Rose Oracle & Natural Magic
Dec 18, 2024
This academic paper was submitted for my Masters in East-West Psychology program, in a class called Magic & Earth, taught by Dr. Stephen Julich, at California Institute of Integral Studies. It is part of an evolving body of work in how plant and fungi beings support the development of archetypal feminine consciousness.
Natural Magic and the Rose Teacher
This paper explores connections between the Western tradition of natural magic and my apprenticeship to Rose as a teacher and magical ally. Open to wisdom beyond the empirical perspective, I embrace non-rational, non-linear ways of knowing as valuable keys to growing in self-knowledge and mutual understanding with more-than-human kin. My primary definition of magic herein is the practice of entering into a deeper relationship with the living world for the purpose of reciprocal benefit and mutual transformation (Uhl, 2024). Magic requires expanding awareness beyond the disembodied intellect into a direct perception of the field of relationships that occur prior to and beyond it (Julich, 2024). Animism is central to natural magic; it is the belief that everything is alive and ensouled. Many beings can be teachers, and we can learn a long-forgotten language by listening to native speakers, including plants. Learning from Rose, I’ve grown in Venusian consciousness and organic feminine intelligence, through a five-fold lesson on relationship as the core of magic, earth bodies as the channel for connection, energy as the language of magic, beauty as a force of transformation and love as the unifying generative impulse of creation.
Magic as Relationship
In exploring the Western tradition of natural magic and its relationship to earth-based wisdom, one can study scholarly materials on animist ways of being, but more effective may be the scholar-practitioner's direct experience of the world as a living symbol (Julich, 2024). According to Kohn, a symbol can be iconic (involving signs that share likenesses with the things they represent) or indexical (involving signs that are in some way affected by or otherwise correlated with those things they represent). Semiosis (the creation and interpretation of signs) permeates and constitutes the living world, and it is through our partially shared semiotic abilities and tendencies that interspecies relations are possible, and also analytically comprehensible (Kohn, 2013).
As Giovanni Pico della Mirandola offered, “Magicam operari non est aliud quam maritare mundum,” which translates: To work magic is nothing other than to marry the world. Marriage here implies intimate union, deep familiarity and ongoing relationship with one’s field of experience, sensation and perception. It means “reconsidering who in this world represents… what it is that counts as representation… understanding how different kinds of representation work and how these different kinds of representation variously interact with each other (Kohn, 2013, p. 41).
Magic Is Co-Creating Reality
Starhawk, author of Spiral Dance, refers to magic as the “art of changing consciousness at will” (1989). If consciousness is the foundation of reality and the cosmic mind, changing it at will means coming into awareness of our nature as co-creators and realizing we can channel attention or direct energy and shape our shared experience from the referent point of Earth. Abracadabra, the magical adage with etymology in Hebrew ebrah k'dabri, means “I create as I speak.” Through directed consciousness, words and communication beyond words, we influence and participate in unfolding creation. By opening observation to a broader range of sensory information, enhancing pattern recognition (intuition), and inviting awareness from the unconscious realm, we can expand perception and the ability to weave with the underlying fabric of reality (Abrams, 2010; Graves, 2012, McCarthy, 2020, Von Franz, 2021).
Magic can thus be considered a dynamic dialogue with the foundation of being or All That Is. David Abrams, author of Becoming Animal, offers that perception is weaving the energies and expression of the world around us at the moment, and suggests magic may be a dialogic “practice of attention to the uncanny power that lives in our spoken phrases to touch and sometimes transform the tenor of the world’s unfolding” (Abrams, 2010, p.173) This suggests that magic is a higher, deeper, or more expanded expression of nature, something inherently available in all of life. Power or spirit is moved, attuned with, and directed by the practitioner as they connect, commune, and open to the organic and omnipresent force which animates All That Is. Somatically and sonically, we can enter into dialogue with plant, animal, elemental and mineral beings, and even the mundane material objects we think of as inert and unalive. By channeling intention into communication through animal body expression, we influence the resonance, frequency, and expressive response of the world around us.
