October 1, 2024 • 30 mins
Can one woman's journey from cookies to cosmetics reveal deeper truths about spirituality and self-expression? Meet Ashley Ashley, a dynamic soul from Atlanta, Georgia, whose life story spans from working at Insomnia Cookies to becoming a sales trainer for Lush Cosmetics. Join us on this episode of Inktails as we explore Ashley's pursuit of a safer, more fulfilling career, her clairvoyant abilities, and the deep ancestral connection she feels. Ashley's eclectic interests, including her musical past as a singer in a cover band, enrich our conversation, as she shares her belief in the untapped spiritual gifts within everyone.
Ever wondered how tattoos can transform your self-perception? Discover the exhilarating experience of getting a first tattoo and the stories they tell. I share my own tattoo journey, including my favorite piece—a Basquiat-inspired dinosaur—and the significant meanings behind various tattoos, such as symbols for suicide awareness and spiritual rebirth. We also venture into the mystical realm of angel numbers like 11:11 and 222, discussing their different interpretations and personal impacts. Tune in for an episode rich with spiritual insights and artistic narratives, making each tattoo a unique piece of self-expression.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Hi, you're listening to the Inktails podcast, a show
where I go out in the city, meetnew people and get the stories
behind our tattoos.
I'm Tenoch.
Come join me on my journey.
Today on the show, I'm inAtlanta, Georgia, with my guest,
Ashley Ashley.
Welcome to the show.
Thank you so much.
I'm in Atlanta, Georgia, withmy guest, Ashley Ashley.
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Thank you so much.
I'm so glad to be on.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I'm glad to finally be able to connect and have you
on the show.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yes, it's been a long awaited.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yes, very long awaited episode here.
So, really quickly.
All I want to know is so foreveryone who's going to listen
why don't you tell us a littlebit more about who you are, what
you do, and we'll go from there?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
okay, um, so I like to think that I'm a very
eclectic person.
I'm very into herbs andspirituality and learning new
things.
I work in sales as a trainer,so I go a lot different places
and train people and make thembetter at their job.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
What kind of sales trainings do you do?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
So I travel and I train people how to sell our
products with lush cosmetics sothat they can do better and the
metrics can be higher in theirlocations I love lush.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
They have some really good stuff they do, they really
do and how long have you beendoing that for?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
lush for like um four months okay so before lush, I
worked for a company.
I don't know if you ever heardof it.
Lush for like four months, okay.
So before Lush I worked for acompany I don't know if you ever
heard of it, but it's calledInsomnia Cookies.
Do they have weed?
Everyone asks that.
No, they actually don't.
They're called Insomnia becausethey're open until 3 am, and
they do have some in Boston.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Really, I'll check them out.
Insomnia Cookies yes, do havesome in boston, so you should
check them out.
I'll check them out.
Insomnia cookies yes and uh.
What made you go from insomniacookies to lush seems like a
very different type of market itis well um insomnia.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I loved, I did a lot of great things with that
company for five years.
Um the only thing I can say,their brand is marketed around
um nightclubs and colleges and Ijust think, getting older
safety, it was more so a safetything.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Okay, that makes sense.
You know time to make a changego more for like a grown-up kind
of environment.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Definitely.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Maybe one that's a little bit, like you said, a
little more safe.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I've seen some wild stuff happen while working there
.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I'm sure Nothing good happens after what 2 am, they
said.
No, it's one of those Okay, sotell me more.
What do you like to do?
You said you're kind ofeclectic and you're into
spirituality.
Tell me more about that.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Well, so I also felt to mention that I sing.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I love to sing um, I used to be in a band.
What kind of band?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
it was a cover band so we did like bar mitzvahs and
proms and weddings and thingslike that.
So that's pretty awesome yeah,my life, I feel like, is very
interesting.
It has been very interesting.
I've done a lot to only be 32.
But yeah, as far as myspiritual life, well, like I
said, I grew up in the churchreally heavy.
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My stepfather was a pastor, butsince I was a little kid I
noticed I was different.
I'm clairvoyant, so what thatmeans for me, I can connect with
ancestors.
I don't know if that's weird,but I don't like to tell people,
because some people are likeyou know some things that they
can't do or it's so far fetchedto them.
(03:54):
And, trust me, I didn't wake upand want this gift, but I can
connect with the ancestors.
They connect me through mydreams sometimes, or sometimes
while I'm wide awake.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
So that's been a part of my spiritual journey and
yeah, I think that's superfascinating, but at the same
time I also struggle internallyof like how much is that
believable?
How much isn't it believableJust because?
You know, there's always a goodand bad, right, there's people
that may actually have that giftand people that don't take it.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
take advantage of people people that may actually
have that gift and people thatdon't take advantage of people.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
So I think for me it's more like the curiosity of
it and, like I said, internallyI think I struggle that I do
believe in that and then alsolike kind of, they make you not
believe in that.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Definitely.
I feel like there's a lot ofshady people in the spiritual
world.
There's a lot of people whodesire money, and I always tell
people if someone's asking youfor money, um, that's how you
know it's not right because, um,yeah, it's just.
There's no integrity in that.
To me, it's a gift that I liketo share with everybody, and
it's not something that I wantto be compensated for.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I think that's a very refreshing um way kind of to
like hear that most people, likeyou said, either want something
in return it's very few peoplethat actually do something
because they have a gift thatthey can just share with
everybody.
It's kind of like you know,maybe like you're singing.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
You were a singer, correct?
Yes, okay, I just kind ofassumed that one.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, but yeah, I don't know.
It's interesting because Inever try to convince anyone I,
I personally, I like to thinkthat everyone has these gifts,
but everyone doesn't tap intothem.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
um, so yeah, the deeper you are in the matrix, I
think, the further you are fromthe spiritual realm so I'm sure
that has, you know, definitelysomething to do with it when you
, uh, when you, when you're kindof self-involved in, kind of
like, what's going on nowadayswith you, know, social media is
the only thing people watch andpay attention to you, you know
you, like you said you don'treally connect with who you are
(05:57):
or, internally, what's what'sinside you?
yep, absolutely so how do youlike all the traveling that you
do for work?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
So it's funny, the last I'll say since 2016,.
