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Seekers and Change Makers

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Seekers and Change Makers

Living Our Deeper Song

Ashe

(“Ah-Shay”)

The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

We are both seekers and change makers and we have work to do. What format that work will take will vary with each of us as individuals but the goal is the same. The purpose is to learn to work from an ever-increasing awareness of our innately high vibration and help others recognize that higher vibration in themselves so that collectively we can help heal the planet and its inhabitants. You know. Simple stuff.

How we do that is an individual choice. Some of us may actively teach. Some of us may simply live our lives as a strong example that others see and emanate. We might write about it – a poem, a song, a book, a podcast. We might just live it so strongly that others see it in us and recognize it in themselves.

Our individual expression as a seeker and change maker is just that, individual. It will be based on our gifts and our inner calling. How we express it will be up to us to determine with our choices, our enthusiasm and our actions.

Where are you being called? What are you being asked to do? And are you doing it?

This new path I’m on has come to me organically. Partially as bits and pieces of a concept that called to me so strongly that I have found a new path opening to me. And I am following it. I’m at the beginning of it. It began with the reminder from Michael Meade that nature is always about evolution. That helped me put into perspective the chaotic change that is going on in our planet. This is a cycle of nature. A cycle of growth. Evolution – an organic cycle of change. And that means releasing, restoring, repurposing, and a whole lot of other steps that go into recreating a new earth.

My role is still unfolding but I’m getting glimmers. What your role is will also be made known to you – perhaps with a bump on the head or a nudge so subtle that you almost miss it. We are seekers on a path that grows more inclusive and esoteric and we are change makers when we put that new knowledge to work and share it with others.

Be prepared for a change. Be aware of the nudges and insights and opportunities that the universe gives you and act on them with thoughtfulness and wisdom and high intention. Let’s go change the world.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I explore new paths with enthusiasm and curiosity. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Identify the problem that you want to work with right now.
  • Do some research about what is being discovered about that particular direction.
  • Find a path that calls to you and explore it more deeply.
  • How are you to help change the world?

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Gratitude

I want to establish a gratitude practice. Not just a few acknowledgments at the end of the day but a little more than that – a bit of a ceremony in which I look back and both acknowledge and accept the gifts I have been given. That will include insights, new ideas, new experiences and deepening awareness. What a lovely thing to do.

I think I’m going to make up a little song to go with it. I might use a rattle or a drum. But I’m pretty sure there’s going to be a song of gratitude.  I may use the sunset as a period of gratitude. How will you acknowledge the gifts of your day? Add it to your spiritual practice.

Listen Within and Trust

I know where this nudge came from. I listened to a podcast on the Akashic records and came away with a willingness to listen more closely to my inner voice and to trust what messages I perceive.

This is a more conscious effort to listen than I have done for a while. Opening myself up, asking a question, interpreting what I am given. I used to journey every day and I have stopped doing that, so I think it’s time to add that practice back into my life.

There is a major change taking place. A deepening of my work. An expanding of my adventure. I let go of perceived notions and specific ideas that I may have been holding, and sit in open acceptance of the messages and guidance that are available to me when I open myself to hear. Here we go adventuring. Again. Or more. However it turns out. Listen to your inner voice and trust what you hear.

A Practice to Open Up to Guidance from the Unseen World 

As I prepare to open myself to a new path, I have had several ideas that came immediately to mind. I’m going to start listening to the Living Myth podcast of Michael Meade because I think he will open me up to new possibilities. He will be a springboard for my own adventures. It occurs to me to reread some of the books that inspired me, in particular the Tao de Ching Stephen Mitchell translation but other ones come to mind. I will ask my guides for a specific way to journey to get insights for this unfolding new role I am to take.

In my journeys I already have established the Indigo Portal in which there is a library. Perhaps that’s where I begin.

I am exploring ways to listen to guidance from my deepest self so that I can elevate what I learn and what I share. As I share what I explore, perhaps you will find your own version of a new way to explore and receive guidance. Let’s go explore together and learn to listen more deeply.

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Adjustment Periods

It takes time to adjust to change. It takes time to make a decision. It takes time to explore the options. And once the decision is made, there’s a whole process of letting go in order to move on. You can’t rush any of them but you can support their smooth unfolding.

It felt like a sudden decision for me to move into assisted living even though all the signs were there that I would continue to evolve. I have had to adjust to giving away a lot of stuff. I’ve had to adjust to how to fit myself into the much smaller space. I keep releasing possessions and expectations and even possibilities. It is a huge period of adjustment and sometimes it has been less than easy.

