Designing a Ganpati Tattoo
For my left shoulder, which is apparently auspicious, as left-facing trunk is what we are also looking for. Right-facing trunks are considered to need specific worship and focus as they are solar and action-based, rather than opening and reflective. This is an example of a left-facing trunk, which confuses me slightly as I read this as facing to the right. It seems to be about where the tip of the trunk ends up, from Ganesh’s viewpoint. Thus why you see some trunks that start facing towards his right, but the tip ends up facing left: The auspices of Ganesh that…