Occult Musings

One thing I love about being an exhibit designer is that you learn about so many fascinating things and meet such interesting people. I have very wide interests: this tattoo represents a few of my more spiritual or occult musings. It is also meant to look weird and cool. The hand with the eye is sometimes seen in a more abstract form as the Hand of Fatima: it offers the wearer protection form the evil eye (this I find useful). Ouroboros, the snake swallowing its own tail, is an infinity sign and reminder, to me of, Karmic cycles. The other symbols are: Sacred Earth, Anhk, Moon, Yin-yang, Triskele, Venus, Mercury, and Virgo. I find these symbols, along with the Hinduism reference implied by the blue hand, to each have a personal significance and reflect my pan-agnostic and ever-intrigued world view. The tattoo artist is Juli Moon, www.julimoonstudio.com, in Lynn, MA.

Paula Millet
Exhibit Designer/Consultant
millet3@verizon.net


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Sun with Ying and Yang

During my first year in the Navy, my twin brother came to visit and said let's get a tattoo. We went down to the nearest tattoo parlor in Pacific Beach, CA. We both got the same outline of a sun—his was filled in black as a cover up, and mine is a ying and yang. The two small dots in the middle are where an old girlfriend bit me.

Josh Culver
Senior Director of Operations
San Diego Natural History Museum

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Email Beth: beth (at) redmond-jones (dot) com or Paul: info (at) orselli (dot) net.