Come Sing a Deeper Song

Weaving Our New Home

Living Our Deeper Song

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

We are going to create our new world from within ourselves – with our beliefs and our expectations. We’re going to create each new strand with our choices. That means we must create internal change before weaving our new home. We are weaving a new way to exist and this must all come from the changes we make within ourselves, from the inner work we do, from the vision we create, from the work we do to raise the vibration and consciousness of wholeness. Our work is for the whole and especially for the Circle of Light Beings who are charged with changing the vibrational harmony on our planet.

We much choose to create new possibilities, new potential. We are to acknowledge where we have been, be flexible about where we are headed, and creative about how we can get there. That takes a lot of fortitude, diligence, and courage. We can do that. 

Begin by strengthening your spiritual practice – your meditation time, your contemplation time, and your visioning time. Deepen your relationship with your Inner Self and learn its language. 

Listening is important. It is our imagination that makes things happen. Imagination creates reality. And with the emerging of the Divine Feminine, we are being offered a new way to imagine our existence, our interaction, our world into existence.  Our potential is already different. The possibilities are rapidly changing and unfolding. The expectations are evolving. All because the Divine Feminine is stepping forward to say, “Let’s do it a different way.” And we have to figure out what this “way” is.

How do we do that? We question everything. We question our beliefs. We question our expectations. And we stay alert and receptive to all the new ways of being that are possible and unfolding in our experience today. Strand by strand, moment by moment, we are weaving our new reality. We must pay attention. Choose well. Choose wisely. We are creating our new and beautiful “next.”

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am deeply conscious of my choices and my expectation and stay focused on the Unfolding Potential.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• Put aside all your expectation for yourself in the coming year. 
• Choose one thing that is the most important to manifest.  The one thing that will affect all else you do.  It can be a belief, an expectation, or a specific action. 
• Begin to visualize and manifest that in the form that will move you forward into the new word of the Divine Feminine. 

===INNER WORK===

Vision is the World Beyond Sight

Vision expands and unites our ideas in scope and power.  Vision has the ability to become anything.  It is a door-opener to possibilities never before imagined.   Use your vision to see your new world.  Use what shows up as clues to what is unfolding. Always look beyond the obvious.  Use what you discover as hints, not the core message. Listen with your inner knowing and let your vision lead you into your unique unfolding.

Keep Space Open For The New

If we fill our lives too full, we will not have time to explore the unexpected gifts and opportunities the Universe provides.  Leave space in your life for new life experiences and subsequent choices. 

Offer Gratitude to 2021

I was so busy looking at what might be coming in 2022 I almost forgot to thank 2021 for its gifts. I’m not sure that a body in moving through rather dramatic healing is a gift but that’s a lot of what I got. But I also got deepening friendships, continued encouragement, and expanded insights. 

I learned to move effectively and use biofields to heal my body. There continue to be major lessons there. I have deepened relationships which are very important to me. I have shifted to a higher level on my path two or three times in this past year. I have learned the signs of feeling a cycle coming to an end, and how to wait patiently for the beginning of the new cycles to let themselves be known. I am more patient with the unfolding process of my life.

I can build on that. I can build on increasing my awareness of the ongoing cycles. I can increase my patience at letting them unfold and make themselves known.

Another huge gift from 2021 is the recognition that the Divine Feminine is unfolding and we are to help her establish herself even though we have no idea what form she’s going to take, what lessons she’s going to bring, and what new ways of being she’s going to suggest. What are the lessons you learned in 2021 and how are you bringing them forward into 2022?

Spiritual Fire

Let your inner spiritual fire light your way.  Keep it showing you new paths to explore, new dimensions to immerse yourself in, new ways of being in the world.  Cultivate your Spiritual Fire with meditation and intentions and whatever form  your spiritual practice takes.  Build that fire and hold your light high so it can show you the way.  We are Light Beings holding High Watch for the world. Raise your light so all can see. Light the path for those who follow.

===SELF-HEALING===

I Am Self-Healing

This has not been a fun process. I picked up a cane in June and started using a walker in September. Technically I might say that my tilted pelvis righted itself and my body has been realigning itself ever since. What I do know is that each day now I am standing up straighter and feeling the alignment continue in my body. Change can hurt. 

So what am I doing to make this self-correction take place? I am working with bitfield energy. 

