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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 the year, with Mia Hetenyi’s offering at Dreaming Awake.
Since last spring here at A Year & A Day we have been cycling through the wheel of the year with the archetypal & energetic seasons of women’s lives; Maiden, Mother, Magah/Mage, which we are just cycling out of and moving into Crone! To learn more about the mysterious and shapeshifting phase of the Magah, listen here.
Usually full moon posts feature a retelling of a traditional story, connected in some way with the archetypal phase we are in. We are mixing it up here for this full moon post with a powerful harvest of stories from women in my life. Women who are in their perimenopausal or post menopausal phase. Take your time here, lean in to the precious wisdom, vulnerability and strength here…
Below are a few nuggets of wisdom and inquiry.
Warmest wishes and 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 free or paid subscriber.
Word offerings:
Cielle: “ I am now in my Crone years and it has been important to listen to other women share their experiences of the phases we go through, as well as for me to reflect on my own. Often I think the phases of maiden, mother and Mage in my life don’t make a good story because the phases for me have been simple. Yes , I have experienced each phase as unique but each has been easy compared to many others. I am grateful for the relative ease.
Here is an example. A menopausal friend has had hot flashes for about a decade. They frequently cause her to change her clothes 3 times a day. Her temperature swings are so extreme. I used to think she was really into fashion and changed clothes frequently in the day to match the mood of what she was doing. But really it is mostly about extreme bodily temperature fluctuations.
For me, menopause only brought occasional “ warm waves”. I think I had a total of 3-4 what I called “Oh my God” hot flashes. I know women who have “Oh my God” hot flashes several times a day for years. I have menopausal friends who experienced rather extreme vaginal thinning and drying. I have had that but only very minimally. At one point i wondered if i might need hormone replacement therapy because I felt my energy levels were low. I discovered that the best wat to increase my energy was to get more hours of sleep.
I think in many ways my relative ease in the adjustment to menopause is less common . So many woman are thrown off by this phase of life. I realize it is important for me to share my experiences even if they are not remarkable. “
Anna Lisa: “ Nothing about my life is the same. I can’t even wear the same jewelry. I stopped putting up with b******t as I entered perimenopause and God just everything is different. As a young woman, I remember being judgmental about older postmenopausal women who had changed their names. But now I get it, nothing is the same, they felt like a totally different person, and so they needed a new name for the transformed identity. “
Julie: “ One thing I’m sitting with and am challenged by as I move further into perimenopause is what I call my “Virginia Woolf complex” — this want for room/space/solitude/rest of my own amidst the tensions and demands of mothering/partnership/family/modern life… it can feel maddening at times. I am wondering how do we bring our husbands/partners/children/families along on this cyclical journey in a healthy way?”
MAGE BIOS:
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. More at Elizabeth Jane Lovely and https://www.elizabethjanelovely.com
Anna Lisa Clifford Gold lives in Fairfield, Iowa.
Jackie Singer is a shamanic artist. She uses her singing voice for healing in one-to-one sessions and through songs and chants. ‘Songhold’, her forthcoming album of original sacred music is out on 4th December. As a storyteller, she has performed in many settings, and recently toured “Rhiannon Unbridled”, a one-woman show funded by Arts Council England. Originally trained as a Drama and Movement Therapist, Jackie is a celebrant and author of the book ‘Birthrites – Rituals and Celebrations for the Child-Bearing Years’. Now in her 50s, Jackie lives in Oxford, UK, with her husband, two teenage daughters and two cats. More here: www.jackiesinger.co.uk and also https://jackiesinger.bandcamp.com
Nina Smock lives in the Iowa Driftless Region
Kerri Kirnan - is an herbalist living in Eau Claire Wisconsin https://www.etsy.com/shop/RiverPrairieHerbs
Tracy Chipman (she/they) is a generator & connector, weaver of language & healing. She is a poet and an author, who feels most alive in the wilds, discovering through emergence & intuition and when gathering with womyn folx. She resides in the traditional territories of the Ojibwe peoples, near Lake Superior in Northern Wisconsin. www.tracychipman.net
Written offerings by:
Cielle Backstrom lives in Fairfield, Iowa, and supports folks on the path of embodied awakening. Her awakening in 2003 opened multiple inner doorways revealing just how “whole” life is and the huge range that it includes. This led her to study several tools which she uses as aids to assist her students on their path of awakening. These tools include compassionate listening, Focusing, Breathwork and energy healing.
https://www.ciellebackstrom.com/
Anna Lisa Clifford Gold - see above
Julie Hill is an educator, artist, and writer who lives in South Minneapolis.
**image by Elena Ray & sound support by Tim Britton.
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By journey into the liminal space of story. tend your soul. evolve your imaginationDear 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 the year, with Mia Hetenyi’s offering at Dreaming Awake.
