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Find Your Own Voice

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Find Your Own Voice

Living Our Deeper Song

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

This is a time of searching. This is a time of exploration. This is a time of questioning. Most of all, this is a time for choosing. It is time to find your own voice. It will be a new voice. It will be a different voice. It may be an unexpected voice. It will be a stronger voice. It will be based on the dramatically changing needs of the world today, the calling of your heart, and the most impactful and far-reaching use of your gifts. It may be a professional job. It may be a volunteer position. You may step out on your own. It may be a service within the confines of your group of friends. But your role will change. And much will change because of it.

Find your voice by noticing why people are drawn to you. What do they seek from you? What do they ask of you? How has that changed recently?  What is your new unfolding vision for yourself and for our planet? What do you believe is possible? How do you see your own role evolving?

Notice how your beliefs and expectations may have changed. Notice what new strengths you have developed in response to the emerging Divine Feminine and the violent reaction of the Divine Masculine who is lashing out in all directions. We must keep our center. We must keep our focus. And most of all we must continue to choose for the highest good for all. Or at the very least the highest good for the most people.

Let your new role unfold. Be patient. But be curious. Go exploring. Try on different versions of similar paths. Or try a whole new path all together. Find your voice. It is needed. Make it a strong voice placed deeply in service for the well-being of all.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I step into the passionate calling of my new voice

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Close your eyes and listen with  your heart.  What circumstance, situation on earth calls most to you?  
  • Give some thought to how you might serve that calling.  
  • Go exploring and find your new voice. 

===INNER WORK===

Being Light

How can you simply “be” light? How do you walk through your day as a Light Being? You do it with intention. You do it with an awareness of yourself as a spiritual being, cosmic consciousness itself. You are essence in a physical body. It is an essence of the highest vibration. That’s who we are. If you know yourself to be light, how does it change what you do and how you do it? 

I will move into a gathering with more awareness of the collective consciousness. I will give gratitude to my human form and for the many ways it allows me to participate in this life. I will give gratitude for my mind which is part of who I am, a favorite part granted, but just part of me. Since our consciousness creates how we express ourselves, I will listen to my consciousness. I will support her in staying on the high road and seeing the highest good for all, for being present and not just reacting, but for responding with compassionate inclusion. This inner work is constant. It’s about being continuously aware. Aware of what you are thinking. Aware of what you are doing. Be aware of the nudges of the universe and what you are to do with them. Move through your day with awareness and let Spirit guide you.

===SELF-HEALING===

The Power of Encouragement

I was practically cheering as I walked down the hall to get the mail. My body is doing such a fabulous job of self-healing and the results are encouraging and rewarding. Which do you notice – what is working or what is not?

Focus on the wins and build on them.  

===OUTER  WORRK===

Focused Action

As both men and women search to find our new role in the unfolding Sacred Feminine, we will have to try out a variety of roles. Some of them are roles that have not even been invented yet. So we have to keep listening to our inner voice and turn to the world and try to place  ourselves in new roles in unfamiliar and rapidly unfolding situations, finding unexpected but much-needed evolving places of service.

So many new ways to do things are being discovered daily that we need to stay alert to what is calling us, what is appropriate for us, what is next for us, what is possible. And then we go exploring to see where it leads us. How does our heart feel? What are our goals? What are our accomplishments? Are our choices accomplishing what we want to get done? Are we going in a positive direction?

Take an action, focus in on a situation, and adjust according to the response  you get.  Stay flexible.  Do the work. 

Find Your Natural Rhythm

We get so caught up in schedules and appointments and obligations that we forget to establish our own natural rhythm. When do you do your best work? Are you a morning person? A night person? Do you work in strong bursts and then change pace for a while? Or are you a strong, steady type? Those are all valid ways to work which may not be allowed in the way we structure our life and work. It is helpful to know your natural rhythm and find ways to honor it.

I’m super creative in the morning. So whatever writing or creating I’m going to do is worked on then. Sometimes I find study is a good use of my energy in the afternoon. Take time to notice your natural rhythms and see how you can adjust your day to accommodate them.

Bring Nature Into Your Life

I have been known to have twigs and leaves and acorns in an arrangement in my home.  My windows are lined with plants with colorful leaves. I have sun catchers in my window rather than shades so I can easily look out and be with the flow of nature.  How do you bring nature into your environment?

My meditation chair faces a window so I can be with nature during that time of contemplation. I play my flutes to the new day.  I play my flutes to the sunset.

My Qigong practice begins by bringing energy up from Gaia and down from Cosmic Consciousness.  I pause as I move through my day to look out at nature to see what she’s sharing with me, what mood she is in, what messages she has.  

How do you live with the unfolding cycles of nature?

What Are Your Options?

There is always more than one choice. There is always more than one way around a problem. What are your options? Do you simply stop and stare at a blockage in your life and not move forward without looking around for different ways to get around it? Over, above, around – all are approaches that offer different options. Is it really a problem or is it actually an incredible opportunity that asks you to rise to the occasion and give more of yourself than you have before? It is an opportunity to grow. There are always options. Do it. Don’t do it. Partially do it. Give it to someone else to do. Consider your options and expand your expectations before you move forward.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Cultivate Your Inner Voice

It takes time to cultivate the interpretation of your Inner Voice. Mine sometimes shouts at me. Other times it is a nudge so slight that if I’m not paying attention, I will miss it. Sometimes I reject what the inner voice says because it doesn’t feel like it’s the right time. But usually, it is. My Inner Voice has so many good ideas that it often makes me stop what I am doing and go act on the idea. 

Learn to trust your inner voice. Learn to ask your inner voice for guidance. And listen closely to the very soft nudges it brings to you throughout the day. 

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

Continue Working On Your Own Evolution

We are being called to set aside who we are, what we know, and where we think we’re going because our world is dramatically changing. It clears out the old and births the new. We have to stay flexible. We have to evolve. We have to chart a new path. We have to explore and make new choices. This is a time of major change.

The question I’m asking myself a lot is what I am to do now? What is needed from me now? Where will I have the most impact?  How can I be the most useful?

What’s coming up for me is based on my natural curiosity about the unfolding feminine and the form she is evolving into. 

I also intend to go with the flow. I will not plan so far ahead that I cannot make an instant course correction when a new insight shows up or a new opportunity comes to me. I will not lock myself into a long-term plan for now, I think there’s too much change going on.

You can’t rush change. You can’t rush recognition of new possibilities. But you can teach yourself to be aware and observant and thoughtful. As this unfolding continues, you will find criteria to use as a measuring stick. You will also find things that are so exciting, it will blow your mind because you never thought that would be possible in your lifetime. The idea that you would be able to do it opens realms of new possibilities. Let your imagination soar.  Go exploring.  Make new choice.  Create new expectations for what is possible.

I’m not sure what staying flexible does for year-long plans or objectives or goals like we used to do. I think we might have to take it project by project. Perhaps even moment by moment. A project could be completed in any length of time that will make it usable and we will find out what change that leads to, what it evolves into. Continue work on your own evolution and enjoy the unfolding opportunities that present themselves. 

Reach Out

 I cherish my online friends.  I talk to them at regular intervals and we support each other on our respective journeys. Each friend seems to address a different area of interest of mine and it is very supportive to be able to have regular conversations with people who are walking a similar path and exploring in a similar direction at a similar level. We do not share all parts of our paths, but we support each other on the part of the path we share. 

