A YEAR AND A DAY

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 relationsh...

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 offering s these past 13 months and feeling paradoxically celebratory, noticing a festive feeling wrapping around me at this closure mo...

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 Netti...

Hello and Welcome to A Year & A Day! We are here, in this the most disturbing, profound and challenging time collectively (and perhaps individually) of our lifetimes. We are here. Here we are. How is your body, your heart, your mind? So, so, so much has been playing out within and without…and here we are in this fertile and feral fluster-cluck of endings. In this 13 month odyssey on A Year & a Day...

Dear Bright Listeners, A medieval feminist tale and poem written by men! What? Yes, so says history anyway! If you are not familiar with the story of Dame Ragnelle and Sir Gawain, welcome here! Come set your weary bones down and have a listen. If you are familiar, or have vague memories flashing back from high school lit class, you are also welcome. This 6oo year old tale and the question it begs...

Dear Listeners, Dreamers, Composting Wonders, The womb of the underworld is not hell, let’s restory that mistake of the intellect. Lay your body down, lay it down on the floor, ultimately all the way down to earth for reals, or through your fecund imagination. Let’s call in the Cailleach, the Crone of Winter’s rest. Give in, give it up, open it, shut down. Get still, like a stone, like a sun-sucke...

Dear Dreamers, Tenders, Keeners, Revolutionaries… and any and all who land here - you are most welcome! Ah, just an fyi in advance, there will be swearing that follows, it’s medicinal and appropriate. These are swearing times. How are you feeling, doing? It’s Imbolc - yay we made it through the heartwood of winter and right on schedule a stiff warmish wind is stirring the trees, gently, gently wak...

Hello Still Tender Ones, Again, Big deep loving breaths. Here. Now. And later. This might be the most potent, powerful and profound pod in this series…my whole body is still ringing from Carter’s audio offering. Wow…and if the story I shared on the last full moon stirred and touched you in some way, this deeper dive through Carter’s art and voice is a feast. If you are reading this before you list...

Big deep loving breaths. Here. Now. As I drop a few words here this cold, cold northern morning, holding my body and my heart, i am acknowledging the terrible-terrible and the tender-tender in deep play in me, and in the collective of us. i am tending to my human and remembering i am also part of the larger, unfathomable something… Everywhere there are words spilling as everything comes undone. Wo...

Hello, hello! Welcome here to this full wolf moon episode of A Year & a Day. Wishing you and your loves all the blessings possible as we move into a new year. To ease and peace. To fire in the belly and birch syrup in the heart. May the World Tree, Yggdrasil root in your pelvic bowl, rise through your heart and flower 10,000 blossoms in your mind. May we feel, see, hear & know what we are ready to...

Welcome, at long last to Crone Season on a A Year & A Day! To the new moon in Sagittarius and the threshold of the Winter Solstice… or Summer Solstice for you in the southern hemisphere. If you’ve been journeying with us these many months exploring the seasons of women’s lives through storytelling & emergent collaborations honoring the Maiden, Mother and the Magah phases - thank you for your preci...

Dear Ones Who Cycle with their Womb, with the Moon, with the Sun, with the Earth, Welcome here to A Year & A Day - a 13 month journey into the cycles and seasons of women’s lives through storytelling & emergent collaboration! This morning at -9 F the north beaming full cold moon was magnificent, tangled and hanging in the branches of a maple tree. Go deeper into this last full cold Gemini moon of...

Big Blessings of this soulful, sea changing, new moon in Scorpio. Are you feeling it my dears? Greetings and hello! Welcome to A Year + A Day, a salty/sweet 13 month journey illuminating the cyclicity of women’s lives through storytelling & emergent collaborations. This gorgeous watery new moon in Scorpio (with a kiss from Mercury) IS a soul soaking, delicious hot mess for mystical transformation...

Full Beaver Moon Greetings Dear Listeners…. The faded rose, the deadheads of zinnias, the browning, descending, dissolving of what was once full bloom and vibrant with life. The Wheel of Life is turning, the Magah/ Mage reigns, cycling with the moon, the sun and the rhymicity of mystery itself. In these times there are unthinkable ruptures to witness, old, old, wounds - personal & collective to te...

