Dragon 🐉 Letters #65
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Dia de Los Muertos
A warm welcome to the newest Beautiful Wildlings from the New Future Festival and people joining the Befriending Time Quest! I’ve been reading your email reflections on your relationships with time and they are so juicy!
It’s that time of the year when the veil between worlds thins.
This week has been full of celebratory sounds of festivities to celebrate and honor the ancestors. Such a beautiful time in MesoAmerica.
Since my last Dragon Letter I discovered my residency was about to expire a month earlier than I thought. So I scrambled to get that extended. I’m now good for 3 more years as a temporary resident, then I can apply for permanent residency. And from there can go for full citizenship.
I also decided to create a release party for my Befriending Time course. So I’ve been behind the scenes preparing and doing outreach for the Befriending Time Quest (see all the deets below).
Time has been moving quickly for me.
Plants 🌿 and Planets 🪐
I recently received an email from Rosemary’s Garden that transported me back to my early days of herbal healing.
In 1997 I took a job at a garage door install shop while I was preparing to enter grad school at CIIS. It was such a toxic environment on so many levels. Toxic masculinity, toxic dioxins from the PVC, and toxic working conditions. I developed rampant endometriosis.
I was masking to get by with my male coworkers, drinking tons of coffee to battle chronic fatigue, and in a deep dive studying climate change and consciousness. All of it was just too much for my body.
After my boss started shooting bb pellets over my shoulder (knowing that my dad had been killed by gun violence at work), I knew it was time to quit. Yes, I made an anonymous report to HQ in some far off state and with local police. But despite knowing I could have sued and won for significant emotional damages, I just needed a rest and to move on.
That’s when I discovered herbal therapies that could support my liver in detoxing excess estrogen. I found myself creating an herbal tea from a book I discovered at Rosemary’s Garden in Sebastopol, CA.
That place was pure magic.
After many months of detoxing and preparing this tea, my cycles began to reset. The all over body pain from adhesions that seemed to be everywhere began to subside.
Making teas and learning about tinctures became a favorite hobby.
It wasn’t until I moved to Nicaragua that I began to understand the connection between plants and planets. That illumination rocked my world.
Each plant has a connection to one or more planets that carry the energies of those planets into the plant’s healing properties.
When we are going through particularly difficult planetary transits, we can turn to herbs that have that planet’s energy signature to support us physically, emotionally, and spiritually in the transit.
One very supportive plant I’ve turned to since getting long covid and havingblood and lymph challenges is red root (Ceanothus Americanus). As a Saturn plant it’s been espeically supportive during my Saturn square Saturn transit this year.
I make most of my own tinctures. And this year I’m hoping to get a kiln so I can expand into making spagyrics (herbal alchemy) so I can access and tincture the mineral salts within the plants.
If you’re looking for additional support in working with planets and planets, we can explore this in a Stellar Astro/HD reading.
While the veil between worlds is thin, my favorite Indigenous herbalist, Adriana Ayales has an amazing oracle deck with the plants and planets if you want to explore this synergistic way of working with these energies.
Befriending Time Quest Starts Monday
Come join us in the 🌙✨ Befriending Time Quest 2023
Embark on an enlightening 5-Day journey from Nov 6th to Nov 10th to profoundly transform your relationship with time.
We’ll meet each day in a Telegram group for an Audio Live Stream with me, Ixchel Lunar.
📅 On Day 1, dive deep into ancestral and indigenous approaches, unraveling colonial influences and tapping into age-old wisdom for a life of interconnected rhythm.
🌍🌀 Day 2 brings a critical examination of the subtle ways white supremacy culture influenced our time perception, shedding light on the lasting impacts of colonial time on our lives.
🌱🔍 Day 3, on Nov 8th, is a deep dive into the cyclical nature of time, exploring the rich tapestry of indigenous timekeeping traditions.
🌌 On Day 4, Nov 9th, discover the art of aligning with nature’s innate cadences, embracing your unique rhythms for enhanced resilience.
🌳🌈 The grand finale, Day 5 on Nov 10th, is all about “Flow.” Dive into my unique perspective on the Flow Cycle, understanding the art of living in the present moment for abundant creative prosperity.
Upgrade for $44 and get the Quest plus the long awaited Befriending Time 10-day course that’s dropping tomorrow (you’ll get a personal invite on the confirmation page when you register for the Quest). This quest is a bit of a release party for the course. We’ve got over 65 people that will receive the first day of the course tomorrow. I’m so grateful to be able to take folks deeper into this work. It’s been a very emotional week for me to put the finishing touches on the scripts and do the recordings. I look forward to hearing how it lands with everyone that’s been eagerly awaiting the next installment of my work.
🌊🎨 Join us on this transformative quest to reshape your relationship with time, embrace indigenous wisdom, and create a life filled with passion, meaning, and joy.
Let’s journey together, weaving a future guided by indigenous wisdom and liberatory grace. 🌟🌙
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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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