<![CDATA[RAQUEL & DAVIDIAN

<![CDATA[RAQUEL & DAVIDIAN - OUR BLOG]]>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 22:32:36 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[August 16th, 2022]]>Tue, 16 Aug 2022 23:40:11 GMThttp://raquelanddavidian.com/our-blog/august-16th-2022<![CDATA[MY SHOCKING JOURNEY TO ALIGNMENT]]>Thu, 03 Sep 2020 07:00:00 GMThttp://raquelanddavidian.com/our-blog/my-shocking-journey-to-alignment

BY RAQUEL REYNA

It’s Friday night at 6:18 pm and I’m on the 405 freeway. If you know LA, then you know what kind of hell realm I’m in.

It’s not pretty and I had already been at my juice bar since before sunrise this morning, so I’m freakin’ frazzled, with every single nerve sizzled.

My stress level is at 11 on the 1-10 stressometer, yet, the texts from my employees do not stop coming. One after another, the 17 twenty-something employees, who are running my store, are texting me in various states of emergency. Here are just some examples of the types of texts I am receiving from them (not all of them during this particular car ride obviously, but this is what I’m accustomed to hearing):

“Someone mugged me with the money bags.”

“Another employee kicked me when I was leaning over and then started poisoning my water” (this was a real text).

“The sewage pipes broke and there is literally shit in the lobby.”

“The blenders have broken, and the juicers have crashed…not just one but the whole store is now closed.”

“The manager stole over $4K”

There’s a sort of cumulative trauma effect, every time I receive a text from them. I’ve invested my entire life savings into this juice bar project and it’s going down in flames. I’m scrambling to keep up with the bills, the invoices, the payroll, the vendors. It is so excruciating, and on top of it, I have absolutely no energy to fix it, or go back to the store for even one more day.

I’m so F’ing over it!

And right now, Friday night, in bumper to bumper traffic, it is simply too much for me to bear and I’m breaking down and crying right there in my car, parked on the 405, with tons of onlookers sighing, perhaps praying for me, or just plain gawking at the frazzled girl, ugly crying behind the wheel.

I am at a complete and utter loss.

For goodness sake, after all my years of entrepreneurship, of study, of spiritual growth and personal development, of living with enlightened teachers, of having read an ever-growing fat stack of self-help books, of my having run several businesses,, of having invested tens of thousands in business/life coaches, and invested tens of thousands in business/life coaches, or Master’s Degree in Spiritual Psychology, …how did I get myself into this mess?

How the heck did I end up in this place?

This is definitely not right for me and I can feel that with every molecule in my body. I’m not only scared that I am close to losing everything financially, I fear losing my sanity along with it. This is not at all how I pictured my life going at this stage… cracking along every seam, watching it all about to crumble…, my condo, my money gone, my career up in smoke… it’s over… all spinning down down down, along with all the pulp into my raw juice bar sink hole.

Now this is the point, in most people’s books, where they share an epiphany or talk about a life-changing phone call, or the appearance from an angel. Nothing so glamorous here, I’m afraid, but something did happen right there on the 405, post-breakdown. Right there through my wails, the “I hate my life”, the F everything screams…something very subtle happened…I had, what would end up being, a life-changing thought. The thought was something my new BF, Davidian (and still my BF) had told me about myself…that I was a Projector in a system called Human Design and I wasn’t designed to work these type of 12-hour days or like that day, which was closer to 15 by the time I got home. I wasn’t designed to work in a traditional sense and that thought led me to think “OK, If I am not designed to work like that, what do I do?”

In Human Design, they say that if you follow your Strategy and Authority, you will be naturally led to right action, right livelihood, and have enough money to live your purpose… and for a Projector, that means being led to a life full of success. We’re all here to actualize our piece in this universal puzzle. We all have a unique part to play and we are here to actually manifest our uniquely designed purpose.

I had this thought running over and over in my mind, so it had to mean something, because whatever I was experiencing, and after doing hours and hours of meditation, being trained by a shamanic guide, and everything else I had mentioned earlier, nothing seemed to be directing my life to any of the ease, grace or abundance, that was virtually promised at the other end of it, so initially I felt truly lost and on the wrong path.

All I had in that moment was stress, pain, fear, and the total bitterness about my juice bar investment. It was possible I could lose my home, all of my life savings, pretty much everything, so I was terrified, but even more so because I knew deep in my heart that I absolutely could not go to my juice bar ever again, even if I friggin’ lose my ass. I absolutely had to surrender this one, step away, and discover a NEW way to live…because this one most definitely was not working.

