The Burning Rose

There’s an intelligent, sacred pulse woven through all of life. This sacred, intelligent pulse is within all living things – it’s the life-force itself and one of the greatest mysteries there is. When we’re connected to that, we’re connected to Life itself. The Burning Rose is the symbol of sacred rage. Of anger alchemized into something creative – into passion, not destruction.

We tend to see anger and rage as something we should avoid. As if expressing these emotions is to be avoided or even wrong; as if anger is something that should be controlled and restrained.

Boys are taught that their anger is dangerous and women that their rage isn’t feminine. Women who have the courage to harness their anger are often accused of being crazy and unstable. But this stops the flow of passion and the ferocious urge of the feminine to protect what is sacred.

Anger or rage is often a reflection of what’s important to us. It can be a signpost to our boundaries – or lack thereof. It can be a guiding light revealing what we most truly care for, long for, or wish to protect. It can also hold within it the codes of our true passion and purpose. But we must do the job of listening to our anger and offering it a safe space to be released and expressed.

When we repress something, there’s always a consequence: It might fester in the body and make us sick; it might paralyze us and prevent us from living passionately; or it might be expressed in ways that are physically, mentally, and emotionally harmful to others.

Alchemizing anger in positive ways and using it to CREATE, rather than repress or negatively destroy, is some of the holiest work there is!

SOUL INQUIRY

What do you feel angry or frustrated about?

How can you transform that anger into passion by moving from focusing on what you’re against, to what you’re for?

Today’s oracle reading is from The Inner Temple Oracle