Notice when you are in a cycle of change. Be aware of what is being offered to you and be aware of what you must release in order to accept it. Do that mindfully, but also keep in mind the ultimate objective.

Change always comes with a period of adjustment. It is a time when you explore. It is a time when you question both beliefs and expectations. And it is a time of continual exploration of the gifts and nudges and surprises the universe provides. Set your goals, yes, but be flexible about what shows up and the timing of that unfolding.

Be open. Be flexible. And adjust.

Belief In Self-Healing

Belief in the concept of being able to self-heal is prevalent in many cultures. There are many holistic approaches to self-healing – Ayurvedic, Qigong, Tai Chi, Yoga, meditation, acupressure, flower essences, reiki and shamanic journeys are some examples. I have been studying Qigong as one of the approaches I use.

Recently in Robert Peng’s class on The Shift Network, he taught us that all of the meridians in the body come across the top of the head so patting the top of your head for four or five minutes every day stimulates all your meridians. That’s a pretty easy start to self-healing. You can use your fingernails to simulate the top of your head too, depending on how you want your hair to look when you get through…

I know what I need to do to take care of my body. I need to feed it, to rest it and move it. Even then, sometimes it resists wholeness. Explore the various holistic healing techniques, establish one as your own personalized self-healing practice. Take charge and do the work.

An Easy Qigong Sequence

Here is a lovely 18 minute Qigong video with Robert Penn with whom I just studied. Easy to do and very powerful. Enjoy.

===OUTER  WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

Renew Intentions

Periodically we have to sit down and give ourselves a good talking to. We have to look closely at what we’re doing and what we’re not doing and set some new intentions. When I make this move to assisted living, my space will be small and I will need to get out and walk the halls in order to get any kind of exercise at all. Depending on where my apartment is, I may go find a window in one of the big rooms they have and do my Qigong practice. If the weather is nice perhaps I could even step outside to do it. That makes me walk to and from and I must make it a practice to move with mindful posture and movement. I need to set other intentions around healing my body.

I will set intentions to listen to at least three podcasts a week. I want to work with the quotes that I’ve selected. They may inspire me to take some action or do some writing. That will unfold. What new intentions will you set each day and how will you make them happen?

Let Go And Move On

Are you good at quitting? Do you know when it’s time to let go and move on? It’s important to know when it is time to change directions or correct a course. We go exploring, that’s natural. But then we get to evaluate what we discover, to see if it is what we want to do, if it’s taking us in the right direction, and what action we should take about continuing or discontinuing that particular path.

The decision to quit or move forward happens many times during our day. But I’m really thinking about the big commitments we made and how and when we knew it was time to change, to let go and move on from the choices we had made.

The three times I have moved cross country in my life, I knew instantaneously that it was what I needed to do. They were huge moves that meant giving up all I had going on and go to a new place with unknown opportunities and challenges. But in an instant, I knew it was time to move on.

What do you need to quit? What old path do you need to leave behind and what new one is calling to you? Be flexible. Be curious. And listen to the voice within. Know when it is time to quit and move on. Then do it.

Random Acts of Kindness

I don’t get to do this very much anymore. I am more of a receiver of acts of kindness than I am the giver of acts of kindness partially because of my aging physical process. But I get to look at that. Because whatever shape I’m in, there is a way that I can offer a random act of kindness.

Give that some thought. I can write a thank you note to someone who has been supportive. When I see someone doing an act of kindness for someone else, I can acknowledge them. Then I get stuck. Until I realize that I don’t have to be present to offer a random act of kindness. I could write a note. I can make a phone call. But it does seem like a random act of kindness wants to go directly to the person you intend it for rather than come to them in a roundabout way.

However, if I saw a need, I might tell them of someone else who can help them and connect the two. Perhaps I have learned something that I can share with someone else that will help them.

I have a strong urge to teach the Shaking Qigong movement to anyone who will listen because whatever shape you’re in, you can do it.

Keep on the lookout for the random acts of kindness that come your way and also keep looking for the way you can pass random acts of kindness forward.

Learning Online

There are so many ways to learn online that there is no excuse for not exploring whatever calls to you. I like the free summits that various groups give on a specific topic because I often find people there that I want to follow or learn from.

