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

Journey to Gaia’s Misty Circle

A Deeper Song Adventure

There are many ways to create a self-healing process. I plan to create several journeys using different healing approaches. Intention is key. Belief in change is vital. Belief in your ability to manifest change. Those are a kind of a starting point.

I can go to the Seven Sacred Rays with my healing request. I can journey to my ancestors with my healing request. I can go to Gaia with my healing request. In my personal Sacred Garden, I have a Healing Hut that has a thatched dome roof.

This healing journey is to a Circle of Light in an old grown forest in which we reach out to Gaia to restore balance.

In this episode we explore

Journey to Gaia’s Misty Circle

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We Are Cosmic Consciousness- A Deeper Song Expanded Perspective

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Become a Pillar of Light

Journey to Our Ancestors to Expand Our Consciousness

Journey to the Sacred Masculine

Journey to the Sacred Feminine

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Meditation Practice

I learned Transcendental Meditation 50 years ago. I did it for a lot of years. And then I somehow fell out of the practice. I have revised it periodically. But recently I have put it steadily and strongly into my spiritual practice and it is making a huge difference. It’s as if my mantra is going in and rearranging everything, clearing, clearing, reconfiguring. I have found which chair to sit in that keeps my back straight and free. My mudra is thumb to my middle finger with hands resting on my lap close to my body. This meditative practice is now established in the beginning of my day.

When I learned TM, it was suggested that another good time to meditate was to separate the workday from family time. Meditation is a powerful way to change your energy. We don’t meditate before sleep since it gives us energy. It was suggested we meditate 20 minutes twice a day.

You can use a mantra – or simply be in silence. (TM used a mantra) A mantra is a divine sound that has been received or experienced by an adept in the state of deep spiritual absorption. It is a condensed form of spiritual energy, the sound body of the Cosmos. It can also be thought of as a compact prayer. Meditating with mantras is one of the most powerful ways to quiet the mind. A mantra is a tool that allows our awareness to more easily turn inward. It’s an especially good meditation tool for beginners and a type of sound technology which has profound effects on our brain waves.“Om” is a powerful mantra. Pronounced Aum.

Place into your spiritual practice a time to quiet your mind and still your body and simply go to your Still Point and be present in the Cosmic Consciousness.

Change Your Vibration with your Focus

As I struggle with disbelief over the actions of humans, I am comforted by the words of Sister Jenna in her interview at The Shift Network’s Awakening with Spirit Summit in which she said, “Wherever you focus your thoughts manifests as a vibration.”

Now I know that our thoughts create our reality but I had not thought of my thoughts as a powerful vibration. How do I use that new awareness? As I work with my body I focus my intention on wholeness and restoration and ease of movement. As I focus vibration on my spiritual life, I feel my vibration going deeper into the unknown to allow my inner world to guide me more clearly.

The soul is pure vibration. I experiment with ways to experience myself as pure spirit, pure vibration and I focus my attention on higher and higher expectations of myself and of the world around me.

Are You a Spiritual Eclectic?

I am a collector of spiritual concepts. I have been an intrepid explorer of many ways to explore, deepen and express one’s spirituality – shamanism, Taoism, metaphysics. I go deeply into the theological and philosophic concepts in the practices. I take from them what works for me, what balances me, what nurtures me. I have a rather eclectic spiritual practice. When another aspect of a spiritual practice shows up that calls to me, I go exploring and experiencing to find what resonates and bring back and adapt what I find into my practices. Go exploring. Become an eclectic spiritual explorer.

Make Sure Your Connection is Secure

I had been without my big monitor for four days, I had ordered the wrong cord and I was finally rescued by my son-in-law, Ron, who came over and basically unplugged and re-plugged a connection that I had considered faulty. I had never made a secure connection in the first place.

We have to make sure our connection is solid. That it completes the circuit. What parts of your life do you not have plugged in correctly?

===OUTER WORK===

Do You Find Your Work Meaningful?

How do you judge the value of your work? Is it meaningful? Is it effective? How are you in service?

Begin with self-growth and self-satisfaction. For me, it is self-growth that brings me self-satisfaction. I want to keep exploring and leaning and trying new things. What areas of the work you do bring you self-satisfaction? How does your work further self-growth?

Observe and acknowledge your impact on the world. It’s not that it has to be a huge impact but you do want to feel and know and understand that you are making a difference somewhere and somehow. Notice that. And also know your work may be so far-reaching, you will never know how and who it is impacting.

What Have You Outgrown?

When we were growing up we outgrew our clothes at various times. They no longer fit. As we moved into young adulthood we outgrew certain phases of exploration and even expectation. This pattern of out-growing ideas, beliefs, patterns, and actions continues all our life. What have you outgrown and what are you going to do about it?

As I restructure my spiritual practice, I am taking a very close look at my place of service and it is about continuing to help people be aware of themselves as higher consciousness and to learn to come from that position. Focusing on that allows me to let go of a lot of things I used to write about. You could say I’ve outgrown those ideas. I have moved past them in my own personal development.

Some changes happened organically. Like when I knew it was time to let go of my car and a lot of independence for myself.

I go through phases of learning. I see myself explore and absorb and experience. Then I adapt and then move on. Always exploring. Always questioning. Always changing. What is it time for you to let go? Do that.

The Tone of Your Voice

It’s not just the word, it’s the tone of your voice that sends the message. Every time we use our voices, we send our energetic imprint out into the universe and to the people around us. And, like the words we use when we speak to people, our voices can communicate what we are feeling, what we desire, and what we really mean.

