Rose Hips Whole, 1 Lb (Rosa canina)

Rose hips are the fruit the rose leaves behind, and they carry the rose's Venus heart in a hardier, lasting form. Where the petals speak of love at first bloom, the hips speak of love that has set and fruited, the kind that endures. Folk magic has long kept them for love and luck, strung them into prayer beads, and tucked them into charms for protection and gentle good fortune. A Venus and Water botanical, the dog rose's bright red hips bring a warm, loving note to any working that asks for love to deepen or luck to turn kind. This is the one-pound supply, for the practitioner who works love and luck often.

Keep rose hips on hand for love, romance, luck, and protective charm work.

Key Features of Rose Hips

The rose's love in fruit. Rose hips carry the Venus love-power of the rose in its fruiting form, favored for love that lasts and deepens rather than love that merely begins.

Love, luck, and protection. Folk tradition keeps rose hips for drawing and keeping love, inviting gentle good luck, and lending the wild rose's thorned protection to a charm or sachet.

A pound for the working shelf. The one-pound size keeps love and luck sachets, charm bags, offerings, and bead-craft supplied across a whole season, for the busy practitioner and the shop shelf.

Product Details

• Botanical: Rosa canina (dog rose) hips
• Form: whole dried hips
• Origin: Chile
• Weight: 1 lb (bulk supply)
• Common uses: love and luck sachets, charm bags, offerings, strung charms and beads
• For ritual and spiritual use
• Storage: keep in an airtight container in a cool, dry place

The Spiritual Significance

The rose is the great Venus flower, and its hips are where that love-power goes to seed. In Scott Cunningham's correspondences the rose is a feminine plant of Venus and the element Water, with the powers of love, healing, luck, protection, and love divination. The hips inherit all of it, but with a fruiting, enduring character: they are the rose after the bloom, the love that has set and ripened.

Across folk practice rose hips have been carried in love sachets to draw and keep affection, added to luck and good-fortune charms, and used for the wild rose's old protective virtue, for the dog rose guards with its thorns as surely as it charms with its flowers. Their history runs through the prayer bead as well: rose hips and petals were once pressed and strung into fragrant garlands of beads, a devotional thread that still echoes in the word rosary. For any working that asks love to last or luck to soften, the hips are a warm and willing ally.

How To Use Rose Hips

1. For lasting love, add rose hips to a Venus love sachet or charm bag to draw affection and help it endure.
2. For luck, tuck a few hips into a good-fortune charm or carry them to invite kinder turns.
3. For protection, include them in a gentle protective sachet, calling on the wild rose's thorned guard.
4. For offerings, set whole hips on the altar to honor a Venus or love deity.
5. For charm-craft, string the dried hips into beads or garlands for a wearable working.

Pairs Well With

• Pink Rose Petals: the rose in bloom to pair with the rose in fruit for full-spectrum love work.
• Lavender Flowers Whole: a gentle Venus companion for love and peace sachets.
• Love Gemstone Set: heart-drawing stones to anchor a rose-hip love charm.
• Seduction Soy Votive Candle: light it to warm and focus love and romance work.
• Rose Hips Whole, 1 oz: the smaller size for occasional work.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are rose hips used for in magic?

They are a Venus love botanical, used to draw and keep love, invite gentle luck, and lend the wild rose's protection to a charm or sachet. They are also a traditional offering and a charm-craft bead.

How are rose hips different from rose petals?

Both come from the rose and share its Venus love-power. Petals carry the love of first bloom, soft and opening; hips are the fruit, favored for love that lasts and deepens, and for luck and protection.

What are their correspondences?

Cunningham places the rose under Venus and the element Water, a feminine plant of love, healing, luck, protection, and love divination. The hips inherit all of it in a hardier, fruiting form.

How do I use them in a charm?

Add a few whole hips to a love or luck sachet, carry them in a charm bag, set them as an offering, or string the dried hips into beads for a wearable working.

How should I store them?

Keep them sealed in an airtight container in a cool, dry place, where the whole hips will hold for a year or more.