Tigers Eye

Tigers Eye

Aka: Pseudo Crocidolite

Balance, Discernment, Prosperity

Spiritual Properties

  • Brings you good luck and prosperity
  • Helps draw spiritual energies to earth
  • Talisman against ill wishes and curses
  • Grounds you and protect you especially during times of travel

Mental Properties

  • Promotes mental clarity 
  • Helpful during difficult situations
  • Promotes harmony and equilibrium
  • Helps you see clearly without subjectivity
  • Increases personal power and self discipline
  • Helps overcome fatigue and discouragement 
  • It helps you balance polarities and accept contradictions
  • Promotes resilience in the face of adversity and overwhelming situations
  • Allows scattered thoughts, feelings, and information come together in a way to make sense 
  • Helps you to take life as it comes and respond to the needs of the moment without judgment 

Emotional Properties

  • Stabilizes mood swings 
  • Helps you stay centered and calm
  • Enhances confidence, willpower, and integrity

Kundalini Properties 

  • Stimulates the 1st three chakras
  • ​Balances yin and yang and energizes the emotional body

Affirmations

  • I am filled with warmth and light  
  • I act in alignment with my values regardless of the situation

Correspondence 

  • Chakras: Root,Sacral, and Solar Plexus 
  • Energy: Projective 
  • Planets: Saturn, Sun, Earth
  • Element: Earth, Fire  
  • Zodiacs: Capricorn, Leo 
  • Number: 4

Health Benefits 

  • Balances hormones 
  • Helps to release tension
  • Dispels fear and anxiety
  • Helps heal psychosomatic illnesses
  • Brings support during times of stress
  • Supporting a healthy endocrine system

Physical Properties

Color 

Yellow, Gold, Brown

Habit

Fibrous aggregate

Twins

None

Rarity 

Common

Luster 

Vitreous

Species 

Quartz and a pseudomorph replacement of Crocidolite. It forms when Crocidolite has its chemical fibers replaced by silica

Zoning 

Present

Parting

Absent

Gravity

2.58 to 2.64

Tenacity

Resilient

Fracture

Conchoidal

Cleavage

Absent

Hardness

6.5 to 7

Locations

Africa, India, Burma, USA, and Australia

Bipartisan

0.009

Dispersion

0.013

Chatoyancy

Present

Pleochroism

Absent

Fluorescence

Absent

Birefringence

Absent

Diaphaneity

Opaque

Named After

Often used as the eye in Egyptian tiger murals

Melting point

Over 1,600 degrees Fahrenheit

Discovered In

1784

Luminescence

Absent 

Discovered By

French traveler and ornithologist Francois Levaillant 

Chemical Name

Pseudo Crocidolite

Refractive Index

1.534 to 1.540

System/Structure

Trigonal

Chemical Formula

SiO2

Inclusions (streak)

White

Chemical Classification

Silicate

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