Rose

Pure Love

Rose’s Magical Specialties: abundance, beauty, clearing, blessing, dreams, emotional healing, friendship, protection, purification, romantic love, secrecy, self-love, spirituality

Pure love is so potent and positively vibrating that it stretched tender human hearts beyond their previous capacity. That’s why an open heart can bring tears and even cause a sensation that’s both wonderful and similar to physical pain. While a rose is said to be the purest and most positively vibrating living thing, as it emanates the vibration of pure love, a rose’s thorns are a representation of love’s associated pain; a heart filled with love is said to ache, and when we open our hearts, we do so despite the certainty of being wounded in some way, at some time, as a result of that love, because in the finite realm, the only constant is change. Indeed, the Sanskrit name for the heart chakra – the wheel of energy associated with love that yogis and energy healers recognize as dwelling at the center of the sternum – is anahata, which translates to “unstruck,” alluding to the fact that a person with an open heart is someone who is able to let her guard down as completely as someone who has never been hurt before. So while it takes courage to open our hearts fully to love, we have no other choice is we want to experience all the beauty and fullness this life experience has to offer.

This card counsels you to open your heart and draw upon the divine energy of love. To do so, you might begin by relaxing. Then feel, imagine, and sense  a very bright white or pink rose of light dwelling at your heart chakra. See and sense this rose of light expanding until it fills your entire body and aura. Inhale the pure, fresh scent of roses and allow it to permeate your consciousness, as well as your entre physical being.

The following ideas and messages may apply to your present situation; notice any that particularly call out to you as you read:

Open your heart.

Allow love to lead the way.

Feel yourself to be surrounded and protected by love.

Tap into the infinite love that surrounds you.

Pure love is present in this situation.

Concentrate on love rather than discord.

Release limiting beliefs about love.

Love yourself fully, and then extend love to everyone involved in this situation.

Know that you are lovable.

Make a habit of seeing everyone as deserving of love; for example, you might choose to see each person and animal you encounter as their mother would see them or as you would see your mother.

Spend time with rose, bring rose into your home or garden, inhale rose scent, diffuse the essential oil, take the homeopathic flower essence remedy, mist yourself or your space with rose water, or add rose petals to your bathwater.