Llewellyn's Little Book of Moon Spells

This wasn't my first of the Llewellyn's Little Book installments, but it is probably one of my favorites so far. As someone who focuses fairly heavily on lunar magic in my own personal workings, I went into this hoping to learn something new and obtain insightful resources, and this book provided that for the most part. I will offer a caveat that I think a lot of the information given here is pretty surface-level and, if you're already familiar with lunar magic, you may not be able to expect anything mind-blowing. That said, it would function as a good reference book, especially if you're still finding your footing.

The only major complaint I have, besides the lack of depth in many of the sections, is that the author goes into detail in a few places of ways you could use lunar magic to emphasize spirit/death work, but is very overly casual in the instructions. There's one ritual in which the reader is told, if you want a spirit to lend you strength but don't have a specific spirit in mind, that you can just waltz into any cemetery and ask any random spirit to come assist you. As someone who's been working and interacting with spirits for a long time, this can seriously backfire on you! I would just recommend the utmost caution to anyone trying out spirit work for the first time with this book as your guide.

While it may sound like I had a few major complaints, overall, I honestly thought this was an excellent little book that I could easily see adding to my shelves permanently as a quick reference guide. I especially liked that an entire section of rituals were sorted alphabetically, while another section was sorted by month (though it's very Northern Hemisphere-specific, to be fair). Altogether, a solid guide to lunar magic that I'd feel comfortable recommending to most practitioners.

Thank you so much to the publisher for providing me with this review copy in exchange for an honest review!