Megan's Empress Impresses

I spotted Megan at the end of September walking down West 23rd Street in Chelsea.<br /><br />She has an amazing sleeve-in-progress but, because it is still unfinished, she offered up this tattoo, on her upper right arm, instead:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz-wqQMozMkJdivJPzUqT5h4STRL91UoaCFWzi63Bw4R3c256qNyv5V5EEqSah6vbZLm2IDPJK-6YSOfucCVDIVkoqp1t38tDYkHgJHwgUPnxaEDHYtbsUL2O5A-0AyW3-vPNjCzadUXQ/s1600/Tarot+Card+wm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz-wqQMozMkJdivJPzUqT5h4STRL91UoaCFWzi63Bw4R3c256qNyv5V5EEqSah6vbZLm2IDPJK-6YSOfucCVDIVkoqp1t38tDYkHgJHwgUPnxaEDHYtbsUL2O5A-0AyW3-vPNjCzadUXQ/s640/Tarot+Card+wm.jpg" width="352" /></a></div><br />This <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot_of_Marseilles">tarot card</a> is significant because her mother is from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carribean">Caribbean</a> and she grew up with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santer%C3%ADa">Santerían</a> religion in her household.<br /><br />She has a profound respect for tarot cards and based on the time and date of her birth, has what she refers to as a "weird numerology".<br /><br />This card is known as L'Impératrice,or <a href="http://www.tarotpedia.com/wiki/Empress">The Empress</a>, and has a very positive meaning. As interpreted by one site (<a href="http://tarotcardsreading.blogspot.com/2007/10/limpratrice-impress-arcana-iii-3.html">here</a>):<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Empress seems to be sure of herself, calm, intelligent, worthy.</span> <span style="font-family: verdana;">This major arcana represents the capacity, the Empress clothing is luxurious and invaluable.</span> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br />This arcana is extremely positive...</span> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span>...<span style="font-family: verdana;">In the right position the Empress represents the intelligence, dignity, the authority, the mother, the wife, the right decisions.</span></blockquote><br />The detail in this tattoo is amazing:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnawAIVUUpCxFv1kpEhfVh6wmLdOZk0bd2kphJP_G7ZVbaUmd82-E7F8Nt4-moTsHjK0goLIPPM9gMPWaxa0ooLcpx-WOU84ed6q5tqWqAwcbAJAsmXZJudcJMI92OIg1juy3ZtSISKKc/s1600/Tarot+Card+detail+2+wm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnawAIVUUpCxFv1kpEhfVh6wmLdOZk0bd2kphJP_G7ZVbaUmd82-E7F8Nt4-moTsHjK0goLIPPM9gMPWaxa0ooLcpx-WOU84ed6q5tqWqAwcbAJAsmXZJudcJMI92OIg1juy3ZtSISKKc/s400/Tarot+Card+detail+2+wm.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />The art was inked by <a href="http://www.threekingstattoo.com/site/artistpage.php?artistid=7&picid=420&page=1">Annie Lloyd</a> at <a href="http://www.threekingstattoo.com/site/index.php">Three Kings Tattoo</a> in Brooklyn. Work from Three Kings has appeared previously on Tatoosday <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/search/label/Three%20Kings%20Tattoo">here</a>.<br /><br />Thanks to Megan for sharing this lovely tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

Megan's Empress Impresses

I spotted Megan at the end of September walking down West 23rd Street in Chelsea. She has an amazing sleeve-in-progress but, because it is s...

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