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Galactic Butterfly Activation – New Sacred Tattoo Design
Another amazing journey into the realm of sacred tattoos comes to closure. I have a special affinity to this one, as it shares a symbol I wear on my own “Spiritual Skin” – Hunab Ku, otherwise known as the Galactic Butterfly.
And so it is, that I was honored to bring to life the Galactic Butterfly’s Realm in my own interpretation for a sacred tattoo. I got to play with this in my painting, “Spirit” – part of my “In Lak’ech” series, but was excited with the creative challenge to focus on an alchemical infusion for sacred body art.
I even have a sore thumb where it connects to my hand and into my forearm, from focused work on this piece. Another reason I spread my work out, as it is important to keep my “tools” – hands in tact for all of the healing arts work that they do. Yes, even artists and healers have work challenges they need to be mindful of and keep in balance, otherwise we can’t work! And that includes our ability to take care of our needs first, so we have more to give – something important for everyone.
But back to this sacred body art, I was just so excited by what channeled through and its timing of completion comes right before I go in tomorrow for my own sacred piece and celebratory closure of my tattoo journey. Love that this is the piece sending me off! Hunab Ku – One Giver of Movement and Measure. My very first two tattoos were a butterfly and this symbol. đ
This piece is a counterpart to another sacred piece I had already co-created with my client (pictured left). This one will continue moving the energy up and through her Chakras and into the wholeness of that completion, illumination, activation, channeling the Divine Feminine, bringing harmonic balance, and anchoring authentic truth, power, and freedom that was intended.
It is intended to sit at the upper back and will start from the bottom of the neck/throat Chakra (the tip just reaching up over the back of the collar bone) and then flowing down and coming to sit somewhere mid-back. The design will flow over the Throat, Higher Heart, and Heart Chakras, and draw energy into the Solar Plexus, where the other design is also drawing up into. It is quite large at about 14 inches long from top to bottom and at the widest area at the bottom where the Lotuses are, itâs about 13 inches wide.
The elements that came through include, as shared, the Mayan Hunab Ku at the top â the Galactic Butterfly, which I channeled into my own interpretation of its magnificent Cosmic essence â creating an organic petal or flame like opening at top of its wings. Could be both Sun and Moon energy in the top portion of design as well.
Then three, 7 pointed Star Lotuses as that Trinity energy, as well as an interpretive 7 pointed Faery Star â also known as the Pleiadian Star and gateway to the Otherworld. They are guarded by two graceful butterflies that come from the realm of the Galactic Butterfly and signify also transformation, celebration, transition, lightness, soul, time, grace, elegance, freedom, joy and bliss, miracles, flexibility, cycles of life, creativity, gentleness, preciousness of life, as well as the medicine the ability and clarity of mind needed before self-transformation.
The energy from the Star Lotuses flows down into organic Lotuses of the Earth â bridging Cosmos and Earth. And these Lotuses are surrounded by water for that flow with the sea of life and ability to change with grace.
Down the center, the Galactic Butterflyâs bottom winged energies flow into an Infinity energy (mirroring my client’s other piece and keeps the energy moving up and down) through the third Star Lotus that then turns into the water below. I worked in some similar flows from the other piece, so they work in balance and some of this design will likely be stippled like the other in some of the areas, which will tie it in and look ethereal and lovely.
Under the center Star Lotus, is my interpretation of a cosmic Bee or Queen Bee, if you will, that came through.
Bee symbolizes understanding female warrior energy, connection to the Goddess Diana, reincarnation, the power of community and harmony, importance of our place in the collective, productivity, service for a greater good, concentration, prosperity, fertility, and sexuality. The Bee is also a symbol for accomplishing the impossible and anything you put your mind to, as aerodynamically its body is too large for its wings and should not be able to fly.
The Bee reminds you to extract the honey of life (that empowerment of fun, joy, opening your heart to the epitome of love and life and to life fully and uninhibitedly). The Bee also makes our lives fertile with ideas, creativity, and productivity with the promise of fulfillment if we pursue our dreams. Its honeycomb, a hexagon, is the symbol of the heart and represents the sweetness of life found within your own heart and is also the symbol of the sun and its energies. The Bee reminds you to savor the honey of life, do all you can do to make your life fertile and examine your life to make it more efficient and supportive.
The Bee also is a strong symbolism of the circle of life and balance that they create, as such an important part of our ecosystem. Bees are also considered messengers of the Gods and are associated with the Sun and the Goddess according to Druid beliefs. In Hinduism the Bee relates to Vishnu, Krishna, or Kama. In Egypt, the Bee symbolized royalty. In Greece, it was the symbol of the Eleusinian Mysteries and the Celts associated the Bee with hidden wisdom.
I am always in awe of what channels through and this, to me, is simply alchemical magick.
Don’t forget February’s Offering of the Month, which is a Sacred Tattoo Special:
You have the opportunity to receive a FREE signed and inscribed copy of my book, “Spiritual Skin”, along with a FREE Reiki Healing Attunement for activation of your intentions that the tattoo will help you to embody, when you commission a sacred tattoo design this month. An $85 value.
Plus one person this month will receive 1 hour of sacred design work FREE (a $175 value) by sharing with me what sacred tattooing means to you and how you feel that your design will be supportive for you. I will pick one person from the entries, which can only be sent in until February 14th – that’s only 4 days away. I will then read through what is submitted and choose one person based on the content you share â not compared to anyone else, but in terms of reflection and depth expressed.
