Telling Roses
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In alchemy, the rose is never just a symbol of love. It marks the final stage of transformation — where opposites merge, and perfected matter reveals itself. A rose born not at the beginning, but at the end of the work.
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We’re in the year 1230, deep in the Middle Ages. In France, Guillaume de Lorris begins Le Roman de la Rose—a dreamlike allegory written decades before Dante’s Divina Commedia. In those times, people didn’t aspire to fame or influence. They aspired to spiritual perfection, to earning love as a form of inner completion. A true…
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The Rarity of True Love
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From ancient folktales to Practical Magic, “The Rarity of True Love” explores women’s freedom, blue roses, and the courage to chase impossible dreams. Telling Roses created a new original symbol for this: The Blue Roses Triskelion!
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Discover how roses, from Sappho’s verses to Rhodes’ myths, bloomed in Ancient Greece to become humanity’s universal symbol of love.
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From Ancient Roman Rose Gardens to the Mystic Rosetos
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The history and symbolism of the rose: from Greek and Roman otium gardens to the Christian Mystic Rose and the Victorian language of flowers.
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Is the rose truly the most beautiful flower? In many cultures, this question has been asked for centuries. In Hindu mythology, there is a story in which the gods debated whether the lotus or the rose was the most beautiful flower. Though the lotus became the enduring religious symbol of purity and spiritual awakening, it…
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Dear Rose Tellers, Help me answer just one question today:What do people see in roses? Are the symbolic references we’ve been exploring in past posts still alive today—consciously or not—embraced by celebrities and everyday people alike? You might think my personal obsession with roses is something I’ve carried with me forever. That I was always…



