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Let’s Vision a World of  Harmony and Integrity

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Let’s Vision a World of  Harmony and Integrity

Living Our Deeper Song

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

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

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

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

===INNER WORK===

What Is Your Filter?

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

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

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

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

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

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

What Magic Did I Discover?

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

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

===OUTER  WORK===

Conscious Choices

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

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

Shift Your Gaze

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

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

Put Our Oneness Above All Else

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

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

How Balanced Is Your Life?

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

Expectation

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

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

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

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Potential and Imagination

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

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

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

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

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

Creative Spirituality

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

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

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

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

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

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

Transformations and Mutations

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

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

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

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Cherish The Now, Make It Better

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

Women Can Do It All

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

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

Protectress of the Divine Order

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

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

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

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

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

The Divine Masculine Fights Back

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our Role in the World

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

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

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

=== DEEPER SONG ORACLE MESSAGE===

Transition Equals Liberation Equals Transformation

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

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

SpiritSong Tarot

===CARA’S CORNER===

Noticing the Cycles

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

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

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

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Cycles of Change

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

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

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

-Cara Lumen, February 2022

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

Namaste,

Cara

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Find Your Own Voice

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Find Your Own Voice

Living Our Deeper Song

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

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

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

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

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

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I step into the passionate calling of my new voice

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

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

===INNER WORK===

Being Light

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

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

===SELF-HEALING===

The Power of Encouragement

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

Focus on the wins and build on them.  

===OUTER  WORRK===

Focused Action

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

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

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

Find Your Natural Rhythm

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

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

Bring Nature Into Your Life

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

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

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

How do you live with the unfolding cycles of nature?

What Are Your Options?

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

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Cultivate Your Inner Voice

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

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

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

Continue Working On Your Own Evolution

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reach Out

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

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

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

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

Expectation

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

Understand Your Process

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

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

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

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

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

Change and Possibilities

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

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Creator Economy

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

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

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

Establishing New Feminine Qualities

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

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

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

=== DEEPER SONG  PHILOSOPHIES ===

Look Within

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

===INTENTION BLESSING===

May we hear and heed the call of the Divine Feminine. 

May we expand our hearts and our expectations.

May we walk the Path of Light with a sure foot. 

May we keep our gaze on the summit.

May we take this journey with a full heart. 

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

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

Just read this about aging from Brian Clark 

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

Spiritual Practice

The Magical Power of an Affirmation

Self Healing

A Transformative Clearing Process

Expanding Awareness

New Consciousness – New State of Being  

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

and the 

Deeper Song Website

===CARA’S CORNER===

Pass It Forward

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

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

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

What do you need to pass forward?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Letting Go

I let go.  It was time. 

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

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

Cara Lumen, January 2022

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

I help adventurers who are ready to explore the new possibilities in the emerging energy of the Divine Feminine to align their dreams and choices with what is emerging as possible today so that they go beyond their own expectations.

Please forward this newsletter to a friend and suggest they
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What You Believe is Possible

By

What You Believe is Possible

Innovative Ideas on Birthing the Divine Famine

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

Just because it’s never happened before doesn’t mean it isn’t possible.  Remember that as you set goals and objectives for yourself. As I watch new technology unfold I’m old enough to remember the real-life woman telephone operator who connected the calls on my grandfather’s phone.  I rode in my grandfather’s Model T car.  I rode a pony to take water to the workers harvesting hay and putting it in horse-drawn wagons.  I remember the first television shows. And I was one of few women my age who went to college.  Then there was the first moon landing. I’m 89 and the changes in my lifetime have been huge.  

And now, in the past few years, we have Artificial Intelligence, solar power, 3-D printed houses.  That’s a lot of change in the span of one lifetime.  

So what is going to change in the span of your life and are you ready to explore and modify and change with it?

We need to question our beliefs often, particularly when it comes to what we believe is possible – for us, for our world.  And we need to stay open to not just the new technology but what opportunities they bring with them.  Many of the skills we have and may even cherish will become useless. (Our children cannot read cursive or write a check…) And that can be unnerving.  How do you keep from feeling irrelevant, outdated, useless?  You change.  You question your beliefs, you marvel at the new discoveries and you make changes to accommodate them and absorb them into your life. Those key changes are made within your beliefs of what is possible and your understanding of your changing role in the world. 

It’s enough to make a person feel outdated in a hurry.  

