Episode 5: The Symbol of the Rose
The rose is a flower which by any other name would smell as sweet—after all, a rose is a rose is a rose! In this episode of Soror Mystica, Mariana and Cristina explore the symbol of the rose, a flower with just five petals and endlessly variegated appearances in our collective imagination.
Tune in as we explore the roses’s connections to the sacred feminine, Venus-Aphrodite and the Virgin Mary, virginity and passion, creation and destruction, sin and innocence, spirit and soul, death and renewal, the anima mundi, and so much more. This episode’s listener symbol is a flock of birds, which prompts an exploration of the divination tool of ornithomancy and bird magic in general.
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Referenced Materials
Read the Roman de la Rose here
The Flight of the Wild Gander, Joseph Campbell
The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype, Erich Neumann