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:Â What is a Tattoo Design Consultation
To enjoy a visual journey of some of the sacred tattoo designs Iâve had the honor and privilege of co-creating, please visit:Â 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:Â Spiritual Skin
It is also available in Kindle format here:Â Spiritual Skin
You can also order your personal copy here:Â Signed and Inscribed Copy of Spiritual SkinÂ
Tania’s Offering of the Month – February Sacred Tattoo Special 2014: FREE Book, Reiki, & 1 Hour of Design Work
Nestor on her 4th Birthday regally wearing her New Year’s crown
We just celebrated a New Moon in Aquarius and a Chinese New Year of the Horse, back-to-back! Wow! And now, here we are on the first of February already in this amazing year of 2014.
February is a full month for me, as not only is it my brother’s and grandpa’s birthday month, but it is also my own and several dearly departed souls’ birthdays that I honor. It also marks my first “much needed” vacation of the year up north a bit to Mammoth and the Bay Area.
For many, this is the “Love” month, with Valentine’s Day just around the corner, and several National and State Holidays and Observances (a couple of which are this weekend) including President’s Day in honor of Washington’s Birthday, Lincoln’s and Susan B. Anthony’s Birthday’s, and Rosa Parks Day, National Freedom Day (today), and Groundhog Day (tomorrow). And of course this weekend there’s also Imbolc – marking the Celtic beginning of Spring, also known as St. Brigid’s Day.
Nestor is quite comfortable in her Queenly state đ
Quite a lot of symbolism as we embark on this first month of the Year of the Horse.
One particularly important day to me, is today, which honors my dear Nestor who is no longer physically with me. Today would have been her 11th Birthday and so I also mark this day in heart with some extra special love and honor.
And how powerful to share this with National Freedom Day today, which honors President Lincoln’s signing the Amendment outlawing slavery on February 1st, 1865.
Nestor was such a huge symbol of freedom and independence. Even the way she departed was like an embodiment of all extremes that convey the meaning of what that freedom is worth.
As you know, each month I am offering an extra goody that has significance to the energetic landscape we are experiencing, and just might be exactly what you are looking for, since they come as inspirational nudges from the collective.
This month’s special is in honor of Nestor and that freedom energy, which the free-spirited Horse also is presenting to us. I know many of you are either in process of taking steps toward, or wanting to be more, courageous and honor what that means for you and how your authentic truth and self-expression wants to come through.
I mentioned a lot of the things February is packed with, and one more thing, for me personally, is that in 10 days (on the 11th) I will be getting another of my own sacred tattoos inked – which feels to be balancing closure to quite a journey, and simultaneously the beginning of quite a journey to come!
So celebration is at hand, as I finalize my own sacred skin. Wow! What an adventure it has been and continues unfolding.
Nestor has been such a huge part of my sacred tattoo experience and I wear many tattoos in honor of her and our connection/shared soul missions. This last tattoo I’ll be getting will not only create a powerful cosmic portal of supportive energy and activation for what’s next, but will also be deeply connected to/honoring of her, as well as the two other rabbit souls I’ve had in my life – Joy and Twinkie.
I had no intention to get another, but I don’t ignore when I receive strong and clear nudges, especially when it’s the last thing on my mind. I even had a dream in the last week that was preparing my right arm, where it will go, which was extremely powerful. It was a vividly felt/seen dream that opened my arm and I was gifted an inserted implant right under where the tattoo will be graced. I could feel it strongly even after awaking.
But to get back to this month’s offering – the focus is on sacred tattoos – one of my loves and passions I thoroughly enjoy sharing and supporting others with. Since a lot of the energy right now is truly about liberating yourself into freely and authentically expressing your truth and joy, and letting it shine, for me one of the ways I have found to be part of that empowering freedom and integrative healing journey has been through sacred tattoos.
My clients have all shared the same experience and in the words of Dave Simon, my partner, attorney, and author of Meatonomics about his first sacred tattoo, “I am a corporate lawyer myself, so it took a while for me to come around. But itâs incredibly liberating to do something which allows you to say, ‘Iâm no longer subject to societyâs petty rules and strictures.’ ” He shared that he felt liberated the first day he was inked, in a way words can’t describe, and that this feeling has continued to unfold for him.
That’s a really interesting statement coming from an attorney. đ
So, for the month of February I am offering a FREE signed and inscribed copy of my book, “Spiritual Skin”, to anyone who is also drawn to the path of sacred tattoos and commissions a design during this month, to co-creatively work on with me – a $30 value, which includes shipping within the U.S.
Alongside this, you will also receive a FREE Reiki Healing Attunement for activation of your intentions that the tattoo will help you to embody into this New Year and beyond – a $55 value.
That’s $85 worth of FREE gifts as you journey into a more empowered experience of you.
Tattoos aren’t for everyone, but more and more people of ALL ages (you’d be surprised at the clients I have the honor of working with in terms of occupations and ages) are finding this to be one way and tool that feels mirroring of their chosen path they are embarking on.
