I have long thought about changing my name, but never before has it felt so right, so applicable to my current life and situation... and more so, my very vibration!

My legal name has been the one I have used for the past 34 years, the one on my Birth Certificate, (my corporation) chosen by my mother and father, the one on my Drivers License, my Passport, etc. and will remain this name on such documents...for now. My "Free Human" name and "Artist Alias" shall now be  "Shylo Love".

A little history on my legal name of Melanie Maureen... My mother chose my middle name based on her middle name... my father chose my first name based on his favourite singer at the time "Melanie Sutka". My mother tells me she would have named me Shylo, so my new name was my mother's first choice.

My given name holds a vibration and meaning, but I no longer resonate with it. I feel it is perhaps a good representation of an older version of me. One that I vibrated to growing up, that I now seem to be at odds with energetically. It actually feels quite opposite to who I am today and what I stand for as a person.

Melanie means Dark
Maureen means Dark
Metzger means Butcher

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Metzger is my married name and I've always liked the name.  There are a lot of beautiful Metzger beings out there, including my son, so I really have no issue with it as a last name.  But as I am now seperated, soon to be divorced, I have been wondering what to do with my last name.  I really liked how all my initials were MMM, so much so that my son is now an MMM!  However, as all things are in a constant state of flux, growth and change... there comes a time to move on.

My maiden name Sales is derived from France and is of royal lineage. I love my maiden last name...however, it also feels like a person of the past at this time of my life.  It is possible that I will legally go back to my maiden name of Sales at some point in the future.  Shylo Sales has a nice ring to it!

All of that said, I have recently begun using the "free human" last name of Love, which feels heavenly...for very obvious reasons, I resonate with this surname and honour it with all my heart and with my path.

The name Shylo (generally spelled Shiloh or Shyloh) means Calm and Peaceful. People have told me that I have calming and peaceful energy, so this name resonates with my personality as well as my energy. Also, the fact that the only reason I did not end up with this name was because my father won a bet to name me Melanie makes it even more desirable! All things being perfect, I honour my given name Melanie Maureen for the time in my life it resonated, but since I am the creator of my life, my destiny and my future, I also honour my personal power to change my name!

I like to consider myself a "Light Bringer" or "Light Worker" which simply means, I have made it my life's purpose to serve others, to spread awareness and information, where "Awareness" is "Light". My website: www.Book-of-Light.com is all about "Illuminating Awareness, Unifying Comm-Unity and Creating a New Paradigm on Earth". It is not about "Darkness", which in my world simply means a Lack of Information or a Lack of Light. My name no longer resonates with Darkness...therefore, I no longer wish to be named "Dark Dark Butcher"!

As a side note, "Mel" means "Honey"... so if you met me and know me as "Mel" I really don't mind if you call me that.  On that note, I am not all that attached to my "name" or label of my individuality anyway.  Regardless of what I call myself or what you call me, I am "Me"...and you.  "In Lak'ech", a Mayan greeting means, "I am another you", and that says it all!

Even so, I hope my dear friends and family will honour my new name of Shylo Love, which resonates with the person you know or are getting to know today, this moment and moving forward. I am so very grateful for the Love and Joy that my life and my friends bring me and felt the need to explain my choice of a name change, to you, my bless'ed loved ones!  I will be transitioning over to my new name, and the evolving new being I am moment by moment...

I am You, You are Me, We are One...

I Love You!

Shylo <3 Love
In transition from Melanie M Metzger