A YEAR AND A DAY

WELCOME here… to the first episode of the 3rd cycle of A Year + A Day!Here in the threshold of Samhain, a new cycle begins and for the next 13 moon cycles we are digging down into the energies of …REVISIONING | RECONCILIATION | REMEMBERINGthrough language that transforms, emergent collaborations + embodied imaginationWith me today a long time friend, a poet and activist, Carter McKenzie. More about Carter’s work below.A year ago Carter and I collaborated on a reading called Witch Words at Tsunami Books, in Eugene Oregon. Our collaboration was a collection of published and new works exploring the power of transformative language as agents of change, empathy and connection. Our offering in this episode is an iteration of that reading.We offer this;In praise of wild witch women who conjure, generate & co-create life. Deep honoring, holding and reparations for all bodies harmed through patriarchal power dynamics.May ALL dwell free.For the past two cycles of AYAD (which began 12/23) all of my substack pods/posts were free for all. For this cycle I’m adding extra offerings and yumminess if you become a paid subscriber starting at $9/month. Your paid support helps me support the work of emerging artists, and good humans who help me create AYAD.Consider this next 13 month cycle as a journey exploring and engaging with the above energies & intentions as a process of collective and individual transformation. You can join this intentional liminal-space adventure at any time, in whatever way works for you, and each episode will be deepen and build on past episodes. We have absolutely no idea what will be true, alive, released and present 13 moon cycles from now…and yet where we put our attention during this time will effect what is becoming. I want to accompany you in this process, if you feel called to join us. More info here and broken down below…Thank you, thank you for your tender heart & your bright listening,TracyA YEAR and A DAY is reader-supported. Become a free or paid subscriber and help ripple depth, care + soul into the world.RESOURCESTlachtga: · Tlachtga (Clock-ga) was known was to be the daughter of a great druid, she is also known to have been labelled a witch by the church, known to be raped by multiple men, and said to have died on the hill, now bearing her name, while giving birth to the third of her sons. We are saying her name and uplifting a bit about Tlachtga’s story here. More at Mythical Ireland mythology and archaeology of Ireland’s most important Samhain Lilias Adie - Lilias Adie of Torreyburn, Fife, was a Scottish woman living in the early 1700s. She was accused of witchcraft and sentenced to burn at the stake. However before her execution, she died in prison and her body was buried along the shoreline, in a disgraced location, To ensure that the devil did not reanimate his purported collaborator, the grave was covered with a half-ton slab of stone.More about Lilias Lilias AdieThe Survey of Scottish WitchcraftThe Gaza Children’s Shroud - In the spirit of remembrance and accompaniment we can learn, feel and know what we are ready to know. The Gaza Children’s Shroud honors and names the more than 20,000 children killed and asks, where is the justice? Since last month the shroud is standing across from the United Nations in NYC. ABOUT:Carter MacKenzie (she/her) is the author of two full-length books of poetry, Out of Refusal (Airlie Press, 2010) and Stem of Us (Flowstone Press, 2018), and two poetry chapbooks, Naming Departure (Traprock Books, 2004) and The Book of Fire (above / ground press, 2024). The places in which her work has appeared include Tikkun Magazine, Her Words/ The Halcyone/ the Black Mountain Press, The Raven’s Perch, The Branches: A Journal of Literature and Philosophy, the anthology Bookstore Clerks & Significant Others (Tsunami Press, 2023), and periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics (above / ground press, 2025). Carter has read poems from her unpublished manuscript Falling in the Dark: Poems Against the Genocide for the Pacifica Radio Program Free Palestine NorCal Radio. She is an active member of Friends Organizing for Racial Justice/ FORJ (formerly the Springfield-Eugene chapter of SURJ/Showing Up for Racial Justice). Carter’s recent collection of poems; The Book of Fire -Hearty + deepest thanks to Nina Smock, a community song leader and sonic spell weaver based in the Iowa Driftless for the luscious music + voice accompaniment throughout the podcast, and to Kyle Gilmer for his patient and generous sound engineering, check out his groove on Instagram.-Tracy Chipman (she/they), hello! i am a mentor, language & healing artist. My life’s work explores spoken and written language through solo & collective engagement, and body-based, practices inviting folx into sensorial aliveness & deeper connections with life. Presently i live at the edge of an inland sea in northern Wisconsin, on the traditional territories of the Ojibwe peoples who are known for many traditional practices including harvesting wild rice. I live with my partner & two spoiled and adorable kitties, (Lady Fern + Jo Jo the Bunny-Bun). Currently my work engages with the energies of reconciliation, embodied imagination & women’s voices. In March 2023 i published my first book, Borealis Mundi - Resting in Place, Loss & Grace. And am currently working on a body of poetry. More at www.tracychipman.net— * —SUBSCRIBER INFOBecome a free subscribers will receive occasional posts throughout the cycle. Monthly ($9) or yearly ($90) paid subscribers will receive subscriber only posts, which will include the following lovingly sprinkled in throughout the 13 months:* simple and powerful somatic (body based) practices* imagination experiences as meditation and storytelling* gorgeous expressions through language from the many muses who inspire this work* also you’ll be able to post comments on the substack page A Year + A Day* and receive an invitation to join deep and soulful book groups, the first starting in January of 2027 (more soon!) with Perdita Finn’s Mother’s of Magic - Summoning the Wisdom of Our AncestorsIf you become a founding subscribers ($230) you receive all the above plus discounts to any courses, writing crucibles/salons, movement classes and 1:1 mentoring sessions through November of 2027. Emails will be sent out with more info soon. My intention is to create an intentional collective vessel of depth, care and practice. Join me in this ripe process of deep rooted change! Get full access to A YEAR and A DAY at allheredwellfree.substack.com/subscribe

