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Wild Magical Soul: Untame Your Spirit & Connect to Nature's Wisdom
Weave natural magic into your life and explore the threshold of the otherworld with rituals, crafts, and transformative folklore. Within these pages, you will discover how to connect to the energy where you live and develop your skills as a healer, storyteller, and advocate for the earth. Monica Crosson's powerful rituals support the transformation of your spirit while helping you pass ancient knowledge to new generations that will inherit our world. Wild Magical Soul includes enchantments for you to try, like a family protection ritual and the sailor's knot spell, as well as crafting instructions for incense blends, animal spirit meditation beads, a traditional besom (broom), and much more. Written for those who want to live in balance with the land once again, this book guides you on a deep dive into the elemental magic of the wild places as you set your soul free and find your inner wild.
288 pages, Paperback
Published February 8, 2020
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July 8, 2022
So, I got this book about a year ago and lost it, then recently found it and finished it up.
What I enjoy most about this book is Monica's writing. She has a way of describing nature through this lens of inspiration and beauty that puts you right in the magic with her. It also had some personal stories with conversation as dialog. This introduces you to her family, often her very young children, allowing you to see, for a brief moment, the world through a young child's eyes and remember that magic we tend to lose as we grow.
The book is divided in sections, separating landscapes by element. Forest and Ocean are the longest with the Forest section being the most complete and in-depth. This is likely because of her own experiences. She lives in the forest and lives a drivable distance to the Ocean. Honestly, I didn't mind the Mountain and Desert sections were short. I don't really 'vibe' with those places in nature and I don't feel like I connected to them any more reading this book (from what I remember-it's been a year since I read those two sections).
For the section on Ocean, I had previously read Water Witchcraft: Magic and Lore from the Celtic Tradition, so this section offered very little information I hadn't already known. And the section on the Moon, I had also read the beginning of Moon Magic: Your Complete Guide to Harnessing the Mystical Energy of the Moon, which had the same information.
It was an interesting read but wouldn't say it's mandatory. Its strength is Monica's writing, but the same information can be found elsewhere. I suppose her recipes and such are probably unique to this book.
What I enjoy most about this book is Monica's writing. She has a way of describing nature through this lens of inspiration and beauty that puts you right in the magic with her. It also had some personal stories with conversation as dialog. This introduces you to her family, often her very young children, allowing you to see, for a brief moment, the world through a young child's eyes and remember that magic we tend to lose as we grow.
The book is divided in sections, separating landscapes by element. Forest and Ocean are the longest with the Forest section being the most complete and in-depth. This is likely because of her own experiences. She lives in the forest and lives a drivable distance to the Ocean. Honestly, I didn't mind the Mountain and Desert sections were short. I don't really 'vibe' with those places in nature and I don't feel like I connected to them any more reading this book (from what I remember-it's been a year since I read those two sections).
For the section on Ocean, I had previously read Water Witchcraft: Magic and Lore from the Celtic Tradition, so this section offered very little information I hadn't already known. And the section on the Moon, I had also read the beginning of Moon Magic: Your Complete Guide to Harnessing the Mystical Energy of the Moon, which had the same information.
It was an interesting read but wouldn't say it's mandatory. Its strength is Monica's writing, but the same information can be found elsewhere. I suppose her recipes and such are probably unique to this book.
February 17, 2025
Since the title has 'wild' and 'untame' in it, I figured that's what this book would be about. It wasn't. It was a bunch of spells that screamed "tame' much more than it did 'wild'. I honestly tried to connect the book to the title to find a little bit of that wildness or free spirit, but I couldn't find any connection. Maybe because it had a very large section about birds in it, and birds are free and wild? That's really the best I could come up with. As a pagan I don't mind reading a bit about spells, but it wasn't exactly original and it just wasn't what the title promised at all.
December 26, 2021
This book is a treasure trove of information and stories, including things I can’t find elsewhere. For example I’ve been searching for a book about desert witchcraft for ages and the section in here about desert correspondences and magic are more thorough than anything else I’ve found. Fantastic.
August 4, 2021
This was my kind of book. I loved everything about it.
February 5, 2024
A broad and welcoming introduction for those just starting with their craft.
January 5, 2025
Very, very good read. She really has an amazing writing style that really is magical. She takes you into the wild and really shows you the way energetically to connect to our beautiful Mother Nature.
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