Not Celtic, but I've got a few. My first was when I turned 18, the head of the wolf. I wanted it since I was a child. My father had several tattoos from his military service and I used to make my own with markers when i was a kid. He was taken from this world when I was 11 and I did this as a tribute to him and to help me heal a bit.



I drew the wolf as a pencil drawing in art class and it's on my mom's wall back home. He symbolizes one who's alone in partial darkness, he has the light of the moon and he's accepting of that and feels safe and loved, but he's without part of his life. The light that makes the next day of his life complete. Sort of one parent guiding, nurturing and doing a fine job to boot (I'll love and admire her forever for it) but still not the full guidance of a father. The howl is a call to regroup the pack and to be a family again.

The arm band was added 13 years later and is also of my own hand. I had finished a messy divorce the year before. Spent a year of very self destructive behavior. Wine, women and song with a few fast motorcycles thrown in for good measure....all in extreme excess trying to figure out why my ex left me for another man and alleviate the pain. Anyway, I met a woman that I fell in love with and she gave me a reason to give a rat's **** again. A reason to get back on an at least somewhat normal path in life. There was still wine, song and bikes, but all in moderation and only ONE woman. So I wanted something to remind me of what I'd been through, survived and was headed in the right direction again.

When I next have time, there is a small spot where the paths start about an inch wide on the back of my arm. That is going to have a very small angel in it someday to symbolize our son.