Rose Serum by: DESIGN
- Sarah Dale
- 21 hours ago
- 15 min read
Updated: 2 hours ago
Introduction:
Hello to all who may be reading this! My name is Sarah V (Owner of BG) and I am excited to welcome you to our new series Bottled Guidance by: DESIGN! This series is a special passion project that I am starting as a way to synthesize all that Bottled Guidance has been and the full totality that it truly is. Bottled Guidance has always been more than just skin care products, while they do make wonderful additions or replacements for any regime, to me, they have always been so much more.. they've always carried so much more depth and now I want to fully actualize that experience and invite you to a new way to meet yourself. I'm also doing this in a way that delivers a totally new and rich interactive experience for you that is meant to elevate, educate, and deepen your own spiritual journey by consciously & intentionally using Bottled Guidance products as a bridge to expand your own awareness of yourself, plant medicines, and your body.
This experience weaves together a few different modalities in order for all of us to really see the bigger picture of what's going on inside each of these beautiful little flower oils. It will be incorporating plant spirit wisdom, the Human Design System, the Gene Keys, and my own intuitive insights and contemplations from working with all three of the aforementioned.
Every plant has it's own spirit, it's own intuitive wisdom, it's own healing abilities when used with the human body. It's my own belief that God created these plant medicines to be perfectly biocompatible with our bodies in a way that goes beyond medicine, and that each plant has it's own consciousness by their own right and that because of this- their healing abilities permeate so much deeper than just the surface level of physicality. I believe that we can all learn so much more from plants, that they can not only be our medicine, but also our friends, our counselor, our shoulder to cry on or hand to hold when life throws the curve balls at us or when we don't quite understand ourselves.
Likewise, I also believe that there are other modalities out there that also have come into form to help us understand the deeper aspects of ourselves, modalities like the Human Design System, the Gene Keys, and even astrology. All of these systems simply just offer a different lens to view your own self through, it's like looking in a kaleidoscope and being able to see all shapes, sizes, and colors that make you to be who you are, and that when we are able to see ourselves with more of a zoomed out perspective, we can truly see the beauty that we all have and begin the path of acceptance of who we truly are.
The Human Design is like finding a map of your own body and your energy systems and how they all work together. It is based on your birth time & place + the position of the planets in the sky that all determine the formation of your energy systems, the channels that energy flows through within you, and how this affects your physical health + how it expresses through your personality and unconscious tendencies. There are 64 gates that match with the 64 different DNA codes within our bodies, depending on which gates are defined for you, you can see which channels are formed between the different gates and ultimately the 9 different energy centers. These definitions make up who you are, the difference is really seen through your personality, and by understanding what makes us who we are on a fundamental level, we have the ability to stop being a victim to the outside world, the programmings that run rampant within this world, and get to a point of full acceptance for ourselves which allows us to enter into a more fulfilling experience of life.
The Gene Keys also work in tandem with Human Design and they are like a more zoomed in or magnified look at what's going on underneath the hood. A man named Richard Rudd channeled each Gene Key to be in conjunction with each of the 64 gates found within the bodygraph and also correlate with the 64 genes (32 pairings) within our DNA. They are archetypal expressions that manifest through our personality and psyche. Each archetype has a physical location in the body, an amino acid it is associated with, and is characterized by three different levels of expression: the Shadow, the Gift, and the Siddhi. The shadow level is the low-frequency version of the expression, it is where our unconscious habits and patterns reside and is unfortunately the place where most of humanity resides since most of us are not truly aware of our own inner workings. The gift level is the middle-awakened version of the expression. This is where you become aware of and work through the shadow level and transform it into raw creative strength or a superpower. The siddhi level is the highest, most enlightened expression you can reach. This state is very rare and difficult to reach but it is a place of pure transcendence or divine expression. It is basically like the ultimate flowering of that Gene Key.
