Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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Indigenous Ecological Timeways
Re-weave your relationship with Time, your body, and your presence with rhythm, reverence, and rebellion.
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Re-weave your relationship with Time, your body, and your presence with rhythm, reverence, and rebellion.
Neuro-emergent 🐉 Mestize 🐝 Fmr Vice Mayor
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📚 Writers, authors, readers (esp anything to do with wonderment)
🌿 Permi Ab’ix, herbal alchemist, 🐝🦋🦉🦇🦥🦜🪺
🧶 Love textiles, ran slow pashmina biz in Nepal
💻 Tech-savvy cosmologist
🐉 Mighty 4’10” mixed Indigenous, 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 neuroemergent AuDHD,
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📚 Writers, authors, readers (esp anything to do with wonderment)
🌿 Permi Ab’ix, herbal alchemist, 🐝🦋🦉🦇🦥🦜🪺
🧶 Love textiles, ran slow pashmina biz in Nepal
💻 Tech-savvy cosmologist
🐉 Mighty 4’10” mixed Indigenous, 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 neuroemergent AuDHD,
🫥 disabled
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The Golden Age.
December 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The Golden Age.
Reposted by Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
Epistemicide has shaped how knowledge moves through our bodies and our homes. This Dragon 🐉 Letter traces how domination severs people from their own knowing and how reclaiming rhythm restores the ground under our feet. If you’re tending the cracks and listening for the rise of your intuition.
Epistemicide and the Reclaiming of the Intuitive Body
Dragon 🐉 Letter #108: Intuition was never the problem. A year of reclaiming intuitive rhythm begins here.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Epistemicide has shaped how knowledge moves through our bodies and our homes. This Dragon 🐉 Letter traces how domination severs people from their own knowing and how reclaiming rhythm restores the ground under our feet. If you’re tending the cracks and listening for the rise of your intuition.
Some of us are lit up with energy this season
and the money piece is not keeping pace.
It feels like running on fire while the bank account drags behind.
Reciprocity and circulation are how we win.
Money that moves inside community grows roots.
Money that leaves the ecosystem disappears.
and the money piece is not keeping pace.
It feels like running on fire while the bank account drags behind.
Reciprocity and circulation are how we win.
Money that moves inside community grows roots.
Money that leaves the ecosystem disappears.
The Indigenous Heritage sale closes tonight and the future is still ours to weave
We are weaving the next world in real time and reciprocity keeps the energy alive.
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Some of us are lit up with energy this season
and the money piece is not keeping pace.
It feels like running on fire while the bank account drags behind.
Reciprocity and circulation are how we win.
Money that moves inside community grows roots.
Money that leaves the ecosystem disappears.
and the money piece is not keeping pace.
It feels like running on fire while the bank account drags behind.
Reciprocity and circulation are how we win.
Money that moves inside community grows roots.
Money that leaves the ecosystem disappears.
Bodies learn to override exhaustion until collapse becomes routine. Overwork becomes the rhythm.
Stillness feels wrong because it interrupts conditioning.
Return to rhythm, cycle, and pulse, so the body stops collapsing for productivity and starts leading from ancestral healing, capacity, and truth.
Stillness feels wrong because it interrupts conditioning.
Return to rhythm, cycle, and pulse, so the body stops collapsing for productivity and starts leading from ancestral healing, capacity, and truth.
Your Rhythm is the Resistance
Reclaim Speaking Your Truth to Power: Resources for Relational Resistance
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Bodies learn to override exhaustion until collapse becomes routine. Overwork becomes the rhythm.
Stillness feels wrong because it interrupts conditioning.
Return to rhythm, cycle, and pulse, so the body stops collapsing for productivity and starts leading from ancestral healing, capacity, and truth.
Stillness feels wrong because it interrupts conditioning.
Return to rhythm, cycle, and pulse, so the body stops collapsing for productivity and starts leading from ancestral healing, capacity, and truth.
Some of us aren’t celebrating today.
Some of us are tending lineage, memory, and fire while surviving family time.
Indigenous Heritage Day Sale is live.
A portion goes to Mayan League.
