The white rose

Holding a flower may suggest approach, appreciation, or a light grasp, but cannot establish purity. Distinguish colour, form, and gesture instead of assigning moral worth to white.

Compare the flower, bundle, and dog as a held object, carried belongings, and companion. The flower does not remove the cliff. A gentle object and hazardous terrain can occupy one scene.

A. E. Waite describes the Fool holding a rose in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot. That passage does not assign a universal meaning to its white colour. Keep the pictured flower, the author’s description and later interpretation distinct. Source: https://sacred-texts.com/tarot/pkt/pktar00.htm

At the start of a relationship or project, name something you want to express honestly and something you are not ready to promise. Sincerity and boundaries can coexist; a flower cannot reveal another person’s motives.

A light grasp can remind us to meet experience without immediately claiming it. This is not religious doctrine. A white flower certifies neither spiritual attainment, goodness, nor trustworthiness.