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Manifest What You Want

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Manifest What You Want

Living Our Deeper Song

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

In order to manifest what we want we have to continually make choices that are aligned with our goals. We have to be aware of what those choices are producing, and make adjustments. There are certain methods for doing this. Affirmations are powerful. A vision board is too. But I like the idea of a manifestation box. Or you could have an envelope with different topics in it, or a list or collection of photos on your computer. Whatever the form, it’s where you put your intentions, what you want to manifest in your life. 

So one segment might be about your living conditions. What do you want to change about that? What qualities do you want? What would that look like? Would a new plant help? Or a picture, or organizational help? Do you need to throw stuff away? 

Another might be for your work. What are the qualities you want in your career? Freedom of expression, acknowledgment, creativity? Make a list of the vibrational qualities you want in your work and then notice what happens. Perhaps make a note of how they manifest and how frequently they manifest. In other words, create and adjust, but always with an over-arching vision and intention. 

I want my relationships to have certain qualities, but I have to make certain that I’m manifesting those qualities myself. I must reflect those qualities in my own life.  Be aware of the vibrational energies you want in your life. Then make choices that support those qualities. You direct your life by your awareness of what is manifesting and your conscious choices to adjust what you see and experience. Hold your vision and use intention to direct your life and manifest what you want to have in it.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I create a manifestation container and begin to put my dreams and intentions in it.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Choose the form of your manifestation box. It can be an envelope, it can be a list, it can be slips of paper, whatever works for you. The point is to have the qualities you want to manifest in your life in a form that you can touch and feel and look at and contemplate and work with.
  • Then get to work. You might have an envelope for creativity, you might have an envelope for work, you might have an envelope for friendships. Keep adjusting the qualities that you want in each of those areas and watch what manifests as you do the work.

===INNER WORK===

Cultivate Tranquility

I like the word “tranquility” better than “serenity”. Somehow it’s like a quiet forest pool deep in contemplation. Tranquil to me means a quiet mind which is sometimes tricky to cultivate or acquire. Tranquility means being ready but being very centered in the waiting period. It is an active awareness. How do you cultivate tranquility? See if you can discern the difference between serenity and tranquility. You may prefer one over the other. There is a difference and it’s very subtle. Cultivate the one that draws you deeper into your spiritual practice. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Strengthen Your Spine

Your spine is very important and has lots of energy channels and nerve systems running through it. Keeping the channels open along your spine helps keep all the energy channels of your body open.  

A Qigong move to do that is very simple.  Standing or sitting, bend your elbows, raise your arms to shoulder height, palms facing the ground.  Begin to slightly rotate your arms from side to side and feel your spine flex and bend and straighten. Imagine the energy channels of your body opening and the Qi energy flowing through to replenish everything! Do this for three minutes several times throughout your day. (No. 31, Head-to-Toe Healing by Master Chuny Lin. You can get his book on Amazon or at springforestqigong.com or chunyilin.com.) 

Listen To Your Body

My body got pretty dramatic this week because I was not paying attention to how I was caring for it. It was actually kind of scary. But the lesson is that as hard as it is for me to walk and even stand, I must and have to do more of both to gain back my strength and flexibility. Use it or lose it. I’m losing it.

And I have a way to do that. I like Robert Peng’s Qigong series and I am practicing it so I own it – at least my version of what I can manage.  I can’t do it very well, but what I manage to do is very effective. So it is one major step in my self-healing. But I have to do the work – at least my version of it. Do not put off the care and nurturing and exercise of your human body. It will get grouchy on you and you will have to work really hard to get it to be un-grouchy. The exercises I have learned in my class are found below. Even when I don’t do these moves very well the movement of the Chi energy is huge. We’re talking 20 minutes a day here and it is something that I know you can do. I can’t stand up all the way and I’m doing them and Qi energy is just swirling around in me. I just have to do the work. As do you. Find the form of movement/exercise that appeals to you and do it regularly. Notice the results and adjust what you do to get better results. I make a conscious effort to stand up straighter when I’m at my kitchen sink or when I walk through a doorway. Make conscious choices that constantly strengthen your body. Make physical movement a core part of your life. You will not age well without it.

QIGONG 8 CYCLES VIDEO

8 Cycles is a series of gentle exercises that can be safely practiced by anyone to energize the body and calm the mind. Through the repetition of simple movements, energy centers are activated and internal organs are massaged, nourished, and invigorated. Over time, as the movements become familiar, they elicit a deep meditative state that transform the experience into a journey that opens into a vast and mysterious realm of joy and light. https://www.robertpeng.com https://www.robertpeng.com/store

A Powerful Qigong Move that Distributes Qi

This is an important, easy-to-do Qigong move that is simply about rubbing your ears to distribute the Chi energy. Get powerful results from Spring Forest Qigong Ear Qigong Move.

===OUTER  WORK===

Seek Simplicity

When I pick up a crystal to hold in meditation, it is a simple act that often leads to a powerful experience. I pick up a rock and I feel its energy move through my body. New ideas come to mind. I often pause to explore the experience and insights in writing that I later share with others. I absorb the bird song outside my window. I pat my cat’s head and rub behind his ears and feel the vibration of his purr. Slow, aware moments enrich my life. Seek out those small moments. Notice how you feel and what you were thinking and let them direct your thoughts and choice. Bless your choice as you make them. Bless your food as you prepare it. Be grateful for the lessons you learn, the teachers you have in your life, the insights you receive. Notice the little things. Seek the power and clarity of simplicity.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Create Songs for Your Spiritual Practice

It began with wanting to begin my daily meditations by honoring the directions. So I began to drum and I began to think of the element of fire. And I began to sing “Fire burning brightly all through my day, light the path before me all along my way.” I kept going until I had evolved a song for each of the directions. 

Make up songs as part of your spiritual practice. Perhaps start with a simple drumming rhythm and see what words show up. I have a song to all the directions and I am in the process of making of new songs for a new altar dish that my friend Martha Lacy made for me that honors the cycles of life in an infinity pattern. 

Let the phrases show up. As you drum you see what works or doesn’t work. Keep doing it till you have a song. I have a song I sing at the end of my day to myself and my cat, Sebastian that begins “Day is over, night has come, please watch over us.” Make up some songs to add to your spiritual practice. 

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

Take Your Warrior Stance

I need to take my warrior stance. I’ve been playing victim to all that’s been evolving in the world today.

A warrior is someone with the strength to stand up for what he or she believes, someone who perseveres in the face of challenges and obstacles, someone who speaks and acts in the service of an ideal, someone who protects those who are too weak to fight for themselves.

I have been content to walk my higher path, working to raise my vibration so others can experience it and choose it for themselves. I will keep doing that but I also want to turn and protect. 

Pick your battles.  I care about the environment, I care about wildlife.  But I have to make a mental shift around people, and what we are doing to ourselves. Because it’s very scary. And it feels overwhelming.

If my belief system says that I create my own reality, my work has to be in my mind, in my imagination, in my journey work, and my intentions. I have to shift my focus to see who is walking the path I want to walk, that higher path of inclusion and serenity. That leaves me walking my higher path and sending the energy back to the world in trouble. That works. It doesn’t feel very warrior–ish but it is an action. Whether you march in rallies, or give money, or actively campaign for a cause, or go help with your local food bank, or deepen your spiritual practice, or find a new place of service and do it with conviction. A warrior serves.

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

What Gifts Has Aging Given You?

I love the wisdom that aging has brought to me. I love the experiences upon which I build that wisdom. I cherish the insights that have come from a life of exploration and experience. I am wiser with age. And I like that.  Yes, my body is grouchy but my mind is a blessing. It entertains me, it stimulates me, it takes me on adventures, and it helps me gain new wisdom. It’s a great mind and I love it. 

What wisdom has aging brought you? What strength of character, what insights, what depth of knowledge? Look at the blessings the years have brought you. Keep building on them.

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Tucked In and Safe

I have never been very good with money. And it’s only by happenstance that I’m balanced right now. But for that reason, I urge you to do a reality check about your retirement. My daughter and son-in-law recently paid off their home and are enjoying that phase of their financial planning, but I began talking about their “tucked in” home. The one that has no stairs, everything on one floor for an older person to get around on. One that does not have a big yard that needs maintenance. A tucked in home. 

If Social Security went away, I would be on the streets along with a lot of other people. What would I do as an old, crickety woman to make my way in the world? I’m not prepared to do it and I’m not sure I could do it.

Anticipate your aging process and its part in your limitations. And at some point, make the change that will tuck you in for that slowing down process. It’s great if you can keep hiking for miles as you age. But in case you can’t, it might be good to live someplace where another person mows the lawn.

I am tucked into a safe place. There is a staff of people who take care of it inside and out. They can fix and repair anything. There is a social worker to help me find resources. I am safe and I can afford it. And I am grateful.

It’s not about thinking doom and gloom around the aging process, but it is about being realistic about stairs and levels and grounds to keep. I like the word I am tucked in. Find a place to live in your old age in which you are tucked in safe and sound with the help you need to maintain it. It will be a good feeling when you do. 

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

Spiritual Practice

The Backpack Journey

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===CARA’S CORNER===

Believe the Messages

My friend, Christina Gerber, is a powerful healer and she is very generous with her skills when we talk on a regular basis. My left hip has been out of alignment. It will not hold its place steady and therefore it causes me pain. We did a healing on that hip this past weekend on Zoom and what I discovered truly surprised me. My left hip had an emotion, a strong one. It felt left out and unloved and she really wanted to be a unified part of the body. She wanted to belong to the whole. It was a very strong, emotional longing on the part of my left hip. So I hugged her and embraced her and welcomed her into our body, telling her that we really wanted her to be a part of the overall flow. I had to comfort her for some time. I hugged my left hip and comforted her and welcomed her into the whole. There was a lot of emotion stuck there.

Then I began to do infinity circles that wove both sides of my hips together, welcoming her into the overall pattern of standing and sitting and walking. I had to do that for quite a while until I felt that she was reassured, comforted and fully integrated. But the major surprise for me was that my hip felt such a strong emotion of being unwelcome and not a functioning part of the overall body. Who would have guessed that? Who would’ve gone in to give a healing based on that knowledge? No one. Trust your inner voice. Trust your body to tell you what it needs. Listen and trust what it says. Believe the messages and act on them. Your body knows.

Give it time to manifest.  Two days after my work with the emotion in my hip I had a very strong response to the Qigong work I was doing online with Robert Peng and the day after that I realized that my left hip had aligned! It was an organic sequence of healing events that built on each other. Be patient. Be aware. And keep doing the work. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Voice Within

My body spoke to me. It was loud and clear. It surprised me but I listened. And I learned.

My body spoke to me. It was loud and clear. It surprised me but I listened. And I learned. I was startled by the clarity of the message. And I paid attention.

My body spoke to me. It was loud and clear. It surprised me but I listened. And I learned. I was startled by the clarity of the message. And I paid attention. I hugged it and welcomed it and reassured it and it responded. Your body knows what it needs and it will tell you. Keep listening. 

Cara Lumen, June 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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The Universe Has A Plan For You

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The Universe Has A Plan For You

Living Our Deeper Song

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


The universe has a plan for each of us that is far bigger than anything we can imagine. It is that dream that unfolds as we grow and develop and make the choices that form our life. It also guides us and gives us opportunities and suggests choices that will alter our ultimate destination. We have to listen. We have to observe the nudges. We have to examine the opportunities. The universe builds on our choices. If I choose to emphasize a certain gift, the universe alters my ultimate direction to utilize that gift. We make a choice and the universe responds and gives us new opportunities based on that choice. 

The universe knows why we came into this lifetime. It responds as we make choices that expand and develop an alternate path. It is constantly guiding us. It provides us with new opportunities, new friends, new ideas, and interesting nudges. It is constantly adjusting to our choices in order to keep us going in the direction that it knows we are to travel.

Notice those nudges. Notice the synchronicity. Be present and aware as you make choices that alter your direction even a little. Check in with the universe. Show me how, show me where, show me when – it will answer. You just have to listen. The guidance will always be there. The universe knows your path and will show you the way.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I listened attentively to the nudges and guidance of the universe and trust the path that opens up.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Learn to interpret the support the universe constantly gives you. It could be insights, circumstances, and even actual knowing. Trust that.
  • Go exploring. Listen to the urge, take it a few steps and see where it leads you. Explore where the universe suggests. Ultimately you will learn to trust the guidance of the universe that is always there. 

===INNER WORK===

The Nudge Notebook

I’m going to create a Nudge Notebook. I’m going to look back over my life to identify important nudges I received in my life and how they impacted the rest of my life. Some of it will be a sentence or two that resonated so deeply that I built a great portion of my life on that concept. 

Others will be things that I was taught by others as I walked my path. I am interested in why I made the decision – either because of the circumstances, the timing, or what turned out to be a very fulfilling experience that I didn’t know to expect. 

I’m actually going to write them down. Partially because writing down one nudge will probably uncover another turning point of impact. There were some major decisions that I made. There were some major decisions made for me, like being divorced. You will probably identify a few key influencers in your life. For me it was 
the decision to move to New York in the 80s where I proceeded to build my metaphysical foundation. Including reiki. And finding the Center for Spiritual Living in California where I became a practitioner and begin to write small books. Then there was the TV salesman who told me as a copywriter to write myself into the commercial which I did. The commercial was about glasses and my first line was a close-up of my eyes and I said, “Your eyes are your most precious possession.” When I did that first spot, none of the crew helped me until I proved to them I could do it. The next time I did the spot they were very supportive. I went on to a modest career as a television talent as well as copywriter.

So many small instances are wrapped up in how I see myself as well as what I love to do and what I continue to choose to do – explore philosophically and write about what I discover. 

Look at the patterns in your life. I sang alto in the high school trio and quartet and my mother had me take voice lessons at the local college which was good. Except my voice got so big it doesn’t blend in with the other less mature voices. But it made me a good television talent later on and more recently a podcaster. It’s funny how choices like that impact our life further down the path. 

Did you follow your nudges? Eight or so years ago I immersed myself in shamanismand it is an integral part of my spiritual practice. Several years ago I began to practice Qigong even though I had studied Tai Chi and yoga years ago in New York City. It is a practice that is deeply incorporated in my daily life. So when did you make this choices, how did they change you, are they still in your life and in what form?

This is not about feeling sorry that you did or did not make a particular choice, but it is about the impact and lessons and influence those choices had on the rest of your life. I wonder what you’ll find in your nudge notebook? 

Sacred Awareness

I don’t do Sacred Awareness very well but I wish I did. I wish I could be more aware of how sacred every moment of my day is. The fact that I am here. The fact that I am breathing. The fact that I am contributing. The fact that I am learning. Those are sacred gifts the universe provides daily. I would like to be more aware. And give more gratitude.

Count your blessings. For me, it’s a simple as being tucked into a safe place that I can afford. And have the help that I need as my age. For me, it is about my mind and the great adventures it takes me on. And it is the constant discovery of new and deeper ways to feel the sacredness within me, to be that sacredness. How will you increase your sacred awareness today?

What Energy is Drawing You and Where Is It Taking You?

Can you feel the pull? Can you feel the attraction? Can you feel the energy urging you to go in a certain direction? We have to be aware of that. And we have to continue to make choices. For instance, the news has a very powerful negative energy right now. Everything you listen to pulls you into a state of helplessness and hopelessness and despair. We have a choice. We have to stay aware, but we have control over how deeply we immerse ourselves in the negative pull.

We have to pay attention to what we’re paying attention to. Where is the energy that you are focusing on taking you? Is it towards a positive solution? Is it to an answer? Is it worth taking time to listen to the whole idea? The more aware we are of how we are responding to a particularly negative energy, the greater control we have over our response. Notice what energy is drawing you, where it is taking you, and make a conscious choice to either follow or let go and change your focus. This is a tricky time. Understand your overall intention and evaluate the focus of the energy that shows up. Decide if you want to go where it is leading you. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Stress Relief – Chin Circles

I now have the book Head-to-Toe Healing by Master Chuny Lin and keep adding the simple moves to my life to move my qi energy into action and self-heal. 

I found the chin circle as I was looking for a move to share with a friend who said she had anxiety and trouble sleeping. It’s become one of my favorites. I just call it chin circles. It is a very powerful move to release stress. It can even be done in the middle of a meeting if you do it subtly because you’re simply moving your chin in a forward, down and around circle. 

Sit or stand straight. Stretch your neck forward, move the chin down, and then turn it back to toward your chest. Now guide your chin up your chest until your head is back at the starting point. This is done in a continuous circular motion and should only take a few minutes. Tone the sound KENE as you do it one minute any time as needed. There is number 28 and Head-to-Tie Healing.

I had an unexpected result when I began to practice it. My right shoulder experienced a major release. And I didn’t even know it was jammed up – until it released and greatly increased its range of motion.  These are very powerful moves.

The book is Head-to-Toe Healing by Master Chuny Lin. You can get it on Amazon or at springforestqigong.com or chunyilin.com.   I suggest you get on his mailing list in order to receive excerpts from this book on a weekly basis. The moves are simple to do and I have had amazing and instantaneous results from doing them. Highly recommend. 

Bottoms Up!

Reminder: the more water you drink, the less pain you will have. Drinking half of your body weight in ounces per day is recommended and helps your eyes and brain and lungs (all are mostly water!)

===OUTER   WORK===

What You Expect You Get

“I don’t think it’s gonna work but I’ll give it a try.” How much success do you have with an affirmation   like that? What do you expect to get? The extent of results or even if there are any results, all emerge from what you expect you’re going to get. “I’ll give it a try- but.” “This may not work -but.”

My biggest shift about being aware of what I expect has come recently as I use Qigong to self -heal. And it’s working. So in essence, I’m moving my arms in prescribed patterns and focusing my thoughts and physical changes are happening. The fact that change is happening strengthens my belief that it can happen. Expect the best, do not settle for second best. Expect the best and you will get it.

How Do You Plan Your Day?

Do you see a new day as a blank canvas with you as the artist? Can you feel you desires? Do you watch your day open up with all sorts of hard to miss need-to-do lists or soul-rewarding spiritual exploration? Which would you prefer?

Sure we have to get things done, but what if our to-do list is crowding out our dream list, our I-want-to-do list. It may be as simple as saying, “From one to two I’m going to work on my dreams, my passions, my expectations.” What would you do? Set aside time for dreaming and exploring and experiencing? Give it a try and see what expands and unfolds.

Write an Acknowledgment Note

Stop and think about someone whose presence makes a huge difference in your life. When was the last time you acknowledged them? Not just a general “thank you” but a thank you for a specific interaction, for being there, for calling on a regular basis, or simply being a friend. Write or call your friend up. Send an email. Create some form of acknowledgment for someone in your life who is so there for you, that it’s possible you haven’t thanked him/her for quite some time. Be aware of those who help you even in small ways and acknowledge them for their interaction.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Keep It Simple

It’s easy to make it more complicated. Keeping it simple is the hard part. For instance, I found an hour-long class on creating sacred ceremony that included things like sacred geometry. I’m not going to take it because I want to keep my ceremonies simple and meaningful to me. I know how to make a very complex spiritual ceremony. And for some people that’s perfect. But I like to keep it focused and simple – set an intention and do the work. Keep an eye out on how complicated or complex you have made your spiritual practice and perhaps consider simplifying it or alternating the elements as you move through the week. 

One purpose of a morning spiritual practice is to release the healing of the night and prepare for the day ahead. Let go.   Choose a focus. And step forward into your day. Every ceremony could be about reflection and gratitude. Keep it simple.

Mindful Living

Learn to live mindfully. When you prepare a meal do it with gratitude and appreciation for the source of the food. Eat mindfully. Eat thoughtfully and taste thoroughly. When you do your work do it from your heart. Begin with an intention and keep that higher awareness of that intention as you move through the work. Let that keep you in the high road as you proceed. 

Walk mindfully. As my body continues to shift and change, when I’m walking well I experience great appreciation for the smooth movement and the coordinated steps. Mindfulness deepens your appreciation for what exists. How will you be more mindful today? 

Expand Your Creativity

There are so many ways to be creative. It gives us an opportunity to express what is deep inside of us in a form that we normally don’t use. It can be poetry, it can be a drawing, it can be creating anything. Find a way to increase the creativity in your life whether it’s trying a new recipe or learning a new song, or writing a poem.   Be creative in your spiritual practice. Be creative in your daily interaction with people. Be creative in what you learn. And what you share. Shake it up again. And see what new ways you can offer yourself to the world. 

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

The Flow of Friends

When you look back over your life you see a flow of important friends. People who changed your life. People who taught you life-changing lessons. People who encouraged you. They came in and they went out. There was a cycle to their friendship. A time and place. Take a moment to remember the people who had a great impact on your life. Those who were your support or a catalyst for an impotent choice that you made.

Notice who is in your present cycle, what they are offering you. What you are offering them. It’s not important how long the exchange is. Very short exchanges can be life-changing. As can a long one. There’s a flow to friendship. Because you change and they change and you have to separate in order to go learn new things that take you along on your own individual path. There are people who changed my life that I no longer have any idea where they are. They were friends and they were important friends and they were part of a past cycle.

Notice the cycles. Notice the waxing and waning of a friendship, relationship, notice how you spend less or more time together or how sturdy and steady and deep the relationship continues to build. Friendships unfold. Let them guide you both as you journey alongside each other for a while. Friendships go in cycles just like everything else. Enjoy the flow.

Do Your Rock Routine

I have told this story before. We were walking across Central Park in New York City forty years ago when my friend said, “We are rocks, others depend on us.” I thought about that a minute and asked “Who do we depend on?” She said, “Other rocks.”

My friend Noralee, who lives in Canada and who graciously proofreads this newsletter for me each week, reminded me that in this time of stress she was looking at the solidarity of the mountains and she wrote “And I remember I am a rock. So are you. Perhaps if we just do our rock routine, we’ll teach by example :-)” So I’m writing this to figure out what my “rock routine” is….

It is about being independent, smart, strong, and creative. We make stuff up. We do stuff differently. We are independent and strong minded. Rocks find a way around and above and beyond and below. We just make things happen. There’s a strength about being a rock, a dependability, but there’s also a great amount of creativity.

The topic that brought about this reminder of our rock-ness was the state of the world – which is pretty scary at the moment. So my interpretation of being a rock today would include knowing my own value. You’re standing up for your values, but not imposing them on others – continually searching for the highest good for all. Being a rock is about being thoughtful and kind and strongly supportive.

I see rocks as strong stand-alone people who simply get the job done. It’s not a big deal, it’s just the way we are.

We stand strong in this world of change. We make the choices that are aligned with our goals and our integrity. And keep going in that direction, that higher road. What kind of a rock routine are you going to create?

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

Many Paths

There are many ways to reach a destination. Over, above, around, and through. When you are considering a new step, take time to explore different paths that would get you there. One path may get you there very rapidly but without much depth and thoroughness. Another path may be way too detailed for what you want to do. Look for the path that has the right mixture of thoroughness, freedom of imagination, and effectiveness. Go partway down any of the paths that call to you to make sure that they are what you want or what you don’t want. Explore before you choose your path. Open yourself up to a variety of paths toward the solutions and outcomes you seek.

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

Spiritual Practice

The Two Vital Sides of Your Spiritual Practice 

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

Deeper Song Website

===CARA’S CORNER===

Trust theProcess

There are some things that are not working well in my life. My body is one of them but I have to trust the process. I have to trust that the universe knows why I am in the condition I’m in. I know one thing, it is driving me to search out self-healing methods to go get a result. So maybe it had to be this dramatic in order to make me take the next steps. So I experiment. I observe the results. I keep a close eye on my morale. And I do the work. Not always happily. Not always well. But I do it with persistence.

I get to make choices. I get to do the work or not do the work. I notice the results. I’ve had easier times, by a lot. But the universe is giving me this opportunity to look deeply within, perhaps make new choices. I must pay attention and give it deep thought.

Trust the process. There are lessons to be learned in the doing. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Learning Can Hurt

New lessons can be painful. They are times of exploration and success and failure. A lesson may remain elusive.

New lessons can be painful. They are times of exploration and success and failure. A lesson may remain elusive. We must persist. We must keep exploring and experimenting to find the right balance for us.

New lessons can be painful. They are times of exploration and success and failure. A lesson may remain elusive. We must persist. We must keep exploring and experimenting to find the right balance for us. We will find the answer. We will find the right path. Be patient and keep exploring.

Cara Lumen, May 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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Explore The Rewarding Path of Change

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Explore The Rewarding Path of Change

Living Our Deeper Song

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

I’m not exactly in limbo but there is change occurring all around me and I don’t know where it’s leading or what my role is to be. I can’t force it. But I keep looking for ways to help it be revealed to me.

I pulled some tarot cards to get some answers. The first one I drew was “changed and possibilities.”

“Possibilities” is a door opener.  It is a game-changer. What do I need to let go of or do more or change in order to open up new possibilities? Sometimes all we need to do is sit still and contemplate the changes and openings in the new path that show themselves.

We must explore.  We must identify what calls the most to us and walk down that path a bit to see where it might lead. See how it feels. See if it’s a direction we want to go in. We must be willing to change.

We must explore our new interests deeply enough to have a sense of the possibilities it opens up. Their potential. The direction it will lead us. The gifts it will bring. We can’t always identify what opportunities and challenges a new choice will bring so we need to stay alert as we travel the path and keep making changes, keep exploring, keep questioning. We need to know how it feels, what changes would be possible and where they might lead. And with each step, we must reevaluate the new perspective it reveals. Consciously explore each developing new pathway, make your choice, and move forward. We must be persistent in our search, resilient in our exploration, and patient for the path of change to be revealed. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I stay open to change and the new possibilities for me to make a difference. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Keep a lookout for new concepts and choices that open up new possibilities. 
  • Explore those that call to you. 
  • Draw them into your life and go exploring.

===INNER WORK===

Create a Shamanic Ceremony for Guidance

Several things will influence the experience you have creating a ceremony. You will get better with practice over time.

The first is the skill and life experience you bring to the table. 

There are many ways to design a ceremony. It can be short or long it can be elaborate or simple. Explore different forms of ceremony and perhaps identify several that are applicable to different situations you find yourself in. 

My major form of ceremony is a shamanic journey. I journey all the time. My process is very simple. I decide on the purpose of my journey.  It may be guidance, it may be self-healing, usually I have a question and seek clarity. 

Begin your ceremony by centering yourself. I could play my flute or look out at nature. Or close my eyes and focus on my breathing.

In a quiet place, I use my imagination to go to my Sacred Garden and ask for guidance. The images that show up are mine to interpret. They are my spiritual guides speaking directly to me. The first three times I journeyed I saw nothing but a campfire and only sensed others around it. Be patient with yourself as you learn to journey. And don’t be surprised with the form it takes.  Trust what shows up.

The second contributor to your ceremony/ritual is your relationship with the unseen world and the guides that show up which deepens over time. 

I have a resistance to angels and when one started to appear in my journeys, it was only her feet and the tips of her wings that I could see.  It took awhile for me to let her in but now the Angel With The Golden Wings is often present to guide me on my journeys.

Trust the images that appear and trust how you choose to interpret them. All of these images are metaphors for only you to interpret. If you are not clear, ask them for clarity.

What you do with the guidance you receive is also an important influencer on the effectiveness of the rituals and journeys that you take. Do the work. Explore the suggestions. Let your guides help you unravel the question you’ve asked. 

Be willing to believe what you see. Be willing to listen to talking rocks and fly on the backs of big birds and communicate with dolphins. Listen and interpret whatever images and thoughts and ideas show up and trust your interpretation. Keep practicing and you’ll get better at it. This is one of the ways that the inner world speaks to you.

Always give gratitude for all the guidance and awareness that you’ve been given. Your guides are there to be helpful.  Thank them for their insights and wisdom.

Keep a journal. Take notes right after you have your journey or ceremony. And be aware of any changes and ideas that show up in the days and weeks that follow. Record those too. It helps to clarify the overview.

Our shamanic work comes with the obligation to honor the power and spiritual magic and not take it lightly.

Know that you are safe. 

Have a clear intention.

Treat the experience with great respect. 

Add a shamanic journey as one of the forms of ceremony in your spiritual life and gather to you the insights of the inner world.

You are responsible for your own experience.  Keep exploring. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Trust the Stillness

How much time do you spend in silent stillness? There is no better place to heal and regroup than in the silence of our inner world. I don’t mean sleep, I mean meditative stillness.  A time when you go within and create space for your inner wisdom, your inner guidance, to make itself known.  

The form that guidance takes may vary.  Allow it time to evolve.  

I was to lead a segment in a Zoom call.  I had an idea.  As the days progressed, I got ideas for different versions the experience could take.  I explored them as they came up, taking them a step deeper or in a slightly different direction.  I trusted my inner voice to take me in the right direction.  I gave the concept space to evolve and trusted the process. 

Set an intention and then sit with it.  Notice what comes up without judgment.  You will know when to choose and what to choose.  Let the stillness nurture and clarify. 

(It turned out to be a powerful experience for all of us on the call…)

===OUTER  WORK===

What Makes Life Meaningful?

The facets of your life that are meaningful in the moment change over the years as your life changes, as your focus changes, and your expectations change. What is meaningful for you right now? My mind is meaningful. Without it for me there’s nothing because it’s entertaining, it’s informative, it’s creative, it helps me reach out to others. 

Do you have a gift that you particularly enjoy or find meaning in sharing? Do you need to do more of it? Do you need to find a broader audience to share it with? How are you using your gifts? Who are you sharing them with? And how can you widen your reach? 

What Do You Want?

What do you want? What are your priorities? Is it your health? Your relationships? Your work? Your future? Choose one and begin to do some active work on it – both inner and outer. That means visualization. How could it unfold? What does that look like and feel like?  How will the choices you are considering affect others? The world? Your own life? Take a few steps.  See how it feels and where it is leading you.

Perhaps you need to work on not just what you want, but what you need right now in your life. That could help you sort out your priorities. Do you need friendship? Do you need money? Do you need better health? What is your main need right now and what are you doing to make it happen? 

On the physical plane, I want my body to feel better. On the spiritual plane, I want the world to feel better. I can work on both of those. But I need to know that I need them both and I want them both, so I can choose the right steps to take and the right beliefs to hold to help it come into being.

Make a list of a few things that you want and then prioritize them. Pick the first one and design three steps to move you forward in your awareness of its potential and impact. Your future is yours to design. It is yours to create. It is yours to cultivate. Choose in alignment with the highest good of all. And get to work.

Ideas and Discipline

I get tons of ideas. They crowd my head. They crowd my day, they crowd my work. I love them. But I continue to develop criteria by which to choose and measure the usefulness of an idea. 

Not all ideas are yours to do. They may be an idea to give to someone else. They may be an idea to be done at a later time. Don’t let yourself get so crowded with ideas that you don’t act on any of them. Learn to be selective and choose the ideas that take you the furthest in the direction you want to go next.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Above and Below

More and more healing practices that I come across begin by connecting deeply with Gaia and bringing up her powers, then turning and connecting with the cosmos, your Soul Star, Source. We bring both of those energies into our humanness and use them to release, restore, repair, and rebuild. I sometimes feel those energies coming from above and below turning into a counter-clockwise spiral, releasing, repairing, and replacing all throughout the column of my body. Use your imagination and take time to bring the energy from below and from above where you do your self-healing work.

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

Work With Another Light Being

When my daughter retires in a few years she wants to move into animal healing using energy techniques like Reiki. I’ve connected her with a friend of mine who is a very gifted animal healer. She will have an example and a mentor and a guide as she moves into her new field.

I have a small group of women that I interact with regularly and each time I do, I find insights and meaning and often new steps to take to enrich my own life. Do you have that kind of circle of friends? Start with one person. Find a friend that is on a similar track and arrange to talk on a regular basis, to encourage each other, and to share what you have learned.

I have a primary longtime friend that I was paired with when we were in one of Sandra Ingerman’s shamanism classes and we have continued to talk weekly for five years or so. We have grown alongside each other. We have supported each other in that growth. We know each other’s patterns so we can be supportive.

You will have different friends for different facets of your life. Encourage that. Explore that. Expand on that. In my case, I’ve introduced those friends to each other. They have developed their own relationships.

As you grow, your friends will change. Allow that to happen. And seek new friends that will help you move higher on the new path that you’ve chosen.

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

Adventure and Potential

How do we know our potential if we don’t go adventuring? If we don’t try new things? Or explore new venues? How much exploration are you doing currently? Do you go a little way down the path you’re on to check out what else is there? Are you turning and exploring a whole new path? Will it take you on an adventure that will lead you places you cannot imagine? Be aware that you must continue to explore. You must adventure down unexplored paths and look around and see what calls to you.  When you go exploring you will find a new adventure and your greater potential!

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Choice

There sure are a lot of us on this planet making a lot of different decisions, going in a lot of different directions, not at all in harmony with each other. It’s kind of a mess. I suppose it’s a growth stage. Each person trying to expand and find their role. Some are more aware of the consciousness of the earth and some have more compassion and empathy than others. It’s an eclectic collection of people all here on the same planet and we are not working in harmony. 

We must consciously define and follow our own path, our own heart. We must constantly strive to take the higher path – the path of inclusion. Not everybody’s going to be on that path. But we must continue our journey on the highest road we can find and keep making conscious choices for the highest good of the most people.

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

Expanding Awareness

Journey to a Chamber of the Seven Sacred Rays

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

and the 

Deeper Song Website

===CARA’S CORNER===

Building My Web of Life

As I look around to see how my “next” will unfold, the lesson of the spider calls to me. She weaves her world from within herself and builds on what she finds around her.  She also can’t see so she works only from vibration.  Hummmm. I want to create like a spider.

I am probably forcing my search for what I am to do next. In fact, I’m pretty sure I am. So if I take a lesson from the spider, what do I do? 

I am patient. I pay attention to what is inside of me. My thoughts, my urges, my insights. And I wait patiently to discover where I might apply those ideas. It’s the patient part I’m not too good at. But there is a serenity and surety and resilience about building on what you find around you and building from within you. I will keep practicing.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Nudge

One idea.  One nudge.  I explore.

One idea.  One nudge.  I explore. I experiment, I imagine. I vision.

One idea.  One nudge.  I explore. I experiment, I imagine. I vision. My new path opens up, my new calling unfolds, and I move into a new adventure!

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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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

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

and the 

Deeper Song Website

=== 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

Past Issues of this newsletter are being curated on my site on a page called Insights.

Our Global Deeper Song Community

Our Deeper Song Community extends throughout the planet.  Welcome new Deeper Song Explorers. I’d love to hear of your experiences –  caralumen@gmail.com or let’s discuss on the Deeper Song Explorers!

Let’s Vision a World of  Harmony and Integrity

By

Let’s Vision a World of  Harmony and Integrity

Living Our Deeper Song

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

We can do this. Beginning right now you and I can begin to vision and bring in a world of harmony and integrity. It may take a bit to figure out what that might look like and be like and feel like. Harmony. For me that means more than coexistence, it means mutual collaboration and caring for each other. It means working for the collective and the highest good. It means inclusiveness which means everyone matters.

Integrity is also about inclusiveness. Every choice we make needs to be for the highest good for all. That means we have to think beyond our personal choices into the well-being of the collective.  I don’t exactly know what everyone needs, but I can intend for my choices to be for the greater good. The greater good. Helping the most people. Changing the circumstances in the most effective way. That shift calls to me and if it doesn’t, I get to change my thinking and my choices. Then you start living your life with the well-being of the greater good foremost in your mind.

What is that going to look like? I need to stop being angry at those I feel are making choices that harm values I hold dear – like democracy in life. I must not waste my energy being angry or blaming those who are making choices that seem to be in opposition to the greater good. The only sphere of influence that I have is me. My choices. My thoughts. My actions. And those thoughts and actions affect the whole.

When I monitor my energy and keep focusing on the positive, my entire vibration raises, and it is felt deeply within me and it radiates out from me and affects others.  That’s a pretty powerful stance to take – radiating out positive energy throughout my day. Through my focus and my choices. 

What would that world look like? Everyone helping everyone else. Everyone putting the well-being of the planet and our world and all its inhabitants as a priority for peace and harmony and well-being.

How will you vision a world of harmony and integrity?  Let’s bring it into being! 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I experience myself living in a world of harmony and integrity and it affects all I think and say and do.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Begin by visualizing a world of integrity.  Honesty and honor come to mind.  How are those two values prevalent in your life?
  • Look at the harmony you create around you. How can you take that harmony further out into the world? Do that. 

===INNER WORK===

What Is Your Filter?

I need to change my filters. I need to change what I am filtering and I need to change how strong the filter is. I need to stop watching the news. I can keep reading things like the Good News Network which I do every day because they always have good news  – people helping people, people inventing new things that will help the planet. What do you do to keep from focusing on the negative?

I get to choose the path of evil reaching out into the world that I want to directly impact. Discord between countries. Between people. Then I get to work with intention and visualization.

Does that mean I go off into my corner and think good thoughts? Maybe. But filtering begins with not listening to or not allowing some negative idea or concepts into your life. If I had a cranky neighbor, I would avoid that cranky neighbor. If I had a friendly neighborhood cat, I would seek out that friendly cat. I would filter my interactions, my choices. I don’t look at movies because I don’t want to see any violence – ever. I know enough about drama that there has to be some tension in order to have a plot. I don’t want tension. 

Be selective. Be aware of the impact that your choices have upon your life experience as well as that of others. I am not directly involved in solving any of the issues in the world today – other than my own personal recycling efforts as an example. But I can hold High Watch. I can create space in my daily spiritual practice to raise the vibration in the world. I can send positive, supportive energy to those who are doing good in the world. 

I don’t mean to isolate myself. But if I cannot have a direct impact then why do I drag myself down with worry or anger or fear? My job is to keep my vibration as high and focused as I can. 

The work I know I can do is in my own energy field. I am to keep my focus on the highest good. To deepen my relationship with the earth and nature, to raise my Cosmic Awareness. I will do some shamanic work on shaping the future. I will visualize the future as one of peaceful coexistence and a healthy planet. I can do that. Make time to raise your own vibration and intention by selecting strong filters to keep out the negative.

What Magic Did I Discover?

I have a rotating journal on a document on my desktop.  I should probably call it my Reflection Journal. Toward the end of each day I look back over the unfolding and write down what magic I discovered.  It doesn’t take long, and because I read the journal entry for the week before replacing it with the current observation, I can note the progress.  

Take a moment to reflect on your day and find the magic it brought you.

===OUTER  WORK===

Conscious Choices

The more conscious choices we make, the more we establish the pattern. So as I work to help my body realign I am making a conscious choice to stand up very straight for longer periods of time. I get up out of a chair and I stand – straightening my back, lifting my shoulders, balancing my body, engaging my core. That’s it. That’s my big choice my big conscious choice, to remind my body what it’s like to stand up straight. I can carry that a step further.  I can remind myself to consciously walk straighter.

Be conscious of what you have created in your life and how unconsciousness has distorted it or misaligned it. And use that same consciousness to bring everything back into alignment. 

Shift Your Gaze

Change and healing may be as simple as shifting your gaze. After all, what we focus on we get. So if I spend time focusing on or even paying attention to situations and circumstances that are not aligned with the path I am taking, I am not only distracting myself, I am weakening my focus on what I do want. I have to change my gaze. That pretty much means I have to stop watching the news. To do our work in the world, to affect the whole in a positive manner, we have to look for and see and visualize and intend the highest good and the highest outcome. We have to do it often and have to do it fervently, with deep intention. So if you don’t have some sort of small blessing or a small ceremony for the well-being of the world, perhaps you might consider establishing one. I have a soft hug-a-planet that I could hug and caress. I might want to choose a crystal that represents the universe and start sending energy to it outside of time in space. We can do that you know. Our intention moves through both time and space. 

What you look for you get. What are you looking for? Do you need to shift your gaze and focus on the highest good for all? Do that.

Put Our Oneness Above All Else

We need and want to evolve into higher expressions of our spiritual self. How do we do that? We put our oneness above all else. We are one energy. We are part of a cosmic soup in which our individual seasoning affects the whole. We don’t want too much of any one flavor. We want balance and harmony and choices for the highest good for all. 

How do I put the seasoning I want and the correct amount in the Cosmic Soup? I think before I act. I consider how far-reaching my choices may be. And I continue to raise my vision of what is possible.

How Balanced Is Your Life?

Is your life lopsided – too much of one thing and not another of another? It could be too much work, it could be too much play, it could be too much study, too much of anything that puts you out of balance. Perhaps keep track of how much time you spend on any one thing and what you have crowded out of your schedule, and see if anything is out of balance. Then make new choices to correct it. Sleep is important, eating is important, spiritual practice is important, and yes, look at work as a giving of time and energy for the well-being of others and see how that changes how you approach your work. Find balance in everything you choose to do.

Expectation

If you expect it to happen it will. If you expect it not to happen it won’t. If you expect it to be a positive experience, it will. If you expect it to be a negative experience, it will do that too. We have a lot of control over our life experiences by what we expect.  

The trick I play on myself around taking out the trash comes to mind. The day that I need to take the trash out I keep saying to myself “Think how good it will feel when I have taken the trash out.” And it works. I focus on the result – not the doing of it and it turns out that unless it’s exceptionally cold, it’s a pretty good thing to do.

How are you expecting your life to turn out? Change your expectation and see what shows up.  You have great power in what you draw into your life.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Potential and Imagination

New things are constantly being invented because someone sees a need or discovers a new way to do something more easily or less expensively. When an idea takes shape there’s a new way to accomplish something. Usually, our inventions, our creative urges, come in certain sudden complete bursts, flashes of images or awareness. There is seldom a struggle. It usually happens in a moment in which something you’ve been thinking about, or were contemplating, suddenly appears as it needs to be in order for you to take your next step.

Sometimes we start with a problem to solve or a need that needs attending. Other times we are presented with an idea and have to really figure out what its potential is and how it can be used so it can be utilized. Give your mind room to roam. Trust the images that come to you and take a little longer to look at them from all sides. See how they might be of service or if they are already in service and also if you are the one to do it.

I am a naturally enthusiastic person so I am guided well by my curiosity and eagerness to learn. I go where it leads me. I explore what I find. I see what I need to learn next. But always it is my expansive imagination that I allow to guide me in the direction I am being called. Let yourself be nudged by whatever crosses your path, in your mind, in the course of your day. A new invention in the world might open up new possibilities for you. A flying car just got approved for flying. What would you do with a fleet of flying cars? There is a new door that just opened.

In my role as I grow older, I am grateful that I can dictate into these computer machines before me and have words appear that I can share with you. It allows me to journey within and listen more deeply and share in a more meaningful way with you.

Notice what inventions and opportunities show up in the world and use your imagination to journey down past the possibilities to see new ways they might be in service. It may or may not be yours to do but you can explore any path that shows up. Use your imagination to discover your potential. 

Creative Spirituality

I have a great many plant stands in my apartment.  They are lightweight, they are portable, they are rearrangeable, they are a good height and they make great altars.  

I have recently set up a plant stand altar to work with Sekhmet.  I have talked to my rather large crystal collection and a few have spoken to me to participate.  I have a small film container with sand from Luxor that was brought back to me 50 years ago by some friends who traveled there, and a very small crystal that spent the night in Great Pyramid that was given to me by a Reiki student.  The most interesting stone that spoke to me was a tiger’s eye which fits perfectly with the lion aspect of Sekhmet.  When you look and explore the energy, you will find the perfect pieces to gather into an altar.  

I have not started the actual work but the book has a lovely idea for knotting your ideas into a ball and then burning them.  Now I have been here when a resident accidentally sets off the fire alarm and hall doors shut and everyone pours out into the hall until the source is discovered and the firemen fighters come or we are told it’s ok.

That particular image looms large as I prepare my spiritual work with Sekhmet.  I have dissolvable paper and a small dish that is shaped like an open lotus. I will use that as a gentler way to release what needs to go.  

As you develop your spiritual practice, be creative and make it work for you.

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

Transformations and Mutations

Transformations (dramatic change) and mutations (gradual modifications) are prevalent as we move into and through this evolving mutation of our planet and our world and our lives.  Nothing is left untouched.  Sometimes the experience is like having a bandage ripped off to make the discomfort shorter.  Sometimes it seems to take forever to get the message and make the change.  But it’s all going in one direction – the emergence and establishment of the Divine Feminine as the dominant energy in our world. 