Perhaps you make the first connection. Reach out and make arrangements to have a conversation on Zoom with someone you would like to know better. Or begin with an email exchange. The more specialized your area of interest, the trickier it is to find someone interested at the same level you are. The more advanced you get, the more you need advanced people in that area to share your journey with. Reach out. Arrange a monthly call and see how you can support each other.

How will you begin to build your far-reaching online community of friends?

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

Expectation

As I watch the challenges in the US, I have a choice – I can worry or I can raise my expectation of what is possible. I’m going to do the latter. So even though the answer, the next move, the solutions are not yet obvious, I’m going to trust that the solution for the highest good for all will emerge and prevail. What do you expect is possible? Raise your expectations and you will invite in higher energy.

Understand Your Process

How do you learn?  What process do you go through to make your observations?  What are the criteria for your choices? 

I’m an over-view person.  I see the potential and its variations very rapidly.  I do not remember detail very readily.

I have a friend who remembers detail forever.  She weaves it into lovely patterns of understanding.  Both of those learning styles are gifts. 

Give some thought to how you learn, how you make choices, how you choose your action steps.  Once you understand your pattern you can create a methodology to evolve an effective deepening process for your decisions. 

However you make decisions is perfect for  you but understand how  you work and figure out how to utilize those preferences. 

Change and Possibilities

Because change is happening so rapidly around us, we have to keep looking for the new possibilities that are emerging. They may be in a form that we recognize. They may not. They may be ours to do. They may not. I think we are entering a stage where we need to question everything we do because there’s going to be an alternative way to do it. Solar panels came to mind. 3-D printing of houses come to mind. Elimination of plastic come to mind. These are huge changes in how we used to do things. Keep learning. Pay attention to what is new and available. And keep questioning your choices so that you can keep building and finding new ways to do everything and anything.

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Creator Economy

Brian Clark says this is a creator economy.  There are so many platforms that give us access to people all over the world that our business goals can and need to be global.  This includes coating, teaching, designing, marketing, technical development, and reaching a worldwide audience.   Brian says, “It’s an amazing time to be a creative entrepreneur and build your personal enterprise.”

Look imaginatively at the unfolding needs that you can now identify in the world and find innovative ways to fill that need.  This is a period of creativity and originality. Enjoy. 

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

Establishing New Feminine Qualities

This has been such a male-dominated world that there are no Divine Feminine examples for us to copy. We only have the masculine view of the world. But that is changing.  So what do you see as the new, unfolding feminine qualities? I see independence. The Divine Feminine walks her own path in her own way in her own time. She has confidence and she is strong and she is very, very, very attuned to the guidance of her inner voice. She is so strong that she does not need support. She may choose to partner with someone in order to increase that strength or expand the possibilities. But she really prefers to walk alone. Independent. Wise. Inquisitive. Smart. Feminine is all of those. If you don’t believe that, you are still listening to the male-dominated world. And you have some choices to make. There are probably some beliefs to change. Forget what is out there right now like unequal work opportunities and unequal pay. And especially look out for the unequal expectations – by others and by ourselves. Each of us, both male and female are evolving into this new feminine. Men and women both have to change their beliefs in what is possible for women to do. 

How do we do that? We notice what calls us and we go exploring and keep a lookout for any of those restrictive feminine role clichés that are bound to show up. 

There are many ways to approach a situation. If I wanted to help fight fires but am  a small sized woman, not a big strong man, I have to perhaps create a role for myself in that profession. I may be the pilot to spot the new fire path and report back. I may create a new tool for fighting fires. I may develop a new conservation technique that prevents forest fires or reseeds forests. There are many ways to participate in helping a cause. We have to learn to think beyond anything we’ve imagined before because the opportunities are different and the tools are different. Be clever. Be creative. Be innovative. Create your own version of being in the Divine Feminine in this unfolding time.

=== DEEPER SONG  PHILOSOPHIES ===

Look Within

My strongest guiding philosophy is to keep looking within. I love my inner voice. I love that the more I listen the louder she speaks. And when I listen, I discover new opportunities, new paths, new possibilities. Are you listening to your inner voice? She is showing you the way.

===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.

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

Just read this about aging from Brian Clark 

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

Spiritual Practice

The Magical Power of an Affirmation

Self Healing

A Transformative Clearing Process

Expanding Awareness

New Consciousness – New State of Being  

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

and the 

Deeper Song Website

===CARA’S CORNER===

Pass It Forward

I have been collecting crystals for 50 years.  This week I passed along my crystal jewelry collection, with the exception of one labradorite necklace I wear, to my daughter, Cathy.  I was surprised to find that I felt relief the next day. I had made some of the jewelry in a jewelry-making class in New York City and I got to point those out to her.  One rutilated quartz necklace had been shouting at me for days that she wanted to go be with Cathy now.  It’s interesting how rocks can talk, can make their wishes and their needs and their gifts known.  We just have to listen.  

What do you need to pass forward?  What do you need to let go?  I still have a huge number of crystals but I found a group who were ready to move on to help Cathy deepen her spiritual practice.  

There is a time for everything. Sometimes that time is to stay and sometimes it is time to let go. 

What do you need to pass forward?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Letting Go

I let go.  It was time. 

I let go.  It was time. What I released was needed elsewhere. And it made room for me to bring in the new. Or expand what I kept. 

I let go.  It was time. What I released was needed elsewhere. And it made room for me to bring in the new. Or expand what I kept. Now there is room to grow.

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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Clear Space for a New Cycle

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Clear Space for a New Cycle

Living Our Deeper Song

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

The Winter Solstice is December 21 and a new calendar year begins soon.  What a perfect time to rethink, regroup and reorganize.

Rethink

Take a long look at what you have gathered to you in your life.  What is still relevant?  What have you outgrown?  What do you want to add? What do you want to accomplish? Pause to make a list.  Give this some thought. You are designing your “next.”

Regroup

There’s nothing like a cleared space to create room to rethink everything. What is now currently important in your life? What do you need to have near you in order to make that happen? Begin to prioritize based on what you know now and what you want to create next. This means you will leave some things behind. It means you may need new tools in order to create this new next or expand on what you are already building. What do you want to create? What do you need to make happen? Where will you get it?

Clear out things you take for granted, or have outgrown, or are simply a habit you have fallen into that no longer serves you. Make room for change.

Reorganize

One of the things about reorganizing is that when you reposition things, you make them more accessible, to give them more time, more energy, more space, and  more predominance in your thinking. What do you want to accomplish in the next year, in the next quarter? Choose just a few things that you can focus on and list some steps you can  actually accomplish. Then begin to structure a plan. Learn the new skills you need. Reorganize your schedule to make room for growth. This is a time of creation. Make room for what you love to do. Let your imagination flow as you design your “next.“

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I celebrate the beginning of a new cycle by rethinking and rechoosing – everything. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Perhaps divide your reorganization into segments like personal and career and relationships. Some areas may need more attention than others. 
  • Set a mission statement for each area.  I want my professional life to… I want my relationships to… I want my health to…
  • Let go, rethink, rechoose, reorganize and prepare to move forward.

===INNER WORK===

Nudge Notes

As a new idea starts to come in I get it in small snippets.  I call them nudges and I started a Nudge document on my computer to capture then, where I can quickly record and expand on my nudges and help them come into being. 

Having a place to write down the one or two word nudges that your intuition gives you may be an interesting way to help your ideas develop and expand. 

