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My Three Words for 2021 – Deep Listening, Exploration, Unfolding

January 10, 2021 By Cara Lumen

My Three Words for 2021 – Deep Listening, Exploration, Unfolding

Creating Conscious Connection

Ashe
(“Ah-Shay”)
The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

Goals are good and goals can be overwhelming.  I’m a go-with-the-flow person. I rely almost exclusively on my inner voice to guide me in the moment.

However, identifying an over-arching theme might be a good idea.  Chris Brogan suggests we choose three words for the year.   I have done that for a lot of years. Here are the three words I have chosen for this year.

Deep Listening. Since my work is unfolding, the first focus for the coming year that I choose is Deep Listening.  That means moving to my Still Point multiple times throughout my day to let go of my human thoughts and sit in silent serenity.  I am learning that I don’t have to make decisions other than in the moment. I just let my inner nudges show up and I explore where they take me. 

Exploration is my second word for the year.  I feel pretty certain that most of what I offer is going to come from my inner work, my journeys, and my unexpected insights. That means I am to stay aware, move into deep listening, and when a nudge shows up, I am to take time to examine and explore – a little or a lot, depending on how I feel about the topic of the moment.  Here I go adventuring…

Unfolding.  I started to chose “change” but this is such a huge period of change. Then I considered “evolution” which seems huge. But in this dramatic and rapidly changing world, I can only sit in thoughtful awareness and listen to my inner voice guide me to my next steps.  I let life unfold and shape things as they come. 

Deep Listening, Exploration, Unfolding.

What three words will you chose to open up new portals for you this year?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I move into deep listening and choose three words to guide me this coming year. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

Here are my three words from the past:

My Three Words for 2020  – Strength, Intention, Explore

My Three Words for 2019 – Vibration, Nature, Portal

My Three Words for 2018 – Invisible, Radiate, Journey

My Three Words for 2017 – Broaden, Deepen, Change

My Three Words for 2016 – Determination, Trust, Explore

My Three Words for 2015 – Impact, Connection, Flexibility 

How ChrisBrogan Changed My Life– 2014

OUR GLOBAL DEEPR SONG COMMUNITY 

Our Deeper Song Community extends throughout the planet.  Welcome new Deeper Song Explorers. I’d love to hear from you – caralumen@gmail.com or let’s have a discussion on the Deeper Song Explorers!

DEEPER SONGS I EXPLORED THIS MONTH

Life Lessons from a Lump of Clay

Sometimes it seems like there is no rhyme nor reason why our lives are the way they are or how we turned out the way we did.  But there is.  There are choices and beliefs and interactions that created our path, our journey. We are exactly where we should be considering what we thought and did. 

There are many circumstances that are pushing and shoving and moving and shaping our lives.  It helps to think about some of them and where they might lead.

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community is a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

In this episode we explore

Life Lessons from a Lump of Clay

(17 minutes)

(Listen Here)

Listen to
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on

Apple / Spotify /Google

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

Stand Steady in Your Own Truth

The Path We Choose

Build a Strong Bridge to Your Invisible Self

The Power of Your Still Point

Life Lessons from a Spider

***INNER WORK***

Rediscovery

I drew the oracle card “Rediscovery” on the first of this new year and I am thinking about what that might mean.  I will look for gifts I have that I have left by the wayside.  I will look for ideas that organically fell into second place along the road.  And I’m going to look at what I can repurpose in this rapidly changing new world. In this moment, I only have a vague feeling about what that will be. And it may not be a tangible step.  It may be introspective work, an expanded spiritual practice, even a review of something I used to do from my present viewpoint of what is unfolding.  

What will you rediscover?  Go exploring and look in all the corners….

Our Inner Strength

“When things fall apart around you, you’re really left with what you’ve developed inside you.”- Rick Hanson, Ph.D.

I stopped to consider what I have developed inside me that keeps me moving inward and upward.   

I have a deep and varied pattern of spiritual practices.  I am mindfully moving to my Still Point more often during my day to encourage moments of deep tranquility and introspection.

I have taken what may be an intuitive proactive step as I become clear what my role is in humanity today.  I am not an in-person, interactive contributor to the well-being of our world. My work is to help us raise our vibration.  My work is in the inner world, where I explore and interpret and share what I figure out.  But my main job, my core work is with vibration – learning to raise our vibration with conscious awareness and encouraging those who can hear the message to do the same.  Not everyone will hear this call, but as we each move more deeply into our role as Light Beings, others will recognize it in themselves and make the choice to consciously join us. 

