While my parents gave me the name Robin, my legal name is now Sulara (pronounced Sue-LAIR-ah). A number of years ago, I sat down with my friend Naomi to have an intuitive reading. She immediately asked, “Have you ever thought of changing your name?”
I answered with an emphatic “No!” She told me that while the name Robin was a “nice” name, it no longer fit my vibration. At the time, my husband and I were in the middle of 6 years and 13 hearings to challenge a neighbor and the county in our attempt to change an unconstitutional land use law involving the use of the spiritual retreat center we had been guided by Spirit to build.
While Naomi was speaking, I had a vision of and heard the name “Alara” (pronounced Ah-LAIR-ah). I told her I was hearing the name Alara and asked if that was my new name. She said, “No, but that’s part of it. You’re supposed to go home, look in a book of owls and to honor your owl medicine, find the name of an owl that resonates with you and combine it with Alara, which means “strong of heart.” The robin is a nice bird, but nobody messes with an owl.”
When I went home I looked up the names of different owls. While one of my main guides is the Great White Owl, I felt drawn to the name for the Northern Hawk Owl, Surnia Ulula. Writing down Surnia Ulula followed by Alara, I immediately knew and felt a resonance with my new spirit name Sulara.