One of the forms is acupressure. Three times a day I massage my body – particularly the places that hurt to encourage the flow of energy through them and to them. The biofield energy work is taking several forms, reiki, Qigong, breathing visualization, vibration, intention. I have identified physical stretches that will strengthen my changing body structure.  The point is – I’m helping it happen! I’m doing the work. My body is responding and giving me results.  

I have several outer things that may be contributing – PiMag Waterfall® the KenkoTherm Cocoon , the Kenko Naturest® Custom Pillow and Kenko PowerSleep Mask  One main meal is Garden of Life Raw Organic meal Replacement Powder in almond milk. I am supporting my body from many directions and it seems to be responding.  

Talk to your body.  See what it needs.  Then find ways to give it the support to rebalance and realign and grow stronger.  

Hurrah for self-healing….

How Do You See Yourself?

I can see myself as a crickety old woman with a walker or I can see myself as a fascinating woman with a vibrant, inquisitive mind.  I can see myself as living alone in a senior center in Kansas or I can see myself with deepening friendships all over the world with whom I communicate regularly via Zoom as we support each other on our respective paths. 

Are you aware of how far-reaching you are?  Are you aware how far your unique ripple extends and what shores it touches?  

Look beyond the obvious circle of lives you touch and know that what you say and think and do and believe is rippling out to touch lives all over the world.  Be thoughtful. Be aware. See yourself as the light being you are. 

===OUTER  WORK==

Plant a Garden of “Surprise Me”!

I’ve been drawing lots of scenarios in an Experimental Garden and I was going over the ideas for the zillionth time when I decide to simply plant the whole garden with “Surprise Me”!!!! That sure eliminated a lot of thinking and planning and evaluating.  If I grow a whole garden of
“Surprise Me” I don’t have to plan ahead, I just get to see what comes up and work with it. What an interesting way to live.  Take each day as it comes and respond from your Inner Self, your Cosmic Awareness and trust your Inner Voice to guide you to your necessary “next.”  That sure takes the burden off of planning ahead.  Just respond in the moment and trust your choice to bring you the necessary “next.”

For instance, I seem to have organically stopped producing podcasts for the moment. I have several recorded that simply need editing, but I seem to have turned to share my explorations and discoveries in this newsletter.  It is better to stay fluid in your plans when there is so much change going on that may require a different approach, different thinking, and even new ways of communicating.  So we must stay in the moment and let our Surprise Garden – well surprise us!

Change Your Perception

Look at things in a whole new light, from a whole new perspective.  It’s like shifting to experience something that looks like a confrontation to experience it as an opportunity.  We can make that shift in a second.  The next time you feel you are in a negative situation, pause to reframe it.  What is the opportunity to grow here?  What is the lesson I might learn?  How will this change my options?  Pause when you hit a snag, see how you can change your perception, and see where that leads you.

Keep Exploring

We have an unfolding future here.  The Divine Feminine is opening her arms to receive us and we are to step in and accept her blessings and support. What does she need from us?  What does she need from you? From me?  We are entering a period of broad exploration and unfolding change. That means we are to stay flexible and alert and willing to change.  Put on your explorer’s cap as the Divine Feminine makes herself known.  Explore, sample, choose, experiment, move forward.  We are to broaden our willingness to explore and make good use of what we discover. 

Self Responsibility

I have one more physical therapy appointment and then I’m on my own. I have to be responsible for establishing a pattern of movement that continues to strengthen and straighten my body. My physical therapist has given me lots of ideas. I can go online and find even more ideas. But I have to do the work.  I have to choose a movement. I have to put it in my life on a regular and steady basis. I have to take action. And I have to monitor how it works and adjust it and strengthen my choices until I get the results that I want. It’s all on me.

What objective do you have? And how will you make it happen?

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Be With What Is

Be with what is.  That doesn’t mean you won’t work to change it, it simply means you observe what you have created, what you have drawn to you, and consider your options. You may understand what got you where you are and decide to change it. You may decide you will work with what you have.  You may decide to release your role in it.  What shows up in your life is the result of choices you’ve made, thoughts you had, and your expectations of what is possible. Self-correcting things begins within.

What Makes You Content?

Contentment is peaceful.  It is accepting.  It is working with what is. There is action in contentment but it comes from an inner awareness and acceptance of the gradual unfolding of life and circumstances.  Be content in a moment.  Be content with a completed task.  Be content with the sound of rain on the window.  Look for moments of contentment in your day and absorb and embrace them. 

