- The rose as a symbol for love: Dreaming of a rose indicate the desire for love, affection or longing, an indication for a message conveyed to you via your subconscious. It also indicate a specific person in the your life for whom they have romantic feelings, sadly a warning for your outdated views.
- The rose as a symbol of beauty: Dreaming of a rose a sign of a need for beauty and aesthetics in life, signifies a difficult situation that may get your hands dirty. It also indicate a person in the your life whom he or others find particularly beautiful, unfortunately an old habit or characteristic that you need to clear yourself of.
- The rose as a symbol of vulnerability: Although a rose is often associated with beauty and strength, it also be fragile and vulnerable, some issues with your neck or throat. Dreaming of a wilted or tattered rose indicate a fragile or vulnerable side in the dreamer, or situations that have emotionally hurt them, a hint for opulence, wealth and decadence.
- White roses indicate purity, innocence and spirituality, stands for restrictions and limitations.
- Red roses symbolize passion, love and energy, stands for happiness, celebration and joviality.
- Yellow roses indicate friendship, joy and joy in life, an omen for a sign of distress.
- Pink roses indicate romance, friendship or affection, a warning alert for a fleeting idea or a message that you need to quickly convey.
A dream of a rose indicate romantic and/or spiritual feelings or it also send a message of vulnerability, points at manipulation, action and non-verbal communication.
Flowers have always played a significant role in our dreams, and roses are no exception, hints confusion, of dignity.
A dream of roses is often associated with love, beauty, and romance, hints stinging remarks or hurtful comments. It signify a new love interest or a deepening of a current relationship, expresses your ability to be free and independent. Alternatively, it represent admiration and appreciation for someone or something in your daily life, a harbinger for freedom, openness and opportunities.
If the roses in the dream have a thorny stem or are wilted, it indicate struggles in your romantic or personal life, draws attention to the annoyances in your life. It suggest that your relationship needs to be re-evaluated, or it represent underlying feelings of insecurity or inadequacy, points at knowledge, wisdom and insight.
The color of the roses in the dream also alter the interpretation, a warning signal for a loss in your personal identity. Red roses symbolize love and passion, while pink roses represent gentleness and affection, signifies your position of power. White roses signify purity and innocence, while yellow roses are associated with friendship, joy, and new beginnings, you feel. Black roses represent endings, death, or sorrow, a hint for your rational thinking and objectivity.
Additionally, if you receive a bouquet of roses in your dream, it indicates an appreciation or acknowledgment of something that you have done or achieved, a harbinger for a positive turn of events.
In Christianity, a rose is often considered a symbol of the Virgin Mary or Jesus Christ, representing their pure and divine nature, an admonition for vanity. In Islam, a rose is a symbol of paradise, and the fragrance of the rose is associated with the Holy Prophet, a premonition for self-sufficiency. In Hinduism, the Goddess Lakshmi is often depicted with a rose, signifying her beauty and grace, also this dream about forward ability to proceed toward your goals.
Roses hold different meanings across various cultures, an indication for your identity, body self-esteem. In ancient Greek mythology, a rose was a symbol of love and beauty, associated with the goddess Aphrodite, you need to be more comfortable with your body. In Chinese culture, a rose is a symbol of happiness, prosperity, and good luck, a portent for a person in your life who is greedy and unscrupulous. In Japan, a rose signifies an intense or passionate love, whether or not you feel you have what it takes for the task at hand.
Dreaming of roses reveal a lot about your subconscious thoughts and emotions, also this dream about festivities, togetherness and joy. It reflect your own desires for love and affection or your need for validation and appreciation from others, signals an exciting end to something. It also represent your own inner beauty and the aspects of yourself that you take pride in, expresses commerce, vision, success and imagination.
If you are picking roses in your dream, it indicate that you are trying to attain some ideal or goal in your daily life, an evidence for enlightenment, spirituality and humility. If you are giving roses to someone in your dream, it symbolize your desire to express your feelings or to show gratitude to that person, signals your pent up aggression.
Consider the emotions and thoughts that arose during the dream and how they relate to your daily life, wisdom, faithfulness, longevity and loyalty. Reflect on what you learn from the dream and how you best apply it to your life, a premonition for how others perceive you.
If the dream indicates struggles in your relationships, try to communicate openly and honestly with your partner or loved ones, draws attention to your anxiety over money security. If the dream represents your insecurity or need for validation, focus on building your self-confidence and self-love, states action.
Remember, dreams offer valuable insights into our subconscious thoughts and emotions, and understanding them help us grow and improve in our waking life, hints life’s you are performing or feeling.
Dreaming of Rose a sign of love, beauty, and appreciation, a portent for self-blame or guilt. It also be a sign of healing and renewal, a warning for failure in honoring your obligation and commitments. The color of the rose give you further insight into the meaning of your dream, a hint for a transitional phase of self exploration. Red roses signify passion and strong emotions, while pink roses signify gentleness and admiration, signifies wish-fulfillment where you wish that all your difficulties problems are gone. White roses symbolize innocence and purity, while yellow roses symbolize friendship and joy, refers to a female point of view. If the rose in your dream was wilted or dying, it a sign that something in your life needs attention or healing, it is time for you to pick up that old interest, hobby, or project again.
