Properties: 

This stone is most recognized for bringing money, courage, luck, confidence, willpower, clear thinking and speaking toshow us the personal power in life that we have.

Tiger's Eye works on our mental plane by amplifying thinking andmanifesting what you think about. Helps separate thoughts fromfeelings, more centered, less emotional. Tiger's Eye allows us torecognize both our talents and our faults. It can reveal your trueneeds without our self-serving or rigid mental attitudes getting in theway. Use Tiger's Eye with malachite or pearl to benefit from theirsynergy for mental/emotional balance and true understanding.

This stonehelps change anxiety, fear and obsessiveness into practicality andlogic. Has the grounding energy of the earth, but is embellished with aglowing warmth. A stone for people who need more confidence toaccomplish their goals.

Draws helpful people and material things to thewearer.

Centers energy and mental focus.

This stone helps us to findour closest version of perfectionism without obsessive behavior.

Folk Remedies:

Known for treating digestion and stomach disorders such as diverticulardisease, anxiety and ulcers. Helps with the mending of broken bones andthe alignment of bones in the spinal column. It has been used fordisorders of the eyes such as night blindness.

Rub with essential oilon front and bottom of stone before placing it at your solar plexus fordetoxification. Tiger eye relieves high blood pressure. The Chinesecategorize this stone as a true balancer of Yin and Yang. Therefore, itbalances both sides of the brain, bringing awareness to perception.

Feng Shui

Used in the Center area for balancing and grounding.

Crystal Cleansing:

This stone should only be worn as jewelry for a few days at a time, asit decreases the flow of energy. When used for healing purposes, thisstone should be cleansed under luke warm water then recharged byplacing it in the sun as the sun will increase its energy. Crystalsreact and energize by the light of the moon. The fuller the moon themore energized your crystal becomes. I would recommend your cleansingto be on or near the full moon so that the light can absorb into yourcrystal.

History:

A member of the Quartz family, Tiger's Eye is often confused with Cat's Eye. The difference isin the fibers of crocidolite that have been replaced by silica inTiger's Eye, which are twisted. (The fibers in Cat's Eye are straight).Tiger's eye is mined in Western Australia, South Africa, USA, Canada,India, Namibia, and Burma.

Roman soldiers wore tiger's-eye forprotection in battle. Tiger Eye was thought to be all seeing due to itsappearance. The bands in Tiger's Eye display chatoyancy, whichresembles an eye of a tiger, receiving its name due to its similarity.