Ever get the feeling that someone’s watching you? As if your energy’s being tugged on? Or maybe you’ve had a “friend” stare a little too long at one of your successes and now you feel the little green monster named envy beginning to creep in? Those experiences that leave you simply feeling “off” means you might want to seek protection from the evil eye. A look charged with typically malicious or resentful energy, the evil eye is like a spiritual side-eye longing for what you have. From Greece and Turkey to South Asia and Latin America, the universal experience of dark energy transfers led to the birth of “the evil eye”. Though the amulet created to remove and deflect energy sent its way is commonly referred to as “the evil eye”, the blue and white swirling eye gracing our jewelry stores and TikTok feeds currently is known as “mati” to the Greeks and “nazar” to the Turkish. Whatever you call it, its spiritual protection remains just as potent. But the beautiful amulet is more than just protection. It serves as a reminder to guard our glow. Even the most well-meaning people can send the evil eye by coveting the blessings