Contemplation Brings Wisdom

As I contemplate what the unfolding of the Divine Feminine could look like I am questioning all my beliefs and especially my expectations of what is possible.  Most of these ideas are not mine to live out because of my age, but it is precisely because of my age that I can see the overarching patterns and how they might change. 

When faced with a decision or a need to understand more, contemplate and explore.  Contemplate the possibilities.  Explore the alternatives.  Use  your imagination to create new combinations.  Take one piece and expand it.  Take one piece and remove it and see how the whole is affected. All of these possibilities can be explored in your mind when you simply take time to contemplate the alternatives, visualize the possibilities and let  your expectations soar!

When We Don’t Know That We Don’t know

My friend Christina and I often journey together on our Zoom calls.  On 12/12 she said it was the day of the black madonna, the Virgin of Guadalupe.  I had never given that much thought. She suggested we journey to her. We each took our own journey and at the end of mine I was in my Sacred Garden and looked in the Reflecting Pool and there was the Circle of Light Beings in all manner of ethnic expressions.  It was only then that I realized that I had been thinking of the Circle of Light Beings as more “me’s” not a wonderful variety of “we’s”.  It was a huge realization.  How is your imagination limiting you and can you change it? Where are you unconscious about the narrowness of your vision?

===SELF-HEALING===

Trust

As I proceed to work with the biofields in order to heal and balance my body, I get to trust the choices I make and the nudges I receive.  I get to trust my deep knowing that healing does take place in the energetic fields. Are you listening to your inner voice and hearing its nudges?

We Get What We Expect

Our thoughts create our reality and our possibilities. 

Our thoughts create our experience. How do we  alter both our thoughts and the result?

What do I expect?  If my experience in getting out of a chair is pain, guess what I’ll get.  If I consciously start acknowledging the times I get up that there is no pain then that reinforces that belief. You see where I’m going with this -our mind and beliefs and our expectations create our reality. What we expect we deserve we get. What we expect is possible we get. We have a great deal of control and determination over the flow of our thoughts and the outcomes they produce.

Positive thoughts. A belief that it can happen. No, I’m not going to stand here and imagine myself running down the driveway but I will stand here and envision myself walking tall and straight and effortlessly down the hall even with a walker. That’s progress. That’s a shift in my belief in what is possible. That is a shift in my focus toward the positive rather than on the negative. Our thoughts create our reality. What are you creating for yourself?

===OUTER  WORK===

Are You Stuck Or Are You Purposefully Planted?

There is a difference between being joyfully planted in a nurturing environment that encourages growth and experimentation and being stuck in a non-nourishing environment. Are you stuck or are you planted?

It takes courage to change.  It takes courage to let go and move on, and yet all life is a cycle and that means we must regularly make new choices.  

I can feel cycles ebbing and flowing in my life.  When a new cycle is coming in I know it is coming but that’s all I know.  Then one day there it is – clearly defined.  This exploring of the Divine Feminine was like that.  It burst upon me and demanded my attention and my exploration. It is an idea that deeply excites me and I am eager to explore.  It holds many answers for our “next.”

Pulling up roots can be big or small. I have moved across the US four times and those were really big changes. I have changed my current environment by establishing more online friends than in–person friends so even though I don’t physically go many places, I have a rich world of emotional and intellectual exchange with like-minded people in many parts of the world.

Even if you feel you are planted, check to see if there are some weeds crowding you that need to be removed so you have room to grow wider and taller and deeper.  Bloom where you are planted and have a good time doing it.

What Motivates You?

Motivation is a driving force. What motivates you to do what you do?  My need to explore what my mind offers is so huge that I get up out of bed to go write what is coming in.  And yet I am not doing as much physical work on my body as I could and should and want to.  How do I change my motivation?  I want it to be enticing and encouraging, not scary and full of dire results.  If I don’t do it thus and so will happen.  The motivational change will come from within. I have to want to do it.  I have to feel it is important.  And I probably need to feel satisfied after doing it.  

How do you motivate yourself and what do you need to motivate yourself to do more of?

Simplify Your Schedule – Work in Clumps

Having three things on your To-Do List feels a lot better than having 20.  What if you thought of your work in clumps?  You would have a clump for Self-Care, a clump for Relationships, a clump for Working your Passion.  It would make you feel like you had accomplished more. You can work in time clumps – 90 minutes, 2 hours, a half-hour on one focus.  But then shift to another major focus so each gets some action.  

The first parcel of time after I am dressed for the day is spiritual – meditation, playing my flutes, a little Qigong. It also includes dawning a SpiritSong Tarot card to help me think about my choices and my progress and my potential. 

Then I open my email and tend to wherever that takes me.  

My second time slot is always creative – my favorite time and action.   Since my work is creative it often looks like I am moving projects forward because I am. 

When you focus on the purpose of each period of time it becomes richer and deeper.  Eating is mindful, study is enriching, connecting with others is invigorating. 

Whatever you are doing, immerse yourself in it, give it your full attention, and then pause to acknowledge what you have accomplished. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

All Change Begins Within You

Our old way of life is simply gone.  It does not exist anymore. What we create next is up to us.  It is within our imagination, our expectations, our beliefs in what can happen and the choices we make. What are you dreaming into being?

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

Who We Are

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but rather spiritual beings having a human experience.”—Pierre Teilhard de Charin.

How do we learn to consciously come from our spiritual essence in everything we do? 

===THE UNFOLDING DIVINE FEMININE===

Revolving Friends

Do you have any friends you have had all your life? Probably not. I can think of people who nurtured me during different periods of my life. No one person has walked the entire path with me but there were always gifts of insight and awareness involved in our time together. 

That is the point of life – to go on our specific adventure, walk beside different people on the path who deepen our experience and our expectations. As we move through our journey of life we cultivate change within ourselves – in our beliefs and our expectations of what is possible for us. And thus draw to us new people who are walking that part of the path too.  

As a woman who was married twice and lived the majority of her life alone, I’m a fan of the walk-the-path-alone adventure.  It allows me to stop and fill myself up or move past something that does not resonate.  I chart a path that is mine alone and I do it without accommodating the needs of another. 

We all walk the path on our own, at our own tempo in our own direction.  Allow yourself to be open to new friends and exchange gifts with them that enrich you both.  And let go when your paths need to separate.  There is another adventurer up ahead waiting to walk beside you in encouragement and support and new insights.  Do not be afraid to walk the path alone. 

===OUR UNFOLDING ROLE===

Planning for a Future We Cannot Imagine

My daughter and her husband help me with physical things that I need as I grow older. You may not have children. I have Social Security and subsidized housing which makes it possible for me to live comfortably and safely and affordably. Will that be in place for you when the time comes? 

What do you teach your children about the plans for their lives when you have no idea how the future is going to unfold and what dramatic changes it is already bringing to it? 

Flexibility in our willingness to change is the cornerstone for a successful life. Do not go down a paved road that may lead nowhere. Walk an eclectic  path of winding opportunity and go exploring to find what resonates with you.

===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 Gaia Gateway and Your Soul Star

Self Healing

The Space of Inner Knowing

Expanding Awareness

Do You Hold the Beat or Play the Melody?

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

and the 

Deeper Song Website

==DEEPER SONG BOOK SHELF===

Cornerstone Books

It depends on what you want to learn but there are books to take you adventuring everywhere. Here are a few of my cornerstone books.

