Hola! I’m Ixchel Lunar (they/them), an Indigenous-Time ecologist, ancestral medicine guide, and rhythm witch for creative rebels, decolonial dreamers, and neuroqueer visionaries. This Substack is dedicated to weaving business, body, and belonging into something no empire can replicate. Still punk as fuck. Still cozy in the chaos.
Beautiful Wildling, Here is the Cholq’ij Energy of the Day:
Today breathes with 6 Kawok, the energy of Cleansing, Emergence, and Holding.
Kawok is the midwife current… what breaks through, what floods, what flows, and what delivers. The healing number 6 brings harmony to movement, weaving balance through the body, community, and cycles. This is a day for emotional honesty, slow rinsing, and letting the waters guide what’s ready to come through.
Sky Pulse for Today
Moon moves deep: trining Saturn and later Neptune, squaring Venus and then Mercury, and gliding into Sagittarius like it’s tracking something below the surface. Venus slips into Pisces, ready to dream with the tide. There’s beauty in the breakdown, but today it’s messy. Let the swirl teach you how to move without drowning in someone else’s story.
Time Weaving Daily Rhythm Ritual — Waters That Carry
This sensorial practice invites you to feel water not just as cleansing, but as intelligence. Through sound, weight, and flow, it helps you release what’s pressing in and remember what can carry you.
Practice
1. Fill a bowl or sink with water.Use lukewarm or cool water, whichever your body needs. Add a pinch of salt if available.
2. Sit or stand, eyes soft.Dip your hands in the water. Don’t rush.
3. Move the water gently.Use your hands to swirl it clockwise, then counterclockwise. Listen to the sound it makes. Watch the way it shifts. Let your breath match the tempo. Use all your senses.
4. Cup and release.Scoop the water and slowly let it fall through your fingers. Each time you release, name (out loud or silently) one thing you no longer need to carry today.
5. Close with stillness.Let the water come to rest. Know in yourself: “The waters know what to carry. I listen.”
Writing Prompt
What surfaced in your body as you moved with the water? What did it teach you about holding, or letting go?
Share your insight in the Substack comments. Your current might join another’s stream.
Walk slowly with Time today. Let the waters teach you where to yield and where to flow.
Stay wild, love fiercely. Your presence is golden.
With wild and rebellious love,
Maltiox! xo Ixchel
P.S. Maltiox pronounced mall-tee-osh means with gratitude in K’iche Mayan.
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About Cholq’ij Energy of the DayEach day in the Mayan Cholq’ij calendar carries a unique combination of a nawal (one of 20 sacred characteristics of Time) and a tone (one of 13 sacred numbers that increase in intensity). The nawal brings the spirit, element, and ancestral wisdom of the day. The tone offers rhythm, structure, and movement. Together, they spiral through a 260-day sacred cycle, a living calendar description of Time itself as a sacred entity that invites us to align with cosmic, earthly, and ancestral flow.
If you want to explore your Maya birth sign, please visit Maya Tecum. They are undergoing a website update after being hacked, but they remain the most trusted source for a Maya Cross calculation. Their website is in Spanish, but you can use a translator to view the descriptions of your cross.
For a Maya Cross reading, which should be performed only by a trained ajq’ij (Maya Daykeeper), visit Denise Barrios for more information.
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I was raised and bore children on the traditional, unceded, and stolen lands of the Coast and Central Valley Miwok (colonized as Petaluma, CA) and Nisenan (colonized as Sacramento and Fair Oaks, CA), past, present, and future. I also write, work, and live in the highland forest of the traditional, unceded and stolen lands of the Totonac, Nahua, and Mexicah, past, present, and future, in what is known as Coatepec, Veracruz, Mexico.
P.P.S. I do not live or consent to the colonial impositions regarding the construct of Time. I also practice honoring rhythms of work, play, and rest so that I can serve you with embodied presence and with loving care. This means I may take several days to respond to your requests and questions. (h/t Eva Glamaris)
P.P.S. A mention is not necessarily an endorsement of someone. It’s an acknowledgment, a citation, of the origin of information in my process of understanding. (h/t Kelly Diels)
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