Where do you find your teachers? How do you find them? Stay open to the unexpected taps on the shoulder that offer you new teachers on the path you want to explore. Just listen to your inner nudges and go exploring online. Your next teacher will find you and call loudly enough for you to hear.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Self-Healing Spiritual Practice and Deepening Awareness of Our Cosmic Oneness

Leave Some Emptiness In Your Day

It is important to leave some emptiness in our day. We need to pause to examine what we have chosen several times during the day. We can sit quietly and inwardly explore how we are feeling and where we are. It is from this inwardly centered focus that we choose our next step.

You might use these contemplating inquiring moments to look out the window at nature and change your rhythm and the focus of your thoughts. You might use these pauses to go within and talk to your body and do some gentle stretching, breathing, centering moves to quiet your mind.

You might just sit in stillness and focus on your breath until you can move deep within to listen to your heart. Only then do you take your next step.

I have not yet established these thoughtful pauses throughout my day, but I want to. I might find various signals to help me go within to observe and feel where I am and where I want to go next. There is a certain organic flow through my day but what I need to add, what I want to add, are moments of emptiness in which I go within and empty my mind and give myself time and space to bring in the next step I may or may not choose to do. I will open myself to inner guidance and deeper insights.

Where will you place moments of contemplative emptiness in your day? Experiment but find a place to do it every few hours.

I Went To The Woods Because I Wanted To Live Deliberately

What did Thoreau mean to “live deliberately”? How does one do that? Mindfulness comes to mind. Thoughtful action. Taking time to be aware. Listening to your inner voice. How would you set about living your life more deliberately?

For me it means being aware of my choices and making them more conscious, more relevant and impactful. It means taking time to be with nature whether it’s watching the sunset or lying in the grass, or simply smelling the fresh air coming through the window. Create a conscious connection with nature. Living deliberately means being totally present when around other people to feel and sense beyond their words to their spiritual self, and respond to that. For me, living deliberately means taking care of myself – this body I’ve been given, these gifts I have been given to share. I give conscious thought to the choices I make around my gifts.

Here’s Thoreau:

“I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rest all that was not life. And not, when I came to die, discover I had not lived.”  -Henry Thoreau.

===DEEPER SONG PHILOSOPHIES ===

Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Why do you weep? The source is within you. And this whole world is springing up from it.  – Jalaluddin Rumi

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

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===CARA’S CORNER===

I Did It!

I made my move into assisted living. I got to ride in a wheelchair in the back of a van which is kind of fun. There are extremely kind people in service here but it’s going to take some adjusting as do most new things.

My new apartment number is 104. Which adds up to five. My previous apartment number 1131 which adds up to five. I looked up the number five.

Number 5 is related to personal freedom and independence, individualism, adaptability, major life changes, and life lessons learned through experience. Number 5 also symbolizes motivation and determination, adventure, courage, imagination, and making positive choices.

I moved 10/25/22 = 3.The number 3 has always held powerful symbolism. Think about good things coming in 3s, the birth-life-death cycle, the mind-body-soul connection, the 3 acts of a typical story. Wherever the number 3 shows up in your life, it’s generally an omen of creativity, communication, optimism, and curiosity!

This move has more significance than I had imagined.

In the few days I’ve been here, I have seen a physical therapist, an occupational therapist, a dietitian, and had a Jacuzzi bath! Oh yes, and I had a haircut and cut off 5 inches of my hair since I have not had a haircut for a year and a half. I am eating better than I have in years because it’s hard to feed one person. And my desk gets to sit beside three big floor-to-ceiling windows looking out over a lovely garden. Everyone is very helpful. I’ve been fitted with my very own wheelchair to get to and from the haircut and a doctor appointment which is about a year overdue. They measured me for the wheelchair… my space gets very full of people sometimes. That will stop as I figure out what I need next. I love the opportunity to get some physical therapy to teach me to take care of these physical changes. I had the greatest salad I’ve had in years, because it has so many different things in it which you can’t do when you’re a single person feeding only yourself.  

So this new adventure has begun. My life has been in more or less 14-year cycles, and I lived at this last place for 13 years. But at 90 I thought that might change until the Director of my wing said her mother had lived to 112. I get to rethink that one.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Accepting Help

The help I need has appeared as I move into this new phase.

The help I need has appeared as I move into this new phase. Change is happening with welcomed support.

The help I need has appeared as I move into this new phase. Change is happening with welcomed support. I will do my part. All is well in my world.

Cara Lumen, October 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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Our New Realm of Inquiry and Discovery

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Our New Realm of Inquiry and Discovery

Living Our Deeper Song

Our New Realm of Inquiry and Discovery

Living Our Deeper Song

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

We have embarked on a huge adventure and we have no idea where it will take us but we have entered a new realm of inquiry and discovery. And we must do the work. We need to question everything. How we do things. Why we do things. If certain things are still necessary. We may be called to live in mutually beneficial communal settings. We may be called to develop skills we didn’t even know we had.

