Tiger’s Eye Crystal Properties

Balance, Discernment, Prosperity

Gems By LYC
3 min readSep 12, 2022

Also known as Pseudo Crocidolite

Tiger’s Eye Close-Up

Spiritual Properties

  • Brings you good luck and prosperity
  • Helps draw spiritual energies to earth
  • Talisman against ill wishes and curses
  • Grounds you and protects 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 to 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
Tiger’s Eye Tumbles

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
Tiger’s Eye Sphere

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
Tiger’s Eye Point

Physical Properties

Color: Yellow, Gold, Brown

Habit: Fibrous aggregate

Twins: Absent

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

Dispersion: 0.013

Chatoyancy: Present

Pleochroism: Absent

Fluorescence: Absent

Birefringence: 0.009

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: Iron and quartz, which give the stone its striped appearance and the optical effect, chatoyancy

Streak: White

Chemical Classification: Silica

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