There are many things I cannot and am not meant to do on the physical plane.  So I focus on what I have developed inside and share that. 

What have you got going for you?  What do you need to add to your life pattern that would expand and elevate your experience and your place of service?  What is not yours to do? Let that go.  Keep building your strength within and rely on your inner voice.

***OUTER WORK***

How are you Nurturing Yourself and What do you Need to Change?

We slip into destructive patterns without realizing it.  I have been watching too much news and it finally caught up with me.  I very much enjoy the fabulous minds and incredible vocabulary of cable news, but the subject matter has been like watching a horror movie.  Even with change in sight, and hope on the horizon, I was being drawn deeper and deeper into despair. It even manifested a feeling of depression over the holidays – and I have never been depressed in my life.   

Finally, I made a major change.  There are wonderful music channels on my TV.  I love both classical music and New Age and my life has been woefully short on both.  Until now.  

What kind of habits have you fallen into that you need to break?

It easy to identify habits you would like to create. But what habits do you have that are doing you harm? And how will you change that?

Use Music to Heal 

Music is a powerful vibration.  It can soothe you and challenge you and lift you up.  Music comes from the soul of the composer and the musician – a gift from them to you. Go exploring into musical venues you have only dabbled in before and see where it leads you.  I will explore jazz more.  I like it very much but it seems to be third on my list.  There is a difference between light classical music and classical music. Composers really give it to you in classical music.  It can be very demanding. And stirring. And motivating.  It makes you feel like you should rise up and go take on something big. Light classical feels a bit more joyous and less demanding.  I get to choose to fit my mood and my need. 

Focus on an instrument you love to hear. I’m a cello fan and a saxophone fan – both low, mellow sounds.  I play the native flute and have played the piano in the past.  And I have sung in lots of quartets and choral groups.  Odd that I let music slip out of my life. 

I have 8 drums but seem focused on two, a buffalo drum I made in a workshop 30 years ago and a small djembe from Africa.  There is something very freeing and releasing about drumming. 

Notice the vibrations you allow into your life. Notice what you listen to and how it affects you.  Silence is good too. It has a healing sound of its own.  Humming as a focused vibration is healing. Making up songs is liberating and creative.  

Make a rattle out of popcorn in an empty spice jar.  Make a drum out of the bottom of an empty plastic container and experiment with your own rhythms. There is a way to play two spoons!

How are you spending your downtime and are you aware  of how it affects you?

Make conscious changes that include adding more sound experience to your life and notice the difference it makes. 

Make Room for Change and then Wait for It!

There is nothing more powerful than making room for change and then waiting to see what shows up.  I eased up on my publication schedule and in the space that was cleared by that choice I continue to find new ideas and opportunities now that they have room to make themselves known.  

How do you invite change in?  Sitting in silence with no expectation is a powerful place to begin. 

***DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE***

Deepen Your Spiritual Practice Through Art

We get so caught up in our words that we get tangled up in them and ultimately find we are limited by them.  Sometimes real clarity comes when we use art to explore our feelings, our thoughts, our inner world. What words cannot describe, drawing can.  

I do pencil drawings of my journeys. Not all of them, but when I do take time to draw images from what I see, it clarifies and broadens my understanding of my journey.  And when I revisit the drawing, the whole journey pops back into my mind. I keep my drawings in sheet protectors in a binder.  

You could use art to describe your feelings or to explore an idea for a project. My drawings have stick figures and signs that point to wavy lined paths.  When in doubt about what the image is meant to be, I add a label…! Drawing your idea provides a new way to look at it and explore its possibilities. 

You could doodle or paint, cut out paper figures, use clay or finger painting or crayons.  Every color has a message, just choose colors that call to you and perhaps write words on your paper that pull up the images from your experience of the thought you want to capture. 

Find other ways to explore your thoughts besides words. It will open up new depths of understanding. 

***DEEPER SONG  INSIGHTS ***

The Question that Heals

“How are you doing?” my friend inquired in an email.  I sat down to answer her and uncovered insights and awareness that helped me heal myself. All because my friend knew I had had a rough time and cared enough to ask how I was doing.

