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I haver given tattoos, but I wasn't very good at it, and I doubt I'll do it again. My brother, on the other hand, does tattooing as a side-business, and has done a number of religious/magick tats for people. The only times I've known him to back off of such was when he felt he really didn't understand the way it was meant to work - not visually, necessarily, but in terms of function, potency, and intent. Or, the one or two times he flat out disagreed with the intent/application.
There's a lot of noise when the family gets together about how I should let my brother tattoo me. He is very good, no argument there, but he's my bro, right? So my assumption is, given past examples in other areas (haircuts, being sick and in bed when he wanted to go do something, general childhood extant into adulthood sibling stuff), he knows I'll eventually forgive him a whole lot. And, we just don't see eye-to-eye on certain aspects for either of us to feel too comfortable about the idea.
Tats are big for Tsalagi, culturally, though. They're one of the things that get looked at when we die, and while nothing bad would come of dying with a bad tattoo or anything like that, it's a self-representatio/focus thing. You're not being judged, just looked over, so it's more a matter of how you want to appear when you're looked over.
I'll throw in with Uluru's suggestion about nervousness being potentially good, too. There's not a whole lot of point to a tattoo, much less a magickal tattoo, if it's not going to be a focal of some sort of potency, right? Potency ought to be nervous-making.
And 'panglobal spiritworker', well, it's the the 21st Cent. right? Time's come to admit humanity, by necessity, is panglobal, and nobody's escaping the 'mongrel lineage' category, even if the genetics stay localized for generations, and it's only on a (sub-; pop-) cultural basis. |
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