Monthly Archives: May 2014
Reverence for the Divine Feminine – Union Creates Impetus for the New
Goddess of Light – lightworkers.org
Everyday is a day to celebrate all of life and all aspects of creation and experience – the love, the reverence, the gratitude, the empowerment…Today is just a marker of timeless days to remember and honor the Divine Feminine and Mother Energy that is vital and part of of us all.
I have shared this information before, but will share it again, as we remind ourselves today of the importance to embrace and integrate the Divine Feminine.
There are many ways to be a mother and there are many meanings for what a mother is to each of us. Regardless of how that looks and comes to be for each, the one we feel to call “mother” in our lives is one who provides us creative life energy, teaching, nurturing, unconditional love, as well as tough love, encapsulated in a timeless beauty seen by the heart.
This Divine Mother Energy can cross all imaginary boundaries of cultures, religions, races, species, life forms and beyond.
The Divine Mother Energy is also what we know as the Divine Feminine Energy – that all-encompassing, unconditional love that is expressed towards others, ourselves, and to all of life. She understands “tough love” and unconditionally challenges her children, as she helps to foster their empowerment. All that the Divine Mother wants is for us to have love present in our hearts and to extend that reach within to our inner child, as well as to all children (our brothers and sisters of the Earth and Universe at large).
When love is present – the spiritual energy force that goes beyond the boundaries of relativity and materialism – we are connected to this Divine Energy.
And a perfect way to practice the Divine Feminine Energy is to reconnect to our hearts and let go of the past, release ourselves from old resentments, anger, and hurts. When we do so, we allow the light of this energy to move freely and deeply in our hearts and we are able to give more from this fullness. When we engage and think about others and all beings, this energy enables us to see to the heart of every living being as the brothers and sisters they are regardless of the form they embody – this is the true Divine Mother energy in all of her glory.
And from this heart center we are able to foster, cultivate, and nurture love through expressions of everything we do and we come to reawaken the intimate oneness connection that we were birthed into, and always were. We can connect to our hearts through the stillness of silence, relaxing, releasing, and receiving even in the midst of our very active life. This is the Divine Feminine in action and brings us to the conscious awareness of who we truly are – our unique selves as an expression of Divinity itself.
We then, ourselves, come to embody the Divine Mother Energy and recognize and honor it in all others, the Earth herself, and as the Universal source of creation and love that it is. And when we merge this Divine Feminine energy in integrative partnership with the Divine Male, we create the impetus for a New Earth experience.
“In each age there is a fundamental shift in the way the divine reveals itself. This shift has already taken place… What is being born within the soul of the world is a quality of consciousness that comes from a union of masculine and feminine. We need to reclaim the feminine so that it can unite with the masculine in a new way, through which a new consciousness can be born, a new way of relating to life, enabling us to have a fuller understanding of our true nature and purpose. Then the deeper meaning of the feminine can become visible, the hidden purpose of the masculine enacted.” ~Signs of God
The bottom line is that honoring mothers, be they flesh and blood, adopted, symbolic, embodied as the Earth Mother herself, or the Divine Feminine Energy consciousness within and without, it is a Universal theme that everyone can relate to and is vital to life and enlightenment.
Much love and gratitude to all “mothers,” especially Mother Earth who provides us abundantly in every way imaginable. And much respect and honor to the Divine Feminine within us all that nurtures the very sacredness of spiritual potential and life substance.
