I am alert to what arrives in my field leading up to new moon. Recently a friend’s computer dredged up an old poem I had sent her, in the way computers have of retrieving old emails as a reminder, and she forwarded it to me.
BAFFLED BEAUTY—ROSE
apples are roses, each seed unique Eve’s treat
quince with heady perfumed fruit
immortal pear
all the stone fruit are roses
apricot, aphrodisiac of dreams
fuzz cheeked peach fends of the hags of hell
tart cherry sweet cherry choke cherry white heart cherry
plums name all the Li’s in China
succulent loquat tangy yet sweet
musca fly courts meadowsweet, queen of the meadow
bees buzz hawthorn, drunk on its perfume of rotting meat
sweet almond, bitter almond—poison in kernels
mountain ash, bane of adders, bane of sorcerers
medlar the regulator
blackthorn blooms mid snowy blasts—blackthorn winter
at spring thaw serviceberry garlands prairie graves
double fruiting firethorn—the famine tree
straw berry rasp berry goose berry black berry dew berry cloud berry
diamond droplets cupped in lady’s mantle leaves
foaming goatsbeard
shining photinia
all are roses
What is dreamt in the blue chamber flourishes in the green. Rose is an understory plant. Who might you be human rose, outer petals trembling in the breeze, inner swirl guarding your seeds? Fossil rose whispers of sperm blowing in, mystery grows in the rose bed. Mystery of centre. Chalice, from calyx, cups the divine. Under the rose what’s spoken must remain secret. Faerie queen calls, witches visit the grove. Aphrodite rises from waves; roses spring from her flowing tears.
Mary is mosaiced in rose windows, mirrored in labyrinths. Equally spaced points around a circle connect rose mandalas of dizzying complexity. From whence comes the fadeless colour of rose, the scent of rose attar which lingers through ages? Love is key to the walled garden. Beloved the names of rose.
I love the wild ones.
Wild Rose is one of the Twelve Healers in the flower essence repertory discovered and prepared by Dr. Edward Bach, 1886-1936, an English physician with a Harley Street practice in London who studied the role of bacteriology in chronic disease, then went on to study and practice homeopathy. Dr. Bach recognized that there were personality types that related to various patterns of ill health, irrespective of the physical symptoms being presented by the patient. He worked with vaccine therapy then with homeopathic principals, eventually abandoning his formal practice to research his flower remedies. These, he felt, could harmonize the emotional imbalances that he came to see as the real cause of physical illness. In his short life he was known for innovations in each field of medicine he practiced. His thirty-eight Bach Flower Remedies are known around the world and have been the inspiration for individuals researching and producing flower essences in many countries from local flowers.
Wild Rose Affirmation : Dr. Edward Bach
Resignation, which makes one become merely an unobservant passenger on the journey of life, opens the door to untold adverse influences which would never have an opportunity of gaining admittance as long as our daily existence brought with it the spirit and joy of adventure.
Wild Rose Positive Qualities: Will to live, joy and commitment to life despite trials or pain. Patricia Kaminski, Flower Essence Society, Nevada City, CA, USA
As green shoots pierce the ground, irrepressible harbingers of spring, I anticipate the abundance of healers, in the form of flowers, I will soon walk among. Every gardener knows this, and anyone who has walked wilderness trails or visited city parks with open eyes and heart.
Rose fossils as old as 70 million years have been found. The Roses are here to stay, our inspiring and hardy companions.
Edward Bach wrote, There are seven beautiful stages in the healing of disease, these are: PEACE, HOPE, JOY, FAITH, CERTAINTY, WISDOM, LOVE
from Twelve Healers, Dr. Edward Bach, 1933
oh, i love the wild ones… 🌹🌹🌹
lovely invocation - scent and essence