Matthew derives from the Hebrew Mattityahu, translating to "gift of God." Like its relative Theodore, it frames the bearer as something received rather than self-made, and the name has stayed closely tied across centuries to a sense of unearned, welcomed presence rather than achievement.
The forms of the complex world obey the astral forms and that's why theurgists determined them according to the stars, in relation to whatever they wanted to influx. - Ptolomeus