I've been going nonstop.
I love it.
I feel like it's expensive totravel, so I've kind of
manifested travel through work.
I said to myself around 2015,.
I knew then like hey, I want tosee the world, I want to go
places, but I also can't affordit.
Um, so I wrote those thingsdown and I've been going ever
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since.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
So, since you've gotten the opportunity to travel
for work, what is maybe yourmost favorite place that you've
gone to, and also the placethat's probably um been the most
interesting, that you didn'texpect it to be?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Oh, okay, most interesting.
That's hard, I would say, forme.
I would say the West Coast.
I can't narrow it down, but Ifeel like I belong.
Being from the South, I'venever felt like I belong in the
South.
From the South, I've never feltlike I belonged in the South.
But having gone to the WestCoast I've been like San Fran,
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san Jose, la, phoenix, vegas.
I feel like I just belong there.
I just love the people, I lovethe culture.
It just is very fitting and asfar as like a place that really
surprised me.
I just recently went to Detroit, a couple months ago, had never
been and just everything youhear about it as far as like the
violence and it just being abad place.
It was so diverse and beautiful.
I had the best time.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
That's good to know.
I think I've also had kind oflike that misconception of what
Detroit is or maybe what it wasright At some point because of
what happened with the carindustry and all the things they
talk about about its downfall,so that it's good to hear that.
You hear of a place thatprobably was not the best and
then you go there and you'rereally surprised on how
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wonderful it is.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, I definitely agree with you.
There's something special aboutthe West Coast.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yes, it is, I love it .
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, I'm originally from the Midwest, so very
different East Coast to WestCoast and Midwest, but
definitely love the West Coast.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
All right, so we're going to start off really easy.
What was your first tattoo?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
All right, so my first tattoo was the unk on my
forearm.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Okay, when did you get that?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I was 26, I believe, or 25.
Yeah, 26.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And so how did you get to that, to that specific
tattoo, for it being your first.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
So before I even tell you about my tattoos, let me
tell you something interesting.
So every tattoo I have has beendone by one person.
Okay, I'm very spiritual.
So I have this friend.
I don't even remember how wemet, but he's a guy and we're
both Scorpios and we just it'slike we telepathically talk to
each other.
It's so weird, but he's becomeone of my great friends and he
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happens to be a tattoo artist.
I've never paid for a tattoo.
It's always just been a randomlike come, hang out and I get a
tattoo.
So the first one, I believe itwas like my birthday weekend, I
believe I went to like I took mysister to him to get a tattoo,
and he's like hey, when are youever going to get a tattoo?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Because I was always like I'm not going to get a
tattoo.
And he's like, hey, when areyou ever going to get a tattoo?
Because I was always like I'mnot going to get a tattoo, it's
not my thing.
And I just randomly got atattoo that night.
And what did it feel like?
Since you were kind of uh, youknow, you were kind of opposed
to it and weren't really lookingto get tattoos, what was it
like when it was done?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
first of all, like it was like a rush, um, um.
I was like, oh okay, thisdoesn't hurt, this actually
feels kind of good.
And I don't know, it's like themoment you get that first
tattoo and it almost likechanges how you feel about
yourself and then also the waypeople look at you.
You become more.
I don't want to say edgy, but Idon't know, that's how I felt.
You become more.
(10:02):
I don't want to say edgy, but Idon't know, that's how I felt.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
It was like a rush for me.
Yeah, no, I can see how.
You know how it would make youfeel edgy.
You know because you see people.
I think tattoos do give thatallure of being a little bit
more edgy and more cool becauseit allows, I think, for some
people to express who they are.
Yeah, it allows, I think, forsome people to express who they
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are with some of their art, whenthey can't with words or their
personality.
Some people are moreintroverted and their tattoos
kind of speak for them, so Iagree with that.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
And did your parents at all have any opinions on your
first tattoo?
How did?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
your.
Did your parents at all haveany opinions on your first
tattoo?
Well, my dad's.
He's an older white man, bornin the 50s, so of course he
doesn't like it.
My mom, she's just more of likewhatever.
She doesn't care, she just like, do you?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
That's good and you said that was on your forearm
right.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Okay, so out of all the tattoos you have, you you've
got what about like 12 tattoosuh, one, two three, four, five,
six, seven, eight.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Now I have 10 okay.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
So out of those 10, what is your favorite tattoo
that you have on yourself?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
so easy.
And my bosquiat.
Well, I have two bosquiattattoos, but my um his signature
dino.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
That's my favorite I do love that.
I think that is the tattoo thatthat uh caught my attention,
yeah, and that's why Iapproached you and I'm like I
want to know more about it Ilove it.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Give me the story behind that.
You said what?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I said give me the story behind it.
How did that?
How did that come about?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
because that's a pretty, that's a pretty cool
tattoo it's so funny I I can'tremember how or when, because
people always ask me what is myfascination with basquiat.
But everyone knows like I'msuper fascinated with basquiat.
Um, I'm very.
I'm naturally drawn to artists,so I love, like Warhol and Van
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Gogh, you know.
But Basquiat, for some reason Idon't know, ever since, like
high school, I was just drawn tohim.
I love his work, I love hismind.
So, yeah, I always knew Iwanted a Basquiat tattoo.
Funny thing is I wanted hisface, but somehow, I don't know,
that night I went, I just endedup with the dino and it works.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I think the complete dinosaur makes more sense and is
definitely more engaging.
I think that way People kind ofwill look at it.
So, I think it's well done andI like that.
You know, you look at it andit's not what people would think
of like, oh, I got a cooldinosaur tattoo, you know.
If they don't know, uh, who theartist is, they're getting you
(12:53):
know it would almost kind of goon like um childish kind of
drawing which makes it kind ofcool that's funny.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
You said that because people it's it either goes two
ways.
Someone either either goes likeoh my god, that's basquiat, I
love basquiat.
Or someone's like did your kiddraw?