To put it another way, imagine you got gifted a fancy new smartphone and it has all these cool features but you never got a user manual for how to use all those cool gizmos and gadgets. So you spend all your time with this new phone just winging it without fully knowing how everything really works. You still get a good experience out of it this way, but once you finally got a user manual you'd probably figure out how much cooler that smart phone really is and how to actually use all the fun things and features that come with it. Your own personal Human Design Chart is like your user manual for your body, it's very mechanical, and we can use it to discover all the gifts we as an individual bring to the world. By understanding the deeper parts of ourselves, we can lead a life filled with more peace, happiness, and fulfillment for who we are and how our piece to the puzzle adds to the masterpiece that is the whole of humanity.
So with all that in mind, what were doing now is taking all of these elements and combining them into Bottled Guidance- intuitive guidance for your body found in each bottle. Each plant spirit used in each bottle correlates with a specific gate, so when you consciously choose to use our products you can essentially activate different gates within your body that help teach you about the wisdom and lessons each plant brings to us on a whole. This is multidimensional healing in action! The beauty here is choice, you can choose to work with our products in this new way, opening up new levels of transcendence in your own experience and meeting new versions of yourself, or you can simply keep our products as a nice moisturizer replacement or nighttime serum. They are wonderful allies for whatever you choose to use them for, I am just simply inviting you to open up in a deeper way to what else they may have to offer.
The Spirit of Rose & Gate 25
We start our journey with the spirit of the Rose. The Rose is one of the most iconic symbols in all of history for the essence of love itself. Every year we wrap an entire holiday around love and roses are always known to be one of the key gifts that are given during the spirit of this holiday. We use them in marriage ceremonies, when the death of a loved one has occurred, when we want to apologize to someone we love, etc. All around you can see Roses and the rich symbology they bring to our lives, and in skin care they equally play a huge role. They are one of the most widely used ingredients in many formulations for all things beauty. And it's no wonder either because when it comes to the skin- they really are top tier! They are known for their Vitamin C content, their collagen & antioxidant output, and their astringent abilities for tightening and firming the pores/fine lines. There's no arguing how wonderful they are for the skin, and the scent- mmmm everyone always associates one key memory with roses- grandma. I can't tell you how many times I have people tell me that the scent of the Rose reminds them of grandma. We could argue that all of our grandma's probably teamed up and said let's all wear rose scented perfume but I'd like to look at that deeper. What do roses and all of our grandma's really have in common? Love! There is nothing like experiencing the unconditional love from a grandma, we all know what that feels like, and roses by and large carry that same essence of love throughout all of our senses.
So when I started asking which gate would be activated in the body for the spirit of the Rose, the answer was easy... Gate 25.
Gate 25 is arguably one of the most important gates in the entire body- it makes up one of the main foundational crosses of the zodiac, it is the gate we are all collectively sitting in during the Spring Equinox every year, it's Gene Key captures the very essence of the entire Gene Keys work, and it contains the secret that men and women alike have always sought after- the secret of love.
Gate 25 isn't just any gate, it is called the Gate of the Spirit of the Self ~or~ the Gate of Unconditional Love. Biologically this gate is located in the heart and is associated with our blood. In Human Design, it is located in what we call the Identity Center. The Identity Center's main theme is love of the self and it is here that we learn that love is the force that holds the entire universe together and also that the true nature of our identity is about love in action. Everyone love's love, as humans we are biologically designed to love, we are always seeking love or getting distraught by the lack thereof, we idolize love through our pop cultures and movies, we love celebrating love through birthdays, holidays, etc. We as a whole love love! Love truly is the foundation that makes up the core of our existence, right down to even conception and birth through love.
As much as we all love love, even a force as strong as the foundation of the entire Universe has a shadow. Once we can all embrace the shadow, we can move up the ladder to the higher more ecstatic frequencies of the gift and eventually embody the highest frequencies of the siddhi.
Shadow: Constriction
In it's lowest form, Constriction is the shadow of Universal Love. Constriction exists wherever love is absent, it is the underlying source of all of human suffering, and it exists in all levels of society. On an individual and personal level- you find constriction in your breathing. It arises as a tightness in your chest and compresses tension deep within your abdomen. Most of us actually learn our subtle breathing patterns from our parents, even down to having these patterns being hardwired into our genetic code when we are still in the womb. It also contains the blueprints of constriction that our ancestors felt while they spent their life struggling from birth to death. Richard Rudd describes this genetic anomaly the sacred wound because it is literally wound around the double helix within all of human DNA. Constriction is even found of a collective level within our society, you see it with borders, fences, laws, territories, money, time, and even thoughts. Wherever love exists so does it's shadow. But constriction serves a purpose, and its purpose to to unwind.
