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Do You Have Moral Clarity?

Living Our Deeper Song

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

The reporter was talking about how in the January 6 committee, the women were the ones who stepped in to report the misdeeds. The consensus was that women had a greater sense of moral clarity than the men did. I stopped to consider what it looked like and felt like to have moral clarity.

Moral clarity is about knowing right from wrong. We each have our own moral values. Where do they come from? How do they evolve within us?

I am watching many Republican politicians say one thing on a personal level and expressing an entirely different opinion to the news. They totally defy what is showing up as truth. 

What makes some people recognize and talk about a moral truth and others brush over it in denial? A lot of it in the US seems to be political ambition.

And so it is the women who have reported on the gross immorality that had taken place in the United States government under Trump.

Morality is about knowing right from wrong. The problem with the US situation is that those male politicians who know the difference between right and wrong are consciously choosing only what will forward their own political ambitions. And this is causing a crisis in the United States politician because Republicans seem unwilling to acknowledge the truth.

Too many people in the States are overlooking our truth or history. Others are trying to eradicate that truth from schools and laws and books in an effort to what? Eradicate history in this country by not telling how immoral the white population in particular was. 

How do you gain moral clarity? You look for your answers in a variety of resources. Learn about a topic from a variety of resources. Get clear about your own moral code. Be clear about what you believe and make certain that it is founded in truth.

When women stepped forward for the January 6th Committee, they had great moral clarity about what was right and what was wrong and their testimony blew the lid off the January 6th Committee reporting.

Be very clear about what is right and what is wrong. Develop your own strong sense of moral clarity and live by it.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I will work hard to stay on the right side of moral clarity 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

• Look closely at what you see as right and wrong and make sure it is based on truth.
• Keep strengthening your moral sense of what is right and wrong.
• Live by those standards.

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Path Corrections at the Winter Solstice

December 21st is Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year and the beginning of a new season. It is a good time to make corrections to your path.

First see how your path has changed. With hip replacement surgery scheduled, my goals have changed – walking better is now at the top of the list.

Notice what new doors have opened and which ones you wish to walk through. There is a whole new group of healers to work with in some form that is gradually revealing itself. I have to go exploring to find what path suits me the best right now.

What has changed and what new opportunities are opening up new possibilities? Examine your choices to male certain they are still rewarding and fulfilling ones. 

Keep exploring!

Give Yourself Permission To Follow Your Heart 

Sometimes we get so caught up in our worldly existence that we forget to follow our heart. Have you stopped recently to talk to your heart? To know what it wants for you next and know how that feels? Do you know what it’s telling you to do?

Perhaps write it down on a blank sheet of paper and begin to prioritize by simply listing your passions. Then look over the list and begin to prioritize them. What did you discover? How do you need to rearrange your time? What new choices do you need to make?

It helped me to identify a large umbrella that holds a lot of my activity. It’s been tricky to identify because I love to write, I like the mental stimulation. It is all of those things. And probably more.

I have a dry macular degeneration and am gradually working with diminished eyesight. So I really have to understand what lies beneath this need and desire to write to see how I can continue to address it even if the form has to change. 

What does your heart want? What does your heart need? And what new forms can you find to express that in?

Put aside the world you have created and sit with your heart. Make certain that you listen to it. Make certain that you express your heart in all that you do. How will that change what you have in your life right now? Give yourself permission to follow your heart and do some rearranging of your life choices. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Being In Nature Is Healing

I haven’t been outside very much in the last two years so it was really great when Nathan, one of my care partners, put me in my wheelchair and wheeled me out into the garden that is actually right outside my window. There is a koi pond and Master Gardeners take care of the garden. I told Nathan that anytime he had free time, I would go outside. I mentioned that to Stephanie, a nurse’s aide and the next day she came and took me out too! I got here with two types of philodendron but maybe this next summer I can get a red leaf coleus for summer and bring it inside in the fall. Do you have enough nature in your life? Go buy a plant and talk to it…

===OUTER WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

On Being Resourceful

Imaginative, intuitive, creative, bright – being resourceful is all of those things. It means thinking outside the box. It means looking around corners, it means exploring new paths. Sometimes it means taking chances. Go explore the unexpected or the unusual. It is that moment when you draw on your inner wisdom, your practical experience and your free-wheeling imagination with a deep knowing and a healthy amount of trust in order to make a decision and try something new or different or unexpected. 

How often do you do that? Are you an adventurous type who goes exploring at every opportunity? This is not about bravery, it’s more about having fun and trusting your instincts and insights.

Notice when you respond from your inner wisdom and learn to trust it as a wise guide and creative innovator.

Being resourceful is about using what you have at hand to move yourself forward in a unique and unexpected way. Do more of that and see how your life changes. 

Choosing A Life Of Service

Service takes many forms. It can mean helping people who are helpless and it can mean helping people who are strong. It’s your choice, your place of service.

In the 80s when I became a Reiki master teacher we stood in a circle and were asked to share how we would use Reiki in the world. The person before me said, “I’m going to teach all the poor people.” I knew then what I was to do. I said, “I am going to help people who are already flying to fly higher,” And so I have. 

Choose your place of service – helping people reach their own potential, helping people overcome a setback, helping the environment or a cause. Go exploring to see what calls to you and then do the work.

On-Going Learning

Over the past seven years, I have depended heavily on The Shift Network for the on-going education that I wish to receive. Beside their paid classes, they have free summits on all sorts of topics that allow you to explore a topic and make informed choices. I have extensively studied Shamanism and Qigong. I have studied the Native American Flute and the drum and sound healing. As I understand the topics better, I found other teachers I wanted to study with.

Sounds True is another resource for interesting classes and books. I need to remember to explore TED Talks more regularly because there is great information there. They give away a lot of free information in order to draw you into their work. Go exploring more to find new topics to explore. 

My problem is that I don’t know what I want to learn next. I looked into sound healing but it’s not a deep calling for me although I have some tuning folks and use sound in my spiritual practice. 

What topic do you want to explore next? What do you want to learn next? Do some research and find some free introductory classes to take you more deeply into a topic so that you know what you want to commit to learn next. 

I love to learn. I hope I never stop. Right now, I don’t know what I want to learnnext so I guess I’ll just wait until something knocks on my door and calls out to me. Keep exploring, there are great learning opportunities out there. Get on Google and find them. 

Be Present At Work

I become so absorbed in writing that I disappear into my work. It is rewarding, exciting, stimulating and satisfying. I totally lose myself in the process of creating and capturing and responding to an idea I want to explore. 

How do you feel when you are at work? Are you fully present? Are you having a good time? Do you leave your work with a feeling of accomplishment? Do you leave with a feeling of satisfaction at work well done? 

Perhaps pause before you leave your place of employment to offer gratitude for being able to do work that is rewarding and satisfying and provides a good quality of life for you and your family. 

If you can do none of those things, you deserve to find yourself new employment. 

First list your passions – those that interest you and have called to you throughout your life. What kind of profession allows you to work with those passions? I have volunteered to write newsletters for assorted organizations for free because I love to organize ideas into written form. I have written radio content. I have written television commercials. I have written poetry and books and podcasts and newsletters. Writing is at the core of the majority of my jobs. But I’m also a really good organizer so sometimes I have had jobs that call upon that skill more than any other. 

Identify the skills they give you the most pleasure. Identify the skills that are the most marketable. And keep an eye on your overarching passion as you find the perfect place of employment. 

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Shared Vison

I’m working on my vision for the world and I’m having a hard time because there sure are a lot of places that need help. 

I think my vision should start with the planet or we won’t have a place to live. One solution would include eliminating all the fossil fuels and using the many remaining replacements that have already appeared. In my vision I will raise the consciousness of everyone to individually take mindful steps to care for our planet by way of the products we use, what we recycle, how we care for the earth around us. So raising our collective consciousness about preserving the planet would be high on my list.

Then we have the people who hate other people. The vicious eruption of hatred in the US is my first thought because that’s where I live. But there is hatred and suppression going on in way too many places in the world. I don’t understand evil or purposefully doing harm to another so I think my vision will include an opening of hearts and a sense of a peaceful world community. That’s a big one. And it’s going take some doing even to imagine that. But it is our imagination and visioning that are the core creator of the creative process to make change happen. 

So part of my process needs to be actual visioning. I have to visualize a peaceful, whole, healed, vibrant planet. I have to envision people coexisting peacefully. I have to envision those people mindfully caring for the planet and for the animals on the planet and for each other. And somehow I have to envision everyone caring about the well-being of everyone else. 

If our imagination is one of the ways we create change, what kind of world are you imagining? 

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

Nothing Happens Without A Purpose

We may not like this, but nothing happens without a purpose. It is a lesson, a door opening, an opportunity knocking, but whatever it is, it is something we need to examine and consider and explore and learn from.

And sometimes if we don’t get the lesson, the lessons just keep coming back at us. It’s taken me three years of semi-isolation that included two years of gradually increasing physical impairment to get that I needed to move into long-term care. That was a long lesson. When I got here, it took me about a day to figure out that my new friends were among the staff and they were younger people who were joyously and deeply in service and it turned my life around. So some lessons take a while but others can be pretty instantaneous. 