That is that like your kidsdrawing.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
So it's funny yeah, no, I I would agree.
Like when I saw it I knew itwas an uh, a rendition of an
artist, but I was like I'm notfamiliar, I wouldn't have been
able to tell you that that washim, but I know that that was an
artist who did that yeah sothat was uh, that's really cool.
The next one I want to knowabout is you have like what's
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like a little crown yeah, sothat's boskiat as well.
That's his signature crown okay,and that's on my shoulder, my
left shoulder did you get thatat the same time?
Did you get that later?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
um no.
So the boskiat is like like thedino is like my newest tattoo.
I've only had that for like ayear or two or something like
that.
But the crown I got maybe likefour or five years ago just
random.
Again, I always knew I wantedhis crown and I didn't think I
was going to get the dino thathas the crown.
So I was like, ah, I'll justgive it here, but I love it.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
No, it's cool because it's not you can tell.
It's not like most people lookat a crown that are you know
that don't know very much, wouldbe like, oh, that's a gang.
It could be gang related, right?
Because there's just lots ofthem, but because of the way
it's drawn out, I could tell itwasn't just that, because you
can definitely see theresemblance in the dinosaur
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Right.
So one of the other things Iwant to find out is for you, do
you have a tattoo that's themost meaningful to you, unless
it's the same?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah, no.
So I have a dreamcatcher and Ifeel like, well, I have two that
are super meaningful to me, butthe dream catcher specifically,
so my dad and I.
I have an older dad.
My dad was 41 when I was born,so he's been pretty much older
my entire life.
But our way of connecting whenI was young, like I said, I'm
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clairvoyant, so I have reallybad night terrors sometimes.
And back then, I didn'tunderstand what it was.
I mean, I was a kid dreamingabout dead people that I never
met before.
So my dad, he would always buyme dream catchers.
That was like our thing.
And so I knew at some pointjust to kind of honor my dad, I
wanted a dream catcher and thebirds that's connected to it.
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Our favorite film together isForrest Gump, and it just makes
me think of Jenny asking God tomake her a bird.
So that's why I kind of wantedthe birds on the bottom of it.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Oh, that's really nice.
That is a great movie, by theway.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I love that movie.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Is that dream catcher ?
Is that kind of?
Is that kind of drawn after anyof the dream catchers that your
father gave you?
Is that?
Does it have any resemblance tothat?
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah, it actually does.
That's funny.
I showed him.
So I still have a dream catcherthat my dad gave me when I was
like six.
It's super old but it actuallyresembles.
It looks exactly the same.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
And did, uh, those dream catchers help with your
dreams?
Or obviously, when you wereyounger, you probably didn't
know that you were, you know,clairvoyant and what those meant
.
But yeah did that help at all?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
yeah, um, I didn't understand at the time why, I
understand now, but yeah,absolutely they did that's very,
it's very interesting.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I've never had a dream catcher and I always have
really weird dreams, and youknow every once in a while I
have one that's kind of way outthere but, I, wonder if you know
, like if I had bad dreams, ifthat would help.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yeah, any intention that you said, I think will be
helpful.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
That I guess that goes with, uh, you know mindset
manifestation right Like youstart putting yourself towards
those goals uh you know you'regoing to achieve them.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Okay, so you have one that is letters.
It says cold.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I didn't want to talk about this one.
Okay, so do tell.
If I had one that I I wouldn'tsay I regret any, but it's.
It's like why did I get thistattoo?
So it was just a very bad timein my life, you know, getting
cheated on and stuff, with my10-year high school sweetheart
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and I.
I will say I think I wasintoxicated that day and I just
I just something to like releasemy pain.
Why he let me get that tattoo,I have no idea, but it's his
cold game.
You know life's a cold game.
So it's terrible.
I don't like that one.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Do you have any plans on covering it up, or is that
something that you're just goingto look at and know that you
know it's there?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
No, absolutely not.
I don't think I'll ever get acover-up, because I think if
that's how I felt at the timeyou know I've already put it
there Covering up it'll still beunder it.
So no, I think it'll just staythere for life.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Well, at least every time you look at it, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
How far I've come Exactly Now it has a different
meaning on it.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, for sure.
So you said you were kind ofdrunk.
How did you get to the tattooparlor?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
uh, I think so.
My friend again.
He works at a shop so I wouldalways just hang out up there
and we'd be drinking and stufflike that.
It'd be like after hours I knowyou're okay like his boss would
be gone and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
So it's always nice to have friends who do tattoos,
because you can just get themanytime right, pretty much right
.
Yeah, it's great okay, so Iwant to know about you have.
It looks like a cat with a moonon it.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
So I've had a cat since as far as I can remember.
There's been a lot of cats inmy life.
I'm a cat person.
I have a cat now.
Her name's Luna Lovegood.
So yeah, and I love the moon.
I've always associated myselfwith the moon, so yeah, I got a
cat with the moon, or moon witha cat on top.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Is that your cat?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
It's not my cat specifically.
It's just a cat.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I didn't know if it was maybe like this is you know
a cat that I had?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
And how long ago did you get that one?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
That one's probably like six years old, seven or not
seven, six or five years old.
It's pretty old.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Okay and then.
So this one's a little bit kindof I would say more on the
abstract.
It looks like kind of like raysof sunshine coming out with
like, maybe little waves.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Oh, the upside down triangle.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I guess it would kind of look like that.
It's got like a little dot inthe center.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
That tattoo was really nice.
I went swimming and I ruined itthe next day, so it's like no
one can ever make out what it isanymore.
But when it was nice, it's thesun, clouds and like land, land.
and then there's a box in themiddle, a tiny box okay, yeah, I
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can see that so I guess what Iinterpreted that night, um, I
don't know, I always feel boxedin because like who I am and my
gifts, and I feel like I justsee the world so differently.
Um, but I wanted like elementsaround it.
So, I don't know, I'll just becoming up with shit but that's
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that's what's great abouttattoos.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
That's what that's why they're amazing is you just
come up with stuff and then youdo it yeah, and then you know,
if people have the.
