Tiger’s Eye – Stone of Courage, Confidence and Success

Tiger’s Eye

Tiger’s Eye has a balancing effect on emotions, softening stubbornness, obstinacy and unnecessary resistance. It grounds and focuses the power of the mind.

It is recommended for Virgo and is often associated with the zodiac signs Capricorn and Leo.

Chakra: solar plexus

Other names: crocidolite

Hardness: 6.5 to 7

Deposits: South Africa, Western Australia, India, the USA and others.

Description: This mineral is a variety of chalcedony or quartz, with a silky luster and a tiger’s-eye or cat’s-eye effect against a dark base. The play of colors that has made it so popular is due to iron oxide appearing as yellow or golden bands.

Color: light yellow to golden brown with banded color transitions.

Chemical composition: a complex silicate containing iron.

Similar minerals: hawk’s eye, cat’s eye, labradorite, electrolite.

History and legends: For centuries, Tiger’s Eye has been known as a protection against the evil eye and curses.

During the Middle Ages, Tiger’s Eye had a reputation as a guardian stone against the evil eye and magic. It was believed to protect against accidents, harmful influences and hypocritical friends.

If you dream of Tiger’s Eye, you should stay alert, because someone or something may be hiding the truth behind a mask of deception.

Healing energy: Tiger’s Eye is known for helping with problems related to the spleen, pancreas and digestive organs. Red Tiger’s Eye slows the rotation of the third chakra and helps contain sexual energy that is flowing outward. It is said to be very useful for hypochondria and psychosomatic disorders. Tiger’s Eye is believed to stimulate the clearing of the bronchi when placed between the solar plexus and the breastbone.

Qualities: Tiger’s Eye has a balancing effect on emotions, softening stubbornness, obstinacy and unnecessary resistance. It brings clear insights. It grounds and centers, strengthening the connection with free will and personal power. It balances masculine and feminine energy.

It is also known as a stone of luck. Tiger’s Eye is used to reveal the truth in any situation. It can help you understand which life cycle you are passing through. Through it, you may gain spiritual understanding because it strengthens inner power and responsibility. It is said to counter all kinds of negative forces and enhance psychic abilities. It may help you look into both the past and the future.

It focuses the power of the mind in a way that creates an all-seeing mental eye.

It is considered especially useful for those who are trying to discover karmic connections and threads from past lives involving family, friends and acquaintances.

Types:

Tiger’s Eye – Brown and Black

• Grounds and reduces stress by decreasing sensitivity.
• Protects in war and danger.
• Protects and closes the solar plexus chakra by anchoring its energy into the Earth.
• Helps people who are highly sensitive to urban noise and pollution, as well as those who absorb other people’s emotions.

This stone is considered suitable for men and for people whose recent psychic opening has not yet been grounded and brought under control. Use it only when necessary; do not wear it continuously.

Tiger’s Eye – Golden

• Is believed to make a person invisible to sources of negative energy and protect against psychic attack.
• Clears negative energy from the solar plexus and returns it to the person who sent it.
• Protects travelers and vehicles from accidents.
• Develops the ability to distinguish evil and is believed to strengthen physical sight.

Tiger’s Eye –  Red

Color: red, brown Chakra: perineum

• Connects the kundalini and hara lines at the root chakra/perineum, facilitating the absorption of Earth energy into the body and chakra system.
• Releases the flow of the microcosmic orbit of qi gong along the hara line.
• Increases life-force energy along the hara channels and raises kundalini.

Wear it for protection. It is believed to provide strong protection against all forms of black magic. As jewelry, it should not be worn continuously but alternated with other minerals.

Sources used:

Stein, Diane. Healing with Gemstones. Sofia: Aratron, 2005.

Conway, D. J. Gemstones and Their Magical Properties. Sofia: Aratron, 2008.

Kivrin, Vladimir. The Healing and Magical Properties of Crystals. Sofia: Paritet, 2014.

Miteva, Gergana. Ivan Mitev. Encyclopedia of Healing Minerals: A-Z: Second Expanded Edition, Haskovo: IK Oponent, 2004.

Barbara Ann Brennan, Hands of Light, Sofia: Kibea, 2000.

Nelson, Mary, Jane Scrivner. Healing with Stones, Sofia: Mont, 2011.