There are many things that were known only about a hundred years ago that have become lost, and the secret language of the flowers is one of them. In days gone by it was held an important part of women’s education to know home remedies, about the qualities of plants and this had a large metaphysical component.

Just knowing that there is a secret language of flowers changes many things; and of course has many applications in practical as well as esoteric magic and energy magic.

Right up to Victorian times, the meaning of flowers was common knowledge amongst people and was used to transmit messages and information.

In this painting which looks so harmless to a modern Westerner and merely decorative, there is story told in flowers about the person who painted it, and the person for whom they painted it. That’s a second layer of information, invisible to those who are not in the know; because of this it is called the secret language of flowers.

If you look for it, you will find flowers everywhere – they appear seemingly harmlessly and randomly in portraits, in the background of stained glass windows in a church; they are carved in stone in palaces and temples; and often you will see a depiction of saints and important historical figures who are holding a flower, or are pointing to one.

On a visit to an old graveyard, you can tell the plants that were chosen to be on a person’s grave, using the secret language of flowers – and the vast majority of people walk right by and have no idea that all of that is going on.

Importantly, flowers were used to express emotions, especially in romantic relationships. Gentlemen would bring posies to the ladies; and the ladies would wear very specific flowers on their hats, or choose or make fabrics that would bear particular flower motives.

Any fabric pre-dating the Second World War has this language of flowers, this additional meaning and information, interwoven into its very structure; this is practical magic where intention is added to a natural existence and used intelligently in order to bring about a change in reality.

For example, if you put on a cushion a design that says in the language of flowers, “If you put your head on this cushion to rest, you will have sweet dreams of love, independence, freedom and joy,” that’s a pure piece of human magic or witchcraft at work. For people who actively practice the art of bringing intention into daily life and shaping their own destiny that way, the language of flowers, that secret layer of intention, energy and information, provides a dictionary of symbols that can be practically evoked in spells and rituals, in magic potions by adding the physical components of that particular flower to the spell.

If you learn the secret language of the flowers, you have a magical alphabet to make your own spells; this is how most of magic works, you don’t learn a bunch of spells and ingredients by heart, but instead, you learn what the ingredients do and so you can mix and match for every occasion.

For example, one of the only surviving flower language symbols is that of the red rose for romantic love. People might nowadays have absolutely no idea what a bluebell was meant to mean only a hundred years ago, or even what a Valerian flower looks like, never mind where you could find one or what its flower language message is, but it is still known that a red rose means love.

Knowing that, you can add the petals of a red rose to any love potion that has a physical/sexual strand to it; and also to any other type of potion where a physical/sexual strand would add a bit of va va voom to the spell in question.

As always, knowing even a little bit about magic opens your eyes, ears and your other senses to the simple fact that there is more to life than the dour ones would have us believe.

Wondering what was said about this lady in the portrait here by the flowers makes meeting with this image in a whole new way. Modern science will have us believe that our ancestors were all a bunch of idiots who believed in superstitious nonsense and that there is no such thing as the invisible worlds of energy and information.

I’m afraid they are the fools; and it’s a shame because the world becomes a much more interesting place when you pay attention and find out about such things as the secret language of the flowers, and how this has been used throughout the ages of mankind to tell us things most people now will never understand.

And if you make the secret language of the flowers your own, you can do many interesting, inspiring and wonderful things with that – even if it’s just choosing a wallpaper that has the right flowers for your purposes on it, and smiling every day when you see it again.

Below is a very short version of the secret language of flowers; for a much more comprehensive flower language dictionary from A-Z with a search function and a reverse list so you can decide the quality/meaning you need and then look up the right flower or plant, go here:

See the complete “Secret Language Of The Flowers” here.

Wishing you much joy with The Secret Language Of The Flowers,

SFX

Spring 2011

	See the complete “Secret Language Of The Flowers” here. Amaranthus Immortal Amaryllis Beautiful, but timid Aster, double Variety Aster, single Afterthought Arbutus Thee only do I love Acacia Friendship Apple Blossom Preference Asphodel Remembered after death Arbor Vitæ (Tree of Life) Unchanging friendship Alyssum Worth beyond beauty Anemone Your love changes Azalea Pleasant recollections Argeratum Worth beyond beauty Balsam Impatience Blue Bell Constancy Balm Pleasantry Bay I change but in death Bachelor’s Button Hope Begonia Deformed Buttercup Memories of childhood Brier, Sweet Envy Calla Feminine Modesty Carnation Pride Clematis Mental Excellence Cypress Disappointment, Despair Crocus Happiness Columbine I cannot give thee up Cresses Always cheerful Canterbury Bell Constancy Cereus, Night-blooming Transient beauty Candytuft Indifference Chrysanthemum Heart left desolate Clover, White I promise Clover, Four-leaved Be mine Crown Imperial Authority Camellia Spotless purity Cissus Changeable Centaurea Your looks deceive me Cineraria Singleness of heart Daisy, Field I will think of it Dahlia Dignity Daffodil Unrequited love Dandelion Coquetry Everlasting Always remembered Everlasting Pea Wilt thou go with me Ebony Blackness Fuchsia Humble love Foxglove Insincerity Fern Sincerity Fennel Strength Forget-me-not For ever remembered Fraxinella Fire Geranium, Ivy Fond of dancing Geranium, Oak A melancholy mind Geranium, Rose I prefer you Geranium, Scarlet Stillness Gladiolus Ready armed Golden Rod Encouragement Gillyflower Promptness Hyacinth Benevolence Honeysuckle Devoted love House Leek Domestic economy Heliotrope I adore you Hibiscus Delicate beauty Hollyhock Ambition Hydrangea Vain glory Ice Plant Your looks freeze me Ivy Friendship Iris A message for thee Jonquil Affection returned Larkspur Fickleness Lantana Rigor Laurel Words may deceive Lavender Mistrust Lemon Blossom Discretion Lady Slipper Capricious beauty Lily of the Valley Return of happiness Lily Passion May Flower Welcome Marigold Sacred affection Marigold and Cypress Despair Mandrake Rarity Mignonette Your qualities surpass your charms Morning Glory Coquetry, Affectation Myrtle Love in absence Mistletoe Insurmountable Narcissus Egotism Nasturtium Patriotism Oxalis Reverie Orange Blossom Purity Olive Peace Oleander Beware Primrose Modest worth Pink, White Pure love Pink, Red Devoted love Phlox Our hearts are united Periwinkle Sweet memories Pæony Ostentation Pansy You occupy my thoughts Poppy Oblivion Rhododendron Agitation Rose, Bud White Maiden love Rose, Leaf I never trouble Rose Moss Superior merit Rose, Red I love you Rose, Yellow Infidelity Rosemary Remembrance Sensitive Plant Modesty Snowdrop Consolation Sumach Pride and poverty Sweet William Gallantry Sunflower Lofty thought Tuberose Purity of mind Thyme Activity Tulip Declaration of love Verbena Sensibility Violet, Blue Faithfulness Wall Flower Fidelity in misfortune Wisteria Close friendship Yucca Your looks pierce me Yew Sadness Zinnia I mourn your absence
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