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Hola Beloved Wildlings!
I’ve got 5 planets + the Sun moving through my 12th house (soon to be 6 with Saturn, but Venus will grace my first house very soon).
Now, as a decolonial and archetypal astrologer I don’t put a lot of weight on houses, my focus is about the relationships of the luminaries and planets. But… energetically, this is all a huge conversation happening between these planets + the Sun with my natal Mars and Chiron, my energetics and scars.
Anytime I find myself being pulled to push through or hustle, instead I take a step back, slow down, and observe. I could feel a case of hurry sickness creeping in.
So, I’ve postponed the Smooth Creator Workshop for now.
What I’m observing is the sense of uncertainty and scarcity disrupting people’s center. People closing down, clenching their fists, crossing their arms. Exactly what recessions are designed to do in late-stage capitalism.
Been there. Done that.
I was elected to office during one of the worst economic times, November 2008. Panic was very much alive then. That fall before I was sworn in our city was in cut back and protect reserves mode. There were many layoffs. Years of slow growth of people’s retirement funds vanished overnight. One former employee unalived himself. As a survivor this left an indelible mark on my heart.
This was what awaited us when Obama and I took office in January 2009. Very sobering.
I knew the way out of the hand-wringing panic wasn’t austerity, but collective care.
Reserves are for rainy days and it was fucking pouring. Working with Mayor, I convinced our council to protect our remaining employees, ensure their living wages, and balance a $40 million budget by drawing down our reserves to $5000.
That was pure Jupiter audaciousness moving through me. But I prioritized proviso over prudence.
Through relationship building and collaboration I fought to keep local jobs alive and money flowing, bringing in over a half billion in public funding for transportation and infrastructure improvements.
At a time when no one was moving forward with projects and layoffs abound, I helped create over 2000 new jobs.
This happened one open and intimate conversation at a time.
If you are feeling alone and uncertain, now is the time to start having those open and intimate conversations about collaborations.
This isn’t a time for hand-wringing. Now is the time for locking arms together and hand holding each other through this bullshit created by the billionaire class to fleece the masses.
This is how we innovate our way into the world we want, Decolonizing Time Together.
In that thread, this week I was so grateful to connect with long-time friend and colleague Merel Kriegsman to chat all things decolonizing Time and collaborations. We’re both ManiGens curious about growing businesses that feel Time spacious for our neuro-spicy nervous systems.
Merel is a women’s wealth advocate whose clients struggle with resource scarcity. She’s devoted to helping her clients create wealth on their terms. We’ll be doing a writing collaboration around our perceptions of Time in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!
Along with Merel, I am excited to collaborate with Mai-Kee Tsang (whose Ultimate Podcast Guesting workshop was so helpful for me as I was starting to guest on podcasts), Meghna Majmudar, and Paula Crossfield (and more) in the Cosmic Business Salon.
Their talks:
→Sustainable Visibility Mentor Mai-kee Tsang on 3 Keys to Building a Safe Visibility Strategy
→Women’s Wealth Advocate Merel Kriegsman on how to Get Real and Get Paid: The Power of Authenticity in Your Marketing
→Vedic Astrologer and Business Coach Paula Crossfield on how to Create Your Cosmic Business by the Stars
→ Meghna Majmudar (who I met through Kelly Diels when she spoke about imposter syndrome) will be talking about Power Fluency, the leadership skill required for this new paradigm of business.
And I’ll be talking about HOW TO BEFRIEND TIME & CREATE FLOW (AND WORK WITH THE MOON IN YOUR BUSINESS).
It ‘s all going down next week! Register here »»
Stay wild, love fiercely. Your presence is golden.
xo Ixchel
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P.S. This Dragon Letter comes to you in Leo Moon rather than Cancer. This week I’ve seriously debated whether I have the capacity for doing these. If you’re moved by these letters, please make a small monthly contribution here.
De-centering the US
Over the last few weeks in Nicaragua 300 activists, journalists, writers and political prisoners were stripped of their property and Nicaraguan citizenship and deported to the US by Ortega. This is yet another in a long list of a human rights violations inflicted since April 2018.
Words cannot express the rage that boils in me over what is happening there.
From La Prensa: “The president of the Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua (Ghren) for the United Nations, Jan-Michael Simon, compared the situation in Nicaragua with the crimes against humanity that were committed in Nazi Germany during the regime of Adolf Hitler, and whose details were known in the process known as ‘the Nuremberg trials.’ “All the elements that are seen in Nicaragua, unfortunately, can be seen in the Nuremberg trials,” said Simon, president of the Ghren, an expert in criminal law, criminal policy and public international law, originally from Germany.”
