Lily Card
Description
Below is the floral description that will be printed on this product card booklet.
Lily — "Flower of the Thresholds"
(Purity · Rebirth · Divine Femininity)
The lily blooms—silent and crowned, as if it has stepped through a veil.
In the language of flowers, the lily speaks of purity, reverence, and transitions both tender and profound. In Victorian floriography, to give a lily was to say: “I see you as holy. I honor you as sacred.”
Across centuries, the lily has been more than ornamental—it has been alchemical. Medieval alchemists believed the lily held the power to transmute base metals into gold—not just in matter, but in spirit. A symbol of inner alchemy and transformation, it walked beside seekers of higher paths, shedding the old to reveal the refined. In magical rites, it was burned to aid astral travel and spirit communion—a blossom of both earth and ether. In old Europe, dried lilies were worn close to the heart to attract love. The common thread: the lily stirs transformation, in all its forms.
Placed in sacred spaces, lilies are said to ease transitions—between homes, lives, even selves. Perhaps that’s why they appear in both joy and mourning: they are flowers that do not flinch at change.
May this bloom walk with you through your turning seasons—a soft witness to the gold you are becoming, the thresholds you are about to cross, or the self you are ready to shed.