I think pretty much everything is a lesson. A casual encounter with someone who inspires you and motivates you to take a next step. A meaningful relationship that shows you how to be steady and compassionate and caring. A failed project is a wonderful lesson. It frees you up to open new doors and have new experiences. 

I had to get pummeled before I made the decision to make this move. But that was because I didn’t get the message sooner even as my physical condition began to change.

My previous major cross-country moves were all done quite impulsively and the decisions were made in a matter of minutes if not seconds. The need for this move across the street has been beating me on the head for over a year. 

Nothing happens without a purpose, we just have to get the message. What message has been trying to get to you?

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===CARA’S CORNER===

What Are Your Expectations For Aging?

Granted this is long-term care but in talking to the staff, they can only identify one other resident that is looking for mental stimulation. I will try to meet him. Why do we give up our minds as we age?

One of the reasons I got so isolated over a year or two was there was no one interesting to talk to. It was a senior community and I was the only person being active in worldly things. I had one good in-person friend who was the social worker but the rest of my friends were all online and we still meet regularly on Zoom. Therefore I had only one person to have an in-person informative conversation with, so I unknowingly and gradually became quite isolated.

So why are all these old people sitting around being old? What happened that they gave up their personhood in order to just be old? 

Is that an expectation we hold for ourselves? Is it our expectation we hold for others? Is the way of old people to sit around and just be old? Uninterested in much? Never learning anything new? 

Now I admit that I am behind on some technical things because I don’t have occasion to use them. And now I have this eyesight thing that makes it all a bit tricky. Do we get behind because we stop exploring or stop pushing ourselves a bit? Probably. I think aging is like any other point in our life, we have to keep pushing ourselves and stretching ourselves and exploring and trying new things. 

I’m one of five people in this whole community that will keep up their maintenance physical therapy. Five people out of 30 on this wing. I watch my suite-mate sit in her wheelchair all day and make no effort to restore her strength as she watches reruns of 50-year-old game shows and western shows. She refuses to go to physical therapy, she allows herself to be lifted in and out of bed. She’s quite a bit younger than I am. 

We have to do the work. We have to do our version of whatever it takes to keep moving, to keep our brains agile, to maintain our relevance in the world. 

I maintain my feeling of relevance by writing this newsletter. I write it because it helps me learn what I need to learn next and it opens my heart to share it with you. I don’t exactly see myself taking any more online classes because the money is no longer there but I sure will find other ways to learn.

What are your expectations for aging? Are you raising the bar high enough? 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

On Raising The Bar

I have to set my own goals. I have to raise my own bar. I am the one in charge of my destiny. 

I have to set my own goals. I have to raise my own bar. I am the one in charge of my destiny. Do I expect enough of myself? Do I continue to challenge myself? Do I continue to expect the best for myself? 

I have to set my own goals. I have to raise my own bar. I am the one in charge of my destiny. Do I expect enough of myself? Do I continue to challenge myself? Do I continue to expect the best for myself? I am the only one who can do that for me, I must do the work.

Cara Lumen, December 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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Pay Attention To The Signs

Living Our Deeper Song

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

We are guided by the universe in many different ways. Sometimes it is a circumstance. Sometimes it is an interaction with others, sometimes it is simply a deep knowing.  

We must learn to communicate with the universe, the unseen world, and we must learn to interpret the guidance we receive, even the most subtle messages.

Notice the processes you go through to make a change. The questioning, the doubt, the worry, trying different versions on for size. Each time you may use a different path of discovery to uncover the subtle messages.

Some signs are silent, like the gradual changing of the colors of fall. Some changes are rampant like thunderstorms rapidly darkening the sky and a sudden downpour filling the creeks to overflowing. Change is always present. We can use it to move forward in the direction of our choosing.

I made a list of the changes I want to make in the coming year. In my case it centers around two hip replacements and the recovered ability to walk more easily. 

But there are other areas of growth that I want to explore and expand. And I’m going to let those unfold as I live my life.

I’m in a new environment and I get to watch how I respond and what changes I am prompted to make. I must be observant and aware and make my choices conscious and forward thinking. 

And of course, there will be surprises, opportunities for new friends, new insights, new online learning adventures to expand my awareness and my potential. Can you sense and see the steady stream of offerings from the universe and consider each one of them fully? Make a choice, add it to your life and then keep looking for the changes that manifest. Pay attention to the signs the universe gives you as your path widens with opportunity.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am ready for change. I stay open to the signs and signals of the universe and I choose my path wisely. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• Listen to the signs and signals and insights that the universe gives you. Start a list of possibilities.
• Explore the potential for those possibilities and listen to your inner wisdom as you do. 
• Design a series of actions to provide you with the experience of well-being in the coming year. 

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Create A Charging Station For Yourself 

My new place of service is the remarkable and dedicated healing staff of the Evergreen Community which is now my home. I had an idea to create a charging station so that anyone who entered the room would receive the healing, balancing and supportive energy from this charging station. And they don’t even need to know it existed.  

On the dresser in my room is a Himalayan salt lamp with a wrought iron design of a forest. I decided to use the salt crystals to hold the intentions.

The Rainbow Weavers is a group of dear friends who meet monthly on Zoom and they helped me create my charging station. We took turns charging the rocks with specific intentions for every person who comes into my space.

In my case, because people come in and out all the time, we did some general space cleaning for my room, although a thorough space cleaning takes more time than we had in our Rainbow Weaver’s meeting on Zoom. It seemed important to also put positive, clearing energy on the threshold for protection and to clear the energy as people came in and out. So one of my decisions was to put a dreamcatcher on the door to my room for protection and to hold more positive energy there too.

For our meeting on Zoom, I took the salt crystals out of the lamp and we took turns entering a specific quality into one rock at a time. We choose a quality that they wanted to offer then to people who came into my room. Some of them were: inner peace, centeredness, deep understanding, clarity, confidence. You get the idea.

So now that any time someone comes into my space, they receive positive energy for their lives and for their profession.

What kind of a charging station will you make for yourself? Where will you put it? Invite a Cleaning Station into your space and notice what changes occur.

Observe And Let Go

Sometimes we have rocky days. Sometimes we worry. Sometimes we are angry. Sometimes we are scared. And sometimes we are very happy. When you have an extreme emotional response, simply observe it and let it go. Release it, particularly if it has a negative effect on you.

That’s easier said than done you say. Not if you wrap a little ceremony around it. Thank it for its input and release and send it on its way. Particularly if it is a worry or concern. Note what steps you can take to correct the worry, then release it. Then take the steps you discovered.

Dwelling on a situation or problem or concern clutters up the space you need to give it in order for it to resolve organically. And it will resolve – with or without your worry and concern. Life is in a constant pattern of change so nothing will ever stay the same.  

Observe and get the lesson. Then release it to its natural unfolding. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Give Yourself Permission

Do you need to give yourself permission? Do you need to give yourself permission to be well? Do you need to give yourself permission to be happy? Do you need to give yourself permission to be successful? 

Isn’t it interesting how we can stop ourselves from attaining a certain goal simply because we don’t believe we deserve it or believe it is possible? How much are we stopping ourselves simply by not giving ourselves permission to succeed? Look closely at what is not manifesting in your life and give yourself permission to have it. Change is really that simple. 

===OUTER  WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

CreativityAnd Imagination Are Powerful Tools- How Well Are You Using Them? 

We make stuff up. We use our imagination to create new situations, new inventions, new circumstances. We also use our imagination to create unfounded fears.  

Inventions are created by our imagination.  New possibilities are created by our imagination. And sometimes our imagination makes up things that simply are not true.

Our creativity and imagination are powerful tools for bringing things into manifestation.  We are to cultivate them and encourage them and hone them so they help us create our best lives.

We use our imagination to explore possibilities, to see how an idea fits, how it feels, and if it’s something we want to bring into our life. 

We use our creativity to figure out ways to bring elements of our imagination into being. Learn to use both your imagination and your creativity in all aspects of your life to explore, to examine, and to create. Creativity and imagination are powerful tools. Learn to use them well. And often.

The Power of Mental Stimulation 

I had more mental stimulation in my first month at Evergreen then I’ve had in the last 13 years and it has made all the difference in the world about how I feel about life. This mental simulation is coming from the staff who is deeply in service.  These are mostly people fairly early in their career path, and they are full of enthusiasm and the desire to live more deeply. And that is not the case with a majority of seniors I have lived with for 13 years. I have gradually withdrawn into my own counsel and leaned heavily on my online friends.

This dramatic change in who I have become around these younger people propelled me into a whole new level of enthusiasm and energy and participation. My sense of humor has returned. People are interested in what I’m doing and thinking. There are many warm and humorous exchanges throughout my day. some are interested in my website and some have listened to my podcasts. None of the seniors at Ridgeview had a clue what I was doing. Once again it was the younger staff who were my friends. But there were only a few of them over there.

Keep an eye out for gradual changes that sneak up on you and are destructive to your overarching expectations. I participated when I first went to independent living at Ridgeview village but then it got to the point where I had been there and done that. I am also a fan of people who are actively learning and exploring their world and my friends are all 30 years younger than I am. This new group of people I am touching base with are mostly 50-60 years younger than I am. I am interacting with and touching lives several generations ahead. That’s an interesting feeling to acknowledge your role in the future through your interaction with another person. 