Uh, if they're, you know,ballsy enough to ask you, they
will yeah, definitely okay,here's one that I want to know.
If I think it may be somethingthat you already talked about,
but I'm still gonna ask youanyways what is the the most
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complimented tattoo that youhave?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
The dino, of course, before that, oddly, I have a
dotted cross on my wrist.
It's also a suicide awarenesstattoo.
It has question marks withinthe cross.
People, for some reason, alwaysgravitate toward this tattoo.
I don't know why it's so small.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
It almost looks like different phases of the moon on
that yeah but they're questionmarks and you said that's for
like suicide awareness yeah andwhat inspired you to get that um
, well, obvious reasons.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Um, so I like I said I'm spiritual, but I I grew up
in a religious like background.
Um, so I wanted like adifferent form of crosses on my
body.
I already have the unc and thenthis one.
I just thought it would bereally cool to like incorporate
the suicide awareness with thecross.
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Um, because I feel like god islike what kind of led me to not,
you know, do that so okay that,uh, it's a very unique way of
you know getting across.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
So you know it's nice , because then it's unique to
you and it has meaning as well,obviously, yeah, so we've got a
couple more.
One I want to know is tell meabout the little alien that you
have on your wrist.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
That's actually my favorite tattoo.
That's funny, and my daughterlikes to tell me that it looks
like an avocado.
I think that's hilarious, but Idon't know.
I just again, being sodifferent, I've always
associated myself with aliensand I don't know.
I love the color green, so Ijust thought it would be cool to
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get a little alien.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
It is really cool.
Alien stuff is kind ofinteresting and just we can go
down the rabbit hole of aliensfor hours.
But it's not that type ofpodcast.
But it would be interesting totalk about that stuff.
And then I think this is otherthan like your dinosaur tattoo.
I think this is probably one ofmy favorite ones you have is
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the snake.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Okay.
So snakes they're constantlyshedding.
To me it's like a rebirth.
I'm also a Scorpio and I don'tlike scorpions.
I wouldn't get one tattoo but Ifeel like I don't know, I feel
like a snake in a way.
I feel like I don't know.
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I feel like a snake in a way.
I feel like, um, I don't knowif you're into astrology, but a
lot of people say that Scorpiosare constantly dying and being
reborn, reinventing ourselves,basically, okay, but that's how
I feel connected to the snake.
I feel like the snake sheds itsskin and I feel like I'm
constantly doing the same thing.
My life evolves so much at arapid pace.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah, no, that completely makes sense of you
know how you feel when you'reconstantly changing.
Like you said, the snake alwayssheds its skin and it gets like
a new opportunity.
So you know, we want to put itthat way.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
And I actually got the dino and the snake in the
same day.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Two in a day.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, well, yeah, I got three in a day.
I got the angel numbers thatare on my wrist.
I got that that same day too.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Okay.
Um do those uh numbered, theangel numbers, have any
significance?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Uh, numbered the angel numbers have any
significance?
Uh, yeah, so I have 11 11 on myright wrist.
Um, I started seeing angelnumbers probably like three
years ago if I saw them beforethen I didn't pay attention, but
11, 11 was like the first one,I just.
I mean, it became like everyday, all day.
So, yeah, that's why I wantedto get that one tattooed.
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Since then it's a different one, like now I'm seeing two, two,
two every day.
But 11, 11 was definitely thefirst one do those have any any
particular meaning?
so they're interpreted a lot ofdifferent ways.
Um, if you x, depending on whoyou ask, a lot of people like to
say that 11 11 is like oh,you're on the right path, you
know, stay focused.
For me personally, um, becauseI am clairvoyant, I pay
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attention to what I'm thinkingor seeing or feeling when I see
the numbers.
A lot of times it's ancestorswanting to connect with me, but
they're like there's a blockageor they're sending me a sign.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
So yeah, and where do you see these numbers?
I kind of want to know a littlebit more of you know how you
see them and you know where yousee them.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Yeah.
So I mean, I can give you anexample.
Like I said, I'm out of townright now.
I went to see a friend theother night and I've been
telling him for a while like hey, you know, I see angel numbers.
But he's one of those people.
He's like ha ha, and it's funny, I see the same number every
time that I see him, everysingle time.
And so we were talking and Iturned around and the clock said
1222.
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And I pointed it to him.
He's like no way, or we'll bedriving down the street.
I think one time, when he cameto visit me, there was a
billboard and it said two, two,two, or I'll see it on a license
plate or I'll pick up my phone.
It's just random, so random.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
And has?
Has any of those numbers everled to?
Anything that you've discoveredthat maybe if you weren't
paying attention to them, youprobably wouldn't have gotten to
that.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yeah, I think there are certain situations where I
may be having like a rough dayor I can't figure something out
or I can't quite connect.
I'll look at the clock andit'll just be more so like
confirmation for me, if thatmakes sense, like confirmation
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for me if that makes sense, orit'll be like a, like a signal
to try something different orslow down, just depending on
which numbers that I see and howdifferent are the 11?
11 to the, the twos um, well, so11, 11 is usually like how I
know I don't connect it topeople, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
11, 11 is specific to me, but 222 is always connected
to a person around me okay,it's very interesting that, like
I said, another, another topicthat I think we can just go down
the rabbit hole for a very longtime.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
So in the near future , do you plan on getting
anything else anytime soon?
Yeah, absolutely.
Like I said, I don't plan them.
They just happen.
But I know I'm nowhere neardone.
I know that I'll end up with alot of more tattoos.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
It seems to happen right, Like you'll get some,
then some people go on like ahiatus and then all of a sudden
something happens and thenthere's like a floodgate of
tattoos coming on or some peoplejust like can't stop.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah, absolutely.
I do have one in my head that Iwant.
I just don't know when it'sgoing to happen, but I know what
I want, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
What is it that you want?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
So I don't know if you're familiar with the pothos
plant.
I'm obsessed.
I love pothos plants.
They are very significant to mefrom my childhood until now.
So I want like a pothos plant.
