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The Child Within

 

Inner Mother. Innocence. Gentleness. Tenderness.

We can be so hard on ourselves, expecting to heal according to a schedule and beating ourselves up when we make a mistake. The rose wants us to release all hardness from our bodies and all hurt from our cells. To find a way to soften. To remember that no matter what has happened, is happening, or will happen, we’re all innocent children of the stars and the Earth. The flowers are here for us. They’re a safe, soft place to remember. They want you to nurture the child within.

This is a card of gentle reassurance and compassion. It brings a message of gentle understanding and tenderness. It’s reminding you to treat yourself like the innocent child that you are, to take your inner child and let them rest deeply in the soft petals of your heart.

 

Card of the day from The Rose Oracle

We all have a child within us who at some point went into exile because they were hurt or because the world didn’t feel safe. And no matter how much we’ve grown, when we as adults are hurt or triggered, it’s normal to regress to this age and feel overwhelmed by the original emotion. And while we can’t change the past, what we can do is scoop up the child within and place them in the soft petals of the rose of our own heart. 

Soul Inquiry:

How can you tenderly tend the child within? 

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My creative muse

The rose first came to me in a way that I consciously understood in 2010, during a time of deep change and a dark night of the soul. Before long I’d found my way to Queen Mary’s Rose Garden in London’s Regent’s Park and that’s when the rose really began to do Her work. The rose garden there contains the city’s largest collection of roses, with 85 varieties and approximately 12,000 blooms. I found that when I was near the roses, I could hear the ‘whispers’ of my inner voice, my soul, so much more clearly. The more time I spent with the roses the more connected with my body and soul I became and the more connected and attuned with my own true nature I felt.

Soon, poetry and writing came flooding through me, and I found myself writing my first book. I remember the moment I finished the final chapter – I was sitting on a park bench under a canopy of roses. I looked around the garden and began to cry, realising that I’d written the entire book there with the roses. They were my gateway to planting myself more fully here, and at the same time it was as if a whole other world had opened up, like the sacred had woven the two worlds (of soul and heaven, and the physical Earth, my body) back together.

I believe that the roses have wisdom and messages for many of us, and that beauty is a gateway to the soul, and so by connecting with the beauty of the rose it invites our soul to step forward and helps us to live a soul-led life.

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The Sacred Waters

 

Nourishment. Replenishment. Health. Rest. Self-care.

The sacred waters are the life-giving Mother of Us All. Her healing waters replenish us and give us Life. We’re made up of Her. Like the rose, we need Her waters to survive and thrive.

We must drop our roots deep to receive the nourishment we so deeply need. To appreciate, protect, and honor the very thing that we take for granted. The Mother of the Sacred Waters delivers the message to slow down and take care of yourself, particularly your body. To prioritize your well-being and live in a way that’s sustainable. She reminds us to replenish and nourish ourselves and take care of our health all the time, not just when we feel unbalanced.

Card of the day from The Rose Oracle

You’re being called to nourish and replenish yourself before you become brittle and parched. The Mother of the Sacred Waters wants you to know that there’s nothing more important in your life than the care of your own sacred vessel of a body, and the Earth is an extension of that. She wants you to treat yourself with tender care. To cherish your body and Hers. To fill your well until it spills over, and once it does, to find a way to give back from this place of plenty. To give your body what it’s yearning for most before it turns into an urgent need.

 

Soul Inquiry:

What’s your body yearning for?  

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Held

 

Sureness of the soil. Unseen help. Support. Community.

When times are turbulent, to keep ourselves steady, we need something to hold on to. When things are crumbling around us, we must find something we can count on that won’t budge. Deep roots to hold us steady when the winds of change come blowing. A supportive community around us.

When we leave home, we must find something to hold us. When our lover leaves, we must find something to hold us. When the job ends, we must find something to hold us. When our parents die, we must find something to hold us. When we think there’s nothing holding us, it’s an invitation to find new, supportive ground. This is where we can discover the sureness of the soil. The holding of the roots. And reach out to our community for extra holding. We were never meant to grow on this Earth alone.

 

Card of the day from The Rose Oracle

 

Sometimes, Life rips from us what we cling to the most. Or perhaps we cling to it for we can feel the cycles of change coming. Yet in the darkness of our longest, darkest night, we discover that it’s in the empty spaces that we can be reached and held the most. It’s in these that we discover a holding that we didn’t know before. And we discover that what we thought was a tomb is actually a womb.