Strengthen Your Foundation

A foundation must be aligned.  It must be on solid ground. It must be taken care of – maintained. 

My body is giving me this lesson. A year ago I had a tilted pelvis on the right side. I have no idea when it happened or how. A year ago the pelvis organically untilted and I have spent the past year feeling my body realign herself based on the proper placement of the foundation. It has not been comfortable.

Has your foundation tilted? Is the ground upon which you built your foundation still solid or has some weakness seeped into it to take away its solidarity? How do you even know if your foundation is off kilter? What are you doing about it if it is?

I have used energy to help my body self correct – focused energy, vibrational energy, intuition, intention, awareness. So how do we shore up a foundation that has gotten off-kilter?

We don’t do it with our mind because that’s too limiting. We do it with the energy of wholeness. And intention. I’m straightening the foundation of my body with both intention and physical action. I have used acupressure and vibrational healing and focused intention. It is working. I’m healing and balancing and restoring and strengthening the foundation of my life, mostly I examine and adjust and strengthen my spiritual beliefs. For instance, I don’t think we need to try to raise our vibration, I think we just need to recognize that we already are the highest cosmic vibration. I believe in the unfolding and revealing of our next as an organic process that is unfolding, gradual, and ongoing. Don’t make a new choice without questioning what you need to let go that might be in opposition to it, might keep it from flourishing. If I have a belief about the aging process being one of deterioration, it is a bit of a challenge for me to envision my body getting stronger and straighter. But when I envision an easy and active restoration, my body does grow stronger.

Begin with your foundation. Examine your beliefs and your expectations of what is possible with stronger images and stronger expectations. Strengthen your foundation from within your inner vision.

===HOW TO BE A STRONG CONTRIBUTING MEMBER OF THE DIVERSE CIRCLE OF LIGHT BEINGs===

Vitality

I drew the oracle card “Vitality and Joy” on the first of the year and passed to give thought to what that means to me and my choices. Vital. I want to be vital. I want to be relevant. I want to make a difference. All of these take vitality. All of these take energy, vibrancy, liveliness. How vibrant is your day? How joyous is your life? Are you filling your thoughts with vibrant expectations? How can you add the power of vitality to your life?

===BROADEN YOUR HORIZON – EXPAND YOUR VIEW===

Our Unfolding Adventure

Our role in this evolving unfolding adventure is also evolving and unfolding. We are light-bearers. We are to walk the earth in the highest state of inclusive awareness that we can muster. Just holding that consciousness affects others. There may not be a specific physical action you are to take. But there is a specific spiritual focus you are to continue to expand as you become aware that you already are the highest vibration possible. And you must live with that awareness. We’re not just Light Bearers, we are way-showers – holding inclusiveness in our hearts. Being compassionate in all we think and say and do. How do you see your own role as a Light Bearer? What lives are you touching? How are you touching them? Do you need to do more? What will that be?

2022 – Gestation and Release

According to astrology, 2022 is a year of gestation and release. That means ideas take time to evolve. It will be a time of experimentation, trying things on for size and potential, so to speak.

2022 is a time for broad reorganization and expanded liberation. That means we have to really pay attention to the choices that we are or are not making. It is a time to let go of an outdated, outgrown way of being and go exploring to establish and shape the unfolding feminine into our lives and choices.

2022 is time to investigate our assumptions, rebuild the foundations of our lives and review and perhaps rechoose our social contracts. 

You don’t know what you don’t know. You don’t see what you don’t see. We have to examine our assumptions and beliefs because they are no longer true. The world is changing and we must change with it. Learn to look at things from a new perspective. Put yourself in the other person’s place. What beliefs are you holding onto that you simply absorbed from your family that are not really beliefs that you want to establish in your life? Question everything.

This is a period of rebirth. We have to give it time to evolve. Be patient. Be aware. Be very willing to change. 2022 is a period of gestation and release. What are you birthing?

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

What Do You Want to Learn Next?