I was willing to do whatever it took, as long as it wasn’t this.

So, that day, I committed to trying the experiment; the Human Design experiment of living my Strategy and Authority. I was going to commit to the full seven years. Now that’s a big commitment. They say it takes a full 7 years to decondition the mind from living as the Not-self and fully embrace living as my true self.

Now mind you, I am no novice to self-help, living consciously on purpose, spiritual development, meditation, shamanism, Release Technique, Spiral Dynamics, working with crystals, various healing modalities, etc.—if it’s a little woo, you name it, I’ve tried it, but I was still unable up until that point, of living a spiritual, conscious, profitable, fulfilling life (you know at least one that pays the bills doing something I enjoy). So really I was willing to try anything to get me into a new reality.

Deciding to take the Human Design experiment and merge it with all my spiritual teachings, felt like I was putting the final piece together in a long complicated puzzle.

So, the following day, after my “traffic therapy”, I had my manager run the store and I never went back. I managed to sell the store fairly soon after and took a year off, dedicated to studying Human Design…and well yes, everything changed rather quickly. A new business took shape, one that felt completely aligned with who I am. A business connecting with and serving like-minded entrepreneurs, helping them grow their businesses. It was a business that I could do from anywhere, and one that I could do at home with my partner, with my dog on my lap. It was a divine, heavenly joyous life and the juice bar hell realm became a distant memory. AHHH.

Now, in full disclosure, I am painting this transition with some broad simple strokes. There were indeed a few more dark night of the soul cries, emotional breakdowns, spread out of the bathroom tile, during this time…but I was lead in the right direction with each passing day.
Learning about my design was a long and deep AHA moment that really explained all the friggin life experiences I pretty much ever had. Yeah, it was eerie…it was tears, crying, feeling seen and understood for the very first time. Now, all my clients agree that learning this stuff creates the deepest level insights on who they are that they have ever had.

So, now I help other people who, like myself, thought they knew it all, tried it all, and yet something in their life was still just not quite right.
Our coaching is a smorgasbord, from a 21st century real-life perspective of how to create your life of purpose on purpose…having the charmed life of your dreams, making money, but without sacrificing who you are to do so. Being creative, but not living as a starving artist. Allowing your unique genius to shine and create a joyful purpose-driven existence.

I believe this work will heal the world. OK, that may be a little overly ambitious (ha)! I mean to say…well, think about it. If you loved what you did, how would you treat others, and then how may they in turn pay it forward? Now this is a completely gross, over-simplification, however, I’ve been exploring Spiral Dynamics and the journey to awakening and I will say, that this particular journey of living a purpose driven life in your business/career, not only steps you up a rung, it catapults you into a personal awakening like no other path, meditation or workshop has done, certainly for me. It’s not about intellectualizing, it’s all about experiencing.

I also believe, and it’s shown in the study of Human Design (as well as in many other spiritual teachings), that over the next ten years, the need for this self-knowledge is only going to increase, because the way people will be operating is going to change dramatically and people will need to know themselves in a new, more intimate way.

How to work and how to live as one’s self, will prove to be essential to leading a peaceful existence, because that promised easy living retirement plan, that is supposedly going to take care of you for the remainder of your days, that you spent 65 years of 9-5 hours per day building is fading away fast. The cookie cutter one-size fits all approach to life is literally crumbling (pun intended – LOL). The institutions that supposedly had our backs have lost our trust. There are fewer and fewer safety nets for retirees and all of them are either on shaky ground or risky business like gambling your future in the stock market. We’re becoming less secure financially as we enter old age and as that American Dream fades further, and this reality intensifies, people will only become more and more stressed and anxious. We are finding, sometimes the hard way, that there is really ONLY one thing that we can rely on…OURSELVES! The problem with that, is that most people do not truly know themselves – only their overly TV/parent/societal-conditioned, homogenized, utterly burnt out, Not-Self.

You are not who you THINK you are and that illusion keeps us living unfulfilling lives.

Finding your TRUE self is a journey you have to be willing to take, and that requires seeing your life with fresh eyes, which is not often an attractive option for those feeling stuck and powerless, but what you’ll find at the end of that journey is FREEDOM… freedom from the rat race, freedom from the pain of the mind, freedom from fear, freedom from overworking only to find empty rewards…freedom to be yourself.

