Rarer red

This Golden and Red Tigers Eye sphere 82g shows the best of this rarer Tigers Eye's colour, with that Tigers Eye shimmer.

Golden Tiger’s Eye is a banded quartz with chatoyant golden tones. It promotes courage, sharpens the mind, and offers powerful energetic protection. Combining the energy of the Earth and the Sun, Golden Tigers Eye draws Spiritual energy down to the Earth, while keeping you centred here on the ground. It brings sunny brightness and optimism to a situation, shining insight onto problems.

Known as the ‘Confidence Stone’, Golden Tigers Eye is a stone of protection, especially during travel. Golden Tigers Eye enhances integrity, self-confidence and practicality. Golden Tigers Eye can help you to see clearly, without illusion. It is a stone that brings good luck and prosperity, often in the form of money. It has been used as a talisman against bad luck and curses since ancient times. Golden Tigers Eye is necessary for anyone’s healing kit.

Golden Tigers Eye activates and balances all the lower chakras and can stimulate the rise of Kundalini energies. It is a powerful Solar Plexus Chakra stone, helpful to manifest ideas into reality and giving courage in times of change. Use Golden Tigers Eye with the Solar Plexus Chakra to increase your personal power. Golden Tigers Eye enhances psychic abilities when working with the Third Eye Chakra. Use Golden Tigers Eye with the Sacral Chakra to bring spiritual grounding.

You can carry Golden Tigers Eye in your pocket when you need a boost of creative energy, or when dealing with issues involving concentration, control, power or asserting your will. Golden Tigers Eye can provide balance to those experiencing extremes. This can make it helpful for manic depression or bipolar disorder.

Colour: brown with tawny stripes, gold (metallic yellow), yellow

Location: Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Namibia, South Africa, Spain, USA

Rarity: common

Mineral group/class: quartz, pseudomorph of crocidolite

Transparency: opaque

Lustre: silky

Fracture: splintery

Hardness: 6.5–7

Formula: SiO₂

Chakra: Root, Solar Plexus

Emotional: change, commitment, creativity, depression, goals, personality disorders, pride, self-confidence, self-criticism, self-worth, stability

Mental/intellectual: activation, clarity, creativity, decisiveness, focus, integrity, logic, perspective, sensibleness, acting, willpower

Spiritual: abundance, animal communication, aura protection, balance, Christ consciousness, enlightenment. grounding, intuition, prosperity, protection, psychic ability

Astrology: Leo, Capricorn, Sun

Numbers: 2, 4