The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice

by Jessica Marie Baumgartner

Featuring easy-to-use exercises, spells, rituals, and meditations, this enlightening book helps you reconnect with healthy, natural living and wake up your buried instincts. Jessica Marie Baumgartner shows you how to embrace the power and wisdom of your inner voice, which strengthens your magical practice and inspires you to live with purpose.

As technology has advanced, we have distanced ourselves from nature--but our connection still remains. Now is the time to reopen that line of communication. This down-to-earth book is full of guidance on preparing the body, mind, and spirit as you hike, hunt, swim, garden, sleep outdoors, and more. You'll even find practices to use when you can't be directly in nature. This indispensable resource is perfect for enhancing your spirituality, tuning in to the natural energies around you, and learning to trust in yourself.

Genres: Nature, Spirituality

240 pages, Paperback

Published May 8, 2021

About the author

Jessica’s motto is: Adventure first, then write! When not running around exploring life, she chases multiple versions of herself (5 Kids) and feeds animal babies. She is also the author of "Reclaiming Femininity," "The Magic of Trees," "Homeschooling on a Budget," "The Magic of Nature," "Walk Your Path," "The Golden Rule," and more . Despite being a walking oxymoron factory: dyslexic-writer, maternal-tomboy, conservative-Pagan, she loves everyone and works for the Right Side Broadcasting Network, Mid Rivers Newsmagazine, and Witch Way Magazine. She is an America First Free-Speech advocate and current member of the Missouri Writers’ Guild and Saturday Writers groups.

Her writing has won:

2024 2nd Place Saturday Writers July/August Poetry Award for, Unexpected Beachfront Property

2024 3rd Place Missouri Writer’s Guild Nonfiction Book Award for, The Magic of Trees

2024 3rd Place Saturday Writers President’s Contest Drabble for, Dad’s Making Hot Sauce Again (A National Hot Sauce Day Horror Story)

2024 Saturday Writers Pen & Paint Poetry Contest winner, Forgotten Home

2024 Saturday Writers Pen & Paint Short Story Contest winner, A Capella Memories

2023 3rd Place Saturday Writer’s May Writing Competition for, Hungry Bird

2021 3rd Place Missouri Writer’s Guild Walter Williams Award for, Walk Your Path

2021 3rd Place Missouri Writer’s Guild Best Poem Award for, Paternal Admiration

2018 Bards & Sages Author of the Year Award

2018 3rd Place Missouri Writer’s Guild Children’s Book Award for, The Golden Rule

2018 3rd Place Missouri Writer’s Guild Short Story Award for, English Escape

2018 3rd Place Bards & Sages Short Fiction Award for, By the Stars

2018 Story of the Year Bards & Sages Award for, Gold Bands

2018 New Apple Award’s Best Spiritual Book of the year for, The Golden Rule

2017 New Apple Award’s Children’s Spiritual Ebook of the year for, The Golden Rule

2016 2nd place in the Summer Indie Book Awards for Best Sci-Fi Book, By the Stars

Publications that have featured Jessica Marie Baumgartner’s articles and stories: Right Side Broadcasting Network, Sasee Magazine, Extremely American, Giant Freakin Robot, The Foundation for Economic Education, The Vermont Daily Chronicle, Edge of Humanity Magazine, The Conservative New Mexican, The Conservative Woman, Missouri Conservationist, Go 2 Tutors education news, The Federalist, Aspire Magazine, All Things Weird & Strange, The New American, The Epoch Times, The Sedona Journal of Emergence, American Thinker, Pagan Pages, Magic of Motivational Poetry and Quotes, Evie Magazine, Father and I, Woods Reader, Witch Way Magazine, Light of Consciousness Magazine, Breastfeeding Today, New Spirit Journal, Alban Lake Publishing, Conscious Shift Magazine, Witchology Magazine, LitReactor, Buddy Lit Zine, The St. Louis Post Dispatch, Kids Imagination Train Magazine, Mothers Always Write, It’s Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life, Fantastic Tales of Terror: History’s Darkest Secrets, The RAC Magazine, Bards & Sages, Aurora Wolf, Spaceports & Spidersilk, My Wandering Uterus, Guardian Angel Kids Ezine, The Society of Misfit Stories, FrostFire Worlds, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inspiration for Teachers, Outposts of Beyond, Everyday Fiction, The Lorelei Signal, Circle Magazine, Yellow Mama, The Horror Zine, The Witches’ Voice, Blood Moon Rising, Magazine, Bewildering Stories, Spirit One Magazine, Fiction on the Web, Jitter Press, Down in the Dirt Magazine, Beyond Imagination Literary Magazine, Postcard Shorts, Hellfire Crossroads, and Quantum Muse and The St. Louis Examiner (where she used to be a staff member).

Reviews

[S. Jeyran Main]

Magic of nature is a self-help book geared towards meditations and spells that find your inner voice. The book begins with earth meditations and then follows with gardening, hiking, swimming and more. We are encouraged to break free and take ourselves away from technology.
The author discusses how the world has changed and how distant we have all become. I particularly enjoyed how she emphasised our inner need for nature and teaches us to listen to the energies around us. She believes that our bodies are electric and harness much power.

