Ilvaite

Aids Patience & Perseverance

➤ By Liz Oakes

Ilvaite may assist you to persevere and can help to increase your patience, help you to make better decisions and may boost your imagination. 

Interestingly they resonate strongly within the crown chakra as well as within the base and earth chakras and embody attributes that everyone will find useful. 

They also have excellent properties that help to both ground and center you, and may help to enhance your creativity. 

They have a helpful vibration to stabilize you emotionally, and have a number of healing properties that may be beneficial to you.

The metaphysical properties of crystals like these involves the way they help you to keep going when the going gets tough.

Where Is It From? Ilvaite Meaning

The meaning of the name of this stone comes from the location where it was first discovered on the Italian island of Elba, which is located in the Mediterranean Sea.

Its name comes from the Latin word 'ilva', which is the original name of the island of Elba.

Also known as Yenite, this is a silicate mineral that contains iron and calcium and is a member of the sorosilicate subclass.

Although its color is commonly a deep opaque iron-black, it may also be dark gray or brownish black.

It is commonly found in contact metamorphic rocks or in calcium bearing ore deposits known as skarn.

It occurs as orthorhombic or monoclinic crystals as well as columnar masses and as prismatic crystals.

As mentioned above, this black mineral was first discovered in Italy but has since been located in a few other areas, but not all places have large deposits.

It has been found in Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Aegean Islands in Greece, Russia, Inner Mongolia in China and in the United States.

It may also be found combined with other minerals. Many of these combination pieces make beautiful specimens, which you can see here.

There are lovely pieces of this mineral that are naturally combined with Hedenbergite, Fluorite, Quartz, Calcite or Pyrite.

Why Would You Use Ilvaite? How To Use It?

These black crystals are strong base and earth star chakra crystals that have a powerful grounding and centering action.

They are particularly helpful to assist you when you feel troubled about life circumstances and are aware that you feel out of balance, ungrounded and emotionally uncentered. 

Sitting quietly holding this stone, either in meditation or just sitting relaxing can assist you to become more grounded as well as more centered, and may assist you to make better decisions.

Ilvaite has a helpful energy to encourage you to be more patient and they  also help to stimulate your creativity.

Using these crystals for patience will help you to learn ways to keep going, even when you are finding that life is tough.

Sometimes you may feel nervous and agitated because what desire is slow to come to fruition.

So in that case you may find that it might benefit you to keep a piece on your body and using a macrame crystal holder is a simple way to do this.

It's easy to buy a macrame crystal holder, but just make sure you get one with a sliding bead on top so you can change the stone if you wish to.

Crystals For Inspiration & Imagination

These stones strongly resonate within the crown chakra and are useful to use in meditation and this may assist you to receive guidance from spirit beings in the higher realms.

During meditation you may receive guidance or messages from teachers or guides about methods to help you to be more tenacious and to persevere when you need to.

They are beneficial crystals for inspiration that have an energy that can help you to receive helpful and advantageous thoughts out of the blue.

Inspired thinking is different to other types of thought, as it can come unexpectedly, and it's action can be transformational as it may suddenly flow into your mind when you are looking for answers.

These stones encourage innovative thinking and may also enhance inspiration. Inspiration is different to imagination, as it can simply relate to ideas arriving when you least expect them.

Imagination can take time, as it may need thought and consideration as you imagine what it is you desire, so using a stone that boosts both energies can be helpful. 

Ilvaite are also excellent crystals for imagination that may also trigger visionary ideas and inspired ways of thinking about what you need to achieve.

They are strong stones for transformation and you may find that it is quite beneficial to use these black stones in meditation.

This can assist you to gain information that may help you to utilize your imaginative and creative gifts in new ways that may benefit your life.

How Will It Help You? Healing Properties

As mentioned above these stones have a good action to stabilize your emotions as well as to ground you. There are a number of symptoms of being ungrounded.

So if you are not sure if you are ungrounded it may benefit you to read more about how grounding can help you.

These black crystals also have a number of other beneficial healing properties that may aid you.

They are purported to heal quite a few health issues, including helping the treatment of hepatitis and fevers including typhoid fever.

Other health problems that they are said to assist includes aiding hemorrhaging, as well as helping diarrhea and a nervous or ulcerated stomach.

In order to obtain the best results, before using the stone for health problems, sit with it and tell it what you require from it regarding your healing.

Best Crystals To Use With Ilvaite

What are the best crystals to combine with Ilvaite?

This is a good stone to use to enhance your creativity, but if you require more help to boost the flow of your creativity you may wish to combine it with other stones that stimulate creativity.

This includes stones such as Hornblende, Tangerine Quartz, Serandite, Pecos Diamond or Orange Calcite.

For any of you who feel you would like to stimulate your imaginative ability, especially if you are also working on your creative gifts, these gifts work well together.

You may like to combine this stone with other crystals that help to unlock your imagination.

Stones that stimulate your imagination includes Iolite, Lapis Lazuli, Ulexite, Tangerine Quartz and Pudding Stone.

This stone has a good action to boost your patience, but if you feel you need more help with this, there are a number of other stones that can help you.

There are a few other stones that aid you to feel more patient. This includes Morganite, Chrysocolla, Dumortierite or  Petrified Wood.

For anyone who is finding it hard to persevere or if life seems to be difficult, you might like extra help to keep going when times are tough.

Combining this stone with other crystals that aid you to persist even when it is hard to do so may help you.

Other stones that aid perseverance includes Picasso Marble, Pollucite, Black Onyx and Nuummite.

This stone has a good energy to ground you, and while it will help you when used alone, there are a number of other powerful grounding stones that you may also choose to have on hand.

Grounding stones you might like to use includes some of my favorites such as Black Tourmaline, Black Obsidian, Pyrrhotite and Larvikite also called Norwegian Moonstone.

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