Southern Cross Tattoo

A Southern Cross Tattoo is a really great Cross Tattoo design for both guys and girls.

The Southern Cross Tattoo is not only a work of art—it is a work of Nature The Southern Cross—which a Southern Cross Tattoo represents through its imagery—is visible in the night sky from the Earth’s southern hemisphere. The Southern Cross was often used by sailors to guide their ship by enabling them to navigate properly before there were compasses. The night sky as seen from the southern hemisphere lacks a polar star—the northern hemisphere’s polar star is named, unsurprisingly, the North Star—and the Southern Cross constellation was marked in its absence.

While some visual and artistic representations of the Southern Cross only have four stars in their designs, the actual Southern Cross constellation has five stars. The Southern Cross Tattoo is, therefore, an incorporation of five stars in total. Four of the stars in the Southern Cross seem like they would match up with the four end points of a cross if its stellar constellation was placed over the two, intersecting lines which make up a Cross. The Southern Cross constellation and apparent ability to match up with the four end points of a Cross is so distinctive and obvious, that the Latin variation for the constellation is Crux—which, of course, means Cross.

The Southern Cross Tattoo incorporates the five stars found in the Crux constellation. The four main stars rendered in the Southern Cross Tattoo are larger than the fifth and final star of the stellar formation. The four main star rendered in the Southern Cross Tattoo are relatively the same size. The fifth and final star of the Southern Cross constellation appears in the Southern Cross Tattoo just a scale smaller and is located below and offset from the right cross point marked by the right-most main star.

The same image used in a Southern Cross Tattoo is often used on many a national flag—such as Australia’s and Brazil’s—and has an unlimited number of color concept options. This is not only the use of the Southern Cross constellation on national flags but in its render through many a Southern Cross Tattoo as well. Many a Southern Cross Tattoo is inked in with all black or all white. Other examples of the Southern Cross Tattoo have their stars’ outline inked it—perhaps with black, with white, or with other colors all together. There are a lot of examples of the Southern Cross Tattoo being inked in with a separate color for each of the five stars in the rendered constellation.

Many a Southern Cross Tattoo is inked in the skin over the shoulder blade or is offset and inked on the lower back. The stars themselves in any Southern Cross Tattoo can vary in shape size, and design. It is typical to see a Southern Cross Tattoo with four main stars each with seven arms and the fifth minor star with five. All five stars could have seven arms. Comparatively, all five could have four arms. It is really up to who is designing and ultimately wearing the Southern Cross Tattoo.