When you listen, when you offer other people the gift of your caring presence, it opens up space for them to go within and find the core of their imbalance.  Through their self-awareness, self-healing occurs. 

How are you doing? I’m listening.

Purpose and Intention versus Unfolding 

The article said, “Begin the year with purpose and intention.” And it immediately felt forced to me.  I’m an unfolding kind of gal.  Now that doesn’t mean I don’t set objectives for myself, I do, but they are broad, not detailed and I’m just not very attached to them – I let them unfold. I go with the flow.  I’m pretty relaxed about when I do them or if I do them.  I tune in to what I am in the mood to do and then do that.   

That’s pretty casual, right?  How do I get things done? I listen to my inner voice and respond in the moment.  And I am aware of the results of my choices and change those choices as seems appropriate. 

Choose, act, evaluate.  Repeat. That’s how I let things unfold.  

***OUR EVOLVING FUTURE***

What is Your Role?

I’ve been listing to a lot of classical music lately and it makes me think of the long path to becoming a professional musician.  

There are very few solos in an orchestra. But the ones I have been hearing are heart-stirringly beautiful.  That means that person has spent hours and hours and hours learning to play that well. 

What is your role?  Are you to be a core member of a group?  A soloist in an orchestra?  A performing artist in your own right?  Or do you just love to play music?  What is your role in life – soloist, conductor, member of the ensemble or a joyful player of music for yourself?  Whatever level you are, you bring with it joy, commitment and love of music.  

Looking back over my life, I have been in ensemble groups that created an experience I could not have done alone – quartets, choirs, the cast of a play.  And I have worked diligently and consistently to hone my own individual skills. 

But my role now is as a member of a much larger group –  the growing ensemble of conscious seekers who are working together to raise the  vibration of our planet. 

This is a time of change.  Our role is changing.  The opportunities are changing.  

Look back over your life for the signs and signals and the opportunities you did or did not take, and notice the choices that led you to where you are now.  You have the power to change direction by changing your choices. 

I have spent a large portion of my life writing – both professionally and perennially.  What gift weaves its message throughout your life?

Know what is driving your life and your life choices. What is your role and how are you going to fulfill it?

Message from the Sacred Earth Cards

Revolution

I drew this card “Revolution” for myself this week and had to go to the oracle book that came with the cards in order to discover it is about cycles.  Revolving cycles. Expanding and waning cycles. We are always in some stage in multiple cycles.  They intertwine, and ebb and flow, and our life changes.  On the card, a woman is holding a lotus in a globe.  A lotus is rooted in mud below the surface, and its awesome flower rises to the surface to share its beauty with the world.  Be aware of the mud that nurtures you.  Be aware of the multiple cycles you are in and see if you can understand and take advantage of where you are in each cycle.  

I am in a cycle that is changing my offerings.  It is affecting the frequency, the form, and what I write about.  I am in another cycle with my body – a sort of uncomfortable  straightening of my body as I release something I have not identified.  I am in a cycle of introspection, focused on raising my vibration and understanding my next steps. All three cycles are underway simultaneously.

Let your life unfold, but pay attention to the revolving stages of increase and decline in each cycle.  Allow yourself to evolve into the New Consciousness.

Sacred Earth Cards

CARA’S CORNER

Follow Your Nudges

Amazing answers show up when you stay still and listen.  

As suddenly as I got interested in Astrology, I am just as suddenly putting it aside. Or, at least not exploring it more deeply and giving it a lesser role in my own exploration. I have an over-arching intention.  I will follow that and it will show me what I need to do, what I need to consider next. 

A shift happened when I was writing the opening article. The Deeper Song Process became a list of podcasts and posts that depend on the experience of the topic of the article, and I understood that is another way to help you explore more deeply, that it enriches what I offer.  

I created a slightly different format for this newsletter and it is helping me focus on what I offer. It up-levels the content and helps me make more focused choices about what to include.

We are to go exploring more deeply together.  I have no real idea what that will look like, but I know I can go deeper and explore further afield and we will expand our consciousness together. 

What I invite you to do is to follow your inner voice, your nudges, and explore what calls to you.  Be selective, be aware of what is calling you, and when you start exploring, notice how what you are learning and experiencing resonates.  Use your response to guide your steps. 

We are taking a turn in the path here. We will end up in a new place, a new space of opportunity.  We just have to pay attention to the guideposts along our path – and choose each step with awareness. 