Happy Divine Mother’s Day
“The Goddess can be seen as the symbol, the normative image of immanence. She represents the divine embodied in nature, in human beings, in the flesh. The Goddess is not one image but many – a constellation of forms and associations – earth, air, fire, water, moon and star, sun, flower and seed, willow and apple, black, red, white, Maiden, Mother, and Crone. She includes the male in her aspects: He becomes child and Consort, stag and bull, grain and reaper, light and dark. Yet the femaleness of the Goddess is primary not to denigrate the male, but because it represents bringing life into the world, valuing the world. The Goddess, the Mother, as symbol of that value, tells us that the world itself is the content of the world, its true value, its heart, and its soul…..”~Starhawk, Dreaming the Dark
“This is why the wisdom of the feminine is so important, because the feminine understands the dynamics of relationship, how to listen and be receptive. Feminine consciousness is more attuned to the life of the body, and so knows the rhythms that belong to the cycles of life, rather than the systems imposed by will that are presently strangling our world. The feminine is more instinctively and naturally attuned to life, its patterns and powers. And feminine consciousness is less dominated by reason, more open to the mystery of the symbolic inner world. The feminine is vital in this work of awakening.” ~Alchemy of Light: Working with the Primal Energies of Life
“We need to reclaim the wisdom of the feminine but we cannot return to the time of the priestess. The masculine and feminine have to work together; our actions in the outer world must be guided by our receptivity to the inner. And there is no hierarchy to this work. Part of the blueprint of the future is the ability of each individual to participate directly with the work of the whole.” ~Spiritual Power
Vegan Tattoos – Things to Consider if You’d Like an Animal Friendly Tattoo
James Spooner and me at Monocle Tattoo in Los Angeles
This is a good short article that highlights the things to consider if you are vegan and wanting to get a tattoo. I didn’t become aware of this when I first became vegan, about 9 years ago, and I think likely a lot of people probably aren’t either.
But if you’re considering a tattoo, or adding to your current ones, and you feel strongly about making ethically and/or spiritually aligned choices about your lifestyle in all ways, then here are some inside facts on inks and aftercare products, as well as a list of some big-city establishments where you can find vegan tattoo artists. The list includes James Spooner whom I’ve referred local clients to here that are wanting vegan tattoos, as well as have had work done by him.
Yes, You’re Vegan, But Your Tattoo Probably Isn’t
And if you would like to partner in co-creating your own sacred visionary body art, you can contact me at tania@spiritualskin.com.
Wolf Trinity Sacred Tattoo Design
I always enjoy the process of creating sacred tattoo designs with people and this latest one was nothing short of sheer pleasure to channel.
The energy is really such a pure essence of gentle, but powerful strength that comes from the courage of heart within.
The focal energy was my client’s Wolf Guardian and Spirit Walker, but then, as always, other energies come into play after I feel into things and what has been spoken and unspoken within the sharing between us.
This brought on the energy of 3 or the Trinity to incorporate through the Triple Goddess energy of Maiden, Mother, Crone, as aspects of my client through her Wolf Guide. They also tie into the Moon phases, which she is also very linked to, as well as symbolize Earth, Underworld and Heavens. These represent parts she is bringing together and integrating, as well as bringing forth in her service role in the world.
These parts are being honored as unique aspects, but also as a synergy of the union together they create and are needed to create – so each Wolf has her own individual strength within their own respect of solitude, but woven together in the web of life, as well as the pack they run in.
The upper left is the Maiden aspect depicted as a younger white Wolf pup representing a Star Child, hence wearing American Indian markings on her face of a shooting star around her eye that merge into feathers almost like a love tear drop (Earth and Cosmos connected – Star Child come to Earth). She is a free-spirit, in tune with her self-expression, creative wonder, exuberant joy, innocence, enchantment, new ideas and enthusiasm, and represents new beginnings and fresh perspectives. Her creativity also shown by her star marking.
To the upper right is the Mother aspect depicted by the mature Wolf howling at the Moon. She is in tune with the cycles of life, has come into her own, connected with her authenticity she is voicing passionately through clarity of her voice and what she has to communicate, has a soulful connection from her core that she is moving through her in service. She is about abundance, growth, gaining of knowledge and fulfillment on all levels.
And at the bottom, anchoring the three is the Crone aspect depicted by the older white Wolf. She represents wisdom, centeredness, balance, harmony from within, inner peace, powerful presence, knowingness, complete faith and truth, stillness of heart, shadow/darkness embraced. Interwoven in her beautiful bushy flowing tail is the word “trust” integrated as her fur.
At top is a Crescent Moon with parting thin veils of clouds that turn into feathers. To the right, almost looking like a bird emerging, and below that almost like a figure of a person or angel that becomes the larger feather that ends at a spiral tip. The feathers for freedom and flow. The clouds are parting to reveal clarity from the illusions of the veil and embracing the shadow revealed.