I have read other books from this author, so I knew the quality of literature I expected. She did not disappoint. Everything was easy to follow and understand. The author also includes personal experience into the mix, which made the content more relatable and friendlier.

I recommend this book to self-help readers and those who wish to make a better version of themselves.

[Chelsea]

I received an ARC of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This book discusses multiple ways to connct more to nature. It covers ten topics: earth meditations, gardening, hiking, swimming, sleeping outdoors, fire, trees, hunting/fishing/foraging, handiwork, and trust. Each topic includes a brief discussion, meditations, actions, and spells to consider. I appreciate that there are many different options given depending on a person's ability and living conditions. With all of the time spent indoors, there are fun options and tips to begin spending more time outdoors. There are also more advanced options if you have more experience with a topic.

My only caveat is that there are no citations/references which could lend the material more validity.

[Lazarone]

If you are looking for book with new and interesting spells which incorporate nature, then this book will offer you a nice collection of the same. Very nice parts of text are about health, finding the right guidance or encouragement. And actually magic spells are best material in this book. Other instructions are often blurry and not so easy to understand, forex. check out this sentence: "Let silent thought hold more meaning than static". or "Clear the mind and let it guide you where it wants to", or "Do not hide from negative energies, but remember the positive ones"...Seems that some clarifications are needed and more detailed instructions, especially about meditations in this book. Chapter about hunting and shooting animals, no matter how explained, probably will not be welcomed by some folks and it will be like Lennon's "But first you must learn how to smile as you kill..."

[Dante]

This is a wonderful self help book that actually offers some real help.
It covers ten different areas so there is something that will appeal to pretty much any one. As the book says modern life, for many of us, has moved us far away from nature and this book looks to help us reconnect.
Well worth a read, well written and accessible.

[Annanonymous]

My mom wrote this and so far it's good

[Laura Howard]

A great reminder that I can benefit from being present and intentional while doing the things I love: hiking, swimming, camping, gardening, cooking, enjoying a fire, etc.

[Agnes]

First, I'd like to thank Net Galley and Llewellyn Publications for the opportunity to read this book.

I am a sucker for Llewellyn Publication books. When I saw the opportunity to read another book from them, I had to request it. However, this review is 100% unbiased and I will do my best to give this book, and any other book I read, justice. "The Magic of Nature" is also the first book I have read by Jessica Marie Baumgartner.

Before the hustle and bustle of everyday life, humankind was more connected to the Earth than we are now. However, Jessica Marie Baumgartner does a beautiful job guiding the reader in multiple ways of connecting with nature, even in the society that we live in.

This book contains different sections, and each section is essential to the various meditations and spellwork included. I am a water sign, and I, of course, drifted to the sections containing anything to do with water. But let me tell you that there are SO many meditations and spellwork, it would be surprising if a reader did not find anything to resonate with.

A great resource to have with you when connecting your inner self with nature.

[Cindy]

The Magic of Nature by Jessica Marie Baumgartner focuses on reconnecting with nature and the old ways of doing things before technology and capitalism become the norm. It's looking back at simpler times to create a stronger spiritual and nature connection. There is also a focus on reconnecting with nature as a way to reconnect with humanity and the planet to create positive change for the future.

This book covers various themes and there are meditations and simple spells that are associated with each theme to help you embody those elements, activities and connections. Themes like the earth elements: fire/water/air/earth, gardening, hiking, trees, hunting, handiwork are covered. Some of them were simple to incorporate into your life for the average person, others would only appeal to people with certain skills or access to tools like meditations/spells on woodworking or hunting or sewing.

I enjoyed the concept of this book and if you are looking for a book focused on unique meditations I would recommend it.

[Valerie Biel]

I wholeheartedly believe that magic is all around us. Mostly, I feel this when I’m in nature, which is why I highly recommend Jessica Marie Baumgartner’s new book. She offers a meditative practice that includes nature-based rituals and spells (yes, spells) to help you connect with your true self and energy that is often silenced by our immersion in worldly busy-ness, digital intrusions, and that general lack of self-care that we often suffer from. If the terms spells or rituals puts you off, I would encourage you to think of these as a way to re-set your self-talk with a focused mindfulness that allows you to rediscover your inner strength and energy. The author presents each practice in an accessible way that will allow you to focus on what speaks most to you.

[Ashley Elliott Shaw]

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Llewellyn Publications for the opportunity to read this book. I've been devouring books with mediations recently and I have to say that this book is beautiful. There are so many ideas for connecting with nature through a variety of mediums. While this book contains a million mediations, it is also a helpful guide of to-do items should you feel called to try something new. From working with your hands, to fire and stars, there are a ton of methods for getting back to communing with the natural world.

[Alexandra]

Really liked these book. It is for those who have an underlying mediation practice and knowing basics. It gives a number of mediations (with some spells as well). No time limit on the meditations which can be a good thing.

[Jane]

Aimed at a pagan reader, this book is everything that it's title promises to be and helps to reconnect with nature through awareness of natural activities as well as natural elements.