I love to learn so every once in a while, I take so many classes that I really feel full up. I would like not to do that in the coming year. So I’m giving a little thought to what I actually do want to learn. I will always take the free Shift Network summits on Shamanism Qigong and Self-healing. But I don’t need any more classes in any of those. What I am doing is biofield healing, which is basically energetic healing. As I work with acupressure, Qigong, intention, breathing, meditation and visioning,  I’m getting results in my body which is very heartening for an old person. I guess I really don’t have to know how this works, although that would be interesting to learn more about. I will stay open to learning new ways to heal in the biofields.

Do you ever get excited about too many things so that you feel overwhelmed and can barely choose? I have a tendency to do that. So I’m suggesting we pause here at the beginning of this new year and examine what we may now know enough about, and give some thought to what we might want to learn more about, and still leave room for the unexpected “Oh my, I have to learn how to do this because it looks like fun.” Be discerning. Be selective. Keep learning with calls to you and put aside whatever does not.

Let Your World Unfold from Peace and Compassion

For all this striving to figure out my next, I drew an oracle card that said Peace and Compassion.  I am to strengthen my spiritual practice to gain more inner peace and let my outer work grow out of my deepening compassion.

Create a New Dream

The present creates the future. Create a new dream for the earth. What do you need to change in the here and now that will change the future? What are you focusing on?  Keep it positive.  What do you believe is possible?  Raise your sights and let the yet-to-be-known unfold and reveal itself.

If you focus on the negative, you give it great power. That doesn’t mean you have to ignore its presence, you just have to focus on the alternative to the negative. What is possible? What would you prefer? Envision that. Envision a world of peaceful cohabitation with great loving care for our planet earth and for each other. Create a vision of wholeness. Inclusion. Where is your focus? What is your expectation?  Imagine a new world into being. Create a new dream and step into it.

===THE UNFOLDING DIVINE FEMININE=== 

The Vision You Hold For Yourself

Growing up I did not realize how deeply ingrained were the social expectations for women. Get married, raise kids or be an old maid. No college. No career. It’s interesting how a collective expectation or lack of expectation can color your choices. Young women of today have a wide range of careers, opportunities, and choices.  Not all men see those same opportunities for women, but women can see them. We know we are smart. We know we can lead corporations. We know we can invent things. We just get to go do it.

I’ve been thinking about the composers of symphonies lately – how there seem to be no women who wrote classical music. I’m sure there were women that could or can and maybe do, but the great masters are all men.  Women have to learn to see new possibilities for themselves. 

The other question I had about classical composers is how did they hear their work? One does not just have an orchestra handy to practice with, to try out their ideas and harmonies. They made their whole composition up in their head.  What a lesson that is! Make up your life in your head. An artist sees a picture in her mind before she paints it.  A writer feels the story unfolding within before she writes it. 

I’m not sure where I would start making up my life as a young woman of today. I would want to look closely at my passion and my gifts. I would identify how I would like to be in service, then I would look to see how I might translate that into supporting myself as a living. 

I love to write, and I particularly love the freedom I have now to write whatever I want to, but I also did my fair share of writing television and radio commercials and black-and-white copy for advertising agencies and web content for clients in order to earn my way.

What would you teach the young woman of today about her future? She does not need to have children unless she wants to. She does not need a partner although she could have one. They don’t have to live a lifetime together and they could. The profession that may ultimately call her may not even have been invented yet. So here are young women standing at the entrance of their future with no clear paths or expectations. What freedom! What a challenge! What an opportunity!!!!

Most of my friends are in the vicinity of retirement which means they have a whole other 30 years to do something fun or great or meaningful. It’s a bit like starting over but with a bigger arsenal of skills and experience. Look at your gifts, look at your passion, and look at the possibilities. Then go exploring. 30 years is a long time for a new adventure. What is the vision you hold for your
“next”?

=== DEEEP SONG  PHILOSOPHIES ===

What If You Were Persecuted? 

Years ago I wrote a post titled “What If You Were Persecuted.”  In response to gay rights, Bush had just said that all marriages should be between a Christian man and woman.  I hadn’t been Christian for a long time by then and I was acutely aware of limitations being set on me by someone who did not know me at all.  I didn’t want to get married again, but I did not like the limitation of my spirituality. What if someone tried to stop me from traveling my chosen spiritual path?
I experienced a sense of persecution for the first time in my life and I wrote about it.  

Two things happened with that article – it was investigated by Army Intelligence and it was republished in a lesbian publication.  Different takes on the idea of persecution – danger to the country, danger to personal freedom. 