Before you speak, center yourself. Move to your heart to connect with the energy you really want to share. Take responsibility for the power your voice has to impact the space and the people around you and let your voice be a sound that creates harmony and compassion in the universe.

Use Your Breath to Draw a Line

A sign of relief is a breath that signals change. A yawn is an intake of breath that signals change. We can take a deliberate deep breath to draw a line between what we were feeling and the focused calm energy we want to experience and share.

What a powerful tool! Begin to use your breath to change your focus, change your direction, change your intention and use a deliberate breath to move back to your Still Point and move into your life from a different intention.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Fall Equinox – September 22

Fall Equinox is a good time to see how you’re doing. You’re about to harvest the crops that you planted in the spring. Did you plant what you needed and wanted? Did the new crops you planted work out? Do you want to plant more of them or less of them next season? How does your garden grow? Does a crop need thinning so the strong plants can mature? What are you harvesting after this year of work?

This is not a time of planting, it is a time for observing and being grateful for what you have produced this year. Perhaps take a moment to journal about your year so far. What you have accomplished, what worked, what didn’t work. What lessons you have learned. What lessons you did not learn. This is the time for observing and evaluating and contemplating how you would like your life to be different. Nothing to plant yet, this is the time for harvest. How did your Garden of Self grow this year?

Simple Steps

We only take one step at a time. We can only follow one path at a time. All it takes is one step to change the view of the path ahead or the road behind or the side-road beside us. One step. And we have a new viewpoint. We have new choices. We have a new opportunity.

I can stand in one place and take a step to my left or take a step to my right or take a step ahead or even back up a step. I can stand where I am and simply turn in different directions to get a new view of what is possible. It just takes one step one change the direction you are looking ad your whole life will change, new opportunities will appear and new lessons will be learned.

What one step will you take today to change your view? And what surprises does it bring to you?

Center of the Cycle

Our life is a series of cycles. Cycles that are intertwined. Our choice lies in what we hold at the center of that cycle. The concept. The decision. The choice we made.

I could look at the cycle of my physical well-being and depending on what I hold in the center, the cycle will change. If it is self-healing and wholeness, the cycle does one thing. If I see the center of the cycle as deterioration and illness, the cycle looks different. And I have choice. I can decide what I hold in the center of each spiral. Look closely at your thinking. What is your expectation of each of the cycles you are in?

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

The Fine Line Between Awareness and Fear

I understand that it is an emerging era. I understand it is the emerging feminine. And the masculine is scared and thrashing out and trying to stay in control. But it doesn’t help the chaos and destruction and disaster that seems to be manifesting in the world today. How do we straddle the place between awareness and fear? I think many of us are struggling with that one.

I know my part. I have chosen it. I can do it. And I am doing it. And I have to walk this fine line between staying aware of what is going on in the world and not being traumatized by it. So I am more selective on the news that I watch. I cannot control the choices that others in power make. I can only control my own choices. I choose serenity and tranquility. I choose meditation and thoughtful contemplation. And I work with what I can change. Not what needs to change. but what I can impact – through my choices, in my thinking, through my sending of energy to aspects of the world.

Am I being responsible? I take responsibility for my thoughts and my actions and my beliefs. I can hold the vision of higher consciousness with an invitation for those who can access it to join in. Rise above the chaos, center your heart in an awareness of cosmic consciousness and its presence within each if us. Build on that.

===CARA’S CORNER===

The End of a Cycle

It’s interesting to feel a cycle come to the end. There is a sense of completion, there is a sense of letting go, there is a sense of opening a path for a new cycle, a new journey.

As I come to the end of this cycle of my current path of exploration, there is a winding down, there is completion. In this case I feel I am winding down a series of podcasts about a particular topic. That’s the end of the cycle. And there is both expectation and emptiness because I have no idea what the next cycle is about. I don’t know where it will take us adventuring. I think it has to do with creating our Future Self. But that’s the only clue I have right now. So I complete the podcasts that I have written. I reevaluate the scripts I have ideas for. And I move into a period of waiting. I’m waiting to be shown where we’re going to go together next. There are many cycles moving simultaneously and they are different parts of each cycle. But I feel right now this particular cycle of exploration is closing out and a new one will open shortly. Hooray for adventure

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Closing Door

A door is closing. A journey is winding down.

A door is closing. A journey is winding down. A new adventure is on the horizon.

A door is closing. A journey is winding down. A new adventure is on the horizon. I pick up my pace and eagerly move forward.

– Cara Lumen, September 2021

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song

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The Path Above the Chaos

August 6, 2021 By Cara Lumen

The Path Above the Chaos

Creating Conscious Connection

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

I spent a lot of time listening to speakers on the Shaman Wisdom Summit on The Shift Network recently. I was looking for help. I wanted to find the path above the chaos. I wanted to walk it. And show others the way.

I found several answers. The first from Sandra Ingerman was that this was a period of dismemberment which is a shamanic practice of releasing, letting go and destroying old patterns and beliefs and ways of being. We do that in a dismemberment journey – dissolve who we are so we can emerge as cleared, pristine energy from which to build anew. We let go of our humanness, identify our core soul calling and begin to build from there. Erase and start over. Start with a clean slate. What will you choose to put into your cleared space?

The second idea came from Andrew Harvey and Mirabai Starr and it was to actively connect with nature to experience a direct visceral awareness of the interconnectedness of all life. To experience our role as elements of nature and understand our responsibility as part of the nature community. We must connect with life itself. Honor it. Respect it. Be it.

