This post is about my first tattoo and the experience I underwent through. Plus what does the tattoo means – many people have asked me what it means.

My experience wasn’t all that painful – as a matter of fact, it was pleasurable. I think that I’ve developed my abilities to channel the pain as something pleasurable due to how many times I was sewed as a kid. I also have this thought on my mind that I read years ago and I retained it for the moments that I need it: “Pain is the weakness leaving the body”. Another fact that didn’t stress or a nervous breakdown was the tattoo artist I went to. He’s very clean, and he let me know of everything he was doing and why.

“Tattooing is about personalizing the body, making it a true home and fit temple for the spirit that dwells inside it….Tattooing therefore, is a way of keeping the spiritual and material needs of my body in balance.” – Michelle Delio

Now I want to talk about the significance of the tattoo part by part.

First thing that people ask me is what does the Japanese letters around the circle means, but more on that later. I am a fighter and I practice martial arts since I was 5. Those words in Japanese are the Bushido – the life code of the samurais. Traduced it means “the way of the warrior”; being a fighter is not simply a sport, for me it is a way of life that I have practiced for a long time and I implement constantly in my daily life. The letters are the 7 virtues of Bushido: Rectitude, Courage, Benevolence, Respect, Honesty, Honor and Loyalty.

Moving on to the circle with the three identical symbols: it isn’t 3 sixes, or a sharingan, or Sasuke’s curse. This symbol is ubiquitous on Buddhist and Shinto temples all over Japan. Its name is tomoe, meaning “turning” or “circular”, referring to the motion of the earth. The tomoe is related to the yin yang symbol and has a similar meaning, representing the play of forces in the cosmos. Visually, the tomoe is made up of interlocked flames (or magatama) resembling tadpoles.

The Tattoo in my back is one of the most common tomoe emblems and haves three flames (triple, or ‘mitsudomoe’), but one, two, or four are not uncommon. A mitsudomoe reflects the threefold division of Shinto cosmology, and it’s said to represent the earth, the heavens, and humankind. It is often associated with the Shinto war deity Hachiman.

To wrap it up, the circles with the dot on the center of the tomoes. That symbol is utilized in many ways around the world, many of them in a religious sense. Called a “circumpunct”, it represents the sun and a Sun God (called Ra in Egypt), gold (as in alchemy), a (unbiblical) archangel (Kabbalah), emotional restraint, and the creative spark of divine consciousness within people linking everyone to the creative mind of a universal “god” thus making each persona “co-creator” (astrology). In the complex symbolic system of Hinduism and Buddhism, the bindu (dot) represents the male force. Together, the circle and the bindu symbolize the spiritual merging of male and female forces.

I utilized with the significance of the three. The first one is called An Ordi, the symbol of the Divine Order, representing chaos, light, life, freedom, good, happiness, infinity, and existence. The second is The Huichol Indian’s Eye of God. The third circle’s meaning is more symbolic and deep to me. It symbolizes emotional restraint: tending to keep one’s thoughts and emotions to oneself: controlled, noncommittal, reserved, self-controlled & will power.

“When the designs are chosen with care, tattoos have a power and magic all their own. They decorate the body but they also enhance the soul.” – Michelle Delio

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In this past 9 days from august 4, many things have changed in my life. From my relationship status to my appearance. In this post I will try to say what is happening with me and talk about the changes in my life.

My Makeover:

Recently after I break with my girlfriend, I decided to reorganize my life and make some changes between my changes there was makeover. I cut my hair after 3 years and half, I added a new piercing, because I think that not only cutting my hair was going to cause the impression that I wanted to give. I increase the intensity of my exercise routine because I want to rip my body. On Monday 10/agosto/09 I had a photo shoot with Nvdia Photography because he want to add a male model to the portfolio and I want to expose my new look. The new photos will be on this site on Sunday 16 and for my other sites on Monday 17.

Love, Depression & Hope:

I think I am entering in to a depression, today august 13; 9 days have passed since I break with my girlfriend. This week I had many ups and downs in my mood and my mental state, like I lost my appetite for several days and which knows me knows that I eat like a beast, I have two weeks without exercise, I not being able to getting her out of my mind and I can’t not sleep because of insomnia. These are the side effects of love and when you are focused on a relationship and you most have to end the relationship for any reasons just for third parties. The quote of Kahlil Gibran – “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation” is totally true. I knew I loved her and that she was very important in my life but I realized how much I really love her when I began to feel that she was moving away from me and it’s possibly I lost her forever. Love at times it becomes a curse especially when for some reason you cannot control your emotions and when you know he wants to be with you but he can’t because other people “her parents”. But today grew a little hope in me. After 9 days, I saw her, I kiss her, I hug her and talk to her, we make an agreement and if all goes well and the two fought for us and do everything. I hope we can finally be together again and achieve all the dreams we have. I hope she can overcome all obstacles, if she fight, in the end we will be happy. She thinks she’s weak and cannot fight but I have faith in her, like me she can do everything, she just need to think in what she feel for me. When the people who love me include it her, ask me why I don’t leave everything as is and walked away. I think in everything that’s happening with it her all the sad and happy moments and what I learned from it, in all that time I been fought for us, I think In something I hear once “you can’t fail, if you don’t give up – The Last Kiss“. I tried to be strong all my life and fight for what I want at the moment she it’s what I want and I will fight for her until she does not want to know more about me or until my last breath. Give up is not an option, fail don’t exist and what don’t kill you make you stronger.

Restructure of my life:

The decision to break with my girlfriend was very difficult. I take that decision because I don’t want her to have more problems with her parents because of me, but now I think it was a bad decision because if we don’t come back together at the end, she will be unhappy just as I will be with out her or even more unhappy than me. To try to come back at some time with her, I decided to restructure my life and make some changes as a complete makeover, rebuilt my productivity system, my way of managing money hope handle money more efficiently now, change my exercise routine and I add more goals to my life. I was having problems to start putting everything to run. But this morning situation gave me motivation at some point, it was just a little hope, but made me understand that I have to start and puts my plans in motion. For the agreement and the plan we assemble today, become a completed success and if God wants we will be together again.

Some of my goals:

• Start my business
• Rip my body
• Write a book
• Become a philanthropist
• Become independent
• Make more art
• Improve my English and French skills
• Complete many of my projects
• Make contacts
• Fight in MMA
• Be healthier
• Get a tattoo
• Learn web design
• Invest in stocks
• Read more books
• Cultivate my spiritual side

I know my English writing skills are not this good but that’s why I have this website in English, I want to perfect my skills. I hope you understand everything I say. Any suggestions or questions contact me or leave a comment.

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