I’ve had more mental stimulation in these first six weeks than I have had in the last 13 years. Keep an eye out for the subtle changes that lead to isolation and loneliness. They can sneak up on you and be quite destructive.

I’ve taken a lot of classes over the years, including recently, but this personal interaction is quite different and incredibly stimulating and rewarding. Go hang out with people who stimulate you mentally. It will make a big difference in how you experience your life. 

What Do You Want To Learn Next?

I’ve been giving some thought to what I want to learn next and I’m still at the searching stage.

I am taking my seventh Qigong class and part of my progress will come with the hip replacements when I am able to stand up better. I will have lots of physical catch-up work to do then. A lot of recovery work.

Perhaps my next step is not so much about learning as it is about doing. Putting into action all these things on which I have spent so much time and enjoyed learning.

I have to learn some new skills to compensate for the dry macular degeneration. I would really very much rather not have to do that because so much of my mental stimulation and entertainment comes from learning on my computer. I have to trust that will work out for the highest good and that there is not much for me to do right now. 

So maybe my emphasis is not so much about learning something new as about owning things I have already studied and know that I want to add to my life more deeply. 

This doesn’t mean I won’t be tempted to take another class but perhaps I will focus on deepening and applying knowledge rather than acquiring it.

So I will keep a close eye on the free summits that are on The Shift Network and other places, find a few podcasts to follow, and perhaps try my first audiobook. What do you want to learn next?

The Three Pinecones

Three small pinecones sit in a round wooden dish on my desk as my honoring of Winter Solstice, December 21st. They are the perfect size for my space and remind me of the grace, beauty and tenacity of the evergreen. I will use them as a role model for my life.

One of the staff got them because another member of the staff was aware that I needed them and my request became a line item in a meeting.  Someone knew where some pine cones from an art project were stored and brought me three.

How will you honor the Winter Solstice? What kind of small reminder can you keep around you to support you in deepening awareness of your path? 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

A Lakota Prayer

This came from Nick Polizzi
Host of Remedy: Ancient Medicine for Modern Illness
& Founder of The Sacred Science

Sometimes all that’s needed to shift our reality is a little wisdom, spoken to us with gentleness and a pure heart. I came across this powerful Lakota prayer a few days ago and wanted to share it with you. I hope it helps you on your path. I know it did for me.

Lakota Prayer

Great Mystery,
teach me how to trust
my heart,
my mind,
my intuition,
my inner knowing,
the senses of my body,
the blessings of my spirit.
Teach me to trust these things
so that I may enter my Sacred Space
and love beyond my fear,
and thus Walk in Balance
with the passing of each glorious Sun.

According to certain traditions, the Sacred Space is the space between exhalation and inhalation. To Walk in Balance is to have Heaven (spirituality) and Earth (physicality) in harmony.

At the core of this timeless wisdom is the word “trust”. When did we stop trusting ourselves? When did we start giving that trust, that power, away?

In many ways the healing path is a process of reestablishing that trust with the infinite that resides within us, just waiting to be activated.

Create Your Own Solstice Ceremony for Gratitude and Change

As with every change in season, the Winter Solstice is a time for introspection, resolution, and re-choosing in order to have new choices and make some path corrections. So whether in your hemisphere it is time for Winter Solstice or Summer Solstice, this is a good time to pause and look over where you are and rechoose where you want to go.

In your Solstice Ceremony, create some time for introspection. How are you doing? Is your life going the direction you want it to? What is standing in your way? What do you need to change? What do you need to release?

My suggestion is that you take several areas of your life that seem to be the most dominant at this moment and ask yourself these questions: How are you doing? What do you want to change? Exactly what steps do you want to take? 

How are you doing? 

Some areas of your life will immediately jump out at you as needing to be changed or modified. I have had such dramatic changes since my move that they are dramatically noticeable. What might have been on my mind six weeks ago is no longer there. So simply start where you are and look around and see what is working right now and what’s not. Go with what’s working.

What do you want to change? 

I have two areas to focus on to create change. The first one is my physical state. I am expecting a major shift when I have my first hip surgery in January followed by another one three months later. Because I have access to physical therapy here, that will make a huge difference in changing my mobility problem.  I expect that whole process to open up entire new avenues of participation for me.

The second level of change I see has to do with how I participate in the world. I’m on a roll with that one. My new focus is the kind and caring people on the staff here. Their presence and our interaction just pulled me out of a five-year period of isolation. And that is going to make a huge difference. How I see it unfolding has definitely begun.

The third opportunity is my eyesight and I just have to trust and know that I can handle this change but I’m not looking forward to it. I’m not sure exactly how I will handle it. My participation online is hugely important to me so I will keep working very hard to find ways to keep doing that.

When you identify an area for change, get creative about how to fix it. And with your belief that you can fix it, start there. Identify a noticeable place to begin, a place in which you could begin to create change that will affect the whole. It helps if that change is really noticeable right away. 

I think my plan is loosely to identify what needs changing, to clear out what is not working and then go exploring.

Sometimes things start to clear out the minute you start changing directions. As I began to get physical help, my options changed. I have physical help to do physical things that upgrade the standard of living and that releases me from the challenge of trying to do it myself. They are offering nursing skills and physical therapy that I did not have access to before. Getting outside help is one way to help yourself make change.  

I have so much work to do around my changing eyes. I have to work on my internal fear level. I have to look at my options to replace how I do my work. I have to work on both my fear level and my hope level. Some changes are easier to do than others. But change is ever-present. We have to learn to embrace  and work with it. 

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Deepen A Connection

Who would you like to get to know? How will you go about doing that? 

As we fly through our busy lives, it’s a good idea to take time to notice who is around you and choose someone to get to know better, especially with people you know have similar interests. Perhaps deepen your acquaintance by asking them how they are expressing themselves around your shared interest. 

Take a conversation deeper by sharing your concerns and feelings or by asking their opinion on how they might solve a problem you have, or their opinions on a topic. Deepening an acquaintance is as simple as taking time to ask a question or two that broadens your understanding of each other and enables you to get to know each other on a deeper level. Who do you get to know better today?

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Expanding Awareness

How to DeepenYour Cosmic Consciousness

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===CARA’S CORNER===

The Power of Downsizing

I learned such a huge lesson about possessions when I had to downsize so dramatically in order to move to Evergreen. I really had to get down to two core areas that are important to me – my spiritual practice and my writing and connection with the world through the computer.

This was interesting because I had to give away some major crystals. I had to give away most of my drums and other musical instruments that I had gathered to be part of my spiritual practice. I did that by gradually gathering around me the crystals I wanted to keep closest and would fit into the space that I would have. And when it was full, I had to stop. And the rest Ilet go. 

What are you hanging onto that is crowding you? Apparently, my son-in-law is holding onto all sorts of things from his parents. When you add all the crystals I gave to my daughter, their house is even fuller. I suggested what I had just learned – the idea of choosing what you really want now and let the rest go. What can you clean out today? What are you ready to release to make room for something new?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

On Making Room

I let go. I let go of things I love in order to make room to move forward with a lighter load.

I let go. I let go of things I love in order to make room to move forward with a lighter load. I thank them, bless them and release them.

I let go. I let go of things I love in order to make room to move forward with a lighter load. I thank them, bless them and release them.

My space now holds only what supports me in moving forward. 

– Cara Lumen. December 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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I’m beginning to think about the year ahead. What do I want to learn next? 

There are some physical things I want to accomplish. I will have both hips replaced and that will certainly affect my mobility which I then need to cultivate and improve upon. I am now on restorative physical therapy and get to ride a recumbent bike three times a week and do some stretching exercises at a counter. I love it and it is making many encouraging differences. What circumstance is improving for you that will open new doorways of opportunity?

I have to get creative about working around the dry macular degeneration which is affecting my eyes. That means cultivating the use of more podcasts as a major learning tool for one. What doorway seems to be closing for you that you have to seek out new avenues of opportunity to explore?

What new in-service goals are you setting for yourself? I have this entire population of very kind supportive staff that I wish to support in return. The form that will take seems to be unfolding over time. My sense is that it will be in one-on-one interactions. Even as I write that I know it is so much more than that. I am already setting a new tone, a new expectation for myself. My role is unfolding and making itself known.

What do I want to learn? I want to keep practicing Qigong. As my body improves, I want to establish that as a thoughtfully done daily practice standing up the way it should be done. The hip surgery will make that possible. 

I’m not sure what my spiritual goals are yet but I want to both expand and deepen them. I have choosen to leave the door to the hall open during the day and there is a lot of traffic going in and out between vitamins and temperature and other things so I’m still working on how I am to be in service. I’m really working out learning everyone’s name and have certainly established some friendships already. I have not met any other residents except my suite mate. 

It’s not like it was when I was alone in my own living room. But I do get to sit by a big window and observe the seasons and the movement of the morning sun. That’s a good place to begin one’s spiritual practice each day.

What changes will you make in your spiritual life? You might consider a new form of meditation or ceremony or move your spiritual practice to a different time of the day. Perhaps you experiment for a month to see what resonates. 