The Sacred Feminine is about interconnection. We are intertwined. We are interdependent and we must learn to act for the well-being of the whole. We are one whole interconnected, interdependent web of life. Our choices must be for the good of the whole. We must live with that awareness and come from that interconnectedness.

The Sacred Mother is in protection mode. She is destroying what is no longer needed and is revealing a treasure of sacred actionthat if we align with this treasure, we can birth a new way of being. A connected, harmonious being with a deep awareness of our role in nature, a being who honors nature and has the awareness that nature includes each of us. We are in a mutation, an evolutionary critical point of core change, We must stay flexible, aware, and focused on the highest good for all.

This is a time of rebirth. One version of me is over and a new one is being born. When I deepen my awareness of and connection with the central core of nature, my life will transform. My expectations will change. The results will be different. They will be expansive and inclusive. I will identify and fill my role of sacred activism in the unfolding world.

We each have the potential to make a difference. To change lives. What is your role and how has it changed? How is it still changing?

We have the potential to change. We have the potential to grow. We have the potential to learn. Those of us who are aware are moving into a higher energy field for our work in the coming year. The opportunity is broad and deep. The responsibility is great. We can keep expanding our potential as we expand our awareness of our deep interactive connection with All That Is.

It is time to birth a new Self. A Self who is aware of our connection with all living things, a Self who take responsibility for supporting and encouraging and protecting others. A Self whose responsibly is to honor and protect nature and her cycles and a Self who is stepping into our role as Light Bearers, lighting a path of raised awareness and interconnection.

We are to build a relationship with the natural world and live by her unfolding cycles of birth and growth and death and birth and growth and death.

This is about building a deep-seated spiritual connection with nature – the natural ebb and flow of intertwined cycles. We are to listen and learn and live by the cycles and rhythms of nature.

Give up what you know and simply listen. Let the Sacred Feminine teach you about inclusion and love and sacred caring. Our new way of being is evolving. Pay attention and make room for major change.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I consciously move into deeper connection with nature.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

Examine your life choices carefully and lay aside beliefs and actions that no longer serve you or the world.
Spend deep introspective time in nature, listening and learning, and begin to live your life in unfolding cycles of natural evolution.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

We Are Cosmic Consciousness- A Deeper Song Expanded Perspective

Our Global Deeper Song Community

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

Journey to Our Ancestors to Expand Our Consciousness

A Deeper Song Adventure

There’s a lineage of energy that flows back to the beginning of time. It is an ancestral line that brings with it the lessons and the learning and the understanding of generations. Because we are in that ancestral lineage, we can take steps today to change the trajectory of the future for generations to come. In this present moment, we can change the world. Let’s go visit our Cosmic Ancestors.

Journey to Our Ancestors to Expand Our Consciousness

(20 Minutes)

(Listen Here)

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

and the

We Are Cosmic Consciousness- A Deeper Song Expanded Perspective

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Journey to the Sacred Feminine

Journey to the Sacred Masculine

===INNER WORK===

The Power of Cycles

When we understand that all of nature moves in cycles, we can approach our life choices from a more inclusive viewpoint. We learn to identify the specific cycles we are in. We learn to identify what phase of each cycle we are in. And here we stand – in an intertwined connection of cycles in various stages. It’s an interesting balancing act to keep track of where we are.

Each time a cycle comes around, it brings in a slightly different version of the experience because cycles also move in upward spirals. So you come back to a particular point in the cycles but at a higher level. That means you have new choices to make because you have a new awareness. It means that you can see what worked and what didn’t work. What do you build upon? What did you discard? How has your vision changed?

Cycles encourage growth. They teach us the ebb and flow of giving and taking. Cycles of repetition helps me own a process or an idea as I shape it to fit my own being-ness.

Repetition expands my understanding of the objective of the cycle. Repetition makes certain I understand its purpose, and those with whom I interact also understand it. There are some core ideas that need to be repeated, that are foundational.

When a cycle begins, we get to explore and evaluate and make our choices. When cycles end, we look at how far we have come and closely choose what we need to release and leave behind. We identify what needs to be explored more deeply. And with each turn of the cycle we chose to leave some of the beliefs behind. Be aware of cycles and let them unfold and guide you. Cycles are about letting go. Cycles are about lessons learned and lessons still to learn. Listen and look for the new pathways that are unfolding. Then choose a new path or continue your journey of discovery on the path you are on.

Focus Your Focus

I used to love Final Week in college. There were no classes, only the scheduled exams. I had the opportunity to review all that I had learned during that semester and put it together in a cohesive understanding of all of those details. During final week, we were able to study all over our sorority house. Everyone was quiet. Everyone was studying.

What I loved was the ability to focus on one subject at a time. To understand the overview and really own the detail and the lessons. I love the ownership of the material that overview gives me.

As you move through life, don’t spread yourself too thin. Spend time with one facet at a time until you can make an informed decision about whether to proceed or not or exactly what steps to take next. Otherwise, you’ll feel overwhelmed. And we don’t want that.

Perhaps you pick just one idea to advance each day. That should be doable. That definitely will move you forward. Choose an action. Take that action. Notice the results of that action. Evaluate. Make a new choice.

