September Birth Flower Tattoo: Aster & Morning Glory Designs and Meanings
September is the sapphire month, and its two birth flowers dress to match: the aster and the morning glory, both blooming in the blue-violet dusk of the early-autumn garden. The aster is the star flower — its very name means “star” in Greek — carrying love, wisdom and patience in a daisy’s honest shape. The morning glory is the day’s own flower, opening at dawn and folding by afternoon, the tattoo world’s favourite symbol of beautiful brevity and starting again. A September birth flower tattoo can be a fine-line aster spray on a forearm, a morning glory vine curling around an ankle, or both twined together in September’s own colours.
This guide covers both September flowers and their meanings, the colour story that ties them to the sapphire, six design ideas, the best placements, and the practical questions September people ask first.
Quick Answer
A September birth flower tattoo uses September’s birth flowers: the aster and the morning glory. Aster means love, wisdom, faith and patience; morning glory means affection, renewal and life’s beautiful brevity. Asters suit sprays and clusters on forearms, shoulders and backs; morning glories are natural vines, wrapping ankles, wrists, arms and spines. September’s birthstone is the sapphire, and both flowers bloom in its blue-violet range — the most colour-coordinated month in the whole birth-flower series.
Table of Contents
- September’s Birth Flowers: Aster and Morning Glory
- What a September Birth Flower Tattoo Means
- The Sapphire Palette: September’s Colour Story
- 6 September Birth Flower Tattoo Design Ideas
- Best Placements, Pain and Aftercare
- Frequently Asked Questions
September’s Birth Flowers: Aster and Morning Glory
The aster is autumn’s daisy: a froth of star-shaped blooms in purple, violet, blue, pink and white over late-summer borders, feeding the last butterflies of the year when most flowers have finished. Its Greek name means star, and its myth is written in the sky — Astraea, goddess of justice, wept for the world and her tears (or the stardust she scattered) became the first asters. You can read the flower’s story on the Aster page on Wikipedia. The morning glory (Ipomoea) is the vine of dawn: heart-shaped leaves, twining stems, and trumpet blooms in blue, violet and pink that open with the sun and close the same day, renewed each morning by fresh flowers waiting behind them. Our September birth flower guide covers both flowers’ history, symbolism and growing in full; this page puts them on skin.
September Birth Flower Tattoo Quick Facts
- September flowers: aster (love, wisdom, patience) and morning glory (affection, renewal, beautiful brevity).
- Signature designs: fine-line aster spray; morning glory vine wrap; the two twined in one September piece.
- The palette: blue, violet, purple and pink — both flowers match September’s sapphire birthstone.
- September signature: one deep-blue sapphire accent — a single aster heart or morning glory throat — signs the month.
- Size range: 3 cm single asters to arm-length morning glory vines; the vine is tattooing’s most natural wrap design.
- Good to know: morning glories were a favourite motif of Japanese art (asagao, the “morning face”) — September’s vine has centuries of design tradition behind it.
What a September Birth Flower Tattoo Means
A September birth flower tattoo says September is mine — and it says it in the year’s most thoughtful register. The aster carries the enduring September: love with wisdom in it, patience, faith kept quietly — the flower of people who arrive at autumn with their gardens still blooming. The morning glory carries the fleeting September: affection for the present moment, the courage of renewal — every dawn a new flower on an old vine, yesterday’s bloom folded without regret. Between them they hold the two truths September people tend to live by: some things are for keeping, and everything is for appreciating while it is here. As across our birth flowers guide, the piece doubles as a tribute — an aster for a September grandmother, a morning glory for a September child — a portrait that never has to spell a name.
The Sapphire Palette: September’s Colour Story
Most birth months make the tattooist improvise a link between flower and birthstone. September hands over a matched set. The sapphire is deep cornflower blue; the classic aster is violet-blue; the beloved morning glory cultivars (‘Heavenly Blue’ is the famous one) are sky-to-sapphire. September designs therefore live naturally in one family of colour, and the choices are about mood, not matching.
| Shade | Where it shines | Meaning note |
|---|---|---|
| Sapphire / deep blue | Morning glory throats, aster hearts, single accents | Wisdom, loyalty — the birthstone itself, worn as colour |
| Violet / purple | Aster petals, morning glory trumpets | Royalty, enchantment, wisdom — the aster’s classic meaning |
| Pink | Aster sprays, morning glory ‘sunrise’ forms | Affection, gentleness — September at its softest |
| White | Aster clusters, fine-line outlines | Purity, patience — often left as skin and line |
| Black / grey | Vine silhouettes, aster line work | The meanings kept, the palette surrendered — ages best of all |
6 September Birth Flower Tattoo Design Ideas
1. Fine-Line Aster Spray — September’s Bouquet
A loose spray of asters — three to seven starry blooms with buds and leaves — drawn in fine line down a forearm, across a shoulder blade or along a collarbone. The aster’s daisy geometry stays crisp at small sizes because each bloom is a simple star; the spray format lets the piece grow later, bloom by bloom, person by person.
