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 When two of our contributors recommended the same flower remedy -- Clematis -- for two entirely different chakras, we asked them to explain these differences in perspective. Dirk Albrodt recommends it for the Root Chakra, while Katharina Bless describes it equally convincingly as one of the best remedies for the Brow Chakra. Dirk wrote about it in his online newsletter, which is available in both English and German:
"I would say that Clematis, which provides grounding for daydreamers, is for the Root Chakra, because it is about the basics in life. This basic energy helps us to cope with the material aspects of life. Without them, a spiritual life is impossible -- simply because we would be dead without our material foundation. So the energy related to the Root Chakra is about material life. It helps us to live and work and reproduce ourselves, find a job, build a house, pay our bills and find a kindergarten for our kids. This energy grounds us, gives us stability and a good sense of realism. When this battery, called the Root Chakra, is charged with energy, we are able to cope with everything life brings, even the hard times.
"Clematis is about grounding for daydreamers -- not about destroying their ability to dream and visualize. On the contrary it helps to make visions come real. What is the worth of an idea that nobody realizes? You need imagination to reach out beyond your limitations. If you are unable to image yourself flying, would you ever have started trying to build the flying machine all of us have accepted as normal and real and use it to visit places so far away from our homes? Reality seems much too harsh for Clematis types even to try to realize their ideas and plans. "They are afraid of confrontations, of fights and power struggles, and unfortunately, the world is full of them. They prefer to stay within their own world, their rich inner world, where everything turns out fine without much stress or effort. It is not just the right energy to survive, it also gives us joy of life. When we love our bodies, we also love to work and to dance, to go in for sports, care for our gardens, and to enjoy food, playing and sex. This energy helps keep us alive, and in case we are ill, it helps to recover by stimulating our immune system. Clematis helps us make our ideas and plans become real, while a lack makes us sluggish and makes us live in our imagination rather than the real world."
A Second View
"The sensitive and delicate nature of Clematis personalities is under-appreciated in our mind-emphasized society, where everything has to be rational, linear, and scientifically-proven. The 'absent-minded professor'' or the celebrated but slightly eccentric actor in the Clematis group may be tolerated and accepted socially, but numerous Clematis artists receive little or no recognition during their lifetime. Often Clematis artists can't handle fame and become addicted to drugs. Some famous examples include Elvis Presley, Janis Joplin, James Belushi, and Elizabeth Taylor. "Clematis artists often become completely lost in their dream world, perceiving realms that normal people can only imagine. They easily drift into an expanded state of consciousness with a receptive state of awareness, feeling the joy and passion of creation. In this altered state, it is difficult for them to return abruptly to the limited consciousness of daily life. "Clematis is the flower that helps artists materialize their dreams, to actively carry out the practical aspects of bringing their inspirations into the physical realm -- for instance, in finding people willing to finance their plays, galleries to show their art, or sponsors to contribute the materials necessary to build new inventions. If they are in touch, and in harmony, with their creativity and physical reality, all will flow in synchronicity until all aspects are realized on the material level." (pp.81-83) Opposites Relate to One AnotherHow can one remedy serve for two chakras so far removed from one another, both in the body and in their purposes? Asked to explain by email, Katharina described this remedy in broader terms, as an integrator between the Root and Brow Chakras. She wrote: 
"Clematis is very much for the Third Eye chakra. As it also helps us to ground ourselves, that means it has an effect on the Root Chakra at the same time. The chakra system is a bit more complex than most people realize. We have actually have in between each of the seven chakras another chakra, like the Heart and the "High Heart" discussed in my article elsewhere in this issue. Therefore the chakra in between the brow and the crown is actually the visual one and leads to enlightenment, where there are no words necessary anymore. The function of Clematis is to balance the verbal (mind) and visual aspect of the two chakras behind the forehead and connect them with the energy of the Root Chakra, so people don't lose balance (and faint)." Editors' Note: When flowers exist in two or more colors, remedies made of the same flower in more than one color often have slightly different applications, as we saw previously in an article on the three Yarrows. The Clematis Edward Bach used to make his remedy was white, thus focused on the spiritual realms and the upper chakras. We do not know of a maker whose Clematis was made with the purple variety, but we wanted to show both, as the intense purple might conceivably act more strongly on the Root Chakra. (Just a theory -- and not necessarily one that all our staff is in agreement with!) DESIGN CREDITS: Border and other art from Clipart.com. This page is a creation of Donna Cunningham's Word of Mouth Web Design, a service that specializes in creating beautiful and unique sites to showcase the gifts of lightworkers, artists, astrologers, and practitioners of the healing arts. Graphic images from Clipart.com.
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"Clematis is the flower for daydreamers living in a fantasy world to escape from harsh reality. Clematis helps us to refine our senses, to become more open to inspiration, more transparent and clear, while remaining grounded and not losing touch with the material world... Clematis types can be geniuses or brilliant artists born ahead of their time. They feel misunderstood by others and often withdraw from society, becoming reclusive and compensating for their feelings of isolation and loneliness by abusing alcohol and other drugs.