At center, an ethereal/cosmic star (felt Faery as well) of enlightenment with hexagon symbolism of soulful integration and all that the number 6 symbolism stands for – truth, union, harmony, balance, equality, integration, perfection, lovers, conjoining, communication, dependability, reliability.
I then dusted some ethereal feathers throughout that are floating/gliding down from the heavens with little stars dusted throughout and American Indian organic shapes into a spiral.
It’s just one of those pieces that moves your heart. At least, I know it did for me and I so flowed in enjoying to bring this energy to life for a special soul. <3
If you would like to partner in co-creating your own sacred visionary piece of artwork or tattoo design to embody the empowerment you desire, you can contact me at tania@spiritualskin.com.
There is currently a waiting list. You can easily make your deposit at the link provided to embark on this journey in partnership with me.
For more information about the process and pricing please visit: What is a Tattoo Design Consultation
To enjoy a visual journey of some of the sacred tattoo designs I’ve had the honor and privilege of co-creating, please visit: Spiritual Skin for my YouTube video.
Some people have preferred to read my book, Spiritual Skin ~ Sacred Tattoos: More than Skin Deep, especially if they are new to sacred tattoo designs, before embarking on this journey.
If you are drawn to learn more about sacred tattoos you can order a copy of the book here: Spiritual Skin
It is also available in Kindle format here: Spiritual Skin
You can also order your personal copy here: Signed and Inscribed Copy of Spiritual Skin
Death Throes of the Old Paradigm
Spot on miss Laura 😉 Been noticing this too about the old energies coming out of the wood works all around, and it’s times like these that I’m so grateful to have come to know my personal processes so that I can be my own best friend and guidance in how to get rebalanced if thrown off temporarily. This happens from coming to know what naturally is me and isn’t, and what my patterns and triggers are.
It’s been a patient process of awareness in identifying, listening, and taking things in steps to lead myself gently back to center. It’s also about seeing things as welcomed gifts rather than surprise attacks, to show me how far I’ve come with things and how quickly and naturally it happens because of the consistent repatterning back to natural flow I’ve committed to.
It doesn’t mean we won’t ever have new things come up, but we WILL just KNOW that we can handle anything and we’ll naturally just do the alchemy of shifting things without even consciously knowing we are. That’s the beauty of it and what I love to experience more and more of.
You just become more of who you are and that is the continuous awareness – rather than a cause and effect it is a natural dance and flow that simply moves through instinctively.
Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride indeed, as Laura shares, yet very liberating and empowering.
Courage to Be You – Following the Flow, Rather than the Plan
That “aha” moment when you realize something you knew about yourself and dreamed to be a reality since a child IS now a reality, but came through in a different and even more potent way than you thought – invaluable.
Never ceasing to believe, come what may, but embracing the form and way (in every moment it shifts) that is aligned in the highest, and not what you demand or control it to be, ends up being and supplying the greatest of fulfillment for both you and beyond you, simultaneously.
What a journey this life’s experience is. And it is more meaningful when living what you came here to do and expressing the essence of who you are.
If you’re following the flow, rather than the plan, you’ll naturally be guided to your innate abundance and experience joy getting “lost” in the perfect direction you’ll find in each moment.
I honor and celebrate the choice to incarnate, knowing the bumpy AND beautiful ride it would be. 
The Artist Within
image: colors – arabia.msn.com
Being an artist of life and experiencing all that comes with that, I love this excerpt from Jon Rappoport’s latest article, which you can read in its entirety here: The Artist Within
“The artist within is not a creature of habit. He offloads what is already known and understood, because he wants to reach farther.
Yes, he may build on what he already knows, but this is just the starting point. Soon, he moves across the threshold of the knight errant, and he enters the non-system.
Others mock him and call him crazy, but: they too want to make the journey. They are aching to find the New, because boredom is driving them crazy. That is their central problem, no matter what they say and claim.
They are trying to be smug and self-satisfied. They are trying to be oh so normal. They are trying to be “rational” to the bitter end. They are trying to be something that is slowly strangling them.
But they will never admit it.
Most of all, they will avoid the impulse to create. Creating is their greatest fear. Because they sense they will have to get rid of their pose. They will have to go beyond systems, which compose their armor.
They will have to make a leap. They will have to put something new into the world and defend it against the people they know all too well: critics.
