Naomi Reeve

Strawberry quartz gets a heart reading. Both minerals in it already have jobs in the same tradition, and neither of those jobs is the heart.

Hematite, red jasper, moss agate, petrified wood. What the most literal of them really is, and how to get one without buying it.

Goldstone is used for ambition and drive. The glass it is made of took about a week in a closed furnace, and some batches came out worthless.

Black tourmaline is for protection and grounding, and it is the stone people are handed first. One of its four usual placements can be dropped.

Steadiness and nerve, in crystal practice. The stone sold at six dollars a carat in the 1880s and fell to cents by the pound in a decade.

Grounding and heart work, and a straight answer on asbestos: every warning attached to serpentine turns out to describe a workshop.

Rose quartz, and not for the reason you have been given. It is the only one on the list you can pick up without diagnosing yourself first.

Black tourmaline, aquamarine, fluorite and smoky quartz are the usual picks. Whether you need any depends on what your next three weeks hold.

Amethyst, blue lace agate, lepidolite and celestite. Buy the cheap one: in a 2025 trial, the object was not the variable that moved.