Offerings for leaders building rhythm, ancestry, and presence into their work.
Some of us are tending lineage, memory, and fire while surviving family time.
Indigenous Heritage Day Sale is live.
A portion goes to Mayan League.
Offerings for leaders building rhythm, ancestry, and presence into their work.
🍂 Indigenous Heritage Day Offers
For the ones who carry lineage in their bones.
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Some of us aren’t celebrating today.
Some of us are tending lineage, memory, and fire while surviving family time.
Indigenous Heritage Day Sale is live.
A portion goes to Mayan League.
Offerings for leaders building rhythm, ancestry, and presence into their work.
Some of us are tending lineage, memory, and fire while surviving family time.
Indigenous Heritage Day Sale is live.
A portion goes to Mayan League.
Offerings for leaders building rhythm, ancestry, and presence into their work.
A flat tire on our move taught me something about burnout that leaders ignore far too often. Low pressure, thinning tread, those quiet signs before a flat. Our bodies speak in that same quiet language, asking us to tend before we break.
🫶🏼 Please Don’t Become a Flat Tire
Before burnout becomes a full stop, the body sends signals. A flat tire on our move reminded me how important those early cues are.
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
A flat tire on our move taught me something about burnout that leaders ignore far too often. Low pressure, thinning tread, those quiet signs before a flat. Our bodies speak in that same quiet language, asking us to tend before we break.
A small bird hit my window and reminded me how often we ignore the early signs in our own bodies. Colonial time pushes until we break. Rhythm invites us home again.
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The Moment the Body Refuses Colonial Time
Dragon 🐉 Letter #107: There is a moment when the body refuses to continue the old rhythm. That moment is where repair begins.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
A small bird hit my window and reminded me how often we ignore the early signs in our own bodies. Colonial time pushes until we break. Rhythm invites us home again.
open.substack.com/pub/ixchellu...
open.substack.com/pub/ixchellu...
Mercury’s retrograde has slowed everything to a crawl, pulling at our roots and asking what still belongs in the pot. I trace how deconditioning and decolonizing live in the body, how embodied leadership reshapes itself through rhythm, and why Nepantla generations are tending the fertile in-between.
Repotting in Retrograde: Deconditioning, Decolonizing, and the Slow Work of Rhythm
Dragon 🐉 Letter #106: We are the Nepantla generations, living in the pause between endings and beginnings. This letter traces how rhythm remembers us home.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Mercury’s retrograde has slowed everything to a crawl, pulling at our roots and asking what still belongs in the pot. I trace how deconditioning and decolonizing live in the body, how embodied leadership reshapes itself through rhythm, and why Nepantla generations are tending the fertile in-between.
On November 1, I found myself in a Santa Muerte parade here in Coatepec. I hadn’t gone looking for her. She found me.
This is how meeting La Huesuda (Bony Lady) revealed the grace of those she never abandons, and how death teaches us to compost what’s ending so we can live more fully.
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This is how meeting La Huesuda (Bony Lady) revealed the grace of those she never abandons, and how death teaches us to compost what’s ending so we can live more fully.
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Madrina Muerte: The Death Saint Who Loves Those Living on the Dangerous and Hedonic Margins
Dragon 🐉 Letter #105: How Santa Muerte found me on Día de Muertos, and the quiet grace of those she never abandons.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
On November 1, I found myself in a Santa Muerte parade here in Coatepec. I hadn’t gone looking for her. She found me.
This is how meeting La Huesuda (Bony Lady) revealed the grace of those she never abandons, and how death teaches us to compost what’s ending so we can live more fully.
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This is how meeting La Huesuda (Bony Lady) revealed the grace of those she never abandons, and how death teaches us to compost what’s ending so we can live more fully.
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Moving boxes everywhere. Nerves talking loud. Still, there’s this pull to refine the work, to make the visible match the soul of it. When we move from one version of ourselves to another, the signal flickers. What once fit feels tight. The voice we used no longer carries the same charge.