The Prophet , Kahlil Gibran.  There is such life wisdom here.  On the last page, in the last paragraph, I found the phrase “I will return and you will sing to me a deeper song.”  I caught my breath.  I wanted to sing a deeper song.  And so I am.

Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman BarksI love Rumi. Deep wisdom and insights I need to expand into my life. 

The Complete Works of Lao Tzu: Tao Teh Ching & Hau Hu Ching by Hua Ching Ni Another cornerstone book for me is Lao-Tzu. It holds the core concepts of Taoism and that path resonates with me.  

==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

Winter Solstice is December 21 – Create an Experimental Garden

Winter Solstice is the day I honor in December.  It is a time of deep contemplation and realignment. It is also the beginning of a new year. I’m suggesting that we create an experimental garden of crops we may want to plant in the coming year. Fill it with ideas you want to explore, new directions you want to expand, and qualities you want to develop. And of course you want a compost pile in which to put beliefs and expectations that no longer serve.  

Take pencil to paper and  draw your Experimental Garden to help you see what choices you have made, choices you want to make.  How much of each you want to plant. What’s working, what’s not. Drawing up our “Garden of Next” is as simple as labels for rows, labels for varieties of the same idea and wiggly lines for the rows. More rows of one thing, less of another. As you think about this you may keep making new versions.  It’s a drawing, draw away. Capture your ideas visually.

You may have crops for income, health, personal growth, creativity, exploration – whatever you want to experiment with and develop in the coming year. This is an easy way to explore and clarify your feelings and expectations. 

Give some thought to what you would like to explore next, even just enough to see if it supports the direction you want to go and especially if it will change the direction you think you are headed. What do you want to bring into your life and how much of it do you want? Let us each design an Experimental Garden to guide our “next” and draw it into being. 

===CARA’S CORNER===

Get a Handle On Your Beliefs and Expectations

As I work on creating my Experimental Garden for 2022 I get to examine both my beliefs and my expectations.

The problem is that possibilities are changing very rapidly. Ideas are shape-shifting as rapidly as I can think them up. I need to glide into this – be more like a shape-shifting cloud, constantly changing but with the larger form emerging slowly.

A small change can make a huge difference.  As my body moves through its changes, it makes small shifts that affect the overall structure.  Standing a little straighter realigns the whole body.  Do not underestimate what a small shift will make in your beliefs, your choices, and your opportunities.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

What We Notice

It was a small change, I barely noticed. Like a bud peeking out of a plant.  

It was a small change, I barely noticed. Like a bud peeking out of a plant.  But it grew. It expanded my possibilities.  It extended my expectations. 

It was a small change, I barely noticed. Like a bud peeking out of a plant. But it grew. It expanded my possibilities.  It extended my expectations. And a whole new world opened up. 

– 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 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 expectation.

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We Are Weavers of Light

By

We Are Weavers of Light

Living Our Deeper Song

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

As I watch this world evolve and change I keep looking for my role. Our role. We are Weavers of Light. It is our job to continue deepening and expanding our spiritual awareness so that all we do, everything we say, everything we think, is focused on traveling on and continuing to take the high road – this path of light that we are weaving as we go. We build it through our intention. We construct it through our choices. We reinforce it through our words and thoughts and deeds. Weaving is about intertwining different colors and textures of threads to make a pattern and to add strength to the overall offering. We are to find creative, inclusive, innovative ways to intertwine our lives with each other. To keep us on the higher path. The path of light. The path of wholeness. To raise each other up. To walk hand-in-hand. To lead the way. We are Weavers of a Light Path. We have work to do.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am constantly aware of my role as a Weaver of Light.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Be aware of your responsibility as a Weaver of the Light Path. 
  • Monitor your thoughts.  Monitor your choices. Always choose the high road, the Path of Light.  Hold your light high and help others along the journey.

===INNER WORK===

Your Relevance   

If you feel relevant you feel useful. You feel valued.  What makes you feel relevant? Having people respond to my newsletter or podcasts makes me feel relevant.  It helps me know I am touching hearts and changing lives. I have friends in various parts of the world and when we talk on Zoom we are each aware of our reliance on the other for encouragement and insights and self-reflection. What makes you feel relevant and how is that changing for you?

It is an amazing experience when you find yourself  feeling both useful and relevant.  Your feelings of relevance may come from being a parent or a worker or a partner in a relationship. But as our world is changing so are our roles and therefore it is possible that we are not feeling as relevant as we used to. How has your role changed? How has your contribution changed? How do you think your value has changed? Where are you needed now?  New doors are opening up.  Go exploring. Look around. What new path is calling to you that will make you feel more relevant? Explore and define your new role. 

The Power of Stillness

Your mind can be a busy little bee, so busy that it keeps you from being centered and still.  Quiet your body, quiet your mind.  Yoga, Tai Chi, Qigong, Breathwork, Meditation are all powerful practices that still your mind and focus your energy.  What do you do to manifest stillness?

===SELF-HEALING===

Ritual and Expectation

I am not a fan of ritual.  Just let me cut to the core and do the work.  Until I read this: “Indigenous ritual set up a process to ready the body-mind to receive the healing.” 

Ready the mind.  What do you expect from your physical workout?  What do you expect when you put your body in bed? Do we need to create a Ritual of Readiness? 

I’m doing a variety of things to help my body self-heal.  There is an expectation when I go to a partial chair for meditation.  The mere act of sitting in that chair gets me ready to meditate. I usually do a few Qigong moves to signal my entry into this inner space. 

Where can you add a ritual of expectation into your spiritual practice?

Balance the Flowing Current of Energy in Your Body

I am reading the book Healing Ourselves: Biofield Science and the Future of Health by Shamini Jain and in the description of yoga she talks about how the asanas – physical postures – help foster and balance the constantly flowing current of energy in our bodies.   It allows the mind to obtain greater stillness. They “help foster and balance flowing current of energy in our bodies.” That’s what healing is about – balancing the flow of energy in our body.  We do that by the choices we make, the actions we take, the thoughts we think, and the people beside whom we walk the path.  All of our choices affect the flow of energy in and around and through our bodies.  It would make sense to start paying a great deal of attention to our choices.  

In New York City, I learned yoga and even took a teacher’s training. Just as I left I was introduced to Bikram Yoga (Hot  Yoga) and if I had not been raising my granddaughter by myself at that time, I would have gone to take a teacher’s training in that form. My body has lost the habit of doing yoga and it would take a lot of work to even come vaguely close regaining that.  But I have studied Tai Chi and now do Qigong.  I also meditate. It’s just a matter of finding the method that draws you to balance the flowing current of energy in your body. Keep exploring but also keep doing it…

Singing and the Vagus Nerve

The vagus nerve is the longest and most complex of your cranial nerves, and it affects every organ in your body. Recently a healer friend said she took time to stimulate her vagus nerve every day.  She sent some links for me to explore which I share below.  

You can reach your Vagus nerve behind your ears and simply massage that.  Let your palms rest on your neck so you are giving energy to a long length of vagus nerve.  

Singing and toning affect the vagus nerve so I made up the Vagus Hum:  Place your middle fingers behind your ears and reset your palms on your throat. Begin to hum at a pitch that focuses the hum between your ears.  The pitch will make the whole throat vibrate.  Now gradually lower the pitch and feel the vibration move down your throat and neck to the base of your neck. Notice how that feels.

Your have just done a Vagus Hum!!  It’s a great way to slow down, center yourself and replenish your whole body. 