Here’s the core message – question every belief you have as it shows up to make certain it is still relevant. And even still true. This will be particularly tricky with those beliefs that we were given as a child simply based on living with our parents and their belief systems. But we have to question our beliefs, particularly when it comes to what we believe is possible. Because new doors are being thrown open every day.

Before you get discouraged, before you think it can’t happen, pause to notice that the world is moving at an incredibly rapid pace and what you believe is possible is changing every single moment into something brighter, and grander, and more amazing.  What do you believe is possible? A whole new world is opening up.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I embrace change in every aspect of my life.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Find a good news source that keeps you up with positive changes.  I like Good News Network.
  • Question your beliefs in what is possible and take time to expand them.
  • Think big!
  • Be flexible.

===INNER WORK===

Live in a State of Oneness Consciousness

We are all one consciousness so how do we learn to live from that awareness? Consciousness connects us all.  It makes us all one energy, one big thought-form.  And it sure is varied in its manifestation.   

I get glimpses of being one with Cosmic Conciseness when I meditate.  I understand the limitlessness of Cosmic Consciousness when I take a shamanic journey. I listen to my intuition and am amazed by its insights and accuracy.  How does Cosmic Consciousness make itself known to you?  Keep looking.  It’s waiting for you to tune in. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Acknowledgment and Self-Awareness

Years ago in New York City, I started an Acknowledgment List. When people said something positive or complimentary about me, that I did not recognize in myself, I wrote it in a blank journal with the date and who said it.  When I felt down or uncertain, I pulled out that book and read the positive things that had been said of me.  

I do a version of that today.  It is a document on my computer and when I get an acknowledgment or a positive compliment, I pop it into this document along with who said it and the date.  Periodically I read the positive things that have been said about me and it lifts my spirits and raises my sights and has been known to open up a new direction for me.  Perhaps you want to start an Acknowledgment List to help identify your gifts.

===OUTER  WORK===

The Clarity of Journaling

Taking time to reflect on your day or your intention for a new day is very clarifying.  It helps you notice the changes and opportunities that have shown up and gives you time to reflect in gratitude for the experiences of your day. 

I have a major document on my computer called “Action” and I keep all sorts of things in it, including a journal.  I only keep seven days so each time I enter I get to read what happened on that day the week before.  

Find a format that allows you to reflect on what the day brought and how you have progressed from the week before. Journaling fosters clarity. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Visualization

A very powerful way to experiment with possibilities is through visualization.  I could visualize what it would feel like to be taller, or thinner, or younger and use my imagination to explore the new possibilities that would open for me.  

I can visualize a particular scenario. What would it feel like?  Where would that choice lead me? What doors would it open?  

If you want to explore a new avenue, use your imagination and visualize all the scenarios you can think of to see what unfolds and how that experience aligns with how you want to feel and what you want to accomplish.  It’s like trying on an outfit in the store before deciding whether or not to buy it. Or making a small batch of a recipe before serving it at a dinner party. 

Decide what you want.  Do I want to be able to go in nature again enough to motivate me to get to work on strengthening my body? How much do I want it and how hard am I willing to work?  Or do I need a different goal, a different motivation? I want to be strong enough to write and explore and share but a nature hike is not on my to-do list.  So when you are looking for motivation, choose one that will take you where you want to go.  Then visualize and see where it takes you.

Use A Mantra As An Entrance To Your Still Point

A mantra is a sacred word. It has a specific vibration that creates a specific result. Using a mantra is a good way to signal that you are beginning your meditation practice, to tell your body and your mind to turn it off for a while and be present. You don’t need to continually repeat the mantra to keep you focused, you use a mantra to move you back into that sacred space when your mind wanders off. Start with the universal sacred seed syllable OM or Aum.  If you have a particular focus for your meditation, you might look up mantras online and see what their meaning is or if they are for a particular chakra. I have a mantra for Transcendental Meditation and I happen to know that my children each got different mantras when they learned TM. I also know that my mantra sends me very rapidly into a meditative state. And the more I do it, the faster I drop into meditation and the deeper I go. 

Start with Aum and move on to explore what works for you.  You can use a mantra to access your Still Point and you can get to your Still Point without one.

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

Meridians and Medical Qigong

As I focus on self-healing, I decided to work on my acupressure points.  I can’t name the meridians but since I kept finding a steady sequence of painful points on my body, I knew my meridians were not in very good shape. 