A DEEPER SONG

It is time to take a step. 

It is time to take a step further. 
The Unseen World embraces me with open arms.

It is time to take a step further. 
The Unseen World embraces me with open arms.
Here I go adventuring!

– Cara Lumen

We create our future with every thought we think, every action we take.  Move forward mindfully as you sing your Deeper Song.

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

I help spiritual adventurers explore the Unseen World so that we broaden and deepen our personal journey and turn to share our discoveries with others.  We are guides and way-showers with our light held high.

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Life Lessons from a Lump of Clay

January 3, 2021 By Cara Lumen

Life Lessons from a Lump of Clay

An Exploration of the Unseen World

Sometimes it seems like there is no rhyme nor reason why our lives are the way they are  Or how we turned out the way we did.  But rehire is.  There are choices and beliefs and interacdtions that created our path, our journey. We are exactly where we should be considering what we thought and did. 

There are many circumstances pushing and shoving and moving and shaping our life  It helps to think about some of them and where they might lead.

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community is a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

In this episode we explore

Life Lessons from a Lump of Clay

(17 minutes)

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To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

Stand Steady in Your Own Truth

The Path We Choose

Build a Strong Bridge to Your Invisible Self

The Power of Your Still Point

Life Lessons from a Spider

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What is Unfolding?

December 27, 2020 By Cara Lumen

What is Unfolding?

Creating Conscious Connection
Namaste
(nah-mah-stay)
The Light in me honors the Light in you!

Astrology says we are moving into the Age of Aquarius for the next 200 years and two major planets, Jupiter and Saturn, are moving into conjunction for the next 200 years.  They are also moving from the element of Earth to the element of Air. Seems like a rather large shift to me. 

The Age of Aquarius is about people and communities and it has begun. 

The Element of Air is about action, ideas, and motion. Think of shape-shifting clouds, continually on the move, always changing shape.  That’s what our life in the Age of Aquarius will be like.  

What does that mean for us?  What kind of adjustment do we have to make?  It’s not like moving to a new outcry and having to get used to a new culture. We are evolving a new culture, a new way of intreating, and being. and it has just begun to unfold.  Think where we will be in 200 years!!!!

So here we are with two huge, huge changes to make, the move from the element of Earth to the Element of Air and the beginning of a new 200 year Astrological Age.  That’s pretty big stuff.

New groups, communities, connections, and alliances will form. These new networks will have one thing in common – they will be decentralized, self-regulated, and will allow for individual freedom of expression.

We have a lot of old ideas to set aside, a lot of changing to do both within and without. We have a lot of exploring to do in order to figure out how we are to do that.

Our physical world experience has already changed dramatically as the whole planetary population stays home and struggles to simply stay alive.

I experience great relief as I watch President-Elect Joe Biden assemble incredibly smart, wise, experienced people to serve in our government and know that positive change will happen effectively and steadily.

For instance, if we are all going to learn on the internet, then we have to get interconnect with all communities.  A few years ago Google Fiber came to the Greater Kansas City area and put in an internet connection for free in a lot of places.  It happened to include my senior center.  We get the service free for ten years and they have a customer for life. 

When you get ready to replace your tablet or laptop, find a child to give it to who needs it for their school work. Maybe you go in person to work with them to get them started.  What a lovely new friend to make.

The solar industry is not only going to provide jobs but will make all people- power secure.  You can put a solar power panel in your driveway that will power your entire house. They even have solar panels for apartments. Imagine, if everyone, all over the world could have power for cooking and warmth.  That’s a huge change. 

As large numbers of people work from home the sky is clearing as the pollution ends.  The birds are singing in response.  

We have learned that growing things vertically is more productive than horizontally.  That makes it possible for more people to grow some of their own food in very small spaces.  Someone has made building bricks out of growing mushrooms that are stronger than any other rebuilding material.  

Jobs will be different.  More jobs on the infrastructure in the US, putting in solar charging stations for the electric cars that companies are already beginning to build. There are lots of jobs there. We can build roads out of plastic and built a 3-D house in two weeks. Artificial Intelligence will take us on a whole new adventure and will replace much mundane and repetitious work. Service industries are getting creative and job needs are changing. Some jobs are disappearing forever but they are being replaced by new places of service that are just evolving. 

