The butterfly itself is a beautiful creature, displaying perfect symmetry, astounding colors, beautiful shapes and a light, airy motion. Capturing the natural beauty of a butterfly in a tattoo can result in some of the most beautiful tattoo designs that overflow with warmth, richness and color.If you look deeper than just the outside appearance of a butterfly you will find deep, symbolic meaning. Butterflies mean many different things to different cultures, though everything they are associated with is positive and uplifting.
Most commonly butterflies are used to symbolize change or transformation. Just as the caterpillar transforms into a butterfly, a butterfly tattoo can symbolize a personal transformation in your life or a change that you are undertaking. Many people who choose butterfly tattoos choose them because they symbolize a new life or new beginning. It may be that you have started a new phase of your life, or left an old one behind. Personal change or transformation can have a life altering impact and you may want to capture it and honor it with a butterfly tattoo.
Even with the symbolism that is often attached to butterflies, sometimes a butterfly tattoo is just a butterfly tattoo and doesn't have any underlying meaning for the person who got it. Appreciating the beauty of the art without needing to assign meaning to it is absolutely fine. Sometimes the beauty of the design itself is what holds meaning for us.
As with any tattoo, the most important thing in deciding to get a butterfly tattoo is that you love the design that you have chosen and that it holds a special meaning for you - whether that meaning is deep and profound or whether it is just that you think it is beautiful and want to showcase the artwork on your body. As long as when you look in the mirror and see your tattoo it makes you smile then you will know you have made the right choice. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks of your tattoo - what matters is that it makes you happy.
There can be no question that of all symbolic motifs in the representation of the sacred mysteries of origins, in the religious-mystical traditions of human culture, the vagina symbol is the most feared, being the most mysterious, hidden, unknown as representation of dual passage to life(in birth) and to afterlife(in death)
The vagina as the birth-death passage symbol stands at the hardcore of our awestruck fear of the unknown. The vagina is the ascent to life as well as the "dark descent" in death. The womb into which the vagina opens is the symbol of pre-life as well as afterlife: the mystery of mysteries
The death-life antagonistic duality, in the symbol of the sacred vagina of God The Mother, stands at the center of man's ambivalent attitude towards the woman
Rankian psychoanalysis associates our worst unconscious psychoneurotic fears with the "dark passage"(the vagina) in the repressed Birth Trauma(the Primal Trauma)
Yet our fleeting visionary recollections of the intrauterine pre-life is of paradisaical pleasure. But the painful vaginal passage of the Birth Trauma stands guard like an angel with flaming sword at the entrance into womb-paradise
How shall we overcome our fear of the vaginal passage? That is the question central to our pre-occupation in religious life
Blessed, indeed, are those for whom the gods have provided ointment-grease to lubricate the vaginal passage. For such have been provided the vicarious sacrificial painful death of Jesus at Golgotha
And we have our first intimation of the possibility of an ecstatically pleasurable passage in the delectable pleasures of sexual union with a woman: our "love choice" as mother-substitute.
Anthropologists and archeologists who first visited the Paleolithic Cave site at Altamira reported(even with the benefit of modern equipment) the fearsome steepness of the "dark descent" into the "womb of the earth


























