I just don't know if I wantlike a leaf of a full plant or
where I want it.
So, but it'll happen.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I'm sure it'll come to you and it'll be, you know,
another pretty amazing tattoothat people will be able to ask
you about.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Well, actually it's been really great to have you on
the show.
Uh, it kind of unfortunate thatwe had to postpone it for so
long.
I know that you were in Bostonfor a while and you've been
traveling, but maybe next timeyou come back up to Boston, you
know, we can actually gettogether and just have a
conversation in person.
Uh, you know, on some otherstuff, yes.
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You.
Hi, you're listening to the Inktails podcast, a show
where I go out in the city, meetnew people and get the stories
behind our tattoos.
I'm Tenoch.
Come join me on my journey.
Today on the show, I'm inAtlanta, Georgia, with my guest,
Ashley Ashley.
Welcome to the show.
Thank you so much.
I'm in Atlanta, Georgia, withmy guest, Ashley Ashley.
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Thank you so much.
I'm so glad to be on.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I'm glad to finally be able to connect and have you
on the show.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yes, it's been a long awaited.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yes, very long awaited episode here.
So, really quickly.
All I want to know is so foreveryone who's going to listen
why don't you tell us a littlebit more about who you are, what
you do, and we'll go from there?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
okay, um, so I like to think that I'm a very
eclectic person.
I'm very into herbs andspirituality and learning new
things.
I work in sales as a trainer,so I go a lot different places
and train people and make thembetter at their job.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
What kind of sales trainings do you do?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
So I travel and I train people how to sell our
products with lush cosmetics sothat they can do better and the
metrics can be higher in theirlocations I love lush.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
They have some really good stuff they do, they really
do and how long have you beendoing that for?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
lush for like um four months okay so before lush, I
worked for a company.
I don't know if you ever heardof it.
Lush for like four months, okay.
So before Lush I worked for acompany I don't know if you ever
heard of it, but it's calledInsomnia Cookies.
Do they have weed?
Everyone asks that.
No, they actually don't.
They're called Insomnia becausethey're open until 3 am, and
they do have some in Boston.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Really, I'll check them out.
Insomnia Cookies yes, do havesome in boston, so you should
check them out.
I'll check them out.
Insomnia cookies yes and uh.
What made you go from insomniacookies to lush seems like a
very different type of market itis well um insomnia.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I loved, I did a lot of great things with that
company for five years.
Um the only thing I can say,their brand is marketed around
um nightclubs and colleges and Ijust think, getting older
safety, it was more so a safetything.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Okay, that makes sense.
You know time to make a changego more for like a grown-up kind
of environment.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Definitely.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Maybe one that's a little bit, like you said, a
little more safe.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I've seen some wild stuff happen while working there
.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I'm sure Nothing good happens after what 2 am, they
said.
No, it's one of those Okay, sotell me more.
What do you like to do?
You said you're kind ofeclectic and you're into
spirituality.
Tell me more about that.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Well, so I also felt to mention that I sing.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I love to sing um, I used to be in a band.
What kind of band?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
it was a cover band so we did like bar mitzvahs and
proms and weddings and thingslike that.
So that's pretty awesome yeah,my life, I feel like, is very
interesting.
It has been very interesting.
I've done a lot to only be 32.
But yeah, as far as myspiritual life, well, like I
said, I grew up in the churchreally heavy.
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My stepfather was a pastor, butsince I was a little kid I
noticed I was different.
I'm clairvoyant, so what thatmeans for me, I can connect with
ancestors.
I don't know if that's weird,but I don't like to tell people,
because some people are likeyou know some things that they
can't do or it's so far fetchedto them.
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And, trust me, I didn't wake upand want this gift, but I can
connect with the ancestors.
They connect me through mydreams sometimes, or sometimes
while I'm wide awake.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
So that's been a part of my spiritual journey and
yeah, I think that's superfascinating, but at the same
time I also struggle internallyof like how much is that
believable?
How much isn't it believableJust because?
You know, there's always a goodand bad, right, there's people
that may actually have that giftand people that don't take it.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
take advantage of people people that may actually
have that gift and people thatdon't take advantage of people.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
So I think for me it's more like the curiosity of
it and, like I said, internallyI think I struggle that I do
believe in that and then alsolike kind of, they make you not
believe in that.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Definitely.
I feel like there's a lot ofshady people in the spiritual
world.
There's a lot of people whodesire money, and I always tell
people if someone's asking youfor money, um, that's how you
know it's not right because, um,yeah, it's just.
There's no integrity in that.
To me, it's a gift that I liketo share with everybody, and
it's not something that I wantto be compensated for.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I think that's a very refreshing um way kind of to
like hear that most people, likeyou said, either want something
in return it's very few peoplethat actually do something
because they have a gift thatthey can just share with
everybody.
It's kind of like you know,maybe like you're singing.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
You were a singer, correct?
Yes, okay, I just kind ofassumed that one.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, but yeah, I don't know.
It's interesting because Inever try to convince anyone I,
I personally, I like to thinkthat everyone has these gifts,
but everyone doesn't tap intothem.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
um, so yeah, the deeper you are in the matrix, I
think, the further you are fromthe spiritual realm so I'm sure
that has, you know, definitelysomething to do with it when you
, uh, when you, when you're kindof self-involved in, kind of
like, what's going on nowadayswith you, know, social media is
the only thing people watch andpay attention to you, you know
you, like you said you don'treally connect with who you are
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or, internally, what's what'sinside you?
yep, absolutely so how do youlike all the traveling that you
do for work?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
So it's funny, the last I'll say since 2016,.
I've been going nonstop.
I love it.
I feel like it's expensive totravel, so I've kind of
manifested travel through work.
I said to myself around 2015,.
I knew then like hey, I want tosee the world, I want to go
places, but I also can't affordit.
Um, so I wrote those thingsdown and I've been going ever
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since.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
So, since you've gotten the opportunity to travel
for work, what is maybe yourmost favorite place that you've
gone to, and also the placethat's probably um been the most
interesting, that you didn'texpect it to be?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Oh, okay, most interesting.
