oh the wisdom of Divine Timing! Tania Aurora White Crow didn’t match well with my birth name - but it did bring in the expansive high frequency, cut through karma, supported my understanding of my, and our, cosmic heritage, while keeping me hidden behind a veil.
I’ve shared in my newsletter, and to some extent on this blog, my journey this year of this realignment and refinement of my work, it’s been a gradual, and at times, frustrating process as I surrender my human tendencies, to just get it done now, to the trust, ever more deeply, that my spirit knows exactly the steps to take and when.
When we become blindfolded like this our heart becomes our constant and we start to live more easily and simply moment to moment.
During these years I have felt less embedded in the Earth and, though still firmly anchored, that I am walking on the Earth in more harmony with the Cosmos.
Recently I had a session with Senaa Magdalene … and after our usual catch up she mentioned that she’d only just noticed that Tania Aurora White Crow was disempowering me. So in the spirit of expecting the unexpected I shared my experience of name optimism and Morrighan Sequoia and within what felt like minutes she tried the spelling Morrighon and it fitted!!! We quickly worked through the alignment with my business name and email - and everything just fell into place. What a gift - and just how gifted is Senaa to have aligned with this just before we headed into the Samhain portal! You can take a look at her work here, and she was also a guest on my podcast here
On Sunday 1st November ( 2026) I was holding an all night Fire Ceremony and Vigil - to accompany the closing of the portal - as the first year of The Way of the Willow draws to a close.
We had come full circle from retrieving our memories from the bones of the Divine Crone connecting deeply with our Maiden, Mother and Crone aspects and how they weave through us in every moment.
Acknowledging and alchemising the shadows to make more room for the dream of our true selves to emerge and be recreated in the world. It has been a transformative year. One where my personal journey has seen me revise and refine my own medicine and how to bring this into greater alignment with myself.
Sitting with the fire deepened my understanding of this journey into the capacity to carry the name Morrighon Sequoia, a completion of not only this years journey, but one of more than six and a half years.
And that is the Gift.
With much Love,
from my Heart to yours
Morrighon Sequoia.
