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The Magic of Trees
The Magic of Trees is not just a book on tree magic. It is about drawing on the strength of forests and tree energy to better connect with ourselves, other people, and the world around us. Each chapter reinforces meditations, spells, and rituals that will reconnect humanity with its roots at every stage of life. These practices take a hands-on approach to life and spiritual work. They lead to individual self-awareness and fulfillment through healthy natural practices. Plus, this text has the added benefit of fine-tuning spiritual tree connections ─ which never stop growing.
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376 pages, Paperback
Published February 25, 2023
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About the author
Jessica Marie Baumgartner
26Ìýbooks95ÌýfollowersJessica’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 Writersâ€� 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).
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).
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February 8, 2023
“I wrote this book during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout those early lockdowns, the forests were still there for me. Parks and trails remained to be explored. Birds still sang, and the animals continued their cycle of life and death without change. The trees in my backyard remained friends. No matter how closed off the world became, the sky was still blue, and the trees continued to paint it with emerald and gold leaves…�
Although this quote is found in the Conclusion: Continue to Grow of the The Magic of Trees: Discovering the Magic Within by Jessica Baumgartner, it aptly expresses the deep emotional connection that Ms. Baumgartner has to the natural world, in particular, trees. This is a title that immediately encourages the reader to step outside and find the haven and magic of a tree sheltered space while taking in the words set to page. That being said, however, many of the activities encouraged are written in a very simplistic style that makes them equally as effective if your only option is to visualize the tree-lined settings.
The Magic of Trees: Discovering the Magic Within is crafted into Nine (9) sections that move the reader through a chronology that parallels the life of trees. These are further divided into aligned focus chapters that offer the reader the opportunity to explore meditations, rituals and spell work that enhances the theme of each section’s intention. The overall feel of the book is one of simplicity. And, much like the workings and craft of the Witch, the beauty of this title is in the direct and organic approach Ms. Baumgartner takes in sharing her love and respect for the natural world.
“As a child, my friends and I pretended to be animals. We looked to these creatures for guidance and climbed trees, never realizing that the branches and limbs themselves were unlocking magic hiding beneath our hands. Over time the bond between bark and birth grew deeper. The picnics and games played before forest giants stayed with me. The energies built and obtained in the forests guide everyone who listens without requiring profound lessons, rules, or judgments. A sense of love and enjoyment is built and tended…�
As the reader moves through the chapters of the first section of writings entitled Tree Magick and the Inner Child there is a deep sense of awakening the inner child and the abandon and joy many felt being outdoors, climbing trees, sitting under their branches and communing with nature. This theme is carried methodically through the chapters of the book and is embedded in the activities suggested to rekindle those ways of moving through the world.
Chapter 1: Tree Meditations For the Inner Child reinforces this theme with nine (9) meditations that rekindle the intuitive nature of our younger selves in seeking solace and comfort amongst the trees. One of these meditations, “Following the Patterns (To be done when wishing to better connect with nature)� is straight out of elementary school curriculum as the reader is encourage to create bark rubbings. The magic streams through in the instructions to “feel� the rubbings created and allow your senses to awaken to what arises as inspiration from and connection to the natural world.
Subsequent sections guide the reader through Tree Planting Energy, Empowering Tree Magic, The Music of Trees and Aging Like the Trees, to name a few. There is also a lovely addition of writings using the creative energy of trees in sections focused on Rooting Pregnancy Power with Tree Energy and Tree Parent Power.
Being a 67-year old human, I was quite interested in the chapters within the section of Aging Like the Trees. I especially enjoyed Chapter 25: Tree Aging Meditations and one of its deeply empowering meditations, “Growing with Grace (To appreciate your life journey)�. The reader is guided through a series of physical actions moving through the years of child, young adult, middle age and the present elder years, mimicking the growth of a beautiful tree of age and the strength and life it still carries into its aging.
There are so many more excellent chapters in this book that it was difficult to choose just one or two. And, although there is a plethora of suggested ritual, spells, meditations and magical workings, each holds its own in not feeling like a cleverly reconstructed version of multiple others in the book. I found this particularly appealing given the underpinnings of the writing are that of seeing the trees through the eyes of your younger self as a starting point of connection. And as we know children are vast in their creativeness and perspective.
Would I Recommend:
The Magic of Trees: Discovering the Magic Within by Jessica Baumgartner is pure joy to read. Regardless of the reader’s predispositions towards being in nature, digging in the dirt or engaging in environmental preservation efforts, there is something for everyone in the abundance of meditations and workings that call to the natural energies and strengths of trees to infuse and enliven with their gifts.