(These watch groups are not including the environmental atrocities also taking place, like ancient pine forests clear cut while their Indigenous protectors get murdered.)
My friend and neighbor in Nicaragua is terrified for her children because kids are being stolen and harvested for organ donation.
So, I want to remind you that the world is aware of everything happening in the US, probably more than people in the US are aware since the major media outlets are suppressing what people see more than ever (thank you Blackrock investors).
I’m not going to dedicate commentary to US events like the Ohio jackpot (if you’ve watched or read The Peripheral by William Gibson, you’ll know jackpot refers to a catastrophic environmental disaster) and the endless shootings other than to say, if you’re hand-wringing instead of collectivizing (like many TikTok creators have been) this is your wake-up call to start learning how to become an asset in collective action. Five years ago I said the US is 10 years behind Nicaragua on its fascism trajectory. I stand by that.
Decolonizing Time Together is Collective Medicine
My dear Wildlings, let us walk the path of Decolonizing Time Together. May we breathe in the wisdom of our bone lines to initiate our Flow for visionary action.
Decolonizing Time Together involves shifting from colonial time to regenerative, spiral Time through the collective practice of re-indigenizing and returning land stewardship to Indigenous peoples.
As long as we think about Time as something to manage, dominate and control we will perpetuate the theft, division, commodification, outsourcing and foreclosure of Time. (h/t to Estelle Elison for giving us foreclosure of Time, another example of Time theft during the rise of fascism.)
Repairing our relationship with Time and Place (our embodied experience of where we are now) is essential in reclaiming our Time and our future existence.
WE ARE IN THE EXTINCTION ERA
Everything we do will either uphold systems of extinction or repair what Time we have left with this planet in transition.
Remember all of this political and climate chaos is colonizer-made. The solution is coming together in collective to dismantle white supremacy culture that values individualism.
WE WERE BORN FOR THIS TIME
To repair our relationship with time, the Cosmos and our people, to liberate and embody Flow for a future of restorative culture, we must ground into what lights us up.
We must disrupt dominator culture’s death grip, so that we can expand our capacity for these Times and extend our resilience for come what may. This is a new way of being that deepens into our passions, talents and energy to meet the Cosmos in co-creation of our future with the planet.
WE CANNOT DO THIS DREAMING ALONEMany white people have been utterly cutoff from collective work due to Individualism. They do not understand what Collective action means insofar-as relationships go.
Here’s the thing… we cannot innovate new ways of being alone. It must be done in collective. In Collective we will find the medicine for these Times.
To decolonize and repair our relationships with Time, Place Cosmos, to ease up the thermometer of Earth, to slow down our nervous systems, we must re-learn how to come together and create new ways of being in collective. This is the dreaming that happens in Wild Presence Collective.
This [Stellar Astro/HD] session was my first introduction to Human Design, and it was extremely eye-opening (and even consciousness-opening, I would say).
It’s a new, complex world that enriches what I already knew about astrology. I can’t wait to delve in more!
I felt that this session opened me up to new possibilities for this chapter of my life and brought together so many different threads in a way I wouldn’t have seen on my own. It’s the start of a new journey for me!
— Allegra Cramb, Language Consultant
“Ixchel is a gift for our time. Our work together transitioned me from a path of should-ing and burn out to tuning into my deepest call and making space for it.
The principles of flow Ixchel teaches are magical, rebellious and life changing. Their presence alone had a way of bringing me into deeper alignment with myself every time we met.
For anyone called to unhook from old systems and bring forth work from a deeper place within, Ixchel is a pioneer, an inspiration and incredible guide.
Ixchel’s work is world changing, one human being reoriented towards time…at a time. They are a powerhouse of wisdom, depth and knowledge and I felt so seen, informed and cared for in our session.
The way we’re doing things is not working and Ixchel is showing us a new way. I left our sessions feeling inspired, resourced and ready to be part of the change.”
— CARA JONES, UNTETHER YOUR VOICE
“Every session with Ixchel left my nervous system calm and peaceful in a full, embodied way. No matter what topic we were discussing, their ability to co-regulate without (apparent) effort, but just by being, filled me with ease and freedom.
Just being in a container with Ixchel is enough, THEN receiving their wisdom about Time, healing, breath, Flow, human design, and all things down-regulating is simply magic.
We completed by celebrating some shifts in my path since we’d begun, and we got to talking about integrity and purpose-as-essence in a really wholing and exciting way; even up to the last few minutes, we were making mind-expanding connections!
Thank you, Ixchel, for your energy and your beingness. So empowering (in such a parasympathetic way) to work with you.
— ANNE MARIE CORLEY, WRITER
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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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