On Moving, Migrating, and Making Space
Dragon 🐉 Letter #104: Flow, Flare, and the Weight of Ancestral Time
open.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Moving boxes everywhere. Nerves talking loud. Still, there’s this pull to refine the work, to make the visible match the soul of it. When we move from one version of ourselves to another, the signal flickers. What once fit feels tight. The voice we used no longer carries the same charge.
I used to think healing meant purity. Now I know it begins with presence. Every bite is a small act of remembering, a connection between my body, my ancestors, and the land that feeds us. Read about the hungry ghosts of #purityculture and the relational rhythm I’m learning to hear beneath them.
Digestion is Spiritual Alchemy: Animism, Appetite, and the Hungry Ghosts of Purity Culture
Dragon 🐉 Letter #103: How Animism is helping me unlearn dogma, befriend food again, and listen to the body as kin
open.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I used to think healing meant purity. Now I know it begins with presence. Every bite is a small act of remembering, a connection between my body, my ancestors, and the land that feeds us. Read about the hungry ghosts of #purityculture and the relational rhythm I’m learning to hear beneath them.
What if your creative freeze isn’t a flaw… but a self-fulfilling prophecy in the best way? What if your crack isn’t meant to be healed, but heard? In the wake of the eclipse and the noise of false Raptures, I wrote this Dragon Letter about awe, collapse, and what it means to emerge w/out coherence.
Happy Equinox: Dust off your shine — be your own Rapture 😜
Dragon 🐉 Letter #102: You don’t have to wait for the sky to split. The festering, the ache, the crack itself is sacred ground.
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September 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
What if your creative freeze isn’t a flaw… but a self-fulfilling prophecy in the best way? What if your crack isn’t meant to be healed, but heard? In the wake of the eclipse and the noise of false Raptures, I wrote this Dragon Letter about awe, collapse, and what it means to emerge w/out coherence.
I dreamed an elder placed a carved walking stick in my hands. Each line held a story.
I woke remembering what Tyson Yunkaporta calls right story… memory rooted in land, objects, kinship.
This week’s Dragon 🐉 Letter: Maps Made of Wood and Memory → open.substack.com/pub/ixchellu...
I woke remembering what Tyson Yunkaporta calls right story… memory rooted in land, objects, kinship.
This week’s Dragon 🐉 Letter: Maps Made of Wood and Memory → open.substack.com/pub/ixchellu...
Maps Made of Wood and Memory
Dragon 🐉 Letter #100: Sacred reciprocity, walking-stick dreams, and ancestral practice that returns burden, workshop available on-demand through Sunday.
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August 31, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I dreamed an elder placed a carved walking stick in my hands. Each line held a story.
I woke remembering what Tyson Yunkaporta calls right story… memory rooted in land, objects, kinship.
This week’s Dragon 🐉 Letter: Maps Made of Wood and Memory → open.substack.com/pub/ixchellu...
I woke remembering what Tyson Yunkaporta calls right story… memory rooted in land, objects, kinship.
This week’s Dragon 🐉 Letter: Maps Made of Wood and Memory → open.substack.com/pub/ixchellu...
Family constellations. IFS. Even therapy.
They surface ancestral patterns, but without ritual protection, the unwell ancestors are awakened… and left unhealed.
Empire pins the ache on you. Ritual returns it to the lineage where it belongs. The free workshop is tomorrow. More details 👇🏼
They surface ancestral patterns, but without ritual protection, the unwell ancestors are awakened… and left unhealed.
Empire pins the ache on you. Ritual returns it to the lineage where it belongs. The free workshop is tomorrow. More details 👇🏼
What Family Constellations, IFS and Therapy Leaves Unfinished
Empire pins the ache on you. Ritual returns it to the lineage where it belongs.
open.substack.com
August 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Family constellations. IFS. Even therapy.
They surface ancestral patterns, but without ritual protection, the unwell ancestors are awakened… and left unhealed.
Empire pins the ache on you. Ritual returns it to the lineage where it belongs. The free workshop is tomorrow. More details 👇🏼
They surface ancestral patterns, but without ritual protection, the unwell ancestors are awakened… and left unhealed.
