As mentioned in my post on the upcoming Capricorn Super Full Moon this Saturday the 12th and Saturn’s going direct on the 20th, I’ve been immersed in a theme of Capricorn energy both personally and collectively.

My most recent tattoo design client, whose designs you see pictured here, also happens to be a Capricorn. And, it wasn’t until I was near completion of his design that I realized the synchronicity and potency of what had channeled through, given what I’d been focused on.

It’s so beautiful to see the collective shared thread and reiterates again just how powerful these sacred tattoo designs are in terms of not just personally activating things for the wearer, but also have collective symbolism and activate things for all who also experience the designs by viewing it.

I’ll go further to add that simply their “coming to life” as I design them, also acts as a portal opening for the collective pool to experience. This is true with anything that we create intentfully, just as crop circles shift frequencies on the Earth and for the Earth collective simply by their activation into being. So too does sacred art in all of its forms when it is purely brought to life.

I find this an incredibly fun project that is worth sharing in its development. This design was an evolutionary journey of learning, revealing, and growth, simply in the process of its manifestation. My client and I went through stages and created two designs, as result of what was needed to be revealed and integrated.

The work was being done through the activation of the designs. Very cool stuff.

It was like a healing session through designs and once we were able to pinpoint the specifics and story, we were able to create another level of integrated expression that had been revealed and embraced.

It’s kind of hard to explain, but we had this beautiful transference of inner work take place through intentfully created energetic symbolism.

And we also achieved a beautiful opening to telepathic communication and an incredible synergy of meaning.

I will let you explore the designs to see what you receive from them – one of which became our tool for doing the deeper work. The other to take the work achieved and create a frequency for it as an energetic imprint, so to speak, at the level of integration that was achieved.

The design is a larger piece that will sit at the center, upper portion of the back at 13 inches long/tall and 8 and ¾ inches at the widest part.

I combined several elements of symbolism into the image you see first, above, that really spoke loudly to me in the process of tuning in and reflecting on all that my client shared that we would be working to bring forth and balance.

Here are the elements included: 

Capricorn represented in the male figure that is half goat and half fish  – My client is a Capricorn and when I felt into how to represent this powerful and transformative evolution he is moving through, I wanted something that represented him and this felt to be his Capricorn Sun, by birth. From the information he shared about his personality and how others relate to him and see him, this all really spoke to that empowered essence of who he is. So to convey this in a form that both had that integrity and dignity of his determined focus and compassionate self, while also conveying a sense of mystery and the creative freedom he is birthing from his inner flame, became the task. This Capricorn male is strong, mystical, a leader and visionary, confident, but caring – all of this captured in the way I drew him.

Vortex portal – this is depicted where his hands are. His arms rest on his knees/tail with effortlessness as he creates a new doorway of experience and a new journey/path (the spiral center) that is within his creative capacity to be in control of. He is the authority of himself and his life and the creator of his experiences.

Phoenix – the Phoenix is merged almost as one with the Capricorn figure. This signifies a rebirthing and reinvention of who he is that is taking place . The Phoenix shares his body, but also appears as if hovering in air, as it magically rises from the flames to be reborn. Its wings, which also symbolize new found freedom, are starting to unfurl into a more expansive version of himself – him in his wholeness and able to weave his highest potentials into his life. The wings also appear to be part of him, but of the Phoenix simultaneously.

Flames – I added a touch of tribal like flames, as my client really likes that style, from which the Phoenix/and the new version of self is rising and emerging from. They are also like the violet flame of the seventh ray – a tool for spiritual self transformation and transcendence. It is also the flame of transmutation, freedom, and forgiveness. The flames are also positioned at the top and above his Crown Chakra so it is symbolically representational of this.

Spiral Horns – I added the simple spiral horns supporting below to emphasize that Capricorn is Earthy and very grounded. Although he has the tail of a fish, this is mainly to represent that he has a very refined sense of empathy and is very sensitive in the way of being aware of all levels of communication, which makes him always aware of other’s feelings and makes him a good leader, able to help others to cooperate to achieve goals. So this shows the sensitive side of Capricorn in having some softer spiral shapes, but yet are strong horns because of his strength and confidence as a leader. Also I wanted to balance the more harder edged points of the flames and wings, to bring a sense of that balance that is needed and is within him. There is both a strong male aspect here, but tempered with being in touch with the Divine Feminine in some of the subtle curvatures integrated in the full design. He seems to be supported by these spiral horns that represent being at one with the journey, since his tail entwines with them. The spiral of course is a symbol of creation, movement, fluidity, surrender/releasing, holistic growth, and awareness of the one within the context of the whole. It reveals the cyclical nature of life, the consciousness of nature from core center expanding outward, and the relationship between unity and multiplicity. It is the limitless spirals that move both “inward towards the Source of creation and eternally outward with Source’s continual self-creation.” In this way, the spiral reflects the contiguous journey home to who you really are and the journey to be one with Source.

Triangle/Pyramid/Diamond – the overall shape of the design is a combination of a pyramid or triangle, as well as infers a diamond shape. These have their own sacred geometry symbolism. The Triangle pointing upright is a visual symbol of ascension and brings the concept of duality to a third position of integration and harmony. The peak at top symbolizes higher thought, inspiration, enlightenment, oneness of mind, aspiration, focus, unity consciousness. In this way it helps you focus and center the inner conflicts in order to be in stillness of peace with the wholeness of who you are and within that peace to be guided by your authentic voice. The diamond symbol or the triangle symbol expresses itself in terms of clarity, ascension and extraordinary wisdom. The diamond of course is two triangles inverted.

And then you have the second image, which integrates things further, and to another level.

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