Blue Tiger Eye Mala, 108

A blue tiger eye mala and a long ride in Brisbane

The scene below is a story, not a review from a buyer.

Before the bridge got busy

Tom locked his bicycle under a fig tree in Brisbane and sat on the low wall because he had arrived early on purpose. The river was the colour of tin. He had been carrying a question around for a week, the ordinary kind about whether to stay in a job, and he was tired of asking it while pedalling. In his bag was a printout about blue tiger eye, a stone with a fine chatoyant line, bluer than the golden tiger eye he already knew from shop windows. He did not take anything out of the bag. He just sat until the city got louder.

What this mala is

The blue tiger eye mala at PJ Teera Gems is a strand of 108 natural stone beads at 8mm, sold from India as prayer beads. Tiger eye is a quartz with fine fibres that catch a band of light. The blue form is the less common colour next to the honey-gold one. Beads are smooth and drilled for a necklace you can also count. The shop lists it as a 108-bead mala. If a guru bead is specified on the live page when you look, trust that page over this sentence. Stone malas are heavier than seed malas. You feel the weight on the neck, and that weight is simply the mineral.

Nothing in the colour is a plan for courage or for a decision. The strand is a well-made object for people who want prayer beads in a blue stone, shipped from an Indian shop to the US, the UK, Canada, or Australia.

How people traditionally use it

Count with one hand, one bead at a time, and do not cross the marker bead if the strand has one. Wear it as a necklace between sittings. Take stone beads off for the pool and for sleep if you prefer them unknocked on a bedside table. Wipe them. Keep them off from perfume, which clouds a polish. A silk or cotton cord ages. When it does, re-string rather than forcing a clasp. People who use a mala daily often keep it on a hook by the door so the practice has a place, not so the beads can supervise them.

The listing

Free shipping to the US and the UK is shown, with a modest charge for many other countries. International delivery is often about 7 to 12 days with tracking. The page is the place to confirm bead size and count.

The blue tiger eye mala is here: Blue tiger eye mala.