We have to create an educational system that helps train all people to earn their living. That calls for a creative, innovative, responsive curriculum.

But people themselves have to change – a lot. If we are to successfully inhabit this planet and care for her and nurture her, we must all do that together.  Each person must raise their awareness to one of conscious caring for our planet and each other.  And that’s challenging if you are just focused on trying to survive. 

What is our next step – those of us who are reading this?  We have to keep a lookout for the clues we will be given and we have to act for the highest good of all.

At 88 I’m a tad old for community service in person, but every day I raise my vibration and send it out to those who can see it and feel it and recognize it in themselves. Then they turn and pass if forward. As I explore and consider the new possibilities, I write about them to you and perhaps that sparks an idea for your expanded place of service.  

I’m not trying to predict here, but I can make us aware of the tools we have to work with.  A major shift in planetary energy that strengthens our community and our interaction and invitees us to reconsider – everything!

200 years and we are just beginning…!

Welcome to the beginning of the Age of Aquarius!

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION
I deepen my awareness of the chaining opportunities that lead us to more harmonious coexistence.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Start looking around at all the changes that are showing up and give thought to which ones you want to actively use or adapt.
  • Question all your beliefs to see if they are still relevant in this changing world. That includes beliefs about what is possible for you to accomplish.
  • Explore the changes offered to you and get to work!

MAJOR LESSONS AND INSIGHTS FROM THIS PAST MOTH

HONOR THE CYCLES

The Winter Solstice marks the beginning of a new cycle. At the point where we move from an old cycle into a new one, that moment contains parts of both – the cycle being left behind and the cycle you are beginning.  Release what you have outgrown to make room for what you are ready to experience next and be aware of where you are in the cycles of your life.    

USE CEREMONY TO EXPLORE YOUR INNER WORLD 

Our life is sacred and every choice we make is worthy of sacred awareness. Whether it is preparing and consuming food, or cleaning our body and our home it is a sacred choice.  Our work is sacred.  When we pause to honor that awareness, that experience of sacredness, our life will take on a deeper meaning.  

Each morning after the ritual of thing and dressing, I play my native flutes to the elements, to nature, to my day, to the well being of my body.  I sing the words in my heart as I play. 

When I sit at my computer to begin work I say: 

“I offer the intention of my heart and the vibration of my voice to heal, balance, deepen awareness, and illuminate those who hear.  The tone of my voice brings serenity and tranquility to those who listen. My chosen words offer insights, clarity, wisdom, and inspiration. I send my offerings forth through the power of my Indego Voice. 
We are one.  We are one. Namaste.”

When new items are brought into my home I offer a clearing.  The groceries that are delivered are cleared and blessed as I put them away.  Any items  I order delivered to my home is cleared and blessed before becoming part of my sacred space. 

Use an affirmation, a blessing, or a ceremony to center, create, release, choose, accept, and share each moment of sacredness with which you fill your day.

Create sacred moments of awareness and gratitude as you move through your sacred life.

DEEPER SONGS I EXPLORED THIS MONTH
The Ongoing Emergence of our Future

We are creating our future with every choice we make, every belief we hold, every step we take.  We can do it either consciously or unconsciously.

What is it going to be like once we move more fully into this New Consciousness, this new way of being?

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher, explorer, map-maker, and founder of the Deeper Song Community helps us sing a deeper song.  

In this episode we explore
THE ONGOING EMERGENCE OF OUR FUTURE
(15 minutes)
(Listen Here)

Listen to 
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on 

Apple / Spotify /Google

and the 
Deeper Song Website

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:
Build a Strong Bridge to Your Invisible Self
How to Cultivate Deep Listening
What arre Your Beliefs about Your Future?
The Path We Choose
The Unseen World Needs Us

LIFE LESSONG FOMR A SPIDIER
An Exploration of the Unseen World

Have you ever had the privilege of watching a spider weave her web?  She begins in one small spot and adapts her web to what she finds around her.  That’s just one of the lessons we can learn from the spider. 

We are living in a world that is changing so rapidly that we have to broaden our view in order to figure out how we are going to make our next move. What we are going to do. How we are going to do it. Life is not going to be the same. Opportunities are not going to be the same. We have to change. The spider has some guidance for us. 

