Dandelion is a pretty modest flower that has never had a place in royal gardens, but always has been related to meadows and beauty of wild nature. It also is not a flower that people give as gifts to each other, but its’ bright colours - green and yellow - are real source of positivity. It has also another phase of life – the time when you can blow away white dandelion seeds (and make a wish watching them flying away). This simple yet magical flower has found a place in legends of many cultures.
Two main dandelion tattoo designs depict these two phases of a dandelion’s life: one stands for new, bright, vivid and shiny dandelion and the other depicts old dandelion with seeds flying away. Pretty often you will see tattoos where flying seeds turn into birds, feather or other symbols pointing to freedom, or quotes placed by the stem of the flower.
Dandelion is a flower that symbolizes the circle of life: from buds edging out of ground through florescence and vitality it comes to getting old, ending one’s life leaving seeds and keeping living in other new dandelions that will grow from the seeds the next year. Dandelion tattoo meaning can be translated taking in account these phases of life. Young, yellow flower with juicy bright-green leaves is a symbol of positivity, joy, tenderness, youth and all values related to florescence and being young. Dandelion with seeds flying away points to the shortness of life and its beauty. It also holds the purpose of life – enjoying the moment leaving after ourselves nothing, but seeds – children, ideas or significant works that could grow when we are not here anymore. Dandelion tattoo is a great reminder that we as human beings are not eternal, but the life is beautiful and meaningful in its simplicity.
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