Lessons From the Rose

I went to cut some roses today to bring into the house but as I bent down to smell them first, I was greeted by a delightful Australian native bee. This leads me to share a channeled message I received the other week and this week. My journey, particularly over the last 12 months, has very much been centred around the Divine Feminine. This was not so much a choice but it definitely was a calling. I have been blessed to have many feminine spiritual (spirit) teachers make themselves known to me. One in particular is Mary, the Magdalene, or as I refer to her, Miriam.

As life goes we are often faced with situations and trials that can lead us away from who we are, our true nature. This happened to me and for the most part, I was unaware that I was losing touch with me, my heart. I had gone from being an open and rose coloured glasses girl, before I even needed glasses, to being quite closed off, indifferent and cynical. People thought I was an open book but truthfully all they ever saw was the first page. A few got to read a chapter.

So, I guess you could say I had put a nice thick shield around my heart. Now, when your heart is closed off it is very hard to access the beauty, love and wisdom that is held in it. Your heart has all the beautiful qualities of intuition, emotions, gratitude, compassion and empathy. These are all the feminine aspects of ourselves. When we can be connected and in tune with this aspect we have faith and trust that all of our needs will be met, and with this trust we are then also open to receiving. When we are out of touch with our feminine aspect or don’t have a healthy relationship with it, we don’t have trust. When we don’t have trust we can become controlling or we can also be in a constant state of doing, because again, we don’t believe or have faith that our needs will be met. It also comes down to believing that we are worthy to receive.

I believe for most of us, and this message is mainly for women now, we tend to be in masculine mode. The masculine is logic. He is the thinker. The masculine “does” and is the giver. The masculine makes things happen, so when we are more aligned with this aspect of ourselves we never stop doing and we believe it is up to us to make everything happen. So once again, we don’t have faith or trust in those around us to bring something to fruition, or take action. This can then lead to controlling type of behaviour which may look many ways, for different situations.

This leads me to the messages and guidance that I received from Miriam. I was told that I keep defaulting to the masculine aspect of myself. She was here to teach me how to embody my feminine energy. In that energy I could learn to surrender, let go of my attachment to the outcomes and learn to be receptive. She told me to, “Be the rose.” I was to firmly root myself as the rose! She said that the rose does not go to the beehive, but the bees come to the rose.

I mulled over this and was trying to absorb this message. It made me ponder upon the relationship between the rose and the bee. The rose as the feminine and the bee as the masculine. What could I learn from this? How do they work together? What is the bee giving the rose? Isn’t the rose doing more giving?

As the rose develops and unfurls its petals, she is receptive and invites the bee into her inner sanctum. However, through her receptivity, she is also giving. The bee accepts her gift of pollen and then takes this away. Then I realised, it is more than who gets most out of it. It’s more than just about what the rose receives and the bee gives. Together they are giving and receiving. They are harnessing the feminine and masculine aspects of each other, together. Together they are creating gold! Liquid gold, honey - a beautiful sweet nectar which has many gifts in itself. Together the rose and the bee create magic. Just as the rose receives the bee, the bee receives the gifts of the rose. The bee uses these gifts to create/make something. He brings the honey into being. From this, their sacred relationship overflows. There are many that benefit from the sacred relationship of the rose and the bee.

So, it is an inner dance of the rose and bee within us. When they are in a harmonious relationship with each other, they create honey, the sweetness of life. This also then becomes our outer dance.

PS: I just had another realisation! The rose is still, just like the feminine. The bee is active, just like the masculine. 🌹🐝