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and Founder of the Deeper Song Community is a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

In this episode we explore
LIFE LESSONS FROM A SPIDER
(12 minutes)
(Liste Here) 

Listen to 
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on 

Apple / Spotify /Google
and the Deeper Song Website

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:
How to Open Space for Change
How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe
Build a Strong Bridge to Your Invisible Self
Stand Steady in Your Own Truth
How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe

MY CONVERSATION WITH THE PLANET  SATURN – GATEKEEPER TO THE UNCONSCIOUS WORLD

Bear in mind that I am a beginning astrologer and I am also an over-view person. I am not a detail person.  So I have been looking for the over-arching concept that I can carry forward with me into this new unfolding period in our lives. 

I’m picking on one planet to start – Saturn.  Partially because I seem to have just had a Saturn return in my chart which only happens every 29 years and also because Saturn has now joined forces with Jupiter and they are both are in Aquarius.  And already that is too many aspects for me to grasp.  It is a great time of change as the planets move from the element of earth to the element of air and that will offer a new perspective and a new way of being. 

But let’s stick with Saturn for now even though all those elements have influence over our unfolding.  

Saturn is the planet with the rings around it. Before they knew about the outer planets, the ancients thought it served as the gate between heaven and earth. It is therefore seen as a guide to the Unseen World. It is a gatekeeper and a powerful teacher. 

Saturn is the planet of boundaries that encourages you to develop the self-discipline that helps you achieve a level of self-mastery which in turn allows you to claim your own authority. It can be a Master Teacher for stepping into your own power.  

Jupiter and Saturn are the largest and most important planets in our solar system.

As I try to make sense of the many elements of astrology I’m just working with one planet at a time to try to “own”  it. I begin working with Saturn by using alliteration with the “S” of Saturn. Solitude, Self-Mastery, Self-Discipline,  Self Sufficiency, Spirituality (which is about our inner world).

I look at the rings around the planet and see them as looking both within and without. A good practice for life.  I am looking inward for guidance and expanding outward to share what I have discovered.  Like the rings of Saturn.

I journeyed to the planet Saturn to have a chat. I asked:  “I have a Saturn return on December 20  How are we to work together?” 

A Wise Messenger showed up, a friendly-looking man emitting iridescent bubbles.  He said, “You have begun and you are picking up the messages.  Now open your heart and let us fill you with insights you are to share.
Listen. You are to learn to listen.”

That’s a good place for all of us to begin this journey to “next.”

At another point in the journey, the Circle of Light Beings showed up. The Saturn Teacher says, “Play your individual harps but learn to harmonize. Raise your vibration. Deepen your connection and play from your soul. You are developing ways to raise your vibration, ways to open the portals and raise your vibration, and make a very deep connection to the earth, Gaia. It is the etheric string, the vibrational string that I am to tune all the other strings to. It will show me a raised way of being. That is what Saturn brings – that sounding note, that foundation note that you tune all else to.  Your job is to bring the elements of your life into tune with that higher vibration.

So, a foundation note is being sounded in the cosmos. We must listen and play in harmony with it. 

Just start listening.  

Sit each day in a quiet place and with a deep breath let go of your human awareness. Continue berthing and move more deeply into your inner world, the Unseen World.  Ask, what new awareness can you share with me today?  Then listen.  Just listen. 

OUR EVOLVING FUTURE

“The sacred act of setting the container for the intention.”  That’s a phrase I came across recently.  I am giving it a lot of thought as I begin to add more focused intention to my life.  But as I learned more about this huge planetary shift into the Age of Aquarius on December 21, it prompted me to contemplate what kind of container I could create for this new age.  For my own place and for our planetary evolvement.

I begin with myself  What kind of a container am I for moving forward?

I seemed to have moved from creating large volumes of work into studying so I am in an acquiring knowledge and wisdom mode.  That makes sense as this new era unfolds. 

M personal plan is to explore more of the world within me and within the unseen World.  That makes me very responsible for my choices and my interpretation of what I  find.   I do know that even though I often have an initial concept, I make plenty of room for that to change as I learn and understand more.

What kind of container will I become for this new unfolding era?

Flexible, absorbing, curious, willing to explore, and most of all I want to keep organizing what I learn – into cohesive patterns that we can all use to guide our expirations.

For now, I am in sponge mode – absorbing what shows up.  Exploring it, considering it, maybe even trying it out.  This is not a time for choosing for me, this is a time for exploring, to see what is showing up, what is evolving, what the new way of doing things are.  

