| Stars. The ancient peoples of the Earth first | | | | miniature solar system with the central Sun being |
| worshipped them, and assigned them the power | | | | circled by the planets. "Shooting stars" while they |
| to direct the fate of each human being. | | | | are not actually stars but meteors which burn up |
| Shakespeare's Cassius laments, "The fault, dear | | | | when they enter the Earth's atmosphere, make |
| Brutus, is not in the stars, but in ourselves." The | | | | star tattoo ideas. |
| late Carl Sagan, in describing the physical | | | | Shooting star tattoo ideas can vary from having |
| connectedness of human being to the rest of the | | | | a single star with a tail to several stars, as in a |
| universe, said, "We are all made of star stuff," | | | | meteor shower. And the stars themselves can be |
| and in those seven words summed up the | | | | different, because the number of points a star |
| mystery of where we came from and where we | | | | design has will change its meaning. Or the star |
| are going. | | | | could actually be a sunburst, and the tail could be |
| The stars were intimately connected with the | | | | a made of a few simple lines or a fully developed |
| development of human civilization, first because | | | | flame. How about a rocketship blasting off into |
| they enabled early farmers to judge the passage | | | | your own galaxy of shooting stars? Or a shooting |
| of the seasons and know when to plant or | | | | star trailing your name? |
| harvest their crops. The patterns in the night sky | | | | Other star tattoo ideas can be taken from the |
| would change as the Earth rotated, and the | | | | history of nautical navigation. The nautical star |
| people above the equator knew that when Orion | | | | tattoo was a seafarer's way of protecting himself |
| was completely visible, winter was on the way. | | | | at sea and ensuring that he would find his way |
| The stars, and especially Polaris, or the North | | | | home. It has since been adopted by military |
| Star, also made seafaring navigation possible. | | | | personnel, and for other people it simply |
| Ancient sailors would be able to get a fix on their | | | | represents the desire for a safe passage through |
| locations simply by seeing how high the North | | | | life. |
| Star was above the horizon. Without the stars to | | | | Tthe number of points a star has can be the |
| steer by, the European's arrival in the New World | | | | inspiration for star tattoos ideas; the four pointed |
| might have been delayed until the aviation era! | | | | star is a symbol of the Star of Bethlehem. The |
| Stars shine and twinkle, and the star closest to | | | | "star fish", or five pointed star, is also called a |
| us, our Sun, provides the light and warmth which | | | | Pentagram, and has a variety of meanings. It |
| make the Earth the life giving miraculous planet it | | | | meant health to the ancient Greeks, an inverted |
| is. The sun, and all stars, are huge nuclear | | | | Pentagram is a symbol of devil worship. |
| furnaces with unimaginably intense atomic | | | | The six pointed star is, of course, the Star of |
| reactions taking place at their cores which result in | | | | David, and the seven pointed star is a symbol of |
| heat and light. | | | | luck. Star tattoo ides using a seven pointed star |
| The simple truth is that stars have been essential | | | | can include the paraphernalia of gambling, for |
| to human survival from the time of the Garden | | | | "lucky sevens." And if you are involved with law |
| of Eden, and are so loaded with beautiful symbolic | | | | enforcement, you'll know seven-pointed stars are |
| meaning that there are some terrific star tattoo | | | | common as badges. |
| ideas. | | | | Count the stars if you can, and you'll have an idea |
| Some star tattoo ideas for astrology and | | | | of how many star tattoo ideas are waiting, if |
| astronomy buffs are to have an astrological sign | | | | you'll only turn your imagination loose! |
| tattooed against a galaxy of colored stars; or a | | | | |