Before the day begins asking for your time and energy, take a few minutes to return to yourself. This simple morning protection ritual uses black tourmaline, breath, and intention to help you feel grounded, protected, and clear about what is yours to carry.

Does setting an intention with a crystal actually work... or am I just talking to a rock? This is the question underneath the question, and it deserves a direct and honest answer. Both things can be true simultaneously. You are, technically speaking, talking to a rock. Crystals are minerals. They do not speak English. They do not have opinions about your situation or a personal investment in the outcome of your intention.

There is a particular kind of stillness that happens when someone walks up to a table of crystals for the first time. I have watched it happen more times than I can count in thirty years of running Wicked Stones. A person reaches out, hesitates, pulls their hand back, and looks at me like they are about to fail a test nobody told them they were taking. "ARGHHH! What do I do??"