I found these beautiful Nootka roses growing in the Redwood forest near a great old grove of trees.

Watching them open and close with the cycle of the sun and moon was a delight. I love anything that can make me feel grounded and watching the passage of time on something other than a clock does exactly that. It gives me those bright feelings that I’d like to rid myself of everything and just live inside a redwood tree in the forest.

Medicinal uses

• Astringent
  • Tighten skin
  • Dry weeping skin
  • Clearing burns
• Anti-inflammatory
  • Soothing intestinal inflammation (diarrhoea)
  • Quieting puffy skin
  • Clearing redness

Magickal uses

• Cleansing
  • Burn as incense and spread the smoke
  • Scatter petals around a perimeter
• Love
  • Infusions to dedicate time and dedication to different types of love
• Colour correspondences:
  • Yellow for friendship
  • Pink for self love and familial love
  • Red for passionate, romantic, or sexual love
  • White for new love or marriage
• Protection
  • Thorns used in spells
  • Burnt as incense

Lore

Roses of all sorts have been mentioned in lore since the beginning of time. Seeing as these beautiful flowering shrubs now grow in nearly all ends of the earth, just about every culture on earth has some relation to them. The common threads seem to be love, beauty, and happiness.

In Greco-Roman tradition, the goddess Chloris/Flora created most flowers. The rose, she created from the corpse of a nymph and the gods worked together to give it the beauty (Venus), scent (Dionysus). Aphrodite named the flower for her son, Eros.