Magic is Conversation
This conversation often unfolds beyond inherently compartmentalizing words, which displace us from the immediacy of experience. Energy is the interspecies communication method connecting multitudinous aspects of reality. Words are not wrong, but they are limited to a mere part of the communication spectrum which spans silence, energy, vibration, sound, senses, body language, orality, alphabetized language and written communication. Josephine McCarthy, author of Magic at the North Gate, says that in focusing our faculties in the direction of alphabetized language, and wiring our brains to interpret that way, we have forgotten or diminished our ability to transmit information in other ways. (2020).
Some examples of communication beyond words include elements, weather, ritual, symbols, shapes, colors, tones, light, sound and breath - and this list is not exhaustive. In magical conversation, attention towards these aspects of communication holds respect, reverence, and deep care. In contemplation, ritual, or practice, practitioners are paying attention and speaking - with voice, sound, movement, muscle tension, or energetic frequency - to the world around them, and trusting that Earth and Life, in their sensuous rhizomatic interconnectivity, respond (Julich, 2024). “Magic of any real power is a combination of patterns, energies and beings all interacting at a certain frequency” (McCarthy, 2020, p.83). Magic is both communion and communication, attunement to our shared underlying foundation of energy as a way to overcome the perceived limitations of time, space, and causation. To practice magic, we must realize that everything exists in an entanglement of relationships, in which the actions of one part of the living whole affect another.
McCarthy says weaving magical patterns is both a creative and intuitive act, in which instincts are more important than strict steps (2020). Like learning a language, once we are native speakers we do not work to construct each line of each handwritten letter, or fumble through phonetics and pronunciation, but rather intuitively and creatively combine symbols to create a pattern in speech or writing that weaves vibration, energy, and meaning. Practicing magic is like learning to speak a language that we never learned, or first knew but forgot; adopting the pre-verbal language of animism. We can do this by listening to native speakers, including plant kin like Rose, because as Kohn sets forth, “representation is actually something more than conventional, linguistic, and symbolic” (2013). It is a direct mutual experience. There exists a primary language that we two-leggeds share with other species and in this two-way conversation, we are being heard and also listened to or sensed by our earthly surroundings (Abram, 2010).
Training our sensory perception towards this dialogue will gradually activate pattern recognition and intuition. Through this process we may also “develop our perception of the natural world as a complete, full, and perfect expression of the ineffable Source, so we might recognize a world not fallen or in need of transformation, but ourselves as those in need of a transformation of perception” (Julich, 2024). This is the intuitive recognition of organic intelligence, the sustaining, self-organizing quality which permeates the natural world and expresses itself through sacred geometry, synchronicity, and symbiosis. When we perceive intelligent wholeness in life, we can build intentional bridges with beings (body, home, land, realms, deities) to harmonize the intelligences that exist within and between us (McCarthy, 2020). In this process, we may realize the wisdom of Jung’s double button concept from Liber Novus: “Nothing happens in which you are not entangled in a secret manner; for everything has ordered itself around you and plays your innermost” (2009, pp. 272-273). We are always speaking at the energetic level, transmitting through the “energetic rhizome permeating all of existence” and receiving through “an embodied experience of both energetic and morphological patterns” (Julich, 2024).
Rose, Teacher of Earth Body Wisdom
The human body, the body of Earth, and body of Rose are all teachers and co-creators of consciousness. The interplay of elemental forces and embodied senses comes through our human filter of perception, expanded by observing the world with curious and open awareness. Natural magic unfolds for me by attuning my own sensing body to the body of Earth, shaping patterns which invite me to express, channel, receive, or connect more deeply with the rhythm of the cosmos and underlying animate web amongst, between and within Earthlings. My body is the vessel for dialogue with All That Is, because it is formed by it, arises out of it, and is embedded within it, through the shared mother matrix that is Earth. Stephen Julich explains:
Our nervous systems, then, are wholly informed by the particular gravity of this sphere, by the way the sun’s light filters down through Earth’s atmosphere, and by the cyclical tug of Earth’s moon. In a thoroughly palpable sense, we are born of this planet, our attentive bodies coevolved in rich and intimate rapport with the other bodily forms—animals, plants, mountains, rivers—that compose the shifting flesh of this breathing world. The enfolding biosphere provides the inescapable template for our experience of any other realm we may discover or devise. (2024).