My healer friend,Christina Gerber emailed links and meridian charts and I explored some of the Medical Qigong videos she sent. Qi is life force energy and Qigong moves it around and opens up the pathways – the meridians.  I spent about 20 minutes with the videos and at the end of that period, I found my body was tingling all over.  It felt happy and revitalized. 

A few hours later I repeated the process of manually pressing on the acupressure points and found that the pain had substantially subsided – my chi was flowing again and rebalancing!  It had accomplished a great deal of rebalancing in a few hours and the Qigong sequence had been super easy.  Start with Qigong for Belt Meridianand do several of the other videos in the series.  I couldn’t always keep standing but I kept doing it sitting. Do the best you can.  It will work.

I’m putting this particular Qigong practice into my life twice a day. 

Note: After three days of doing this Qigong for the Belt Meridian at least once a day, my left hip realigned clear up to my waist and it dramatically affected my walking and my posture. I am also doing a manual acupressure routine three times a day.  My body is responding notably and dramatically. 

Energy Healers – Read this Book!

Healing Ourselves: Biofield Science and the Future of Health Kindle Edition by Shamini Jain 

The more I read this book the more I understand how we have the ability to restore wholeness to ourselves and others.  If you are looking for ways to self-heal and confirmation in the belief that at you can self-heal – read this book!

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

The Emerging Feminine Leader

In a conversation with my extremely intelligent female friend Martha, who also happens to have a major leadership role in a large organization, we discussed what the role of a feminine leader looked like. There are no examples in history of how feminine leaders lead because there are so few women leaders whose history has been brought forward. One of the things my friend was aware of in her leadership experience was that women are team builders rather than building top-down as a man would. Women are more inclusive and heart-centered.

So we have two things going on here. We have the rise of the Sacred Feminine which means the lessening of the power of the Sacred Masculine (which makes them extremely grouchy), and the Divine Feminine is working to define herself in the role of leadership when her only examples are all the rules the men prefer to use. So it’s not about doing it the way it has been done, it is about approaching leadership from a new place of wholeness. Of service and collaboration. And because the men are not going to like one single bit of this, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

So here is our job as women – we are to step into the roles of leadership that present themselves and bring to the role inclusive compassion, team building, and heart-centered service. And of course our intelligence and insights and stamina and… We will have to create new formats for interaction in order to encourage and cultivate this spirit of working in teams. We are going to have to help everyone learn to be a team player, which means compromise, as we redefine, relearn and re-chose our place of service. It will be a time of great experimentation and adjustment. We must be observant. We must be creative, and we must question what we believe we deserve and what we believe is possible. That’s how women shape the unfolding version of feminine leadership. 

===IMAGINING THE DIVINE FEMININE INTO BEING===

Based on the conversation I had with my friend Martha, about what the Divine Feminine would look like in the workplace, I realized that we have major work to do. We have to imagine the Divine Feminine into being.

We bring things into being with our imagination and it occurred to me that we have no role models for a world of the Divine Feminine so we have to get busy with our imaginations and bring those concepts into being. 

Here’s my idea. I want you all to contribute to this exploration.  As you get caught up in this experience of imagining a new world of the Divine Feminine into being, I would like you to email me your ideas at caralumen@gmail.com. Please add where you are in the world so we can get a sense of the scope of our community. I will share some of them here, in this section and let them help drive our exploration into how to bring the Divine Feminine into form. 

What is the priority of the Divine Feminine?

We’re making this up together but what came up for me as a primary focus for the Divine Famine was caring for our home, which means the number one priority for the Divine Feminine would be the preservation of the planet. We have nothing if we do not have a home.  The second thing will be the well-being of all the inhabitants.  Here’s where it gets fun.  Imagine a world where the priority is the well-being of everyone.  That means the initial focus would be on taking care of humanity. That means feeding everyone.  That means all our energy, all our focus goes toward caring for others!  What a world that will be.  No wars because we’re all out working the collective fields to feed ourselves. No defending of territories because we live in a collective where what we harvest is divided equally among the participants.  We contribute, we get food.  

Having written that, I realize that there is a lot more to do than grow food, but as long as there are people starving, we do need to address that first. 

The same goes for shelter.  The Divine Feminine wants all her family to be provided for.  What kind of unique system can we create that makes certain everyone has a sheltered place to live in?

