Tiger Eye

the eye that follows light

Tiger Eye rough specimen on dark stone
Provenance
Griqualand West, South Africa
Mineral family
Quartz over golden crocidolite silk
Hardness
Mohs 7 — wear-ready
Energy
Grounding — The steady-gaze frequency — nerve held, ground kept.
Quartz slowly replaced beds of fibrous crocidolite and kept the silk: tilt the stone and a band of light rolls across it like a cat’s eye opening — chatoyancy, from the French for cat. Roman soldiers carried engraved tiger eye into battle to borrow the animal’s nerve.
“Carried into battle, that the soldier might see as the tiger sees.”Roman lore