I currently have a short waiting list, but the way to take advantage of this opportunity is with a first hour’s deposit and this will lock in the FREE gifts, even if your design isn’t created until after this month. But you will be able to save your place and open the door to the process with me, which I and my client’s have found to begin setting the energy in motion, by opening the channels and consultation sharing that precedes the actual design manifestation.Â
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.
You can easily make your deposit at the link provided below, to embark on this journey in partnership with me.
To make your deposit, as well as explore more information about the process, please visit:Â What is a Tattoo Design Consultation
Please mention this offer when you do.
This offer will be good from now through February 28th, 2014.
But that’s not all!
One person this month will receive 1 hour of sacred design work FREE. (a $175 value)
How?
By sharing with me what sacred tattooing means to you and how you feel that your design will be supportive for you.
You can do this by emailing me your written share to tania@spiritualskin.com.
I will be picking one person from the entries to receive the 1 FREE hour.
Entries can be sent in until February 14th (that’s midway through February) and I will then read through all of them and choose one person based on the content you share – not compared to anyone else, but in terms of reflection and depth expressed.
I will announce the recipient within the week following the 14th, after I’ve thoroughly gone through the entries.
This is a celebratory month for so many things and so this definitely feels fitting that sacred tattoos will be a focal point – something very sacred and meaningful to me and that has so much symbolism embodied. You will discover this in my book, if you haven’t read it already.
I’m excited to share this sacred tattoo journey with you this month, as I complete my own journey and will share more on that when it manifests.
Tattoos have a power and magic all their own. They decorate the body but they also enhance the soul. ~Michelle DelioÂ
Symbols work in the most amazing way. They are like codes to speak directly with the divine mind. ~Christopher PenczakÂ
Tattoos fulfill a need to inscribe the self as an individual. ~Margo Demello
Thinking of a unique Valentine’s Day gift?
A tattoo gift certificate makes a great gift that will last a lifetime for that special person in your life.Â
Lady of Grace, Compassion & Expansive Renewal – Sacred Tattoo Design Blossoms Into Creation
I’ve had such a beautiful journey with this latest sacred tattoo design. I can’t express the beautiful flow that was experienced, but perhaps you will feel it and more by sitting with the reflection of its energy.
Once again, the timing was so divine with this piece in so many ways and beautifully came to closure the even before I was teaching a Reiki 1 & 2 Accelerated Workshop this past Friday. Each design is always infused with Reiki, but this one was definitely part of the initiating energy, which is perfect for the celebration of renewal and expansion it reflects for my beautiful client.
As I expressed to her, I truly felt it to be a dance of energy that felt liberating and expansive with so much potential. And since the designs are a shared experience, it was a really special journey for me to receive these blessings as well. With each of these, I feel that I too get to share in the shifts and blossoming that are taking place so it is like the blessing of Reiki, where each person gets to give and receive within the exchange shared.
Here are some of the expressions I shared with my client on what evolved through her design:
The design (which will grace her back, extending from upper left and flowing down and touching her right lower back and hip/waist) is a blend of organic with stylized/henna woven in. I felt that something both ethereal and extremely graceful and flowing â almost like a feather (which is sort of how I see the bigger picture of this design â not just having feathers in it, but like one giant feather that has come to tenderly kiss the skin of my client’s back, as it floats there. The organic comes in mixing some aspects of realism with the womanâs face and hand holding out the lotus, as well as the head of the peacock and a few of its feathers that are emerging from the ethereal quality of the others. So itâs almost like that bridge between Earth and Cosmos and that integration of divinity embodied within the human body temple.
I created sort of a Mandala design around the womanâs head and peacockâs head of stylized lotus and feathery aspects (doubling also as her hair cascading and crowning her with feathers and lotus), which also create that expansion of consciousness and emanation of the Crown Chakra energy blossoming. And the woman and peacock are resting into, and cradling each other in beautiful union â both looking up with confidence, clarity of vision, and serenity of being.
The woman is my client and an aspect of her in her wholeness she is stepping into, which is evident in the design cocooning around her, but simultaneously blossoming around, as she emerges from this dance of life, newness, opening, and partnering with the parts of self within â represented in the design, including the peacock.
After creating the design, I saw this aspect of the woman to be like that of Kuan Yin â Goddess of healing and compassion- Â and how she is often depicted with/as peacock.
I didnât actually set out with Kuan Yin in mind at all. The woman that came through I saw as an aspect of my client/and her soul/higher self in wholeness â the Goddess within. Perhaps I was seeing her in another life, but when I placed the image next to a photo my client had sent me of herself, there was indeed a soul essence signature resemblance that was remarkably there in what had channeled through. It was later, as always I find these surprises, and that I realized the connection of Kuan Yin and the peacock, not to mention qualities and aspects that my client was personally intending to create. So that is how these images are so multi-layered and at each turn there is something new and different to discover depending on the energetic perspective of the moment.
The peacock represents a symbol of integrity, the beauty we can achieve through showing our authentic, true colors, guidance, protection, holiness, nobility, vibrancy, helps you on your spiritual path, breathes new life into your experience, rejuvenates self-esteem, expands your creativity and imagination, and speaks to your courage to show up as your unique self. It also symbolizes glory, vision, watchfulness, royalty, spirituality, awakening, immortality, refinement, beauty, desire, enjoying life, generosity, longevity, compassion, sensuality, immortality, and expansiveness. In Buddhism the peacock symbolizes expansive consciousness and is representative of the all-compassionate goddess Kuan Yin. The eyes of the peacock feathers symbolizing the omniscient essence of the soul that is all-seeing and all-knowing. As a royal status, peacocks represent the realm of the Empress and High Priestess. Being a solar animal peacocks express the essence of vitality, radiance, glory, stimulation, life, health, and invigoration.
