Theodore joins the Greek theos, god, with doron, gift, translating directly to "gift of God." Unlike names built on martial or elemental roots, this one frames a person as something given rather than earned or won, and it has long carried a sense of being welcomed rather than merely arrived.
Consider what things the Planets perform not by their Aspects, and observe if they do them not by their Antisions, for the Antisions have power, and are not to be enumerated amongst Aspects. - William Lilly (1602.-1681.)