The word “persecution” means oppression, victimization, tyranny.

Every time we take away a freedom, a right, it is a form of persecution. It is denying others the freedoms we so greatly cherish. Look closely at your own beliefs and prejudices about what others have the right to do. Women’s freedom of choice over their bodies is high on my list. The right to vote is paramount in its importance. When we deny others their freedom twice, freedom of choice and their right to be heard, we are killing off the soul of humanity. We are denying the greater whole its presence. Do not participate in taking away the rights of others. Make all choices for the highest good and well-being of all concerned.

===INTENTION BLESSING===

May we hear and heed the call of the Divine Feminine. 

May we expand our hearts and our expectations.

May we walk the Path of Light with a sure foot. 

May we keep our gaze on the summit.

May we take this journey with a full heart. 

I entwine my light with yours and we move forward to guide the way.

===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST===

Spiritual Practice

The Magical Power of an Affirmation

Self Healing

Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection

Expanding Awareness

How to Hold High Watch for the Planet

Listen to my
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on
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===CARA’S CORNER===

I had a bit of a giggle when I thought of this.  I live in a Senior Center in the Midwest.  With the exception of the Social Services Director who has become a friend, I have nothing in common with anyone here so I do not go to any events.  The giggle came when I imagined sitting at a table of seniors where someone asked me what was going on in my life and my answer would be: “I’m doing self-healing using the bitfields and exploring the unfolding role of the Divine Feminine on our planet.” Pretty sure I would not start up any conversations or make any new friends.

Seek out like-minded friends who stimulate your thinking and give yourselves room to open up new vistas of exploration. 

Zoom is an awesome way to deepen international friendships.  Reach out and connect with more like-minded people this year. You deserve stimulating friendships.   

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Adjoining Path

I seek out fellow adventurers on the path adjoining mine. 

I seek out fellow adventurers on the path adjoining mine. We help each other for part of our journey. 

I seek out fellow adventurers on the path adjoining mine. We help each other for part of our journey. Then our paths diverge and we move off to meet new fellow travelers and walk awhile with them. 

Cara Lumen, January 2022

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 adventurers who are ready to explore the new possibilities in the emerging energy of the Divine Feminine to align their dreams and choices with what is emerging as possible today so that they go beyond their own expectations.

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Living Our Deeper Song

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

This is becoming the age of the Digital Nomad.  We learned how to work from anywhere because of the pandemic so why not go live where you want to? More and more people are conducting their online business from interesting parts of the world. 

What naturally follows is that financial transitions are becoming creatively fluid.  My friend Thuy Pham gave me a lesson on Bitcoin the other day. I think part of the rapid growth of digital coin is from the Digital Nomads who are doing business with each other in many countries and need an international way to exchange money. How wonderful to simply be able to exchange your own digits money without figuring out or obtaining foreign currency. Having your own currency is a way to work around third-party institutions. So there are now digital entrepreneurs creating their own money and using that for peer-to-peer transactions. Two people, anywhere in the world, can send virtual coin to each other without the involvement of a bank, government, or other institution. Think what opportunities that opens up!!! This is helping artists and musicians sell their own work directly.

It made me realize how radically our thinking needs to change in order to move into this new life that is unfolding. Apparently, you can set up ways through virtual money to rent a car or obtain entrance to the vacation rental you booked.  It’s a whole new way of paying each other.  

So guess what, we all get to learn something really new. And I’m still at the stage that I had to have help activating a new bank debit card and then getting it on Venmo. With virtual money there is no bank!  Consider that.

We are going to have to become aware and know a bit about a lot of new ways to do all manner of things. I have no idea how to keep up with this other than to stay curious and go a bit deeper into the fields and resources and uses that are useful in the direction we are going.  

Younger generations cannot write their name in cursive or write a check and they know how to type with their thumbs. The world is changing and we need to keep learning and changing in order to keep up. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am open to learning new ways to do everything. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• If you are in business for yourself you may want to check out Brian Clark.
• Keep studying the changes in your own industry. Explore the new options. Learn what you need to learn.
• Be open to change in your thinking and your actions.

