What if small is sacred?
Dragon 🐉 Letter #95: Your ritual doesn’t have to be perfect to count.
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.
What’s Happening in June:
Deets below….
Beautiful Wildlings!
You’ve been told that if it’s not big, flashy, or perfectly aesthetic, it doesn’t matter.
That’s spiritual consumerism.
That’s grind culture dressed in a flow-y maxi dress.
But your ancestors? They knew the truth.
Your breath is a ritual.
A bowl of water is a portal.
Lighting a candle while whispering their names is the revolution.
We’ve been conditioned to believe that healing has to be hard and huge.
That healing only counts if we pay big bucks for it.
That we have to earn our way back to wholeness.
That’s the grift.
❌ You don’t have to perform your way into belonging.
❌ You don’t have to be healed to be in ritual.
❌ You don’t need the full lineage map to begin.
You need a body.
A willingness to listen.
A small moment, returned to often.
I’ve spent decades walking this path.
I’ve guided public rituals in courthouse squares, carried ceremony across borders, and mentored misfits who are reclaiming their rhythms from burnout and exile.
This isn’t theory. This is breath-and-bone knowledge earned through rematriation, chronic illness, and ancestral reckoning. I’ve studied cosmology, trauma healing, the Mayan Cholq’ij, and sat with the old ones long enough to know: you were never meant to do this alone.
That’s why I made this — because you were never meant to heal in their system. The rupture isn’t yours to carry alone. The ritual is your birthright. The inheritance is alive. You ready to receive it?
A ritual kit full of breath-sized practices, ancestral rhythm, and altar tending that doesn’t ask you to perform. It’s dropping now with additional guidebooks and videos coming all this week.
→ The Ancestral Wayfinding Ritual Kit
This is how we start to remember.
Together.
With breath.
With belonging.
Below are a few events I’m a part of. I hope you’ll join me!
Free Workshop to explore if Ancestral Lineage Healing Sessions are a fit
If you’re curious about Ancestral Healing but not quite ready to step into this healing, I invite you to start with the free workshop — The Ache is Ancestral.
It’s a gentle entry point into this work: a chance to reconnect with your body, explore what your lineage might be holding, and feel into whether this path is for you.
You’ll get a sense of what it means to repair lineage rupture, reclaim ancestral connection, and walk in belonging — all in a space rooted in ritual, consent, and care.
You can sign up or get the replay here:
👉🏽 Register for the Workshop
Let this be a beginning. The ancestors will meet you where you are.
Have you heard?! I’m speaking at 👁The Inner Guidance Summit, coming up on Friday June 13, and I’d love for you to join me.
This free 2-day, online event is a powerful invitation to reclaim your intuition as an essential source of power, guidance, and support in these times. It’s all created by and for a diverse community of highly sensitive folks like you!
I’ll be presenting on Returning to Ancestral Time: Receiving the Inheritance of the Well Ones. Don’t miss it because I’ll be sharing all about
Learn how to connect with your well ancestors who hold the rupture — without making you carry the weight
Explore Ancestral Time as a liberatory rhythm that honors your body, boundaries, and becoming
Receive rituals to reclaim your inheritance and restore belonging without spiritual bypass or perfectionism
In addition to the illuminating speaker sessions, you’ll also enjoy:
✦ Access to a wealth of free gifts and bonuses contributed by our magical speakers to support your next step
✦ A private event portal with space to comment, ask questions, and engage with the community
I’m looking forward to checking out the presentations myself. Here are some of the ones that caught my eye 👀
Stephanie Elizabeth — Trust What You Know: Reclaiming Your Intuitive Nature
Mētztli Wolf — Wolves, Witchcraft, and the Will to Survive: Intuition as a Tool for Sacred Rebellion
Baby Reckless — Under Their Mantle: Diving deep into your devotional practices with Mother Mary and La Santisima Muerte
Marissa Loewen — The Fear Force: Using Your Fears to Power Your Intuition
One Who Catches Lightning and Keeper of the Thunderstone — Rediscover Connection : IK 3 Breath Practice (Mayan Cholq’ij wisdom)
Mountain Flower — Interpreting nature as an element of support and guidance
Biba Atta — Sacred Resistance: Seeing Your Resistance as a Doorway, Not a Wall
One Who Catches Lightning is a fellow TikToker I’ve been following for a few years now. I love their work with the Mayan calendar, so I’m looking forward to the breathwork practice they will be sharing.
Each presentation will be available to watch free for 24 hours. Want to enjoy the summit on your own schedule? You have the option to purchase an upgrade to the All-Access Pass which includes an awesome bonus from me. This allows you to revisit the extended replay at any time. (Your purchase will also help compensate the speakers for this offering.)
I can’t wait to share the magic with you!
Are you in? Grab your free ticket here.
Just a quick reminder, if you’ve been curious about using astrology to grow your brand in a more aligned, powerful, and intuitive way… AstroBrand® 101 with Leslie Tagorda starts next week (June 9–13)!
If you’ve been circling the question of how to show up in your biz in a way that actually feels like you…
AstroBrand® helped me stop trying to market from someone else’s voice and finally trust my own. That was the shift.
No more shoulds. No more strategies that made my gut clench.
Leslie showed me:
👉 why certain offers felt like a dead end and others flowed like honey
👉 that I don’t need a bigger audience, I need braver presence
👉 And I finally had a map — my own natal chart — to guide my message.
Inside this low-cost, live training, you’ll learn how to:
✨ Decode your brand’s magnification keys
✨ Align with your natural leadership energy
✨ Attract clients through memorable, soul-aligned visibility
The whole training is designed for spiritual entrepreneurs, coaches, and creatives who are ready to stop following cookie-cutter strategies and start trusting themselves by seeing their star-powered strengths.
If that’s you? Grab your seat here:
👉 Sign up for AstroBrand® 101
The stars are waiting — but more importantly, so is your voice.
Stay wild, love fiercely. Your presence is golden.
Maltiox! xo Ixchel
Indigenous Time Ecologist | Ancestral Medicine Guide
P.S. Inheritance Ancestral Lineage Repair Sessions are now available.
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 down and to the left of Huitepec in the highland forest of the traditional, unceded, and stolen lands of the Winik Atel (Tzeltal) and Batsil Winik’ Otik (Tzotzil), past, present, and future, in what is known as San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, 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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I’d never heard of spiritual consumerism but that felt like such an exhale to learn!
So excited for your presentation in the Inner Guidance Summit!