Greetings and welcome to A Year & a Day - a 13 month journey through the cyclicity of women’s lives through storytelling & emergent collaboration. With this New Moon in Libra post we are going deeper into the cookpot of the Mage, the Magah ( not MAGA!), the Matriarch. Joining us again on A Year & A Day is Cultural Architect, Adriana Forte as we continue soaking in the gifts of this powerful, subtl...

Hey Changing Loves, Spicy and potent full moon in Aries with chthonic Scorpio moving through Mercury. For more juicy downloads on the sky stories playing out, check out Dr. Mindy Nettifee’s page . We are in the season of the Mage/ Matriarch here on A Year & A Day. The world is shifting and changing in ways that confound, rupture and invite a stronger potential for liberation - whatever that might...

Welcome here to A Year & A Day and our 13 month journey into the seasons of women’s lives through story and emergent collaborations. This episode is an added wee bonus to our regular cycle of full moon/new moon posts and I’m beaming like the sun in delighted to welcome cultural architect, Adriana Forte back to A Year & A Day. Her work, her vision and the gifts that she shares have been a huge infl...

Greetings from the threshold of Mabon, the equipoise of the Equinox and a partial Solar Eclipse New Moon in Virgo! Whoa. Wait. Here, before anything else I’m reaching out beyond the boundaries of time and space (because language can do that!) to offer you a permission slip (mine is pink) to pause and rest. Will you reach towards me, towards this slip of permission and take it? Can you allow a soft...

We have arrived into the season of the Mage, The Queen, The Magala…The Matriarch. She is the Autumnal Alchemist, The One Who Knows Change, knows her cyclical nature as her decades long moon cycle shapeshifts into something else deeper and beyond her. Welcome here to this Full Moon in watery, slippery Pisces! Enjoy this retelling of The Descent of Inanna, an ancient myth from Sumer, older than all...

Dear Cyclical Beings, Welcome here to this New Moon in Virgo offering of A Year & A Day! Thank you for finding your way here. We are about half way through our 13 month journey exploring the phases of women’s lives through full moon storytelling & new moon emergent collaborations! Each of the women who have joined me since the first episode of this cycle are actively engaging with their lives, in...

Welcome and harvest greetings to you! Thank you for settling your attention here, in the full moon of Leo season. It is also the 30 year anniversary of answering the call as an oral storyteller! Wow! What a rich and glorious journey it has been. in this episode of A Year & A Day, I offer a retelling of a Scottish tale, called The Stolen Child . This story speaks to the courage, strength and power...

Welcome here to A Year & A Day and the portal place of the new moon in Leo! What could be better to celebrate entering the Soul Shine Season of Leo than with this juicy, ripe and emergent collaboration with myth worker, writing coach and momma, Marisa Goudy. Wow! Come join us and to lean into the questions as the shaping, shifting, dancing poetry of mothering unfolds right here. This gorgeous conv...

Loves, Welcome here! We are moving into the heart of Mother season here on A Year & a Day, and also harvest season here in the north. Along with a bumper crop of peas, greens and beans from our garden, there is this offering here of a harvest of birth stories. These stories courageously shared by seven women from America to Australia, ring with tenderness, vulnerability and the initiatory awe & ch...

Welcome here for this full moon in Capricorn retelling of the Irish tale of the Selkie. We are fully in Mothering season as we move through the phases of women’s lives on this Year and a Day journey. Thank you for settling here for a story. Thank you for your bright listening. Tracy A YEAR and A DAY is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a fr...

Welcome here in the holding of this sweet Mothering New Moon in Cancer! At this moment, I’m held in the spell of those lunar vibes along with bird song following the most delicious summer rain shower. May all be held by the heart wisdom of this post with two beloved soul friends, Lara and Nina who reside in the Driftless Region of Iowa. Deepest thanks for their voices here! If this is your first l...