10/14/2008 - Roses of Love

You will need: 2 pieces of paper about 3 x 1 inches, a tiny jar, some honey, a beautiful rose bush (traditionally a two-colored vairty)

Write your name on one of the two peices of paper and your partners on the other. Kissing them both tie them into a knot and put them together in the little jar then fill the jar with honey and put the lid on the jar. Now plant the rose bush, if possible you and your partner should do this together, but you may do it alone. Bury the jar with your names in with the rose bush. Say something like:

We are earthly creatures living here on earth

which is sweetend by the gifts of nature's bounty

and by the knowlege of each of us, of the other's exsistence

may we make our earhtly selves the most that we can

and joining together, sweeten and beautify our own and our friend's exsistences.

Water, cherish and love your rose. Cut blooms from it reguarly to place in your home, or if you have one, on a love altar. Every year restate your love and intent before the rose bush.