For sailors, it has always been for navigation. The Nautical Star, with its four longest tips or points, represent the North, the South, the East and the West. Sailors and the military have traditionally adopted this insignia as a long-time design for the face of a ship's compass. It gives a sense of direction and guidance to these wandering sailors from across the globe. It is a hopeful symbol just like an anchor or a map, which gives assurance of safety, firm foundation and right pathway. It has always been one of the most-commonly used among other star tattoo designs having bagged the second or TOP 2 in the Internet search in 2007. It is very popular with both men and women users.

Similarly, this tattoo design has the same greatness in its depth and meaning with the Northern Sky's Polaris. For astronomers, it is the guiding light, the Lodestar or the POLARIS in the Northern Sky. The brightest star in the Ursa Minor Constellation, the Polaris is the beacon of light that cuts through the constellation's darkness. Very close to the North Celestial Pole, the Polaris is the current Northern Pole Star. With its impeccable brightness, it stands almost motionless in the sky, and all the other stars on the Northern Sky appear to rotate around it. It has become the center of radiance, which illuminates the rest of the galaxy.

The Nautical Star Tattoo design, just like the Northern Star's Polaris, stands as a remembrance, a symbol of following one's dreams, a symbol of truth and of unrelenting hope.

The artistic use of this design has gone through a strong revival today. Most teenagers, girl and boy alike adopt this tattoo as a source of strength in a volatile situation, a jagged-edge knife that cuts though the hardest of trials, and an aesthetic source of pride, uniqueness and brilliance.

Beyond its facade, you will realize that it has more depth that you can ever fathom. I remember the beaming Star of old, the shimmering splendor that guided the three Magi, the power that scintillated boldly on the birth of a baby in a manger. It depicted strength and driving force to achieve every good and perfect deed.

For whatever meaning and reason that is most relevant to you, the Nautical Star Tattoo shines even brighter with its ever-glowing light that guides, leads, directs and protects - "the Polaris in the Northern Sky".

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