Spend some time looking closely for what needs have emerged and how you can creatively meet them. Explore and experiment and make some creative plans to meet your needs in the coming year.  

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am willing and ready to make the changes that will deepen my daily life experience.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• Identify the areas of your life that need improvement.
• Look at the areas of your life that are working and see what elements make them successful. 
• Look for any new needs. Examine what you are doing now, explore different ways to explore new avenues and create a new plan for the coming year. 

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

What Is Missing From Your Life?

Ask yourself, “What is missing from my life and what step will I take to correct that.”

Now that I have spent nearly six weeks here in long-term care I can look more closely at the rhythm of my life and identify what is missing, what I want to add, and how I will do that.

One thing I have learned is that I had grown more and more isolated before I moved and having this much daily interaction with really kind people is making a huge difference in my emotional well-being. Notice how your life changes when you redirect your attention. 

I already have plans for after my hip replacements to walk in the garden here and sit out in the gazebo in the sunshine. I also know that the staff is going to be a source of personal growth and mental stimulation for me. It will not come from other residents. That helps me plan and focus my attention and my activities. 

I love to learn and I’m going to explore more podcasts as one of my resources. And I have yet to try audiobooks.

What new venues will you explore in order to expand your life experience? Do you need to join a group that shares your interests? Are there some causes that you care about? Do you need a friend who shares your interests? Are there classes that you want to take, a new activity to undertake? It’s good to always keep learning. At least I find that to be so.

Notice how you spend your time and be more selective. For instance, I was watching way too many television reruns and playing way too much Spider Solitaire. With this new environment and these new friends, I have stopped that and there’s a very large space left to rethink how I want to experience those hours, not simply make them pass by. So far it’s taken the form of a gradual increase in my writing. 

Rethink your choices, go exploring, and expand your experiences. Life will be more fun that way. 

Celebrate Your Uniqueness

There is only one you and that’s a good thing. One you to be in the world, only one you to be a friend to your friends, and only one you to do the work you do. There are certain things only you can do so do them with love and pleasure and skill. Celebrate your uniqueness every moment of your life. Be the best “you” you can be. It will make the world a better place.  

How will you be a better you today? 

How Do You View Change?

I’ve been in my new home in long-term care for six weeks and I realized that the experience of change stems directly from how you view the opportunities that open up because of that change. 

For instance, there are a whole lot of physical things I no longer have to be concerned about. I am well fed. I am well cared for. I am well nursed. My laundry is done and my vitamins are brought to me. And I have nursing available 24/7.  I have new opportunities and access to things like physical therapy that I did not have before. I have a whole lot of new friends among the staff, for that is the group that I identify with. They are the movers and shakers here and I am still a mover and shaker.  

If you focus in the wrong direction, you can make yourself pretty miserable. Instead of the smallness of my space I focus on the feeling of being tucked in. I sit in the morning sun by my nearly floor-to-ceiling windows to watch the birds at the feeder start their day. And I am safe. 

I really do celebrate this return to socialization with people who are interesting to know. I was spending huge amounts of time alone at Ridgeview and relied only on my wonderful friends online who are all in the vicinity of age 60 and are actively pursuing the next unfolding phase of their lives. I had very few in-person interactions. Now I have daily interactions with caring people and that has lifted my spirits tremendously.

When you find yourself in a new situation, don’t mourn what you left, celebrate what you are in the process of discovering. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Degrees of Discomfort

The nursing aides will give me a Tylenol when I ask but they always ask what degree of pain it is. I’ve been having some discomfort after I do the recumbent bike. So I have created a new level of so-called pain. A whimpering one. A cranky one. And a whiny one. Got to find your chuckles where you will. 

What Is Missing From Your Life and What Steps Will You Take To Correct That?

Several times a year it is really important to pause to see what is missing from your life and what steps you are willing to take to correct that. Maybe one big correction is staring you in the face or maybe you see a series of more subtle changes that need to be made. It’s a good idea to contemplate what changes you want to make and create plans around how to do that.

The hip replacements are going to change things for me for the better so that is a major focus for my year. This new environment has offered me a new service project and I have to figure out other ways to enrich my time. Each one of those is a really big project and the physical change will show me the most apparent steps to take. 

My new place of service has been identified and has a lot of unfolding to do. 

I don’t know where my love of learning will take me. I will just let that one unfold. I don’t have money for online classes anymore but there are many free ways to learn online. 

Leave room for the unexpected and be willing to go exploring.  What is missing from your life and what steps will you take to create that? 

Take Time For Self-Healing and Regeneration

Everything we are experiencing outside of ourselves is a reflection of our inner state. How are you doing? How is your life unfolding? You are the one who gets to make the changes. You are the one who will cause the shift. As within, so without. Do the work.

We are like a tree. We are in one place, this planet, with everything we need. 

Trees can’t receive help from outside sources for healing since they stand in one place. So they have everything within they need to heal while they are standing. A plant can grow a stem longer reaching for the sun or send its roots deeper into the earth. All kinds of inner movements are done to survive and thrive. We have all we need within us. We just have to do the work. 

As this world goes through such traumatic changes this will be a good time to spend some time in solitude and go within for answers. We need silence and inner work to do this. It is time to go within to repair and replace and strengthen on all levels.

What steps will you take to renew yourself? On the physical plane, the emotional plane, the mental plane and the spiritual plane? Or is it an interesting eclectic mix?

Work with the powerful vibration of colors and see where it leads you. Imagining feeling the space around you changing slowly and see how it affects your inner experience.

How will you set about meeting your current needs? 

Do the inner work, keep it simple it and pay attention to the guidance you are given both within and without.

===OUTER WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

How We Interpret Things

We make decisions in many moments in our lives based or how we interpret what has shown up. We may interpret based on a mood we are in. We may interpret from partial information. We may interpret from incorrect information. We may interpret from our feelings and needs in that particular moment. And all of those places and interpretations will change from day to day and even from moment to moment. So when you make a decision also look at where you’re coming from in order to make that decision. What beliefs? What information? What limitations and who is involved in the project itself? And be aware of those as influencing factors in your choice. Your mood will change, your circumstances will change, the opportunities to be flexible will change as you make decisions and move through your life. Be aware of the basis for the interpretations you make and adjust accordingly. 

In Pursuit of Peace

“Power is influence over external events.

Peace is influence over internal events.”

–James Clear

Cultivating inner peace is one of the most important and impactful things we can learn to do. We do it through introspection and we do it through listening to the multitude of messages from the universe. You attain peace by cultivating an awareness of the impact of your choices and the results that you are having and adjust accordingly. From that inner perspective comes great power over the external aspects of your life.

Actively cultivate inner peace through your meditation and spiritual practice. Live your life with an ever-deepening awareness of your inner resources. 

The View From The Other Person’s Side

Why is the other person responding the way she/he is? What is going on with their lives and their beliefs that creates that particular response? This is a particularly helpful awareness when someone is doing something that is totally opposite from what you choose to do. It doesn’t mean that you have to agree with them but if you can extend your awareness and even your empathy to the person with whom you are in conflict, it helps you understand them from a different viewpoint. Take time to understand where the other person is coming from and begin to build your relationship from there.

Keep Doing The Work

Use it or lose it, particularly as you get older and a little less agile. This no-doing on any plane sneaks up on you. 

There is so much encouragement and so much help in this long-term care facility and I have to be certain to do the work.

No one is going to do the work except you. No one is going to challenge you but yourself. No one is going to create the change accept you. 

Yes, there is lots of help here. All I have to do is follow their advice. That’s my role. That’s my responsibility. Do the work.

I had given up while living alone in my apartment. If it was hard, I stopped doing it. My life really changed as my walking capacity diminished. I couldn’t take out my trash. I couldn’t walk to do my laundry and I did not like walking the halls for exercise because it hurt my body and was not particularly fun to do. I had no encouragement or support. I was on my own to provide my motivation and I was not doing a very good job of it.

So what changed? I got access to help. I now have a restorative physical therapy person who comes to get me three times a week. I have access to a recumbent bike that I love to use as well as loving the results I am getting. And I have encouragement.

If you are stuck in a downward spiral, whether it’s physical or emotional, get some support to move through that and change directions so that you are motivated to help yourself again. It can be professional help, it can be help from a friend, it can be a change to a whole new venue. Perhaps you can be the friend offering encouragement and support to another. 

Here’s another thing I noticed. The more help I got in my independent living apartment, the less I began to do for myself. And that may be the trap that we all need to look out for. It became easier and easier to leave things for my homemaker to do.  And I kept doing less and less.  

My spirits have lifted by being around these incredibly loving and supportive people who encourage me at every turn and help me with the things that are no longer possible for me to do. 

So what is the difference here? I had help in my apartment and I did less.  I have a lot more help here and I’m doing more and want to keep doing more. What shifted within to make me want to do the work to get myself back on track?

I think the answer is hope. The recumbent bike helped me turn the corner. I love doing it, I can do it and it’s making a tangible difference. The prospect of the hip replacements opens up a whole new world of possibilities for change for me – and hope.  So is part of this shift about hope? The whole idea that I may be able to walk in the garden again is a very stimulating prospect and goal. We can plant things in a garden here but my goal is to simply walk in it.

