I got this tattoo on my arm a couple of years ago in a place called 'Sailor
Sid's'(!) in Whitby as a birthday present from my dad.
My sister did the research for it, and drew the symbol on a birthday card
for me, which was the photocopied and traced onto my arm, so the tattoo is
exactly how my sister drew it, which I kind of like.It's from the Ogham alphabet, which is a Gaelic alphabet typically inscribed on the corner of rocks and standing stones reading from the bottom up..
Each letter is also associated with a tree - Coll is Hazel, which seems to
have a string spiritual meaning as it was found on early burial mounds, and
was seen as sacred to poets. It's also associated with meditation, mediation
and wisdom.
Oh, and yeah. It does look a bit like a TV aerial :)
More here if anyone's interested...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham
http://ogham.lyberty.com/otable.html
http://lyberty.com/encyc/articles/hazel.html
Posted by chris