A YEAR AND A DAY

Welcome here for this Full Strawberry Moon story offering as we move into Mothering season with the powerful story of The Handless Maiden. While this story is indeed about a young woman and that of the archetypal Maiden’s journey, this story is deeply nourished by Mother energies. This is a (literally) brutal story (head’s up) AND it is also a story of the metalic bite of severance AND the most po...

Hello and welcome here. The new moon is in Gemini and rules our shift from spring to summer (in the northern hemisphere). More about this new noon from Mindy Nettifee . This twin-ish new moon also rules our shift from Maiden season into Mother in our 13 month Year & a Day journey where we explore our cyclic natures & the cycles of women’s life through stories and emergent collaborations. Our emerg...

The Full Flower Moon in Scorpio is at hand! Are you feeling it? Can you allow yourself to jump in, sink or swim into the long, rich, deep of this moment? The air is crackling with the alchemy of this full moon feast as spring comes into their full on frenzy of new life here in North of North Wisco. Read more about the astrology of this threshold through the brilliant aperture of Dr. Mindy Nettifee...

Thank you for arriving here for this offering of First Blood, First Moon stories, in the threshold of Beltane, in these crucible time. These stories, all our First Blood stories signify (amongst many things) that new life is possible, that women are deeply embodied into cyclicity. Thank you for your bright listening, witness bearing and leaning into this gathering of stories. Tis a holy thing to l...

As i write this we are moving into the New Moon in Taurus, and the giddy reality of spring in northern Wisconsin. The grass seems to be greening right before my eyes. To be enchanted by and engaging in the upswelling of spring is a gift of life and aliveness! This New Moon brings a collaboration with cultural architect Adriana Forte and our emergent conversation exploring the medicine of the under...

Welcome here, as the red-winged blackbirds sing of new life, in the full pink moon season of The Maiden, as we spiral deeper into this 13 month journey - A Year & A Day. Today we are ripe for the feminine initiation of descent and rebirth, and connecting & holding our inner maidens with a retelling of a 3500 year old myth, part of the sacred Eleusinian Mysteries from the Cult of Persephone & Demet...

Greetings Bright Listeners from the New Moon in Aries. This next 13 month cycle of A Year & A Day began earlier in this month with a retelling of the Eastern European story of Vasilisa the Brave . We begin this journey with the season of the Maiden. Around each full moon I will offer a story or two, then around the new moon a rich & generous collaborative audio offering with one, or many of women...

Hello and welcome to the first episode of the 2nd cycle of A Year & a Day podcast. This next 13 month cycle will be in praise & exploration of the seasons of women’s lives…and really the lives of all cyclical beings As we come into the season of spring here in the northern Midwest, in the threshold of the full March, Worm Moon, under the lingering spell of the first lunar eclipse of the year, and...

Last month, in the soft days of a new year. From a semi-hibernated state in the boreal winter. And at the edge of a chasm of global, political unknown… My greatest desire (other than rest) was to connect with the many women/femme folx in my life. I wanted to connect with them, i wanted to hear their voices. I wanted to know…. what is your dream for us? what is your dream for the whole & the parts?...

Hello and welcome to the last episode of this Year & a Day cycle. For thirteeen months i’ve offered a retelling of a story through my newsletter and then here on Substack. Thirteen tales+ to be welcomed, enjoyed and perhaps retold through your speaking and thirteen months to be initiated into a deeper relationship with stories and your life. Thank you for your listening and your presence! Some of...

Friends, Solstice blessings all. Here’s a wee tale for season. Warmest wishes and gentle ease as we enter the dream-time of winter. Deepest thanks for your listening! Tracy xx Get full access to A YEAR and A DAY at allheredwellfree.substack.com/subscribe

Here in the North the nights are stretching longer and longer, the temperatures are finally dropping and I’m certainly feeling the tug to favor silence, rest & digest and go more inward. How about you? Silence, stillness, resting and the permission to prioritize these experience as necessary and crucial to navigating life here in the early days of the 21st Century is a practice I’m intentionally w...

Another story! Yes another story - two actually. I’m hesitating putting these two stories out in the world. One is quite are personal, the other curiously woven to my story through the brilliance of Sharon Blackie’s book, If Women Rose Rooted . Both stories are love stories and and both tales run deep into the chthonic realm of grief, and loss. Both meet and greet the inevitable, death. They are b...

Welcome friends. This story found me in Kildonan Museum on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, some years ago. Tis a tale of one All Hallows Eve when the space between the worlds is known to be thin…we are in that threshold time just now. Enjoy and thank you so much for having a listen.

The first of two offerings this month as we tip into autumn! Today I'm sharing a retelling of a story i've been carrying for over 20 years - Miz Hatie. A story i found in a library in Vermont, in a book by children's author Virginia Hamilton - The People Could Fly . The People Could Fly is a rich contribution to children’s literature (to literature for all really) with a beautiful mix of American...

As the northern sun descends lower, bowing to the feast of our late summer gardens, as crickets ascend up through the warm soil singing songs of friction and wonder, i have a story to share. An adventuring story of descending and ascending, a tale of three sisters, of forbidden fruit - consumed, of dragons and perhaps of justice. A retelling of the fairy tale, The Earth Gnome from the Brother Grim...

this month's episode of a Year and a Day, exploring how i work with stories in my 29th summer on the path of storyteller. A story offering of the Zen Buddhist tale The Tiger & the Strawberry. More about my work at www.tracychipman.net Let stories move, shift and shape you

welcome welcome welcome. This first episode is a beginning here on Substack and a continuation of A Year and A Day - monthly stories shared from my 29 years of listening, carrying, telling and co-creating with stories. Get full access to A YEAR and A DAY at allheredwellfree.substack.com/subscribe