Red Tigers Eye

General Information: Red Tiger Eye (also called Bull's Eye or Ox Eye) is a variety of tiger's eye that has been naturally or heat-treated to produce a rich red to reddish-brown chatoyant stone. Natural red tiger eye occurs through natural oxidation of iron within the stone; many commercial specimens are heat-treated golden tiger's eye.

Origin Locations: South Africa (primary natural source), India, and Australia.

Related Chakras: Root, Sacral

Metaphysical Properties: Red Tiger Eye is a stone of passionate motivation, vitality, and grounded action. It combines the balancing, insight-promoting qualities of classic tiger's eye with the energizing, physical life-force frequency of red/earth tones. It is believed to stimulate sexual energy, physical drive, and the courageous pursuit of practical goals. Practitioners use it to overcome sluggishness, to increase speed and effectiveness in action, and to maintain the motivation needed to see physical or ambitious projects through to completion. Red Tiger Eye is also associated with the dissolution of fear-based paralysis, replacing it with confident, decisive forward movement.

Identification Tips: Deep red to reddish-brown with a strong chatoyant (cat's eye) sheen; silky luster; opaque; fibrous internal structure; hardness 7; chatoyancy moves as the stone is rotated.

Popular Uses: Motivation, vitality, physical energy, courage, Root and Sacral chakra activation, meditation, jewelry.