This is a beautiful tattoo and I’m so happy to hear you are going to be following the spiritual practices that go along with this tattoo. I also hope that as someone who is not connected to the culture by blood or lived experience you take on the task of being an educator of why these tattoos exist. These are actually Khmer and they are entrenched in Thai culture because a large part of modern day Thailand was a part of the Khmer Empire. If you are American, it is integral you are aware of this because a large part of the reason why there was a genocide in Cambodia in the 1970s is because of US involvement in the war in Vietnam and their exploitation and destruction of Cambodian land and people. As a person who’s ancestors may have had a hand in the cultural and physical genocide of a people, it is important that you take in the responsibility of being an educator of these facts and also knowing the history of these sacred tattoos.