As a plant of Venus, Rose is a classic aphrodisiac.
Rose
is an opener - it opens the heart and body to sensual experience.
Like
many aphrodisiacs, Rose has nervine and nourishing qualities
which help
to relax and soothe the body
so that it may become ready and desirous of
intimacy.
Venusian magick, though, reveals desire on more than the
physical level.
It reveals the desire to engage mystery
where there has
only been the acknowledgement of the mundane...
Rose reconnects to wildness, fierceness, and determined desire.
To dream
and want and feel and growl and move and connect with each other.
One
thing that I have seen again and again
that is particularly powerful
about Rose,
is its ability connects us back to the secret excitement of
mystery.