Meredith Griffin

Some of the most useful tools I carry came from a woman who gave them away freely, without ceremony, just because she thought they might help. That was Terri. Terri was my teacher first, then my mentor, then my friend. She passed a few years ago, but if you know anything about people with genuine spiritual gifts, you know that passing doesn't mean gone. She continues to send guidance my way, and I continue to receive it with gratitude. One of the things she taught me that I return to again...

I've been lighting candles my whole life without giving much thought to what color I was reaching for. A red one because it looked nice. A white one because it was what I had. Somewhere along the way I started noticing that I'd instinctively grab green when I was worried about money, or reach for red when my heart was involved in something. I wasn't following a rule. It just felt right. That's actually how candle magic tends to begin for a lot of people — quietly, intuitively, long before...

There are some days on the wheel of the year that feel like they're running on a different kind of electricity. Today is one of them. May 1st is Beltane — one of the great fire festivals of the Celtic calendar, a day that practically hums with life force energy. And this year, it falls on a Full Moon in Scorpio. If you felt something shift when you woke up this morning, or noticed a particular intensity in the air, you weren't imagining it. You were picking up on something real. Beltane: When...