We need to question everything. Why are we doing this? What are the results of our choices? Is there a better way to do this? Am I the one to do this? Does this even need to be done? How is this impacting the world? We must examine and question everything we do to determine its impact and if that is what our world needs right now. When we do, we will begin to discover new ways of doing things, new ways of being, and new expectations for what is possible. All because we question everything. 

We must move into this new era with our minds full of inquisitiveness and pay attention to what we discover, then use that new knowledge to build our new world.  These are exciting times and we have a huge responsibility to explore and discover and choose for the highest good of all. Welcome to our new realm of inquiry and discovery.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I question everything to see if it is leading me on the highest path I need to travel now.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Question everything – everything you think you should do, everything you believe you should do, everything you are doing now because it’s all changing. And we must change with it.
  • Experiment. Test and explore the potential and possibilities of what you have chosen. This is a time of change. This is a time for a higher path. Pay attention. Explore and discover

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Our Inner Awareness

Release and Revelation

Sometimes it’s as easy as letting go in order to make room for something new to be revealed. Is there something like that in your life?

Striving never works.  The answer emerges when we release our concerns and even our plans and let things unfold. We examine the possibilities and the next steps reveal themselves. 

My work on my body is pretty focused. Not exactly structured but there are things that I repeat that I think are helping. I keep focusing 

on how each choice is working. The results I do or don’t get.  I experiment.  I let go of what is not working and make room for new ideas and possibilities to show themselves. I welcome the unfamiliar and explore it more deeply. 

At the same time, I’m exploring the Divine Feminine and that is very much an unfolding process. So there’s really nothing there to release except my excitement and eagerness to learn more about my role. And it is unfolding in the perfect time.

What aspects of your life are you forcing? And what will be revealed when you release that effort? Experiment and see what happens.

Be Available to the Inner Offerings of Your Life

Ideas often appear silently in my head, and unless I am paying attention, I can almost miss the message. We need to listen and pause to consider and explore the soft whispers of our inner voice. Don’t let those magical nudges escape. Pause to listen and consider them. 

===OUTER  WORK===

Exploration of New Potential and Possibilities

Patience and Perspective

With each step along the path, you get a different view. It may be a wider view, a deeper view, or a close-up view but each shift you make along your path changes your perspective and your potential. 

Be patient as you walk your path. Take a few steps, then pause to look around at the new possibilities that appear. Examine the new offerings, the new view. Look to see what you need to leave behind, what is no longer needed, what is holding you back. Each step is a new beginning. Each step has a new view and each step holds a new potential.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Deepening Awareness of our Cosmic Oneness.

Cultivate Inner Stillness

Awareness comes in the silence. It comes in the stillness of doing nothing. Make part of your spiritual practice a time of being still and listening. You may think nothing shows up. But if you observe, you may find that you have an inkling, a nudge, a feeling, and that is your inner voice beginning to guide you. Sit in the stillness. Arrange to have times of stillness every day. Be patient and listen. The message is there.

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

Raise Our Sights and Our Expectations 

The Next 30 Years

My daughter will retire in a couple of years and I asked her what she thought about what she would do for the next 30 years after that. That’s a long period of time. She said she wants to work with animals. There’s an animal Reiki class she’s planning to take. How lovely to know a path for this next big chunk of your life. Have you thought about those last 30 years or so? How can you be productive? Who do you want to serve? How can you begin now to prepare? Give it some thought. 30 years is a big chunk of time. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

Brave Souls

I have a new grandson born on January 31. His vaccinated and boosted mother got co-vid while she was pregnant but he is ok. He is a brave spirit. He is coming into a world of uncertainty. Of dramatic change. An urgent need to care for the planet. He chose it. He is a brave soul. We are all spiritual beings having a human experience. 

We signed up for this particular time and this particular assignment. We choose our personal health and the circumstances of our surroundings.  Our children chose us as parents knowing full well what to expect. 

There are two books that describe past life regressions into life between lives –

Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives by Michael Newton  and 

Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives  by Michael Newton

They are fascinating and open up a whole new world of possibilities to consider. 

It’s very interesting to know that we thought about and agreed to our time on earth. Yes, there are brave souls coming in right now. Let’s do our part to make the way easy for them.

