Cat S Eye Gemstone
This particular quality is termed chatoyancy.
Cat s eye gemstone. It is a gemstone with extreme planetary energies and shows its impact very quickly. All other types of cat s eye gems require an additional varietal designation such as cat s eye apatite. It is a 9 x 7 millimeter translucent oval.
This effect known as chatoyancy or cat s eye effect is caused by inclusions of fine slender parallel mineral fibers in the gemstone that reflect light in a single band. The golden green cabochon on the left was cut from material mined in kenya. In fact when the term cat s eye is used alone in the gem trade it always refers to chrysoberyl cat s eye.
As per vedic gemology cats eye chrysoberyl otherwise called lehsunia or vaidurya. In color it resembles the color of the neem fruit with silver streak which comes in chrysoberyl stone. Apatite is a mineral that often produces a very nice cat s eye on a gemmy base color.
It is a 7 x 6 millimeter semitransparent oval with a nice eye and a great base color. Cat s eye any of several gemstones that when cut en cabochon in convex form highly polished display a luminous band reminiscent of the eye of a cat. Cat s eye stone has meaning and properties of reducing energy consumption.
Cat s eye stone meaning. The refractive index of the stone ranges between 1 744 1 755 and the hardness on the mohs scale reaches close to 8 5 which makes it the third hardest natural stone known to exist. Precious or oriental cat s eye the rarest and most highly prized is a greenish chatoyant.
It also comes in other colors like black black white yellow pale blue and light red. Cat s eye describes a gemstone polished into a cabochon that displays a narrow band of concentrated light going accross the width of the stone. It is an amulet that tells you a way to success.
The golden brown stone on the right was also cut from material mined in kenya. Cat eye or lehsuniya gem belongs to the powerful planet ketu that alike. Of all the gemstones that exhibit cat s eye chrysoberyl cat s eye is the best.
It can be the third eye to see through everything. As its name shows cat s eye stone is a gemstone that has a shine looks like a cat s eye. Cat s eye gemstone is an inimical gemstone if it exist in the negative houses or inauspiciou s houses of the birth chart.
The cat s eye gemstone is known as beryllium aluminium oxide in chemical terminology and is symbolised as al2beo4.
