Tattoos Anyone?

[Kintsugi]

I have two tattoos. One is a semicolon on the back of my neck, the other a Celtic knot forming a five-pointed star over my left shoulder blade. I'm too shy to post pictures, but everyone's pictures look beautiful.

Also, in regard to self-mutilation and tattoos, Xibalba, I find body modification a healthy alternative to self-destruction as long as it isn't overdone. I also am fascinated by your surgical scar tattoo; I often fantasize of creating those scars and used to draw stitches on everything when I was younger. I don't know what this means, but you're the first person who has mentioned something similar to my old desires.

 

[jimmy-joe]

Ah yes, but without the signals, what would the output be?

;p;p;polkdpiojfpjf;lmafl;s it wont save w/o the "quote" for me

 

[njray]

OK this is very weird... surgical scars, I have this surgical scar on my knee about 56 stitches 8 inches long. I am 48 now and received it from an operation when I was about 14. It is a place that both provides extra stimulation for me during s__x actually to the point of complete submission when caressed which I can almost understand because of nerve endings and scaring blah blah blah.(Disclaimer: For the record I am not a cutter in fact one that has had an injury that requires surgery with a knife but because the injury was indirectly associated with the knife I am petrified of the surgery) Great I talked about getting my tattoo fixed on my arm because it is UGLY, I do not get any stimulation from it but now it is going to stay an ugly blob with a story attached to it LOLLOL

What has freaked me out is that some woman I have dated/married are/were fascinated by it the knee scar. I was told it was because they saw how it made me react almost to the point of complete submission when they k_ss_d or t__n__d it. They then would ask very specific questions about how it felt when they touched it. I never new any of the woman to be cutters or become ones but it turns out that 2 of them do have disorders to which control and extra stimuli are issues . I'm wondering if there is a correlation of that of cutting and the feeling of x tra stimulation when the heeling process is taking place.

If one cuts and gets stimulation although it might be negative or hurtful but knowing that the healing process provides extra positive stimuli could that possibly lead to more cutting .... again and again.... Is not a tattoo causing not only body art is it not inflicting some piercing of the skin that requires healing and possible a positive stimulation. That would want some to seek more than 1 tattoo.

Next question, Does the location of where you got the tattoo have something to say about you?. Me I got mine to show off the X and my love etc.( yeh right i did say x lol) My X had a parrot one on her thigh.(If someone can tell me about the parrot meaning is it a go go dancing thing because of course after we got married she said she flirted in that arena only as a protection piece for her friend...Okay I have found out much more since) others have had them on there lower back and neck. Places that If I paid attention to (or areas close by it) extra goosebumps or other actions to indicate stimulation was taking place was very apparent. Can a tattoo location placement offer as much if not more about ones inner psyche than the tattoo itself?

 

[Maggie1198]

This is my first and only tattoo. I was 19 and traveling the country doing volunteer work. I came home for a week to visit my family and friends and I decided to get this done without my mom's knowledge. Of course, when she found out a few days later, she wasn't very happy to say the least. My tattoo is of an angel and is located on back between my shoulder blades. I always think of it as my guardian.

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[Reclusive]

That's beautiful work, Maggie! Just beautiful!

 

[NIKI]

Very nice Maggie, I like the idea of the guardian angel.

 

[UnderstandingAnxiety]

I have a treble clef on my left ankle. Music has always seemed to help me through rough times so I got it there as a reminder. :) I really want the Beatles' lyrics "Take a sad song and make it better" tattooed on me.

 

[LaurenRose]

I have a few tattoo's. I have gotten them as a way of "claiming" myself, an attempt to help me know that I am real.

I have a little yin/yang on my right hand between my thumb and forefinger. I get to see it all the time to remind me that I need to find balance in life. That everything in life has both good and bad, right and left, happy and sad, that if I look deep enough - I could find the counterpart.

I have one on my right shin, my "soul" tattoo if you will, done in a tribal design. In the centre is a rose (my middle name). Surrounding it are my power strengths. A dragon (chinese horoscope) and a scorpion (western horoscope). I have yin/yanged the dragon and scorpion so the weak spots, the spaces where they meet each other, the rose is protected by stinger, teeth, claws and tail. It is my way of "claiming" who I am - something visual to help me figure it out. Something tangible to let me know that I am someone.

On my left wrist, I have a "Faerie Sith" a Scots faerie which helps me claim my Scots roots, and is a symbol of a Scots Land Faerie, helping me to know I am one with nature. There is a band around it that is a series of seven trinity knots (ie one is emotions, body, intellect) with a unity band threaded through them all uniting them.

I have a tatt that goes from ear to ear on the back of my neck. I can keep it hidden or reveal it with my hair depending on my state of being. On the left there is a caterpillar, "fat" with shite. There is an interwoven thorny vine going across to the right where there is a butterfly in flight (freedom). In the centre, the vines woven through it, is a "Thinking Man" (classic pose) which is my chrysalis. People keep telling me that I think too much. I used to try and exorcise it as I began to believe that this was the root of my pain. I "claimed" it as part of who I am and how I think and that it is okay to be me. The tatt is my process in life when it is not so messed up that I am unable to think at all.

My new one, the one I am about to get, is "Seeker" tatt'd on the inside of my right forearm. I did a little exercise with my own self to see if I could come up with a single word that defines me.

Each one is an attempt for me to become one with my body, with my mind, with my emotions, with my soul. An effort to fully get in touch with who I am. It has been helpful really, especially in the moments when so much makes absolutely no sense and I am on the verge of slipping out of life.

Does anyone else have tattoo's? Is there a significant meaning to them?

 

[MurphyJB]

Very cool tattoos!
I have 11 myself.
Each one has a special meaning to me.
You may want to check out the thread 'Tattoos Anyone?' I started it a while back and there are some pretty awesome pictures.

 

[Lionheart]

Once when the abuse was really bad and I was struggling to shut down, I heard ravens, blackbirds, or crows outside of the window . I flew away with the birds in my mind and it took me out-of-body so that I could withstand the abuse I was going through.

Years later, I found out that there is an African tribe that considers the Raven to be protector of the child spirit. There are five types of blackbirds in the Corvid family and so I now have 5 ravens/blackbirds tattooed on my upper arm to commemorate my "Spirit helpers."

My other tattoo is a reaper to remind me that death is a part of life and not the opposite of life. It reminds me to live each day like it may be my last.

 

[LaurenRose]

Thanks Murphy. Maybe I can get this thread deleted and post there.

Lionheart, that is just so awesome. If it is okay with you, and if this is deleted, would you mind re-posting in the thread Murphy suggested?

 

[Lionheart]

Once when the abuse was really bad and I was struggling to shut down, I heard ravens, blackbirds, or crows outside of the window . I flew away with the birds in my mind and it took me out-of-body so that I could withstand the abuse I was going through.

Years later, I found out that there is an African tribe that considers the Raven to be protector of the child spirit. There are five types of blackbirds in the Corvid family and so I now have 5 ravens/blackbirds tattooed on my upper arm to commemorate my "Spirit helpers."

My other tattoo is a reaper to remind me that death is a part of life and not the opposite of life. It reminds me to live each day like it may be my last.