When you go out shopping for a new tattoo, do you have what you want already pictured in your mind? Are you hoping that the Tattoo Artist will be creative or do you just plan to pick one from their book of flash? Maybe you have a special meaning behind your tattoo ideas, but you are not sure exactly how you want your new tattoo to look. What if you could look around at different tattoo designs at home on your computer or better yet, show your tattoo artist exactly what you are talking about right on your phone?  That is exactly why Tattoo Me Now developed their online tattoo Gallery.

  Imagine thinking up the meaning for your next tattoo idea and going to a tattoo gallery without leaving your home. You will be able to pick from thousands of different tattoo pictures and  images to create exactly what you are looking for, for what ever inspiration you may have.

  Then once you find the tattoo pics you want you can easily download, print, and collage the tattoo design together any way you want to. We were excited also, this tattoo gallery was the “Holy Grail” to our skin ink wants and desires.

  Many of our friends have had so much success and enjoyment from going to Tattoo Me Now. I would show you some pictures but you don’t need them (they changed them up a lot). Once you get in to the site you will see for yourself. There are so many tattoo ideas that there truly is no limit to what your imagination can put together. Their BEST TATTOO is the one they claim they put together themselves with the help from Tattoo Me Now.

  One of our friends wanted a tribal tattoo that was different from all the other tribal they had seen at all the shops they had visited and all the flash they had looked through. We introduced them to this site and they used three different designs to put together their very own tribal tattoo idea. Really, there is no limit to what you can come up with when you can sit at home and put your downloaded pictures together yourself.

  Maybe you don’t want to combine patterns to make your tattoo design. You will still be happy with all the different tattoo images you can download. We at Eddie23g are sure of that statement.

  Another friend of ours had a complete theme in mind and knew exactly what pictures she wanted to have displayed in color for everyone to admire. Here best tattoo was going to contain all the things she wanted to remember her grandmother with. Her grandmama loved the ocean, so in her tattoo she choose to have the water, seashells, waves, dolphins, and other fish along with the bright sun to remind her of the bright smile that her grandma always greeted her with. Thanks to this site, she had the complete tattoo idea made up and to size to fit perfectly on her calve before she even walked into the shop.

  We at Eddie23g are so sure that you will be happy and amazed that we are writing this blog  just to tell you all about it. If you are looking for that perfect tattoo then your search is over. Click Here!              http://bit.ly/8jjqak                                                                    

So far so good! We all heard of tattooing and before it could get older a new form has surfaced. Digital tattooing will let you implant a screen on your body with cords attached that run on your blood. It’s a device powered by converting the oxygen and glucose in the blood into electricity. Though people being presented with this idea have mixed sentiments, many consider it a device with endless applications. This electronic interface powered by blood is said to have the ability to display videos, act as a phone or computer. Let’s see how this new fad is taken up and what level of interest will it be able to stir.

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On the day of my first sitting for my tattoo, I was meditative. This was an important day, reminiscent to me of when I went through the LDS temple for the first time; I had no idea what the experience would really be like, but I knew that I would emerge a changed woman.

My tattoo is large and bold. After being a conformist, agreeable, silent-in-so-many-ways girl for most of my life, I felt compelled to do something daring. This marking was a sort of initiatory rite into my new, stronger sense of self.

I chose a snake for several reasons. I was partly inspired by a book entitled “The Alphabet versus the Goddess” by Leonard Shlain, who writes:

Western culture has long reviled the snake, associating it with evil and temptation. But at the dawn of civilization the snake was a positive symbol of feminine energy. Egyptians perceived the snake as a beneficent, vital creature intimately associated with female sexuality, and by extension, with life.

Snakes also resembled three other important life-affirming images: the meander of rivers, the roots of trees and plants, and the umbilical cord of mammals. There can be no structure that better symbolizes the idea of a mother/nurturer than an umbilical cord. Its form resembles two snakes entwined about each other. Rising out from a placenta’s sinuous blood vessels, the umbilical cord might easily inspire the notion that snakes were vital to life. And, because a snake regularly sheds its skin to begin anew, it can easily be imagined as an immortal creature that does not die, and is thus a potent symbol of rebirth. Finally, the snake is associated with wisdom. Its eye is the opening to mystic insight and foresight. So connected in the Egyptian psyche were beneficent serpents and goddesses that the hieroglyph for goddess was the same as the one for serpent.

I love the life-affirming, powerful feminine symbolism behind the snake. But there’s more to the story. In many ancient cultures, the snake was a goddess symbol. When the Judeo-Christian religions took shape, the divine feminine was pushed into hiding; one of her powerful symbols denigrated. Shlain writes:

After woman has been created, [the Bible] tells the story of the forbidden fruit, which further diminishes women’s place in society. Yahweh instructs the first couple to make themselves at home in His Garden of Eden and to enjoy its delights– with one exception: they are not to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge “lest they die.” Enter the Serpent, cast as a villain, but actually the only character in this morality play who speaks the truth. The Serpent tells Eve that partaking of the Tree of Knowledge’s fruit will not cause her death; instead the Serpent says, “In the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good from evil.” Intrigued by the prospect of such a wondrous gift, Eve “took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.”

The omniscient Yahweh pretends not to know what has transpired. When He confronts the first man with his breach of discipline, Adam blames the first woman. She confesses, but claims that the Serpent had beguiled her. Faced with the three culprits, Yahweh first curses the Serpent, pronouncing, “I will put enmity between thee and the woman.” In every earlier culture, the snake was one of the Goddess’s most potent power symbols: Yahweh’s first disciplinary act was to sever this ancient connection.
My experience in the Mormon church, and as part of the larger Judeo-Christian culture, has left me feeling a deep longing for connection to the feminine aspect of divinity. I have begun to find it in many ways, and choosing this tattoo as a symbol of my own inner goddess and my connection to divine feminine energy has been an important and exciting part of that.

“But I can’t believe you would put something permanent on your body like that!” you say. Paradoxically, this tattoo also serves as a reminder to me of the impermanence of life. It is not as permanent as most artwork. When I die, it will die and decompose with me. I am not permanently on this earth, which reminds me to live each moment to the fullest and be the best I can in the here and now.

I have transformed in so many ways in the past few years. I have claimed my spiritual authority and reclaimed the Goddess as part of my spiritual path. I have become more confident in myself. I trust my intuition. My heart and mind are more open. The low grade depression and guilt I carried for years have lifted. I have shed my skin and wizened up. I have a long way to go still, but now I have a symbolic companion to remind me of how far I have come and that continued renewal and rebirth is possible.

Photos of AmyB’s tattoo in earlier stages:

UPDATE:
For those of you confused about the directions of the coils, here’s a handy diagram for you:

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