Chinese dragon tattoo

[Mulberry]

I think you can make it any colors you like that mean something to you. Make it personal.

@PriestessLayla

I was planning to shade it black and red.

If you want to go with Chinese correspondences, by this article, Red dragons are for luck and black is for vengeance. For protections I’d go with red. Red with gold accents. So, gold eyes, claws and such. Yellow I guess, in ink. (Just intend that it’s gold )

@PriestessLayla

My friend had really freaked out about the selection of colors that i was planning to use and told me it would be bad luck.

Only if you say so. This person is not a western occultist it seems, so they don’t know how magick works, and is following a mythos not a magickal tradition that might not really be relevant here. I’m not hearing “this is an authentic Chinese dragon”, I’m hearing “this is a dragon I’m designing inspired by Chinese dragons”. Not the same thing.

You’re the magickian so it’s your magick, no?
Ok, there’s a certain weight in the human astral that certain Chinese dragons mean certain things to the Chinese/people following this way, but you’d have to have those people that care about it to see your tattoo and put out negative energy about it for it to matter personally to your magick. What are the odds of that happening?

@PriestessLayla

For me it is really important to sort out what i am doing because i want to activate the dragon to do its purpose which is to protect me from enemies.

It’s your dragon… at this point you have to decide if you’re attracting an actual Chinese dragon spirit and want it to look like that, in which case I’d say talk to it ad ask it what it looks like, or making a thoughtform that happens to look like a Chinese dragon.

To me this sounds more like a servitor you’re working on, so it will do as you design it to do. Whether that upsets some people’s expectations is on them. I think they could have misunderstood what’s magickally happening here.

I agree with Keteriya’s position on this same question in her servitor tut thread:

Servitor Creation Tutorial-How I dos it, in Ten Easy Steps

This looks like a fun project to undertake so I strongly appreciate that you posted this. I’ve been looking for ways to punish those who dump and a servitor seems to be the best option. If I make one based on a spirit say Dark Faeries or Chinese Dragons, will they inherit the qualities of said beings?

Servitor Creation Tutorial-How I dos it, in Ten Easy Steps

Only if you desire they do. You have to put into your intent as you make it, that that’s your wish. You could also put it in the stat sheet/programming to ensure the servitor understands that’s their model. You can go the extreme opposite to prevent it taking on those traits, but it won’t if you intend for it be a blank slate, so it’s unnecessary, unless it is necessary for your piece of mind.

I think what’s important is you like your creation, you bond with it and develop that relationship. As a magickian I would say, this being has already been started, it’s already forming, and that means you can talk to it… What about contacting it and asking it to show itself to you as it would like to appear?