I have gone from subconsciously giving up, to actively pursuing change with great positive expectations. In one sense I had given up because I didn’t know how to create the change for myself. I needed the insights and encouragement and skill that I have found here.

My hopes were raised with access to physical therapy and they have skyrocketed with a prospect of hip replacement.

What kind of spiral are you in regarding the circumstance in which you find yourself? Look for answers and find the ones that simulate and motivate you into action. And do that. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

How Well Does Your Spiritual Practice Nurture You?

Is your spiritual practice designed in the best possible way to deeply nurture you in body, mind and spirit? Perhaps you would like to rearrange some of the elements you have placed in your spiritual practice and add new ones.

Your spiritual practice is meant to nurture you in all aspects of your life. It should be a source of serenity and comfort, a source of well-being and ever-expanding spiritual awareness. 

Our spiritual practice should nurture our body.  Physical practices like Qigong and Yoga have a spiritual base as they nurture and strengthen your body temple, but all exercise when done mindfully is spiritual.

A balanced spiritual practice both strengthens and calms your mind so that you move through your life with clarity of purpose and awareness of the nudges and insights the universe is constantly offering you.

And of course, a spiritual practice is designed to deepen your awareness of your oneness with all – your far-reaching interconnectedness in the Web of Life. It teaches you to listen to the voice within. It teaches you to become aware of the support and insights the universe constantly provides. It feeds your soul so that all you can be always comes from that place of oneness. 

Perhaps take time to examine the gifts your spiritual practice gives and see how you would like to alter it. Perhaps strengthen the physical element you pursue in order to quiet your mind and body to prepare to move into the deeper levels. Perhaps add drumming or singing to honor nature, the directions and the unfolding day. There might be some words of wisdom that you choose to contemplate. I have a box full of quotes that I like and I can pull one out each day to contemplate. Of course there is meditation. There are rattles. There are bells. There are crystals. How are you expanding and deepening your spiritual practice to nurture yourself on all levels – body, mind, and spirit? Do that. 

On Being Different

Although I am the only vegetarian resident here in Evergreen Long Term Care, I have met at least one vegetarian on staff.  My suite mate has crosses hanging all over her walls and her daughter brought her a small Christmas tree. I celebrate Winter Solstice and am trying to figure out where to get a pine cone for decoration. I’m the only resident who has dream catchers and sun catchers in the window. But then I have been joyfully a tad different all my life.  

When you find yourself in a situation in which you find you are quite different, what do you do?

I just do my own thing in my own space. I already know my friends are all going to be staff members. Follow your own path and encourage others to follow theirs.

We can learn from different cultural traditions. I remember a Jewish friend of mine in New York City who prepared a Passover supper for a few of her non-Jewish friends and explained its meaning and symbolism. 

Celebrating Winter Solstice is perhaps a time to strengthen some facets of your spiritual practice. 

Perhaps add a few simple elements that you use to celebrate. I have added paper that is dissolvable in water to help me release things. Experiment and thoughtfully add a few elements to your ceremony and find new ways to celebrate your own spiritual version of Winter Solstice. 

===GUIDANCE FROM OUR COSMIC COUNSELORS ===

Listen Beyond the Voice Within 

Releasing

Speak to me of releasing.

I go to my Secret Garden and am invited to cross the reflecting pond to join the three Cosmic Counselors in a circle. In the center of our circle is a fire. “Speak to me of releasing,” I say.

The first Cosmic Counselor says, “Releasing is about letting go and you can do that in many ways.” The fire in the center of our circle flares up and smoke rises to the sky. The smoke escapes and disappears in the darkness. The second Cosmic Counselor drops a piece of dissolvable paper with writing on it into water of the reflecting pool. She watches her words dissolve and disappear. The third Cosmic Counselor joins her at the reflecting pool and thoughtfully tosses a small pebble into the pond and watches the ripples disappear against the opposite shore.

“Find a form that seems to resonate with your feelings about releasing and create your own ceremonial words and manner of releasing.” 

Maybe you find a different form for what needs to be released. When you prepare to let something go, pay attention to the images that you release and the feelings they evoke and any messages that come in. It can be a simple ceremony or a complex one. Set an intention to release whatever you want to release and set about doing just that. Look to be sure you release it all.  Experiment with another form for the ceremony or repeat the one you did. 

Create your own ceremony for different purposes. Clear yourself with a Releasing Ceremony. Bless your day. Offer gratitude in general or for something specific. Create a ceremony of Blessing.  

Be conscious of what needs to be released. See if you can find a core belief that is stuck. Or an underlying fear that is holding you back. You may want to experiment in order to create the most effective releasing ceremony for you.

Once you feel you have released whatever you have chosen, notice how you feel. Is it lighter? Is it clear of pain? You might be tired from finally letting it go. And all of those responses might change with each releasing ceremony. It depends on you. And how often you do a releasing ceremony depends on you and what you have allowed to build up and how completely released you feel around whatever it is you have chosen to release. You might use a cycle of the moon as a time to have a releasing ceremony or the ending of a month. You decide when to create a releasing ceremony. If you choose to do one on a regular basis, that allows you to look over your life to see what needs to be released and create a ceremony that allows you to do so.”

I find myself across the reflecting pond sitting on the bench into my Secret Garden. Ancestor rabbit is there holding a bottle of soap bubbles and I sit in the shade of my worries and blow them away.

End of journey.

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

What Is A Light Bearer?

What is a Light Bearer and what do we do? I believe we are a group of humans with Guides from the Unseen World who are here to not only hold High Watch for the planet but to be its protectors. That means we are to live our best lives in service to the highest good for all. We do that with our focused energy and our mindful actions. It will take new forms but being a Light Bearer means that our heart is focused on the well-being of the whole earth and all that it encompasses.

As Individual Harps we must play our sweetest song and at the same time stay in harmony with this grand diverse orchestra of Light Bearers. Stay aware in your own heart that you are being called and continue to elevate your role and perform with your participation.  As Light Bearers we play a higher role in the evolution and well-being of our planet. You will be led to the work you are to further, the work you are to lead. That work is evolving as is your role. As an individual light bearer, make sure your daily light falls softly on the world around you and is uplifted and nurturing to whomever see it. Because a Light Bearer is an adventurer, it is our obligation to continue to expand our knowledge and our beliefs and our role and bring that awareness into our daily life expression. Have an open heart and focus on the highest good for all. That is the role of a Light Bearer. 

We are each individual harps in this Orchestra of Light Bearers. We must play our individual instruments well. And at the same time, we must keep our individual harp in harmony with the whole. We can do that. Raise your light and see where and how you are to expand your role in the world. 

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

The People You Are Around

I am finding very interesting, intelligent people to talk to among the staff. I talked to the head of maintenance about the 3-D printing of homes, recharging solar cars and artificial intelligence. Can you see why I love the mental stimulation here?

I have met a fellow writer and a fellow metaphysician and fellow vegetarian and the only other Cara I have met to date. This is the most in-person mental simulation I’ve had in the 13 years I’ve been in Kansas. I’m loving it. 

People are good at their jobs.  They like their work, and they like helping people and it shows.

Does your joy and appreciation for life show in how you express yourself?  I bet it does. 

=== OLD WOMAN HUMOR ===

I was getting ready for my shower.  We are wheeled down in a wheelchair to the shower room, helped to undress, hang on to grab bar and are positioned in a shower stool with a back and are given a shower by a Med Aide. I mentioned to my 82-year-old wheelchair-bound suite-mate that I had only been given showers by men so far and she said, “Aren’t you lucky!”

Who says we’re too old.

=== DEEPER SONG PHILOSOPHIES ===

Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,
where something might be planted,
a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.

-Rumi 

Imagine you are an open field. You can plant whatever crop you choose in this field. It is as a spot of ground from the Absolute. What do you plant? What do you grow? What do you harvest? Keep cultivating the space where you are planted and make sure you are living your best life and are offering your best gifts to the world. Plant your field of life carefully and harvest it with love. 

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

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===CARA’S CORNER===

An Unexpected Kindness

I received an unexpected gift. Unexpected Blooms is a company that takes flowers from weddings and other occasions and recycles them into lovely bouquets to give away. Mine is a lovely arrangement of mauve roses and white snapdragons among other beautiful flowers. It was totally unexpected.  I wrote a thank-you note on my computer to be sent to them. Not only because I was happy and surprised to receive it but I want to encourage them to keep doing this really thoughtful act of kindness. What perfectly good something can you re-purpose to give to those who have less than you do? We have a place called Savers that is a thrift store that supports the Boys and Girls Club. I used to like to shop there a lot too but my kids gave away a whole lot of my stuff when I moved to the smaller place. 

Look around and notice how much you have that you really don’t need to see how you can pass it forward and put it in a box and give some of it away. Maybe in the summertime pass along a few extra vegetables or flowers from your garden. But most of all look at the possessions that you have that you don’t need anymore and don’t care about anymore and see what you can pass forward to grace someone else’s home. Share the wealth.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Letting Go

I let go of things. I let go of worries. I let go of what is not working. I clear my space and I make room for new insights and understanding.

I let go of things .I let go of worries. I let go of what is not working. I clear my space and I make room for new insights and understanding. What do I want to invite in? What do I want to learn? What experiences do I want to have? What deepening understanding? 