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

Expanding Awareness

Journey to the Sacred Feminine

Journey to the Sacred Masculine

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=== DEEPER SONG ORACLE MESSAGE===

Soul Searching and Re-evaluation 

The messages from the SpiritSong Tarot are mind-boggling for me.  They hold such promise and guidance.  A recent combination was “Soul Searching and Re-evaluation” followed by “Renewed and Enlightenment.” I have my work cut out for me.  

There are two powerful steps here.  Soul Searching and Re-evaluation is about taking stock of what you have created thus far.  Is it what you want?  Is it what you envision?

My list is only partially good.  I love what I am exploring and writing about and my body is healing but not there yet.  I am making progress on both and keep searching for new steps to take. 

Renewal and Enlightenment is the exciting part.  That meant I am on the right track, the ideas I am exploring will lead me where I need to go next.  It is unfolding and I’m on the high road. Yeah.  

Do some Soul Searching and Re-evaluation to see what got you where you are today and follow that by identifying your new path to Renewal and Enlightenment.

SpiritSong Tarot

===CARA’S CORNER===

Contemplation – Deepens Our Wisdom

I may overdo it a bit but I contemplate a lot. Much of this newsletter is because a concept sparks my interest and I need to find out how to apply it in my own life so I turn and write something to share with both of us. That’s a form of contemplation. 

I am not one to take a long time to make up my mind to take an action, but people often contemplate before they take a next step. I’m more of an impulse person. That or a fast thinker…

We need to contemplate the results we get by our actions because they are the reflection of the energy that we have put out. We can make adjustments then and there to do more or do less. Or do it entirely differently. Take time to contemplate what you are attracting with the choices that you’re making and adjust accordingly.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Silence of Knowing

I sit in silence to let the feelings fill my entire being.

I sit in silence to let the feelings fill my entire being. I listen. I experience.  I absorb. I consider. 

I sit in silence to let the feelings fill my entire being. I listen. I experience.  I absorb. I consider. Only when I grasp the impact of the whole do I make my choice. 

Cara Lumen, February 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.

Please forward this newsletter to a friend and suggest they
Join the Deeper Song Community

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Weaving Our New Home

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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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Deeper Song Website

===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

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Don’t Force the Petals to Open

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Don’t Force the Petals to Open

Living Our Deeper Song

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

I should be writing this in the spring but because it’s the end of year, I was imagining 2022.  And in my journey, I got “do not force the petals to open.”  I need to ease up and let the buds of change open in their own time. 

I have to be certain that making plans does not close me in or keep me from finding unexpected and unusual options.  I have to stay fluid.  And the main reason I do is that no one knows what the Unfolding Divine Feminine is going to look like.  We’ve never had it before. So unlike past years, I cannot set specific goals because that would lock me into a closed path.  

In the journey I took to find guidance for 2022, I got my Happy Hiker Guide who is a new guide for me. He wears a jaunty hiking hat with a feather and plays a flute to encourage me on the winding, uphill path.  He cautioned me not to lock myself in, to just stay open to possibilities, and I would have what I need to examine and evaluate every choice. 

I don’t exactly have a plan other than to ease up on making action plans.  When an idea comes up, I will explore it from several angles.  I also want to watch what I change and how I change it because that will alter my choices and my potential.  Do I need to expand something? Do I want to explore something new? Probably both. That means I have to be willing to let go and/or change rather fluidly as new ideas and awareness ripen. 

I like the idea of letting an action or an idea ripen.  Give it time to nurture itself in each stage.  A caterpillar changes who she is by dissolving herself and becoming an entirely new being. I’m not planning to go that far, but I do think it would be a good idea to leave some no-longer-needed things beside the path and move on. I just have to be aware of what I need to leave behind. Fear, apprehension, uncertainty, there is no room for those, we have too much exploring to do.  What we do need is a strong sense of what is important for the collective well-being so our choices support our inclusive values and keep us moving toward a higher level of participation and expectation. 

Because the world is changing so rapidly and dramatically, we get to question every choice and many of our conclusions and that will take some practice.  A new possibility shows up and we have to squelch any negative thought and instead, turn the idea over in our mind to see how it fits into the unfolding world and if we have a role in it.  Then we can choose.  

Over-arching broad goals help us prioritize, but long-range plans won’t work because the world is unfolding and rearranging its potential. We have to stay flexible and open to change. You can’t push the petals to open. You have to let them unfold in their own perfect time.

