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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.

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.

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.

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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On Moving, Migrating, and Making Space Dragon 🐉 Letter #104: Flow, Flare, and the Weight of Ancestral Time

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

What Family Constellations, IFS and Therapy Leaves Unfinished Empire pins the ache on you. Ritual returns it to the lineage where it belongs.

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 👇🏼

🙄 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.

🙄 A neuroscientist went on a viral podcast to say she talks to the dead and can train 34 senses. Millions are listening.

I wrote about why this sensational approach leaves people unprotected, and what ancestral connection actually requires.

🙄 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.

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.

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.

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. →

Dragon 🐉 Letters from Ixchel Lunar | Substack Your dose of decolonization. Click to read Dragon 🐉 Letters from Ixchel Lunar, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

✨ If you’ve ever felt too mixed, too late, or too overwhelmed to reclaim your roots or your rhythm, this series is for you.

So far, I’ve shared 3 of the 5 reframes.

You can start at the beginning or jump into the one that calls you.

📖 Read the series so far: ixchellunar.substack.com

🌿 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 still here… breath tethered to body, heart reverberating through time. Dragon 🐉 Letter #98: Silver Palms, Spiral Time, and the Ache of Belonging

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.

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).

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.

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.

Here's the TikTok I mentioned in the Dragon Letter about not being able to budget yourself out of poverty because it costs more to be under-resourced: vt.tiktok.com/ZSHb2wLrherw...

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

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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Very good info here, that I suspect even most progressives will largely ignore.

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What if small is sacred? Dragon 🐉 Letter #95: Your ritual doesn’t have to be perfect to count.

What If Small Is Sacred? Because maybe it’s not scale we need, maybe it’s soul.

For the ones weaving futures in kitchens, altars, street corners.
For the soft and stubborn acts of resistance that no algorithm can touch.
For those of us done with the hustle and hungry for rhythm.

The Ache Is Ancestral — Free Workshop on Healing Your Lineage Join Ixchel Lunar for a ritual workshop to explore ancestral grief, repair lineage wounds, and reclaim your belonging. Free to attend. Replays available.

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