Here's a pic of my compass rose, which I came up with from combining 3 different designs I liked aspects of. It's important to me for a couple of different reasons.... I travel quite a bit, usually by hiking (including a 3-month trip across mainland China from east to west) and as such a map and compass are very important to me; being a field biologist working in the back-country, I pride myself on my navigation abilities; and my personal life has been in turmoil so I need some direction right now.