A shamanic journey with the Rose 🌹

by Lian Brook-Tyler

I was speaking to one of the women joining The Rose Quest, and she asked me whether she could microdose during the quest.

(The answer was “No, and…”)

In replying to her, I realised it was time to turn my attention back to the Rose herself, the one who initiated me into the mysteries of the Mythical Feminine in the first place, my most wise, loving, patient, and long-standing guide, and the spirit who will be our teacher for this quest.

(Until now, because there’s been so much confusion and resistance about the archetype of the Temple Priestess that we will be questing to embody, I’ve been focusing on her in my communication).

But now I want to honour the eponymous spirit of the quest, the Rose, who is the reason I’m leading it at all.

As you might already know, one of the ways I work is shamanically - many years ago, it was actually the Rose and the Oak (another one of my esteemed teachers) who showed me that possibility and path, long before I heeded the call to be taught and initiated by human teachers.

This year I realised it was time for me to work with the Rose with others in ceremony in a more intentional way, because although she’s been woven into the work I’ve done for many years, it’s now time to do so more deeply and fully than ever before.

Using modern parlance, we will be microdosing, macrodosing and everything between and beyond, and using more ancient language, we will be invoking the spirit of the Rose… And however you say it, the circle of women will experience the Rose as the potent teacher plant she truly is.

"But how can she be a teacher plant? She’s just this common or garden plant - quite literally she’s found in every other English Garden - she is not like the exotic ones found deep in the Amazon or the complex ones made in the lab."

Yes, and yet, look at the magical fungi, much the same could be said to be true for that too, it is often found in sheep fields and verges, the places where humans frequent.

"...But she’s not a psychedelic!"

That’s true, and yet, if we enter the portal of the word ‘entheogen’ that’s been used for these plants and substances - it means to open us to the god within. What else can do that? A sunset, the full moon, the stars, newborn babies… many things can do that for us. They can open us to God without needing to be in the least bit psychedelic in the way we usually use that word.

"But if she truly was a teacher plant, wouldn’t she be opening us to God every time we were given a bouquet of roses or use a bath oil scented with rose?"

Therein lies the secret of working with some of these great spirits and honouring them as our teachers. They won’t push themselves upon us... They will simply wait until we are open and sensitive enough to be able to hear their invitation, and even then, until we are ready to accept it, we won’t learn anything, let alone about God.

There’s not much more for me to say because so much needs to be experienced in the quest… if you are ready to hear and heed the Rose’s invitation, let’s talk. We begin in a week.

All my love, and devotion to union,

Lian

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