The Time Weaver’s Lexicon

A Glossary for Reclaiming Relationship with Time, Body, and Belonging

Time is not a commodity to manage. It is not a schedule to control or a resource to optimize. Time is relational. It moves through land, lineage, body, season, grief, transition, memory, attention, and the unseen.

This lexicon gathers the language we use here to speak about Time, belonging, identity, ancestral return, and embodied rhythm. These words are not metaphors or branding. They are concepts rooted in Indigenous ecological understandings of Tiime, somatic practice, decolonial scholarship, community-based healing, and lived experience.

Some of these terms come from specific lineages and are included with attribution and care. Others are frameworks, practices, or methodologies developed in my body of work. Together, they form a shared language. A way of recognizing what we already know in our bones.

Anumi (ah-NOO-mee)

Definition:

The animated, initiated purpose that arises from your inner wisdom. Anumi is not a goal you set, it is a living directive that emerges through relationship with Time, Soma Reverie, and your ancestral + lived experience. It is the animating force of your life’s work, the thread that pulls you forward when you listen.

Etymology / Root Significance:
Anumi draws from anima (soul, animating principle) and numen (the divine presence or sanction/power that says yes — this).


When your life aligns with your Anumi, you experience a felt sense of cosmic consent… things move with ease, synchronicity, and momentum.


When you move against it, life becomes heavy, resistant, and draining.
→ The body always knows the difference.

Function in Your Work & Teachings:
Anumi is the bridge between:

your Passion Birthright™ (intrinsic motivation + creativity)

your Initiated Collective Purpose (ICP) (your contribution to the collective)

and Soma Reverie (your consensual, relational embodiment practice).

Your Anumis guide your next right step, not the entire map. They reveal themselves over time, in conversation with Time.

Key Insight:
You don’t decide your Anumis. You recognize them.

Citations / Source Foundations:
The concept and applied process of Anumis appears throughout:

Time Devotion: Restore & Rise Guide, especially in Sections 1–5, where Anumis is referenced as the throughline for time alignment and boundary setting.

Passion Birthright™ Guide, in the introduction and Section 2, where Anumis is defined as the emergent wisdom guiding your Initiated Collective Purpose.

How to Identify When an Anumi is Present:

You will feel:

• Warmth / forward-pull in the chest or low belly

• A soft yes rather than a hype-fueled yes

• Clarity in where not to put your energy

• Time expands rather than contracts

• Creativity activates without forcing

If you feel:

• Dread

• Resistance that drains rather than stretches

• Collapse or shutdown
→ That is not an Anumi.

Time Devotion™ →

Indigenous Time Ecology

Definition:
Indigenous Time Ecology is the understanding that time is not linear, transactional, or scarce. Time is relational. It moves with land, ancestors, body, seasons, grief, and emergence. It is an ecological presence we co-regulate with—not a resource to extract or control.

Resonance:
Time is alive. Time has a body. Time has moods. We are not late. We are in relationship.

Let’s Work Together →

Initiated Collective Purpose (ICP)

(aka “mission” or MTP language, I’ve intentionally changed to remove colonial + evangelical resonance)

Definition:
Your Initiated Collective Purpose is the specific way your life energy contributes to the collective well-being. It is your purpose in motion, not your identity or your job. ICP is not something you decide in isolation. It is something that emerges through relationship, practice, repair, and initiation… especially with ancestors, land, Time, and community.

Why Initiated?
Because ICP does not come from:

• branding exercises

• personal development worksheets

• aspirational identity

• “finding” your purpose

ICP comes online when you:

• restore belonging

• rebuild right relationship with your lineage + land

• listen to your Anumis

• widen your capacity to be in rhythm with Time

It arrives after you have become someone who can carry it.

Why Collective?
ICP is never just personal.
It is always in service to others, community, lineage, descendants, and the more-than-human world.

It does not center the self, it centers reciprocity. You are not the hero. You are a participant in the greater turning.

Why Purpose?
ICP is not a slogan or brand statement.
It is your ongoing embodied orientation, the direction your life energy moves when it is in rhythm.

It is recognizable because:

• It feels resonant, not performative

• It generates creative renewal, not burnout

• It is felt in your bones, not justified in your mind

Relationship between ICP and Anumi

Anumis are the micro-orientations → “the next right step in relationship with Time.”

ICP is the macro-orientation → “the path you are here to walk with others.”

Or:

Anumi is the spark. ICP is the flame. ICP clarifies where you are headed; Anumis clarify how you walk.

Markers You Are Moving in ICP

You experience:

• a sense of rightness in the body

• time opens rather than collapses

• a widening circle of kinship

• clarity in where to place your energy (and where not to)

• leadership that does not feel like performance

Where ICP Lives in Your Body of Work

ICP is the cornerstone of:

Passion Birthright™ (naming + trusting your intrinsic motivations)

Time Devotion™ (building your days around what truly matters)

Wild Presence™ (embodied leadership in rhythm)

Ancestral Wayfinding™ + Inheritance (rooting purpose in lineage repair)

Time Devotion™ →

Nepantla (Nahuatl, via Gloria E. Anzaldúa)

Definition:
Nepantla is a Nahuatl term describing the space in-between — a liminal zone where identities, stories, worldviews, or ways of being meet, dissolve, and re-form. It is the threshold state of becoming, unsettlement, and transformation.

