Tiger's Eye Crystals

Tiger's eye is a golden-brown quartz with a band of light that slides across it as you turn it, and practitioners keep it for courage, focus, and protection. It's tough enough to wear every day, it's safe in water, and sunlight won't fade it. The tiger's eye crystals here come in golden, blue, and red, as tumbled stones by the pound, bracelets, pendants, keychains, a pendulum, and a rune set. See how to choose a piece.

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What You'll Find Here

Tumbled Stones in Three Colors. The tumbled tiger's eye comes by the pound from China in three colors: golden, which is the classic stone; blue, which is also sold as hawk's eye; and red, which is golden tiger's eye that has been heated. There's also a polished free shape of about 0.4 lb for a desk or an altar.

Bracelets. Most of the bracelets are golden tiger's eye on stretch cord, in 4mm and 8mm beads. You'll also find a red tiger eye bracelet, a tri-color bracelet with golden, blue, and red beads, one that pairs tiger's eye with clear quartz and a Tree of Life charm, and one that pairs it with palo santo wood.

Pendants and Keychains. The wire-wrapped points come as a set of five, each about 1 3/8 inches long, and the double-terminated pendant is about 1 1/2 inches long; you add your own cord or chain. The Problem Solver net necklace holds tumbled tiger's eye and black agate in knotted cord. For your keys, there's a tumbled-stone keychain and the Self-Confidence Keychain, which strings tiger's eye with carnelian and hematite.

Divination and Tools. The tiger's eye pendulum hangs on a 6-inch chain. The rune set has the 24 Elder Futhark runes and one blank stone, lettered in gold. The 10ml roller bottle has a tiger's eye roller ball and comes empty, ready for your own oil blend.

How to Choose Tiger's Eye

Choose the color first. Golden tiger's eye is the classic one, kept for courage, confidence, and protection. Blue tiger's eye is worn for calm focus and clear speech, so if golden is the stone for the interview, blue is the stone for the exam. Red tiger's eye is worn for drive and the will to act.

Then choose the form by where you'll use it. If you need to walk into a room and hold your nerve, wear a bracelet or carry a tumbled stone or a keychain. For money work, keep a stone in your wallet or by the register. For a desk, the free shape is a size you can pick up and turn. For divination, use the pendulum or the rune set.

Tiger's eye is 6.5 to 7 on the Mohs scale, like other quartz, so it holds up in rings and bracelets. You can rinse it in water and leave it in the sun.

For tiger's eye's history, its colors, and its zodiac signs, read our full guide, Tiger's Eye Meaning: Spiritual Properties and Uses.

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Carnelian Crystals and Citrine Crystals carry two more warm stones people wear for courage and confidence, and Pyrite Crystals carries the other stone kept by the register. Tiger's eye is one of the everyday stones in Protection Crystals & Stones. You'll find rune sets and tumbled stones in other stones in Rune Stones and Tumbled Stones.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is tiger's eye?
Tiger's eye, also written tiger eye or tigers eye, is a golden-brown quartz with fine parallel fibers inside it. Light reflects off those fibers in a narrow band that moves as you turn the stone. Gemologists call the effect chatoyancy, from the French for cat's eye.

What is tiger's eye good for?
Practitioners keep tiger's eye for courage, focus, and protection, and it belongs to the solar plexus chakra. Scott Cunningham lists it for money, protection, courage, energy, luck, and divination, under the Sun and the element of Fire. Roman soldiers wore engraved tiger's eye into battle, and in several parts of the world it's still carried against the evil eye.

What is blue tiger's eye?
Blue tiger's eye is the blue-gray form of the stone, also sold as hawk's eye. It shows the same moving band of light, and it's worn for calm focus and clear speech.

Is red tiger's eye natural?
Red tiger's eye is golden tiger's eye that has been gently heated, which turns its iron a deeper red-brown. It's still real tiger's eye, and the band of light still moves across it.

How can you tell if tiger's eye is real?
Turn it under a light. On real tiger's eye, the band of light moves across the stone. Glass and resin imitations have a fixed pattern that doesn't move. Real tiger's eye is common and inexpensive, so imitations are rare.

Is tiger's eye safe to wear?
Yes. Tiger's eye formed from crocidolite, a type of asbestos, but in a finished stone the fibers are locked inside solid quartz. Handling, wearing, and carrying polished tiger's eye is safe. The caution is for people who cut or grind rough stone without protection.