Traeonna Wagener (), born Amanda Renee Wagener, is a co-author of Creating Magickal Entities: A Complete Guide to Entity Creation.
Traeonna is also a cosplayer, gamer, pansexual, polyamorous, switch, and soon-to-be podcaster.
Personal Life
Traeonna Wagener was born at Mercy Hospital in Toledo, Ohio, USA at 9:17 PM Eastern, to Sandra (Reinhard) Wagener and Brian Wagener. Traeonna has one younger brother, Aaron. In 1996, Traeonna married Christopher Miller, but later amicably separated and remained close friends. In 1999, she was handfasted to David Michael Cunningham, another occult author, and and a son, Daemien, with him.
When Traeonna was in elementary school she became interested in mythology, which later led her to books on the occult and the like. She was particularly interested in Sumerian mythology. In junior high school she met a girl who was also reading occult oriented books and they began exploring the occult together until that friend moved. In high school, she met others of like mind on the internet. It was not until attending university that she was able to find occult groups in the area, which seemed at that time to be cropping up everywhere. When she met David in her 20s, they worked together along with a friend, Taylor Ellwood, on writing their first book, Creating Magickal Entities: A Complete Guide to Entity Creation.
Origins of the name Traeonna
Traeonna is composed of two names. "Trae" is taken from Trahern, which is Gaelic for "one with strength of iron" or simply "strong as iron." "Onna" (changed from "anna") is taken from Inanna, which is a Sumerian goddess of passion -- both of love and of war; deity of light, life, love, death, and the evening star; Goddess of the positive and negative sides of all she ruled. From these two, the collective meaning is “she who has strength of iron and is most beautiful and powerful.” This name was created at age 10 and became her legal name years later.
Spiritual Beliefs
Traeonna practices a blended style of magick and spirituality developed from Celtic, Teutonic, Sumerian, and Native American teachings. Currently she identifies herself as a Suitheist.
Published Works Books
*2003 - Creating Magickal Entities: A Complete Guide to Entity Creation
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