Every stone carries a memory of the earth it came from. Held with intention, it will tell you what your next choice is asking for.
Cherise A. Pollard, PhD, is a psychic, medium, Reiki Master Teacher, and healer offering virtual and in-person crystal and card readings alongside Akashic Records sessions.
The stones came to her out of fear, not fascination. In the thick of learning what she could do — what she could feel, what could move through her — everything frightened her. She had no map yet, no sense of how to close a door once she’d opened it. So she bought her first stones for protection, one at a time, with no real idea what she was doing beyond a fierce need to keep whatever was out there from getting in. She built herself what she still calls a spiritual Fort Knox: a home, a body, a field, sealed tight enough to finally breathe.
What started as armour became a language. The longer she sat with her stones, the more she understood that a crystal isn’t inert — it holds, it answers, it refuses. Held with intention, a stone will tell you exactly what it’s drawn to and what it won’t go near, the same way the cards will, only in a different dialect. A crystal reading, done honestly, is Cherise reading resonance instead of symbol: what a stone settles beside, what it’s pulled toward, what your own field is carrying that you haven’t named yet.
She doesn’t read the stones to perform. She reads them the way she built that first Fort Knox — carefully, honestly, and only ever telling you what’s actually there.
You didn’t pick it by accident — you noticed it before you understood it. A crystal reading doesn’t explain that pull away. It listens to it, the same way a tarot reading listens to the cards.
Read these slowly. Notice the quiet yes.
You’ve picked up a stone before and felt something — a pull, a warmth, a reluctance — you couldn’t explain and didn’t chase further.
You don’t need to believe crystals have power. You only need to be curious what one has to say to you, specifically, right now.
Tarot has always made sense to you. This feels like the same kind of listening, through a different material.
You want a second way of hearing what already came through — something to confirm it, not replace it.
If you felt a quiet yes anywhere in those — that yes is the reading beginning.
No — the language is different. Cards speak in symbol and story; stones speak in resonance, weight, and what they’re drawn toward. Some things come through one way that don’t come through the other.
You don’t need to. This isn’t a lesson in mineralogy. Ma’hara reads what the stone is doing in the moment — you only need to show up and be honest about what you’re carrying.
Same as every reading Ma’hara offers — nothing is invented to fill a silence. If a stone is quiet, that quiet is named honestly, not papered over.
“I’ve had tarot readings before but never crystal work. It named something the cards hadn’t quite landed on. Different language, same honesty.”
“I brought in a stone I’d been carrying for months without knowing why. She told me exactly why. Grounded, not gimmicky.”
If you’ve been carrying a stone, drawn to one in a shop window, or simply curious what this reads like next to the tarot you already know — this is where you find out.
30 to 90 minutes · private · in person or remote