Take a moment and feel into your body, notice the shallowness of your breath, and then try to take it deeper- into the abdomen- as you do, do you feel it? The subtle tension deep in the belly? That's the constriction. And now notice your response to it. Does it make you want to run away from that feeling? Ignore it? Stuff it down? You can certainly try, but recoiling from that pain actually only creates more denial and distraction in your life, and the harder you choke back that pain the tighter it engulfs you. It's kind of like quicksand, slowly pulling you under and if you try to fight it- it only pulls you down harder. The same goes for people, objects, opinions, really anything you try to hang onto as an anchor, the tighter you try to hold onto anything, the more constricting it becomes and the more it distorts the natural flow of love. The reality is, love dies through constriction but grows through freedom.
But the real crux of constriction is this... Richard Rudd says, "To be alive in a physical body can be experienced as the ultimate constriction, especially if your reality is rooted in fear. Fear is the by-product of all low-frequency fields. Constriction is the physical manifestation of fear at an individual and universal level. Fear actually creates a very effective biofeedback loop that ensures it's own survival; fear is afraid of itself, which ensures that it never accepts itself, which ensures that it always survives."
When contemplating this archetype with the lens of the rose flower I can see how the constriction has manifested even through the actual rose plants themselves. To me the constriction and more specifically the fear that constriction stems from is like the thorns a rose grows. The thorns represent the fear, making you afraid to pick the rose flower itself and therefore missing out on the beauty that a rose brings to this world. But also, the roses probably grow the thorns so that they won't be bothered, to protect themselves from the world so that they may grow freely without restraint. Of course this is all an illusion though anyways, because roses wouldn't really not want to share their beauty with the world, but that's why this metaphor works for us. On a subconscious level we've all grown thorns, thinking that if no one bothers us or picks us then we can just grow in peace and become the full grown flower we all want to be. But being afraid to pick a rose for fear of being pricked by the thorn is just like being afraid of your own self and accepting what your true nature will gift to the world by mere presence alone.
Gift: Acceptance
As we move up the latter of frequencies, we reach the gift Universal Love which is Acceptance. The flowering of love really only comes after the burgeoning of acceptance. This is the soft approach to life, where the rosebud slowly begins to open all of it's petals to reveal it's true self to the world. The path of love is characterized by the path of acceptance. This isn't really a technique but more of an all encompassing seeing, because in order to truly accept something about yourself- especially something uncomfortable- you have to first recognize it within you. It doesn't have to be anything crazy or hard, you just have to accept your nature and the feelings swirling around inside of you.
It really comes down to this.. The only way to actually break that biofeedback loop of fear that constricts the life out of you- is to have the courage to simply feel the fear, or any other feeling arising. The secret to acceptance is to reduce the fear down to it's essentials- it is simply a physical sensation that is deeply entrenched within the chemistry of your body. All feelings are really just that, a chemical reaction within you. There's actually nothing to really be afraid of, no one has ever died from feeling too much. Fear and all feelings for that matter are just vibrations, emotions are just energy in motion. Once you can accept this very basic bodily function within you, you no longer have to be afraid of fear, you can just feel the feeling. By allowing yourself to experience this true constriction- you will start to feel a subtle softening around your chest and you'll notice that little by little- your breathe deepens. That's how you know you're really reaching this state of acceptance.
The state of acceptance is really like spiritual springtime- everything begins to seem possible again as everything in your life begins to flow more freely. You'll see this manifest outside of you as universal synchronicities and you'll notice that acceptance makes it difficult to even hold a grudge or worry too much about life. You'll begin to walk around with an air of another world about you, while at the same time being deeply grounded and open to others. Essentially you will be walking around and carrying the seed of love. I think that's why grandma's radiate love, by the time you reach that wise age- you just accept everything that is about everything. And when you finally accept everything in your life just as it is right now, you will have fully embraced the sacred wound.
Acceptance comes in layers- like the layers upon layers of rose petals in a bud. You have to relax those layers that are deep within you so that they can open and you once again feel the flow of love moving within your being. The more you can accept yourself and others, the more love will bloom in your life.
