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Eagle Eye

Provenance

South Africa

Concept

Bleached Driftwood

TRACE & NARRATIVE

A variant of tiger's eye, with a grey to grey-green lustre. The colour arises from differing degrees of oxidation as crocidolite is replaced by silica.

Tiger's eye (gold), hawk's eye (blue-grey), eagle eye (grey)—all variants of the same mineral, separated only by the extent of oxidation. Eagle eye is the most advanced stage. The same stone, at its oldest.

Primarily found in South Africa and Australia. Far less commonly traded than tiger's eye. A stone you meet only if you go looking.

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES

MOHS SCALE

MOHS 7.0 ｜ HIGH DURABILITY

LATTICE STRUCTURE

TRIGONAL SYSTEM | ANGULAR BALANCE

VISUAL METRICS

Dull light shifting inside grey. Understated to the point of near-absence — but presence, not absence, is what it communicates.

MAINTENANCE

Durable in daily wear — no special precautions required.

SYMBOLIC INDEX

ORIENTAL PHASE

METAL PHASE, WOOD PHASE

CLASSICAL ELEMENT

IGNIS (Fire)

PHYSIOLOGICAL FOCUS

Throat | Vishuddha

ASTROLOGICAL PERIOD

Capricorn

PSYCHOLOGICAL PROJECTION

Awareness — Perspective — Clarity

Pulls the vantage point back to wide-angle. When the detail is drowning out the whole, this restores the aerial view. Blind spots shrink. What was missed becomes visible.

SELECTOR'S NOTE

Drill into the details and the whole picture vanishes. Everyone knows this. Almost no one notices it happening in real time. This stone gravitates towards the person who steps back before he's lost — the one who already has the habit of pulling out to check the wider frame. Knowing when to withdraw is the actual skill.

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