I had this vision of the twin soul aspect within, merging into wholeness and that is this beautiful love affair depicted between the woman and peacock and how they merge into, and from, One.
Within the feathery design of the peacockâs brilliance there are spirals of life, lotus stars, and some stylized waves to symbolize water cascading down from the combined Moon and lotus symbol at left. The lotus I found, after I created it with the Moon there, to double as the Sun (like a lotus Sun star), which then again is integrating those aspects of duality as One.Â
There are many layers to the design (along with symbolic meanings), which are the many layers and roads of the journey and the complexity of what makes each person unique. Rather than have everything very solid, I created âspaceâ between a lot of the design to allow for movement, flow, flexibility, change, and lightness (also that time between time and void space of creation) â this all creating more femininity and an ethereal quality to it, while also having those touches of the actualized portions peeking through (like the realistic peacock feathers, her face and hand, and peacock head) for grounding and manifesting stability.
It is a blend of being able to use alchemy to walk between worlds and create anything the imagination desires.
The design has the essence of abundance as wellâŚlike a garden blossoming. And her hand coming through the ethereal feathers, again is like that birthing anew and bringing forth a new creation from the womb of her renewal, which is represented by the lotus blossom she gentle cradles and offers to the world, as if to say,
“Here is what I am and have to offer from my heart in service.”
There is also the symbolism of growth, shamanism/shapeshifting, abundance, courage, strength to shine and bring forth that vulnerability of heart from the depths, spiritual groundedness, willingness to always be open and to evolve, and a bit of the mystical and mystery that creation has in the way it can reinvent itself at will and doesn’t reveal everything at once, but rather is always in a “process”. This beautiful process is what is captured, demonstrating that each step of the journey is perfect and whole.
The image appears fluid and in constant motion, which is the dance of life – ever-shifting.
There is always so much more than I can express and some things that are personal to the client that I leave out, but my hope always is to capture an essence snapshot with the designs I create, that have the ability to shift experiences through their sacred symbolism and the portals they open.
I am so excited to hear that my client has already felt the activations ignite, upon her time spent with her design over the last couple of days, and I cannot wait to see it as part of her skin. I continue to excite with her at the beautiful journey she is creating and sharing.
I love what I do and and am grateful that I can be of service in this way by doing something that is so meaningful to me. I cherish my clients and the ability to share this gift.
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.
Remember that the new rate is in effect since 1/1/2014 and 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:Â What is a Tattoo Design Consultation
To enjoy a visual journey of some of the sacred tattoo designs Iâve had the honor and privilege of co-creating, please visit:Â 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:Â Spiritual Skin
It is also available in Kindle format here:Â Spiritual Skin
You can also order your personal copy here:Â Signed and Inscribed Copy of Spiritual SkinÂ
Impetus for Conscious & Loving Co-Creation – The Alchemy of Visionary Artwork
I put closure to 2013 with this very potent visionary design I had the great honor to co-create in partnership with.
There is so much profoundness to the story of this particular piece, the depth of meaning on a collective level, the synchronous events that unfolded as a reflection of its manifestation, and the beautiful soul whose life’s work in this collective web it reflects.
I can’t ever share enough the immense gratitude and awe that I experience from this journey of life and the connections my life’s work gift me.
I continue to feel so much love, freeness, and excitement from the creation of this piece.
And it was quite a journey that could have its own story shared.
I felt the powerful weight that was the seed for igniting lightness through the process of its creation, much of which percolated in the ethers and then rapidly emerged in divine and auspicious timing.
I can’t go into the details, but perhaps you will simply feel the energy through this visionary design. It was actually not created to be a sacred tattoo, as I do also support people in creating sacred pieces of artwork to reflect and empower their journey, and act as a meditational portal to activate manifestation of the new.
Since these pieces, I feel, are not just personal, but also collective…I have witnessed that sharing the visual symbolism can support energetic shifts when viewed, just as much as they do the moment they come into tangible creation. Things shift in the collective field, in mirror to what is intentfully and whole-heartedly created.
These sacred, visionary designs open up conversations within self and with others, and emanate energy that is deeply experienced by whomever is viewing it. They support healing integration that takes place not always in conscious ways.
This design is a “coming together harvest, serving as a key to facilitate the manifestation of form” and “open pathways to connect with aligned souls”. It is meant as a gateway, or meditational portal, to access the needed pieces within, into an alchemical tool for emergence of enactment.
It is a voice…a conversation of co-creation. A simultaneous seeding and blossoming.
There are so many layers to this piece. The symbolism is all organically interwoven and is the impetus of creation in motion.
I always hesitate to share symbolism within the images, as it is all about personal perspective and what each person sees in their own unique way and in their own unique timing. And most of the time I am not actually consciously aware of what I am creating, but simply follow the energy guidance of where and what to do next. In this way, even I get to excite at the mystery that reveals itself and the magick that happens.
