tattoo
south-west
tattoo
Direction: South-West
Element: Water and Air
Concepts: Chains
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technical info
dimensions: 2.5” x 2.5”
unknown placement
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light world
tattoo
Light World is part of the same idea as Dark World.
It displays the world tree of Shamanism, that spans from the Upperworld (branches) into the Midworld (trunk) and through to the Underworld (roots). Each world is displayed as an individual panel as part of the overall design. The format for the panel shapes is designed to show midworld as the axis point but also as a sphere, representitive of the shape of the earth, terra firma. The Upper and Lower worlds streach out wider to show that they are infinite in size (though Midworld is as well, depending on who you ask and your personal cosmology).
red dragon
tattoo
The Red / Fire and Blue / Water Dragons are intertwined and yet separate, making up two halves of an alchemical whole.
The Red / Fire dragon sits atop the Light World tattoo. By being here he sits in the Stars within the Upperworld of the World Tree – yet knows the Tree’s full depth and wisdom. Coiled around a star, who’s light shines down upon the Tree, he weaves among the cosmos. However, ever remember that (for me) stars are found both within Upperworld… and Underworld. He sits in the height of the Summer, the Light World Tree full with it’s leaves. He sits and guards it as it grows Willfully and Daringly upwards in the height of the Summer Sun.
dragon tribal
tattoo
Dragons and modern “Tribal” design, a beautiful combination. Dragons have been for me, for almost all my life, my spirit guide. To honor this aspect of my spirituality I felt that it needed it’s own tattoo. I made it “tribal” because I feel that dragons help weave my world and it is with them that I can understand the pattern for it is (to a degree) part of them. Alongside that I imposed duality to show that I personally very much believe in balancing any equation and know that everything balances out… in the end. Through the design I made sure the look was “flowing yet sharp” to impose a sense of beauty in the movement, but painfulness if you just decided not to follow the flow or be guided and trip up… this therefor is a metaphore for the experiances I have found working with my totem myself. As I was getting it tattooed the tattooist mentioned “so did you mean for there to be a face in this” ... and I looked in the mirror and I saw the partial face and simply smiled and said “no, but it was meant to be there” and she continued on. At the bottom you see two crescents rising up, not attached to the dragon weave at all, these are representatives of the waning moon, the moon I was born under, and the moon of my patroness Hecate. The eyes are white to represent the wisdom and enlightenment these majestic and ancient creatures hold… that if you can learn to respect their edges, navigate their curves, and listen to their weavings, that you might gain some knowledge and wisdom along the way.