Lineage & Attribution:
The concept in contemporary cultural, identity, and writing studies is most widely shaped by the work of Gloria E. Anzaldúa, who described Nepantla as the borderland space between languages, cultures, roles, and selves.

“Now I call [the concept of borders and borderlands] Nepantla, which is a Nahuatl word for the space between two bodies of water, the space between two worlds. It is a liminal space, a space where you are not this or that but where you are changing.”
— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Anzaldúa emphasized that Nepantla is experiential… a felt state of metamorphosis, not a purely theoretical one:

“Living between cultures results in ‘seeing’ double… Seeing from two or more perspectives simultaneously renders those cultures transparent.”
— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

She also located Nepantla within the creative and writing process, describing the stage where ideas and images have not yet become coherent form — a chaotic construction-space.

How It Functions Here:
In the cosmology of this work, Nepantla describes the threshold states of identity repair, belonging recovery, ancestral remembering, and the slow reintegration of self after rupture or repression.

It honors:

Transition, not arrival. Becoming, not performance. Ambiguity as fertile.

Resonance:
This is the place where old stories dissolve, and new ones have not yet taken shape. Nepantla is the hearth of transformation. The holy middle.

Respecting Lineage: Nepantla is a Nahuatl term shaped in contemporary discourse through the work of Gloria E. Anzaldúa. It is included here with attribution and reverence. This lexicon does not seek to claim, redefine, or extract from ancestral or cultural knowledge systems, but to name where they inform and accompany this work.

Spiral Time

Definition:
Spiral Time describes change as returning with depth rather than repeating in circles. We revisit lessons, patterns, and identities from a new vantage, like rings in a tree.

Resonance:
You have been here before. But not like this.

Wild Presence: Year of Rhythm →

Wild Presence™

Definition:
Wild Presence™ is embodied leadership that emerges from attunement rather than performance. It is the capacity to be with the moment, the body, and the unknown without collapsing into urgency, force, or self-abandonment.

Resonance:
This is presence uncolonized. Presence that is feral, ancient, relational, and deeply awake.

Wild Presence: Year of Rhythm →

Soma Reverie™

Definition:
Soma Reverie™ is a somatic relational practice that restores trust between body and self. It invites sensation, pacing, consent, and attuned witness so the body becomes a sovereign companion—not an obstacle to overcome.

Resonance:
Your body is not a cage. Your body is a remembering.

Time Devotion™ →

Time Devotion™

Definition:
Time Devotion™ is a daily and seasonal rhythm practice that replaces productivity culture with presence-based flow. It is rooted in listening, relational attunement, and ecological pacing.

Resonance:
This is devotion as rhythm. Not performance, punishment, or discipline.

Time Devotion™ →

Personal Cosmology

Definition:
Your Personal Cosmology is the living framework through which you understand your identity, meaning, values, and belonging. It includes ancestry, land, lived experience, neurotype, myth, and spiritual relationship.

Resonance:
You are not a brand. You are a cosmology.

About Ixchel →

Stellar Impression™

Definition:
Stellar Impression™ is a cosmology-based brand & presence method grounded in natal astrology, Human Design, somatics, and identity re-integration rather than aesthetic imitation.

Resonance:
Your work is not content. Your work is signal.

Stellar Impression™ Mentorship →

Ancestral Wayfinding

Definition:
Ancestral Wayfinding is the practice of ritual protection and orienting to the well ancestors for support, guidance, and belonging in the present. It is identity repair, lineage repair, and relational repair.

Resonance:
You are not alone. They have been here the whole time.

Ancestral Wayfinding Ritual Kit →

Inheritance (Blessing Transmission)

Definition:
Inheritance, in this context, refers to the restored blessings, strengths, gifts, and capacities transmitted through a healed ancestral lineage.

Resonance:
Your inheritance is not shame. Your inheritance is a remembering of power.

Inheritance 1:1 Sessions →

Flow (Relational or Decolonial Flow States)

Definition:
Flow is the state of aligned presence where attention, body, time, and meaning converge. It is relational, not performative. It arises from listening, not striving.

Resonance:
Flow is not “focus.” Flow is remembering your rhythm.

Wild Presence: Year of Rhythm →

Rhythm vs Schedule

Definition:
Schedules are mechanical time. Rhythms are ecological time. Rhythms honor capacity, health, seasonality, neurobiology, and land-based pacing.

Resonance:
You are not a machine. You are a body in relationship.

Wild Presence: Year of Rhythm →

Polychronism

Definition:
A time orientation where multiple experiences unfold at once without hierarchy. Common in many Indigenous and global majority cultures.

Resonance:
Life does not happen in lanes. It happens in constellations.

Wild Presence: Year of Rhythm →