Massage, tone, read the links below and begin stimulating your vagus nerve every day. Here are the links courtesy of Christina Gerber 

5 Easy Ways to Stimulate the Vagus Nerve

6 Ways to Reset Your Vagus Nerve for Detox

===OUTER WORK===

Learn from Experience and Experimentation

My shamanic journeys have been very clear – I am on an upward golden road that keeps climbing and I am in a period of exploration and experimentation. I’m talking to my body more – both listening to its responses and experimenting with  alternative choices.  My body is teaching me what it wants and need.  I do not know where we are headed but this is a time of preparation – getting ready for what is unfolding. 

Experimentation is an interesting personal growth concept.  We need to keep looking.  We need to dig deeper.  We need to experiment and find our own best practices and put them to use.  I listen to all the ideas that come my way and I go exploring to see if/how they will enhance my journey. As my body responds or my life changes, I observe and evaluate what seems aligned with my path and that guides me to make more informed choices.  

For instance, I found a new chair  in which to do seated exercise, I expanded my diet with food salad choices from the deli.  I read, I explore, I experiment and I pay attention to the results.  

What I learn from my experimentation guides my next path of exploration.  Be creative.  Be reflective.  Stay in alignment. Listen. Explore. Evaluate. Choose. Build on that new point of view. See where it takes you and repeat. 

Self Healing, Expectation, and Observation

We get want we expect. We get what we believe we deserve. We get what we expect is possible.  Do you believe you can self-heal? I do. I have no specific success stories to share, but I know every choice I made affects the unfolding of my life, whether it was conscious or unconscious. 

So what am I expecting from my 89-year-old body?  I expect to be actively in action until it’s time to leave the planet.  That means my brain and my ability to share what I figure out has to stay flexible and in good working order.  I will hold it to that expectation. 

My choice seems to be to explore, organize my next steps around what I find, make the change and move on.  I apply what I learn but then I go learn something else and apply that to make even more changes.  I do a lot of exploring and experimenting.  No long-term studies here.  Well, that’s not true, my  exploration of Spirit is very long term – pretty much lifelong.

Expectation is a cornerstone for the results you build on.  I need to expect my choices to change the outcome, to alter the experience. I need to observe and adjust and keep experimenting to find the right balance.  Pay attention to the expectations you hold for the results of your action and keep adjusting both the actions and your expectation until you get it right. Self-healing can be enhanced by expectation and observation followed by adjustments based on  what you learn.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

A New Realm of Inquiry and Discovery

The vision I keep getting in my shamanic journeys is of being on a road that is gradually elevated. It is a golden road and I have two guides with me.  It is rising above earth, the path is rising above the chaos. It is a golden path leading toward I don’t know what. But it is a new realm of inquiry and discovery which means I get to explore, ask new questions, reach new conclusions, try out new concepts.  I will discover new things to try. I will experiment. I will be observant. I will listen. I will learn. And I will discover. Pretty good for entering a new realm of inquiry and discovery.  Yeah for more adventures. 

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

The Search for “Next”

I am aware of the ongoing cycles of my life. Periodically I find myself sitting in a state of “not knowing”, waiting for the next cycle to unfold, to make itself known, and all I can really do is sit here and wait. And be observant. 

One of the things you can do while waiting is to notice what is no longer working for you. What is taking too much time, not getting the results you wanted, that is now boring? Then, while you’re waiting for your “next” to unfold, look at what is giving you a really good time. I love doing that. Make a list of the things that are exciting for you and rewarding for you. Do more of those.

One day, in a glimmer of knowing, you will see your new path. And you will step on it with joy and conviction and confidence and march right along. While you’re waiting for that path to show up, see what you need to let go, and see what is calling your heart. You are being shown the new path. You just have to pay attention.

===INTENTION BLESSING===

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 an open heart. 

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

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

An Experimental Garden for 2022

As the year draws to a close, it is a good time to give some thought to our “next”  – what we would like the coming year to be like. What we would like to accomplish. What we would like to learn. It’s great to stay open to unexpected surprises but it’s also a very powerful step to pause to evaluate where you are, what worked, what didn’t work, and what’s calling to you. I particularly like taking time to find out what’s calling to me. So it’s kind of fun to think in terms of planting an experimental garden. Plant a little of this and a little of that and see what you like. So if you were putting in an experimental garden to decide what crops you want to develop next year, what would you put in it? 

I’m going to put in a whole row of different types of physical movement so that I can experiment with the ones that best meet the needs of my body. I’m going to plant another row that helps me deepen my Transcendental Meditation practice  – as in doing it more often and for longer periods of time. That is simply an existing crop I want to expand. I’m going to  plant another row of new friends. People that I may already know, that I deepen my relationship with. People that I don’t know that have yet to come into my life. I want to stay open to expansion. I want to expand my learning.  So I will plan another row of concepts I want to explore in the form of books or courses that call to me. That’s a pretty good experimental garden. So in this garden, I will plant varieties of each of these ideas and go exploring to see how they nurture me and how they excite me and how and what they teach me. And when I figure that out I will plant more rows of that same concept with perhaps a larger number of varieties. For instance, I could see how many varieties of  “mindfulness” I can plant. What experimental crops do you want to plant in your “Garden of Next” to see how it would fit into your calling for the coming year? 

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

Spiritual Practice

A Transformative Clearing Process

Self Healing

How to Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection

Expanding Awareness

New Consciousness – New State of Being  

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

and the 

Deeper Song Website

===A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS===

Give yourself a gift this season: 

Music

Kalimba Thumb Piano This is a can’t-play-it-wrong musical instrument for any age. I love it. My grandchildren love it.  My cat Sebastian loves it (He only listens…) A lovely meditation tool. 

Self Care

Gua Sha Facial Tool Keep it handy for instant stress relief. Natural Jade Stone Guasha Board for SPA Acupuncture Therapy Trigger Point Treatment.

Favorite Reads

Stephen Mitchell, Tao Te Ching 

Stephen Mitchell, The Second Book of Tao

Love his translations.

==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATIONS ===

I am blown away by this messages in Sandra Ingerman’s latest newsletter.  “There is a learning curve of how to tend to oneself and others during this time of dismemberment and simultaneous rememberment.” I hadn’t though about the simultaneous part.  I encourage you to take the time to read this newsletter. There is also a Winter Solstice Ceremony recovered that I plan to participate in on December 21st.  I hope you consider subscribing to this powerful monthly newsletter. She is a thoughtful leader. December Transmutation News.

===REFLECTIONS===

The Lone Leaf

A lone leaf drops to the ground. It floats gently into to the end of its cycle.  It is complete. 

A new cycle begins.  A cycle of gradual organic change in which she will be dissolved and move into a new life, a new form, a new place of service. 

Endings mean new beginnings.  It is the cycle of life. 

– Cara Lumen, December 2021

===OUR UNFOLDING ROLE===

Persistence and New Possibilities

“Persistence and New Possibilities” were on the oracle card I drew and I really resonated with that combination.  As I take these small persistent steps to strengthen my body, new possibilities being to appear.  It’s exciting because my potential has expanded. It’s as simple as one more stretch, one more step, one more choice to move toward wholeness and the path widens, doors  open and the journey gets easier.  All because of persistence that opened up new possibilities.  What new opportunities are showing up for you?  Be persistent in  your exploration. 