The one symbol I’ll share briefly on is the four circles energetically held in her hands. These circles cross each other and are part of the sacred geometry structure of the seed of life. The full seed of life is composed of seven circles, but the four circles are known also to be the impetus of creation from which the ocean, land, trees and plants were created. So it is like a birthing symbol for all new and implies that delicate balance needed between us and the Earth, which includes new ways of relating, co-creating, co-serving, and with the collective community in mind. Having this symbol between her hands is how she is weaving and working her alchemy and is symbolic of the future of Mother Earth and the destiny of humanity symbolically being in the hands of each of us and how we each weave our thread in that web.
A beautiful energy to ignite 2014 with.
Rather than explain all of the intricacy of this piece, I invite you to deeply explore the image and discover your own personal message revealed within the layers of symbolism and energetically encoded impressions.
What else do you find, see, and feel when you gaze upon the image? And how might it be the impetus for your own loving and creative alchemy?
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.
Remember that the new rate is in effect since 1/1/2014Â and 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:Â What is a Tattoo Design Consultation
To enjoy a visual journey of some of the sacred tattoo designs Iâve had the honor and privilege of co-creating, please visit:Â 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:Â Spiritual Skin
It is also available in Kindle format here:Â Spiritual Skin
You can also order your personal copy here:Â Signed and Inscribed Copy of Spiritual SkinÂ
A Dragon in the Flesh – Another Sacred Tattoo Design Comes to Life
This last year was an incredibly powerful year of sacred tattoos birthing, in reflection to powerful transformational shifts many were experiencing. It was an equally amazing journey for me to share with everyone, as we co-created designs that wove unique and soulful stories.
Since we are all so connected, I go through these journeys deeply with each person, as if they are my own.
And in essence, they really are shared by us all, which is why I see so many overlapping themes – each channeled in individual ways. It is also why I have learned there is no rushing the process, as there is a larger picture at work for the individual, but also connected with the collective that aligns in right timing.
I enjoy sharing some of the designs, as they come alive in the flesh. There have been some pretty amazing pieces this years, so I will look forward to sharing more as they come in. But today I thought you’d enjoy seeing one of the pieces, many of you had loved, in all of its glory.
You’ll likely remember my post: A Dragon’s Story – An Epic Sacred Tattoo Design Journey Comes to Closure
It details some of the symbolic journey of this sacred portal that is interwoven into the spiritual skin it now lives through.
I hope you enjoy the photos of this piece that emanates out from the epicenter of my client’s entire back, traveling up and then down her right arm, as well as flows down and wrapping around her left side and stomach – the largest piece to date created.
It’s such an honor to see these designs infused with the love and artistry of the tattoo artists that co-create as part of the trinity of our collective collaboration.
If you would like to partner in co-creating your own sacred tattoo design to embody the empowerment you desire, you can contact me at tania@spiritualskin.com.
Remember that the new rate is in effect since 1/1/2014 and there is currently a waiting list. I will have the new rate up on my website tomorrow, along with a Paypal button where you can easily make your deposit to embark on this journey.
For more information about the process and pricing please visit:Â What is a Tattoo Design Consultation
To enjoy a visual journey of some of the sacred tattoo designs Iâve had the honor and privilege of co-creating, please visit:Â 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:Â Spiritual Skin
It is also available in Kindle format here:Â Spiritual Skin
You can also order your personal copy here: Signed and Inscribed Copy of Spiritual Skin 
Iceman, Otzi – One of the First Known Humans to Wear Tattoos
In my book, Spiritual Skin, I included a little history of tattoos in my chapter, “Retracing the Origins of Tattoos: Evolution of Understanding.” One of the things I touched briefly upon, was the Iceman, Otzi, who is one of the first known humans to wear tattoos.
His body is carbon-dated at around 5,200 – 5,500 years old and has over 50 tattoos that can be clearly seen on his mummified body still. The parts of the body that the tattoos were found, correspond to stress-induced degeneration areas suggesting they may have been applied to help alleviate joint pain, which would mean they were therapeutic in nature. But there is also evidence that some may have served as a form of status marker.
Dave sent me this fun article by Andy Mills that has great close up photos of Otzi’s tattoos:
Otzi Confirms: Tattoos Have Always Been Cool
I thought you might enjoy perusing them and found it synchronous that the same day I got sent this article, I was also sent a spiritual tattoo video, as well as had the day before been talking tattoos with a girlfriend and discussing my past transformational experiences leading up to my latest concluding tattoo I just received is to come.
I also love the warning Andy posts at the onset:
(WARNING: the following contains an unapologetic pro-tattoo bias. If this upsets you, please complain loudly to Soren Wheeler at seriouslywhoareyoukidding@wnyc.org)
LOL!
But, seriously, what do Otzi’s tattoos point to?
That humans have been marking their bodies for thousands upon thousands of years, and even longer than our historical “written” records document, in my opinion.
And throughout the ages, tattooing has served many varying purposes – as adornments, status and rank symbols, devices for security and magical protection, symbols of religious belief and spiritual devotion, tools for therapeutic healing, sexual lures, and marks of fertility, symbols of rights or seniority, declarations of love, and even marks of punishment or status as an outcast, convict, or slave.
My book delves into an overview of other points of interest across time, and cycles us back around to a “present day resurgence” and how we are recapturing the ancient ways and infusing them with current energy and wisdom for how we can utilize sacred tattoos to create a more empowered life.
