Wild roses and protecting what is sacred
This month I went to the forest many times. I love to go this time of year, to see the changes and blooming processes in the natural world.
These months, it’s been hard for me to grapple with spring already being here, and the fleeing nature of this season. Being outside has been one of my anchors to find some kind of steadiness ground through all of that.
The other day, I noticed that the wild roses were blooming, and found myself in awe of this precious beauty. Like so many wild flowers, the wild roses only bloom for a very short period, before they get over heated in the strong summer sun, and their petals start to fall to the ground. Somehow I miraculously find myself just at the peak of their season, and I couldn’t help but smile from ear to ear over this random yet beautiful alignment. One of my favourite things to do in the spring, is to make flower water, however I am almost never lucky enough to find these rose bushes when they are just ripe. I decided to pick a few of them along with some other wild flowers, and saved them in my bag.
I have always been intrigued and captivated by wild roses, and have felt a deep connection to them. In folk magic, roses are often used for both mental and spiritual protection. There is something so special, in these very fine and delicate roses, being surrounded by sticky thorns, that makes it a lot harder to go near them. You have to be attentive and patient when admiring or picking the roses. It makes me think about the practice and importance of boundaries. That our physical and material boundaries can make space for our emotional and spiritual boundaries as well.
When I admire the wild roses, I think some part of me is also admiring how it was designed to protect and caretake the most delicate parts of it; the flowers. Somehow the thorns make space for the beauty to grow. And it makes me think how boundaries and nourishment go hand in hand, something that we will also be exploring in my upcoming workshop: Nurturing our inner waters.
Yes, our intuitive knowing is omnipresent and always with us, and like any other physical muscle, the more we tend to it, the more it grows.
We live in a time, where our attention is almost constantly demanded and/or manipulated in the outside world. Many of us are taking in more than we have time to process and integrate, and as a result often find ourselves disconnected, overwhelmed, and scattered. Our intuition often connects us to a place inside, where we are better able to decipher and discern through all the different inputs, and sense into our own inner knowings, our own truth, and our own path.
My hope with this workshop is to support you in reconnecting with your own inner spaces, so that you may find the right distance between your own magic and beauty; your own wild rose, and the outside world. And who knows, maybe in that process you rediscover your own thorns, that will help you keep unwanted intruders at bay.