===CARA’S CORNER===

I Have the Resources

As I move excitedly through the pages of Healing Ourselves: Biofield Science and the Future of Health by Shamini Jain, I realize how well prepared I am to manifest my own healing.  I have the tools (reiki, meditation, qigong, yoga, breath-work, mindfulness) I just have to design my personal program.  How exciting!  I practice various techniques, observe the experience and the results, and design my own self-cultivation program. My sense is that this self-designed path will both widen and deepen as I explore. The point is to keep exploring and to evaluate my experiences and results so I have a basis for further choices.  I can just do it, or I do it, write down what I did, and record my responses/results.  Somewhere in between is more likely where I will land.  I do what to keep track of what I do so when I get a super positive result I will know why and I can repeat what I did.  

I am totally drawn to the seven steps of Yoga as described in this book and since I am reading it to learn to facilitate my own healing, I will practice and notice and choose what resonates most with me at this point in my evolution.  The point is to pay attention to the results and figure out how to get more of the outcome you want. I can do that. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Building on the Results

I take a step and pause to look around.  Where am I?  Is this where I want to be?

I take a step and pause to look around.  Where am I?  Is this where I want to be? I shift my gaze. I look at the possibilities that surround me. 

I take a step and pause to look around.  Where am I?  Is this where I want to be? I shift my gaze. I look at the possibilities that surround me. I change my rhythm. I follow my inner voice and step forward into a new adventure.

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

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Why You Are Here

By

Why You Are Here

Living Your Deeper Song

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

November 19, 1932 – the day I was born.  It was during the depression and there were not a lot of people having babies then.  I was a young girl when I listened on the console radio at my grandfather’s house to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I was in high school when vets came back to go to the local college on the GI Bill. I remember the first television shows. When I graduated from the University of Kansas in 1954 I remember wondering if this was all I got to learn to prepare myself for life.  I learned Transcendental Meditation in the 60’s because the Beatles did. And had my four children take it too.

We are brought into a certain time frame in history for a specific purpose and we build our lives on that – either knowingly or unknowingly. I was in New York City during the ’80’s and did a lot of Reiki with AIDS patients.  I also developed the metaphysical foundation that I continue to stand firmly upon. There was a friend who pointed out that we were rocks and others depended on us.  And we depended on other rocks. And the day I went to the Center for Spiritual Living in Santa Rosa, California, I knew I had come home.  Five years later I was a licensed practitioner.  My decisions have been sudden but done in absolute certainty.  I suddenly knew I would move from Kansas City to NYC.  I suddenly knew I would move to California. I suddenly knew it was time for move back to Kansas City.  No debate.  Just immediate, compete, definite knowing. Followed by giant steps. I trust my inner voice.  

I still have work to do.  My path is built on my lifetime of spiritual exploring.  I am to continue to explore and open up new pathways for myself and for others to follow and perhaps choose.  

Each year marks a strong forward movement.  Each year brings in new awareness, new adventure, new knowing.  I have given up planning very far ahead. I work to stay in the present moment – always exploring and considering and experimenting – looking for my next steps and the discoveries and insights I am to learn for my own journey and turn and share with others.  

Live your day mindfully – fully, with deep awareness of what is being offered you …… and take in as much tranquility as you can hold. 

Happy 89th Birthday to me!

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I immerse myself in the fullness and tranquility of life and step forward into my deepest path of service. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Pause where you are and consider – where you are, what opportunities are unfolding, how the world is changing.  What is your role?
  • Do that. 

===INNER WORK===

Draw Your Vision

Drawing is a fabulous way to try an idea on for size. It doesn’t have to be a good drawing, it just has to be an image that suggests to you the form and shape and depth and width of your vision. Give it a try. Draw your vision into life.

Step Back Into Your Own Power

In the chaos and disruption of today’s world, it is easy to feel lost or even hopeless. But it is right now, in this moment, that we are each to step into our own strength. Our inner strength of spirituality, our inner strength of higher purpose. We must step outside the disruption of our humanness and rise above this chaos. We are to gather together above the fray. We are to join together with a higher vision for the whole planet,  for the whole universe, for All-That-Is. We are to hold that vision, that higher vision, and see it and feel it and experience it and immerse ourselves in it until it becomes a reality. Think beyond yourself. Sink into the cosmos. Step into the cosmic awareness and be whole.

===OUTER  WORK===

Know Your Work Style

I’m a loner.  I prefer to work alone.  I prefer to do it my way.  It’s important to know your preferred working style. 

As I watch the US congress rework and compromise and stall, I know for sure I’d rather be the CEO and simply make the decisions and stand by the results.  No compromise for me – I want flexibility and innovation and exploration, based on my own knowledge and interpretation. 

I have also known I would rather work with advanced explorers than beginners.  There are always choices.  Know your work preferences and build upon them. 

Get Rid of What No Longer Serves You

Periodically we need to do a reality check – what are we actually using and what is no longer part of our path. 

My daughter and her husband helped me get some possessions recently – things I would never use again.  I kidded and told her there would soon just be me and all my crystals living here. 

Letting go is interesting.  It can be challenging and it can be freeing.  It involves a choice.  A recognition that something is no longer useful and a willingness to let go of it. 

Look around at your life and your possessions and see what needs to move on – and out. 

Know What Calls To You

I was reading the wrong book.  I think it has things in it I need to know but it was deep and takes persistence and focus to read. I was having a hard time staying with it.

I had a second book, Dr. Jains’ book on biofields, and the minute I read the intro I knew I had to shift directions.  

This is what I want to know now.  This is what I need to learn next.  My energy lifted, my focus shifted and I was off like a rocket ship. 

Change your gaze and see what calls to you.  Then take off on the adventure. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Laughter

I don’t have occasion to laugh-out-loud much. Can you remember the last time you really had a big belly laugh and you couldn’t even stop laughing? I’ve begun to look for a smile, even an inside smile. A moment that makes me pause and look and appreciate and absorb the gift of whatever it is that is making me smile. It’s not often laughter, but it is an uplifting of spirit. See what you can find today to make you smile.

===DISCOVERIES ===

Good News

CNN has a new positive news email that really lifts your spirits.  The Good Stuff

And there is also is The Good News Network 

What news are you allowing to shape your day?

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Are You Moving on?

I was listening to the news – particularly about people who don’t want to change.  They don’t want to change their thinking.  They don’t want to change their beliefs. They don’t want to explore.  They don’t want to let go.  They don’t want to question. They don’t want to experiment.  They mostly do not want to be wrong. And of course, as we expand and learn and experiment, we do grow and change and replace ideas and actions.  

Growth is good.  Exploration is fabulous.  Be like the breeze going through the trees and let exploration create movement in your life. 

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

Spiritual Practice

Simply Being  – The Art of Wu Wei

The Magical Power of an Affirmation

Self Healing

The Backpack Journey

Heart Lessons from a Soul Star

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

===OUR UNFOLDING ROLE===

Transmute the Past into New Sources of Energy

One of my major gifts is enthusiasm.  It takes me exploring. It inspires me to share what I discover.  Curiosity and enthusiasm are major drivers for me. As I move forward on my own journey I am to translate my lessons and achievements of the past into new sources of energy and inspiration for the future.  I build on what I know.  I stand on the heights I have achieved so far and look further afield.  My path is changing. I am climbing higher.  I am seeing further.  I am being called to higher service.  I will build on what I have learned, what I have achieved, how I have developed, and what I am called to do. Come. Let’s go adventuring!