The artist who has already made the leap acknowledges that his core is imagination. He lives through and by it. He doesn’t retreat to the average. He doesn’t give up and strive to become a happy machine. He doesn’t allow the world to dictate to him. He doesn’t sedate himself.
He doesn’t fall back on so-called spiritual systems and their slogans and palliatives. He doesn’t build false gods and pretend they already exist. He doesn’t engage in the daily practice of asking someone or something to save him.
He doesn’t think of his life as an exercise in solving problems. He sees through many lies, but that is just the beginning of his work.
He wants new and startling realities, and he makes them. He doesn’t wait for them to appear.
He doesn’t wait for some ‘superior entity’ to tell him what to do.”
Renewal Is Constant Even If You Don’t Yet See It
Don’t despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret. ~Ben Okri
5/5 Kicks off Reiki Support & Portal Art Offerings – Tania’s Inspired Special of the Month
I’m a little behind on sharing “Tania’s Inspired Special of the Month” for May, but perhaps just also right on time 🙂
Time seems to be a theme of things lately, not just in terms of shifting our focuses on how we perceive it and relate to it, lessening up on our limiting and anxiety-producing ideas surrounding what it means and releasing our ideas on controlling it, but also in terms of actually shifting time and perhaps even (for some of you like me) jumping timelines and experiencing parallel realities.
I know that in the last couple of weeks I’ve had the experience of opening another portal here that created “slip-through” of an existing parallel reality that was quite interesting, but not less than unnerving for my little companion, Joy, who very much acts as guardian of this reality and our sacred space.
We worked to set boundaries and exercise grounding into our reality more so that there wasn’t confusion, but it is evident that alongside my creating my own new reality that exists simultaneously, yet outside of what others may experience, that some other factors of crystal shifting in my space and the latest sacred tattoo design activation that took place, clearly demonstrated how hopping through realities IS a reality and potential one can create, experience, and use when wanted or needed.
I happen to wear two black Jaguars on each of my ankles, and one that is woven with a Chakana, so I do “walk” this Earth in this energy and can tell you how powerful it is. I also have a Serpent, Condor, and Hummmingbird that I wear on my “Spiritual Skin“. 🙂 I always feel when I hike that I am able to move like a Jaguar with foot placing (especially down hill very quickly and precisely) and that each step I take is powerfully propelled. I also had experienced walking through a doorway not long ago, where I was very poignantly reminded of not leaving parts of myself behind (even the tiniest of old need to integrate – which was symbolic of my pinky toe that got caught on the doorway) so that I could fully move through portals when needed and access the new energy fully.
A Walk Between Worlds
The sacred tattoo design I helped create for a client, which is rich in potent energy, I titled in part as “A Walk Between Worlds”, mirroring a visionary painting of Inca sacred energy like it that I had once created bearing the same name. As I’ve mentioned before, these designs I create are not simply art, but are activation keys that shift experiences and open personal portals to wider collective experiences and more energetic possibilities.
I have also been working with my friend and Master Shaman Amaru to put together this year’s sacred journey to Peru in September, so I’m heavily immersed in this energy on all levels right now.
Working with the sacred Inca energy, the Chakana, and “time portals” became part of the this month’s inspired special, which will showcase the visionary painting I created, so that who ever feels called, may create their own sacred energy portal and space for creating the reality and intentions you desire.
So for the month of May, 3 more visionary pieces of art will be available to include an original and giclee of A WALK BETWEEN WORLDS “Hatun Karpay of the Nagual” (The Great Initiation of the Nagual/ Powerful Shaman) at special discount to support this energy.
I have sold all of the canvas giclees and fine art paper prints I had on hand of this painting except for one original sized giclee on canvas and the “original” painting itself. So you can choose from either of these to fit your needs, which are both 36″ x 48″ in size. The original is an oil painting.
Lemurian Dreams
And a surprise comeback piece, which shares in this energy a bit, will also be available this month – LEMURIAN DREAMS.