Siddhi: Universal Love
It is difficult to really put into words and describe frequencies as high as divine expressions of the siddhi's in the Gene Key work. But it's important to note that we all contain all 64 gene keys and all of their respective shadows, gifts, and siddhi's. As such, the siddhi's to me are more of a marker, of an outline of where humanity is destined to go or who we are inevitably going to evolve into. It doesn't matter how much we all try to fight it, it's only a matter of time, and we can either deny or accept the wounds that we all carry. The human heart is the easiest way in to this process. Can we accept life through our heart? Can we learn to contemplate with our heart? The feeling of love really bridges the distance between the personal and the universal and brings us closer in unison. Universal love lies in another dimensional field. It's the connective tissue that holds everything together from the micro-level in our bodies to the macro-level with God. This is why we say God is love, it's the most unifying force in the universe.
It's really a big mystery the jump between the gift and the siddhic state because it just happens. Taking the feminine approach to life, just softening and surrendering all the layers of your heart, it just happens spontaneously over time. At this level, everything just becomes acceptance and the rose of Universal Love blooms within you.
Conclusion & Practical Tips:
The spirit of the Rose perfectly embodies the frequencies of this gate and gene key. It's no wonder that Richard Rudd himself references the flower of a Rose in his 25th transmission. We can all learn so much from softening our hearts and learning true self-love for ourselves through the way of acceptance from roses. This is the frequency that this serum captures, and this is frequency that is transmitted to your body through the cells in your skin when you choose to work with our Rose Serum in a more conscious way.
This serum isn't a fix all, it's not anecdote, and it's not going to make you feel love if you are still locked into the shadow frequencies yourself. But what it can do is help the bridge the gap, it can teach you it's ways by you taking the essence of it's spirit into your own contemplation with yourself. It can help soften some of the rigid edges of the feelings you experience if you let it. Apply it consciously.... meaning immerse yourself in it, and while you are, simply stand back and notice the thoughts coming through your awareness. Are you thinking about how irritated you are with your children, or how jealous you are with your best friend? Are you afraid of a war breaking out or scared you won't be able to pay rent this month? Are you insecure about yourself? Do you normally put lotion on and find every nook and cranny to hate about you? Just notice what comes in, and whatever it is that does- meet it with acceptance. Feel those feelings, let the feelings wash through you, after all- they aren't going to hurt you. And just know that whatever it is you may be feeling- it's okay, it's human, you can feel the feelings without them destroying you. You have to feel to heal and to fully let those feelings move through you. You can accept that your kids are just playful in this stage or that your best friend has finally found the perfect job, that the world is how it is and that no matter what you'll figure out your finances- you always do! You can apply this serum with the conscious intention to find things that you love about yourself as well, that flap or that bump, that scar or that stretch mark, put your hand there and send love to it, accept that part of yourself as human, this is a body after all, not a single one on this planet is perfect but it is perfect for you and you only, it doesn't matter what age or size you are at!
This is a heart centered serum and it is filled to the brim with love. There are many ways to also incorporate this serum into your conscious practices as well. Take a few droppers and add it to a bath, rub some on your chest and do a breathing meditation to help unwind that constriction, apply some to your feet and go sit under a tree with a journal and good pen and start writing down all the feelings you notice working their way through. Remember that the way of acceptance is through seeing, through recognizing the wounds that are lying there under the surface, and then just soften into the moment of acceptance. This is just life, we're all humans, and everyone is doing the best that they can in all moments.
Going Deeper:
If you've enjoyed this article, are familiar with the Human Design System or Gene Keys, and wish to dive deeper into some inner work- you can read Gene Key 25 in Richard Rudd's book "The Gene Keys: Embracing your Higher Purpose." You can also check out your own Human Design chart to find out which gate/gene key your conscious & unconscious Venus placement is sitting in. Roses are also ruled by the planet Venus, so it will also be activating that placement within your own charts are more of a personalized emphasis on your journey!
To whoever it is who has made it all the way through this journey with me, thank you for showing up for yourself, thank you for choosing love, and know that I am also sending you all my love as well.
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