2. Morning Glory Vine Wrap — the Living Spiral
The design the flower was born for: a twining morning glory vine, heart leaves and trumpets alternating, spiralling an ankle, a wrist, a forearm or a calf. Vines follow the limb’s own spiral and move beautifully with it. Keep trumpets at 2 cm or wider so their throats stay open as the ink settles — the vine’s one technical rule.
3. Aster and Morning Glory Duo — Both of September
September complete in one composition: an aster spray rising from a morning glory vine, or the vine curling through a cluster of asters — the keeper and the fleeting, twined. Thighs, upper arms and backs host it best; the shared blue-violet palette means the two flowers never argue.
4. Single Aster with a Sapphire Heart — the Signed September
One aster, mostly fine black line — with its centre inked deep sapphire blue. September’s birthstone signs the flower the way July’s ruby bud and November’s golden heart sign theirs in this series (compare the November birth flower tattoo designs). At 4–6 cm on a wrist or shoulder it is the whole month in a single bloom.
5. Morning Glory with Moon and Stars — the Dawn Piece
A morning glory vine drawn under a fine-line crescent moon and a scatter of tiny stars: the flower that opens at dawn beneath the sky it wakes to. The aster’s star-myth hides inside the same design — Astraea’s stars above her partner flower. Ribs, sternums and spines give the composition its vertical sky.
6. Mini September Sprig — First-Tattoo Scale
One small aster or a single morning glory bud on a curved stem, 3–5 cm, behind an ear, on an inner wrist or above an ankle bone. Twenty minutes, mild everything, and — like the mini designs in our flower tattoo ideas collection — designed to be added to whenever September’s story grows.
Best Placements, Pain and Aftercare
Placements: aster sprays want flat-ish fields — forearm, shoulder blade, collarbone, thigh. Morning glory vines want limbs that turn — ankle, wrist, forearm, calf — or long lines like the spine and ribs. Duo pieces take thighs, upper arms and backs. Pain is the standard map: forearm and calf mild-to-moderate (3–5), ankle and wrist moderate (5–6, bone-close), ribs and spine the committed end (6–8). Cost: mini sprigs and single asters at studio minimums; sprays and short vines at a short sitting; full duo and wrap pieces by the hour or session as drawn. Aftercare follows the shared routine on r/tattoos on Reddit: gentle washing, a whisper of balm, flakes left to fall, no soaking or sun for two weeks, sunscreen thereafter — with September’s own scheduling note: early autumn, like November, is prime tattoo season, healing under sleeves away from peak sun; just keep new ink out of the last hot weekends and the first frost-dry weeks both.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a September birth flower tattoo?
A tattoo of September’s birth flowers — the aster or the morning glory — worn by September-born people or in honour of one. Aster means love, wisdom and patience; morning glory means affection, renewal and life’s beautiful brevity. September’s birthstone is the sapphire, and both flowers bloom in its blue-violet range. If your question is not answered here, the questions about September birth flower tattoos on Quora cover most of the rest.
Aster or morning glory — which September flower should I choose?
Aster for the keeper’s meanings — love, wisdom, patience — and for spray and cluster designs on flat skin. Morning glory for the renewal meanings and for any design that should move: vines, wraps and spirals. Temperament decides as much as placement: the aster is September’s memory, the morning glory is September’s morning.
What does a morning glory tattoo symbolise?
Affection, and the preciousness of brief things: each bloom opens at dawn and folds by afternoon, so the flower has symbolised fleeting beauty, mortality and renewal for centuries — in Japan, where the asagao is a beloved art motif, it carries the whole philosophy of appreciating the moment. On skin it most often means: this chapter was short, and it mattered — or, worn by September’s own, simply mine.
What does an aster tattoo mean?
Love, wisdom, faith and patience. The name means “star” in Greek, and the myth says the first asters sprang from the tears — or the scattered stardust — of Astraea, goddess of justice, which gives aster tattoos a quiet celestial thread: wearers often add tiny stars or a constellation among the blooms.
Do vine wrap tattoos hurt more?
Only where the vine crosses tender ground: the ankle bone, the inner wrist and the back of the calf rate higher than the outer forearm the vine spirals from. The sitting itself is no longer than a comparable flat design — the line is continuous, which many wearers actually find easier to settle into than stop-start shading.
How much does a September birth flower tattoo cost?
Mini sprigs and single asters usually sit at a studio minimum; sprays and forearm vines at a short sitting’s rate; duo compositions and long wraps by the session. Blue-violet colour work prices like other colour — the drawing, quoted at consultation with the stencil on your skin, is the only honest number.
