Pentagram with Roses

commissioned as a tattoo design for a friend, but she used a simpler version in the end

symbols of life cycles & positive growth & love that binds and holds together
new beginnings, tender budlings
a ring of golden hope and possibility
around the grounding elements of Earth, black-red-brown-green-gold
the five-fold blossoming found only in living forms
fractal repetition in patterns of growth
begun from a single seed at the center