There is this beautiful rose growing in my garden. She was planted as an ornamental arch above the side gate by the previous owners. When we moved in years ago, she gently curved above our heads, shining in the light with her tiny yellow flowers. The hedge was small and she stood out like the queen of the gate. With time the hedge grew and became taller than the rose cutting off her visibility from the outside and the access to light. We were told she wouldn’t last, that it wasn’t the right place for her. To my husband’s annoyance, I like to leave plants to themselves in my garden, so the rose was granted freedom and left in peace. I thought that if it wasn’t a right place for her, she would wither and die, but I never imagined the lesson of survival and strength she would teach me in the process of her own becoming.
This beautiful plant decided that she likes living here and if she could only reach towards light, she would thrive. So, she did. She reached for the light with all her might. It wasn’t an overnight process; it was a journey of many years and many seasons. She needed help so she grew up touching the branch of the tree growing nearby. This is the Guardian Tree of my garden, my very good friend, though to this day I don’t know what type of tree it is. I’ve asked many people and nobody knows. The rose touched the branches of this Guardian and weaved herself through them to the top of the crown. The stem of the rose needed more strength and stability, more grounding, so she allowed herself to grow up and out, ending with the foundation resembling more of the tree trunk than the stem she used to have.
Here again, we were told that it is a parasitic behavior and that she would kill the tree. That we need to choose and preferably cut her down. And again, I said no. I sat with them both and listened. I asked them if there is a possibility of living a symbiotic life together, supporting each other and giving beauty to the world around us. The yes, I received was strong and sure. So again, I told my husband to leave the plants to their own volition. And we did.
Few years down the line, the connection established strongly and a beautiful symbiosis takes place between them both. Each year the rose wakes up first. She shakes her winter sleep and gifts us with beautiful tiny yellow roses that flower at the end of April and the beginning of May. She bathes herself in the spring sun, reflecting light across the entire street. Seen from far away the yellow mass at the top of the tree crown. In May the tree begins to grow her beautiful yellow flowers, that complement the rose and surround her in a cloud like yellowness. At the end of May the roses finish their bloom and gift us with the rain of petals. It’s a magical time to be in my garden and is always complemented by my clients and visitors. It is something of a fairytale, when you walk through the garden and each tiny breeze allows the petals to dance in the air around you, settle in your hair, kiss your skin and fall creating a beautiful yellow carpet at your feet. There is an important lesson in this fall. Nothing blooms forever. There is a time for a blossom and time for death, time to be in beauty and owe, and time to let go. This is the medicine teaching us to embrace the moment and live in now. This is the medicine of transformation. Courage is required to let go and allow the rebirth to happen. Abscission is the shedding, and the rose knows that she needs to surrender what was to the earth to one day be transformed anew. She teaches us to trust the seasons of life. We are not meant to stay the same. The more we try to control things and keep them static, the further away from the flow of life we would get. Change is scary, as it means to surrender to the unknown of being in between – so we are not who we were but also not yet who we are supposed to become. It requires strong trust in the flow and in transformation. A deep reverence for a life-death-life cycle. Resisting change brings us further away from who we are becoming. But when we embrace change, we also embrace Life. So now the flowers shriveled and died, but this is not the end of the transformation process, as now comes the time of the Guardian Tree to grow her beautiful large leaves. It is June now and this is the time of another beginning. The leaves on my tree are so large that if she would grow them earlier, the rose wouldn’t be able to flower, and this beautiful miracle wouldn’t have place to become. They found a way to coexist together without our input – this is what Nature is all about. There is this sacred interconnection between the rose, the tree, the earth and us. The rose became Mother Rose, filled with her inner wisdom and power. Together with my Guardian Tree they are calling us back to earth, to weave together the sacred back in, to weave nature back into our everyday life. We are Nature. I am Nature and so are you.
The rose has always been the sacred symbol of the feminine. Mother Rose calls us to open our hearts, to be brave to drop our defenses and reach out to each other with love, honesty and compassion. To face and untangle sadness, despair, anger from our hearts and to help each other to grow. Those beautiful plants teach us that relationships are how we grow – they hold, cradle and stretch us. Each relationship is an invitation to deepen the connection with ourselves, with each other, with the world. The sacred union is the union between two, but it is also returning to yourself. And when we return to ourselves we can live our truth, and we can return to Nature as well. What beautiful medicine!
This year the rose truly became Mother Rose and she was ready to share her medicine with me in more ways. One day when I was going down the stairs and looking out of the window at her beautiful tiny yellow roses she called me out. I went to meet her, and she showed me that she is ready to become an elixir and a medicine. She showed me how she would like to be prepared and what she can help me with. I didn’t question it; I followed her voice. Now I have a beautiful elixir in my cupboard, and the tincture is almost ready to share.
YELLOW ROSE ELIXIR
Ingredients:
Yellow rose petals, water, brandy, organic honey.
Dosage:
Take 1-3 drops of this elixir on or under your tongue (or mixed in water) in the morning and/or in the evening.
To be called in for Meditation, Ceremony, Ritual and Daily Support.
This Yellow Rose Elixir was created from the beautiful and mighty rose growing in my garden and was infused with Reiki and Divine Feminine Frequencies through prayer, blessing and meditation. This rose is the most powerful rose I have ever met. Her mighty stem, which is thick and strong as a tree trunk, spirals upwards through the branches of the tree that supports her, and blooms taking your breath away from late April to early May. This rose teaches us strength and perseverance, beauty and sovereignty. She awakens our Hearts and allows them to open to the pure power we hold within, surrounding us with protection and strength. She helps us to remain strong and rooted in face of difficulties bringing the energies and frequencies of the sun and the spring, promising rebirth and renewal. She supports us to become open and receptive to absorbing the Light and High Frequencies so that we can expand our Hearts and reconnect to our inner power.
I have some bottles of elixir to share (£20/ 30ml) and will also have a few bottles of tincture soon.
With love,
Agnieszka xx