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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The Greeks had three words for time. Chronos extracts. Kairos strategizes. Aion just knows. This week my Daimon moved me through somatic abolitionism, ecological grief, and into a film screening where I ended up one degree from Alonso del Rio, the musician whose icaros have held me through grief.

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The voice that was never confused.

Chronos runs out. Aion doesn’t. Are you ready to listen?

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

My youngest caught me looking up a chart and told someone I was about to "read them dirty." That cracked me up. And then I realized… yeah. That's exactly what I do. The problem in the astrology and Human Design community is that we use our charts like a personality quiz and then forget about them.

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I was in 6th grade when I found the word Iraq in the dictionary. My teacher said these two countries would be the most significant of our lifetimes. That was 45 years ago. The bombs are still falling.

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Someone asked for the slides this morning

Dragon 🐉 Letter #119: My grandfather ran guns to Nicaragua. He visited me in a dream when the bombs started falling on Iran.

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

We are the ones standing between what harmed us and what we are weaving forward. Decolonizing Time through response-ability and lineage repair means learning to carry what is ours, and releasing what never was, so the next generation inherits rhythm instead of rupture.

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The Nepantla Generation

Dragon 🐉 Letter #118: Decolonizing Time through response-ability, lineage repair, and the weaving of new worlds.

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

13 Kame is a powerful ancestor portal at the eclipse threshold. Bone memory. Endings as doorways. As 1 Kej approaches Wednesday, notice what you’re carrying. Some of it is real. Some of it is inherited. Walk slowly with Time today.

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Eclipse Edition: Time Weaving Daily Rhythm Ritual: Bone Tide Rising

🖤 Today, on the day of 13 Kame, the veil thins and the ancestors lean close.

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Jaimey came into this year holding five meaningful, long-term goals. Nothing was failing, but nothing was landing either. When we opened their Map and found the center, one clean commitment instead of divided devotion, their nervous system settled, and the work finally started to move.

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When everything matters…

What happens when there’s no center.

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I was the oldest grandchild, trained early to be the glue, the bridge, the capable one who could hold what others could not. This is about the inheritance of being useful, the quiet erosion of depletion, and the moment I realized that loving my family did not require offering my body as collateral.

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If I Say No, I’m Letting My People Down

Ability is not obligation.

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Treating your body like a resource to be spent down for meaningful work is colonial time logic. It teaches us that extraction is devotion and depletion is proof that something matters. Some work strengthens you, some work slowly empties you. They do not feel the same in the body. More on this here:

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When depletion becomes the metric

Colonial time teaches us to measure worth by exhaustion.

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Urgency is not timing. Pressure trains you to decide fast. Timing asks whether your life can hold the yes. Most regret isn’t about choosing wrong. It’s about letting urgency decide. I wrote about why integrity lives in aligned timing, not speed. If urgency has been running the show, this will land.

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Urgency is not Timing

Pressure shouts. Timing restores integrity. Your body feels the difference.

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Ancient astrology knows the importance of vitality and direction. Lately, I’ve been studying Dane Rudhyar, and how glimmers of what holds feel different from dopamine, and why regret repeats when we miss the signal. Rilke’s advice on living the questions holds. This inquiry became a new offering.

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Glimmers of What Holds (and the Regret of Missing Them)

Dragon 🐉 Letter #117: There’s a kind of regret that doesn’t come from bad choices, but from choosing while disconnected from your body. This is about repairing that.

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Today breathes with the energy of 9 Toj, a day that calls for Reciprocity, Healing, and Creative Flow. We’re planting spells with sweet potatoes, cloves, and coins. This is kitchen magic for making sacred payments and feeding what feeds you. The kind your landlord doesn’t need to know about.

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Time Weaving Daily Rhythm Ritual: Seed the Offering

🥔 Today, on the day of 9 Toj, the ground remembers what you give. A bit of kitchen magic to grow your gratitude into something tangible.

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

If you’ve been doomscrolling, shutting down, or going numb from political overwhelm, you’re not alone. This is a reminder of agency, rhythm, and present-tense action in the face of urgency. If you’re looking for support that doesn’t gaslight you about what’s happening, you’re in the right place.

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Working While the World Burns

Dragon 🐉 Letter #116: When the world is escalating and people are being hunted, it can feel unbearable to receive emails about practice or offers. Here’s why I keep sending them.

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Nicole Havelka (she/her) ⎸ Just Rest Podcast and Newsletter @just-rest.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

If you constantly feel like you’re failing a schedule you didn't even create, this episode is for you. I sat down with Indigenous Time Ecologist @decolonizingtime.bsky.social to talk about why "time management" is actually a tool of the grind. justrest.buzzsprout.com/

Decolonizing Time with Ixchel Lunar and the main points we discussed about deadrenalizing your body in order to feel safe enough to step out of grind culture.

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I lived through uprising and backlash once already in Nicaragua. A temporary platform shutout brought those lessons back fast. This Dragon Letter is about visibility, data, and why building capacity outside surveillance platforms matters now, not later. open.substack.com/pub/ixchellu...

