If it is lucky to have a horseshoe tacked on top of your door frame or it is considered as a good luck charm to have a rabbit’s foot on your person, then consider a more artistic and a more expressive way of bringing more luck in your life. This is by getting yourself one of those popular Irish Celtic tattoos.

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There are numerous designs of Irish Celtic tattoos and for each design, there are various styles that you can choose from. Here are some of the most popular Irish Celtic tattoos out there and their descriptions.

•    The Four Leaf Clover

Have you, as a child, spent an entire afternoon looking for a four leaf clover? This is the best symbol and a widely accepted sign for good luck. They say you can only find one four leaf clover in every ten thousand so you may want to bring a magnifying glass the next time you get down on your knees and scour the park for this. It is said that each section/leaf of the four leaf clover has a corresponding meaning. These are hope, faith, love and, you guessed it right, luck. Four leaf clover designs usually are small and colored green, just like the real thing but some can be drawn as enormous as an entire back and be plain black, depending on what you want.

•    Celtic Cross

Modern day Celtic cross designs have carious intricate patterns like knot works, foliage and some key like designs. The original Celtic cross however was just two plain lines intersecting, with a circle on top of their intersection.

•    Leprechaun

A man fairy that is mischievous and rich. Like a human person. This pint sized green fairy is said to have a hidden pot of gold (at the end of the rainbow?) and can be a painful trickster to the point of being not funny anymore. They say it is possible to catch a leprechaun and make his treasure your own but you have to have him on your sights all the time or he will slip away and be gone.

•    Celtic Sun

They say this Celtic sun design came from the symbol for Belenos, the Celtic sun god that had an Apollo like chariot drawn by horses. Some say though that it is a symbol for Taranis, a Celtic god of thunder and sun as some claim, this is also a reason why the Celtic sun ias also known as the wheel of Taranis.

These are the meanings of the more popular Irish Celtic tattoos. You may want to have one inked on you, depending on the message you want to convey using your tattoo. If you want to say you are playfully wicked but also rich in personality, have a leprechaun be made on you. If you are looking for away to have some luck on your body, then best to have that four leaf clover inked on your body.

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