Magickal Correspondences for Rose - as taken from Scott Cunningham’s Magical Herbalism:
Gender: Cold
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Associated Deities: Venus, Hulda, Demeter, Isis, Eros, Cupid, Adonis
Part used: Flowers
Basic powers: Love, Fertility, Clairvoyance
Specific uses: Wash your hands with rose water before mixing up love mixtures (rose water may be purchased commercially in gourmet food shops and herb stores). Bear the buds if you would find a love. Drink of tisane of rose petals to produce clairvoyant drams. Burn the petals in the bedroom prior to sleep and have a completely refreshing, wondrous night. The petals are often added to healing incenses and sachets. Scatter fresh rose petals in the bed chamber on your honeymoon. To really prove you love another, send him or her red roses, the flowers of love.
Gender: Cold
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Associated Deities: Venus, Hulda, Demeter, Isis, Eros, Cupid, Adonis
Part used: Flowers
Basic powers: Love, Fertility, Clairvoyance
Specific uses: Wash your hands with rose water before mixing up love mixtures (rose water may be purchased commercially in gourmet food shops and herb stores). Bear the buds if you would find a love. Drink of tisane of rose petals to produce clairvoyant drams. Burn the petals in the bedroom prior to sleep and have a completely refreshing, wondrous night. The petals are often added to healing incenses and sachets. Scatter fresh rose petals in the bed chamber on your honeymoon. To really prove you love another, send him or her red roses, the flowers of love.
Remember that it is always best to develop your own relationship with plants, and develop your own magickal associations. Your magickal correspondences for rose may be different to mine, and to Scott Cunningham’s.
Roses were first cultivated in Persia. They appear throughout the ancient world, many myths and legends built around them. It is said by some that roses had no thorns in the beginning, and that they developed over time due to the wickedness of mankind; and due to the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden.
In Ancient Greece they were associated with Aphrodite. Aphrodite bled on a rose while trying to heal Adonis, who was mortally injured hunting boar, and as such red roses came to represent love, passion and desire.
This particular variety of rose is called “Queen of Sweden” so I’m dedicating this post to my very own Queen of Sweden; @thenordicwolfie
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