can someone help me with this insignia pleasseee

im planning on getting this as my first star wars tattoo. and i heard its the symbol that represents the council and or each dot represents the basic principals....ect. i just really wanna know the full meaning of this symbol. if you could help me out that would be great. thanks.

[image=http://www.carolinasaberacademy.org/Jedi_Symbol.gif]


srry, its a bit of a bad pic of it. but you get the general idea.

 

Not really sure about the dots and thier meaning. I have only seen that image on posters at wallmart and stuff. Not bad for a tattoo, but If I were gonna go jedi, I would use something like this:

[image=http://www.thejediorder.org/images/screenbranding/jedi.jpg]

 

I think the first one is for the New Jedi Order. I could be mistaken.