Motif · motif_wind_rose

Wind Rose

The star-shaped direction figure of a nautical chart, drawn as a compass companion. Registered separately from motif_compass because the source treats it as an ADDITION that changes the reading rather than as part of the compass: “The wind rose adds extra symbolism, emphasizing the connection to direction and balance in life.” That sentence is an attribute-conditional claim about a compass, so the edge below is placed on the wind rose with that scope stated.

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Low confidenceresearched

1 attested · 4 promoted1 source · T2

What the research says

motifs_seed

Category: object
Common styles: american traditional; fine line
Common themes: maritime
Composition behaviors: drawn behind or around a compass

Provenance

1 resolved

Compass Tattoo Meaning: Symbolism, Styles, and Personalization Ideas (opens in a new tab)
Tier 2
iNKPPL Tattoo Magazine
Tattoo magazine article on one motif. Verbatim: "The compass symbolizes direction, dedication to goals, protection, and luck", "Sailors believed that a compass tattoo protected them from danger, helped them return home, and brought good luck during voyages", and "It can represent not only physical journeys but also inner freedom." The page also states the transfer explicitly - the symbol "transcended maritime themes" and came to represent a search for a path in a metaphorical sense - which is why this batch treats the figurative reading as the source's claim rather than as an inference.
professional tattoo source · published 2024-12-17 · retrieved 2026-08-30

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Frequently used in · 2

→ outgoingAmerican TraditionalStyleThin
strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched
Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_wind_rose ('american traditional'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.
→ outgoingFine LineStyleThin
strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched
Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_wind_rose ('fine line'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

Associated with · 1

→ outgoingMaritimeThemeThin
strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched
Promoted from motifs_seed.common_themes of motif_wind_rose ('maritime'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

Can symbolize · 1

→ outgoingDirectionSymbolThin
strength 0.25researched
ATTRIBUTE-SCOPED and weak: the source does not say a wind rose means direction, it says adding one to a compass strengthens a reading the compass already has - “The wind rose adds extra symbolism, emphasizing the connection to direction and balance in life.” Strength 0.25 records that this is a modifier claim, not an independent meaning.

Compatible with · 1

→ outgoingCompassMotifAttested
strength unstatedpromoted · not an independent attestationresearched
Promoted from motifs_seed.composition_behaviors of motif_wind_rose ('drawn behind or around a compass') [class EM]. compatible_with is symmetric; recorded once, traversable from either endpoint. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus.