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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

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Let’s Vision a World of  Harmony and Integrity

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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. 

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

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

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

Expanding Awareness

Journey to Our Ancestors to Expand Our Consciousness

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

and the 

Deeper Song Website

==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

Changing of the Gods is a documentary based on “Cosmos and Psyche” by Richard Tarnas. The whole series for free for two weeks starting 2/22/22. Here is the website to sign up. https://changingofthegods.com/ 

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This is a powerful addition to your spiritual practice – The Daily Om

=== 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

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!

Are You in the Right Place of Service?

By

Are You in the Right Place of Service?

Living Our Deeper Song

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

My daughter’s job is making her sick – literally.  It is a big job that she created in a reorganizational move at the company she has worked in for twenty years and it is working very well. But it is a big job and it is making her sick.  I don’t know why. It may be that she cares too much. Maybe because she met with some resistance to change in general as they reorganized departments and combined some.  It’s never very easy when the people you are trying to help resist and make it harder on themselves. She has had to fire some people which was very hard for her to do. Her job is literally making her sick. And at the same time, she keeps getting large raises because management recognizes the value of what she is doing. 

Here’s the other catch.  She is just a few years from retirement and the insurance coverage she needs. Plus, they keep giving her more money. There is motivation to hang in there. When I asked who she was grooming for the job, she said, “No one else wants it.” That says a lot. 

Does your work still make you happy or are you simply hanging in there until retirement?  Is your work rewarding and satisfying?  What will you do if it is not?

We deserve to be happy and productive.  Are you making choices that provide you with the depth of life experience that you want and deserve or are you locked into one facet of your life so deeply that you are giving more of yourself than you are receiving?  That’s called burnout.  And it sneaks up on you.

My work is certainly changing rapidly, not in what I do but in what I explore and share, the direction my exploration is going, and the new insights that are emerging.  With the rapidly changing technical world, I think a good majority of people now working may not be able to change directions partially because of the unknown skills and knowledge that are needed in the new industries. 

I don’t have an answer.   

But after we retire, we have another 30 years to be proactive.  Are you looking ahead?  Are you learning what you need to know?

For instance, I have come to realize that the training and reasoning behind internet marketing that I have worked with for a lot of years may very well be not as effective today. Only a few digital entrepreneurs are actively exploring to discover how to build entrepreneurial businesses in the current environment. On top of that, we the people don’t know what is possible let alone what we want to choose from in this new smorgasbord of opportunities.

I don’t have an answer here, it’s more of a question.  Are you still in the right place of service and if not, where do you want to be, and how to you plan to get there?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I look more closely at where I am, where I am headed, and where I really want to go and I make changes to take me there. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Notice how your work has changed. Is it still something you want to do?  
  • What new cause, industry, or need is calling to you?
  • Go exploring and see how to do that work.

===INNER WORK===

Life is a Series of Options

In every moment you have a choice. Do this or not. Think this or don’t. What is the standard that you hold that helps you choose from the options presented to you? Do you choose what is easiest? Do you choose what nurtures your mind? Do you choose what nurtures your inner world? Life is a series of options. What are the standards by which you make your choice?

I Don’t Pray, I Connect

When I was in my 20s, I met a man who said he was an ex-priest and I said, “If I believe that God is within me, what do I do when I need help?” He said, “Dig deeper within yourself. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.” That was a game-changer in my life and has made me a very self-sufficient person all my life. I am responsible for how my life unfolds.  I am the one to make the changes I desire.

My belief system says that we are all one huge interconnected web. So I see everything as one energy. That means everything I need is within me. There’s nothing out there to pray to. I am responsible for my own outcome. What I do is go within to my Still Point and connect. And listen. And ask questions. And get answers. All by sitting still, going within, and listening. The guidance you seek lies within you.

===SELF-HEALING===

Release, Realign, Restore

In my own self-healing, I realized there were three steps I needed to take – release, realign, and restore. It looks like a pretty good pattern for life. 

The first thing you have to do is release. Release all the layers. Release the damaging thoughts. We have to make room for new growth and new possibilities and new potential. How do we do that? 

We stop doing whatever we’ve been doing that has contributed to the condition we wish to restore.  What is crowding your life? What is keeping you from doing what you want to do or need to do? How can you release that? Or devote less time to it? We have to make room for self-healing. 

The example that prompted this is my body which is slowly realigning. It is restoring its alignment, restoring its strengths. Slowly, but steadily. And not very comfortably. But it is realigning and that makes all sorts of things possible that were not possible before. 

The second step is realigning.  Have you ever emptied a room with the intention of rearranging it for your new needs?  If you empty it out you have room to observe each new placement, each new choice of what to include. And you leave a lot of stuff out.  Do that with your self-healing process. Examine the basics of your self-care and be choosy about what you bring back in.

Gradually, over time, the space you have changed is restored – not to the way it was but to the way it needs to be right now in your life to keep you moving in the new direction you have chosen. 

What do you need to release in your life/body/relationships? What does that newly cleared space allow you to realign and make room for? And what balance is gradually restored in the new space you have created? 

===OUTER  WORRK===

See The Gifts in Others

Pause a moment and think of someone who adds to your life.  Three that immediately come to my mind for me are the staff here where I live who keep the building and grounds repaired and clean and organized. It is a lovely place to be. The second is my new friend and homemaker Shelly, who loves to clean and is making my life possible at this point. The third is my cat Sebastian who is my friend and companion and cohort. So my question is when was the last time you thanked or acknowledged or even thought about the people that add so much grace and beauty and thoughtfulness to your life? Look around. Offer your gratitude to those who are making a difference in your life.

What Are You Avoiding?

It’s easy to put off the hard things for another time that has yet to be decided. But all that does is keep the hard things staring you in the face. What are you avoiding that you need to handle that would make room for a whole new door to open?

I could use more movement in my life. My body would be happier if I did. So I have to think up clever and entertaining ways to move my body. I may put on some jazz music and wiggle. I can put in pauses to stretch as I move around my apartment during the day. I can walk the halls more often and go on a little further. I can practice and get better on my four-wheel walker “Adventurer” so when the weather gets nice again I can go outside more. Then there’s always room for more Qigong. 

What do you need to do that you are avoiding? And what steps will you take in order to move forward?

Meet the Challenge

I had really been putting it off. It was hard to do and I know it was good for me. The day I pushed through it all sorts of positive changes happened. What are you putting off doing that you know would be good for you?

I have a small set of portable rotating foot pedals that I can sit in a chair and pedal that would be good for my hips. However, it is hard to lift my legs to get my feet in the pedals. I’ve tried several methods.  I finally figured out a way to use a strap to lift my leg into the stirrup. Once I was paddling, I was aware of how much good it was doing my hips. The result was pretty immediate as far as how I felt and how I was able to stand. And still, I keep putting that off because getting started is hard for me – a bit of a physical challenge to get my feet in place. But the change and the gift it brings is tremendous. What are you putting off that is a bit challenging but you know if you do it it will have a major impact on your life? Do that.

Qigong Video Recommendation

Qigong for LongevityVideo with Robert Peng. Easy- quick effective. Everyone can do Qigong.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Keep it Simple – Sit in Silence

We can get so enthusiastic in our exploration that we clutter up our spiritual practice with too many choices. Pause in your spiritual practice and pick the one thing that moves you the most. Try simply doing that one thing for a few days and see how you can deepen the experience. Experiment with form.  Experiment with timing.  Experiment with intention. Focus on one aspect of your spiritual practice at a time. It could be meditation. It could be vibrational work.  It could be Qigong. It could be reading deepening material. Do one spiritual practice at a time for three days, see how it deepens and how it resonates. Explore another spiritual practice by itself for a few days to expand your awareness of its gifts. Continue to explore and experiment to create the most balanced spiritual practice for you right now. Be flexible in your spiritual practice and keep it simple.

Find Stillness

It takes just a second to take a deep centering breath and move into stillness. You just have to remember to do it. As you move through your life, notice when you start getting rattled or too busy or stressed, and pause, take one deep slow breath, and let stillness seep into all parts of you. Move into that stillness of your mind, take a second breath, and anchor that centeredness.

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

Are “What-If’s” Stopping You?

The interesting thing about trusting your inner voice is that you learn not to question it. You learn to trust it. You learn to explore what it suggests. You may want to imagine how it will play out, but make certain the “what if’s” are not stopping you. What if this happens? What if that happens? What if they don’t? We don’t know how something will play out until we step on the path and explore it. I can’t tell if I’m going to enjoy a book until I start reading it. I can’t tell if I’m gonna have a good time at a party until I go and start interacting with people.

I am diligently and actively looking for my role in the unfolding of the Divine Feminine. What will I miss out on if I don’t explore that next option? I would miss out on a whole adventure. Know that in each moment there is a door opening and step through until you see what it leads to.

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

An Informative Interview

Years ago in New York City I learned about an informative interview. You literally call up a business and say you would like to understand your business better and the opportunities it contains and its requirements. May I please have an informative interview about your business? It works will small business owners. 

I had an informative interview with a film distribution company in NYC. Well, it was more of a film distribution person but it was his company and he had a really good time telling me about how his business works. I learned, he shared, and it was a good exchange. I left knowing I had no desire to go into the film distribution industry but that was my gain – I had new knowledge that would guide me on my career path. 

I think we could do the same today with the new industries that are unfolding. I would think that the person in charge of hiring new employees might be a person to ask for an informative interview about the demands and needs of their business so that you might better assess if your skillset has a place in that field and what new skills you need to acquire. I wonder what you would learn. You would learn the skills you need. You would learn the functions of the various jobs. You would learn the culture of the company. And who knows, maybe you’ll get a new job. Go exploring in this day of change and see if there’s a new path for you to embark on. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Dismemberment

Sandra Ingerman had an interesting idea in her latest newsletter – The February Transmutation News.  She suggests that this is a time of dismemberment for us so the Sacred Feminine can emerge. “For dismemberment happens by some destructive force breaking up life as usual so something new can be reborn out of the death of the life we once knew.”

So this is a healing process we are going through, but just as a boil must erupt and a wound must drain itself of the infection, it seems as though the negativity and divisiveness in our world are making sure that we know that negativity is there so we can choose not to let it be there anymore. Awareness plus choice equal change. This is a time of becoming aware and each day we must make conscious choices for the highest good of all in order to manifest the change we desire. Look for the healing. It is there. Nurture it. 

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

The Divine Feminine in History – Sekhmet

There are not many female role models among the Gods of Ancient History, Sekhmet is a great one to begin with. 

The Egyptian Goddess Sekhmet was depicted with the body of a woman with a lion head wearing a sun disk. She is best known as the Eye of the Sun, the violent, dazzling, and protecting aspect of the creator god, Ra.

That’s a very big, responsible job. She was seen as the protector of the pharaohs and led them in warfare. When she was in a calmer state she would take the form of the household cat goddess Bastet. Sekhmet was associated both with disease and with healing and medicine.  

She seems to be a woman of eclectic interest and powers. A good example to explore. 

I have begun the book Sekhmet: Transformation in the Belly of the Goddess by Nicki Scully

I plan to connect to Sekhmet through shamanic journeying to gain insights on our role as guardian of our planet. More to come on this new adventure. 

=== DEEPER SONG  PHILOSOPHIES ===

===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 / Google

and the 

Deeper Song Website

==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

Changing of the Godsis a very powerful documentary about the universal forces that effect our planet today.  Sign up to watch the documentary on 2/22/22

Shift Network Breath Summit   Free speakers February 7 -11. 

===CARA’S CORNER===

Heeding the Call

In our exchange of emails, my friend and international author Deng, Ming-Dao wrote, “If you write a book about the Divine Feminine, I would read it.”

Now I had not thought about a book.   I have been exploring the emergence of the Divine Feminine in this newsletter since for several months but one other prompt had crossed my path when a friend commented that I had already had a lot of powerful interactions with the Divine Feminine in my life.  Looking back that would explain some of the bold and unusual and dramatic choices I have made in my 89 years. 

I know how to create books.  I have a few on Amazon.  I know I like a short form.  There are tools to make preparing them for self-publishing easy although I will have to learn the new versions.  So I have begun.  And I will complete this project because writing is how I figure out things and I want to figure out my role and perhaps our role as the Circle of Light Beings in helping the Divine Feminine take her rightful place of leadership.

Listen to the nudges and calls that come your way and go adventuring.  That’s how you learn what you are to offer the world. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The nudge was not subtle, it was more like a bop on the head.

The nudge was not subtle, it was more like a bop on the head, but it set up a resonance I could not ignore. 

The nudge was not subtle, it was more like a bop on the head, but it set up a resonance I could not ignore. I heeded the call, stepped onto the path and began my new journey.

– 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  

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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

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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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.

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!