Spiritual and Healing Properties of Iolite:
Prevents Feelings of Victimization
It helps you to feel comfortable in the leadership role and/or makes others easier to accept you in that role also. This stone will prevent you from allowing others to walk all over you or for you to allow your emotions to control you. At the same time this stone does not allow you to martyr yourself. It keeps you from feeling your are the victim of circumstanes also. There are three colors to this stone each adding their effect to it, blue effecting friendships, gray professional, purple family or sexual relationships~forum post from whitehorse woman
Iolite Opens Up Intuition
Iolite helps to open the pathway for the spiritual. It connects the throat, brow and crown chakras. It opens a subtle and gentle gateway of communication to the Higher Self. It may be detected differently than you would expect. By this I mean, it may manifest as sudden "bursts" of intuition and you may have a higher awareness for guidance or purpose. A good stone for helping one find direction in life. The Shaman's would use this stone to ensure accuracy with visions and in healing ceremonies to influence the spirits. Iolite also helps you to release the discord from your life. It is a good healing stone. The most common colors range from a clear to a blueish-lavender. But that is not the only color of the Iolite. It also comes in brown, green, yellow and grey. The properties listed above are for the blueish-lavender.[~forum post from stones
