Rose




It is very complex character. Ambivalence, because it symbolizes and heavenly perfection and earthly passion, time and eternity, life and death, fertility and virginity.

In the West rose and lily took place east of lotus, mystic rose - its closest analogue in symbolic significance.

Rose - this is perfect, pleroma, completeness, the mystery of life, its center, unknown, beauty, grace, happiness, but also voluptuousness, passion, combined with the wine - sensuality and seduction. Symbolizing the heart, Rose took a position at the center of the cross - a point of unity.

As a flower of female deities, rose means love, life, creativity, fertility, beauty and virginity.

Wilting roses symbolize death, death and grief, its thorns - pain, blood and martyrdom.

In funeral rites, it symbolizes the eternal life, eternal spring, the resurrection.

Rose is also a symbol of silence and secrecy - something referred to sub rosa (literally "under the rose", ie, private, and therefore will not be divulged). Rosa hang or paint in the rooms for meetings, which symbolizes the secrecy and caution.

Golden Rose is perfection, the red - a desire, passion, joy, beauty, completeness (the flower of Venus, Adonis, and the blood of Christ), White Rose - a "flower of light, innocence, virginity, spiritual disclosure, charm, red and white roses symbolize Union fire and water, the connection of opposites; blue roses - the symbol of the impossible and unachievable. Chetyrehlepestkovaya Rose embodies quaternary division of space, a five - a microcosm, a shestilepestkovaya - macrocosm.

Socket - this picture roses (or lotus) when looking from above.

"Wind Rose" is drawn as a circle covering the double cross, which symbolizes the four corners of the world together with the interim directions, thus it shares the symbolic value of the circle, center cross and rays of the sun wheel.

"Rose Garden" - a symbol of paradise and a place of mystical marriage, the unity of opposites.

In alchemy rose - this is wisdom, and rosarium - a "Job" is also a symbol of spiritual rebirth after death perishable.

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