17 Apr 2026
the Unf*@k-withable Cauldron Within + the Luminous Net of Us!
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 (https://substack.com/profile/4934951-dr-mindy-nettifee).
Reflecting back at the extraordinary feast of episodes and offering (https://allheredwellfree.substack.com/archive?sort=new)s 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 (https://substack.com/profile/64402060-elizabeth-jane-lovely) joined me for the first new moon emergent collaboration (https://open.substack.com/pub/allheredwellfree/p/a-maiden-and-her-magical-allies?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web) 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 (https://open.substack.com/pub/perditafinn) ) and re-constellate in it’s next iteration just beyond the horizon. Stay tuned!
Thank you for your bright listening,
Tracy
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Elizabeth Jane Lovely (http://www.elizabethjanelovely.co.uk) 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 Cycles
Adriana Forte (https://www.youtube.com/@thec-lab/videos)| Anna Lisa Clifford Gold | Brianna McInerny (http://www.briannamcinerny.com/) | Carter McKenzie
Cielle Backstrom (https://www.ciellebackstrom.com/)| Cybele (https://www.youtube.com/@cybele1111) | Debrae FireHawk (http://www.debraefirehawk.com/) | Elizabeth Jane Lovely (https://thefaerytaleapothecary.substack.com/?utm_source=global-search)
Emmaleeya June | Erin Tenny | Jackie Singer (http://www.jackiesinger.co.uk/) | Judith Tamara (https://judithtamarah.com/password) | Julie Hill
Kerri Kirnan (https://www.etsy.com/shop/RiverPrairieHerbs) | Lara Burrell Martinson | Laura Rovi | Marisa Goudy (https://mythismedicine.substack.com/) | Nina Smock
Shelly Sharon (https://healingthemotherwound.substack.com/) | Stasha Ginsburg (https://thewildremembering.substack.com/?utm_source=global-search)| Steph Ament (http://www.root-words.com/creative-work) | Tracy Chipman (https://www.tracychipman.net/)
And many thanks to Tim Britton (https://skep.com/britton/) & Kyle Gilmer @ Residual Audio for sound editing
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