This is getting a bit harder to figure out.

Gifted minds and talents come in all shapes and sizes and economic status, so somehow, the Divine Feminine has to figure out how to give all gifts a way to develop.  I’m not talking school here, help me think outside the box on this.  How does the Divine Feminine help each person cultivate and utilize their unique gifts? 

It ceases to be a planet of “me,” its becomes a planet of “we”.  That’s hard to imagine.  

Flexibility and change are a cornerstone for the Divine Feminine.  I have no idea how one builds a flexible structure that accommodates many facets.  But I think that’s what we will have to do. That’s where our imagination comes into play.  We not only have to think totally new concepts into being, we have to imagine a whole new way of being.  What does the all-encompassing Divine Feminine look like as a way of life? 

We’ve never experienced that before.  So we get to make it up. We get to use our imagination to bring it into being. 

Do you see where I’m going with this?  I would love to use this portion of this newsletter to share your ideas on what the Divine Feminine could look like in our lives.  You don’t have to suggest how to make it happen unless you think of a way, but I’d like us to see this as a place to gather ideas from our imagination about what we can create as the Divine Feminine takes charge of our evolution. Look at your job, your life, your choices, and see where you can add the inclusive principles of the Divine Feminine and how that might manifest in change.  It will dramatically affect how we imagine our unfolding future. The Divine Feminine is here. 

First, we have to imagine it.  How will a world guided by the Divine Feminine look and feel and function?  Let’s go exploring together. 

Email your ideas to me at caralumen@gmail.com.

===INTENTION BLESSING===

May we welcome the inclusive principles of the Divine Feminine into our lives with an open heart. 

May we walk the Path of Inclusive Light with a sure foot. 

May we take this journey with an open heart. 

May we keep our gaze on the summit.

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

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

Spiritual Practice

The Two Vital Sides of Your Spiritual Practice

Self Healing

Journey to Gaia’s Misty Circle

Expanding Awareness

Journey to the Sacred Feminine

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

and the 

Deeper Song Website

==== DEEPER SONG DISCOVERIES ===

Incredible images in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Contest. 

===FAVORITE THINGS===

Native Flutes

The great news is that you cannot play a wrong note on a native flute!  They are expressive, lovely to hear, and easy to play.   I have three native flutes all fromHigh Spirits. My first flute wasHigh Spirits Earth Tone flute in A I love it. As I continued to take online classes withChristine Stevens on The Shift Network, I decided to get theHigh Spirits cedar double flute in G.  I love the lower tone and the ability to drone. I also have High Spirits Pocket Flute – G which if I were still a walker, I would carry with me. It’s a perfect size for children and an inexpensive way to explore the native flute. Its tone is a bit high-pitched for me, I prefer the other two flutes. Playing the flute while being in nature merges me into natural cycles of all of life.

 ===DEEPER SONG BOOK SHELF===

TAOISM

Deng Ming-Dao has two books that are a lovely way to move into the Taoist philosophy. Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony and 365 Daily Meditations Tao.  He lives in San Francisco and I have taken a few classes with him. Lovely, serene energy.

=== DEEPER SONG ORACLE MESSAGE===

I was gifted on my birthday with a new set of oracle cards – SpiritSong Tarot – in which each animal was specifically selected based upon Shamanic and Native American symbolism, merging each animals unique power with classic tarot practices. I love the drawings of animals and it has extremely powerful meanings for each card. I never knew how to do the Tarot very well so I just draw one every day for me.  

I drew this card for me as I was completing this newsletter and knew that I needed to turn and share it with all of us. 

Three of Feathers – Moth – Release and Receive. 

This is an outstanding message. You have to make room to receive.  I am letting go of beliefs that  healing as completely as I want is no longer possible because of my age.  Then I can experience more healing.  I am to make room for change.

What belief do you need to release in order to make room to receive?

SpiritSong Tarot

===CARA’S CORNER===

A New Journey

I have always had a strong calling. I have made major decisions and choices based on simply understanding that was what I needed to do next.  I am fascinated by this idea of making up our “next” by using our imagination to figure out what a world of the Divine Feminine will be like. We only know male energy models. As a woman who fought her way out of the stereotype of a suburban housewife into the role of eclectic healer and spiritual explorer, I’m all in.  I love this idea of taking charge and bringing our Divine Feminine Future into being with our imagination.   I will love seeing what we collectively create.  Yeah for major exploration and collaborative co-creation!