Most of all, keep an eye out for the unusual and unfolding potentials that are going to come tumbling in.  Go exploring, give it a try, and see where it takes you. Stay nimble and fluid.  The world is going to give us a fascinating ride. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I eagerly explore the new ideas that come from the Divine Feminine.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Question how you see the role of the Divine Feminine.  She has just begun to reveal her potential and the form she will take. What idea do you need to release?
  • Explore what calls to you and examine its potential. 
  • No need to choose yet, just explore and examine and consider its possibilities in your life.

===INNER WORK===

Review Your Year

This is a helpful reflective exercise.  Answer the following questions:

2021 Review

What went well this year?

What didn’t go so well this year?

What did I learn?

What I will do differently?

What will I do more of?

As new opportunities unfold ask:

Where is this leading?

Is there a role in this for me?

Do I want that role?

Do I want to explore more or let it move on?

We are going to be flooded with new ways to do things and it is an opportunity to get to know ourselves as we are now and to make some choices about where we want to go next.  Go exploring and be selective. The Divine Feminine is going to take us for an exciting and adventurous ride.

Develop a Habit of Inner Listening

I’m helping a friend explore and discover and establish her next path. My major advice is to listen. Listen to your inner nudges. Pay attention to the unexpected opportunities the universe provides. I do a lot of my exploring by writing. It doesn’t make any difference what I write, it’s that I write and in so doing open up a clear path for my inner voice to speak to me. It always helps me sort things out. It helps me explore a new possibility. You might dictate your thoughts into a document you keep on your computer. Just dictate it and give it a title. And a date. I’m big on using a table of contents to keep track of that kind of journaling in order to have an overview of my thoughts. When you get in the habit of simply dictating an idea, you’ll be surprised at what you reveal. Start listening to your inner voice and see where it leads you. 

Expect the Best. Do Not Settle for Second Best

We get what we expect. We get what we believe we deserve. We get what we believe is possible. Do not settle for second best. 

This is not just about optimism, this is about expectation. I believe in wholeness, high vibration, cosmic consciousness, and oneness. As we live our human lives in this huge collection of humankind, we must raise our expectations and our beliefs and take the highest road possible. Expect the best, do not settle for second best. You deserve it.

===SELF-HEALING===

Vibrational Work

I am creating positive changes in my 89-year-old body and it is very comforting to experience the power of vibrational work in the bitfields.  

I do Qigong each day. But I also do acupressure.  I have set up a table near a chair where I have put all sorts of acupressure tools and my tuning forks. I sit there several times a day and work with my body.   You don’t have to know the meridians, just find the sore places in your body and massage them. It’s not at all strenuous.  And it is producing results. I also do intentional humming to send vibrations to my body. This is an easy self-care habit to acquire.

===OUTER  WORK===

Broaden Your Support System

Having the physical help I need has made a huge difference in the quality of my life experience.  It’s not easy to ask for help but when you experience the relief of hard-to-do physical aspects of your life being taken from you, the relief is huge.  I have added two physical pain support people to my team – a physical therapist and a fabulous woman who loves to clean.  They have changed my world.  I have a core group of friends that I talk with regularly on Zoom that are a lifeline to intellectual curiosity and spiritual expansion and supportive friendship.  What or who do you need in your life that would support a forward motion? Where would you find it? And will you ask for the help? Keep broadening your support system. 

When You are Aligned You Can Move Freely

I have no idea what’s actually going on in my body, but I woke up one day this week and my left hip was aligned clear up to my waist. And I could walk better, I could stand straighter. I have no idea what was released. I just know that the alignment changed and the result was dramatic. What is out of alignment in your life and what would one small shift do to bring everything back into a stronger connection?

Discovering Your Next

I used to be able to coach people into a new place of service but a lot of what I know how to do is perhaps no longer useful.  That said, your place of service is about following your heart and exploring and expanding your gifts into new places of expression and service.  For me personally, it has always been about what I can learn next. 

I have a friend who is 68, retired from her profession but wants and needs to create income.  Some of the things I know to do to create a new career path are still valid – if a target audience is too far into the need to simply survive, they cannot move from that into a higher consciousness level of exploration (Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs). But I think we teach what we want to learn.  What do we know, what do we want to learn, how do we put that together to move ourselves and others forward? 

In our conversation, we discovered a deeply  personal and relevant aspect of my friend’s past that could be the starting point for evolving her next plan of service.  My suggestion is to simply begin going in that direction to see what unfolds and how it feels.  In her case I suggested she get one document on her computer and start writing and exploring any relevant ideas that show up. And let that intuitive writing open the door to new possibilities. 