The contradiction of blossom and thorn.
The rose plays the same role in the West that the lotus plays in the Orient. Both blossom, producing many thousands of petals, and represent the highest stage of consciousness.
The rose is often a symbol of the self. As a well-known symbol of love, it points to the dreamer’s feeling of security and suggests that he should be more open to love.
The Greek word rodor for rose came from the ancient Greek word for “flowing,” which may have been coined to convey the flow of fragrance from this flower. But this never-ending flow of fragrance from the rose also shortens its life, causing it to wilt rapidly. Because this magnificently flowering, fragrant blossom wilts so fast, it is also considered a symbol of death.
The rose also points to the world beyond, which is the reason that the Catacombs in Rome are decorated with garlands of roses.
The rose also is the harbinger of death in the Oraclesy and it is reported that a few days before their death, bishops would find a white rose on their chair.
The belief in the death-announcing rose has influenced customs in England and Germany, where people have been reluctant to bring roses to a sick person. And if a rose bush produced a green rose—that is, when the petals turned green—as English folklore had it, a family member would die.
It is not only in England that the rose is connected with death. As far back as ancient Rome, every year a festival of the roses was celebrated where the dead were honored. Graves were decorated with wreaths made from roses.
Since time immemorial, what happens in the presence of the rose is not talked about. In antiquity, when a rose was suspended above the table, the meal was taken “sub rosa,” as it was called then, which means that absolutely nothing from the conversation was repeated after the meal.
The early Christians took up this symbolic tradition: the presence of a rose indicated that silence was to be observed when heathens were among them.
The rose as the symbol for silence continued into the 18th century, when, for instance, wooden roses were carved into the woodwork of the confessional and roses were also included in the stucco of the halls of the court.
The rose, like the lotus, is considered the perfect flower, which is one of the reasons why the Christian Church declared it to be the image of wisdom. This was instrumental in the rose becoming a symbol of Christ. Mary is also depicted as a rose, but a rose without thorns, because in Christian symbolism the thorns of the rose indicate sin, and Mary was free of sin.
The rose has something very mystical about it. Praying the rosary is considered meditation.
The Sufis pray with a drop of rose fragrance dabbed on the area of the “third eye,” because it is said that the rose cleanses and strengthens the spirit. In ancient Greece a wreath of roses was already thought to strengthen the mind.
The Roman Emperor wore a wreath of roses for the same reason. Romans wore wreaths made from roses during decadent outdoor feasts, because they hoped the roses would minimize the effects of too much drinking.
The rose as the image of a clear mind was also known to the alchemists, who connected the rose to the idea of deliverance. In Dante’s Paradiso the small group of saved sinners is pictured in the form of a white rose above which angels circle like bees. That the way to salvation is possible only through love is perhaps the most important lesson of the rose, the flower originally dedicated to Aphrodite, goddess of love. But that the rose also symbolizes flesh and blood is seen in the fact that Dionysus also claimed the rose to be his.
Time and again we hear about a rose bush that never stops blooming; about rose branches in a vase that for 70 years produced white blossoms; and about how the food for the poor that, in the basket of saints, is transformed into roses.
For those interested in the magic of the rose, we might also mention the Pentagram of the Rose.
If you connect the center of each petal with the center of the petal that comes after the next, you will form a pentagram, the foot of the Druids, the old magic figure that Faust wanted to use to overcome Satan.
The Greeks considered the long-lived, five-leaved rose bush, with the imprint of a pentagram, to be the symbol of the cycle of the Cosmos, which, according to Aristotle, is determined by the five elements (fire, water, earth, air, and ether). Also, the Rosicrucians see the rose as a symbol of hidden wisdom, using it as a symbol in their cross.
The color of the rose is also important.
A wilted rose is a sign of a relationship gone bad. According to Jung, the rose is always the symbol for wholeness, representing, in the form of the mandala, a symbol for the order of the world.
To be in a ‘bed of roses’ can indicate a situation of ease, luxury or comfort; to do something ‘under the rose’ suggests a meeting conducted privately or secretly; ‘smelling the roses’ hints at an appreciation of beauty, whilst ‘coming up roses’ might mean a good outcome or a prosperous turnout.
Be sensitive to the different meanings that both roses and colors have in different countries or regions. White roses are generally thought of as symbols of purity and virginity, so if you dream of them it may represent a yearning for innocence. But white is also the shade of mourning in many parts of Asia, so for some dreamers the image may provoke the quite different feelings of loss or bereavement. The red rose may symbolize desire and passion, but it is also the national flower of England, although both the white rose and the mixed white and red Tudor rose are sometimes used as well. In the United States, different roses have very different functions: yellow roses are given for friendship, white roses are the flowers of weddings, whilst red roses are appropriate at funerals.