Deepening awareness of the body may be as simple as closing my eyes and dropping into a more subtle realm of awareness. It can be drawing or sending energy through a focal point in my body through breath or mental attention. My body responds and participates in conversation with consciousness, expressing itself in full body chills when I am speaking through an oracular channel, impromptu and nearly involuntary intonations or humming when I am praying, or dancing as a transmission of information, even when I don’t know what the information is. Rose does not speak in written or alphabetized language. Thus, apprenticing to Rose has called me to practice speaking the language of energy and leaning into sensory, body-based dialogue.
Cultivating the Ecological Self
Joanna Macy eloquently explains how we can expand perception to recognize our bodies as the body of Earth in Greening the Self: “Oh, the sweetness of realizing I am not separate from my environment. I am not other than what I’m experiencing. I am this breathing. I am this moment, and it is changing, continually arising in the fountain of life” (2013). This understanding of an ecological self provides further context for magic as a relationship. The ecological self is dynamic and situational, existing moment to moment in relation to all that is around and within us. Human life did not begin at birth or conception, but exists in a continual primal force that goes back to our star origins and Earth’s primordial seas. Through energy and elements, neither created, nor destroyed, humans exist as a continuance of fire, earth, air, water, and spirit: the fire in our bellies, waters of our tears, earth of our bodies, air of our breath, spirit of our consciousness. When we work with the elements in material, symbolic or subtle forms, we are recognizing them as interwoven aspects of a wider sense of self.
This frontier of consciousness, which unites individual and collective, interior and exterior, unconscious and conscious, above and below, is the enchanted realm, where magic is ever present and the expectation. Accessing the enchanted realm requires us to engage the feminine, non-rational, non-linear, intuitive, body-based ways of knowing which weave together immanence and transcendence. To enter this realm, we attune body based knowledge (Abrams, 2010) and learn to speak the language of the natural world (Graves, 2009) so we can weave with the pattern of creation (McCarthy, 2020).
Intelligence of Rose, Venusian Ambassador
What is the intelligence of the Rose? Her energetic and morphological patterns revealed to me an ambassador of Venusian energy and organic (earth-body) oracle of feminine intelligence. Dra. Rocio Rosales Meza, a medicine woman of the Q’ero lineage, explains that masculine and feminine, beyond gender, refer to qualities of spiritual energy which require balance in order to maintain harmony within the web of life. She explains: “Feminine energy encompasses many qualities, but one of the simplest ways to think about the divine feminine is to look to our Mother Earth. Our Mother is nurturing, loving, emergent, and exists in cycles. She is also fierce, a protector of sacred creation and seeks balance for life to flourish. In other words, the strength she embodies is not for destruction but for life” (Rosales-Meza, 2021). By oracle of feminine intelligence, I mean that Rose as a magical ally teaches the practitioner, by being a living example, to embody feminine energy and a strength for life.
Rose medicine awakens and activates the energetic field of the heart, inspires us through beauty to seek and become more beautiful beings, and evokes longing for mystical union with the divine. Rose is a plant, Venus is a planet. Both are associated cross-culturally with beauty, and serve as examples of the power beauty has to captivate, enchant, and inspire humans back into our essential love affair with Earth and Cosmos. Lord Byron speaks to the power of beauty in this poem about Venus:
There is a wisdom in the spirit, which directs to right, as in the dim blue air, the eye of you, young mortals, lights at once upon the star which watches, welcoming the morn. The symbols of the Invisible are the loveliest of what is visible; and yon bright star is leader of the host of heaven. (Warner, 1909, emphasis mine).
Rose and Venus, loveliest of what is visible, serve as symbols of the Invisible divine presence which underlies all creation. Beauty leads us to pleasure, presence, appreciation and protection. What we find beautiful, we care for and preserve. Beauty reminds us of divine love. Beauty itself may not save the world, but the realization of beauty might save the world.
Astrologically, the planet Venus is associated with the feminine principle. She rules love, beauty, material resources, relationships, art, justice, balance, and harmony. Venus is responsible for helping humans come into a balanced, harmonious relationship with Earth and cosmos. Astronomically, Venus traces the shape of a pentagram or five-petaled rose in her dance with Earth over an 8-year cycle. The orbital ratio of Venus to Earth is 224.7: 365.25 days, a ratio of 0.615, or approximately 8 to 13. The difference of these orbits demarcates the path of Venus, expressing itself in a five-fold symmetry relative to Earth, a pattern referred to as the Rose of Venus (Ottewell, 2023). Venus, in relation to Earth, creates the shape of a five petaled rose and transmits an orbital frequency of sacred geometry which mirrors the pentagram and human body.