===CARA’S CORNER===

Follow the Path that Goes Deeper

This is the time of the year when we begin to reflect on what we have done and how we are doing. How did the choices we made work out? What didn’t work out so well? Not only do we reflect, but we have an opportunity to make new conscious choices. Is there an overarching theme we should look at as we make our choices for the coming year? 

In a recent journey, I got the message ”follow the path that goes deeper.” Deeper into a connection and awareness of our integration with Cosmic Consciousness. Experience a deeper spiritual presence in my daily life, one of continuous gratitude and appreciation and awareness. Make conscious choices that deepen in my inner connection with All -That-Is. A deepening awareness that enhances  my interactions on the physical plane. How do I take my path deeper? At the same time, I want to go higher. Rise above the chaos of the planet. Move off into the ethereal awareness that is available to all of us. Dig deeper to rise higher, perhaps that’s how it works out. As I deepen my relationship with my inner voice, my inner self, I learn to interpret it in more ways, from more angles. And as I deepen my relationship with my physical plane, I enrich and expand my choice of focus and action. We are to dig deep and climb high. I can do that.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

 Directions from Within

I settle into my Still Point and listen.  

I settle into my Still Point and listen to the soul of me, my essence, my being-ness.   

I settle into my Still Point and listen to the soul of me, my essence, my being-ness.  I move forward from that centered place. I dig deeper and I climb higher. All is well in my world. 

– Cara Lumen, November 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 spiritual explorers find powerful and creative ways to connect with and explore their own cosmic consciousness.

Please forward this newsletter to a friend and suggest they
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Understand Your Role

By

Understand Your Role

Living Your Deeper Song

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

I’m a start-up gal.  I love to explore and identify ideas and use them in unusual ways.  I’m not always much of a completer but I’m definitely an originator.  It is important to know your calling and honor it as your special gift. 

Some of this I came to understand by studying the enneagram.  There are boss types and creative types and worker bee types.  Some people thrive on being in service to others.  It’s important to know your own preferences and honor them. 

If I insist on being strongly creative, then I probably need to find someone else to do the technical work of editing my podcasts.  If I love to strategize, I may best be in service by stepping in at various stages along the path of a project to help organize some ideas and structure them for action, a getting-projects-unstuck sort of person.

Know your role.  Know your gifts and let those guide your path.  

You may fill different roles in different situations.  I usually instinctively and organically step in to organize – whatever it is.  I also always want to write publicity or explanations or guidebooks.  I use my writing to focus thoughts    – including my own.

Look back over your life and notice the most rewarding, fulfilling experiences you have had.  What was your role?  How rewarding was it?  How would you adapt what you are doing today to make it more rewarding? 

Sometimes we get in a rut in playing our favorite roles.  Part of it comes from people calling on us to do what we are good at.  Other times we are so good at performing a function that it simply is usually our job to do. 

Go exploring.  Move outside of your comfort zone.  I’m not a particularly good artist, but I have taken art classes and I have a good time making line drawings of some of my journeys.  I have studied music and sung in many choral groups – now my musical expression is through native flutes and drums for my own enjoyment. Your gifts will evolve over the years.  Your talent will be applied to a variety of formats.  Go exploring.  

Notice what has evolved as a new opportunity for you.  Podcasts are a natural for someone like me who has two degrees in theater and was television talent. I have been a professional copywriter and a Content Development Coach. Now I get to write what I want to in my own newsletter.  

Your gifts will evolve. Where you apply them will unfold.  Go exploring.  Learn to use your gifts in new ways and see where it leads you. It’s not enough to simply understand your role, it is important to choose your role to fit where you are in your life path today. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I look at my path of the past and my path of today and bring forward the best in myself.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Look for new ways to apply the gifts you have been given.  
  • What new roles are opening up into unexpected ways that the unfolding world is calling to you?

===INNER WORK===

How to Overcome Fear

I am writing about how to overcome fear to figure it out because I don’t have an answer.  My legs hurt a LOT when I get up from a chair.  I think it is because my structure is shifting, but it hurts and now I experience fear and apprehension before I stand up which simply makes it a worse experience. 

What do you do when you anticipate pain?  How can you change that fear? Anticipation can be numbing. 

Do you go into circumstances expecting the worst?  Do you picture all sorts of devastating scenarios before you move into a situation?  It’s really hard to keep a positive thought when your past experience has been painful.   

I send Reiki to my hips before I stand.  I center and take a calming breath before I stand – so I can stop the anticipation of pain that I expect at the move I am planning to make.  I need to focus on what I do that feels aligned. But boy, negative anticipation can really stop you cold. 

I don’t have an answer. As the pain stopped happening the fear went away. If you continually experience something negative you come to expect it. You anticipate it.  You fear it.  You tense up and make the experience even more extreme than it actually is.  

The next day I was able to stand up with less pain and the fear and apprehension begin to dissolve. How do you stop anticipating the worst?

I don’t have an answer for this.  Only the problem.  And the negative anticipation makes the experience worse.

 
What are you anticipating in your life that needs to be shifted? How will you do that?

Solitude

The centered awareness of being in your Still Point. Your complete immersion in the heartbeat of nature.  Losing your sense of self in the expression of music.  A quiet mind that makes room for deeper awareness. How do you find solitude?  How do you create stillness? 

Solitude is replenishing. It is restorative. It is revealing. You can be in solitude alone and you can feel alone in a crowd. Create moments of contemplative thought throughout each day.  Take a releasing breath.  Gaze out into nature. Allow for the deep absorption of the energy around you.  Be aware.  Take time to be alone. Find your Still Point and reside there.

===OUTER  WORK===

Forgive  Yourself

Looking back over my long life, there are some less than stellar choices that I made along the line. But I also know I made them in the moment from what I knew and understood and felt and experienced. So yes, they were somewhat unaware choices. Perhaps unaware of the long-term effect. Perhaps unaware of the immediate effect. I simply was not aware. And what’s true of you is true of others. People who hurt you or added negativity to your life were probably doing it out of simply being unaware of certain circumstances at the time. Everyone needs forgiveness for the past. Just let go and leave behind your less-than-stellar choices and actions so you can move forward. Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Let go. And move on.

When You Are ready the Answer Will Appear

I’m reading a book that is rich and deep and is exactly what I need to learn right now. Don’t you love it with the right information shows up in a form you are eager to accept?  And I have another book I will read next that will be equally expanding.  

So what do you do with new information?  In my process of absorbing an idea I write about it – here and in podcasts. That’s one way I figure things out.  Then I find creative ways to apply the concepts and experiment with them and adjust my actions as I get results. 

How do you explore a new idea?  Where do you find your transformative ideas?  Keep looking. Keep exploring and experimenting.

Goals and Your Progress

I have completed three months of physical therapy and next week I meet with my therapist to outline what I want to accomplish in the next three months.  This is interesting because setting these goals depends on how my body responds.  It is not like setting a goal I know I can accomplish. I’m not going to aim for walking to the end of the parking lot driveway.  I will aim for quality – standing tall, everything working smoothly and in coordination, and providing the foundation upon which to build up stamina.  

There, I found it – my goal is to strengthen my foundation – the strength and stamina, and flexibility that I can build upon.  

As you begin to consider goals for the coming year, how strong is the foundation you are building to stand on?  And what beliefs do you need to change in order to know that what you imagine is possible?

