Iolite

Aids Imagination & Shamanic Journeying

➤ By Liz Oakes

Iolite are stones of vision used to aid you with out of body journeys. Their energy will aid the process of connecting with angels, and will take you to a higher level spiritually.

This may aid their use as shamanic stones and they have good healing properties including aiding weight loss. These beautiful blue violet crystals may stimulate the imagination.

They are known to totally open up your thinking, via the imagination and have a number of other strong metaphysical properties.

They strongly vibrate within the third eye chakra and produce an electrical charge when they are in contact with your aura. 

This will strengthen the entire auric field and etheric body. They are the gemstone variety of the mineral Cordierite and comes in a range of shades.

Why Would You Use Iolite?

There are a number of reasons why you might choose to use this stone including:

• It is both a third eye chakra and a throat chakra stone.
  
• Iolite will aid you to open the third eye and utilize its abilities.
• This psychic crystal is known to help headaches, especially those associated with developing your psychic powers. 
• Often those who have these gifts develop a pain in the forehead, like a form of pressure build-up when your abilities expand, and these stones may aid you to relieve this.

These blue or purple stones help you to see, imagine and allow yourself to experience via your visionary abilities.

If you imagine it you can experience it, so you may bring it into reality. Your inner journeys are expanded under its influence as are your intuitive gifts.

Within the throat chakra, this stone will activate psychic visions and visionary creative areas, so it is highly advantageous for psychic artists.

Its ability to stimulate the imagination will help those of you who do this work, in the expression of your abilities.

This lovely crystal aids in the development of psychic vision or clairvoyance, and has the capacity to stimulate the development of any other psychic gifts.

How To Use Iolite

Use it in a psychic meditation, as these stones will stimulate psychic abilities and assist you to learn how to be psychic.

These violet-blue crystals may also be especially helpful when you are working to develop your intuition.

Iolite stones can aid with astral travel and may help you to let go of the fears associated with inner journeying. Its action may also aid you to communicate psychically.

For shamanic healing journeys, these crystals may bring the patronage of well-intentioned spirits into the situation for protection and overall access to higher information. 

These stones as mentioned, are wonderful stones to use in meditation. They may help you to connect to angelic beings and other beings from the higher realms.

Their vibration to connect you with angelic beings moves you to a new level spiritually. 

Helps You To Let Go Of Fear

They may help you to let go of the fear you may feel about out of body journeys, and so allow these experiences to happen.

They will aid your inner journeying, and for those who are just beginning, will calm your mind to begin the process. 

For those with past lives specifically in King Arthur's time, it may help to release old karma and resolve the lessons that you experience because of it.

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For those of you who have trouble with meditation, as your mind is restless, this lovely violet stone will quiet the mind, and help you assimilate the guidance you may access.

Who Should Use It? Healing Properties

It is easy to buy Iolite stones, and its best use is to keep it somewhere within your auric field as long as possible each day. 

See if you can acquire a piece to keep somewhere on your body.

It may be advantageous to keep a piece of this stone in your pocket, or you may choose to wear jewelry made from this lovely purplish blue crystal.

As Iolite stimulates the imagination, use this crystal in combination with the seven laws of attraction, to aid you to bring the things and circumstances that you desire into your life.

These lovely lilac-blue stones have beneficial healing properties. 

They help to balance the yin and yang energies, harmonizing the male/female energies that are so beneficial to aid in the relationship area.

They are useful crystals to aid weight loss as they help to eliminate fatty deposits.

They may aid the release of toxins that has been stored in body fat, and are said to energize and balance the metabolism, and may help to improve problems in the liver.

Their energy is  very uplifting, as they calm the brain and are said to be useful to use in the treatment of fevers including malaria.

Wearing This Stone

These blue stones are on the zodiac birthstone list, and it is a very helpful stone to keep on the body especially if you feel tense as it may aid in calming you.

If are able to obtain gem stone jewelry and can wear it at the throat chakra or higher, this is very helpful.

It is one of the birthstones for Sagittarius as well as a Taurus birthstone.

The best types of jewelry made from this lovely crystal are earrings, pendants or necklaces, as they are usually worn within the throat chakra and close to the third eye.

While any variety of jewelry made from this stone will help you, rings are traditionally the way it is used for shamanic ceremonies.

Iolite jewelry is easy to buy and wearing it in the area of the throat chakra and third eye chakra is most helpful.

Where Is It From? Iolite Meaning

The major deposits are found in Brazil but it also comes from India, Sri Lanka, Burma and Madagascar.

The meaning of its name comes from the Greek word meaning violet.

Iolite Cordierite may be seen as different colors in different lights and from different directions. The term pleochroic is used to describe this attribute.

Its colors may be anywhere in the range of blue, grey, violet, purple, green, blue-green, grey-blue, violet-blue, yellowish blue through to pale blue depending on how it is viewed.

Iolite stones may help you in many areas of your life, but the ability to stimulate the imagination is powerful.

The second law of the 7 laws of attraction, is the power of the imagination, so it is a major part of bringing those things you desire into your life.

Once you begin to be able to use, and have access to the strengths that the extra power of your imagination brings to your life, you have the ability to live the life of your dreams.

Books For Developing Psychic Gifts

Sonia Choquette books are excellent aids to help you if you are working on your psychic gifts, including developing your intuition, a closely related ability.

Sonia has been working in psychic employment as a reader, and as a teacher in the development area for many years.

In her book 'Diary of a Psychic', you can read the story of how Sonia developed her gifts, and how to develop yours.

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Best Crystals To Use With Iolite

What are the best crystals to combine with Iolite?

Iolite Sunstone occurs naturally combined and there has been a new discovery of these quite lovely stones, seen above.

This combined crystal is useful for not only the visionary abilities of Iolite alone, but may also give rise to the gift of prophecy or precognitive ability.

It is excellent paired with other violet ray stones such as the purple stones like Purpurite, Sugilite, Tanzanite and Amethyst Crystals.

It is said to aid with addictions, and these stones are excellent in combination for that use.

Other stones that are helpful to combine with them to help treat addictions are Thulite, Staurolite, Datolite or Black Obsidian.

Pair With Stones To Boost Imagination

The combination of Iolite, Lapis Lazuli Stones and Ulexite is powerful to aid you to stimulate your visionary abilities and to help you to unlock your imagination.

Use it with Vanadinite in meditation to get answers about how to utilize your psychic gifts. 

Use it with high crystal energy stones such as Scolecite and Tanzanite, also a violet ray stone.

To aid this stones action to help you to harmonize your male-female energies you may choose to use it with stones that have comparable attributes.

Use crystals such as Lake Superior Agate, Sphalerite, Lapis Lazuli, Shaman Stones, Inesite and  Rhodochrosite.

Combinations To Aid Shamanic Journeying

If you are using these stones specifically for shamanic journeying, other stones to use with them include Nuummite, Shaman Stones, Covellite, Spessartine Garnet, Fulgurite and Merlinite.

These stones blend particularly well with third eye stones. Crystals such as Kammererite, Vivianite, Blue Azurite and Sphene also called Titanite.  

A number of strong throat chakra stones have a good action to combine with these violet or blue crystals including Sodalite, Blue Sapphire, Lapis Lazuli and Blue Tourmaline.

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