I want to join the others in thanking you for opening this thread!
A pleasant surprise waited in this one for me. I had no plans to buy the WildWood because I don't like the idea of making nearly as many changes to traditional tarot symbolism as are found in it, but I bought it on a whim with a gift card. As soon as I laid out all cards for close study I fell in love with it, and that everything about the imagery is natural. My very first use of them was in conjunction with an Oracle card. I used the Alchemist's Spread (six cards at the points of the Davidian Star) with the original intention being a general personal reading of the year 2012.
As I shuffled for it, however, I kept wondering if a have an animal totem or guide (recently had one of the most intense dreams of my life about my cat who died a few years ago, so the question's lingered since). I laid out the cards and smiled, the animal question having now been given focus. With this, I brought out my Druid Animal Oracle (also unused till this point). I chose the Wren as a Significator for its beautiful simplicity; also because I'd recalled a phrase from a while back about Druids considering them the "guardian of Winter Mysteries." My favorite season is Winter and most close to me think I'm crazy for that, but reason enough, I picked that and centered it in the spread. I turned over the cards. I won't explain the entire reading (which is a story in itself) but I did get both answers I sought: a glimpse of the year grounded in things happening right now as well as animal guide: Look at the Page of Arrows in your WildWood deck. That card was at the far right of my spread, staring inward to its left at my Significator. It was the WildWood's Wren looking at the Animal Oracle's Wren! Both on a branch and both facing left, but with one key difference: the Oracle's Wren's head is tilted slightly upward (acknowledging my present position in the spread). I saw in the WildWood's accompanying booklet, after doing this spread, the same phrase "guardian of the Winter Mysteries."
The first card was The Wheel. The spot representing "very near future" was taken by the Eel (Knight of Vessels). Swimming downstream (toward the next card), then going around and up eventually to the Wren (second to last card), the overall view is of me just as the book says of the Eel card, "embarking on a quest of personal revelation, your vision leads you onward." I'll have a while to swim down and around, but am finding the Wren. From the position of the Wren on both cards, it has a clear, straight view of me and my present position, but I only have a glimpse of it from afar. At least now I have a better idea of where I'm going, as well as a happily unpredictable guide to travel toward the kind of simple living that I've long been craving (and needing).
Two days after this, my dad gave me as a Christmas gift a secluded and heavily-wooded land lot at the edge of Oklahoma's largest lake. I know I'm but a novice compared to many here, but this has been the most powerful and personally significant reading thus far. As you said, about it having a magical way of appearing in your life, that truly summarizes it. Maybe I needed to hear you say that too, just when I think I hear the word "magical" used too often in a way that's drained it of what it really implies, it smiles back at us and makes me realize that's simply the most appropriate word for what's happened. So...I'm very much with you on this deck, Lady Iron Side!
Culain