With greater acceptance of women getting tattooed these days, flower tattoos are becoming very popular. Naturally, because these tattoos are of many types, sizes, and colors of flowers, they can be interpreted with different meanings. Meanings of flowers can shift, of course, if you focus on a select flower, such as the lotus or the rose.
The parts of life connected to nature, birth, vitality, and procreation are summoned up through the flower tattoo. During a flower’s life cycle, we watch it blossom from the seed, grow and bloom from a bud, and eventually wilt and die, which gives us a stronger connection to nature’s life cycle. To have a tattoo picturing a flower reminds us of that whole process of life. You can change a lot of the meaning of the flower on the tattoo just by changing the color. If someone is looking for a representation of purity, they might choose a lovely white flower tattoo, while they might go for a red one if they are looking for something to symbolize the color of Christ’s blood, or to demonstrate their passion.
If you want a flower tattoo that symbolizes the purest of love, you should go with a rose. The sixteenth century had a different idea about roses, however, as they were tattooed on the body’s of the condemned prisoners in case they escaped the gallows. However, these days the rose is tattooed as a symbol of love. The tattooed symbolism of the flower has to do with the fact that it is given during romantic occasions. This is why it is often tattooed on someone to show their love for a certain person. It’s probably not a coincidence that the rose is the most popular of all tattoos picturing flowers, and even more so, since men are getting tattooed with roses as well.
While the rose is a symbol of love and purity for the western world, the lotus flower symbolizes these things in the eastern world. Unlike the rose, however, the lotus has multiple other meanings. Included in these meanings are symbols of beauty, goodness, fortune, enlightenment, and peace. Others go with an acacia tattoo, because it represents an acacia tattoo, which represents chaste love and friendship. The Bells of Ireland flower has two meanings: one represents good luck, while the other represents a call of freedom to ring in Ireland.
A tulip is usually tattooed by people who wish to show the world that they are a widely well known lover. If you suffer from feelings of shyness, you should probably get a violet tattoo instead, however. The Iris tattoo demonstrates that the person is one of great faith, wisdom, or virtue, while the magnolia represents that a person has a great love of nature or a sense of nobility. Many people get a tattoo of a flower knowing that they will have a beautiful design that will also have a meaning behind it. A flower tattoo can vary in size, and be as bold as you like, but whichever flower you choose, make sure it says what you want it to.