If interested in learning more, you can order your personal copy of “Spiritual Skin ~ Sacred Tattoos: More than Skin Deep” here, in time for Christmas:Â Signed and Inscribed Copy of Spiritual SkinÂ
It’s also available on Amazon here: Spiritual Skin
And in Kindle format on Amazon here:Â Spiritual Skin
If you would like to partner in co-creating your own sacred tattoo design to embody the empowerment you desire, you can contact me at tania@spiritualskin.com.
For more information about the process and pricing please visit:Â What is a Tattoo Design Consultation
Remember that current rates for designing are good through December 2013 only (3 more weeks) and will be increasing January 1st. You can lock in the rate, if you put in your deposit by end of the year. There is a waiting list, so a deposit will hold your space.Â
Signed & Inscribed Copies of Spiritual Skin Now Available in Time for Christmas – Plus New 2014 Tattoo Design Rates
Many people are discovering how an intentionally sacred design can support spiritual awakening and fulfill their deepest drive for authentic self-expression.
Spiritual Skin ~ Sacred Tattoos: More Than Skin Deep is a ground-breaking book that channeled through me, which creates a bridge between physical and spiritual, showing you how to create the life you choose as you embark on your most powerfully transformative tattoos AND life ever.
After several custom orders for this, I once again understood the Universal nudge. Now you can get your own unique, original copy of Spiritual Skin, signed by the author (me) đ and inscribed to anyone you choose. Makes a great holiday gift for the tattoo aficionado, or anyone interested in tattoos, thinking about getting one (or another one), or simply wonders about why a person might want a tattoo.
You’ll learn a lot more than just “tattoos” from this book.
The price is only $24.95, plus $5.00 shipping/handling (within the U.S.) for a total of only $29.95. For more details see the link below, including info about international orders.
You can order your personal copy here, in time for Christmas:
Signed and Inscribed Copy of Spiritual SkinÂ
I’ve been so moved by the experiences people share having with their new “skin”, as well as have been humbled by the beautiful words people have shared about my book. It’s been amazing to witness the journeys that have unfolded through the process of co-creating with each of my clients and so fun to witness the changes that are continuing to unfold in their lives.
And as things shift in my own life, so too does everything in my life reflect those changes.
As mentioned back in June of this year, because of expansion and deepening taking place with the designing process, as well as many shifts with my own life’s work, the design rates will be mirroring an increase to reflect a new balanced value of exchange come January 1st of our new year of 2014.
That means this month, or the last 29 days of 2013, are all that remain of the current hourly rate of $125 for my design work. So if you’ve been interested in a design you can still take advantage of this rate until the end of December. You can also make the 1st hour’s deposit this month (which is always needed to commission the work, as well as secure a place if there’s a waiting list) and have your tattoo completed after December, but locked in at the $125 rate.
A few people are also using the designs not for tattoos, but as powerful meditative images to reflect on and to capture their soul in a symbolic and sacred visual. Many share the synchronous way in which they are led to me and find how their powerful intents and personal frequency is aligning them with what is perfectly mirroring.
That brings me to an email that came through a few weeks ago, that felt important to share, as perhaps this may be something you are feeling too. Recently, someone had come to me sharing that it was (as they wrote) “my expertise and knowledge of spiritual designs that drew them to me,” but being their first time with the process, were concerned at the rate, a deposit upfront, and shared that a couple of artists they had asked, could do it for less. They hoped that, in their words, “we can arrange something that can reassure me.”
My response was this:
Design consultation does not mean simply a dialogue. Design “consultation” is just a term to describe the entire process with me. I actually put in hours of work, besides the pencil to paper design time, which includes any preliminary questions, reading through sometimes dozens of pages of information people share with me about themselves, my intuitive process of channeling and piecing the visual story together, and any research needed (these things I actually don’t charge for). I only charge for the time I take to draw the design after all of this. The $125/hr is for an artist’s skilled design work and the unique service I provide.
There are tattoo artists who have waiting lists that will also require deposits to hold your space. Since I do my work on a first come first served basis, this is the way to secure that, as well as offset any potential preliminary time put into the process. It is also customary in terms of commissioning an artist, to pay a deposit upfront for them to start the work, which can vary in percentage depending on the artist.
If you would like to read some testimonials, those are found on the website link I sent you. I understand you also have found artists willing to help you for less and if that works better for your peace of mind all around, then I feel you should follow what supports that, as my first desire is that each person is fully happy and feeling good about the entire process. I’m sure the artists you have inquired with each have beautiful artistic talents and so following your feelings I know will provide exactly what is perfect.Â
This should be a special and sacred process, in my opinion, and whatever you need to do to help support this with sense of calm, is what is best.
That being shared, the new 2014 rate will be $175/hour for each loving co-creation embarked upon with me.
I also will continue to provide payment plan options for those who receive support from that, as well as continue to offer discounts and specials.
My time I have spent supporting others with this process has been an invaluable gift that is equally enriching for me. I love the shared journey I have been blessed and honored to travel with each soul across the globe and have passionately donated 40+ hours of design work to help raise money for non-profit organizations close to my heart, because of this love.