Here we go adventuring…

MESSAGE FROM THE SACRED EARTH CARDS

I drew an oracle card from my new deck of Sacred Earth Cards.  I asked for a message for us to consider for the coming months  I drew “Preservation.” I had also drawn this card for me personally.  As I study the card I understand that we are to let go of – a lot – the year just completed, the era just completed.  And we must preserve what we value, the qualities we build our life upon.   We are to preserve and cultivate and expand our inner light while at the same time letting go of what no longer serves us – attitudes, beliefs, expectations. As we step into this newly forming Age of Aquarius it is a time for transformation – preserving what we cherish, leaving the rest behind.   

CARA’S CORNEr
MAKE ROOM FOR AWARE CHANGE

Between the powerful Winter Solstice marking the end of one season and the beginning of the next and the calendar end of the year and beginning of a new one, all things point to a fresh start, a new beginning. That means checking for unwanted and no longer useful beliefs and choice to leave behind. 

Examen and adjust the choices you made this month. 

Believe it or not, even I thought this newsletter was too long so I cut out a lot. That helped me recognize what fit my new direction and what was from the past.  I left the past behind 

At the core, the choice is a good one, cut back so I have more time to explore and learn.  Look at the choices you considered or made this month and do some tweaking – and even some letting go. l

Leave behind “I can’t”

The biggest thing I’m going to leave behind is “I Can’t.”  That sure is and was a phrase you pick up as you age. I can’t reach that, I can’t walk that far…. all are self-fulfilling affirmations that I must connote to reset.  I keep going back to “Think how good it will feel when I complete…” That seems to work for me – to experience the relief I will feel when the step is taken.  

What belief or habit do you want to to leave behind?

What experience do you want to add?

As you set about to examine how you are doing, new ideas may have shown up.  Explore them.  Consider them. Compare them.   

As I move along my new path the ease some things I will no longer write about. As I move through this transition, I have to be aware of what no longer serves this slightly new path I am on. 

With each cycle, we get to made choices. We select some things to bring with us or strengthen and expand something we are already doing. I’m really good at listening to my inner wisdom. I just want to keep getting better at asking for guidance and interpreting the answers I receive.  

Embrace change

As the planetary population continues to adjust in order to survive, I get to put aside pretty much the way it has been as I go exploring for how it is going to be from now on.  That is going to ask for some flexibility and curiosity from all of us. If we look upon this as a new adventure, it can be just that – an adventure of discovery and new ways of doing pretty much everything. 

One of my guides in a shamanic journey sad they were guiding me by putting in front of me the things I need to know for my “next”  So I just trust the insights and nudges and sudden use of inspiration that pull me forward into deeper exploration.  

The more I listen the more I hear.  

Lighten up.  Lay down your beliefs about how it should or could be and let’s go create our new way of being!

A DEEPER SONG – 
“Wherever you stand be the soul of that place“ – Rumi

We create our future with every thothought we think, every action we take.  Move forward mindfully as you sing your Deeper Song.

Namaste,

Cara

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I help spiritual adventurers explore the Unseen World so that we broaden and deepen our personal journey and turn to share our discoveries with others.  We are guides and way-showers with our light held high.

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Life Lessons from a Spider

December 23, 2020 By Cara Lumen

Life Lessons from a Spider

An Exploration of the Unseen World

Have you ever had the privilege of watching a spider weave her web?  She begins in one small spot and adjusts her web to what she finds around her.  That’s just one of the lessons we can learn from the spider. 

We are living in a world that is changing so rapidly that we have to broaden our view in order to figure out how we are going to make our next move. What we are going to do. How we are going to do it. Life is not going to be the same. Opportunities are not going to be the same. We have to change. The spider has some guidance for us. 

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and Founder of the Deeper Song Community is a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

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The Ongoing Emergence of our Future

December 9, 2020 By Cara Lumen

The Ongoing Emergence of our Future

An Exploration of the Unseen World

We are creating our future with every choice we make, every belief we hold, every step we take.  We can do it either consciously or unconsciously.

What is it going to be like once we move more fully into this New Consciousness, this new way of being?

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher, explorer, map-maker and founder of the Deeper Song Community helps us sing a deeper song.  

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The Ongoing Emergence of our Future

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