Tattoos: Marks of The Spirit
By Tarun & Celia Cherian
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Today a patient came with an ancient Persian truth "This Too Shall Pass" etched into her skin. She was proclaiming: "l can endure anything. Even this terror encircling me will pass & fall." She could have said the truth, talked the truth, but tattooing the truth into her skin is a deeper act.
Tattoos are time immemorial. And can serve many emotional, psychic, spiritual tasks. Today we look at Tattooing with aura eyes, spiritual eyes and attempt to unravel some of its mysteries. We look at the many who tattoo, see the significance unravel the chakras involved and the energy tapped into.
Tattooing involves many acts.
First it involves pain. An act of ‘cutting’ oneself {Or another}. An act with many dimensions.
- For one it is linked to pinching oneself awake. When overwhelmed by pain or shock one may counter the dizziness, descending oblivion by pinching oneself.
- “After life hit me, I felt myself die inside. I hurt myself because then I knew I could feel I was alive. The cuts on my skin were steps to myself.”
- Sometimes when undergoing deep pain, we perhaps find our nails mark the palm of our hands, as we attempted to stop blubbering, to prevent oneself from breaking down.
- Sometimes after one has done something intensely stupid, you sometimes smash your hand into a wall. Or slap yourself. You need to be punished.
- Sloth has been called one of the deadly sins in the Western tradition. And sometimes the only way to correct oneself is to discipline oneself. You are trying to drive lessons deep into one’s body.
- ‘Pain is the currency of reality.’ Now there are many who talk, but those who can walk the talk are fewer still. And so tattooing helps underline deep unspeakable statements from self to self.
The second significant act of tattooing is that of Marking One’s Body. Be it for oneself or another.
- When getting into a fight one is less likely to pick on a scarred fighter than an unmarked opponent. And so tattooing sends out primal messages. Treat me seriously.
- Sometimes when dealing with a friend, everything is chill, till one day when a tear held back, or cry let out, reveals the scream, the bruises within. And so sometimes Tattoos speak and say “I am in pain”. Or reveals “Unspeakable rage drives me.”
- We humans rally around social cues. We react differently to different colored skin. And so tattooing immediately signals a tribe or community.
- Group connections and identity. Another related aspect is tattooing can be dep messages between partners, friends, family, lovers.
The next significant act of tattooing is that of Transforming One’s Body, and Self.
- It is said that a leopard can’t change its spots. But what if it could? What if it could add more spots? Look like a Tiger?
- Many psychological experiments detail how the clothes one wears can change one’s behavior. In an experiment ordinary people given guard uniforms and placed in situations began to behave in brutish fashions. So by shifting the clothes of the body one can allow another persona to enter.
The next significant act of tattooing which we will discuss, is one step deeper, of Transforming One’s Relationship with The Earth, with Nature, with God.
- We have looked at tattooing as a way of sending messages to a predator, friend, lover. But what if the message is deeper? So one is etching faces for a deeper reality… For example, what if the tattoo is a pass key as one encounters ghosts?
- What if a tattoo opens portals to the earth?
- What if it is an invitation to God to enter one’s body?
Now that we have briefly mapped the incredible possibilities, let us look at specific tattoos and their chakra effects and energy body impacts.
The Root & Shadow Root Chakras.
A village tantric we encountered on the main road possessed a brooding power. Partly this power was entrenched as she had tattooed herself on her forehead. This had opened doors to a chakra that gives access to what may be called lesser hells. This principally shifted energy flows in the etheric body so she was capable of energizing health, sexuality, family behavior. She was also ‘half-mad’, having invited and enshrined 3 ghosts in her being.
This was not strictly speaking tattoos, but lacerations a deeply guilty priest inflicted on his body. This gave great control of blocking over the hellish chakras. It also impacted a very deep body, the body of night turning to matter or the Shadow body. This gave him control over matter, sexuality and desire forms that he mistook as demons.
The Abdomen Chakras.
With the lady whose tattoo reads "This Too Shall Pass" the tattoo essentially touches the sacral chakra, the etheric abdomen chakra so it touches chakra near the spine, especially one that shifts hormones, these govern attractiveness, goodness. The energy body it touches is the etheric. Here it says touch me if you dare to meet an equal.Another friend, relative has a half a Dylan poem tattooed on her body. The other half is tattooed on her sister’s body. “Do not go gentle into the good night… Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” At a message level, it proclaims the bonds of sisterhood will outlast death & decay. But at an energy level, the connection is of awareness, one sister, taps into the other sister’s body and pulls her back from her craziest excesses.
The Navel Chakras.
A lady was carving a tattoo on her body. The tattoo was of a circle, while one could associate this with the abdomen or root chakra. The chakra it touched was the navel. She was gathering force and courage. But to do what? To move into a new lifestyle where she could give up her job, and rely entirely on her husband’s income… but the inner force would maintain real equality even though she would no longer be a bread winner. The tattoo asserted that she was a potent equal not a chattel, as he social forays would greatly enhance family fortunes.A man was tattooing himself. Why? To proclaim he was a tough guy. He was proclaiming himself. Respect was what it ensured. And unlike the other examples, this touched the causal body. It showed his values were simpatico with the group’s thrust. This was not about releasing pain, but channeling rage, proclaiming power, demanding respect.
The Heart Chakra.
A lady was tattooing a flower on her body. Why? With the death of her mother she felt her family would fragment. So she was in effect, allowing a green trellis to wrap the raw earth of family. Though she was not the eldest, many consulted her.A man tattooed a crown on his chest. Looked at closer, it represented his internalization of love with a father figure, now fading. And others in the family followed suit, binding the family, deepening ties.
The Throat Chakra.
A European lady, learning yoga in India got a magnificent tattoo of a phoenix tattooed on her body. Sure there was pain, an intense relationship with her mother, underlay her foray into spiritual India. But the tattoo touched her Throat chakra. And the reincanational body. She was not just attempting to express herself, but to find new skies where she and her tribe could soar.
The 3rd eye & Crown Chakra.
Since, tattooing often involves unresolved pain, using cutting and hurt to unleash deep impulse, it is but the rare occasion where a tattoo can tap 3rd eye or crown chakra freedoms. A sindhi lady was getting married. In that family, when she went to the new family both her surname and maiden name would change. The tattoo she did, was not directed towards anchoring the past. But to use the complete erasure to etch a new self that would emerge. A self above her past, and her new family’s boundaries.
Stigmata.
Till now we looked at tattoos as physical markings on one’s body by humans to serve emotional and spiritual needs. But across time and space we have had examples where mystics have manifest on their bodies, wounds and hurts that reveal a deep truth. For example many Christan mystics manifest wounds on their hands even though they have not been physically wounded.And so these are markings of the spirit on the body. A master who Celia was learning from 30 years ago, said that he was commanding that her clothes that evening would show spiritual symbols. Since we saw this act as one of ownership of branding us with his power turning us into his cattle we rejected it, and the symbols didn’t manifest, however other students claimed it did for them.
Tattoohs. Full Moon Ritual of Power. And Gentleness.
We have covered a vast range of tattoo freedoms.We now explore some freedoms without cutting oneself. Or visiting a tattoo parlour. Take a small bowl filled with ice. Pick an ice piece and slowly touch it to your left arm. Every few cm tap another point till you climb up your palm till it touches the tip of the middle finger now do it again from the shoulder to the little finger. Then pointing finger, ring finger the thumb. The palm then heel of hand. Chant your core chant as you do so.
What difference will it make?
Your healing will become gentler yet deeper.Love & God,
Tarun & Celia CherianPS: Neither Celia or I have tattoos.
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