Tiger's eye
Properties of tiger's eye
Tiger's eye is a fine natural stone of the microcrystalline quartz type. Its hardness, common to other quartz crystals, is seven on the Mohs scale, which has ten steps.
Depending on its density, tiger's eye can be opaque or translucent. It captivates with its unique colors, its brilliant variations of brown or coppery brown with yellow or gold veining. This striking mix gives this stone a wild touch and easily explains its association with the eye of the great beast. Certainly less precious than cat's eye, tiger's eye is no less dazzling in terms of brilliance and radiance, enhanced by the stunning contrast between its light and dark colors.
The largest deposits of tiger's eye are found primarily in South Africa. Other countries such as Australia, the United States, India, and Myanmar also produce good quality stones.
History of the Tiger's Eye
What's surprising about tiger's eye is that we don't know much about this very special stone. This could be explained by the name changes that stones often undergo over time.
According to some sources, tiger's eye may have been known as wolf's eye in ancient times, if we are to believe the red shadows that Pliny the Elder attributed to this stone. Other names, as curious as they are original, could be considered, such as hyenis, the African stone that, according to legend, comes from the eye of hyenas, or the eye of Bellus, an important god in the Babylonian pantheon.
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One thing is certain: tiger's eye was rediscovered around the 19th century and quickly gained a reputation as a precious stone. However, tiger's eye would soon become a victim of this great success and the discovery of enormous South African deposits. High demand and intensive mining quickly reduced its commercial value to that of a semi-precious stone.
Today, tiger's eye is a formidable stone used to make jewelry, accessories and art objects with a unique appeal, but also ritual objects, rosaries or Buddha statuettes.
Benefits of Tiger's Eye
The very name of tiger's eye speaks volumes about its virtues. A protective stone par excellence, it borrows the strength of the beast it represents to combat both physical and emotional threats that can affect the integrity of body and mind.
On a physical level, tiger's eye strengthens and significantly regulates the nervous system, reducing mental fatigue. It keeps eyes healthy and improves reflexes. The respiratory system also greatly benefits from tiger's eye. It brings calm and serenity to the breathing rhythm and helps soothe abdominal pain and asthma attacks, while also effectively relieving stress and tension.
Drawing its power from the earth, tiger's eye has a beneficial effect on bones, joints, and the spine. Many also recognize its ability to relieve arthritis, rheumatism, and joint inflammation.
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On a spiritual level, tiger's eye recharges the body with spiritual energy and acts as a shield against invasive energies emitted by objects, places, and people. The protective action of tiger's eye also includes protection against the negative effects of the evil eye; it also serves as a powerful bulwark against black magic. The stone thus confers considerable resistance to negative energies.
Tiger's eye also helps strengthen a person's willpower and protects their emotions from disturbances and other discomforts caused by excessive empathic receptivity. In this way, it promotes self-affirmation, awareness of one's positive personality traits, and the overcoming of emotional blocks, fears, and phobias.
Tiger's eye's effect on the sixth chakra harmonizes the mind. Some also associate this stone with the root chakra, the solar plexus chakra, or the third eye chakra.
The most suitable astrological signs for this stone are Gemini, Leo, Virgo, and Capricorn. Its star is the sun, and its day is Sunday.
To purify and refill a tiger's eye, a glass or clay container filled with distilled, slightly salty water should suffice. For optimal purification, it is recommended to expose the container holding the stone to sunlight.