===INNER WORK===

Draw Your Way to Clarity

Drawing is a very powerful tool – use it to draw your way to clarity. I’ve been doing pencil drawings of some of my shamanic journeys for quite some time.  This week I drew an experimental garden to explore what crops I want to plant for next year.  Drawing an idea shows you sequence, priorities, and levels of importance.  You gain insights based on what order you draw the features, how big or small it is, where it is placed on the page, and how you find one word that holds many concepts.  For instance, I thought I was going to draw all sorts of “steps” for healing my body, and instead I drew one very tall, very strong tree.  I have a Path of Curiosity winding throughout my garden and a hedgerow of Imagination.  See how this goes? You have an idea and drawing it adds dimensions to your understanding that you might not have seen before.  

Stick figures and signs with labels are fine.  Drawing your thoughts is an amazing way to clarify what you are seeing inside you.   Start drawing your vision into being.                                                                                                                                                                                                       

===SELF-HEALING===

One Small Shift

Self-healing occurs in increments – sometimes very small increments. One moment I got up from a chair and found that I was standing straighter. That affected everything I did. My walking improved but most of all it lifted my spirits. That small cornerstone shift is rippling up through my body. And I expect there to be more positive changes. 

You know how sometimes if you shift your gaze you see a whole new vista? Our life choices are like that. We need to shift our gaze even a little bit, and the view will be different. New opportunities will appear. New possibilities will come to mind. All because we made one small shift. How can you shift your gaze today?

Release Fear

In the drawing of the experimental garden that I prepared in order to understand what I’m gonna do next year, I put a compost pile. And the only thing I put in it this time was fear. It was quite a relief to put fear in the compost pile. I’m not afraid of being dead because all sorts of interesting things are going to be happening then, but I’m not exactly excited about going through the process of dying since I don’t know what’s going to quit on me to make me leave the planet. But now I have placed my fear in the garden compost pile of my experimental garden and I will keep it there in all my future gardens.  

What are you uncertain about?  What are you apprehensive about?  What are you fearful about?  Put it in the compost pile and let it turn into nourishment for your ongoing garden of self.  

Watch For the Small Shifts

As my body goes through its course of self-correction I am watching two things – the shifts that affect the whole body and thus opens up new possibilities, and how/where my attention and choices are shifting as new opportunities unfold. 

My body continues to release and thus dramatically rearrange itself.  Suddenly a whole section is working and interacting differently and new movements are possible.  A small shift of releasing one small something enabled a huge portion of my body to work with more alignment.  That realization shifts my attention to greater possibilities, more activities and my expectation of what is possible. It’s not so much about keeping track of the small shifts.  It is about paying attention to what new possibilities open up because of  your shift in view. Watch for the small shifts and look ahead to the newly opened vistas.

===OUTER  WORK===

Building a New Habit

You know it’s good for you.  You know you want to do it.  How do you build a new habit so that you look forward to the experience and do it regularly? My favorite trick is to say, “Think how good it will feel when (the task you are dreading) is completed…” That moves me into the sense of accomplishment that will be my reward. That trick started when it became harder to take my trash out because of my ability to walk. But now I have solved that problem with my walker and taking the trash out is simply a walk outside. But it’s still a good trick. “Think how good it will feel when I…”  

Choose what you want to establish with awareness. Is it too hard or too easy or is it too boring? How can you make it an adventure?

Where you put this new habit in your day makes a difference. My morning time at my computer is sacred creative time. So nothing else gets to go there. But I may want to establish a study time. And that feels like the afternoon might be a good place for that. Look at the rhythm of your day and your energy and experiment until you find the right place to place that new activity so it has a chance to become the new habit you wish to establish.

Stay Fluid and Flexible

It’s easy to get too rigid in your life – certain times to do this, certain days to do that.  What if you just went with the flow, the flow of inspiration, the insights of the moment, the unexpected ideas and opportunities that need exploring.  What a flowing, fluid life we would lead.  Add a little more give and take to your life.  Be more fluid and flexible. 

Do You Feel Relevant and Effective?

I was thinking about what I wanted 2022 to feel like and I realized I want to feel reliant and effective.  To me, that means continuous exploration of the Unseen World and openness to identify new choices the transformational community might work with. 

That means I have to be flexible, creative, imaginative, and allow myself to be guided to new ideas that can raise our awareness and our consciousness.  That’s a good way to spend a year. 

Rethink Your Systems

The end of the year is the perfect time to examine your systems.  Declutter.  Reorganize.  Rethink.  There is a clean slate aspect to a new year.  Examine your systems, how you handle your data, how you set priorities and create systems that will move you effectively and efficiently through the coming year. Create and adjust until you get your new system right. 