Empire pins the ache on you. Ritual returns it to the lineage where it belongs. The free workshop is tomorrow. More details 👇🏼
Sometimes the dead remind us they’re still near. For me, it’s the faint scent of my abuelita’s Channel No. 5.
These signs are real. They keep us close.
These signs are real. They keep us close.
🙄 Neuroscientist Discovers “The Signs” and Trains Up Her Senses
Dragon 🐉 Letter #99: The hype promises 34 senses and shocking signs. What it leaves out is protection.
open.substack.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Sometimes the dead remind us they’re still near. For me, it’s the faint scent of my abuelita’s Channel No. 5.
These signs are real. They keep us close.
These signs are real. They keep us close.
Some things can’t be scheduled, systemized, or optimized, no matter how much we’ve been taught to manage every moment. And this? This is one of them. In my latest post, I’m sharing why this truth matters now more than ever, and what becomes possible when we finally stop trying to make it fit. →
Reframe 5 of 5: This doesn’t run on empire’s clock
Some things can’t be scheduled, systemized, or optimized — and this is one of them.
open.substack.com
August 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Some things can’t be scheduled, systemized, or optimized, no matter how much we’ve been taught to manage every moment. And this? This is one of them. In my latest post, I’m sharing why this truth matters now more than ever, and what becomes possible when we finally stop trying to make it fit. →
🌿 New Series on Substack🌿
I’m in the middle of a 5-part email series exploring how ancestral healing and Indigenous Time Ecology unravel the colonial distortions that keep us burned out, disconnected, and performing for belonging.
📖 Read the series so far: ixchellunar.substack.com
I’m in the middle of a 5-part email series exploring how ancestral healing and Indigenous Time Ecology unravel the colonial distortions that keep us burned out, disconnected, and performing for belonging.
📖 Read the series so far: ixchellunar.substack.com
August 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
🌿 New Series on Substack🌿
I’m in the middle of a 5-part email series exploring how ancestral healing and Indigenous Time Ecology unravel the colonial distortions that keep us burned out, disconnected, and performing for belonging.
📖 Read the series so far: ixchellunar.substack.com
I’m in the middle of a 5-part email series exploring how ancestral healing and Indigenous Time Ecology unravel the colonial distortions that keep us burned out, disconnected, and performing for belonging.
📖 Read the series so far: ixchellunar.substack.com
Joanna Macy has merged into the infinite. Her hospice journey stirred memories of midwifing my abuelita Bea’s death, and my own brush with the beyond this July.
Time spirals. Ancestors speak. And I’m still here.
In this liminal stretch — between breath and beyond — I’m opening the circle.
Time spirals. Ancestors speak. And I’m still here.
In this liminal stretch — between breath and beyond — I’m opening the circle.
I’m still here… breath tethered to body, heart reverberating through time.
Dragon 🐉 Letter #98: Silver Palms, Spiral Time, and the Ache of Belonging
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July 31, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Joanna Macy has merged into the infinite. Her hospice journey stirred memories of midwifing my abuelita Bea’s death, and my own brush with the beyond this July.
Time spirals. Ancestors speak. And I’m still here.
In this liminal stretch — between breath and beyond — I’m opening the circle.
Time spirals. Ancestors speak. And I’m still here.
In this liminal stretch — between breath and beyond — I’m opening the circle.
Giving gratitude and saying goodbye to the ancestors of this land and the land down and to the left of Huitepec, Chiapas highlands. Sad to go, but I must get to lower ground (thanks to long Covid POTS).
July 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Giving gratitude and saying goodbye to the ancestors of this land and the land down and to the left of Huitepec, Chiapas highlands. Sad to go, but I must get to lower ground (thanks to long Covid POTS).
Dragon 🐉 Letter #97: Listening for Joanna Macy’s breath in the dawn. Canícula blazes. I follow Earth, Breath, and Spiral Time as guides for Rewilding what endures. This Dragon Letter is a love note to Time, to death, to transition — and a remembering of what guides us home.
The Canícula: Holding Vigil in the Heat of Change
Dragon 🐉 Letter #97: Listening for Joanna Macy’s breath in the dawn. Canícula blazes. I follow Earth, Breath, and Spiral Time as guides for Rewilding what endures.