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Meta Terminated My Account. This Is About All of Us.

Dragon 🐉 Letter #115: What my temporary shutout reveals about visibility, data, and preparation, with resources for building capacity outside surveillance based platforms.

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Hello from the jungle forest. 🌲 I learned more about Time from sloths and forests than from calendars. write about rhythm, land, and bodies living under pressure. There’s a free five-day embodied practice for those who want to begin gently.

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I’m Ixchel Lunar. If your body resists urgency, start here

Dragon 🐉 Letter #114: Writing about Time as a lived relationship, with an invitation to a five-day embodied practice, Interrupting Time.

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

This is a Dragon Letter about the enshittification of coaching certifications and why so many good practitioners are being priced out of their own work. I am writing about coaching, licensing, and what gets lost when the medicine you offer becomes something you have to keep buying.

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The Enshittification of Coaching Licenses

Dragon 🐉 Letter #113: Your ancestors did not survive so you could rent your right to serve.

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

You are the authority in your own timing and direction. The work is learning to listen to your capacity, your pace, and the seasons of your life with more trust. The Stellar Timing 2026 Arc is for anyone who wants support with decisions in a grounded, thoughtful way. Ten bundles in this first round.

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You are the authority

Timing is context. Capacity is guidance. Authority lives in your body.

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

There’s a kind of business decision that isn’t strategy; it’s a nervous system in survival, trying to hold a whole economy on its back. Many of us were trained to make launches, offers, and growth calls from exhaustion, fear, or urgency… and then blame ourselves when our bodies collapse.

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Where do butterflies go when it rains? I was read that question as a child. Fifty years later, the land answered at dusk. 🎧 New audio reading of a Dragon 🐉 Letter available now. open.substack.com/pub/ixchellu...

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Where Butterflies Go: Evening Kaleidoscope of Quiet Presence

Dragon 🐉 Letter #112: An answer to a mysterious childhood question, an evening ritual, and a tree that answered.

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Just wrapped a fantastic conversation with Nicole Havelka. We dive deep into complexities of burnout, political activism, + the journey to decolonizing time. The conversation took some fascinating turns, exploring: "How understanding our body's needs can be the catalyst for transformative change."

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Empire trained us to move fast, stay braced, and confuse endurance with worth. Many of us learned to override the body and call it response-ability. We return to a rhythm that protects the soul empire tried to erase.

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A quieter way to work with Time

Queering Rhythm is about loosening urgency and tending life force through decolonial, embodied presence.

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

The year doesn’t need to be finished. Urgency is wearing a care costume. After sitting in temazcal, meeting my own reflex to flee discomfort, tomorrow I’m hosting a live Rhythm Reset to slow Time down enough to listen, without forcing insight or resolutions based on decrees from some guy named Greg.

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The Year Doesn’t Need to Be Finished 👀

Dragon 🐉 Letter #111: Urgency is loud right now. This is an invitation to slow Time down enough to feel the turn.

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

My birthday, my first posada, solstice as a pause, land protection as Time repair, and what happens when obedience to the clock starts to fail. Tracing how refusal shows up quietly through ritual, neighbor care, and choosing a different pace. A collective way to listen + orient as the year turns.

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The Undefeated Sun Keeps Returning

Dragon 🐉 Letter #110: Solstice, temazcal, posada, and land protection as Time repair. A letter about refusal, welcome, and choosing a different tempo.

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Something feels off with time, and many people feel it in their bodies before they find words. I trace how colonial time trains urgency, obedience, and self-blame, and why confusion right now makes sense. Let me know if you enjoy the audio format.

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The Clock Is Cracking. Your confusion makes sense.

Dragon 🐉 Letter #109: The pace is lying. Your body knows. This is the first letter in a week of Time repair, for anyone living inside the unraveling.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The Golden Age.

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The Spooky Dude @2house2fly.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

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

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

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.

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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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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

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.

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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.

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

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.

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Your Rhythm is the Resistance

Reclaim Speaking Your Truth to Power: Resources for Relational Resistance

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

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.

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🍂 Indigenous Heritage Day Offers

For the ones who carry lineage in their bones.

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

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.

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🫶🏼 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.

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

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...

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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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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

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.

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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.

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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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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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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

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.

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On Moving, Migrating, and Making Space

Dragon 🐉 Letter #104: Flow, Flare, and the Weight of Ancestral Time

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

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.

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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

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

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.

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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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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

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...

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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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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

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 👇🏼

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What Family Constellations, IFS and Therapy Leaves Unfinished

Empire pins the ache on you. Ritual returns it to the lineage where it belongs.

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

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. →

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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.

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

🌿 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

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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.

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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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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

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).

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

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.

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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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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

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...

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Are you living yet?

Dragon 🐉 Letter # 96: 💀 When death calls your name, will you have lived enough to go contentedly?

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

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-...

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Ixchel Lunar ; they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @decolonizingtime.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

💫 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...

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