Tiger’s Eye Crystal Properties
Balance, Discernment, Prosperity
Also known as Pseudo Crocidolite
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
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: 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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