Reclaim Speaking Your Truth to Power: Resources for Relational Resistance
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 Wildlings,
This Black Friday and Indigenous Heritage weekend, I am reflecting on what it means to stay creative, sovereign, and true to self during a season when collective pressure to perform gratitude reaches its loudest pitch.
Yesterday’s post brought a powerful exchange. Someone shared how the framing of leadership rooted in deep Time, lineage medicine, and rhythm felt like truth. They asked whether people resist it because productivity conditioning runs so deep.
The short answer is yes.
We absorb grind conditioning through school, through family systems, through survival. Bodies learn to override exhaustion until collapse becomes routine. Overwork becomes the rhythm. Fatigue becomes the baseline. Stillness is uncomfortable because it disrupts conditioning.
My public work interrupts that pattern and calls out the trance.
My client work stays close through the discomfort that follows.
This path requires devotion.
Listening to the body when the mind seeks adrenaline.
Staying with the unease when new pacing feels unfamiliar.
Choosing rhythm from ancestry and capacity.
There is no single moment when liberation arrives.
There is a gradual return to self through Time, cycle, and pulse.
My work centers leaders who refuse to disappear, who refuse to shrink, and who carry memory as fuel for the path forward. This season asks for that kind of presence.
What stands out most is the power of knowing who we are and how we move in the world as a foundation for resistance.
When we work with personal cosmology, our unique framework of identity, creativity, and purpose, we reclaim agency even under systems that aim to stifle expression. This is self-knowledge rooted in lineage and carried into movements that defy fascism and nurture collective liberation.
To honor this journey and make the work accessible through Monday, the IHD sale is open for bundles and mentorship pathways. An invitation to deepen into self connection, to strengthen capacity, and to align with liberated Flow.
To honor Indigenous Heritage Day and support rhythm-rooted leadership, here is what is available:
🜂 Time Bundle
Nervous-system leadership through cycles, pace, and energy stewardship.
🜁 Cosmology Bundle
Direction through stellar imprint, seasonal timing, and presence.
🜃 Stellar Impressions Mentoring
Message, voice, and visibility aligned with the chart and the body.
🜄 Wild Presence: Year of Rhythm
A year of visionary leadership grounded in personal cosmology and rhythm.
✨ Buy One / Give or Get One Human Design or Astrology/HD Session
A reading for you and a reading for someone you name or someone in need.
A portion of every sale supports Mayan League and defends Indigenous sovereignty, language survival, and cultural continuity.
If you feel called to deepen into your rhythm, stand grounded in your leadership, and stop collapsing for productivity, the catalog page is here:
→ Indigenous Heritage Day Sale
Here are four books I highly recommend for cultivating awareness and resilience:
My work centers on guiding you to uncover your role in movements for justice, connection, and liberation, all while supporting your creative Flow and authentic self-expression.
As you reflect on your journey of how we got here now, I invite you to join me in reclaiming Time, aligning with your purpose, and speaking your truth to power. Let’s move forward together, grounded in resilience and hope.
Stay wild, love fiercely. Your presence is golden.
With wild and rebellious love,
Maltiox! xo Ixchel
P.S.
If something on that page feels aligned with your next chapter, take it without apology. If you’re unsure, reply, and I can guide your next steps.
P.P.S. Maltiox pronounced mall-tee-osh means with gratitude in K’iche Mayan.
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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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