Roses, their constituent parts and the places they grow can therefore suggest a host of often contradictory meanings.
A rose garden is a symbol of paradise, so if you dream of being in a rose garden, this may indicate happiness in your waking life. Roses, however, also possess thorns. In dreams, a rose with thorns may indicate a thorny problem with which you need to grapple to gain the reward promised by the rose. In this context, a dream of thorny roses may indicate conflict within a romantic relationship.
Does a fragment of your dream conceal a thorn or danger that is a threat to you? Finally, if you are given roses in a dream, consider their number and color. Twelve red roses may be a sign that the giver is in love with you.
Symbolic Meaning of Roses
The loveliness of nature, or life itself.
A nearly timeless symbol of love, passion, and the spirit of beauty in all its many forms, having been originally associated with the goddess Venus.
The color of the rose here provides more meaning.
For example, purple roses are exotic emotions, red is for passionate love, and yellow is for friendship.
Thorny roses speak of the difficulties in all relationships. Native American shamans believe that nature hides its greatest treasures beneath such painful traps so that we have to work to receive the prize.
A rose with its bud just opening represents the blossoming of your highest conscious awareness.
Alchemically, the rose symbolizes wisdom; blue roses represent impossible tasks, and gold ones are an emblem for achievement.
Jung believed that in dreams a rose became a mandala representing an integrated person and wholeness.
In Babylonia and ancient Arabia, the rose became an alternative emblem for Paradise with strong sexual connotations of this also equating to a woman’s vulva. Consequently, this can be a dream figure for women, and your feelings toward women.
Since roman times, the rose is the symbol of love. The romans believed that this flower would protect the dead from evil spirits. For this reason, there was a tradition of decorating a tomb with roses. In oneiric terms, it foretells security and protection. Many oracles believe that the omens of this dream are all advantageous.
See Flowers.
Depth Psychology: The rose is a symbol of blossoming as well as wilting love, but it also shows the grace of your soul and may express your longing for a “pure,” platonic relationship—the highest form of love.
The color of the rose, as well as the details of the dream should be considered when making interpretation.
(E.g. White - purity; red - passion; Pink - romance and love; black - death.) See also: Flower
A yellow rose might represent friendship, good will, or kind thoughts.
A white rose might represent purity, innocence, pure love, a new beginning, or making peace with someone (or the desire to do so).
A pink rose might represent closeness, familiarity, appreciation of the receiver’s specialness or uniqueness.
A red rose might represent admiration, affection, romantic attraction, love, or celebration.
See also: Flower; Thorn
(2) Sometimes the symbolism depends on the colour. A red rose is often a symbol oflovc; it may also represent the vagina; or passion.
(3) Roses, like flowers generally, may symbolize the beaut)’ of Nature; the beauty and loveliness of life as it could or should be.
Pink-Happiness
White-Charm and innocence
Red-Love and desire, and if it is a single red rose-I Love You
Burgundy-Unconscious love
White and red-Unity
Orange-Passion
Yellow-Joy and gladness
Rosebud-Beauty, youth and virginity
The colors of roses in your dreams are important: red is passion, pink is romance, white is innocence, yellow is infidelity or jealousy, and black is ill health.
A full-bloom rose indicates health, joy, and happiness.
A rose bud signifies the potential for a wonderful friendship to develop.
A faded rose means you are neglecting an old friend.
A white rose shows innocence; a red rose, satisfaction.
2. Good news is coming (to smell a rose).
3. Grace and purity (white rose).
4. Infidelity (yellow).
5. Pregnancy (to pick buds).
6. Separation (fading roses).
A bud opening to fullness represents blossoming into love’s expression.
The red rose is associated with romantic love, the yellow with joyous beauty, the white with purity.
The colors of the petals are also symbolic: white is purity, red is passion, pink is romance, black is death.
A rose can also symbolize our relationship with Christ, Song. 2:1-2
See Flower.
A bouquet of roses in a dream means kisses, one after the other.
A rosebud in a dream means a miscarriage.
A rose in a dream also represents an estranged wife, or it could mean a dying woman, a losing business, a short lived happiness, or a promise that does not last. Receiving a rose from a young man in a dream means receiving a promise that will not hold too. Seeing a crown of roses over one’s head in a dream means getting married. Roses on a tray in a dream signify the pleasure of youth that does not last, or they could denote the temporary joy of this world. Roses in a dream also signify praiseworthiness, or enjoying a good reputation. Rose oil or attar which is made from the petals of damask roses in a dream means intelligence, clarity of mind, a friendly and a gentle person. Ifa sick person sees himself laying on a bed of flowers in a dream, it means that he might die within forty days, because forty days represent the life span of a rose blossom. Cutting off a rosebush in a dream means distress. Harvesting roses in a dream means joy.