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 7 Ajpu, the energy of Radiance, Truth, and Life Force.
Ajpu is the sun in your ribs, the pulse of creation, the bright path you walk in your own way. The number 7 marks culmination, height, and pause. From the top of the pyramid, it reminds you to look from the summit before continuing. This is a day to remember your light without apology, and to ground in the heat that keeps you here.
Sky Pulse for Today
Moon cozies up to Mars and lights a fuse in your lower belly. Mercury slides into retrograde’s shadow like it knows what’s coming, already second-guessing itself. If something sparks, don’t smother it. Fan it. Watch what catches. Could be heat, could be clarity.
Time Weaving Daily Rhythm Ritual — Inner Fire
This somatic practice centers the fire within the body as memory, direction, and fuel. It calls back the steady flame through warmth, rhythm, and touch.
Practice
1. Hands to heart.Rub your palms together until they generate heat, then press them flat to your chest. Inhale through the nose, exhale out the mouth. Repeat three times, letting the warmth spread.
2. Breathe in rhythm.Take short, steady inhales and exhales through the nose like a bellows, just 10 rounds. Let your ribs move. Let your core buzz. Let your spine rise taller.
3. Tap the sternum.With fingertips or knuckles, lightly tap from the base of the throat down to the solar plexus. Whisper or hum something that feels like your power word. Let it vibrate in your bones.
4. Pulse and stillness.Stand or sit in silence for 2 minutes. Feel for any flicker of warmth, memory, or message.
Writing Prompt
Where in your body do you feel your inner flame? What fuels it right now—and what dims it?
Share your flicker in the Substack comments to help our daily emails have more reach. Your warmth might light another’s way.
Walk slowly with Time today. Let your flame remind you of what burns true.
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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