I hope you understand the changes in effect. Everything reflects the constant evolution we are going through. Things are evolving in my own life that is shifting focuses for me. What the future holds in terms of sacred tattoo designs and my role in it, I do not know, but for now I am embracing what is here and now and am grateful I can be of assistance with this time of shifts through what I can offer.
If you would like to partner in co-creating your own sacred tattoo design to embody the empowerment you desire, you can contact me at tania@spiritualskin.com.
For more information about the process and pricing please visit:Â What is a Tattoo Design Consultation
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 on Amazon here:Â Spiritual Skin
It is also available in Kindle format on Amazon here:Â Spiritual Skin
Paisley & Peacock – A Faery’s Realm Unfolds Through Sacred Tattoo Design
I enjoyed an enchanted weekend in nature both at the ocean and in the canyon forests, which not only provided this faery some revitalization, but was the perfect invigorating energy to channel this newest sacred tattoo design, for a fellow faery client.
The original piece stands just over 5â tall and just under 5â wide and will be sitting over my client’s higher heart area of her upper back.Â
What came through as the elements to include were a peacock, faery, the OM symbol, and a lush touch of paisley accent – all either elements my client shared a love and resonance for, or that channeled as a mirror of her reflection.
The result being a mythical peacock cradling the faery as if she is inside of a blossoming bud or lush garden sanctuary of the peacockâs feather brilliance – expansive consciousness and radiance unfolding.
The peacock is her familiar, guide, and aspect of her higher self supporting her inner and outer journey, and a reflection of her inner beauty, gifts and dreams in all of their glory. The faery, my client, stands with grace, peace, simplicity, vulnerability, and courage, with hand to her higher heart, feeling, sharing, healing from this loving space â her purpose in life – through all that she is, as is reflected by the peacock. From here she also is taking a vow to self to commit to following her heartâs passions, being all that she can be, and committing to her path.
The peacockâs tail feathers are like the journey of this path she will take…including the twists and turns and yet all part of the beautiful perfection that the exploration will take her. The design is almost like a blossom in its shape, that sits at the higher heart, revealing my client’s authentic self at center. The faery stands in grounded strength, and balance, as the peacock dances around herâŚrepresenting peace within the dance of life being possible, no matter what comes.
To break it down, for those of who you enjoy symbolism, here are some words on each of the elements interwoven.
Peacock symbolism: a symbol of integrity, the beauty we can achieve through showing our authentic, true colors, guidance, protection, holiness, nobility, vibrancy, helps you on your spiritual path, breathes new life into your experience, rejuvenates self-esteem, expands your creativity and imagination, and speaks to your courage to show up as your unique self. It also symbolizes glory, vision, watchfulness, royalty, spirituality, awakening, immortality, refinement, beauty, desire, enjoying life, generosity, longevity, compassion, sensuality, immortality, and expansiveness. In Buddhism the peacock symbolizes expansive consciousness and is representative of the all-compassionate goddess Kuan Yin. The eyes of the peacock feathers symbolizing the omniscient essence of the soul that is all-seeing and all-knowing. As a royal status, peacocks represent the realm of the Empress and High Priestess. Being a solar animal peacocks express the essence of vitality, radiance, glory, stimulation, life, health, and invigoration.
Om symbolism: conveys an understanding of the very ancient, primitive universal principles, as it represents the sound of life and the harmonic tone of all creation. It also symbolizes the sacred, oneness, totality, creation, evolution, sustaining, manifestation, divine expression, eternity, and indestructible truth.
Paisley symbolism: resembling a twisted tear-drop the paisley design is of Persian and Indian origin, but the modern name, âpaisleyâ is of Scottish descent, made fashionable in Europe by the town of Paisley in Central Scotland. The paisley design is rich in spiritual and symbolic meaning. In India, the paisley signified the time of harvest, a time of both socio-economic and spiritual significance. “Paisley is an art form representing the totality of life within a drop. Fertility, creation, abundance, all of what is necessary to bring something into being. Paisley was created into botanical drawings by the Europeans which points to their organic nature and connection, encompassing an entire plant from seed to root to blossom with their shape, which is essentially a spiral. Spirals are ancient symbols of the intersection of physical and spiritual, and connect with DNA. Paisley is a great tool for meditation that can be used to zone in and out at the same time.”
Faery symbolism: of course faeries connect us to the elemental world, the organic, Nature and Mother Earth, and the magickal. At the spiritual level they symbolize access to the world of extrasensory perception. They symbolize hopes and dreams, living an enchanted life, and the dance of life fully experienced and sensually enjoyed. They represent good luck, a happy life, and fulfillment of wishes, as well as help there to guide you.
If you would like to partner in co-creating your own sacred tattoo design to embody the empowerment you desire, you can contact me at tania@spiritualskin.com. Remember that there is currently a waiting list and price changes are going to be in effect at start of 2014.Â
For more information about the process and pricing please visit:Â 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:Â Spiritual Skin
It is also available in Kindle format here:Â Spiritual Skin
Paisley info in quotes from http://blog.peacockandpaisley.com/about/
Spiritual Skin Comes Alive in Video – Cyberkaz & Tania Marie Team Up Again
I’m excited to share the new video production for Spiritual Skin – a co-collaborative effort between myself and Cyberkaz that takes you on a journey through a montage of some of the sacred designs I have helped bring to life.
