Element: Wind
Uses: Inner vision, shamanic journeying, healing of old wounds, soul retrieval
Description: Iolite offers to take one on the inner path to the deep self. It is an excellent stone to use in shamanic journeying. It assists by increasing the vividness and detail of inner visions and by calling up symbols from deep in the psyche that will clearly illuminate the issues one must face for continued growth…. It increases one’s capacity to move forward into areas of old fear, teaching one that the exploration of one’s wounds is the most direct path to healing. Iolite is also a stone of inner treasures. It helps one move to the depths of one’s unconscious and to uncover the lost parts of onself. When this is done, one finds what one most needs to be at peace and in joy.