Persistence and Determination

My time with the physical therapist is nearly up. And I realize that all of whatever unfolds next, is up to me and my persistence and my determination. It is up to me to do whatever exercises seem to work the most. It is up to me to consciously stand up straight whenever I walk  so that my body gets used to standing straight. It is up to me to expect healing and hold the vision of wholeness.

The outcome is all up to me. There’s no one in this body but me. So what develops, what unfolds, comes from what I do. This means I have to pay attention to my beliefs and my choices and my actions and my expectations. I have to do the work. No one can do it for me. Are you taking charge of your life? Are you aware of your role in creating everything that occurs in your life? It’s all you. It’s your beliefs. It’s your imagination. It’s your expectations. It’s  your choice. All change comes from within you. You may have some work to do.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Winter Solstice Holy Day Writing 

by Maeanna Welti 

The night breathes slow, deep, long. The breath of the Earth moves up to meet the stars. Slow down, dear one. Slow down. Breathe.

The dark has its own music. The dark has its own spell. The dark is the breath that unclenches, bringing sweetness to our depths.

Be as the sleeping mountains. In the rhythm of your patience, the world will be revealed. In the drum beat of our hearts, all the lessons of the year will tell their stories. 

Winter is stillness. It is deep calm. It is huge. 

Carry your candle, yes. But do not let it blind you to the radiance of the dark. Do not let it crowd out the silence. Do not let it deafen the music of heartbeat, breath, starlight, humanity. 

We turn the wheel of the year. We are time unfolding, seasons following seasons flowing through us, bodies, hearts, minds. We walk through the grace of the year, and our wholeness is revealed. 

We walk through the wisdom of the seasons and learn ever more how to love and what we love. 

—Maeanna Welti © Mother Tongue Ink 2020. To learn more about Pagan Holy Days visit our blog,

Pagan Holiday Rituals and Traditions!  

This was printed in WE’Moon Lunar News.  I love her art. She has a  Weekly Starcode blog

===BROADEN YOUR HORIZON – EXPAND YOUR VIEW===

Visit Your Future and Do Some Rearranging

Take time to visit your future. If you continue on this path where will you end up? What will it be like? What will you be like? Do you know where your current choices are taking  you? Is that where you want to go? Do you need to change directions? 

What do you believe is possible? That’s a huge consideration for what you are able to bring to your future. What do you believe is possible? What you believe you deserve is another huge thought process that affects the outcome of your future. Because the world is changing so dramatically we really get to make stuff up for our future because so much is possible we don’t even know about yet. So if you were making up your future what would it look like?  Perhaps you want to draw a few scenarios or describe them verbally, but go into some detail to explore what could be unfolding for you and be mindful of the steps you take right now and where they might lead you. We make up our lives. Let’s make up a good one.

 My View of the World

My view of the world is a tree, the sky, and a parking lot.  I no longer go anywhere.  How has your view of life become restricted?  Narrowed?  Confined?  Are you living in your own little corner or are  you seeking other ways to connect with a greater whole?

My tree is a messenger from me to the world.  Her roots send my love through the earth to other roots all over the planet.  Her life cycle keeps me tuned to my own life cycle.  

The sky is a harbinger of change.  Between shape-shifting clouds and remarkable sunsets, it is alive and vibrant and it speaks to me.  My one view is full of interconnection with nature, the planet, the cosmos, the Great Awareness.  

Wherever you are you can find the sky and connect with the world. How will you let nature expand your sense of belonging? 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Stay Fluid – A Flexible Who-And-Do-What Statement

I have a new who-and-do-what statement that is broad enough to move with the unfolding Divine Feminine’s ongoing revelation of her qualities and her purpose.  I was going to suggest we create a new who-and-do-what statement for the new year until I realized that could possibly lock us in because the world is unfolding in so many new directions.  There will be new jobs, new needs to serve, and new directions to explore.  We could make a vow to stay true to our gifts.  That would hold us in good stead.  Go exploring and be true to our gifts – whether they are already developed or simply waiting to be put into a new place of service. 

Having said that I have a new Who and Do What Statement for 2022.