I let go of things. I let go of worries. I let go of what is not working. I clear my space and I make room for new insights and understanding. What do I want to invite in? What do I want to learn? What experiences do I want to have? What deepening understanding? I clear my space. I declutter my life and throw open the doors to new adventures. 

-Cara Lumen, December 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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The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

I watched the spaceship launch and begin its journey towards the space station. The rocket boosters separated and landed perfectly on a barge in the ocean to be reused in a subsequent flight. The caption was an American Indian woman who brought with her a dreamcatcher given to her by her mother. The other woman on board was a Russian cosmonaut, the sign of cooperation in the scientific community. One of the experiments is to test a 3-D printer. That’s a lot of progress.

I do not understand the principles behind a 3-D printer that can make houses. I cannot fathom living six months on a space station. The world is changing very rapidly.

My grandfather drove a model T Ford, one of the first cars and I rode in it as a young girl. A lot can happen in a lifetime.

We must be prepared to change. We must be willing to experiment. We must be prepared to put aside the old ways of doing things.

Our future is here. It is in the choices we make and beliefs we hold. It is very important to let go of many of the beliefs we’ve held most of our lives and explore the new possibilities and options that continue to unfold each and every day. There are things that are possible today that we never even imagined a few years ago.

That means letting go. It means questioning every belief to see if some new evidence or some new inventions ask you to change your beliefs and move in a new direction.

This is a fluid tine. It is not time to hold onto the past.

That means we’re going to spend a lot of time at the very edge of our comfort zone if not just plain outside of it. We must stay fluid and flexible and open to change. We have to question our habits and our traditions and our favorite beliefs to see what has changed within us and in the world around us and how we need to change with it.

Our future is evolving and unfolding and we must be curious and open to the myriad of new possibilities as we make our choices and move forward. Question everything. Keep learning about the new changes and opportunities that continue to unfold. Go exploring to see what new options are available to you. Make thoughtful choices. The world is changing and your new future is rapidly unfolding.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am open to change. I stay flexible and fluid in my exploration and my choices. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• Continue to question the premises that you built your life upon to see what beliefs and expectations of what is possible need to change.
• Explore the myriad of evolving options that are provided to you each day.
• Choose one and do the work.

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Make Room For Change

As I set about to explore this new path I am to explore intuitively, I have to make room for change – changes in my beliefs, changes in my expectations, but most of all, changes in what I believe is possible. This world is kind of a mess on so many levels. There is a new path opening up for me. I know this change is coming but I have no details yet. So I stay open. I listen and watch for the subtle nudges of insight that I am given to consider and explore. I will know the right path for this moment in time.

This new path is going to address and explore how we as light workers can impact the planet to help it heal itself and its inhabitants. That’s really ambitious for all of us. But it can be done. It will be done.

What do you do to make space for something new to come in? And how often do you do it? Let’s go exploring and see what shows up.

Be Conscious of Your Own Giftedness

Very often we take our own giftedness for granted. We are used to it, it seems easy for us to do certain things and we don’t even think of it as special. What gifts are you expressing in your life and how are you sharing them?

I wrote for my high school newspaper and that gift has followed me and been expressed throughout my life. I was also Managing Editor my senior year which speaks to the early recognition of my organizational abilities. I was in my teens when those gifts were not only identified but recognized and put to work. What gifts have you been expressing throughout your life? Some of them may be so easy for you to do that you don’t even see them as special gifts.

It is so easy for me to organize that it took a while for me to see it as a gift. That organizational ability applies to my writing, my learning techniques, and my way of being. It’s a core, active gift I express in many forms. Oftentimes we don’t recognize the gifts that we are expressing because they are so innate and natural for us.

What if you paused and looked more closely at how you interact with the world and identify the gifts you give by your very presence? Perhaps ask a few close friends what they see as your gifts and prepare to be surprised.

Sometimes you see your gifts expressed in your children and grandchildren and have a more aware appreciation of them. My father was a civil engineer and I think it is from him that I got my gift of seeing the overview. But I also know that all of my children are really, really good organizers. It’s a gift that is moving through the generations. My mother’s sisters all wrote and one of them had her own radio show and was also a news reporter. So writing is a gene I come by honestly.

Notice how gifts that are similar to yours are expressed by others. See how you might expand how you share your own unique version of that gift.

Sometimes a gift that is the most impactful is one we barely notice. I have a neighbor who is incredibly kind and very willing to help anyone and everyone. It’s who she is. That quality of willing helpfulness is a powerful gift she offers others. And to her it’s simply the way she is.

Kindness is often overlooked as a special gift. My daughter Cathy is incredibly kind. Her husband, Ron, is also very kind. I’m more of a take-care-of-myself person then take-care-of-others so it’s probably not my gene that Cathy is expressing.

My children are all super smart and that comes down though the genes from both my parents.

Look back over your life. What do you love to do? That is you expressing one of your gifts. Perhaps you can do more of that in different forms.

Take a look at how you’re expressing your life and become more aware of your own gifts. Use them more frequently and in more unique ways.

Metaphysician Defined

On the forms to fill out to move to Evergreen assisted living, they asked for my religion. And I put metaphysician. I’ve been saying that for 50 years and I took time to look it up: “’Meta-‘ means beyond or transcending; so meta-physical means that which lies beyond, underlies or transcends the physical realm/world/reality. In academic circles, a metaphysician is a philosopher whose area of study or expertise is metaphysics: the study of the fundamental nature of reality and existence itself.”

I’m the only vegetarian over there and I’m sure I’m going to be the only metaphysician.

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Let Go

We can’t change the past. We can’t correct what we see as mistakes we made along the line. We have to let go and look upon them as lessons or experiments that deepened our awareness and expanded our potential. But do not dwell on them. You cannot go back and change the past. You can only build on what you learned and the choices and opportunities that you have in front of you. Keep the lessons in mind that those mistakes brought you and walk mindfully along the path that has opened before you.

A Small Thing

It’s a small thing but it’s going to make a big difference as I continue to prepare to move. The universe continues to provide me with realizations that help me move forward. I will have two windows together just like I have here and I will rearrange one window with sun catchers and dream catchers. I cannot put dream catchers in my current windows because they have feathers and I have a cat – but he is going to go live with my daughter. I also have three kinds of wind chimes hanging on the curtain rod above the two windows even though there’s no wind to make them sing, only me. I just realized they get to come and that makes me happy.

Isn’t it interesting how something so simple can make a new home feel more welcoming? What makes you happy in your environment?

===OUTER WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

What Is Your Place 0f Service?

We are in service in many roles during our lifetime. Sometimes as friend, sometimes as partner, sometimes as parent, sometimes as coworker, often as a teacher and guide. But there is always an overarching, larger role that you are playing and have played most of your life. Mine is that of explorer and sharer of what I find.

That role has recently been redirected a bit.  I am finding and listening to people who are searching for how we are to elevate our role as light workers in this world today. I listen, I consider, I absorb, I figure out how to apply what comes to me and I turn and share when I discover with you.

It is time to shift our gaze. It is time to consider the over-arching flow of our planet. The signs are there: the faltering environment, the wars, the anger. Those of us who can must continue our search for our higher place of service that is focused on the over-arching good.

What I’m looking for is our role as light workers in saving the planet – and its inhabitants. We will individually express different versions of this role but our objective will be the overall good (and perhaps survival) for each of us. Let’s go exploring together. I wonder what we will discover.

Release the Plan and Trust

It is time for me to release the planning I’ve made for the impending move into assisted living and trust the unfolding. I have a plan. It will work. And it may not be the plan I am called upon to use because the time is not here yet. When we over-plan we are trying to control. What we really want to learn to do is to trust the unfolding.

For me, it has been important to have a plan because the space is small and I have to thoughtfully choose what I can bring and find ways to have many things serve multiple purposes. This is a period of releasing and giving away and letting go and substituting. I have a plan, but it may not be the plan I end up using. And I have to make it OK with me.

Once you figure out one way to do something that makes you feel comfortable with the process, let go and trust. Let it unfold. And be flexible. Let it be different from what you expected.

There are some free spirits that can just go with the flow all the time. But I need to know there’s at least one way to get it done. I also need to go through the process of letting go of a lot of possessions and for me that takes a little time. I have and continue to let go and trust in the unfolding. I can do that.

Understand the Core Foundation of The Opposing Viewpoint

My dear friend Connie stopped by this week. She used to be Social Services Director here but she’s come back to take her original job as Office Manager three days a week. We love each other. And for the first time, knowing that we were on absolute opposite spectrums on all of our political opinions, she was willing to share with me what her concerns and beliefs were.

What I realized was that our beliefs come from our own life views, our personal experiences, how we see ourselves, and our needs tempered by the overarching principles we hold at our core.

For instance, her concern about how we use our material resources – mine is heavily based on the global state of the planet. Her concern was not. We were not looking at the situation from anywhere close to the same perspective.

I feel welcoming towards immigrants and am empathetic toward their need to escape political discourse, but she focuses on them as bringing in the cartel and people who are destructive to border lands they cross.

