The all-seeing eye tattoo is a very popular tattoo that has an assortment of design choices for people to choose from and just as many meanings. This is the type of tattoo that you can get just about anywhere on your body and in any size. Many people are curious when they see the all-seeing eye image and very rarely know for sure what it represents.

What’s really great about the all-seeing eye is that it’s pretty easy to find at least one meaning that makes sense for you, but it’s important to know all of the meanings before you commit to this tattoo design. On this page we will take a look at some of the most popular meanings as well as some of the different ways that you can get the tattoo designed to accentuate those meanings.

Popular American All Seeing Eye Tattoo Meanings

The all-seeing eye, also known as the Eye of Providence, is most commonly seen as the symbol of the Christian God, often used in American iconography to represent the strong Christian background that the country has adopted.

If you’ve ever used American money, then you have definitely seen the all-seeing eye before. The eye is imaged on the American dollar bill, pictured above an incomplete pyramid, encircled by beams of light to emphasize the eye’s significance. It is associated with Freemasonry and more recently with the purportedly surreptitious organization, the Illuminati.

It is also used on many state seals within the United States as well as in Eastern Europe. The eye is a representation of God and his omnipotence which is then created as a symbol of the power of the country or state by which it is used. In this way, anyone who uses this version of the all-seeing eye might want to use one, two, or all of the meanings that were used by these entities. Some people might like the “power” meaning alone, while others will also want to include the religious meanings as well.