I love Tattoos. I don't recall when i first fell in love with them. I do know that it was NOT the first time i saw a fat hairy biker with rebel flags or even the first time i flipped through a rock music magazine with full page glossy. It was probably around the time i began my search for divinity. Before then i didn't appreciate the concept of a permanent mark that reminds. I have many ideas and seeds of sketches that will eventually cover me, but for now i am currently working on my Ganesha tattoo. This is phase one of four. He will be mostly blue except for the eyes, trident, triangles on the trunk and tusks. I'm getting it filled later this week as soon as my check clears . Phase 3 is the line work of his body on my side under the arm. Thats going to be very fun Then final phase is the body fill, that might have to be in 2 parts. Other projects are an Egyptian style caduceus wrapping around my right arm, a black cat on a calf, day of the dead skull other calf , and much more.

I enjoy stories behind tattoos a great deal as well. What we choose to remind ourselves of day after day is a very clear window to a person's inner soul. I was raised in a strict christian family all my life. It never suited me. That should have been obvious. I question authority, i doubt illogical beliefs openly, i push buttons. I was never meant to be a christian. As soon as my parents split up i had the freedom to think and read whatever i wished without big brother squeeling on me. I immediately dove into magick philosophy (practice comes later), Buddhist meditations, Hindu mantras and visualizations, Taoist martial arts, phychonautics, anything that veered from the norm and got me away from clean sober people. Since that time I've cut and pasted together all the things from each religion and philosophy that made sense to me. That is how we've arrived here with Ganesha on my left arm for the left path of tantra. Well thats enough blog for one day. I'd love to hear comments on stories that lead up to very special ink.