Be choosy. I love to learn. But there comes a point where I’m full up. I can’t learn anything more at that particular moment. So I have to pass on things. I have to be discerning. I have to give myself permission to not explore some of the interesting topics that show up, simply because I am full up or have other priorities. Give yourself permission to not do something. Give yourself permission to take one step at a time. Give yourself permission to stop and look around and consider your choices. And give yourself permission to abandon the project that no longer takes you in the direction you want to go. Be discerning. Make your choices based on your overall over-arching objective.

Honor What You Can’t Do

The phrase I wanted to write about was to “come from a place of inclusiveness.” But I can’t begin to do that. The division is too great, the choices too dramatic and harmful. People are making choices not remotely understood by me. I am wrestling with separation and I am wrestling with despondency because the divide seems so extreme and the danger so great.

I listened to a lot of the Wisdom Summit talks and found several ideas that help me. One is that this is a healing process and first we have to drain the wound. That means all the ugliness and poison have to be exposed and released so the planet and its inhabitants can heal. And that takes me back to the inclusiveness that I can’t do yet. I am searching for my own way to move through this cleansing and clarification. I can only work on my own awareness and walk my own path with integrity. I can do that.

I go to my Still Point. I let all my actions and responses come from the center of my being. I go deep within. I use all my senses. And I sit in my heart to heal.

A Masked Thought

I can imagine wearing my Covid protection mask and have someone come bully me about it. I could simply turn and say, “I’m wearing my mask to keep you safe.” I wonder what their response would be. What a different place to come from. Let’s take care of each other.

Another Way of Being

If someone showed you another path, would you go exploring? Would you step off the main road that you were on and go adventuring on a side road? Would you take a path less traveled? What would make you do that? What would be the incentive? Or would it just respond to the joy of learning something new? We are being asked to step off this old path and find our way into a new level of being. It is about being the collective consciousness. The cosmic consciousness. It is about living our life from a place of wholeness and inclusiveness. It’s not so much about the detail as it is about the inner work we are to do. The raising of our awareness. The raising of our consciousness. The raising of our expectations. Holding High Watch for the world. But most of all being open to exploring this new unfolding era of the Sacred Feminine. Where is she leading us? What is she offering us? It is time to step off the path onto a new high road?

===OUTER WORK===

Release and Move On

I have a pattern working with my podcasts that has in it a step of releasing and moving on. I write a draft. I wait a few days. I write a second draft. I usually have what I want in three drafts. And then there it sits. And the collection of drafts that are ready to record grows larger. Not finished. Not out the door – but ready to record. For me. recording the podcast is releasing it and moving on. Even though I still have to edit it and publish it, the concept, the words are locked in. I have completed my exploration of that idea and can move on to explore other concepts.

What kind of signal do you give yourself that it’s time to move on? You’ve done enough work on that particular situation or that specific idea? What is the signal you give yourself to let go of an idea for the work or even the whole scope of work and move on? Completion is good. Releasing clears the path for going on a new adventure.

Be Like Water

Water is flexible. It changes with the environment it finds itself in. It is reshaped by its passageways. It moves rapidly or slowly depending on the slope it finds itself on. It moves one grain of sand at a time with persistence. Be like water and let your pathway unfold.

Search deeper into the cycles of your life to reach for new ways to be and do and think in order to open up unexplored space in this unfolding new era. Then move forward with the agility of water.

The Need to Prune

I sensed movement outside my window and looked out to see my wonderful weeping birch tree being severely pruned. We’re talking men with 30-foot poles with clippers on the end reaching up to cut off branches and allowing them to fall to the ground. This happens every year but it’s always a surprise to see how the growth of that tree has begun to cut out sunlight in my apartment. I can suddenly see more of the sky with the Midwestern clouds that I love. The plants in my house will get more sun because the branches have been trimmed. But I did like the lovely waving branches of the longer version. Things grow stronger and taller when you prune away what has grown too much. Pruning actually encourages new growth. What needs pruning in your life? What clutter do you need to clear out of your home? What projects are superfluous? Pruning encourages growth. What do you need to trim out of your life to make room for new growth?

Oh yes, the workman cleaned up the branches and turned them into chips to be turned into compost. The cycle continues.

The Confines of a Calendar

I gaze at little squares with numbers that signify the days that are yet to unfold. How odd to have a square represent an unfolding life experience. Do we live our life in boxes or do we live our days as if we were floating on an ocean being carried hither and yon by the underlying currents? I like that image, floating under a blue sky, fluffy clouds shape-shifting overhead, allowing myself to be carried wherever my day takes me.

Let the currents of life carry you through your days and enjoy the view.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Create Reflective Moments

I have a small reflective journal on my computer. It’s in part of a document called “Action” that I have on my desktop and use to track all sorts of things. But what I have begun to do is journal a bit in it each day. I only keep one week going at a time, but I can look back and see what I learned or accomplished the week before. But the reason I suggest some form of a daily journaling habit is the power of reflection, acknowledgement, and gratitude. Journaling lets us remember what happened, what worked, what changed, what was not particularly successful. It helps us notice the surprises and the gifts. It’s a moment of gratitude and appreciation and self-reflection and self-honoring. It’s a moment of reflective review of my day. It doesn’t take long but it does help me become more aware of the messages and opportunities that day offered and honored the gifts I gave to the world. Journal a bit in reflection each day.

===DISCOVERIES ===

In the August Transmutation News, Sandra Ingerman shares her ideas on the difficulty we have when looking at how human consciousness has evolved.