I thought this painting was sold and gone, but I discovered it recently when going through storage and was quite amused and delighted to find it. I do not have any more prints on it, but the original is available. This is a unique piece that had originally been created as a potential book cover, but then became a favorite painting of many, and is the only piece I have on hand that is done in pastels on canvas. It showcases the Chakana as well, along with Lemurian Seed Crystals and the energy/landscape of Sedona and a Full Moon. (Another portal opening and dimensional time gateway painting with interesting synchronicity, as I am also working on a sacred retreat in Sedona for 2015).
People shared with me last month that they really were appreciative of and loved my offering of 75% off, as they had been drawn to wanting very much to own one of my sacred paintings and now they felt able to bring the energy into their lives that was calling to them (the 3 featured last month have moved on to new homes and I couldn’t be more happy to see them appreciated and their energy utilized). So, I will continue to offer specials on my art, as I can, to support the current energy waves that are flowing through.
It can be hard for an artist to say goodbye to the babies we birth, but it is also so important to us that they do the service they were intended for, rather than sit idle. This is a way that provides opportunity for that to take place and if they don’t find their keepers, they will still be available via my website, after May, at regular pricing until they do.
That being said, May’s special on visionary art that support this months’ theme is 75% off through May 31st and reflects as:
A Walk Between Worlds – 36″ x 48″ Original Oil on Canvas – Regular price: $1999 – now only $500 + shipping
A Walk Between Worlds – 36” x 48” Giclee on Canvas – Regular price: $999 – now only $250 + shipping
Lemurian Dreams – 24″ x 30″ Pastel on Canvas – Regular price: $500 – now only $125 + shipping
* If shipping internationally it will likely be best to send rolled and removed from the frame. You can then have it reframed when you receive it, but it will cut down on shipping costs. An extra charge of $12 is added for this process.
The other part of May’s special through the 31st is energetic.
You can receive a 2 Reiki Healing Attunements package for only $88. Regular price of one is $55.
Two at regular price is $110. The $88 special for 2 is a 20% savings plus you get to receive concentrated support for any intention on any and all levels – physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
A Reiki Healing Attunement amplifies the energy available for healing and helps dissolve any energetic resistance and blocks, so the Reiki energy can work more quickly and more deeply to promote growth and integrative healing, as well as aid the creation and alignment for manifestations to take place. Like with anything, the more of an active role in partnership you meet the process with, the more you will experience as a result. It also helps to cleanse and release the old that no longer serves, which means that if any uncomfortable things arise or intensify with this process, it is a sign that change is in effect, as it is calling up the old so that it can be moved through and let go of for the new to emerge.
I know everyone is going through some level of change and shift, some more intense than others, and this is involving some pretty big stuff that can knock you for a loop for a bit. So the Reiki Healing Attunements seem a natural fit to support rebalancing and to help move through the changes with more ease, as well as to help move through things quicker, if you so choose to embrace the process that is involved with that.
A reminder that today is the last day to register for this Friday, May 9th’s Reiki Level 3 Master Teacher Workshop in Costa Mesa.
If you’ve taken Levels 1 and 2 and you’re interested in furthering your training, being empowered with the ability to work with accelerated energy and able to attune others to Reiki to enhance their lives, as well as raising your vibration to another level, then this may feel like the next aligned step for you.
If Friday’s workshop doesn’t work for you, but you’d like to move forward with your training, you can contact me to schedule another date.
You can contact me at tania@taniamarie.com with questions and to register, or to take advantage of any of this Month’s offerings.
A special shout out to Gaia on this 5/5 day that shares her birthday of 11 years. Since she seems to be off grid again and no where to be found (interesting since it’s been so hot here and not hibernating time), this photo of her working with a crystal energy grid I once had, seemed fitting. Gaia definitely seems to be “in tune” with the jumping timelines and realities theme. Wishing her so much love and supportive energy for where ever she may be journeying and being of service right now.
The You That You Are – Simply & Divinely
There is a presence, a silence, a stillness which is here by itself. There is no doer of it, no creator of this stillness. It is simply here in you, with you. It is the fragrance of your own self. There is nothing to do about this, it is naturally present. This fragrance of peace, this spaciousness, it is the fragrance of your own being. ~Mooji
Marriage of Divinity – A Walk Between Worlds Inca Sacred Tattoo Designs
It has been a very event-full 10 days or so with all of the astrological influences and potent energy swirling. There’s been a lot going on and shifting here and as always, it seems to align with potent sacred tattoo designs I’m working on that really stir up and activate energy into motion.