Rose serves as an ambassador of Venusian consciousness by leading us from beauty in form to beauty beyond form. “On the higher planes, Venus helps us to rise from the bondage of forms to the level of concept through the power of beauty. Beauty is then a soul quality and exists in us as the equilibrium of consciousness” (Krishamacharya, 2009). Venus gives us the ability to get focused on beauty; its magnetic currents result in the transformation of our base nature. When we imagine beauty and connect inwardly with it, we obtain equilibrium in the etheric.
Rose, Venus & the Great Goddess
From ancient times Venus as the bright morning and evening star was associated with the Great Goddesses of the ancient world, Ishtar, Isis, Inanna, Aphrodite and Venus (Warner, 1909). In Roman mythology, it is Venus (goddess of love, desire, sexuality, fertility who endows Rose with beauty, Bacchus (god of agriculture and fertility) who gifted the Rose intoxicating scent, and Mars (god of agriculture and war) who provided thorns. This mythos reveals Rose as a balance of feminine and masculine polarities, as carrier of divine revelation through her pleasure-giving presence. One legend says that Venus slipped on a bed of roses and scratched her foot, and wherever her foot bled, a garden of red roses sprang up. This story contains the women’s mystery teaching about the generative fertility of menstrual blood, and a reminder that it is through our bodies and blood that life is made possible. These teachings, which honor sex and the body as sacred, align with Venusian wisdom about the balance of human and divine love.
Venus rules both paths; it has the key to individual as well as to group consciousness, which further leads to universal consciousness. The Venus principle is regarded as divine and as diabolic – diabolic, because it causes separateness of consciousness into individual units of consciousness, and divine, because, by the reversal of the process, it leads to the consciousness of group responsibility. Venus makes us feel the other beings in our own being and thus experience our unity with creation. (Krishnamacharya, 2009)
Rose, a Venusian ambassador, invites contemplation on body and eros, love and sex, fertility and procreation as sacred acts which enable incarnation and entrance from the etheric realm into the material. Here on Earth, Rose evokes a remembrance of divine beauty that may lead us into spiritual seeking, and ultimately reunion with Self. Rose represents love, creation, fertility, wisdom, beauty, and mystery; she is a symbol of both early and heavenly perfection. In Catholicism, Rose is a symbol of the opening of the heart to the revelation and experience of Divine Love. In the Christian tradition, the rose was associated with the Virgin Mary and, in the gnostic and alchemical tradition, with Sophia, Divine Wisdom and the Holy Spirit (Baring, 2024). In Sufism, Rose represents the beauty of Divine Love and serves as a symbol of the heart as the seat of the soul. Hazrat Inayat Khan, Sufi musician and mystic says:
The soul can be likened to the rose; as a rosebud blooms, so the soul unfolds itself. For the rosebud to bloom five conditions are required: fertile soil, bright sun, water, air and space; and the same five conditions are required for the unfoldment of the soul. (2018)
Rose is a symbol of the soul, centered in the heart - not the organ, but the subtle center of our being. Rose is the symbol of the heart, and heart is the center of the soul. Soul is the mirror for Self, Source, the foundation of being, whose realization is a spiral path and unfolding, the path of Divine Love.
Rose Medicine & Signature
Rose medicine begins in her body. Buds, blossoms and blooms of a rose offer visual beauty and intoxicating scent which invite the beholder to presence. Venus governs the color sense. Roses come in a rainbow of colors, suggested to have various healing properties and correspondences (Graves, 2012), as well as connection with particular chakras, each offering a different subtle resonance. In full bloom, Rose petals are soft and abundant, a visual reminder of fullness and wholeness. The gift of Rose to the world (which we might call purpose) is blooming. It is her inherent authentic self-expression.
