Featured Bizz Bitch: Arlene Salcedo
(Founder of Luna Soul Wellness | Human Design Educator, Astrologer & Spiritual Guide)
Every community has those women who make you stop and think.
The ones who ask better questions.
The ones who somehow make you feel seen before you've even finished your sentence.
That's Arlene.
As the founder of Luna Soul Wellness, Arlene helps women reconnect with themselves through Human Design, astrology, embodiment practices, retreats, and spiritual wellness experiences. But what I love most about her work is that she doesn't just help women learn about themselves.
She helps them trust themselves.
Arlene has become such a beautiful part of the BizBitch community because she's equal parts wisdom, depth, humor, and heart. One minute she's talking about Human Design and ancestral healing, and the next she's making everyone laugh. She's proof that spirituality doesn't have to fit into a neat little box.
Let's get into it.
Bizz Bitch Asks, Arlene Answers
Q: For those who haven't met you yet, tell us about Luna Soul Wellness and what you do.
Luna Soul Wellness is a spiritual wellness and education brand serving women who are self-aware, purpose-driven, and ready to go deeper.
I help women understand themselves at a soul level through astrology, Human Design, embodiment, and sacred space work. But what makes my work different is that I don't stop at "here's your chart." I help women actually live what they discover in their bodies, their businesses, their homes, and their relationships.
My offerings include one-on-one readings, retreats, workshops, private wellness experiences, corporate wellness, and a Human Design certification program for practitioners and coaches.
The real transformation isn't just self-knowledge. It's self-trust.
Q: Who do you help, and what challenges are they usually navigating?
I help spiritually aware women, especially women of color, who feel disconnected from their purpose, scattered in their energy, or stuck between who they've been told to be and who they actually are.
A lot of women already have awareness. They've read the books, listened to the podcasts, and done the personal development work. The challenge isn't understanding themselves intellectually. The challenge is actually living it.
I help women move from knowing themselves to trusting themselves. Through Human Design, astrology, embodiment, and spiritual wellness practices, we bridge that gap between awareness and alignment so they can create real transformation in their lives.
Q: Your story is incredibly powerful. How did Luna Soul Wellness begin?
Luna Soul Wellness was born from loss.
In my early twenties, I lost a child. That experience cracked open every question I had about love, spirituality, religion, grief, and what it means to truly know yourself.
That loss became a portal that changed everything.
From that moment on, I spent years searching. Not because I was curious, but because I needed something real. I explored different spiritual traditions, healing modalities, self-development practices, and ancestral work because I needed to find something that could hold the depth of what I had experienced.
Eventually that search led me to astrology, Human Design, embodiment practices, and ancestral healing.
When I found these tools, I didn't just study them. I used them. Through grief, healing, uncertainty, and growth.
I started Luna Soul Wellness because I know what it's like to walk through darkness and wonder if healing is possible. And I know now that it is.
Healing doesn't have to be linear.
It just has to be yours.
Q: What has been one of the hardest seasons in your entrepreneurial journey?
Moving to San Diego.
I arrived here knowing absolutely no one.
No community. No network. No support system.
Just me, my vision, and the reality of starting over.
At the same time, I was still figuring out how all my gifts fit together. I spent years experimenting with different offers and different businesses, weaving spirituality into real estate, interior design, and so many different versions of what I thought my work could look like.
As a 1/3 profile in Human Design, trial and error is literally part of my design. But living through uncertainty doesn't make it any easier.
What got me through was community.
I showed up. I planted roots. I built relationships. I found incredible women entrepreneurs and a spiritual community that eventually became home.
Looking back, I realize none of those detours were mistakes. They were all leading me toward what I was actually here to do.
Fear will always exist at the beginning.
Walk through it anyway.
Q: What makes your approach different from other Human Design and astrology practitioners?
I'm a translator.
I take ancient, complex spiritual systems and make them something you can actually feel, understand, and live.
Most people can learn about their chart online. What they struggle with is embodiment.
What does this mean for your business?
Your relationships?
Your leadership?
Your everyday decisions?
I have a unique ability to take what lives in the spiritual and philosophical realms and bring it into real life without stripping away the depth or cultural roots it came from.
