Red Tiger Eye Tumbled Stones, 1 lb

Red tiger eye. The cat's-eye stone in its warm register.

Honest treatment. Heat-treated from golden tiger eye, disclosed.

A full working pound. Tumbled, from China, assorted sizes.

• Material: natural tiger eye, heat-treated to red, tumbled; origin China
• Weight: 1 lb; size and chatoyancy vary honestly stone to stone
• SKU: GTTIGRB

Tiger eye's shimmer is fibrous crocidolite replaced by quartz, light rolling along the fibers in the band the trade calls chatoyancy, and heating shifts the iron in those fibers from golden hydrated oxides to red hematite: the same stone, the fire turned up. The tradition files red tiger eye at the warm end of the family, vitality, motivation, and grounded drive, the root-and-sacral seat where golden tiger eye keeps the solar one. By the pound it stocks pocket rotations, grids, bowls, and the gift dish. The stones motivate nothing on their own, as we always say plainly; they roll their light handsomely while the drive stays the carrier's.

1. Carry one as a pocket stone; the chatoyant band rewards idle turning.
2. Seed grids and fill bowls where the working wants the warm register.
3. Cleanse with smoke or moonlight; the stone is durable and easy-keeping.

• Red Jasper Bracelet, 8mm: the grounding neighbor on the warm shelf.
• Clear Quartz Points, 1 lb: directional anchors for the grids.
• Red Cotton Bag, 3 x 4 in: carries the day's stone in the matching color.

Is red tiger eye natural?

The stone is genuine tiger eye; the red is heat treatment, the trade's standard practice, turning the natural gold to brick red, and we say so plainly.

Does heating hurt the chatoyancy?

No: the rolling cat's-eye band survives the treatment fully, which is the point of doing it gently.

What is red tiger eye associated with?

The warm end of the tiger eye file: vitality, motivation, and grounded drive at the root and sacral seats of the modern lists.