The Significance of the
Star in the Rose
The Star in the Rose represents the Sacred Union
of the Divine Son and the Divine Daughter,
the symbol of LoveDance
The five-pointed star is formed from the five diagonals of a pentagon—also known as a pentagram. The use of the pentagram as a “heavenly body” originates in ancient Mesopotamia over 5500 years ago. The Hebrews associated the pentagram with Truth as revealed in the five books of the Torah. In ancient Greece, the triple triangle forming the star was called a pentalpha. The Pythagorians considered the five-pointed star to be an emblem of perfection associated with the golden ratio and represented the perfect human form as is illustrated by da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. Each point on the Pythagorian Pentacle is labeled with a Greek letter representing the five elements—water, earth, fire, air, and spirit.
Today’s rose is a multi-petaled beauty, but the ancient rose was a simple five petaled flower. Fossil evidence indicates that roses flourished in Mesopotamia for millions of years. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were located near the gate of Ishtar—the goddess of the garden of heaven—whose symbol was the rose-star disc. Ishtar is the Semitic Ashtoreth of the Hebrew bible.
The rose is symbolic of the Rose of Sharon. In the Song of Solomon a woman of great beauty sings “I am the Rose of Sharon. I am the Lilly of the Valley.” She is the perfect bride for the king, for as the Rose of Sharon she is the portal of life and as the Lilly of the Valley she is the portal of death. The Rose of Sharon in Annuki lore is associated with the beloved women—priestesses who provided their sacred blood or starfire for the enlightenment of kings. Soon after Alexander the Great introduced the Persian rose to the Hellenists, Egyptian horticulturists exported shiploads of roses to Greece and Rome. After the fall of the Roman Empire, early Christians associated the rose with the Sacred Feminine.
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