Sandra writes:

“We are seeing so many changes on the planet and in the collective consciousness. There are a lot of people still stuck in illusions of life that keep us separated from each other and the web of life. But in the spiritual world we are making progress. Some are disappointed in how much progress is being made…

In our culture we want immediate change. And we know in nature change can happen so quickly. And in some ways consciousness in the spiritual community is changing rapidly.

Meanwhile some people are getting more lost in the illusion and the energies of division and fear. Change in nature happens in its own perfect timing – a teaching we must surrender to.”

Sandra goes on to talk about her own journey of letting go and how that helped to bring her into a place of consistently emanating the higher energies of love and light, and feeling peace. If this is something you are seeking in your life, we invite you to click on The August Transmutation News to read more.

=== MY DEEPER SONG ADVENTURES ===

Shift Network Sound Healing SummitAugust 9-13 Christine Stevens is a host and I have studied drumming and flute with her. These summits are always interesting and informative.

==MOON MESSAGES==

New Moon August 8

What do I want to bring into the world?

As I begin to look at Nature more closely for guidance and lessons, the moon cycles are an easy place to begin. If you were planting a garden and wanted to start an experimental crop, what would you plant in this New Moon?

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Choice is an Opportunity for Adventure

A choice is simply a decision to go exploring. You choose, you take a few steps, you look around, and see where you are. What better opportunity to learn than to make new choices!

=== DEEPER SONG ORACLE MESSAGE===

Dependability

The Oracle card I drew for us is dependability. It shows two women facing and touching hands in mutual support. Support is a major aspect of dependability. You are there when others need you. You do the job you say you will do. You show up on time. You are reliable. Are you dependable in all areas of your life? Or do you sort of slough off a few of them? Perhaps focus on being a more dependable friend in the coming weeks.

Sacred Earth Cards

===CARA’S CORNER===

Shift Your Gaze

Change unfolds itself to me gradually. I find a phrase that draws me to it. I explore it a bit by writing a paragraph for this newsletter. Sometimes I turn and explore the idea in a podcast to learn what I feel about it and how I might bring it into my journey. I write to learn.

And then one day my new direction becomes clear and I begin to make major changes

Such a change happened in the past few weeks. Here’s my new who-and-do-what statement:

“I help spiritual explorers find powerful and creative ways to connect with and explore their own cosmic consciousness. I help transformational leaders who are now stepping forward to understand their role and their potential participation so that we can build the bridges and pathways that guide us all into the New Consciousness.”

It’s a narrower focus and a deeper scope and it helps me select the topics I am to explore next.

How has your role changed? Where is your focus now? What does that mean you will do differently?

=== SING A DEEPER SONG ===

A New Path Opens

I turned and there it was – my path to “next.”

I turned and there it was – my path to “next.” I could not see to its end, I could only see where to begin.

I turned and there it was – my path to “next.” I could not see to its end, I could only see where to begin. I stepped forward and began my new adventure.

Cara Lumen, August 2021

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song

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

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Redefine Yourself in the Changing World

July 23, 2021 By Cara Lumen

Redefine Yourself in the Changing World

Creating Conscious Connection

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

How do you prepare yourself to participate in a world that is changing so rapidly? There are no guidelines because new paths keep opening up. What we get to do is go exploring, look closely at what is unfolding, and stay flexible.

We’ve talked about the who-and-what statement before but because the world is changing so rapidly, it’s time to do it again from a broader perspective. We need to see what new and unexpected opportunities and needs have opened up and how our goals and expectations have changed. Become aware of how your place of service is evolving, see how who you serve has changed, and become aware of what you need to leave behind that is no longer yours to do.

The operative word here is “change.” The world is changing. We need to change too.

The more chaotic the world, the more I retreat into inner work as my place of service. But what does that look like? What does that do for the world? How do I share it?

In my journey work, I get phrases like: My work is about seeing possibilities, developing potential, and exploring unique combinations.

My current mission is about helping people realize they are higher consciousness, and our mission as Light Bearers is to hold High Watch for the planet and help others recognize the universal light within themselves.

Our role changes as we change, as we become more aware, more prepared to move forward. And when the time is right, we are shown the next path to take.

Spend some contemplative time and answer this statement: I help (people you serve) to do (what you help them do) so that (what they can do because of what you offer/do.)

Start a document on your computer to keep track of the insights you receive about your evolving place of service – how it is unfolding, ideas you are to help it manifest.

I have collected notes from my shamanic journeys that say:

“My work is about gathering lights together to make a more radiant way of being. My job is to help them realize their own powerful vibration and radiate it out where they are. So we are points of light. We are expanding consciousness.”

These are simply ideas that have shown up in my own thinking and that call to me. You will find your own messages. Simply go within and ask for guidance, then listen to the nudges and positive suggestions that show up. Listen and then choose. Our roles are changing. The path grows more specific. The group traveling it are more focused, we are the Circle of Light Beings, the Light Bearers, the guides to the New Humanity.

Do the inner work. Ask what your role is now in this unfolding of the new humanity. Then go do that.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I listen closely to my inner voice and learn to interpret its messages.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

Learn to listen to your inner voice. It may come as one word, it may come as a feeling, it may come as an unexpected circumstance. Notice how your inner voice is speaking to you.
Listen. And learn to interpret.
Take action based upon what you learn and how deeply it calls to you.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Step Beyond the Limits of Yourself

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

Our Global Deeper Song Community

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

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

Journey to the Sacred Masculine
and
Journey to the Sacred Feminine

A Deeper Song Adventure

We contain both the sacred masculine and the sacred feminine. It doesn’t make any difference how we have manifested here on earth, they are both within us. And they each play a role. I thought that as an independent woman, I identified more with a sacred masculine, but now I understand that the sacred feminine is creative and inclusive, and eager to share and serve others. We have both the sacred masculine and the sacred feminine within us at all times.