A who-and-do-what statement is a powerful way to identify and focus your role.  I learned it from Michael Port as a Book Yourself Solid Coach.  A  who-and-do-what statement can change your direction and focus your intentions.  You do need to check it periodically to see if it is big enough for where you want to go. 

I help (who you help)

To do (what you help them do)

So that (what they can do when you help them)  

Let me show you how dramatically this can change your understanding of the direction you are going and the role you are developing. 

Here’s the one I just had: 

I help spiritual explorers find powerful and creative ways to connect with and explore their own cosmic consciousness.

Here’s the one I just created: 

I help adventurers who are ready to explore the new possibilities in the emerging energy of the Divine Feminine

to align their dreams and choices with what is emerging as possible today so that they go beyond their own expectations.

That sure propelled me into a new vision of what I am doing.

It does help to give deep thought to who you want to serve.  Is it a group of people, is it the planet, is it follow explorers? If you write a who-and-do-what for 2022 keep it broad and flexible. Keep it on your desktop and change it as the year and the opportunities unfold.  

======THE UNFOLDING DIVINE FEMININE=== ===

How Are You Still Relevant and Useful?

I’m working on my vision for 2022 and as a really old person, I still want to feel relevant and useful. I can thank my mind and my curiosity for keeping me exploring.  Thank  you for reading and listening to my thoughts.  My life would be quite empty if I did not have you to share with. I had not thought about evaluating each choice to see if it is relevant and usefull.  Playing Spider Solitaire is not relevant or useful. Hugging my cat is.  Writing my newsletter and podcast are both relevant and useful. I now make choices that deepen my spirituality, expand my wisdom and entertain my curiosity. 

Career Paths in the Divine Feminine

We are happiest when we are using all our gifts during our days.  That means in our job and our choice of free time.  The Divine Feminine is asking us to reevaluate our gifts and put them to work for the highest good.  You may be excited to be the creator and developer of an idea or you might be just as excited to be the person who puts together one piece that makes the whole project come together.  Each role is important and we are to take pleasure and satisfaction in the role we take. We are to keep choosing for the highest good. 

As the Divine Feminine emerges, we have to become explorers. Our job is to understand the gifts we have been given, the passion we hold in our hearts, and find the most effective and satisfying place of service in this rapidly evolving world. 

Where I am now in my life, what I know how to do, is what brought me to where I stand on the path today. 

The more open I stay to unfolding opportunities, the more I get to explore and discover and implement. Keep an eye on what is unfolding in the Divine Feminine and identify new places of service that could be rewarding for you.  Then go do them. 

===INTENTION BLESSING===

May we hear and heed the call of the Divine Feminine. 

May we expand our hearts and our expectations.

May we walk the Path of Light with a sure foot. 

May we keep our gaze on the summit.

May we take this journey with a full heart. 

I entwine my light with yours and we move forward to guide the way.

===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST===

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How to Hold High Watch for the Planet

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What Do You Need to Leave Behind?

Expanding Awareness

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

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===CARA’S CORNER===

Choose From the Future

Your future is the higher potential inside you and it is already part of the cosmos. It evolves from the choices you make that stimulate new growth and evolution.

The highest potential inside you.  How do we know what that is? As I watch the world change, everyone’s role is changing.  Our choices are changing. Our responsibilities are shifting.  It is an extremely fluid time.  

We have choice – in every moment. We choose what we believe.  We choose what we think.  We choose what we say.   We choose what we do.  And each one of those acts sends out a ripple that reaches and touches and changes – something.  We need to put our ripples out with care and conscious choice.  

What is the highest potential inside you?  How do you find it?  How do choose it and turn it into action?

Listen to your inner voice.  Listen to the subtle nudges and hunches the universe provides. Your next steps, your path, are waiting there for you to recognize and embark upon. Keep looking.  Keep choosing.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Reaching Your Highest Potential  

My highest potential awaits fulfillment. It is mine to recognize and fulfill.  

My highest potential awaits fulfillment. It is mine to recognize and fulfill. The choices I make create my reality.

My highest potential awaits fulfillment. It is mine to recognize and fulfill. The choices I make create my reality. I observe carefully and choose from my deepest awareness.  

– Cara Lumen, December 2021

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 adventurers who are ready to explore the new possibilities in the emerging energy of the Divine Feminine to align their dreams and choices with what is emerging as possible today so that they go beyond their own expectations.

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