You’re being called to trust that the Great Mother has got you. To trust in the sureness of Her soil. To trust the process of what’s unfolding and that you’re not going through this alone.

Soul Inquiry:

How can you call in more support in your life? What’s holding you right now? 

 

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Healing the Mother Line

 

Healing. Ancestral work. Mother line. Growing up.

We’re living in a time of complex healing, especially when it comes to the Mother line. Collectively, we’re facing the intergenerational trauma that colonialism and patriarchy have imprinted on us. So many born to mothers who were not mothered themselves. It’s time to mend the chain.

So many of our ancestral lines have experienced brutal persecution and separation from the sacred feminine. We’ve been starved of the Great Mother’s unwavering embrace and instead told to look only to a male God in the sky. So many were not taught to see the sacred in all things and the feminine in all Her stages as sacred, powerful, and holy. This way of living has gone on for too long and we’re all being called to heal it on behalf of our ancestors (past and emerging).

 

 

Card of the day from The Rose Oracle

Healing is possible. It may not be straightforward or easy, but it’s possible. It can be felt forward and back – your ancestors past and future are singing with you. It’s time to release our mothers all the way back for what they may not have been able to give. To find a way to cultivate the loving Mother within. To treat ourselves with the same deep reverence, adoration, understanding, and compassion that we longed for all along. You can be that for yourself today. You can meet yourself where others could not. And as you do, future ancestors will bless you for finding the courage to release and heal deep.

Rose Transmission:

I reach all the way back to the original Mother and I set all the mothers, and myself free.  

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Sacred Union

 

Beloved within. Inner and outer relationships.

Relationships are how we grow; they cradle and stretch us. Through connection and division, love and hurt, compassion and separation, they invite us to return again and again to the most important relationship we’ll ever have – the one with ourself, the sacred union that’s been waiting within.

Ancient mystery teachings whisper secrets of sacred unions: Hieros gamos (‘sacred marriage’) in early Christian mysticism and Kabbalah, sexual alchemy in ancient Egyptian teachings, and Yab-yum (‘father-mother’) in Tibetan Buddhism. We’re familiar with mystic couples such as Isis and Osiris, but we each have the sacred masculine and feminine within. And sacred union through external relationship is always an invitation to deepen the union within.

Every relationship can be seen as an invitation to deepen connection with the beloved within, even our most challenging relationships – especially the most challenging ones.

 

Card of the day from The Rose Oracle

The sacred union isn’t just between you and another – it’s returning to yourself. And when we return to ourselves, we also return to humanity as a whole.

Maybe you’re being invited to grow through relationships. Perhaps you feel like you’re being tested or stretched, or find yourself longing for something external. This is an invitation to deepen the connection within, to embrace yourself fully and treat yourself like the most precious person on the planet. The more embraced you feel, the easier it is to embrace others.

Soul Inquiry:

How can you embrace yourself more?   

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The Thorn

 

Protection. Boundaries. Clear communication.  

 

The rose is the queen of all flowers. Her soft and often fragrant bloom takes our breath away from near and far. A bridge between heaven and Earth, She has the capacity to act as a portal to our true selves and call our soul more fully into our body. She leaves us in awe, allowing us to experience heaven on Earth for a very precious moment.

But the rose is not all gentle and soft. In fact, most roses are armored with spiky thorns and prickles of various shapes and sizes. These sharp protectors act like knights defending their queen, clearly setting the necessary boundary and conditions for Her to do what She was born to do.

 

Card of the day from The Rose Oracle

We too are like the rose. So often we don’t get taught how important clear communication and loving boundaries are to our relationships. When we’re not clear on our needs – when we don’t communicate them, when we don’t take responsibility for them – it’s impossible for others to give us what we need. This often results in a breakdown in the relationship.

Communicating our needs and establishing our boundaries allows not just us to feel safe, but those we’re in a relationship with to feel safe too. This card delivers the message of the importance of clear communication, boundaries, and taking responsibility for our needs. To be clear with others, we must first be clear with ourselves. And then communicate this to our loved ones and the world.

Soul Inquiry:

What loving boundaries are you being called to establish? 