Journey to the Sacred Masculine

(26 minutes)

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Journey to the Sacred Feminine

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Are You Afraid of Change?

===INNER WORK===

Ode to My Inner Voice

I love my inner voice. I love how she speaks up. I love how she nudges me. I listen to my inner voice who is within me all the time. Sometimes she gives me just a word but it is a word that I know that I am to build upon and explore and use as an anchor for where I am to go next.

Sometimes my inner voice gives me complete sentences and ideas to share and develop. When I turn to my computer and capture the messages from my inner voice, they can stay floating and etheric or they can get very detailed and instructive. My inner voice is always inspirational and encouraging.

My inner voice is very wise.

We are good friends, my inner knowing and I. I am grateful for her guidance. What is your relationship with your inner Voice? How will you deepen it? Be still and listen.

Heal Your Whole Self

The imbalances that show up in your physical body are signs of an imbalance on two levels, your physical level and your spiritual level. You must work with both in order to bring balance to your human expression – the wholeness that is you. So as I do outward things to balance my physical body, I also have to look within at what beliefs and expectations helped to cause the imbalance. It could be fear. It could be uncertainty. It could be something I brought with me over the channels of time. Do some releasing work around whatever is manifesting out of balance on the physical plane. Release old beliefs. Release old fears. And center yourself in that awareness that we are cosmic consciousness and therefore we are innately whole, perfect, and complete. Make room for your body to align itself with that truth of who you are.

Watch for Emerging New Cycles

We are always somewhere in a cycle. The beginning, the middle, the end. It helps to be aware of that. And it helps to notice when a new cycle has begun. It helps to notice where you are in the changing cycle so you can see the potential and possibilities that are unfolding. A new cycle means it is a time to make new choices. A time to be aware and observant. It is a time to redirect your path and choose your destination. Do you have a new cycle emerging? Where is it taking you? What are your choices? Are you listening?

Listen with your heart and follow its guidance.

===OUTER WORK===

Do the Inner Work

As I begin my work to learn Zang Fu Gong from Daily Lee, I am reminded how important intention is. We can use our minds to focus an intention – an intention to release, to clear, to strengthen – whatever is needed in a particular area of the body. Directed Intention. Let’s call it Directed Intention. I have just finished reviewing one of Daisy’s classes as I write this and my whole body is tingling with Qi energy. Bear in mind, I cannot stand up straight at this point in time but I worked with the Qigon movements I was being shown and as I sit here writing this, my whole body is tingling. And for all practical purposes I waved my arms around a bit and shifted my weight and my focus but the intentions were powerful. Images of bringing up energy from the Earth. Images of bringing down energy from our Soul Star, Images to release and clear and increase strength. Our mind is very powerful. Use your mind to send a specific intention into a specific area of your body. Have those intentions be to release blockages, clear the energy meridians in that area of your body, strengthen your physical structure – all with the focus of your mind and a few intentional hand movements. Focus the Qi energy within your body wherever it is needed. However it is to be used. Bring the resources of Gaia and your Soul Star into your body and direct them where they are needed. However they are to be used. Learn to interpret the energy flow of your body and use your intention to direct balancing Qi wherever it is needed.

You focus energy with intention. Let the Qi do the work.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Ceremony As Mindfulness

I’m working on a podcast script about ceremony because I would like to understand the basic elements and also make some choices about adding more ceremony into my life. I’m looking for simple and easy things to do. Recently I drew “ceremony” in the oracle cards I made for myself and in the course of examining that concept, I realize that ceremony is mindfulness. So even the shortest pause, the shortest aware pause to acknowledge and reflect and accept is ceremony. What does that awareness change for you?

Pause to Listen

If you stop what you’re doing right now and close your eyes and take a relaxing breath and listen, you will hear the heartbeat of the universe. In the stillness is everything. In the stillness are the answers. In the stillness are the insights. In the stillness is a certainty and clarity about next steps. I call it our Still Point. Move to your Still Point to immerse yourself in the sacredness of the moment. Pause to listen and feel and experience and choose. Pause to listen.

===DISCOVERIES ===

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===MY DEEPER SONG ADVENTURES ===

Self-Healing – Do the Work

I am studying with two sources who are teaching me how we can heal and balance our bodies by moving Qui. My body is sort of a mess with major realignment going on that makes most of my body muscles hurt. I am taking Daisy Lee’s Zeng Fu Gong Form of Qigong and it is powerful. (Qigong to Renew & Rejuvenate Whole-body Health Discover the Zeng Fu Gong Form to Boost Energy and Release Stress for a Balanced, Joyful life.)

These gentle moves began to immediately release and realign my body. I can do it even in my muscularly jumbled state and it is effective.

I am also taking a free class with Deng, Ming–Dao on The Circle of Qi, The Tao of Energy that is giving me clarity and ideas on the power of Qui and how I can use it to re-balance my body. You can contact him to join the free class at facebook.com/dengmingdao His site is www.Dengmingdao.com

My exploration for ways to self-heal continues. I’m on the right path working with the Chi energy for self -healing and balance.

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Get Pro-Active in Creating Your Future

“Intentional change comes from imagining your future,” says Brian Clark in How to Create Your Future Self and I paused to see how I was doing.