The stems of Rose teach of strength and willpower; the thorns teach of boundaries and self protection. Roses grow from a strong root and stem, and carry qualities of good posture, strength and fortitude. Wild roses especially have an uncontainable, pioneering spirit and ability for manual work that springs from the life force in the limbs. Wild rose essence is said to help to break through apathy and stop procrastination by making energy descend into the limbs Thorns serve as keepers of intelligent boundaries and a system of protection which are most relevant only if her personal space is invaded. Branches contract life force into thorns, so that every thorn is a withheld branch and each spine a withheld leaf. Thorny plants of the Rose family have strong etheric forces and are thought to have an especially stimulating and energizing effect on the body (Graves, 2012). By selectively retaining life force, Rose creates stems of self-preservation which enable blooming and bestowing her gift of self-expression to the world. Her intelligence knows precisely what to unfold and what to retain to optimize her chances of blooming in spiral unfolding. Rose teaches that boundaries are vital in order to create space for a full, thriving expression of our gifts.
Rose’s petal structure and spiral unfolding express sacred geometrical patterns and shapes mirrored throughout creation. “The spiral shape of many roses is a reflection of the Fibonacci sequence, a mathematical ratio that appears throughout nature, from seashells to galaxies” (Schlebusch, 2024). This spiral is a symbol of the infinite, of life’s eternal cycles of death and rebirth, growth and decay, expansion and contraction. The five-petal structure of Rose invites contemplation of numerological correspondences. In Tantric numerology, five is the number of the physical body and the teacher, associated with the soul quality of balance and the path of teaching by example. Vedantic wisdom speaks of five elements, five human sense organs and five organs of action. The pentagram, a five pointed star, is an esoteric symbol which also corresponds to the human body and the five elements. Graves explains that the Rose clan is built upon five petals, and they act on the relationship of the center versus the periphery of our five limbs. Many have heart healing properties and act on the blood and circulation, moving blood from heart to limbs. This is also the pattern of Vedanta’s vyana vayu, which governs circulation to all five limbs, (one head, two hands, two feet) by emanating a spiral energy from our heart (center) into our five limbs. Thus Graves explains Rose energy as one that brings us into our five limbs and thus into human incarnation. She is a spiral unfolding, a teacher of balance and living by example. Through these symbols of the pentagram and the spiral, Rose mirrors patterns of Earth and cosmos, reminding us that we are intimately connected to the heartbeat of Nature and the universe. The geometry of the rose invites us to consider our own spiral path, our unique journey of unfolding our innately beautiful self-expression.
The signature of Rose medicine is distinct and Venusian; she brings balance, calm and harmony and supports beauty and heart-centered flow. When ingested, Rose is a balm for the circulatory, reproductive and nervous systems. Topically and internally, she bestows uplifting qualities and promotes radiance and beauty. In The Language of Plants, Julia Graves affirms Rose as a true symbolic signature, because the heart-shaped Rose petal aligns with its heart remedies, cooling excited hearts and allaying difficult emotions. The shape of a full rose bloom is reminiscent of female genitalia, a suggestion that her medicine is connected to the womb and reproductive organs. The aroma of rose can have anti-depressant and anti-anxiety effects. Her various medicinal properties are astringent, analgesic, nervine, aphrodisiac, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory; she soothes the heart, balances the mind, reduces stress and calms the nerves. In Ayurvedic healing, rose water is used for inflammation, inflamed eyes, and other hot, red (excess pitta, or fire) tissue conditions, and calming skin. Rose balances and neutralizes excessive heat and acidity in the stomach, colon and liver and supports healthy reproductive strength for both men and women.
Though we may not think of Rose as speaking in sound, she emits one of the highest vibrational frequencies found in nature, approximately 320 MHz. The healthy human body generally vibrates at around 62-68 MHz, with likelihood of illness arising and when frequencies drop below 58 MHz. This suggests that the presence of Rose, on the level of frequency and vibration, may contribute to physical and emotional healing (Schlebusch, 2024).
Wisdom of the Rose Oracle
An oracle is one through whom deity is said to speak. My direct experience of deepening study and contemplative practice with Rose has been one of dialogue with Venusian consciousness. The deity of Venus for me is merely one expression of the thousand-faced Goddess, who goes by other names - Sophia, Black Madonna, Our Lady, and countless others. The oracle of the Rose has offered me wisdom through her presence on teaching by example, why pruning is required for growth, and life’s spiral unfolding towards an ultimate purpose: full, heart-centered, authentic self-expression.