From Auðumbla’s milk, from Tiamat’s blood, from Ygradsil’s roots, from the Void of Being, becoming, a reconciliation is born…as are we.Welcome to this Harvest Time episode of A Year & A Day! Recently I met with storyteller and ecological activist Andreas Kornevall with the intention of settling into the deep work of reconciliation between the maturing/balancing energies of the feminine and masculine through Northern European cosmologies and practices. And… we had less than an hour to drink deep from this well, in this episode anyway.This is an offering of radical imagination and visioning into such a reconciliation - we leaned into this from a place of keen listening, softened minds, and being tender in our hearts. We specifically did not enter into this dialog from place of fixing or solving. What a glorious dance, bordering on trance. Enjoy and thank you for your bright listening!With love + imagination,TracyThank you for your bright listening and for being part of a transformational process! Please share A YEAR and A DAY.About Andreas:Andreas Kornevall is the author of Waking the Dragons (Green Magic Publishing) storyteller and ecological activist. He is a fellow with the Centre for Myth, Cosmology and the Sacred. And he is also a member of the ‘Forn Sed’ (Old Customs Association) in Sweden which works closely with ancient Norse culture, traditions and spirituality, unearthing old legends, forgotten folklore and endangered Norse languages.He is also a Buddhist of the Karma Kagyu lineage. As an ecologist he has planted over 200 woodlands in the United Kingdom and has been voted by the University of Southern California as one of their 100 spiritual exemplars.He has an active ritual and contemplative practice and he regularly acts as as a Blot-Godi (Norse Ritualist) and conducts BLOT ceremonies and traditional “High Seat” ceremonies where he lives in England with this wife and two daughters and his Finnish Lapphund dog Appo, keeping ancient practices and culture alive.https://www.facebook.com/andreas.kornevall/https://www.instagram.com/andreas_kornevall/http://kornevall.comP.S. Things are slowly taking shape for the next 13 month cycle of A Year & A Day starting this autumn, so stay tuned. Also please consider becoming a paid subscriber to help keep this podcast of depth and change-making in the world.A YEAR and A DAY is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.About Tracy:Tracy Chipman, (she/they) is a mentor, language & healing artist. She explores spoken and written language through solo & collective engagement, and body-based, trauma-aware practices inviting folx into sensorial aliveness & deeper connections with life. She lives at the edge of an inland sea in northern Wisconsin, on the traditional territories of the Ojibwe peoples, with her partner & two spoiled kitties. Currently their work engages with the energies of cyclicity, relationality & women’s voices. In March 2023 Tracy published her first book, Borealis Mundi - Resting in Place, Loss & Grace. More at www.tracychipman.net Get full access to A YEAR and A DAY at allheredwellfree.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome here to this summer solstice offering of a Year & A Day. Today’s episode is with author, wisdom keeper and shift-shaper Perdita Finn. Her book Mothers of Magic: Summoning the Wisdom of Our Ancestors is out in the world and wow, what a rich weaving it is! In our conversation Perdita calls upon us to bring back all the pieces of the lost, dismantled feminine, through deepening our relationships with our ancestral mothers. It is through the eyes of the dead we can re-member this fractured, over civilized world, and ourselves. We can re-enliven our passion, our power and our purpose, becoming empowered with our grandmothers’ help to feel just a little dangerous, meeting this moment in time more rooted and resourced.Thank you for your bright listening!Always,Tracy* image of my grandmother Leona’s hands holding an apple from her apple tree. also AI was not used for any of my posts.About Perdita:Perdita Finn is the author of Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World, Mothers of Magic: Summoning the Wisdom of Our Ancestors, and with her husband Clark Strand The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary. She teaches popular workshops on connecting and collaborating with both the dead and the animate everything. She lives with her family in the moss-filled shadows of the Catskill Mountains.www.takebackthemagic.com@Perdita Finn on FB & IGPerdita Finn (Take Back the Magic ) on SubstackA YEAR and A DAY is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to A YEAR and A DAY at allheredwellfree.substack.com/subscribe

