visions pick a card

Pick a card is back! Take a moment, get settled,  set your intention or question, and choose one of the three cards above.  Answers after the jump!

Text from the Visions: a crystal oracle deck guidebook

Pink Tourmaline
Pink tourmaline is a stone of love offerings and kindness. It is good for reducing fear and panic and can also help with inner child healing. Pink tourmaline is considered a healers stone and reminds anyone who is doing healing work for and with others, of the importance to heal their own emotional issues as well. If you are finding yourself giving really good advice to your loved ones lately, perhaps your own wise words to be taken seriously and applies to your own life. Sometimes other people’s dilemmas offer opportunities to mirror something in our own lives that needs healing. You have to unpack your garbage before you can assist in someone else’s unpacking. Pink tourmaline is offering you assistance in rising above feelings of misery and sorrow and encourages you to do the hard work that comes with healing our hearts.
Zodiac: Taurus, Libra, Scorpio
Tarot card: Queen of Pentacles

Snowflake Obsidian 
Snowflake obsidian is a stone of purity, it also helps calm and soothe the mind. This card showing up for you right now, is the possible mirror you have been avoiding. Have you been noticing unhealthy behavioral patterns within yourself? Acknowledgement of these patterns is one of the major steps to healing ourselves. Once we have taken accountability for our behavior, doors open to create positive change, though it is up to us to do the work. Healing is a life long commitment, once we open that door, we must fully commit to stop perpetuating the cycles of abuse, trauma, and oppression that we take part in. Own up to your past and show up for the present as to make way for a brighter future.
Zodiac: Capricorn and Virgo
Tarot: The Hanged Man

Smoky Quartz
Smoky Quartz is a deeply grounding stone with strong abilities to protect, disperse our fears, and anchor us to the ground, spiritually. Time to put some extra energetic boundaries up, clear your space and yourself using herbs and smoke. If a situation has you feeling drained and unsafe, trust in Smoky Quartz to bring you back to a centered stable place. You need to be mindful of who and where your energies are going out to, make sure that what you are giving is coming back to you in positive ways.
Zodiac: Capricorn
Tarot: The High Priestess