Teaching by Example
I was harvesting white climbing rose from my garden for an altar arrangement. The wisdom of the white rose, according to traditional Irish medicine woman and shamanic practitioner Cathy Coyle, is one of purity and peace, whose adage is, “I illuminate peace in the darkness.” In contemplation, I asked Rose to teach me more about how to illuminate peace in the darkness (of consciousness, chaos, and the frequent heaviness of the modern world). Before gathering Rose, I intuitively sought guidance on which other plants would like to be arranged with Her. The nudges were towards purple flowering basil, a staple element in religious ritual from Judeo-Christian traditions which often represents purity and protection, and white flowering common basil, associated with the quality of discipline by Sri Aurobindo, as it “sets the example and hopes to be followed.” Circling back to the numerology of Rose, I was reminded of the number five as a teacher of the physical body, the senses, and one who teaches by being a living example. This felt like a magical answer to my question; to illuminate peace in the darkness requires that we first create peace within ourselves, to become a beacon of that frequency and energy.
Pruning & Strengthening
My friend Elly has a beautiful rose garden. I sought her wisdom about tending roses, and she replied that “the secret is in the pruning.” When the branches of garden roses cross, they need to be pruned in order to continue directing energy towards flowering. My mother agreed; she said to always prune the branches or fully bloomed roses back to the nearest five leaf branch, to support the next waves of growth and budding. When I listen to the deeper layer of this with the mind of Jung’s double button, I hear a teaching for life. When we’ve grown in too many disparate directions, or have entangled ourselves, it’s time to release and redirect energy to the areas we are now aiming to grow. To do this wisely, we can search our beings for what small branches are leafing, what aspects of us feel tenderly alive with new vital shoots able to receive nourishment. From those places of new passion and tender will, we can begin to grow again.
Spiral Unfolding & Blooming from the Heart
My garden has yellow, orange, and white roses. Where I live in the Portuguese countryside, there are thousands of old-growth roses in a rainbow of colors. No matter what rose beckons my gaze, upon looking closely, I am always struck by the ineffable essence of a budding bloom and witnessing her spiral unfolding. As she opens, moving from contraction and self-protection towards slow unfolding, softening, and expansion, I am reminded of my own journey of unfolding and expanding in consciousness. Rose mirrors the path of awakening which moves us from perceived separation to an open-hearted connection with all life. The opening of the Rose is a reminder that when we open in full expression, we give the world our beauty, and only from a soft open heart can we pollinate the world with our essence. In the words of Sufi mystic Hazrat Inayat Khan (Baring, 2024):
Just as the rose consists of many petals held together, so the person who attains to the unfoldment of the soul begins to show many different qualities. These emit fragrance in the form of a spiritual personality. The rose has a beautiful structure, and the personality which shows the unfoldment of the soul also has a fine structure, in the manner of relating to others, in speech, in action. The atmosphere of a spiritual being pervades the air like the perfume of a rose.
Rose arrived in my life after a spontaneous ‘mother’ awakening, and a deep experience which opened my awareness of an ecological self. Over years of growing devotion and relationship with Rose, I have been subtly and dramatically changed. Qualities of open-heartedness, upright posture, healthy boundaries, a fierce pioneering will, greater unfolding of my own purpose and expression, and a deep energetic connection with my heart and womb have all been enhanced, embodied and integrated as clear aspects of my being. I’ll continue walking the spiral path with rose towards the final stage of Jung’s alchemy, rubedo, in which the heart is said to open like a rose and reveal a fountain of light and compassion towards all living beings (Baring, 2024).
Conclusion
Magic is the language of Earth and all Her inhabitants, and bodies of Earth are the interface between spirit (consciousness) and matter (earth) which enables us to engage in dialogue. We can learn the language of creation from native speakers, like Rose, and may call it magic. Through energetic and morphological patterns, Rose is teaching me to strengthen the bridge between spirit and matter. Through sensory attunement, expanded perception, intuition, and listening with an open heart, Rose is teaching me about my purpose. She reminds me that I can be strong and soft, fierce and tender, pioneering and beautiful. She affirms that the best way to teach is by becoming a living example of the qualities we wish to teach to the world: beauty, harmony, divine remembrance, and love. She serves as a daily visual reminder that to live is to walk the spiral path of the Goddess. She invites me to orient to my body and the body of Earth, and rejoin, again and again, the great cosmic dance of Creation.
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