Tempest Stone / Pietersite Tumble: Get 2 for 1

The photo shows medium sized Pietersite tumbles, but we also are now selling smaller sized. I just discovered it has a new name of Tempest Stone because with its swirling, storm-like patterns representing an ability to cut through turmoil.

Geological

• This group of crystals form part of the tiger’s eye / tiger iron family.
• This crystal is a variety of chalcedony that is embedded with fibers of amphibole minerals.
• These are sodium, calcium, magnesium, iron and aluminum. Some tumbles seem to show the flash of tiger’s eye.

Pietersite Tumbled Stone (Tempest Stone) Meaning

This stone aids those who don’t want to express their emotions abruptly to others, to know this expression is an important step for healing all involved. This is part of enhancing intuition and spiritual connection so there is personal transformation and the release of stagnant energy. And it supports willpower and adaptability. It is said to support the respiratory system and calm headaches. If you can see the emotional / physical link – this makes sense! Read more Healing tab.

These tempest stone or pietersite tumbles are unlikely to be in the collection of a serious collector of crystals.

Weight	25 g
Dimensions	26 × 29 × 20 mm
Colour	Brown / Tan, Yellow / Gold
Country Crystal Grew	Namibia
Country of Shaping	South Africa

Healing Properties

Benefits of Tiger's Eye, Pietersite

Protection, Creativity, Balance

• Protection stone against ill will, it shows the correct use of power and brings out integrity.
• Combines energies of the earth and sun to a high vibration and grounds them.
• Helps soften and release stubbornness, bringing clear insight and perception.
• Aids in recognising own faults, releasing self criticism and internal conflict
• Balances energies and energising the emotional body to lift moods and relieve depression.
• Helps with poor self-worth and blocked creativity helping with recognition of one's talents and abilities.
• May assist with broken bones and eye, throat and reproduction difficulties dissolving constrictions.

Additional Properties of Varieties

Red or Cherry Tiger's Eye

Vitality, Confidence, Motivation

• Excellent stone for public oratory, presentations, etc.
• Enhances confidence in oneself and the subject being presented.
• Allows clarity of though to be projected with profound sensitivity to the needs of the audience.
• Allows for one to transition into descriptions which carry meaning and depth, as well as understanding to the audience.
• Teaches us to be energetic in a composed and serene manner.

Blue Tiger's Eye

Soothing, Emotional Balance, Clarity

• Very soothing stone, generating calmness.
• Helpful specifically in the areas of the Throat and Third Eye and Crown chakras
• Opens and aligns the higher chakras benefit the overall clarity of voicing, seeing and acting with integrity.
• Provides insights into internal, emotional or mental issues.
• Provides for a balance of the yin and yang energies, allowing for a smooth flow.
• Can program to increase ones abundance flow and keep it "in the flow" if intention is pure.

Pietersite (Riebeckite)

“Keys to the kingdom of heaven.” Links everyday consciousness to the spiritual, grounding you to the earth & your etheric body. Good for vision quests, raising you to altered state quickly. Dispels conditioning from others & illusion of separateness. Dissolves stubborn blocks, promotes you to walk your own truth. Clears & energizes meridian pathways. Assists hormones production for metabolism, blood pressure, growth, sex & temperature.

Geological Information

Geological Information of Tiger's Eye, Tiger Iron, Pietersite

Tiger Iron

• Composition: Jasper + Hematite + Tiger's Eye - more geological information.
• Australia has the best examples.
• Also from South Africa but not as nice and often not all three elements showing.

Tiger's Eye

• Chatoyant - due to asbestos fibres captured in quartz
• Part of Quartz family - more geological information.
• Best quality is from South Africa.
• Australia has banded tiger's eye which really is tiger iron with lots of tiger's eye.
• Colours - Golden (most common) plus:
  • Red Tiger's Eye - some natural if you can see golden too but mostly man-heated golden tiger's eye
  • Blue Tiger's Eye - dark blue and mostly inter-mixed with golden colour
• Artificially coloured tiger's eye through heating to different levels:
  • soft green, dark blue
• Some will be glass. Hints that synthetic are:
  • Shape is: ball or pyramid
  • Colour is: mid to dark green, pink, mid blues, yellow, orange, white, ..
• Where the blue colour is surrounded by the golden colour forming an eye like pattern or shape - gets the name of "falcon's eye" or "hawke's eye"

Pietersite

• Mainly from Namibia
• Those with good blue colour in with the browns are now hard to get as from China
  • which closed mine when 4 Dam project implemented and flooded it.