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

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.

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.

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.

When everything matters… What happens when there’s no center.

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.

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.

When depletion becomes the metric Colonial time teaches us to measure worth by exhaustion.

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:

Urgency is not Timing Pressure shouts. Timing restores integrity. Your body feels the difference.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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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.

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.
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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.

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.

Oh! You know Nicole?! I love it when worlds collide 💓

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

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.

You are the authority Timing is context. Capacity is guidance. Authority lives in your body.

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.

Strategic decisions that don’t cost your whole system When business decisions come from depletion instead of capacity, the price gets paid in the body. Here’s the tool I built to change that.

I built the Stellar Timing 2026 Arc as a harm-reduction tool for strategic decisions. Limited Edition, learn more here👇🏼
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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.

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.

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.

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Decolonizing Time with Ixchel Lunar - Just Rest: Burnout Tips for Everyday Radicals Do you feel like you are constantly "behind," racing against a clock that never slows down? For many revolutionary leaders and creators, time feels like an extractive resource that is always running o...

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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."

A quieter way to work with Time Queering Rhythm is about loosening urgency and tending life force through decolonial, embodied presence.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Golden Age.

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 and the Reclaiming of the Intuitive Body Dragon 🐉 Letter #108: Intuition was never the problem. A year of reclaiming intuitive rhythm begins here.

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.

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.

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.

Your Rhythm is the Resistance Reclaim Speaking Your Truth to Power: Resources for Relational Resistance

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.