The blatant changes are pretty obvious because there is a lot of resistance to the major changes.  It’s the subtle changes we get to keep an eye on and learn from.  New ideas are emerging. Which ones call to us? Which ones are aligned with our belief system? How does our belief system need to change? This is a period of great questioning and exploration, of self-examination. And thoughtful re-choosing about everything. What we think. What we do.  

Examine what shows up from every angle before making a choice. Look at its long-term consequences and see if that’s where you want to go. This is indeed a time of change, but it is a time of thoughtful choice. Move forward in awareness. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Cherish The Now, Make It Better

Before we get all caught up in what if’s, let’s look around at what we have present in our lives now. Yes, we created what is there by our choices and our beliefs. So what do we need to change in our choices and our beliefs? As we change our focus and our expectations, we will change our present experience.  What we focus on is important because what we focus on we get. So if I choose to focus on the serenity of the day, the beauty of nature, the inquisitiveness of my mind, I will have one experience. If I look for and focus on the anger and chaos in the world, I will have an entirely different experience. It’s good to keep aware, but it’s not good to stay around in the mundane mess of change. One step at a time. Look around. Access your position and take another step forward. Perhaps on a new path, perhaps further down the same path. Make course corrections and offer gratitude for where you are throughout the day.

Women Can Do It All

As I begin to look into various Egyptian goddesses, I see there are not many of them and they do it all. They are warriors, they are healers, they are guardians, they are leaders. Is that because there were so few of them or is that just because they were female? Women still play all of those roles today – protector, teacher, healer, guide, wage earner. Versatility is the gift of being female. Cherish it and cultivate it. 

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Protectress of the Divine Order

Sekhmet has many roles, Daughter of Ra, Protector of Pharos, healer, but she is also the Protectress of the Divine Order which I find to be a fascinating responsibility.  

I think a portion of our job as the Circle of Light Beings is to help bring into a new order, a divine way of being. I don’t think that means sitting in sacred silence and contemplation. I do think it means living with conscious awareness. Making certain that we care for each other. That we make choices that benefit the most of us.  

How will I begin to consciously bring my consciousness of Sekhmet here to my life? I like the role of protector. In my writing, I try to help us all move into a higher vibration and interact with each other on that higher plane.  I’m not organizing anyone. I’m not leading anyone. But I am offering us an opportunity to think, to consider in choosing a more conscious fashion what will be the highest good for our collective essence.

It begins with monitoring myself to make certain that my thoughts and intentions are positive and for the highest good. Most of the time they are. Perhaps not on as grand a scale as they could be if I paid attention and thought about them more.

What is your sphere of influence? How do you affect it? What could you do differently? Do that. 

The Divine Masculine Fights Back

It was pointed out on the news recently that masculinity started fighting back in the 80s when the women’s rights movement was stepping forward. Does that mean that we will always live with the push and shove conflict around dominance?  What happens to choosing the needed skill set regardless of which sex has it and working with that? We have these archaic roles we have been playing for generations. 

Each of us, male or female, has to live with an expanding expression of inclusion and compassion.  And that calls for a lot of flexibility, give and take, stepping aside and stepping forward.  

I don’t interact with people much and seldom anymore with men but the lesson is still there – we must share the path and the roles and the responsibility based on the unique gifts we have been given. 

I am a strong woman.  Both the men who married me were weak and needed my strength. Unfortunately, I had been brought up with a men-are-the stronger sex mentality and did not know they were attracted to my strength. I’m not even sure those two men knew my strength and competency was part of their attraction to me. And I realize now they chose, I simply responded.  The need was not in me, the expectation to let them choose was. We each have individual strengths and tendencies.  We are to honor them.

I think we need to each learn to stand alone more.  We need to walk our own path and carry our own load.  Are you aware of your own gifts and strengths?  Have you developed them?  Are you expressing them to the fullest?  

I’m a gifted organizer and have stepped into that role at various stages of my life.  Currently one of the ways I express my organizational ability is through organizing my ideas into this newsletter.  

How are you sharing your gifts?  Where are you sharing them?  Do you recognize their value?  Do others? Acknowledge the value of your own contributions. 

Our Role in the World

“Everything, as horrendous as it looks out in the world, is something contained within ourselves, for we are ultimately all connected, one organism.  We are part of the collective consciousness that is creating the insanity.  In this work we look for those things inside of us that we can transform and, in so doing, we are doing our part to heal the world.” 

– Sekhmet: Transformation in the Belly of the Goddess by Nicki Scully

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=== DEEPER SONG ORACLE MESSAGE===

Transition Equals Liberation Equals Transformation

I drew the SpiritSong Tarot card “Transformation” and the words that defined it were “Transition” and
“Liberation”.  It’s a huge opportunity to look at change. How we change, what steps we take to change. The first step is to be willing to change. And then you begin to make the transition into the next version of what is possible. Whether it’s something you choose or if it is something that happens – the first step in change is transition. 

And gradually as you make this transition you let things go, you release all beliefs that no longer serve. You release all habits that are no longer useful. You are freer to become liberated, to stand taller, to walk a higher path. The result is transformation. Let go of what you no longer need and make room for new more positive ideas and inspiration to come in. Transition equals liberation, equals transformation.

SpiritSong Tarot

===CARA’S CORNER===

Noticing the Cycles

I spent three or four years taking three or four lengthy online classes at The Shift Network each year. Most of them were about my spiritual practice. But I learned a lot. And now suddenly I am full up. It’s not that I know everything. It’s that

I am no longer bouncing around studying everything in sight. In fact I have a Qigong class I haven’t finished. Shame on me. 

Cycles are just that – cycles. You may get super enthusiastic about one aspect of your life and then all of a sudden you’re full up. Then you go do something else. That’s how we learn. I am in a new cycle. It’s just unfolding so I can’t exactly tell you what it is, but I am actively in it. And I had a few months of simply waiting for the direction to unfold. I knew it was coming. I just didn’t know what it was. So be patient with your cycles. Be patient with your unfolding. Like everything that grows and develops, it starts with a small bud that takes time to blossom and mature, offer its gifts, and then gradually move on. Enjoy the cycles of your life. Honor them. Learn from them. And allow yourself to change because of the steps that you take.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Cycles of Change

The unfolding is gradual but steady. It is almost unnoticeable.

The unfolding is gradual but steady. It is almost unnoticeable. When I look, when I watch, when I observe, I see the change and I respond to it.

The unfolding is gradual but steady. It is almost unnoticeable. When I look, when I watch, when I observe, I see the change and I respond to it. Like a seedling growing into a tree, I let my life unfold.

-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

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