That's hard, I would say, forme.
I would say the West Coast.
I can't narrow it down, but Ifeel like I belong.
Being from the South, I'venever felt like I belong in the
South.
From the South, I've never feltlike I belonged in the South.
But having gone to the WestCoast I've been like San Fran,
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san Jose, la, phoenix, vegas.
I feel like I just belong there.
I just love the people, I lovethe culture.
It just is very fitting and asfar as like a place that really
surprised me.
I just recently went to Detroit, a couple months ago, had never
been and just everything youhear about it as far as like the
violence and it just being abad place.
It was so diverse and beautiful.
I had the best time.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
That's good to know.
I think I've also had kind oflike that misconception of what
Detroit is or maybe what it wasright At some point because of
what happened with the carindustry and all the things they
talk about about its downfall,so that it's good to hear that.
You hear of a place thatprobably was not the best and
then you go there and you'rereally surprised on how
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wonderful it is.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, I definitely agree with you.
There's something special aboutthe West Coast.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yes, it is, I love it .
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, I'm originally from the Midwest, so very
different East Coast to WestCoast and Midwest, but
definitely love the West Coast.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
All right, so we're going to start off really easy.
What was your first tattoo?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
All right, so my first tattoo was the unk on my
forearm.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Okay, when did you get that?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I was 26, I believe, or 25.
Yeah, 26.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And so how did you get to that, to that specific
tattoo, for it being your first.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
So before I even tell you about my tattoos, let me
tell you something interesting.
So every tattoo I have has beendone by one person.
Okay, I'm very spiritual.
So I have this friend.
I don't even remember how wemet, but he's a guy and we're
both Scorpios and we just it'slike we telepathically talk to
each other.
It's so weird, but he's becomeone of my great friends and he
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happens to be a tattoo artist.
I've never paid for a tattoo.
It's always just been a randomlike come, hang out and I get a
tattoo.
So the first one, I believe itwas like my birthday weekend, I
believe I went to like I took mysister to him to get a tattoo,
and he's like hey, when are youever going to get a tattoo?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Because I was always like I'm not going to get a
tattoo.
And he's like, hey, when areyou ever going to get a tattoo?
Because I was always like I'mnot going to get a tattoo, it's
not my thing.
And I just randomly got atattoo that night.
And what did it feel like?
Since you were kind of uh, youknow, you were kind of opposed
to it and weren't really lookingto get tattoos, what was it
like when it was done?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
first of all, like it was like a rush, um, um.
I was like, oh okay, thisdoesn't hurt, this actually
feels kind of good.
And I don't know, it's like themoment you get that first
tattoo and it almost likechanges how you feel about
yourself and then also the waypeople look at you.
You become more.
I don't want to say edgy, but Idon't know, that's how I felt.
You become more.
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I don't want to say edgy, but Idon't know, that's how I felt.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
It was like a rush for me.
Yeah, no, I can see how.
You know how it would make youfeel edgy.
You know because you see people.
I think tattoos do give thatallure of being a little bit
more edgy and more cool becauseit allows, I think, for some
people to express who they are.
Yeah, it allows, I think, forsome people to express who they
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are with some of their art, whenthey can't with words or their
personality.
Some people are moreintroverted and their tattoos
kind of speak for them, so Iagree with that.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
And did your parents at all have any opinions on your
first tattoo?
How did?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
your.
Did your parents at all haveany opinions on your first
tattoo?
Well, my dad's.
He's an older white man, bornin the 50s, so of course he
doesn't like it.
My mom, she's just more of likewhatever.
She doesn't care, she just like, do you?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
That's good and you said that was on your forearm
right.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Okay, so out of all the tattoos you have, you you've
got what about like 12 tattoosuh, one, two three, four, five,
six, seven, eight.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Now I have 10 okay.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
So out of those 10, what is your favorite tattoo
that you have on yourself?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
so easy.
And my bosquiat.
Well, I have two bosquiattattoos, but my um his signature
dino.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
That's my favorite I do love that.
I think that is the tattoo thatthat uh caught my attention,
yeah, and that's why Iapproached you and I'm like I
want to know more about it Ilove it.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Give me the story behind that.
You said what?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I said give me the story behind it.
How did that?
How did that come about?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
because that's a pretty, that's a pretty cool
tattoo it's so funny I I can'tremember how or when, because
people always ask me what is myfascination with basquiat.
But everyone knows like I'msuper fascinated with basquiat.
Um, I'm very.
I'm naturally drawn to artists,so I love, like Warhol and Van
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Gogh, you know.
But Basquiat, for some reason Idon't know, ever since, like
high school, I was just drawn tohim.
I love his work, I love hismind.
So, yeah, I always knew Iwanted a Basquiat tattoo.
Funny thing is I wanted hisface, but somehow, I don't know,
that night I went, I just endedup with the dino and it works.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I think the complete dinosaur makes more sense and is
definitely more engaging.
I think that way People kind ofwill look at it.
So, I think it's well done andI like that.
You know, you look at it andit's not what people would think
of like, oh, I got a cooldinosaur tattoo, you know.
If they don't know, uh, who theartist is, they're getting you
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know it would almost kind of goon like um childish kind of
drawing which makes it kind ofcool that's funny.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
You said that because people it's it either goes two
ways.
Someone either either goes likeoh my god, that's basquiat, I
love basquiat.
Or someone's like did your kiddraw?
That is that like your kidsdrawing.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
So it's funny yeah, no, I I would agree.
Like when I saw it I knew itwas an uh, a rendition of an
artist, but I was like I'm notfamiliar, I wouldn't have been
able to tell you that that washim, but I know that that was an
artist who did that yeah sothat was uh, that's really cool.
The next one I want to knowabout is you have like what's
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like a little crown yeah, sothat's boskiat as well.
That's his signature crown okay,and that's on my shoulder, my
left shoulder did you get thatat the same time?
Did you get that later?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
um no.
So the boskiat is like like thedino is like my newest tattoo.