I don't simplify the woo.
I make it land.
Q: Tell us about a client transformation you'll never forget.
One of the most unforgettable transformations I've witnessed involved a woman in her sixties who had struggled with severe anxiety, depression, and social isolation for over fifteen years.
She had spent years medicated, disconnected, and emotionally numb.
Through our work together and a deeply transformative retreat experience, something shifted.
For the first time in years, she was able to feel again.
She reconnected with her emotions, her body, and her sense of self. She started facing fears she had been avoiding for more than a decade.
Eventually she came off her medications completely.
Today she remains prescription-free, continues deepening her spiritual practice, and continues becoming more herself every day.
That experience reinforced something I deeply believe.
This work isn't about one specific modality.
It's about helping people remember who they are and holding them steady while they find their way back to themselves.
Q: What are you most excited about right now?
Three things.
First, my Human Design certification program.
I'm creating something that goes beyond simply teaching Human Design. I'm integrating embodiment practices, business tools, AI, astrology, Ayurveda, and practical applications that help practitioners actually build successful businesses with this work.
Second, our retreats.
There's something incredibly powerful about getting women out of their daily environments and into spaces where they can fully experience transformation instead of just learning about it.
And third, community.
Watching a genuine spiritual community take root here in San Diego has been one of the most rewarding parts of this journey.
Q: What's something people often get wrong about you?
People assume that because I'm playful, witty, and lighthearted that I'm surface-level.
That's definitely the wrong read.
I have spent years immersed in philosophy, spirituality, ancient wisdom traditions, and healing work. I just don't package it the way people expect.
I'm not traditionally book smart.
I'm something else entirely.
I like to call myself a magician because I somehow reach into my mind and pull out exactly what's needed in the moment, often surprising even myself.
Q: What's a truth about the wellness industry that more people need to talk about?
The spiritual wellness industry has a cultural appropriation problem.
Too many practitioners profit from Indigenous, African, and Eastern traditions without honoring their origins or acknowledging the cultures they came from.
I believe we can teach these traditions with integrity.
We can preserve cultural roots, give credit where it's due, honor lineage, and still build successful businesses.
And I believe Black and Latina women deserve to be leaders in this space, not afterthoughts.
We belong at the front of the room.
Q: Give us some fun facts about you because we know you're more than just Human Design and astrology.
I am a mother of four.
I love rap music.
I enjoy a good cocktail.
And yes, I'll absolutely show up to a ceremony the next morning completely devoted to my spiritual practice.
I'm not the soft, incense-only version of a spiritual woman.
I have edge.
I have humor.
I curse sometimes.
And somehow all of those things coexist with being deeply intuitive, highly trained, and genuinely devoted to this work.
Q: Why does community matter so much to you?
Community is everything.
It's the reason I do this work, and it's the thing that sustained me when I moved to San Diego and knew absolutely no one.
For me, community means women showing up for each other without competition, without performance, and without agendas.
It's real support.
Real connection.
Real growth.
It's creating spaces where women feel seen, safe, and celebrated for exactly who they are.
Luna Soul Wellness was never meant to be just a business.
It was meant to be a home.
And honestly, that's why communities like BizBitch matter so much.
Entrepreneurship can be incredibly isolating, especially when you're building something unconventional. We all need people who understand the vision, celebrate the wins, and remind us we're not doing this alone.
✨ How To Work With Arlene
Whether you're looking for a Human Design reading, an astrology session, a transformational retreat experience, or certification to bring Human Design into your own coaching or wellness practice, Arlene has created multiple ways to support your journey.
🌙 Website: www.lunasoulwellness.com
📲 Instagram: @lunasoulwellness
Current offerings include:
• 1:1 Astrology Readings
• Human Design Readings
• Human Design Certification Program
• Women's Retreats
• Workshops & Wellness Experiences
🖤 Why We Love Having Arlene In BizzBitch
At Bizz Bitch, we're surrounded by incredible women, but every once in a while someone comes along who reminds us that success and spirituality, ambition and intuition, leadership and softness can all coexist.
Arlene is one of those women.
And we're so damn grateful she's part of this community.