The first thing to acknowledge is that if something isn’t going well in your life, there’s a reason why. If you’ve been having difficulty finding a purpose-driven career, launching your unique expression online, then you really need to look at yourself first, because it’s not just written in the stars. It’s also written in your DNA.

More on that soon, but first, we’d love to know what burning questions you have about Human Design and creating a business that reflects YOUR true nature?

]]><![CDATA[After YOU.]]>Mon, 15 Apr 2019 07:00:00 GMThttp://raquelanddavidian.com/our-blog/after-you

BY DAVIDIAN LYON

In true Ouroboros-like fashion, I, along with many of you I presume, seem to be in a continual transition, from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly to caterpillar again (ad infinitum).

Sometimes we are stuck in a thick cocoon we have built around us and the real healing and transition comes from eating our way out of that protective layer, that keeps us small and trapped and earthbound. Our cocoon is necessary, as we are announcing to ourselves that we are done living as what we are, and taking the necessary steps to separate, but I do not see the cocoon as the reason or catalyst for our transformation, as much as it is a hurdle we must overcome to become our next iteration.

Rarely, if ever, do you hear about would-be butterflies who stay trapped in the cocoon, thinking any day now, the cocoon will dissolve. The walls, indeed, may start to weaken and peel away, like wet wallpaper, but one can grow accustomed to its womb-like isolation, and remain still and fetal, never even pressing against the paper-thin prison.

As a 6, who’s been in a cocoon of sorts for 20+ years, and nearly done “roofing it”, I am feeling the slow ache of new muscles starting to form, but with no real room yet to flex them. I, too, have become used to my confinement, but I’m nearing the end of my sentence now, and with a somewhat nervous hopefullness, looking forward to life on the outside.

How many of you are 6s, who can relate to the Stockholm-Syndrome-like uncertainty of leaving your rooftop captivity?

P.S. If you do not know whether or not you are a 6, let us know, and we’ll show you how to find out.

]]><![CDATA[ARE YOU CURIOUS ABOUT HUMAN DESIGN?]]>Wed, 31 Oct 2018 07:00:00 GMThttp://raquelanddavidian.com/our-blog/are-you-curious-about-human-design

BY DAVIDIAN LYON

The way in which we view our lives and how our life works has been largely imposed on us by our parents, teachers, communities, culture, advertising, marketing, and television. You are not who you THINK you are. You are SO MUCH more and until you discover your TRUE SELF, you will be operating with faulty hit or miss strategies, and mostly sabotage your own efforts. Enter Human Design knowledge.

Wouldn’t it be incredibly helpful to see your unique inner wiring, your own life’s user’s manual, so you could determine exactly how you were designed to operate to get the best results? Find out what works for you and what doesn’t and remove the guesswork and often frustration from the equation?

If you’ve been seeking your true self, this incredible tool will reveal how you, specifically, were DESIGNED.

Having this intel about yourself, can majorly increase your LUCK factor and help you get out of your own way!

This is a missing piece to the Law Of Attraction (LOA) puzzle and one of the most loving and nourishing ways you can support yourself on your journey of greater self-discovery, helping to facilitate your success.

Human Design is an incredible tool to have in your consciousness toolbox.

Curious to learn more? Curiouser and curiouser.

]]><![CDATA[NOTHING TO FIX]]>Fri, 19 Oct 2018 07:00:00 GMThttp://raquelanddavidian.com/our-blog/nothing-to-fix

BY DAVIDIAN LYON

As far as FIXING goes, there is absolutely nothing to fix in your chart. This is you from birth until death (in this system). The only thing that can change is your AWARENESS and wisdom about how you are wired to operate, which is very different from everyone else.

When conducting your Human Design experiment, you start to see that there’s a big difference between WHO YOU THINK YOU ARE and THE LIFE THAT IS HERE TO BE LIVED (who you were Designed to be).

It’s so amazing to get to read your own owner’s manual and learn to see how you were Designed and the mechanics of how you operate and where you are vulnerable, so that you can consciously course-correct, in those moments when you are not operating correctly and figure that out.

What starts to happen rather immediately is you become a great deal more gentle and forgiving with yourself. What a relief that there’s nothing to fix! Self-mastery is certainly easier with a blueprint.

It’s about the evolution of your awareness and all the ways your mind traps you, pulls on you, and tries to move you / get you to do something… which is usually towards trying to get what you THINK you want or do what you THINK you should do.

Just notice it and bring yourself back to the present (for however long you can stay there) and follow your aura mechanics (Strategy & Authority), rinse, repeat.