I’m not going to die any time soon but I am 88 and have begun to re-read Michael Harner’s books on life between lives.

My body is in a process of change and I’m doing things to make it stronger and more aligned but the range of my future activities are pretty much based on how I help my body get back on track.

But here’s the concept that interested me: “Step one is to accept that you have to proactively create the future self you want.

Just remember that the person on your current path is not the person you were before, and keep your vision for the next version of yourself top of mind.”

What steps am I taking to proactively create my future self? I listen to my inner wisdom and go exploring where it takes me. I am conscious of the new understanding that is being taught to me and I build on what I learn. I am aware of the changing world, concerned about it, and have begun to define my place of service – my work as a transformational leader, holding High Watch for the planet and also holding a light up to show others how to live in their natural state of Cosmic Oneness. And of course, we teach to learn…

This step forward brings me back to the concept that we get what we believe we deserve and what we believe is possible. I get to work on that – particularly the part of me that is possible physically. Bummer.

What do you want your future to look like? The pandemic has opened up a whole new world of work-from-home opportunities that offers more freedom. Technology makes things possible that were not even thought of a few years ago. So part of imagining our future self is limited because the new inventions and discoveries and choices are unfolding.

I’m going to keep exploring and trying out some of the new ideas and possibilities that keep showing up to see how they feel for this stage of my life and if they will take me where I want to go.

Stay open. Be curious. And keep exploring.

Read How to Create Your Future Self by Brian Clark.

Free Yourself from Habit

I have been playing specific songs each day with my flutes as part of my morning meditation. They are songs I made up when I was drumming to the elements and other aspects of my life.

Until one day I didn’t. I stopped my routine, picked up my double flute, and began to improvise to nature. And it was and is beautiful. And freeing. And inspiring. And motivating.

What have you been doing out of mindless habit that could be changed into a new adventure?

Where Are You Being Called to Serve?

“These times they a changing” and we need to change with them. (See Bob Dylan’s song of the ’60s ) So what does that mean to the work you do? What are you offering? How do you spend your time? Who you spend your time with? Where are you being called to serve now?

When we look closely at all that we have to offer, we realize some skills we have, some things we offered are no longer needed. Some of what is no longer relevant or we no longer want to do. And there are new ideas flowing in that need for room to grow.

We have to choose. Given this new stage and age, given the circumstances of your life, given where you want to go next, what do you want to do create and offer next?

I have a new direction calling me and now I’m watching my focus shift and intensify. There are topics I will no longer address. There are portals I have yet to open. So my work has to be fluid. It has to be flexible and open. And I have to listen to the voice within.

What do you love to do most at this point in your life? What is the most lucrative thing that you do, and what is the most lucrative and the least time-consuming thing that you do? What do you love to do? What do you want to learn? Who you want to serve? What are you being called upon to do from your inner wisdom? And which of your many gifts do you want to use at this point in time?

How are you to change? What is your inner world telling you to do next? How are you preparing for it? Listen and choose with awareness.

=== DEEPER SONG ORACLE MESSAGE===

Formation

What is forming in your life right now? How are you assisting it in evolving into its most effective place of service?

Formation is a flowing process. It is an evolutionary process. It is allowing something to unfold and to paying attention as it does. Formation is about noticing the signs and the signals, and the shapes that are forming – pay attention to the gradual and unique formation of your unfolding offerings.

Your work, your focus is constantly forming. It shapes and reshapes itself to accommodate what it encounters. Open your heart and let your “next” form from your center. Let it bring with it all you need to know and all you need to give.

What is currently forming is the expression of your inner being as it takes shape so you can share it with the world. What is forming? Clarity, insights, specific steps, new directions? All the formation of our life to change and support it in its natural ebb and flow. Embrace change and allow your life to move into a new formation.

Sacred Earth Cards

Motion

Motion is the movement of constant change. Be open to the flow. Be aware of the fluidity of opportunities that invite you to change. Listen, feel, observe. Bring all that into your awareness and contemplation of the ongoing motion that is your life. Conscious thoughtful actions steadily guided by your inner wisdom. Stillness. Moving to your Still Point before beginning any action. Life is steady motion, we are to be in thoughtful, mindful awareness of the choices that are offered and the thoughtful, intentional choices we make. We are aware of the motion of high vibration – of higher consciousness, of higher purpose. I am in motion today for the higher good.

Sacred Earth Cards

===CARA’S CORNER===

Shift Your Focus – Raise Your Gaze

The more chaotic and self-destructive the planet becomes, the more I retreat. A higher path has opened up and it is getting wider and more clear. Not everyone will see it or choose it. Bu t I’m on the higher path and plan to stay on it.

In my version of being on a higher path, I work to not be pulled down into the negativity of politics and harmful chaos and negative thinking that is so prevalent on our planet. I can only do that by avoiding it, by not focusing on it or even thinking about it. I’m on a higher path and plan to stay on it.

My focus has changed and I’m working to keep it there. I’m very aware of those of us who are moving into this role of Light Bearer who, among other things, help others recognize their own light within and step into it as their main path. Not everyone will see this alternate path and that has to be Ok. There is so much going on that is negative that I have to make conscious steps not to absorb any of it. I work to keep my sight raised to the unfolding path that leads me to a higher, more positive, more purposeful energy that I can function in and learn from and grow in. I’m not leaving the planet yet, but I am exploring the unseen world.

