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I stumbled across this description of Rose while writing my Rose Medicine Making Class just now. It is no small wonder to me that Rose is my strongest plant ally, but it is so nice to hear someone describe some of the things I have learned from her. Kiva Rose and I even have the same initial distain for the plant. This excerpt from Kiva Roses article really resonates with the connection that I have with Rose. Even some of the qualities listed are things that I would like to think that I posses on a good day, and strive for the rest of the time. The Wild Rose is my most important plant ally, and one that I am continually amazed by. If there is a single plant who has provided me with the most healing, it is this one. My relationship with this thorny beauty deepens each year, and every season the briar teaches me more about boundaries, vulnerability and self-expression. This plant teaches raw, wide open love complete with scars, thorns and an abiding sense of self-knowledge. She teaches that beauty is a bone deep quality, one that we hold in every cell regardless of the pain we’ve lived through or the battles we’ve weathered. In hard years, her petals unfurl skewed and wrinkled but his doesn’t mar her attractiveness. Rather, they add to an already complex character and give her more of the strongly scented medicine she’s known for. Tough, resilient and wild hearted, she springs back even after being beaten down by rocks, floods, droughts and deep cold. She is adaptable and stubborn, brazen and sensual. The Wild Rose is not a shy plant, she’ll grab you by your skirt with curved thorns and seduce you with her sweet, earthy scent. She asks us to pay attention, to feel deeply and to both wear our heart on our sleeves and to defend our most vulnerable selves with our life. Full of nourishment, this mother has teeth to protect herself with. Focus and respect are required of those who come to partake in her healing.~ Kiva Rose Class is at Petals from the Past, tomorrow from 10:30am -12 pm. Come if You can! ($30)
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 23:34:06 +0000

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