]]><![CDATA[Coping With Impostor Syndrome]]>Mon, 08 Oct 2018 07:00:00 GMThttp://raquelanddavidian.com/our-blog/coping-with-impostor-syndrome

BY DAVIDIAN LYON

Who here has Impostor Syndrome or has experienced that impostor feeling at one time in their life?

As a refresher, ‘Impostor Syndrome’ is the psychological phenomenon in which an individual doubts their accomplishments and/or has a fairly persistent fear of being exposed as a “fraud” or that there is nothing special about what they are offering, because other people either do something similar or are much more impressive in their delivery.

If you’ve experienced this before or have recurring bouts, you recognize that this can be a huge monkey on your back, to the point of being debilitating. I think a lot of people privately battle this one.

I’ve certainly experienced it.

When I “go there” internally, I try to remember that no one has my exact take on things, my perspective, my life experience, and certainly not my frequency.

That last part is particularly important, because with my frequency, I attract people who are on my fractal, and those people may not have been exposed to or will be exposed to what I am saying anywhere else.
They are being attracted to me via my frequency and when they hear it from me, they will finally have ears to hear what is being transmitted.

Even if they were exposed to the same info elsewhere, countless times before, when I say it, they will meet that info for the first time and if I followed my Strategy & Authority and waited for the right time to share my insight (coupled with other individual aspects of my Design), then it has a real chance of getting in there and making a difference in someone’s life, instead of falling on the same deaf ears who could not hear it earlier during those countless other times they were exposed to similar insights/intel.

We all add our frequency to the information we share… a carrier wave, if you will, that will either attract our listener to our intel, annoy them, or they simply won’t hear a single word we say.

When I experience Impostor Syndrome, I ask myself if I followed my aura mechanics before sharing and, if so, I remind myself that I am sharing my insight with those who will only hear it from me and/or need to hear what I’m saying at that moment in their life, and then have faith that my message will reach its intended target…those people I am here to serve.

How do you cope with IMPOSTOR SYNDROME?

]]><![CDATA[LINE 6 - THE ROLE MODEL]]>Sun, 19 Aug 2018 07:00:00 GMThttp://raquelanddavidian.com/our-blog/line-6-the-role-model

BY DAVIDIAN LYON

A long-distance shout out to all of my fellow 6s out there….those with a 6 in their PROFILE (check your chart, if you are unsure).
We live 3 lives.

From 0-28 we live as a 3, but without the protection that the 3 is afforded. Lots of trial and error…often making and breaking bonds with all sorts and can OFTEN keep the wrong company.

After 28, until we are around 50, we live a second life, dramatically unlike the first. We are more aloof. We slow down…possibly go through a health crisis. We watch more. Observe more. Almost feeling like we are removed a bit from play (from the game), maybe wondering why our personalities have changed so much or perhaps just not wanting to engage as much as we had in the previous 28 years? Do you have this experience, 6; ye who is between 29 and 50? Like you are waiting for something?…like you are not finished cooking in the oven? Like you are in a state of becoming?…It’s called BEING ON THE ROOF…looking toward what’s next.

And what’s next, happens when you turn 50-ish and become a third thing. That will be me soon enough. I have begun my descent off of the metaphorical roof… I’m third thing bound.

FROM CATERPILLAR TO COCOON TO BUTTERFLY… Does this resonate with you 6s out there?

That said, what I actually wanted to say, is that the 6 is known as THE ROLE MODEL and I was given this advice that i pass along to you now… those 6s who do not act like THE ROLE MODEL (and, by that, I mean that you are responsible for what you know)…I’m told they don’t tend to live long past 50. We go through an initation for a reason and it’s up to you to figure out what that means for you.

Striving to live impeccably as ourselves and being the embodiment of what we know to be true.

The Role Model doesn’t teach it, as much as they ARE it. There is a distinction to be noted. The Role Model shows what is possible by BEING THE BEING that they are.

I’m also a 23-43 Freak to Genius, so this could simply be the musings of a freaky mind, but I hope this made some sense and reached its intended destination.

]]><![CDATA[SOME UNINVITED ADVICE FOR LINE 3s]]>Sun, 19 Aug 2018 07:00:00 GMThttp://raquelanddavidian.com/our-blog/some-uninvited-advice-for-line-3s

BY DAVIDIAN LYON

Since a characteristric of the 3 is to MAKE AND BREAK BONDS. It’s a good idea to work in an environment in which it’s natural to make and break bonds. Some qualities may include a place where you can meet and deal with new clients and introduce new concepts in different places…essentially finding a career or vocation where you can satisfy your need or proclivity to move on. If you are also an Undefined G person, the environments you enter will of course need to feel right.