I've only had that for like ayear or two or something like
that.
But the crown I got maybe likefour or five years ago just
random.
Again, I always knew I wantedhis crown and I didn't think I
was going to get the dino thathas the crown.
So I was like, ah, I'll justgive it here, but I love it.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
No, it's cool because it's not you can tell.
It's not like most people lookat a crown that are you know
that don't know very much, wouldbe like, oh, that's a gang.
It could be gang related, right?
Because there's just lots ofthem, but because of the way
it's drawn out, I could tell itwasn't just that, because you
can definitely see theresemblance in the dinosaur
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Right.
So one of the other things Iwant to find out is for you, do
you have a tattoo that's themost meaningful to you, unless
it's the same?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah, no.
So I have a dreamcatcher and Ifeel like, well, I have two that
are super meaningful to me, butthe dream catcher specifically,
so my dad and I.
I have an older dad.
My dad was 41 when I was born,so he's been pretty much older
my entire life.
But our way of connecting whenI was young, like I said, I'm
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clairvoyant, so I have reallybad night terrors sometimes.
And back then, I didn'tunderstand what it was.
I mean, I was a kid dreamingabout dead people that I never
met before.
So my dad, he would always buyme dream catchers.
That was like our thing.
And so I knew at some pointjust to kind of honor my dad, I
wanted a dream catcher and thebirds that's connected to it.
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Our favorite film together isForrest Gump, and it just makes
me think of Jenny asking God tomake her a bird.
So that's why I kind of wantedthe birds on the bottom of it.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Oh, that's really nice.
That is a great movie, by theway.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I love that movie.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Is that dream catcher ?
Is that kind of?
Is that kind of drawn after anyof the dream catchers that your
father gave you?
Is that?
Does it have any resemblance tothat?
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah, it actually does.
That's funny.
I showed him.
So I still have a dream catcherthat my dad gave me when I was
like six.
It's super old but it actuallyresembles.
It looks exactly the same.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
And did, uh, those dream catchers help with your
dreams?
Or obviously, when you wereyounger, you probably didn't
know that you were, you know,clairvoyant and what those meant
.
But yeah did that help at all?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
yeah, um, I didn't understand at the time why, I
understand now, but yeah,absolutely they did that's very,
it's very interesting.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I've never had a dream catcher and I always have
really weird dreams, and youknow every once in a while I
have one that's kind of way outthere but, I, wonder if you know
, like if I had bad dreams, ifthat would help.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yeah, any intention that you said, I think will be
helpful.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
That I guess that goes with, uh, you know mindset
manifestation right Like youstart putting yourself towards
those goals uh you know you'regoing to achieve them.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Okay, so you have one that is letters.
It says cold.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I didn't want to talk about this one.
Okay, so do tell.
If I had one that I I wouldn'tsay I regret any, but it's.
It's like why did I get thistattoo?
So it was just a very bad timein my life, you know, getting
cheated on and stuff, with my10-year high school sweetheart
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and I.
I will say I think I wasintoxicated that day and I just
I just something to like releasemy pain.
Why he let me get that tattoo,I have no idea, but it's his
cold game.
You know life's a cold game.
So it's terrible.
I don't like that one.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Do you have any plans on covering it up, or is that
something that you're just goingto look at and know that you
know it's there?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
No, absolutely not.
I don't think I'll ever get acover-up, because I think if
that's how I felt at the timeyou know I've already put it
there Covering up it'll still beunder it.
So no, I think it'll just staythere for life.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Well, at least every time you look at it, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
How far I've come Exactly Now it has a different
meaning on it.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, for sure.
So you said you were kind ofdrunk.
How did you get to the tattooparlor?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
uh, I think so.
My friend again.
He works at a shop so I wouldalways just hang out up there
and we'd be drinking and stufflike that.
It'd be like after hours I knowyou're okay like his boss would
be gone and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
So it's always nice to have friends who do tattoos,
because you can just get themanytime right, pretty much right
.
Yeah, it's great okay, so Iwant to know about you have.
It looks like a cat with a moonon it.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
So I've had a cat since as far as I can remember.
There's been a lot of cats inmy life.
I'm a cat person.
I have a cat now.
Her name's Luna Lovegood.
So yeah, and I love the moon.
I've always associated myselfwith the moon, so yeah, I got a
cat with the moon, or moon witha cat on top.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Is that your cat?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
It's not my cat specifically.
It's just a cat.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I didn't know if it was maybe like this is you know
a cat that I had?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
And how long ago did you get that one?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
That one's probably like six years old, seven or not
seven, six or five years old.
It's pretty old.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Okay and then.
So this one's a little bit kindof I would say more on the
abstract.
It looks like kind of like raysof sunshine coming out with
like, maybe little waves.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Oh, the upside down triangle.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I guess it would kind of look like that.
It's got like a little dot inthe center.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
That tattoo was really nice.
I went swimming and I ruined itthe next day, so it's like no
one can ever make out what it isanymore.
But when it was nice, it's thesun, clouds and like land, land.
and then there's a box in themiddle, a tiny box okay, yeah, I
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can see that so I guess what Iinterpreted that night, um, I
don't know, I always feel boxedin because like who I am and my
gifts, and I feel like I justsee the world so differently.
Um, but I wanted like elementsaround it.
So, I don't know, I'll just becoming up with shit but that's
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that's what's great abouttattoos.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
That's what that's why they're amazing is you just
come up with stuff and then youdo it yeah, and then you know,
if people have the.
Uh, if they're, you know,ballsy enough to ask you, they
will yeah, definitely okay,here's one that I want to know.
If I think it may be somethingthat you already talked about,
but I'm still gonna ask youanyways what is the the most
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complimented tattoo that youhave?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
The dino, of course, before that, oddly, I have a
dotted cross on my wrist.
It's also a suicide awarenesstattoo.
It has question marks withinthe cross.
People, for some reason, alwaysgravitate toward this tattoo.
