The associations with the Trinity evolve according to the three leaves form of the clover. The four leaf clover tattoo means good luck, the memory about the lost paradise. The clover with five leaves foretells misfortune. In the Chinese semiotics, the clover is a sign of spring.
The clover flower tattoo also symbolizes stars, omega. Shamrock tattoos for women have the meaning to carry the cross to the end, and separate clover means cross, but not the destiny yet.
Clover tattoos can have different designs, it can be 4 leaf clover, shamrock (3 leaf clover), Celtic clover, Irish shamrock, realistic, traditional, tribal, simple, they also can be big or small. The traditional colors for a clover tattoo design are green, black, white, and black and white. It can be made on different parts of the body: arm, shoulder, wrist, thigh, leg, sleeve, back, foot, forearm, hip, and so on. Here you can find different clover tattoo designs.
The symbolic meaning of clover tattoo
The clover tattoo is also a preserving type of a tattoo or as they are named ward tattoos. A special magic significance is attached to this kind of tattoo. Even in ancient times, ward tattoos were used in order to protect or secure you against various troubles. Such kinds of shamrock tattoo and 4 leaf clover tattoo are very popular now. In ancient times ward tattoos during protected from malefic, misfortunes, evil ghosts, illnesses, and even death. Magic power is appropriated to them, as well as to ritual tattoos.
There is a large number of types of preserving tattoos. For example, Thai people – trust in the force of “the reflecting Buddha”, and in the West it is possible to meet playing bones or skull 4 leaf clover.
Four leaf clover is a single plant of the clover possessing, at least, one four lamellar sheet, unlike the usual three lamellar. In the western tradition, there is a legend that such plant brings good luck to the person who has found it, in particular, if it is found casually. According to the legend each of the plates of a four lamellar sheet represents something concrete: the first one means hope, the second means belief, the third – love, and the fourth – good luck.
Shamrock and four leaf clover tattoo designs and ideas