Since last spring here at A Year & A Day we have been cycling through the wheel of the year with the archetypal & energetic seasons of women’s lives; Maiden, Mother, Magah/Mage, which we are just cycling out of and moving into Crone! To learn more about the mysterious and shapeshifting phase of the Magah, listen here.
Usually full moon posts feature a retelling of a traditional story, connected in some way with the archetypal phase we are in. We are mixing it up here for this full moon post with a powerful harvest of stories from women in my life. Women who are in their perimenopausal or post menopausal phase. Take your time here, lean in to the precious wisdom, vulnerability and strength here…
Below are a few nuggets of wisdom and inquiry.
Warmest wishes and 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 free or paid subscriber.
Word offerings:
Cielle: “ I am now in my Crone years and it has been important to listen to other women share their experiences of the phases we go through, as well as for me to reflect on my own. Often I think the phases of maiden, mother and Mage in my life don’t make a good story because the phases for me have been simple. Yes , I have experienced each phase as unique but each has been easy compared to many others. I am grateful for the relative ease.
Here is an example. A menopausal friend has had hot flashes for about a decade. They frequently cause her to change her clothes 3 times a day. Her temperature swings are so extreme. I used to think she was really into fashion and changed clothes frequently in the day to match the mood of what she was doing. But really it is mostly about extreme bodily temperature fluctuations.
For me, menopause only brought occasional “ warm waves”. I think I had a total of 3-4 what I called “Oh my God” hot flashes. I know women who have “Oh my God” hot flashes several times a day for years. I have menopausal friends who experienced rather extreme vaginal thinning and drying. I have had that but only very minimally. At one point i wondered if i might need hormone replacement therapy because I felt my energy levels were low. I discovered that the best wat to increase my energy was to get more hours of sleep.
I think in many ways my relative ease in the adjustment to menopause is less common . So many woman are thrown off by this phase of life. I realize it is important for me to share my experiences even if they are not remarkable. “
Anna Lisa: “ Nothing about my life is the same. I can’t even wear the same jewelry. I stopped putting up with b******t as I entered perimenopause and God just everything is different. As a young woman, I remember being judgmental about older postmenopausal women who had changed their names. But now I get it, nothing is the same, they felt like a totally different person, and so they needed a new name for the transformed identity. “
Julie: “ One thing I’m sitting with and am challenged by as I move further into perimenopause is what I call my “Virginia Woolf complex” — this want for room/space/solitude/rest of my own amidst the tensions and demands of mothering/partnership/family/modern life… it can feel maddening at times. I am wondering how do we bring our husbands/partners/children/families along on this cyclical journey in a healthy way?”
MAGE BIOS:
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. More at Elizabeth Jane Lovely and https://www.elizabethjanelovely.com
Anna Lisa Clifford Gold lives in Fairfield, Iowa.
Jackie Singer is a shamanic artist. She uses her singing voice for healing in one-to-one sessions and through songs and chants. ‘Songhold’, her forthcoming album of original sacred music is out on 4th December. As a storyteller, she has performed in many settings, and recently toured “Rhiannon Unbridled”, a one-woman show funded by Arts Council England. Originally trained as a Drama and Movement Therapist, Jackie is a celebrant and author of the book ‘Birthrites – Rituals and Celebrations for the Child-Bearing Years’. Now in her 50s, Jackie lives in Oxford, UK, with her husband, two teenage daughters and two cats. More here: www.jackiesinger.co.uk and also https://jackiesinger.bandcamp.com
Nina Smock lives in the Iowa Driftless Region
Kerri Kirnan - is an herbalist living in Eau Claire Wisconsin https://www.etsy.com/shop/RiverPrairieHerbs
Tracy Chipman (she/they) is a generator & connector, weaver of language & healing. She is a poet and an author, who feels most alive in the wilds, discovering through emergence & intuition and when gathering with womyn folx. She resides in the traditional territories of the Ojibwe peoples, near Lake Superior in Northern Wisconsin. www.tracychipman.net
Written offerings by:
Cielle Backstrom lives in Fairfield, Iowa, and supports folks on the path of embodied awakening. Her awakening in 2003 opened multiple inner doorways revealing just how “whole” life is and the huge range that it includes. This led her to study several tools which she uses as aids to assist her students on their path of awakening. These tools include compassionate listening, Focusing, Breathwork and energy healing.
https://www.ciellebackstrom.com/
Anna Lisa Clifford Gold - see above
Julie Hill is an educator, artist, and writer who lives in South Minneapolis.
**image by Elena Ray & sound support by Tim Britton.
Get full access to A YEAR and A DAY at allheredwellfree.substack.com/subscribe