Lift your gaze.  And your expectation of what is possible.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Recognize the Positive

Our thoughts can be positive or they can pull us down with their negativity. As you move through your day, notice the direction of your thoughts. Notice how much encouragement you give yourself. Notice how much discouragement you give yourself. And make some changes.  Look at what you have created and focus on those manifestations that truly represent the progress you choose to make. Pat yourself on the back for that. Release the less than stellar choices as experiments that you learned from.  Learn from your mistakes and move on. 

Self-Sufficiency Training

I journeyed to find out what I need to actively do to help my body, to restore its stamina and flexibility. The message was, “This is a form of self-sufficiency training. How much are you willing to do to strengthen your body and help it restore to some semblance of stronger usefulness?”

Do the work.  We have to do the work.  We can’t just sit and hope, we have to take action steps.  We need to be conscious of our choices. We need to structure our personal progress so we explore, develop and mindfully choose what we need to know and accomplish next.  Create your personal well-being program, your own self-sufficiency training.  What does that look like for you?

===DISCOVERIES ===

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime astrological event happening in 2022…The United States of America’s Pluto Return.

This means that Pluto is returning to the exact point it was when the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4th, 1776…

And it only happens once every 225 years! There is a seminar here on November 12: Astrology Hub

===MY DEEPER SONG  ADVENTURES ===

Listen to the wind. It talks.

Listen to the silence. It speaks.

Listen to your heart. It knows.
– Native American Proverb

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Shine Your Light in the Corners

Those of us who are called are to not only raise our sights but also focus on shining our light of Consciousness Awareness in all the corners.  How do we do that?  

My version begins with looking for and identifying those who are working in light, who are walking the planet in an ever-deepening place of service. When you identify them, step up and walk beside them for a while. We support each other, we encourage each other, we learn for each other, we inspire and motivate each other. We teach each other. And perhaps we even protect each other. 

Be responsible for your own path.  Make conscious choices.  Takes conscious steps.  Lift your gaze.  

Keep walking upward on your path.  Keep listening to the encouragement you receive and notice where it comes from. 

In this continuing flow of  change, we must keep choosing – we must keep choosing light, we must keep choosing awareness we must keep choosing Cosmic Consciousness. We must choose it each day, consciously, with curiosity and determination as we search for the lessons and guidance to move us into a positive, inclusive, cosmic future. 

Shine a light in the corner of your life and take heart with what you find.  The corners are full of unexpected gifts to help you move purposefully along your path.

Do You Follow Your Insights?

It sometimes takes time to trust that inner voice,  your intuition, those hunches that seem to show up out of nowhere. But they are you talking to you. They are your inner voice, your inner wisdom, your inner guidance offering you nudges here in the human world. Pay attention. At least consider them. Perhaps explore them a bit to see how they unfold. Let your hunches direct you as those insights take you adventuring. You’ll be surprised where you end up.

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

Spiritual Practice

Journey to a Chamber of the Seven Sacred Rays

Your Role as a Visionary Harp

Self Healing

The Backpack Journey

Simply Being  – The Art of Wu Wei

Expanding Awareness

Your Role as a Visionary Harp

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

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===OUR UNFOLDING ROLE===

Your Soul’s Purpose

I turn 89 this month which means I have a lot of life to look back over to see what my soul’s purpose has been and still is. Some of the themes are evident, the curiosity, the creativity, the writing, with the common thread of spiritual searching. My path has held consistent themes. 

Finding your purpose is not always easy. You must embrace life wholeheartedly, explore many different pathways, and allow yourself to grow. Your purpose is as unique as you are and will evolve as you move through life.

Purpose is what excites  you.  It is what fills you with satisfaction. It’s what drives you. Can you identify your soul’s purpose? 

Jump Time

What appears to be chaos is actually opportunity. It is jump time. Time for us to take giant steps, leaps of faith, and trust that we will discard what is no longer needed and encourage what is beneficial for this next unfolding. So the old habits, the outdated thought patterns, the no-longer useful beliefs are dying and they are not happy about it. But they are no longer needed. They are to be rapidly replaced with a sense of world community that makes us care for each other, support each other, walk strongly beside each other. No wonder some people are really grouchy at this change. It goes against the grain. It makes their perspective outdated and wrong and not useful.

This is a giant jump we are taking. There’s new technology. New urgency. And those of us who are moving forward must let go of what is no longer working, what no longer serves us, what no longer serves others. It’s it is if we’re about to step out of a warm shower and choose a fresh wardrobe for the day. How do we want to craft our life? How do we want to shape our exchanges with others? All of life comes from our inner world. It comes from our beliefs and intentions and expectations. So we can actually sit quietly and make stuff up. We can visualize people living in harmony. In collaboration. And peace. We can learn to feel the experience of inclusion. And look for it and bring more of it into our day. We are jumping into the future with every choice we make. Make sure they are conscious choices.

Who are you becoming?

===CARA’S CORNER===

I Am Moving into the Cosmos to Do My Work

Here’s another of my shamanic journeys: 

Question: I have turned onto a new path.  What guidance can you give me? 

Journey: I am walking beside the male hiker guide that I met in my last journey. He whistles and walks jaunty down the path. I walk without my walker beside him. I don’t walk jauntily but I am waking strongly. 

Are you going to show me my path? I ask. He grins and takes a larger step. I follow. Suddenly we are in a circle from which emerges nine paths. There is no straightforward path, there is a choice to be made. And that choice will make all the difference. I want to go to the cosmos they say. Seven of the paths turn into one of the seven sacred rays. I do not want to choose a path of an individual ray I say. I want a higher path. The golden path. A higher path. My guide and I rise three feet off the ground. Angel With The Golden Wings comes down and takes my hand and off we go. We fly even past the Void into the Cosmic Consciousness. There is a humming there. Because those who are there are busy. They are imagining and creating scenarios in the air and they are helping others. I get to work. Suddenly I am in a long golden robe and I’m in the Circle of Light Beings. We have our Individual Harps playing a  song that is very intertwined. “This is one place I serve,” I say. Angel With The Golden Wings nods in agreement. “You need to get to the book on the biofields,” says my guide, my Male Hiker. That will give you some tools to begin to do deeper work. It’s OK to have this imaginal concept but the biofield is the way the work is done. Keep studying. 

“I am worried about my body and my capabilities to keep going because I’m having a really good time.” You have work to do and you’ll be able to do it. You are prepared for the work. You will do the work. You can do the work. You want to do the work. It is important work. Yes, you can share more journeys with the Deeper Song Community. Perhaps do a journey specifically for the group. Your body is entering a new phase of participation. Be patient with it be supportive of it, do some work with it so it can get strong again.

“I’ve just gotten out of my chair and it hurt my body a lot. Can you please help my body so I can do this better?” You have some choices to make and one of them is to care for your body better. Do that first. Keep your mind open. You have work to do and you will be shown what to do and how to do it and when to do it. Rise above your humanness. The Flying Indigo Rug is good, the Cat is good, the new direction is good. Let it unfold.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Trust

My inner voice speaks to me. Sometimes I understand, sometimes I don’t. 

My inner voice speaks to me. Sometimes I understand, sometimes I don’t. But I always trust – trust its wisdom, trust its guidance. 

My inner voice speaks to me. Sometimes I understand, sometimes I don’t. But I always trust – trust its wisdom, trust its guidance. And I keep exploring.

Cara Lumen, November 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

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