My New Who-and-Do-What Statement

I help adventurers who are ready to explore the new possibilities in the energy of the Divine Feminine, to align their dreams and choices with what is emerging as possible today so they go beyond their own expectations.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Destination Changed

I thought I was headed one way but I need to turn and head in an entirely new direction. 

I thought I was headed one way but I need to turn and head in an entirely new direction. The path has changed.  There is no map.  I must forge my way forward into unknown territory.

I thought I was headed one way but I need to turn and head in an entirely new direction. The path has changed. There is no map.  I must forge my way forward into unknown territory. I ask the Divine Feminine for guidance. I follow her lead.

Cara Lumen, December 2021

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

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

Please forward this newsletter to a friend and suggest they
Join the Deeper Song Community

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The Path We are Taking 

By

The Path We are Taking 

Living Your Deeper Song

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

Imagine an unexplored landscape before you.  It has mountains. It has plains. It has valleys.  We are faced with an unfolding new era. There are no main roads yet.  There are many paths of exploration.  Many possibilities to consider.

Here’s how our new landscape will unfold.  People will be drawn to a particular path and as more and more walk on it, it becomes a road. And that road will lead to a particular destination that many people seek.   

We will evolve our unfolding new era by journeying with like-minded seekers who are going in a similar direction and together we will widen the path and open the way for others to follow.  

There will be many paths and many travelers.  

How do we know we are on the path that is right for us? How do we know it is a promising path, that it will lead us to a higher level of existence and collective action? 

Begin with your own values and beliefs and make certain they are founded in truth.  

Choose the level of existence you desire to live in.  I will not live in anger.  I will not live in fear.  I am only focusing on the positive.  I hold my focus on what is supportive and keep walking toward it.  

Those of us who are singing our deeper song live all over the planet.  We may be in groups both large and small and we may be sitting in our homes alone.  But we hold the same vision, the same expectation.  Oneness.  Cosmic Oneness.  

As we journey down various pathways in exploration, we must keep in mind what we are searching for and plan to find that higher level of existence where we can gather together in a collective energy of wholeness and inclusiveness.  Not everyone will be drawn to that, but those of us who are are finding each other.  We are supporting each other in holding the vision and in finding pathways that lead us into the higher awareness that we are all one.  

So as we sit here on the planet watching anger and destructive behavior toward others play out, we must hold High Watch.  We must hold the Vision of Oneness –  the expectation of inclusion and cooperation.  What we look for we see.  What we believe is possible we find. 

Do not drop down into the muck of division.  Keep your focus on the pinnacle, the pinnacle of unity that we hold as our true destination.  

Like any landscape, people will settle all over it – some in the valleys, some at the peak of possibilities.  Wherever you are headed, raise your sights higher.  Look for those who are walking the path toward this higher state of awareness and fall into step beside them.  Hold your light high so others may follow.  Keep walking on the high road.  Together, we are creating our own path toward existing together in a higher collective conciseness. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I raise my sights and walk the higher road. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Look around you at what other people are doing and notice some paths that are aligned with where you want to go.  
  • Begin to walk beside those walking uphill. 
  • Turn and give others who seem open encouragement and a helping hand.  
  • Keep climbing higher.

Our Global Deeper Song Community

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

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

Are You Afraid of Change?

Deepening Our Interaction with Cosmic Consciousness

If I am right, being afraid of change explains a lot of the negativity that is going on on the planet today. Why do you want to keep something the way it is? Because you are afraid of change. Change might make you ineffective or irrelevant.  I’m not sure we are aware of that, but I think fear is one core issue for a lot of what is going on in our world today.

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community helps spiritual explorers find powerful and creative ways to connect with and explore their own cosmic consciousness. She helps 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.

In this episode we explore

 Are You Afraid of Change?

(20 Minutes)

(Listen Here)

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

and the 

Deeper Song Website

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

We Are Cosmic Consciousness- A Deeper Song Expanded Perspective

Listen For Your Future

The Two Vital Sides of Your Spiritual Practice

The Field of Opportunity

How to Deepen Your Cosmic Consciousness 

Trust Your Inner answers.

===INNER WORK===

Create a Sanctuary

A private haven. A sanctuary.  A place of refuge. A place to restore and renew and revive. A nurturing place of tranquility. Do you have such a place? Have you assigned one corner of your home as a restorative sanctuary? 