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The Rose of Venus

 

Alignment. Flow. Right relationship. Harmony.

The Fibonacci series, and the golden ratio on which it’s based, is a number sequence in which each number is the sum of the preceding two numbers. A rose’s petals hold the golden ratio, with each new set of petals growing in the spaces of the previous set. Perhaps this is why we feel changed by gazing into the spiral of a rose.

The original rose looked very different to those we grow today. It possessed five petals and, interestingly, if we track the movements made by the planet Venus as she orbits the Sun, over a period of eight years, we see they create a fivefold rose pattern called the rose of Venus. Venus was the Roman Goddess of love, sex, and fertility, and her symbol was the rose. Perhaps the ancients knew more about the interconnectedness of the Universe and Life than we think.

 

Card of the day from The Rose Oracle

There’s a sacred order to all things. Nature holds the codes of Life and as you’re a part of nature, you do too. There’s an intelligent force governing all of Life. The same force that tells flowers when to bloom and the planet how to spin exists within you. Our tendency to overanalyze and overthink can get us out of alignment with nature and thus Life. Our resistance to change does this too.

This card is an invitation to look at anything that doesn’t feel in alignment. It’s a reminder to trust in the tapestry of your life, your ever‐changing nature, and to be dedicated to living a life that’s deeply aligned.

 

Soul Inquiry:

What’s no longer in alignment with who you’re being called to be?  

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The Holy Grail

 

Stop the endless searching. Inner quest.

The Holy Grail is a mysterious, long-sought relic about which stories have been told through the ages. Some believe it holds the key to eternal life and divine union. Many devote their lives to discovering and possessing it. It features in the legends of King Arthur; the knight Galahad achieved the vision of God through the Grail.

In Christian mysticism the Grail is the cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper and afterward by Joseph of Arimathea to catch blood at the Crucifixion. It was taken to the isle of Avalon and buried on Chalice Hill (Glastonbury, UK), which turned the Chalice Well waters red. Pilgrims travel from all corners of the world today to drink from these healing waters. Some believe the Grail legend pre‐dates Christ and was inspired by the wells and cauldrons of Welsh and Celtic mythology.

 

Card of the day from The Rose Oracle

The Holy Grail is the ultimate spiritual quest. Many see quests as physical places to journey to, conquer, or find, but perhaps the Grail is an invitation to go inward. To connect with the grace within to find it without. To realize that this journey of drinking from the eternal well is to find it deep within as the part of us that cannot be extinguished.

Perhaps this is why the rose is a symbol that goes with the Grail. Her petals calling us to spiral in. For it’s there that we find the nectar of all that we’ve searched for patiently waiting for us to return to it. Stop looking without, stop the endless searching, turn your gaze within.

Soul Inquiry:

How can you go within and focus more on what really matters? 

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The Mystic Rose

 

Compassion. Devotion. Humility. Humanity. Grace.

The rose was a symbol of the Goddesses of old, so it’s no wonder that when Christianity absorbed large parts of the indigenous Celtic traditions in Europe, the Mother Goddess Mother Mary became associated with the rose. Perhaps the reason Mary is so beloved is because she was the only Mother Goddess who could be worshiped safely and as such carries with her the devotion and yearning of all those who longed to worship the Goddess in a feminine form.

 

Card of the day from The Rose Oracle

Mary’s connection with the rose is seen in some of her titles, including Rosa Mystica (the Mystic Rose) and the Rose without Thorns. Like those of the pagan Goddesses before her, the processions that honored Mary involved walking on rose petals. The Church altered the stories of Goddesses past – including those that featured roses, such as Aphrodite turning the white rose red with her blood – putting Mary in the Goddesses’ place. Churches were erected all over Europe and beyond, in many cases on the site of Celtic temples and places of Goddess worship. Many had beautiful rose windows in the west – the direction of the feminine – in dedication to Mary, mother of the rose.

This is a card of compassion, devotion, and grace. It encourages us to soften toward humanity and to endeavor to see the world, and even those who have hurt us, with understanding, an open heart, and deep humility. To see that we all carry hurt and are wounded. We have all experienced severing. Mother Mary is inviting you to open your heart to humanity when you most want to close. 

Soul Inquiry:

How are you being called to show compassion today?  

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