Book Review: Wild Wisdom Companion by Maia Toll
The Book: Wild Wisdom Companion by Maia Toll
Source: I received an advance copy of this book on NetGalley (and then pre-ordered my own physical copy!)
My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (see my review on Goodreads)
I am kind of in love with this book. Oh my goodness. I'm already familiar with Maia Toll's work, as an owner of her Illustrated Herbiary (book + cards) and her Illustrated Crystallary (why haven't I gotten her Illustrated Bestiary yet?! Um, just ordered it!). Anyway, I'm not at all surprised by the phenomenal beauty of this book, yet somehow it still blew me away! The complete design -- from the illustrations to the page layouts, down to the representations of the season on the top of each page -- was extremely well thought out and executed beautifully!
Oh, right, and the content? Holy crap. This was exactly what I needed right now, especially beginning with the Early Autumn season in which I read this book. The breakdown by season and the assortment of practices and symbols for each one is a really nice approach. The general practices outlined in the beginning of the book are all ideas that resonated with me. I can't remember the last time I read a book that got me so eager to *take action* that I was itching to actually get out a journal and a pen and start immediately! The content for Early Autumn was so poignant and relevant to where I am in life right now that I actually started crying as I was reading through one of the practices. This book is an incredible companion (what the PERFECT word to use for its title), and I can't WAIT to get my physical copy so that I can keep it with me all the time and use the cards and connect even more to my own inner wild wisdom.