Lotus Flower Tattoo
The Lotus flower is one of the most widely-inked flowers in tattoo designs. Perhaps it is because of the wide array of symbols and meanings that a Lotus flower tattoo design offers when it comes to its ability in expressing something very special and unique for its tattoo’s wearer. In Eastern culture, the Lotus flower is a symbol of inner strength and a person’s ability to develop more and more over time—despite negative conditions which affect them.
The Lotus flower is a Japanese water lily; it grows in murky, swampy environments. Despite its environment, the Lotus grows into a beautiful flower, with hearty petals, and bright colors. According to traditional Egyptian culture, a lotus flower tattoo would be considered a symbol of development as well as renewal. Hinduism uses the lotus flower as a symbol of enlightenment, higher knowledge, and learning that is done on an almost heightened metaphysical plane of consciousness.
Within the Hindu belief system, the Lotus flower signifies a sort of personal break or elevation from your external surroundings—a separation that does not impede but rather enables a person to grow stronger than other elements which surround them. In Buddhism as well as Hinduism, the Lotus flower is most commonly seen as a symbol of spiritual ascension and the achievement of gaining a higher level of spiritual consciousness. The lotus flower is also highly significant of a sort of transcending effects from one’s past—even if it is the effects of one’s memories. This lends itself well to the Lotus flower tattoo symbolizing someone’s achievement of breaking through negative external forces—whether have existed in the past or not—in order to gain a higher sense of self as well as heightened sense of existence and wellbeing too.
The Lotus flower tattoo is an extremely popular Japanese flower tattoo is the lotus flower tattoo. Lotus flowers are often associated with and elevated or heightened level of spiritual consciousness spurred by someone’s inner or spiritual strength, their personal capacity to grow, and their internal resiliency to counter the negative effects of the things which surround them. The Lotus flower is also significant of a sort of transience from the past—which lends itself well to its symbolism of breaking through to a higher sense of self and a heightened sense of existence and being.
A Lotus flower tattoo can incorporate white into its color, since white is symbolic of purity, renewal, and even signifies a certain heightened sense of something or a particular elevation.