Reviewed by PaganPagesOrg
Although this quote is found in the Conclusion: Continue to Grow of the The Magic of Trees: Discovering the Magic Within by Jessica Baumgartner, it aptly expresses the deep emotional connection that Ms. Baumgartner has to the natural world, in particular, trees. This is a title that immediately encourages the reader to step outside and find the haven and magic of a tree sheltered space while taking in the words set to page. That being said, however, many of the activities encouraged are written in a very simplistic style that makes them equally as effective if your only option is to visualize the tree-lined settings.
The Magic of Trees: Discovering the Magic Within is crafted into Nine (9) sections that move the reader through a chronology that parallels the life of trees. These are further divided into aligned focus chapters that offer the reader the opportunity to explore meditations, rituals and spell work that enhances the theme of each section’s intention. The overall feel of the book is one of simplicity. And, much like the workings and craft of the Witch, the beauty of this title is in the direct and organic approach Ms. Baumgartner takes in sharing her love and respect for the natural world.
“As a child, my friends and I pretended to be animals. We looked to these creatures for guidance and climbed trees, never realizing that the branches and limbs themselves were unlocking magic hiding beneath our hands. Over time the bond between bark and birth grew deeper. The picnics and games played before forest giants stayed with me. The energies built and obtained in the forests guide everyone who listens without requiring profound lessons, rules, or judgments. A sense of love and enjoyment is built and tended…�
As the reader moves through the chapters of the first section of writings entitled Tree Magick and the Inner Child there is a deep sense of awakening the inner child and the abandon and joy many felt being outdoors, climbing trees, sitting under their branches and communing with nature. This theme is carried methodically through the chapters of the book and is embedded in the activities suggested to rekindle those ways of moving through the world.
Chapter 1: Tree Meditations For the Inner Child reinforces this theme with nine (9) meditations that rekindle the intuitive nature of our younger selves in seeking solace and comfort amongst the trees. One of these meditations, “Following the Patterns (To be done when wishing to better connect with nature)� is straight out of elementary school curriculum as the reader is encourage to create bark rubbings. The magic streams through in the instructions to “feel� the rubbings created and allow your senses to awaken to what arises as inspiration from and connection to the natural world.
Subsequent sections guide the reader through Tree Planting Energy, Empowering Tree Magic, The Music of Trees and Aging Like the Trees, to name a few. There is also a lovely addition of writings using the creative energy of trees in sections focused on Rooting Pregnancy Power with Tree Energy and Tree Parent Power.
Being a 67-year old human, I was quite interested in the chapters within the section of Aging Like the Trees. I especially enjoyed Chapter 25: Tree Aging Meditations and one of its deeply empowering meditations, “Growing with Grace (To appreciate your life journey)�. The reader is guided through a series of physical actions moving through the years of child, young adult, middle age and the present elder years, mimicking the growth of a beautiful tree of age and the strength and life it still carries into its aging.
There are so many more excellent chapters in this book that it was difficult to choose just one or two. And, although there is a plethora of suggested ritual, spells, meditations and magical workings, each holds its own in not feeling like a cleverly reconstructed version of multiple others in the book. I found this particularly appealing given the underpinnings of the writing are that of seeing the trees through the eyes of your younger self as a starting point of connection. And as we know children are vast in their creativeness and perspective.
Would I Recommend:
The Magic of Trees: Discovering the Magic Within by Jessica Baumgartner is pure joy to read. Regardless of the reader’s predispositions towards being in nature, digging in the dirt or engaging in environmental preservation efforts, there is something for everyone in the abundance of meditations and workings that call to the natural energies and strengths of trees to infuse and enliven with their gifts.
Reviewed by PaganPagesOrg
August 14, 2023
This is a beautifully written book that guides your connection with nature in ways that are both practical and profound. Through the meditations, rituals, and spells Baumgartner provides, you’ll be able to strengthen or renew that connection to the energy that’s all around us outdoors—something that’s far too easy to lose in our modern world. An empowering resource that’s applicable to every season of the year and every season of your life. I know that I will be coming back to this book again and again for guidance.
February 25, 2023
This is a beautifully written book that is an excellent read that has a wonderfully happy vibe throughout. I live next to woodland, and I have been trying out the meditations in this book while out with my dogs. There is some excellent research done about the value of Forest Bathing, and this book gives you the perfect excuse to spend time out in nature.
March 2, 2023
This delightful book will inspire you to fall in love again and again with the ancient, mysterious, tangible and loving presence of trees. Jessica weaves her beautiful words to create a real and profound connection with nature's wise trees, bringing to life a relationship with these nature beings that have been here longer than humans and have so much to teach us.
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