First, you have to identify the problem that you want to help others solve.  It may be something you want to learn too. We learn by teaching. We help others learn by sharing our process of exploration, discovery, and change. 

The form is secondary.  She wants to teach, she wants to write, there are technical steps like websites and list building to take. But first, you have to know who you want to serve and how you want to serve them. 

What do people need?  What has changed dramatically that you can help them with?  What is the problem you will help solve?

My main message is to explore deep within yourself to find what new direction is ready to emerge that will take you where you need/want to be next. Then turn and bring others with you. 

Go exploring to discover your “next.” Then make it happen.

Mark the Trail

I was working on my thoughts for the coming year and I got “I am to go exploring and mark the trail.”  What does that mean?  What does that look like?  The exploring part I get – I stay open to what calls me to learn and understand next.  Part of the trail I leave is what I write or podcast about, but the majority of what I am to do is experiment and share what I learn.  It will probably not be my personal path because my role is explorer and path-finder and way-shower.  I am to stay free and loose and full of curiosity and report what I discover – the possibilities, the changes, the new insights.  I am to explore and share what I find.  I can do that.

Use Your Curiosity As A Compass

Our curiosity is a gift. It is a guide. It is a planner of adventures. It opens new portals and shows us the path. Do you listen to your curiosity? Do you nurture your curiosity? Do you take time to explore what your curiosity suggests might be a new adventure? Pay attention to your curiosity and take time to follow its nudges. It will show you the way. 

The Flexible Plan

A plan is only as good as the results it produces – if it gets you where you need to go. Sometimes there are detours that add unexpected richness to the experience. Be open to those. Take a few steps, stop and examine the new vista, then make new choices based on the new view you have just acquired.  That means every step forward requires you to stop and look around to see what has changed, and choose which direction to go next.  Life is one big stepping stone after another.  

Do take the next step. Do take another step.  Do explore the ideas that pop up.  Your insight, your decisions, your choices are the springboard to your version of “next”. Choose away.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Are You Open to Possibilities?

As I use intention and focused vibration for self-healing, I have to keep looking at the subtle changes that show me a path to new possibilities.  They can be subtle and I may have to look closely for them but change is constant when I look for it.

When inviting change into your life, we have to be alert to subtle nudges and gradual changes.  Trust  your spiritual practice.  Trust your self-healing practice and stay open to the possibilities they suggest. 

Do You Allow Yourself to Receive?

Self-sufficiency is a good thing – unless you carry it too far. Do you allow yourself to receive? Are you aware of what is being offered? Do you accept it with graciousness? Sometimes the gifts are very small and you have to look closely in order to notice them. Sometimes the gifts are downright life-changing. 

Notice what is being offered to you by those around you. Notice what is being suggested to you by the energy of the universe. Allow yourself to receive. You deserve it. You are worthy. Allow yourself to receive.

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

Where Are You Looking?

I have to raise my gaze.  I am looking down, at my body and my work to strengthen it.  That seems immediate.  But it is not what I want to focus on. Raise your gaze. 

As I sit here watching all manner of new opportunities and challenges make themselves known, allowing themselves to be considered, they point the way to a whole new path for moving forward. 

We have to question and explore and consider everything that shows up to see how it resonates with our personal path and the path of the Divine Feminine as she moves in to redesign the world. 

Maybe you begin to make a list of new things that are possible that were not in existence last year.  There is new science, there are new ideas, there are new social causes.  I feel like I am skimming along on the surface of a roaring ocean trying to find the landing place of my next place of service.  

Use your imagination to explore.  Use your curiosity to figure out new places of service. Where are you looking and are you looking broad and far enough? Raise your sights. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

How Do We Help Bring In The Unfolding Divine Feminine?

The Divine Feminine is unfolding and seeks expression.  I am to help her find ways to express herself and establish her authority.   My daughter is a top-ranking female manager in her company and her group is the only one in the whole organization that is working well.  The groups led by men are not.  She says she’s in meetings a lot which means there is collaboration and discussions and a group director.  That’s the way of the Divine Feminine. 

Another woman friend is completing a cycle of major leadership and the male person in charge of finding her replacement, instead of looking within the organization for a person to promote, is looking outside.  A very masculine approach.  

Can you begin to see the differences between masculine and feminine leadership in your workplace? What’s working?  How can you help bring in the Divine Feminine? How is your new role evolving?  Stay fluid.  Keep flexible.  She is making herself known. 

