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Welp, I've done it -- gone and changed my journaling name for the first time in 17 years
"CapriUni" was (is) a portmanteau of "Capricorn" and "Unicorn" that I chose for my online "face" throughout the Internet over 20 years ago (And it had been my LiveJournal user name for 17 years)
I was inspired to pick that name because of an essay I'd read describing the symbol of Capricorn/fish-tailed goat as the mid-point in the evolution of the soul, with the Unicorn as the ultimate superior form (because the duality of the two horns become united in one perfection).
Only, over the past couple of decades, my beliefs have changed, and I no longer see unified harmony as superior to polyphony and complexity. And besides, the very idea that the fish form represents something base, and inferior, that must be evolved out of, now has too much of an uncomfortable taint of Lovecraft's racism.
So I've now changed it to "Capri0mni" (note well: spelled with a zero, because Dreamwidth code doesn't have room for capital letters), which is a portmanteau of Capricorn and Omnicorn (All the horns), instead.
I am still fond of the Capricorn goat, and the myth of how he came to be a constellation. And I still love unicorns. I just no longer see them as connected on a scale of spiritual evolution.
(Also note: I've decided not to release "CapriUni" for anyone else to use, because I'm not changing it anywhere else I'm using it, and it had been my identity for so long, the idea of anyone else taking it kind of creeps me out. So if you search for CapriUni, it will all lead back to me, just like it always has)
I was inspired to pick that name because of an essay I'd read describing the symbol of Capricorn/fish-tailed goat as the mid-point in the evolution of the soul, with the Unicorn as the ultimate superior form (because the duality of the two horns become united in one perfection).
Only, over the past couple of decades, my beliefs have changed, and I no longer see unified harmony as superior to polyphony and complexity. And besides, the very idea that the fish form represents something base, and inferior, that must be evolved out of, now has too much of an uncomfortable taint of Lovecraft's racism.
So I've now changed it to "Capri0mni" (note well: spelled with a zero, because Dreamwidth code doesn't have room for capital letters), which is a portmanteau of Capricorn and Omnicorn (All the horns), instead.
I am still fond of the Capricorn goat, and the myth of how he came to be a constellation. And I still love unicorns. I just no longer see them as connected on a scale of spiritual evolution.
(Also note: I've decided not to release "CapriUni" for anyone else to use, because I'm not changing it anywhere else I'm using it, and it had been my identity for so long, the idea of anyone else taking it kind of creeps me out. So if you search for CapriUni, it will all lead back to me, just like it always has)