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July 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Dragon 🐉 Letter #97: Listening for Joanna Macy’s breath in the dawn. Canícula blazes. I follow Earth, Breath, and Spiral Time as guides for Rewilding what endures. This Dragon Letter is a love note to Time, to death, to transition — and a remembering of what guides us home.
Heard my own death declared: July 26th, sepsis.
Yeah. That’ll rearrange your priorities real quick.
I wrote about it in today’s Dragon 🐉 Letter, about rationing life, devotion, + choosing action before Time chooses for you.
Are you living yet? open.substack.com/pub/ixchellu...
Yeah. That’ll rearrange your priorities real quick.
I wrote about it in today’s Dragon 🐉 Letter, about rationing life, devotion, + choosing action before Time chooses for you.
Are you living yet? open.substack.com/pub/ixchellu...
Are you living yet?
Dragon 🐉 Letter # 96: 💀 When death calls your name, will you have lived enough to go contentedly?
open.substack.com
June 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Heard my own death declared: July 26th, sepsis.
Yeah. That’ll rearrange your priorities real quick.
I wrote about it in today’s Dragon 🐉 Letter, about rationing life, devotion, + choosing action before Time chooses for you.
Are you living yet? open.substack.com/pub/ixchellu...
Yeah. That’ll rearrange your priorities real quick.
I wrote about it in today’s Dragon 🐉 Letter, about rationing life, devotion, + choosing action before Time chooses for you.
Are you living yet? open.substack.com/pub/ixchellu...
Tired of biz planning that feels like punishment?
Same.
That’s why I trust Megan Hale’s work. I’ve coached inside her programs, used the early DreamMoney™ tools myself, and watched people stop contorting their lives to fit a spreadsheet.
Join us at DreamBigger next week👇🏼
⚡ bit.ly/dream-money-...
Same.
That’s why I trust Megan Hale’s work. I’ve coached inside her programs, used the early DreamMoney™ tools myself, and watched people stop contorting their lives to fit a spreadsheet.
Join us at DreamBigger next week👇🏼
⚡ bit.ly/dream-money-...
June 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Tired of biz planning that feels like punishment?
Same.
That’s why I trust Megan Hale’s work. I’ve coached inside her programs, used the early DreamMoney™ tools myself, and watched people stop contorting their lives to fit a spreadsheet.
Join us at DreamBigger next week👇🏼
⚡ bit.ly/dream-money-...
Same.
That’s why I trust Megan Hale’s work. I’ve coached inside her programs, used the early DreamMoney™ tools myself, and watched people stop contorting their lives to fit a spreadsheet.
Join us at DreamBigger next week👇🏼
⚡ bit.ly/dream-money-...
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24 hours left to get 1:1 sessions with Leslie Tagorda, and more!
Find out the deets on my sweet bonus when you use my link and mention me in your application 👉🏼
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24 hours left to get 1:1 sessions with Leslie Tagorda, and more!
Find out the deets on my sweet bonus when you use my link and mention me in your application 👉🏼
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June 12, 2025 at 2:18 AM
💫 This made my brand feel like me
24 hours left to get 1:1 sessions with Leslie Tagorda, and more!
Find out the deets on my sweet bonus when you use my link and mention me in your application 👉🏼
open.substack.com/pub/ixchellu...
24 hours left to get 1:1 sessions with Leslie Tagorda, and more!
Find out the deets on my sweet bonus when you use my link and mention me in your application 👉🏼
open.substack.com/pub/ixchellu...
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Very good info here, that I suspect even most progressives will largely ignore.
As NB.1.8.1 spreads, there’s only one thing spreading faster: misinformation. Here, I run down 5 of the most common errors I see circulating about COVID and encourage people to integrate airborne disease mitigation into their lives holistically.
www.thegauntlet.news/p/common-mis...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/common-mis...
Common Misconceptions about COVID Hold Strong as New Variant Spreads
Media has the public talking about the "razor blade" COVID variant, but years of inaccurate public health messaging have taken their toll
www.thegauntlet.news
June 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Very good info here, that I suspect even most progressives will largely ignore.