It was fascinating to see how truly far apart the basis and the focus of our global concerns were. I thanked her several times for the conversation. She had not been willing to have that conversation when she worked here before. I was really grateful for the opportunity to see that opposing beliefs are based on how you view your own situation, what you see as the problem and what that makes you focus on.

We were coming at the problem from opposite ends of the spectrum. For instant, I thought it was great that people got rid of student loans and she thought about all the trade school students who were still paying off debt.

Who we see as the one in need determines how we see our own situation and priorities. That was an important insight for me.

She is the first and only person that I’ve been able to have this kind of conversation with and it was really more about me listening. I did not share my views. I just listened to understand where hers are coming from. We weren’t trying to talk each other into aligning with our own viewpoint. But what I saw and learned is that our priorities literally come from our view of the world, from our life experience, how it seems to impact our life and what we feel is important in our life. And that’s going to vary from person to person.

Where do your beliefs come from? What are they based on? What foundational beliefs have come into play? Are they still true for you?

For me, helping the struggling planet is what my choices should be based on. That was not her primary concern nor was it what she based her responses on.

And of course, we get our news from entirely different sources.

Look for the core beliefs a person is expressing. Look for the particular facets they choose to emphasize as their concerns. Understand what your current beliefs are based on. Then make room to learn from each other.

I am very grateful for my friend for being willing to express her views. It helped me understand the world better.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

Create Your Own Nudges

I love quotes. And I have a fairly good-sized collection of them. One of the ways I use them is to have them printed out, cut into individual quotes and placed in a box from which I draw one each day. But I want to try a new version.

I’m going to create an Insight Calendar on my computer so I can make really big print for my eyesight. And I’m going to set up my collection of quotes as a daily calendar. Each day I have a new insight to consider and if I choose, I have a place to record how that insight manifested throughout my day. It won’t be complicated. It will just be to read a quote that I already like each day and see how I can put it into action.

What kind of nudges will you create for yourself today and in what form? Do that.

Strengthen Your Spiritual Path

How do you strengthen and deepen your spiritual path? I think it’s time for me to re-read a few of my more meaningful books. It may be time for me to reread from Steven Mitchell’s translation of the Tao De Ching. I now know Deng Ming-Tao in person and I really like his Everyday Tao and 365 Tao. I’ve already read Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet four times. But I could re-read The Essential Rumi again with the Coleman Barks translation. And I have begun to find a few podcasts that are offering me insights to consider like Michael Meade’s Living Myth Podcast. How do you strengthen and deepen your spiritual awareness? Get creative and get busy.

===GUIDANCE FROM OUR COSMIC COUNSELORS ===

Listen Beyond the Voice Within 

Change

I journey: Talk to me about change. 

I am in the Misty Circle in the forest of redwoods and light is coming through the giant trees. I hear a humming and into the circle Light Bearers come. They hold their torches in front of them with their hearts open to the light. In the center the planet circles. I experience myself as being in this circle of light bearers. My torch is in front of my heart. We face the center where the planet is revolving and in unison we raise our lights. As we stand there with our hearts open and our lights shining, the planet feels our energy and moves into a frolicking, joyful dance. What we have done is to open our hearts and raise our lights. We can do that, can’t we?

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Do Everything Fully

Whatever you choose to do, do it fully with commitment and enthusiasm. Stay in the moment and participate fully. Be present. Be observant. Notice how you feel. Notice what changes. And then simply be with the energy and insights that unfold.

Give yourself over to the moment. The experience. The outcome. Immerse yourself in the amazing experience of the universe doing the work. Let go and trust. Be present. Be observant. And allow it to unfold. Let the universe be your guide.

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

What Do You Want to Learn Next? 

We are guided to our new path in many ways and one of them is by our curiosity. It leads us to what we need and want to learn next. I am currently looking for philosophies that help me figure out how I am to help this planet in chaos and how I might define my role and do it.

I am patient with this unfolding I look for in response to this set of nudges I am given. Then I give it all time to evolve.

This may be a slight bend in my current path or it could be a whole new path that I am to explore. When it is time, you will be shown what you are to do and how you might choose to express it in the world. Keep looking and listening. Your next path is calling you.

=== DEEPER SONG PHILOSOPHIES ===

Flow Like Water

The concept, metaphor, or principle at the center of your life is: Water. When I begin to live like water, I will adapt while moving forward, pause where it is needed, be in the moment, stay true to myself, be creative and present.

How do you express the element of water in your daily life?

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Wander beyond all paths. Receive what you have been given and know that it is always enough. 

– Stephen Mitchell 2nd Book of Tao

We are continually evolving. Now is this time for us to keep exploring, to turn down different paths to see where they lead and what they might offer. Then we can make a choice to continue or return and to try a different path.

Life is about experimenting and choosing. Perhaps the major step we are to make at this point in the evolution and change on our planet is to explore new paths. To leave behind our old beliefs and our old way of doing and go adventuring. Perhaps that’s the key – to leave behind and to release what no longer serves us so we can move more confidently in a new direction. What do you need to release? What do you want to explore?

===CARA’S CORNER===

Everything Unfolds In The Perfect Time

There is an opening at Evergreen, the assisted living place that I have applied to. It happened sooner than I thought.  But I have been planning and adapting and giving things away and I am ready, physically, mentally, and even emotionally.

I had an interview with staff on Zoom for them to meet me and to find out what my needs are. I met with the nurse and Social Services Director and the person in charge of filling open spaces. They are very kind people whose whole focus is to make the aging process a positive experience. There will be all sorts of help for me there. It is assisted living after all.

I was given a map of the floor plan and I have used the tables features on my computer to make a floor plan and have measured everything I plan to take to be certain it fits. And I fit. This facility has many other sized spaces in different price ranges. My space is being financed by Medicare.

I will have access to a resident doctor. I will be served my meals, provided with vitamins, housekeeping care and even take a shower if I need it. And I can even get a haircut.

There are many open social areas for activities for the residents. I’m pretty happy being on my computer a lot but it’s good to know that they are out there. I am the only vegetarian there but they said they had some vegetarians on staff so I hope the meal planner talks to them. I may take a few of my favorite recipes to share.

This week I will go through and decide what actually goes on the few shelves I am taking because a lot more has to be let go. What I will do is choose the things that are important to me right now in my life and trust.

As a person with several hundred crystals, I’m really glad my daughter likes crystal a lot too because she is quadrupling her supply. I am grateful they are going to her because she has a great deal to give.

So I move forward with as much serenity as I can muster and trust in the unfolding. I will be given the perfect space, at the perfect time, and the move will be easy.

One of the questions I could not answer was whether I wanted to leave my door open. It’s an interesting idea. To stay connected with the world passing by outside your door. I might make a few friends that way.

This place is pet friendly but my 13-year-old cat Sebastian is very shy of people so he is going to live with my daughter. But maybe someone else’s cat will wander down the hall and come talk to me if I leave my door open.

My next role is becoming more clear and it involves deeply exploring how we light-bearers can help balance the planet, including really old ones like me. I can do that, even in a very small space. This is financed through Medicare so they take most of my money and give me a small allowance which means I will need to find other ways to learn beside enrolling in paid online classes. I can do that.

So for those of you who know how to send energy ahead to a situation, please send ahead to the perfect space, an easy move, and an easy adjustment. All is well in my world.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

A DOOR OPENS

A door opens. It beckons and welcomes me with open arms. It is time for me to move forward.

A door opens. It beckons and welcomes me with open arms. It is time for me to move forward. The new adventure is unfolding. One I am prepared for. One it is time for.

A door opens. It beckons and welcomes me with open arms. It is time for me to move forward. The new adventure is unfolding. One I am prepared for. One it is time for. I open the portal and step onto a new path of light.

– Cara Lumen October 2022. 

We create our future with every thought we think, every action we take. Move forward mindfully as you sing your Deeper Song.

Namaste,

Cara

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Perhaps before you read this, stop and write down eight or nine decisions or choices or experiences that had a huge impact on your life. They changed the way you think or they changed the choices you made. Take a moment.

Moments of monumental shifts are often instantaneous, but they are always memorable. In college I was at a party where there was an ex-priest and I ask him, “If you believe that God is within yourself, when you get in trouble what do you do? And he said, “You dig deeper within yourself, you pull yourself up by your bootstraps.” That led me to a life of self-sufficiency, always depending on myself, always standing alone. It was one sentence shared 70 years ago.

Then there was my gay friend who decided to go to New York to be with his lover and since he was my only friend I suddenly decided to go too. It made a huge difference in my life because that’s where I got my foundational and extensive holistic education. It changed my life. And it broadened the sphere of those I affected during the course of my life. 

I knew nothing about making a living when I moved to New York, having been a suburban housewife for quite a while, but my friend said people make money by working as a temporary office worker. I was a writer and I could type. So I primarily temped my way through New York City. I got to work in a lot of interesting places. I learned about a lot of different businesses. One idea when acted upon, opened up a totally unexpected door.

Sometimes the universe simply provides the insight. I was organically teamed up with a fellow student in an early shamanic class and we have been friends who talk weekly for over five years. 

I loved the coast but I moved to the Midwest because my daughter was here and I was moving into the aging aspect of my life where I would need some family support. She was the one that knew about the wonderful Senior Center I live in now. 