It’s been about four and a half years since the last time I got to team up with the amazing Cyberkaz. Not only is he awesome at video production, but he is also a fantastic musical composer, creating the original musical scores for both the last and current video we did together.
I just adore “Kaz” and feel blessed to have such a great and talented friend in my life. (He’s a faery’s perfect little elf friend – perhaps even my lucky little leprechaun) đ
You may remember Kaz from my trip to Montreal and Toronto this summer. Not only did we get to share some laughs, good food, and good times, as he showed me around, but I had the honor to support his Reiki Master Teacher training after all of these years of knowing him. He is a sound engineer and musician, as well as a soul brother I’ve known for nearly nine years and only met in person for the first time this year.
Anyway, I hope you will enjoy this latest creation as I team up again with Cyberkaz to bring you “Spiritual Skin”. It’s so cool to see some of the amazing co-creative designs, which I’ve had the blessing and honor of being able to support beautiful souls with, come together – a lot of potent energy indeed!! Love how people are embracing transformation and empowerment!
Video Synopsis:
Tania is a visionary artist and Reiki Master Teacher whose tattoo designs have carved out a unique niche in the realm of sacred body art that will help alter your DNA code to match the vibration of its potent symbolism, while empowering emotional and spiritual healing.
How would you like to know how to create the perfect tattoo for your body that will not only energetically turn heads and hearts, but most importantly will support your spiritual awakening and fulfill your deepest drive for authentic self-expression? How important is it to you to empower yourself, grow spiritually, and consecrate your body as a temple to integrate a “New Earth” experience?
Tania Marie can help you to do all of this and more. Her book, “Spiritual Skin”, will show you how to create the life you choose as you embark on your most powerfully transformative tattoos ever.
If you would like to partner in co-creating your own sacred tattoo design to embody the empowerment you desire, you can contact me at tania@spiritualskin.com. Remember that there is currently a waiting list and price changes are going to be in effect at start of 2014.Â
For more information about the process and pricing please visit:Â What is a Tattoo Design Consultation
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:Â Spiritual Skin
It is also available in Kindle format here:Â Spiritual Skin
Mirror to the Soul – Reflections of a Sacred Tattoo Design
I recently completed this sacred tattoo design, which was a beautiful journey for me to be part of.
This piece is a left arm piece and is a little over 4 and 1/2″ wide by just over 7 and 3/4″ long.
The energy of my excitement just kept increasing with this creation, as it was such a beautiful essence to be captured and much momentum of literal experiences culminating around it.
What came through was a beautiful merging of my client’s Horse and Raven totems (the two aspects within her, reflected in life also as the two souls they symbolize – always as One, regardless of physical proximity.
Her grace and beauty was something important to me to capture in an equally stunning image, which became what I see to be a “soul cameoâ in the form of a dream catcher “mirror” to the soul.
Rather than go into the individual symbolism I will point out the elements and some of the representational symbolism, as that seems to be of support to many to understand how depth of intent can be created through sacred body art.
There is of course the Horse and Raven, a Butterfly that is being mirrored in the pool of water, which is emanating outward to create the emerging image seen through this dream catcher/mirror that reflects the soul.
The Butterfly represents the “mirror within” aspects of relationship to self and other she has, the transformational qualities they each enhance for one another, and the coming into her fullness both individually and because of the union with each other.
At the bottom of the dream catcher mirror, and circle of wholeness created from the elements, is a heart with dangling beads (11) that holds it all together (as love is the most powerful energy in the Universe and it is from the heart that we can âseeâ the true essence and beauty within), and then one single feather which signifies the unity of “All That Is” and expresses that although uniquely different, we are all birds of the same feather. The heart also signifies the focal point of her life and the glue that holds everything together.
There are layers of meaning to the piece that include the symbolism that reflects within and without, in terms of that Divine relationship essence for my client.
The Horse faces forward, representing a core aspect of her, and the Raven has the other direction covered (since she is a very keen observer). So they will both keep her aware and present of the coming and goings in life…the seen and unseen.
In this way they are also like Yin and Yang, as well as aspects of light and shadow, which are all so beautiful and integral to the soul’s journey.
The way I melded the Raven and Horse, the Ravenâs wings and feathers become part of the Horseâs mane and her own wings from her shoulders emerging – symbolically creating Pegasus. The two images are perfectly balanced, equally strong, and integral to the union â each benefiting from the energy and attributes of the other.
The Horse providing stability, strength, life force, and earth connection, while the Raven imbues cosmic creativity and increases the freedom of the horse with flight and mystic vision. Both whispering the wisdom found in the spirit of the winds and within her soul.
They are One and you canât distinguish where one begins and ends – in a dance of love together. The circular dream catcher/mirror contains the unfolding and ever-evolving journey ahead and all dreams (since she is a visionary dreamer) and intentions held, able to emerge into the promise of their fullness, which is evident by the Butterflyâs presence.
Her strong Native American spirituality is what spoke through and it is a very sacred piece of Divine love and wholeness.
If you would like to partner in co-creating your own sacred tattoo design to embody the empowerment you desire, you can contact me at tania@spiritualskin.com. Remember that there is currently a waiting list and price changes are going to be in effect at start of 2014.Â
For more information about the process and pricing please visit:Â What is a Tattoo Design Consultation
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:Â Spiritual Skin
It is also available in Kindle format here:Â Spiritual Skin