It’s also been really hot here for this time of year and for being near the coast – 95 degrees for the last few days with warm Santa Ana winds. I’ve actually enjoyed it, as I’m always cold 🙂 and it provided me good reason for a late afternoon beach stroll a few days ago (bringing Dolphin and Osprey magick into my experience), but it has definitely been part of the interesting energetic influences.
Alongside quite a bit going on (which is why the process of these tattoos has been on its own timeline and is taking a bit longer to get through them than usual), one of the things experienced here has been the opening of a portal at the house that created access to another parallel timeline happening in this house. This was something both Joy and I have been in the midst of and it became obvious that a few things were the reason for this opening, one being my channeling and creating these sacred pieces you see featured here – hence the title that not only reflects the designs created, and my Inca painting, but also of what my experience has been in living in different realities at once.
These symbolic designs are very connected to collective energy, as well as the individual energy they are being created for. They act as activation keys and do shift things on many levels, especially when aligned with other energetic influences, the symbols being worked with, the intentions and energy behind them, and where I am at in the process of creating them too.
It’s a very potent process that can’t be explained in a way that may make sense to most people, but it undoubtedly is experienced. So needless to say, a slip-through took place here that brought down veils between timelines and it actually affected my rabbit incredibly, who acts as a guardian to our own gateway here. We had to work to create a boundary to the timeline opening so that we could ground and balance things here, which involved energetic work and calling upon a Guardian associated, synchronously, with these designs. It’s a tricky thing to be living and moving forward in a different reality being created, but still being in the one here, which does need a balance of boundaries maintained. Powerful stuff!!
And now these pieces will be personal portals for my client to access parts of him and to activate new experiences he desires to create.
Anyway, it’s always so interesting to see how these designs come to be and I was so grateful to be working with the powerful energy of the Ancient Incas for my client. It wasn’t since my painting, “A Walk Between Worlds” that I had been so focused in these energies and it seems so perfect since I have been working on the upcoming sacred journey to Peru for this year and my client is also going to Peru in a couple months for his first time.
I love the journey of how these designs come together. It’s as if the stories they have to share, write themselves by my tuning in to their essence.
The messages are collectively woven, although personal, since they contain collective symbolism that will speak to each in a unique way beyond what words can say.
It’s always too hard to try to explain the energy of the pieces and as I’ve shared many times, I do prefer to have them reflect whatever you pick up from them, but I do provide some pointers in intention.
These are actually two separate, but cohesive design pieces created for my male client who will be wearing one each on both of his inner forearms from wrist to crease of elbow. The Chakana will be on the outside of the inner forearm, half way wrapping so that a half is on the face of the inner forearm when arm is held with palms facing up. And when the two forearms are brought together, each of their halves will create a new, unified, and integrated Chakana, as well as a whole story that they are each integral to.
I won’t detail all of the symbolism of every aspect of the design, but the essence focuses are that of being present, focused, aware, fearless, free-flowing, openness, transparency, authenticity, love without restrictions, surrender, higher mind and heart, transmutation, activation, connection with nature spirits, earth, and cosmos, integration of shadow, and balancing organic sensuality, flow, and instinct of life with higher mind consciousness and clarity within the sacred geometry present.
The left design is for the right arm, which is connected to male energy, but working with the Divine Male. The right arm contains Jaguar, Serpent, Chakana, Moth, small Seed or Flower of Life symbolism, Tumi – Sun God/good luck, DNA double helix, organic leaves turning into spirals, Sun wheel portal in Chakana, stars and planets, pyramid design like a sacred eye within, and radiating energy like wings.
The right design is for the left arm, which is connected to the female energy, but working with the Divine Feminine. The left arm containis Condor, Hummingbird (Nazca symbol), Chakana, Inca Star within it with a labyrinth portal center, organic leaves turning into spirals, Calla Lily, Full Moon, stars and planets, Seed or Flower of Life symbolism, radiating energy like wings.
The left arm has the energy flowing “in” and up through the wrist, as with feminine energy, we receive. The right arm has the energy flowing “out” through the serpent, as with male energy it is action of what is guided by the feminine. But I also have some energy flowing up and down on each, to create balance when in that Divine space where each does actually have its own way of giving and receiving.