Your Mind is Your Guide. Your Curiosity is the Compass

I got this message in a journey – “Your mind is your guide, your curiosity is your compass”. I cannot look very far into 2022 because the change is so deep and is just beginning to make herself known. Our job is to stay centered in our values and flexible in how we express then. And we even get to question our values. Are they based on inclusive concepts? I bet a lot of them or not. How do we build our place in this unfolding New World of the Divine Feminine? I think our job is to listen to look, to explore, perhaps even try out a few new roles. But most of all we must listen to our inner voice and what it tells us. Let your mind be your guide and curiosity be your compass.

Leave Space to Take a Wrong Turn

The wonderful thing about taking a wrong turn is the amazing new places you get to discover. That actually means there is no such thing as a wrong turn. Because wherever you are, there is opportunity. Don’t fill your life so full that you can’t take an unexpected turn and just go exploring. Each day should be an adventure not a march down a given path. There should be pauses to look around and check out the scenery. There should be pauses to feel and experience and absorb the energy of the moment. And make adjustments according to what you discover. Leave room in your life to go exploring. To try on a new experience for size, to see how it feels, to see if it will take you where you want to go. See what adventure it takes you on. Go exploring and leave space to take a “wrong” turn. You never know what magic you may discover. 

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

I Wrote Republican Liz Cheney 

I’ve been a Democrat all my life but only recently realized that I’m actually a Progressive Democrat. So it was with interest that I found myself wanting to acknowledge Republican Liz Cheney for her work on the Investigating Committee for January 6. 

I had to post my note on her Facebook page because I’m not from her state but I thanked her for standing tall in her beliefs and for being such an outstanding example of leadership in the emerging Divine Feminine. I know she will remain a leader of the thoughtful, inclusive Republicans who will split off and redefine themselves.  It is a changing time, isn’t it? We get to rethink everything. 

Who do you see being true to themselves and helping the Divine Feminine emerge?  Perhaps you could acknowledge them.

===INTENTION BLESSING===

There is a new path we are walking.  It is the High Path.  The High Road.  It keeps us walking above the fray. 

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 Gaia Gateway and Your Soul Star

Self Healing

A Transformative Clearing Process

Expanding Awareness

The Role of the Element of Earth in Our New Consciousness

Listen to my
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on
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and the 

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==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

Fountain-of-Youth Pill Could Be On Horizon  Grape Seed Extract has a new role. It has been found that Grape Seed Extract can delay, alleviate or prevent illnesses, aging-associated functional decline of organs, and increased risk of chronic disease. 

===CARA’S CORNER===

My Unfolding Role in 2022

I’ve been journeying a lot to receive guidance from my spiritual guides so that I step into 2022 headed in the direction that is most powerful and effective for me. 

Now that I see the Circle of Light Beings in all our glorious diversity, I am to focus on how we are to be contributing members to the Unfolding Divine Feminine. I know we are to play our individual harps and our individual songs but there is also an overarching composition that creates powerful change.  We will explore what that looks like and develop a new symphony of powerful, guiding, life-changing harmony.

The second message I got is that I am to establish a spiritual practice that is self-healing and informative to a rapidly unfolding world. I’m working on the vibrational self-healing part but there is much more to be revealed. 

The guiding message was “Your mind is your guide. Your curiosity is the compass.”

Here we go adventuring….!

“She is planted in her own integrity, and there she stands, gnarled and knotted, perfectly at ease with herself, her roots deep in truth, her branches held up to let the light in.”  – Stephen Mitchell Second Book of Tao

I am that tree. Standing with my roots deep into the life I have chosen for myself with my gnarled branches offering shade and comfort while some are reaching the sky for inspiration and future growth. What is your tree of life like?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Outreach

I have been here a long time. My roots are deep, my branches are spread, I have made my home, my place on earth.

I have been here a long time. My roots are deep, my branches are spread, I have made my home, my place on earth. My “next” is up to me – my choices, my expectations. 

I have been here a long time. My roots are deep, my branches are spread, I have made my home, my place on earth. My “next” is up to me – my choices, my expectations. I lift my branches and joyously reach into the Unfolding Unknown.

-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 t
o align their dreams and choices with what is emerging as possible today
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Nimble Thinking

By

Nimble Thinking

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===

Spiritual Practice

How to Hold High Watch for the Planet

Self Healing

What Do You Need to Leave Behind?

Expanding Awareness

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

Listen to my
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on
Apple / Spotify / Google

and the 

Deeper Song Website

===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.

Please forward this newsletter to a friend and suggest they
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