The Magic of Rose
To understand Rose spiritual meaning, consider its status as the “Queen of All Flowers.” Rose earns this honor because of its effortless beauty and perfection. Likewise, the flower evokes a sense of wonder, mystery, and enchantment. And while roses are typically used in love magic, they also have uses in raising divinatory energies, unveiling mysteries, providing protection, and aiding in truth and things of beauty.
Colours of Rose Flowers and Their Meanings
We use different colors of roses to express different sentiments. For instance, you can gift red roses to your lover or signify general respect. Consider giving dark pink roses as a thank you or to show someone your appreciation. Light pink roses represent maidenhood, sympathy, and appreciation.
Different Roses Meaning
White roses symbolize reverence and innocence. You can give yellow roses to a long-term friend and express happiness and joy. Orange roses show passion, and you can gift them to someone to articulate an actual desire or deep excitement.
Attracting Love with Roses
You can use Roses in spells to attract love. You can also string rose hips together and wear them as necklaces to attract love. Conversely, you can use roses to sever ties and emotional attachments to an ex-lover and dispel love-jinxing.
Roses and Handfastings
Moreover, your guests can wear roses at weddings and handfastings, and you can string them together to decorate the wedding hall to bless the couple’s union.
Glamour Spells and Roses
You can use Roses in glamouring spells and spells to make one more attractive. For instance, you can bathe in rose petals to enhance your beauty and allure and help you relax and become more centered.
Roses Entice Luck and Good Fortune
Roses have an association with luck and good fortune. Spread rose petals around your altar space or carry some to attract good fortune in your love life. Similarly, rose hips are incredibly potent in advantageous energies, and you can place them in a green sachet and other lucky herbs to draw good fortune.
Revealing Treachery and Deceit with Roses
Use roses to reveal “the evil eye,” the potential treachery or deceit of others, or to uncover the truth of a matter in magical workings. A cup of rose-infused tea before bedtime is said to induce prophetic dreams.
Fairies Love Roses
Fairies are fond of the scent of roses, so having roses growing nearby may attract them to your home, as well as some added good luck and positive energy.
Other Magical Ways to Use Roses
Rosewater, when sprinkled on clothing, can provide protection.
Make a rose petal-infused honey that you can use as a magical sweetener for your morning cup of tea.
Sprinkle rose petals around the house to lessen tensions and help relieve stress.
Rose Magical Correspondences
- Botanical Name: Rosa
- Gender: Feminine
- Planet: Venus
- Element: Water
- Deities: Hathor, Hulda, Eros, Cupid, Demeter, Isis, Adonis, Harpocrates, Aurora
- Magical Attributes: Love, Psychic Powers, Healing, Divination, Luck, Protection, Fairies
From Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs
Roses in Mythology and Folklore
Rose’s most notable mythical associations are its connection to love and beauty. Roses are connected to the Goddess of Love, Aphrodite, Eros (Cupid), and Aphrodite’s most handsome lover, Adonis. According to mythology, when Aphrodite emerged from the sea, white roses formed from the sea foam. When Adonis’s love died, Aphrodite mixed her tears with his blood to create red roses.
The Secretive and Mysterious Magic of Roses
Roses have an intriguing and unassuming connection to mystery, secrecy, and the revelation of truth. In Muslim folklore, roses revealed the truth about one of Muhammad’s wives and her adultery. Muhammad gave his wife a bouquet of red roses and had her throw them in water. Once immersed, the roses turned yellow, revealing her malfeasance.
Roses Reveal the Truth
In Jewish folklore, a rose again revealed the truth in a tale of a woman falsely accused by a suitor when she refused his advances and ordered burned at the stake. In a strange twist of events, however, the fire consumes the accuser and leaves her unscathed. A red rose grows from the ashes of her accuser, signifying his deceit, while at her feet, a white rose appears, a symbol of her innocence.
The Connection Between Rose Spiritual Meaning and Isis
To further touch on the theme of Rose spiritual meaning and their connection to revelation and mystery, Roses have associations with Isis, the Egyptian Goddess of mystery and magical knowledge, as well as love and beauty. The Egyptian hieroglyph for Rose resembles a doorway as if to express it as a portal to information and more profound knowledge.
The Healing Power of Rose*
Roses are a surprising source of many health benefits. Consider rose syrup for a unique approach to soothing a sore throat or rosewater when dealing with a headache. Rose hips, the fruit of roses, are also high in nutritious value. As such, consider them for your next homemade jam project.
Rose Petals Healing Properties
Rose petals are a mild sedative, and the steam of rose petals and lavender can help with falling asleep. You can use Rose syrup and Rose honey as a cough and sore throat remedy. Likewise, to help with digestion, consider taking an infusion of dried rose petals after meals to aid digestion. Roses have a cooling effect on the body, which can help lessen a fever or to cool off in the summer.
Healing Properties of Rosewater
Rosewater can help lessen headaches caused by sunburn when applied to the forehead. Additionally, Rosewater and witch hazel are often combined to make an effective acne treatment. Rose hips are rich in vitamin C, more so than many other plants, and they contain iron, which is helpful when dealing with anemia.
Healing Properties of Rose Oil
To relieve inflamed or damaged skin, consider creams made with rose oil. Moreover, add a couple of drops of rose oil to bath water for an uplifting, stress-relieving bath that can help lessen feelings of depression.
Interesting Facts About Roses
- It was once tradition at particular dinner gatherings to hold up a red rose at the dinner table before eating to vow to everyone at the table to keep secret anything revealed during the meal.
- The tiniest rose buds in the world are the size of a grain of rice.
- The Bible mentions only three flowers: rose, henna, and lily.
- “Juliet” is the name of the most expensive rose cultivar, and it took 15 years to breed and costs 5 million dollars.
- The world’s oldest rose bush grows on the wall of the Cathedral of Hildesheim in Germany. It has been documented there since 815 A.D. — over 1000 years — and even survived bombing from an air raid in 1945.
- There is no such thing as a black rose. What we perceive as black roses is usually a deep crimson red that is so dark that it appears black.
- The world’s largest rose was a pink rose that was 33 inches in diameter and bred by Nikita K. Rulhoksoffski.
- The oldest rose fossil ever found was found in Colorado and dated back 35 million years ago.
- Roses have inspired many a song, and there are over 4,000 songs dedicated to roses.
- It takes 2,000 roses to produce just a mere gram of rose oil.
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Rose Honey
Equipment
- Glass Jar with Lid
- Wooden Skewers
Ingredients
- Rose Petals You will want enough rose petals to fill the jar.
- Honey Raw Honey is preferable, but if you'd rather use a synthetic or processed honey that is also fine.
Instructions
- Fill glass jar with rose petals.
- Cover roses in honey until the jar is full.
- Lightly tap the glass jar against a surface to release any air bubbles.
- Close the glass jar and store it in a cool, dark place for two weeks, stirring every couple days.
- (Optional) After two weeks, strain the rose petals from the honey.
- Enjoy!