I was drawn to create a Star Chakana for the Divine Feminine side. The symbol is of an Inca Star I came across in researching and then added a spiral center portal to it. I love how the middle is like a labyrinth of life that winds and spirals, but the effects are clear and focused as the points of the star in all directions of life. I wanted the star to be balanced with male energy, and the points and precision feel like that to me, but the spiral center adds that the source of guidance and direction to the focused male come from the female core. I did add the Full Moon on that arm, as it speaks to new beginnings and the Divine Feminine in its wholeness, while flowing with the cycles of life.
I was drawn to create a Sun Chakana for the right to balance the Moon energy, but to equal the Star energy, as the Sun is also a Star, but a different essence of one. It lies center of our Solar System. And I wanted this sun to have an organic feminine feel to balance the male energy of it, hence the softened petal like flames and a portal center. At the very center there is another small Sun, which to me represents the individual’s inner core Sun that burns from within the vortex of you and the center of the Solar Plexus to bring forth.
Hummingbird completed the Serpent, Jaguar, Condor energy my client was drawn, of the four directions. And the Nazca Hummingbird (Nazca symbols were something my client was drawn to) was perfect to bring a bit of native beauty with an otherworldly feel to that upper area that is very higher consciousness.
Calla lilies symbolize purity, sensuality, resurrection, chastity, virtue, abundance, elegance, grace, and magnificent beauty.
I positioned the 4 animals – Serpent, Jaguar, Hummingbird, Condor, in their realms. (as you see in my painting “A Walk Between Worlds” I linked above). The serpent carries the DNA strand, which is activating a transformational shift at the core, into more of my client’s empowered wholeness in mirror to the shifting energy experienced and being integrated/embodied collectively – helping to bring him into a higher version of himself.
Moth I found on the tree in backyard
The Moth at the top of the left arm came to me out of nowhere and I was waiting to confirm it was to go in this design, but I had felt it strongly and had been guided she was for my client. I just knew. Then, just two evenings ago, I went out back for a moment of fresh air after working on the designs and on the tree in the yard a giant Moth appeared. It was so big! Like nearly three inches and I got chills knowing it was a guide for my client that had come to support the process, and indeed wanted inclusion in the piece. And so I created a magickal Moth at the top with a flower of life below it and its wings in motion of fluttering, which is creating the waves of energy and activation.
Moths are nocturnal. They symbolize dreams, shadows, otherworldliness, secret knowledge, higher awareness, psychic awareness and enhancement, inner knowing to navigate through the darkest hours of our lives, faith in uncertain shadowy times, vulnerability, determination, wise and balanced use of concealment – blend in when necessary and adjust and adapt when needed, attraction, subtlety and subtle allure, intuition, determination, navigation by lunar energy and light (feeling), vigilance in following your path of light, keeping your vigilance, adjusting your course accordingly to indications sensed rather than drive forward without heeding signs…
I wanted both arms each to have some mirroring qualities, to connect them, which is apparent in the design. And they are a marriage of organic, Earth, nature and flow with otherworldly, Cosmic, clarity of focus, and consciousness. Some masculine and feminine aspects can be found within each, for balance and integration, although have a central focus of energy.
If you would like to partner in co-creating your own sacred visionary piece of artwork or tattoo design to embody the empowerment you desire, you can contact me at tania@spiritualskin.com.
There is currently a waiting list. You can easily make your deposit at the link provided to embark on this journey in partnership with me.
For more information about the process and pricing please visit: What is a Tattoo Design Consultation
To enjoy a visual journey of some of the sacred tattoo designs I’ve had the honor and privilege of co-creating, please visit: Spiritual Skin for my YouTube video.
Some people have preferred to read my book, Spiritual Skin ~ Sacred Tattoos: More than Skin Deep, especially if they are new to sacred tattoo designs, before embarking on this journey.
If you are drawn to learn more about sacred tattoos you can order a copy of the book here: Spiritual Skin
It is also available in Kindle format here: Spiritual Skin
You can also order your personal copy here: Signed and Inscribed Copy of Spiritual Skin