This is the last pod in this 13 month cycle of A Year and a Day, it’s an ouroboros moment deep in the liminal in the initiating energy of a New Moon in Aries. More about that here from Dr. Mindy Nettifee.Reflecting back at the extraordinary feast of episodes and offerings these past 13 months and feeling paradoxically celebratory, noticing a festive feeling wrapping around me at this closure moment like a richly woven shimmering tapestry created by so many of us. Like the all-is-possible moment before the birthday candles extinguish in a mighty wish laden exhale. This is an exhale moment. A place of thanksgiving, acknowledging, hunkering and an incantation to women’s voices, women’s bodies and our shared cyclicity! Ripple this onwards…So in this snug and heartening…again paradoxical closing, is an opening as wide as a canyon and grander than this little podcast. A sun-soaked canyon of women now; visioning, grieving, planting, raging, resisting, feeling, screaming, witnessing, tending, resting, being, mending, whirling, singing, weeping, holding and, yes, welcoming other women, weary women, into the folds of what is becoming, in spite of the mortifying world events where everyday offers yet another unprecedented layer of mortification. Big forest inhale, and long sea-change exhale for this exit and arrival.13 months ago Elizabeth Jane Lovely joined me for the first new moon emergent collaboration in this AYAD cycle and we danced our trance-dance with Vasalisa, and the mighty Baba Yaga. Now, for this galloping new moon in Aries ending, she has returned to play! And we invite you to join us.We offer you this liminal journey, through our sisterhood soaked in the archetypal feminine becoming, and burnished in the pyre of holy witch women to a remembering of the Unf*@k-withable Cauldron within each of us. ‘Tis a sovereign place we know, feel and live from…each arriving and pitching a sturdy yurt in our own time, becoming inevitably a luminous net of power with ourselves and with each other that holds and murmurates us into the wild unknow, alchemical journey together.Thank you to those who became paid subscribers this cycle! Deep bow.What’s next you may be wondering? A Year & a Day will take a moon cycle of fallowness and a summer of sporadic showers (watch for an amazing episode with Perdita Finn of Take Back the Magic ) and re-constellate in it’s next iteration just beyond the horizon. Stay tuned!Thank you for your bright listening,TracyA YEAR and A DAY is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Elizabeth Jane Lovely is an artist whose experimentation encompasses the written form, oral storytelling, ceremonial chant, and spell speaking, through ritual interaction. She is a Creative Arts Doctoral Researcher at Loughborough University and an English Cunning Woman of sorts. Her specialisms within and without the academy are centred around how we can cause kindly disruption through enchantment, the story as the activist, the essentiality of our bodily state as gateway to sacred creativity, and everyday imagination as change maker. She currently lives in the United Kingdom in a tiny county that does not always exist, regularly having to negotiate with the brambles and briars to access the rest of the human world. All Our Voices These 13 Moon CyclesAdriana Forte | Anna Lisa Clifford Gold | Brianna McInerny | Carter McKenzie Cielle Backstrom | Cybele | Debrae FireHawk | Elizabeth Jane LovelyEmmaleeya June | Erin Tenny | Jackie Singer | Judith Tamara | Julie HillKerri Kirnan | Lara Burrell Martinson | Laura Rovi | Marisa Goudy | Nina SmockShelly Sharon | Stasha Ginsburg | Steph Ament | Tracy ChipmanAnd many thanks to Tim Britton & Kyle Gilmer @ Residual Audio for sound editing Get full access to A YEAR and A DAY at allheredwellfree.substack.com/subscribe

Hello, hello!Welcome to A Year & a Day and this the 13th full moon episode in this 13 month cycle bowing to the archetypal cycles of women’s lives through story & collaboration.Oy! We have arrived into the 13th and final month of this podcast cycle. Welcome here for this springing, full pink moon pod in balancing, love-spelled Libra. More about this sweet full moon threshold from Dr. Mindy Nettifee here.This episode is so full of heart, it’s brimming in buckets, spilling in all directions. These stories were shared with me by three women; Morag MacNeil (Barra), Mary MacLean (Grimsay, North Uist) & Mary Ulph (South Uist), all tradition bearers from the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. From 1996-2004 I was blessed to connect with them and other Gaelic speaking tradition bearers from the Outer Hebrides with The Hebridean Folklore Project. Morag, Mary and Mary all gave their permission for these stories to be shared and I have had deepest honor of carrying these stories for thirty years. I offer them here to you, in their memory, and for their lives devoted to language, culture and their island homes.As a collection these stories weave a non-linear cloak of power with the energies of the Maiden, Mother, Magah and Crone and the transcendent land of these western isles. Two of the stories are retellings. One I will read to you*.Each of these stories were shared with me in a space of relationship and trust; eye to eye, heart to heart & mind to mind.Each story holds the heart medicine of those connections, the precious fluidity of their the oral transmission into my ears then, and now into yours. This is magic stuff here and I’m so honored to share these three wee tales in this last full moon story offering for this AYAD cycle.So settle yourself and welcome the voices of these three women, telling women’s stories.We have one more pod left in this cycle, so come gather with me and Elizabeth Jane Lovely for our new moon, emergent collaboration finale!Bottomless thanks for your bright listening… agus moran taing (and many thanks) to Morag MacNeil, Mary MacLean and Mary Ulph. Love in the ongoing,TracyThanks for reading A YEAR and A DAY! This post is public so feel free to share it.** read from Borealis Mundi - Resting in Place, Loss & Grace*** thanks to Kyle at Residual Audio for audio editing support. [email protected]**** image taken from Eriskay 1997 Get full access to A YEAR and A DAY at allheredwellfree.substack.com/subscribe