What unexpected nudges or openings did you get along the line that were cornerstones that you built upon for the rest of your life?

It doesn’t have to be a decision, but it usually is at least a new insight or awareness or opportunity that propels you into an entirely different direction. 

What are some of the moments that changed your life and how did they change it? Keep looking for the new nudges.

Living Our Deeper Song

I continue to experience unexpected moments of awareness that change my life. I welcome them

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

• What comes to mind when you think in terms of life-changing moments that you experienced? It could be a choice, it could be an awareness, they were perhaps small nudges that made a big difference.
• Have you had a life-changing awareness recently? Where does it suggest you go?

===INNER WORK===

Trust Your Intuition

Go ahead test it. Test your intuition so you learn to trust it. You get an urge. Follow through on it. How did it work out? That was your intuition talking to you. Sometimes the nudges can be very subtle and sometimes it can be like a bop on the head. Learn to pay attention to both.

I trust my intuition to guide me to what I need now or next. I use my intuition all the time as I write this newsletter. I get a couple of words, or an idea, and I turn and write it. Trusting that what I dictate from my inner voice is useful for me and for you. Do some experimenting and learn to trust your intuition. 

===SELF-HEALING===

The Place of Stillness

The worse the world looks, the more frequently I need and want to go to my place of stillness. It is a place of love. It is a place of inclusion. It is a place of safety. I see my place of inner stillness as an invisible, impenetrable shield that I build around me as I sit in my meditation chair. It is a transformative shield because not only does it deflect any negative energy coming my way, it heals my own energy. Any of the worries or the fears or apprehensions that I have been cultivating because of my daily life experience can be transformed in this transformative shield. Into serenity. Into tranquility. Into peace, inner peace. It doesn’t take very long to move yourself from concern for the world around you into that place of wholeness and serenity. Go to your place of stillness often throughout your day and center yourself.

===OUTER WORK===

Balance Give and Take

I’ve been on the receiving end of a lot of giving recently as I established outside help for taking care of my home space. I’ve had to give up a lot because I can’t do it anymore and I depend very deeply on Shelley to take care of my home. So that’s me receiving, what am I giving?

I give you these newsletters which I add to every day because I’m always thinking of what I would like to learn and what I would like to share. I have a few friends I speak with regularly on Zoom and we are supportive of each other.

I do not have good balance between sitting and moving. I could work on that. I do not have a good balance between working and not working. My not working is more like wasting time with reruns and Spider Solitaire. That’s a huge chunk of time then I could enrich with new choices.

What do you need to change in order to balance the give and take in your life?

The Choices That Got Us Here

Who we are today, where we are today, and what condition we are in today are all the results of choices we made along the path. Some choices might have been better than others. But here’s the beautiful thing about choices, we get to change them. So if you are manifesting a grouchy body for instance, make some changes in how you treat it and what you ask it to do.

A friend of mine who is quite physically active in the work she does has also enrolled in a Pilates class and said that her husband doesn’t even walk. He says he walks around when he is on the phone. They are going to have different consequences with their bodies. Not that you have to go take Pilates but you do need to establish a positive pattern for the care and feeding of your body. And your emotions. And your mind. 

What have you created? What are you harvesting from the choices that you’ve made so far? If you’re not where you want to be in your life, how do you want it to be? Make new choices which result in new change. It’s your call. Take action. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

The Power of Not Knowing 

There is something magnificent about an unplanned day. You look out the window, you take a breath of fresh air and you see how you feel and what you want to do and then you do it. You stay in the moment and make your decision based on how you feel right then and there. Not knowing allows for surprises. You don’t plan ahead. You just are aware and observant and respond in the moment – not react – respond in the moment. How does it feel when I do this? Is this the direction I want to go? There is some contemplation to the change. Perhaps there is some trying on for size with an idea. Perhaps there is a look down the path that is involved in the choosing. But as a general guidance, be in the moment and make your choices based on the insight your inner voice offers you Trust your inner voice.

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

Role Models

One of the ways to change your perspective is to examine the role models you have chosen for yourself. And maybe find some new ones. For instance, Stacey Abrams is a woman with a mission. She is persistent, she is smart, she is determined and she knows what she wants. All good things. For me, Rachel Maddow is a master storyteller. She’s giving the news but she offers deep background that gives you an understanding of how it unfolds as in why it is what it is. A wise woman. A great storyteller. 

Reverend Edward Viljoen, who was my minister in the Center for Spiritual Living in Santa Rosa, California is a role model of a person who loves his work and continually expands his range of exploration. He is now the head of the entire Center for Spiritual Living. He is deeply devoted to his path. Another great role model. 

Michelle Obama is another strong role model as is Barack Obama. They are people committed to the path and doing the work well. And effectively. 

How are you doing on your path? How wide is your sphere of influence? Who are your role models?

I know that I’m a role model to a group of women who are in their 60s. I’m not a role model for my aging process but I am one for my curiosity and inquisitiveness and path. You are a role model for someone. Do you know who? What kind of example are you? Look around for people who are doing their lives the way you want to do yours and learn from them. 

Love Creates Love

I’m having such a hard time with the way people are acting in this world today that I have to work at feeling love. I have to practice putting out love. I have to practice inclusion. I have to – I want to use the word forgiveness but perhaps accept with compassion the choices that people are making out of fear or whatever reason they have. I don’t like those choices. I don’t want to live in a world with those choices and yet here I am.

I have to practice unconditional love. I’m not even sure I can come close. Maybe I start with the things that I can love and build on that. Once I recognize the feeling of unconditional love, perhaps I can cultivate it and apply it to the less likely places. Practice love. Be loved. You are loved. Love creates more love.

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

Nurture Your Followers

If you have a website and a list of followers, you need to make certain to nurture those followers on a regular basis. It could be a blog post or a podcast or story. But make a point to continually support your followers. I write my newsletter for me because those are things that I need to anchor in my life, but I also know that some of it will reach and help others in their life. Everything in it is something I need to know. So maybe you benefit from knowing it too. How are you supporting the people that surround you and could benefit from your wisdom and awareness?

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Be a Living Example of Higher Consciousness

What kind of an example are you to others? Do you motivate and inspire them to walk a higher path as you do? Do you show an open heart and an inclusive consciousness? How we live our daily lives moment to moment can greatly influence those around us. They see a quality that they admire. They see an action that they would like to emulate. What kind of an example are you being to those around you? And does it need to shift?

I see so few people anymore that my impact is through the words that I write and the ideas that I share. I don’t always know how those impact others, but I do know how those ideas impact me. And I share what I discover and what I decide to do and how I choose to change. In case someone can see a reflection in themselves that gives them an idea of a turn in their path they would like to take. Be a positive source of inspiration for others. Be a living example of higher consciousness.

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

Our Unfolding Role in the Emerging Feminine

Tale time to read Sandra Ingerman’s June Transmutation News. It is full of explanations and ideas for living in this chaotic and evolving time. It’s a most important read.

As the Divine Feminine grows in power, the Divine Masculine becomes more destructive to the feminine energy. Whether we actively counteract that on the physical plane or move within to continue to strengthen the emergence of the qualities of the Divine Feminine within all of us, is a choice. And we will do both. 

We are moving into a new consciousness and we must not only be aware of that but be active as we encourage that change to happen.

We may even have a new role in the emerging feminine but for certain we have to continue to expand our awareness of its clarion call for us to step forward into the qualities of compassion, inclusiveness, caring for others, and equality, all qualities the masculine is trying to stamp out. Keep expanding the power and reach and guidance of your feminine energy. Be aware of its role in the choices you make, in the actions you take, and the words that you say. This is a time of growth. It is a time of new birth as the feminine comes forward to add balance to our world. Do your part. 

=== DEEPER SONG PHILOSOPHIES ===

Our Body

When walking, the gait should be like that of a crane, and the body should move like an immortal floating with the winds.

When sitting, the body should be still as a rock.

When sleeping, it should be curved like a bow.

When standing, it should be like a tall pine.

Your body should be as flexible as a willow in the wind and as relaxed as the petals of a lotus.

— anonymous Taoist

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===CARA’S CORNER===

Self-Responsibility

I am deeply into self-healing. And I keep learning new self-healing Qigong moves and practicing them. That’s on the physical plane. But I also have to do self-healing on my mental and emotional plane as I find how I can serve in the bigger emerging picture. The overview. The over-arching change. 

I need to keep walking the highest path I can find. I need to do ceremony or ritual or affirmations or some sort of positive work to send out higher vibrations to strengthen and balance the energy in the world. It could be singing and drumming and playing my finger piano. Could be ceremony. It could be something I write and share. Make certain that any expectations you hold are for the highest level we as humans can possibly reach. Walk that high road. Hold the vision of the highest good for all. Be a helping hand to others who want to walk that high road. We must stay positive and hold our light high. We must. Others will see our light and raise theirs to join us.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Holding My Torch

I hold my torch high. “Here, here is the higher path, here is the way,” I say.

I hold my torch high. “Here, here is the higher path, here is the way,” I say. Some see it and hear its call. Some don’t.

I hold my torch high. “Here, here is the higher path, here’s the way,” I say. Some see it and hear its call. Some don’t. I hold my torch high. “This way”, I say “This way.” Can you hear me?

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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