Roses why for love?
Roses have been around for quite a while. Many cultures have valued roses representing their goddesses and traditions. Roses are traditionally known as the ‘Queen of flowers’. Why do we feel that the rose is something like that of gold for certain events or times of the year.
Many years ago in 10 th century in Persia an Arabian physician Avicenna was credited with distilling the first batch of Rose oil. Avicenna was an alchemist as well as a physician, poet, astronomer and a mathematician. He created the essential oil almost by accident when he was attempting to transmute base metals into gold. It takes a lot of rose petals to extract a tiny amount of oil. Here is where the trend started of our beautiful rose essential oils.
Between February 14th through the 21st ancient times Rome celebrated Aphrodite festival of love. As with most pagan traditions it was changed to St. Valentine’s Day. It started around the year 496 AD.
Since many roses are red, they were used because the color connected to the aspects of the triple goddess and the lifeblood itself.
Goddesses represented with the rose:
Mesopotamian - Inanna, Istar/Astarte - love, beauty & sex
Hindu - Rati - love carnal desire, lust, passion & sexual pleasure
Greek - Venus - love, passion, romance & sexuality
Greek - Aphrodite - goddess of sexual love, love fertility & beauty
So think of rose, love and the beauty within yourself! Show your inner goddess, you deserve to take care of yourself during this crazy winter time of the year!
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