I don't know why it's so small.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
It almost looks like different phases of the moon on
that yeah but they're questionmarks and you said that's for
like suicide awareness yeah andwhat inspired you to get that um
, well, obvious reasons.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Um, so I like I said I'm spiritual, but I I grew up
in a religious like background.
Um, so I wanted like adifferent form of crosses on my
body.
I already have the unc and thenthis one.
I just thought it would bereally cool to like incorporate
the suicide awareness with thecross.
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Um, because I feel like god islike what kind of led me to not,
you know, do that so okay that,uh, it's a very unique way of
you know getting across.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
So you know it's nice , because then it's unique to
you and it has meaning as well,obviously, yeah, so we've got a
couple more.
One I want to know is tell meabout the little alien that you
have on your wrist.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
That's actually my favorite tattoo.
That's funny, and my daughterlikes to tell me that it looks
like an avocado.
I think that's hilarious, but Idon't know.
I just again, being sodifferent, I've always
associated myself with aliensand I don't know.
I love the color green, so Ijust thought it would be cool to
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get a little alien.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
It is really cool.
Alien stuff is kind ofinteresting and just we can go
down the rabbit hole of aliensfor hours.
But it's not that type ofpodcast.
But it would be interesting totalk about that stuff.
And then I think this is otherthan like your dinosaur tattoo.
I think this is probably one ofmy favorite ones you have is
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the snake.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Okay.
So snakes they're constantlyshedding.
To me it's like a rebirth.
I'm also a Scorpio and I don'tlike scorpions.
I wouldn't get one tattoo but Ifeel like I don't know, I feel
like a snake in a way.
I feel like I don't know.
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I feel like a snake in a way.
I feel like, um, I don't knowif you're into astrology, but a
lot of people say that Scorpiosare constantly dying and being
reborn, reinventing ourselves,basically, okay, but that's how
I feel connected to the snake.
I feel like the snake sheds itsskin and I feel like I'm
constantly doing the same thing.
My life evolves so much at arapid pace.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah, no, that completely makes sense of you
know how you feel when you'reconstantly changing.
Like you said, the snake alwayssheds its skin and it gets like
a new opportunity.
So you know, we want to put itthat way.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
And I actually got the dino and the snake in the
same day.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Two in a day.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, well, yeah, I got three in a day.
I got the angel numbers thatare on my wrist.
I got that that same day too.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Okay.
Um do those uh numbered, theangel numbers, have any
significance?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Uh, numbered the angel numbers have any
significance?
Uh, yeah, so I have 11 11 on myright wrist.
Um, I started seeing angelnumbers probably like three
years ago if I saw them beforethen I didn't pay attention, but
11, 11 was like the first one,I just.
I mean, it became like everyday, all day.
So, yeah, that's why I wantedto get that one tattooed.
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Since then it's a different one, like now I'm seeing two, two,
two every day.
But 11, 11 was definitely thefirst one do those have any any
particular meaning?
so they're interpreted a lot ofdifferent ways.
Um, if you x, depending on whoyou ask, a lot of people like to
say that 11 11 is like oh,you're on the right path, you
know, stay focused.
For me personally, um, becauseI am clairvoyant, I pay
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attention to what I'm thinkingor seeing or feeling when I see
the numbers.
A lot of times it's ancestorswanting to connect with me, but
they're like there's a blockageor they're sending me a sign.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
So yeah, and where do you see these numbers?
I kind of want to know a littlebit more of you know how you
see them and you know where yousee them.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Yeah.
So I mean, I can give you anexample.
Like I said, I'm out of townright now.
I went to see a friend theother night and I've been
telling him for a while like hey, you know, I see angel numbers.
But he's one of those people.
He's like ha ha, and it's funny, I see the same number every
time that I see him, everysingle time.
And so we were talking and Iturned around and the clock said
1222.
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And I pointed it to him.
He's like no way, or we'll bedriving down the street.
I think one time, when he cameto visit me, there was a
billboard and it said two, two,two, or I'll see it on a license
plate or I'll pick up my phone.
It's just random, so random.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
And has?
Has any of those numbers everled to?
Anything that you've discoveredthat maybe if you weren't
paying attention to them, youprobably wouldn't have gotten to
that.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yeah, I think there are certain situations where I
may be having like a rough dayor I can't figure something out
or I can't quite connect.
I'll look at the clock andit'll just be more so like
confirmation for me, if thatmakes sense, like confirmation
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for me if that makes sense, orit'll be like a, like a signal
to try something different orslow down, just depending on
which numbers that I see and howdifferent are the 11?
11 to the, the twos um, well, so11, 11 is usually like how I
know I don't connect it topeople, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
11, 11 is specific to me, but 222 is always connected
to a person around me okay,it's very interesting that, like
I said, another, another topicthat I think we can just go down
the rabbit hole for a very longtime.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
So in the near future , do you plan on getting
anything else anytime soon?
Yeah, absolutely.
Like I said, I don't plan them.
They just happen.
But I know I'm nowhere neardone.
I know that I'll end up with alot of more tattoos.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
It seems to happen right, Like you'll get some,
then some people go on like ahiatus and then all of a sudden
something happens and thenthere's like a floodgate of
tattoos coming on or some peoplejust like can't stop.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah, absolutely.
I do have one in my head that Iwant.
I just don't know when it'sgoing to happen, but I know what
I want, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
What is it that you want?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
So I don't know if you're familiar with the pothos
plant.
I'm obsessed.
I love pothos plants.
They are very significant to mefrom my childhood until now.
So I want like a pothos plant.
I just don't know if I wantlike a leaf of a full plant or
where I want it.
So, but it'll happen.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I'm sure it'll come to you and it'll be, you know,
another pretty amazing tattoothat people will be able to ask
you about.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Well, actually it's been really great to have you on
the show.
Uh, it kind of unfortunate thatwe had to postpone it for so
long.
I know that you were in Bostonfor a while and you've been
traveling, but maybe next timeyou come back up to Boston, you
know, we can actually gettogether and just have a
conversation in person.
Uh, you know, on some otherstuff, yes.
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This is your host to know, andthis has been another episode of
the Ink Tales Podcast.
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