Do not be pulled down or sucked in by the negative energy, the discord and wrong-doing that is so prevalent on earth today. That is not where I am participating. That is not where I am being called to serve. My role is to keep my light focused on this higher path and help light the way for those of us who are on this higher journey. I keep my sight raised. And I hold high expectations of what is possible for those of us who are taking this higher road.

=My Deeper Song=

The Higher Path

I step upon the higher path and my footsteps lighten.

I step upon the higher path. My footsteps lighten. I feel the compelling and supportive harmony that emanates from those on the path beside me.

I step upon the higher path. My footsteps lighten. I feel the compelling and supportive harmony that emanates form those on the path beside me. I shine. We shine. We are Light Bears leading the way to a new reality.

– Cara Lumen July, 2021

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

Namaste,

Cara

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OUR WORK IN THE UNSEEN WORLD
Insights, Guidance, Messages

How to DeepenYour Cosmic Consciousness

The Two Vital Sides of Your Spiritual Practice

Journey to Gaia’s Misty Circle

The Field of Opportunity

Listen For Your Future

Journey to Our Ancesters to Expand Our Consciousness

Journey to the Sacred Feminine

Journey to the Sacred Masculine

We Are Cosmic Consciousness

It is Time to Vision Your Role/Purpose in a Broader Context

Journey to the Red Ray

Journey to the Orange Ray

Journey to the Yellow Ray

Journey to the Green Ray

Journey to the Blue Ray

Journey to the Indigo Ray

Journey to the Violet Ray

Trust Your Inner answers.

Step Beyond the Limits of Yourself

Simply Being – The Art of Wu Wei

Become a Pillar of Light

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

Life Lessons from a Lump of Clay

Life Lessons from a Spider

The Ongoing Emergence of our Future

The Power of Your Still Point

Heart Lessons from a Soul Star

We Are One With the Whole

How to Lob Light Balls to the World

The Power Of Our Luminous Light

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

How to Cultivate Deep Listening

The River of Time, – The Discovery

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

How to Direct Energy Outside of Time and Space

Stand Steady in Your Own Truth

What Do You Need to Leave Behind?

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

The Cloak of Empowered Service

How too Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner Work

How to Hold High Watch for the Planet

The Space of Inner Knowing

The Unseen World Needs Us

How to Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection

The Gaia Gateway and Your Soul Star

J- 1 – The Foundation For Your Journey Within – Create Your Sacred Garden

OUR SERVICE TO THE PLANET
Walk Beside Others in Light

44 – How to Define What You Do So Others Get It

40 – Who Do you Want to Serve?

28-How To Walk Beside Someone in Service

20 – Why Are You in Service?

16-How To Find Your New Direction

10 – What Will Change Because of What You Are About To Do?

17 – How to Find and Express Your Distinctive Voice

01-How the Deeper Song Community Emerged

SPIRITUAL EXPANSION
Explore Your Inner Wisdom

45-How to Become a Mindful Presence

36-How to Engage the Power of Trust

22-Create Your Own Spiritual Journey

21- How to Share a Piece of Your Soul

18-How Your Light Has Illuminated Darkened Paths

17-Exploring the Village of Nothingness

06-Unfolding and the Art of Wui-Wei

47 – Empower Your Feminine

46 -How the People You Hang Out With effect Your Life

43 – Intolerance and the Need to Be Right

42 – The Stuck Place Called Decision

41 – How to Make Decisions That Let Your Life Unfold

39 – The Power of Active Listening

35-How to Hold the Space for Change

34- Use Labels to Expand Your Possibilities

33 – The Power of the 20-Minute Lesson

32- How to See Your Work as Art

31-How to Cultivate the Power of Simplicity

30-The No Plan Plan

29-Are You Willing to Move Beyond Your Comfort Zone?

27 – Why Have You Been Chosen

26-Are You Selfish, Self-Aware or Self-Absorbed?

25-Are You Playing Your Best Game?

24 – How Not Fitting In Helps You Be Extraordinary

23 – What Are the Truths You Live By?

19 – How to Express Self-Love

15 – How To Build a Nurturing Support System

14 – How Strong is the Foundation You Build On?

13 – The Gift of a New Beginning

12 – HowDoo You Nourish Yourself if You Are a Rock

11- Do You Need a New Tribe?

09 – How to Find the Love You Need

08-How Willing Are You to Change – and Why Not?

05- Do You Have The Courage to Stand Alone

04 = How to Redefine Yourself and the 30-year Plan

03- Planting Roots and the Fundamental Need for Security

02 – The Hole in our life Called Loneliness

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May 9, 2017

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July, 2016

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Let’s Vision a World of Harmony and Integrity

February 10, 2022 By Cara Lumen

Let’s Vision a World of Harmony and Integrity

Living Our Deeper Song

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

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

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

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

===INNER WORK===

What Is Your Filter?

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

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

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

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

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

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

What Magic Did I Discover?

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

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

===OUTER WORK===

Conscious Choices

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

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

Shift Your Gaze

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

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

Put Our Oneness Above All Else

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

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

How Balanced Is Your Life?

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

Expectation

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

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

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

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Potential and Imagination

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

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

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

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

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

Creative Spirituality

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

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

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

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

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

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

Transformations and Mutations

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

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

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

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Cherish The Now, Make It Better

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

Women Can Do It All

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

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

Protectress of the Divine Order

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

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

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

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

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

The Divine Masculine Fights Back

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our Role in the World

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

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

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