What sorts of “professions” apply here, in which it is natural to make and break bonds? A paid guest speaker, a retreat facilitator, a travelling healer, a feng shui expert or similar modality in which you go to someone’s home or business, do your thing and then leave…not necessarily seeing the same client again or at least doing your thing and the having plenty of space. That is obviously not an exhaustive list, but you will always need your space and be able to separate yourself in order to re-make the bond.

This is another good reason for 3s to sleep alone in their own space. Not only is it good for EVERYONE to sleep in their own space, so they are not conditioning one another why they sleep, but it is a painless, drama-free way to satiate the need for the 3 to make and break the bond. Remember, breaking the bond is a natural part of the Line 3s process. Breaking away to sleep in your own space and then can coming back together may help to alleviate relationship stress.

]]><![CDATA[YOUR BIZ MIRROR PUZZLE PIECE]]>Wed, 11 Jul 2018 07:00:00 GMThttp://raquelanddavidian.com/our-blog/your-biz-mirror-puzzle-piece

BY DAVIDIAN LYON

How are you showing up for others? And is it being reflected in your business?

For example, when you do a sales call, are you getting the dreaded responses: ‘I have no money’, ‘I was just looking for free info”, or “I am not ready yet”?

Do any of these statements make you feel depressed or incapable of running your business another day?

Now, look deep within your own process of taking energy from the coaches you love.

Do you listen to everything they do, expect coaching, but do not buy their products?

Are you unable to really invest in those coaches that provide you transformational information? Are you expecting them to work for free? Are you expecting to continue to pillage their energy, the Facebook Lives, their sacred knowledge and not invest in what they have to give? Sometimes how you show up as a client is exactly as your clients will show up for you.

When you receive something of considerably great value from a potential coach or mentor, someone you’re not currently working with, but let’s say, you participated in their free challenge that strongly resonated / engaged you, and that you recognized had a positive impact on your life… do you tend to take it for granted?

And when you do that, do YOUR potential clients tend to take the “free”, but transformative intel you provide to them for granted?
I guess what I’m asking is, “Is the way in which you honor or acknowledge the free but powerful transformations that you receive, mirrored by what you experience in your own business”?

Do you observe, through your potential customers’ positive feedback/testimonials, that they were indeed transformed by your free intel, but they decide not to work with you, for whatever reason, or don’t invest in any of your programs, however inexpensive?

And when you do acknowledge the gifts others have brought you, given to you, that you do acknowledge, as being valuable… do your potential customers tend to more often acknowledge and appreciate what you have given to them?

Also, when you are more willing to invest in other’s programs, do you find that others are more interested in investing in yours?

I’m just curious. What are YOUR findings?

]]><![CDATA[CHANNEL 53-42: THE CHANNEL OF MATURATION]]>Fri, 27 Apr 2018 07:00:00 GMThttp://raquelanddavidian.com/our-blog/channel-53-42-the-channel-of-maturation

BY DAVIDIAN LYON

This Channel includes something called FORMAT ENERGY, which greatly influences one’s entire chart and includes quite a bit of melancholy, as do the other format Gates and Channels. Whatever people with this particular Channel begin, there is often a great pressure (a genetic imperative) to complete. That means it is SO VERY IMPORTANT for you to make sure that you enter into such arrangements, relationships, projects, experiences, etc. correctly, by following your Strategy & Authority.

The consequence for not doing so, is being stuck in something until it naturally concludes (which could mean you are unhappy and FRUSTRATED, for a long time, even years)or alternatively, jump out of something prematurely and face the same repetitive pattern later, all over again, in a different experience, relationship, etc.

People with this Channel live life in cycles that often repeat, with the capacity or potential to become wise or reach a state of maturation.

These people often have a deep affinity for the past, as this Channel brings an ABSTRACT, experiential life force energy. And being cyclical, those with this Channel are often very keen of cycles in general, be they historical, natural/rhythmic cycles, anatomical, or planetary/astrological.
Life is a journey of cycles and you are here to be attuned to these cycles and recognize when a cycle has begun or ended and act accordingly, as well as appreciate all of the waning and waxing periods in between.

If you’re interested in learning more about this and about your Design, in general, and how it affects your life and business, PM us, and we will SHED LIGHT on how you can work with us.
It will absolutely change your life!

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