I have a chair turned to look out the window that is part of my sanctuary. My native flutes are nearby. It’s a good chair to meditate in. With the window open I can feel the air and hear the sounds and feel closer to nature.

We’re talking about a chair here. A chair I have designated as my sanctuary. I go there with the purpose of being still. I’m contemplating. Restoring. And simply being. Where is your restorative space in your home and are you going there often enough?

Keep Listening, You Are Being Shown the Way

I journeyed to gain clarity for my next steps.  I saw myself moving steadily upward on a gently tilted path.  I received affirmations about the work I am currently doing, but the main message was to “keep listening, you are being shown the way.”  

Listening is the key to making the right next choice.  Listen to your heart. Listen to your passion.  Experiment with the opportunities that show up – try them on for size, modify them, keep them or discard them.  Just keep listening. You are being shown the path.  You just have to notice it. 

  Introspection and Intuition

Our inner world offers us powerful guidance. We simply have to listen. The first step is introspection – those times of focused thought in which you consider your options, examine your choices and explore the possibilities. Then comes intuition. Knowing what your choice is to be. Not what it needs to be or what it could be but what it is to be.

Sometimes my answers are several months in coming. One day I simply know there is a change to be made. I feel a gradual letting go of what I am currently doing but have no clue what is to take its place. Because it’s not time. First I have to make room for the new to come in. So I let go of my plans, of my expectations. And I simply wait.  I leave room for change.

As I sit in expectation and awareness, I get glimpses of a potential choice. It could be an idea, it could be a path I explore, it could be a completely new direction simply dropped into my lap. This is a time for looking around. Feeling what calls to me. Noticing what new avenues are available. No choice yet, just an observant expectation and thoughtful exploration.

And then one day I know. The door to the next step is open and I step through. Take time for introspection, to go exploring what is possible. Then let your intuition make the final choice. Have a great adventure!

Power Animals

When we journey to our Sacred Garden, everything in it is a metaphor just for us to interpret. So the other day on a journey I got a cat as a spirit guide. I actually live with a cat – Sebastian, but I  have not had a cat spirit guide before. We were actually on my Flying Indigo Rug flying in the Void. There were other guides on the rug with me but here was this cat sitting on my left. Being present. At the time, I simply observed it and did not interact with it much. It seemed content to simply be present. A few days later, I started to look up the meaning of the cat as a power animal on line. Until I realized that it is only mine to interpret, that I am the only one that can understand and interpret the meaning of the presence of a particular power animal. I have since journeyed again to talk to cat. But I have not yet received an answer. She simply sits on the left side of the Flying Indigo Rug as we move around the Void. She is present.  And she has a purpose. And she will reveal herself to me in good time. 

There is a temptation to look up a meaning when you encounter a new spirit guide. But that spirit guide is there just for you. What does it mean to you? Listen to what comes up. You can ask your power animal how you are to work together but you probably know or she/he would not be there. Trust your answers and your intuition. 

At this point, I feel the cat power animal is a guide and it is not yet time for me to be guided where she will take me 

Here we go adventuring.

===OUTER WORK===

Choose Your Own Coordinates

Many paths lead to the same destination. Some of the paths are long and winding and easy to walk on. Other paths take more effort, more energy, more stamina,  but they get there faster.  You may not want to live at the top of the mountain.  You may want to live in the serene rolling low land. Or you may choose to go exploring in the more heavily wooded areas where there are more opportunities and more encounters and more challenges. Maybe you even get a ride to the top of the mountain on a large bird and hang glide off into the valley. There are many paths for us to take to fulfill our destiny.

We each have to choose our own coordinates, our power path, and the timing of our travels. 

There are some things I knew about my own journey early on, and there are other things that I only recognize after being on the path a long time.

Our destination is changing if we choose for it to. There are new portals opening for us to explore and learn from and live in. We may be content where we are. We may be burning with passion to go explore a new frontier. Follow your dream. Follow your passion. Follow your insights and instincts.

Learn from those whom you choose to walk beside. See how they are adjusting to the path. Notice the creative ways they use to journey forward. Copy what you will. Create your own innovative ways to move forward. It’s your path. Your journey. And your choice of a destination. Set your own coordinates and journey on.

Find a Creative Solution

I can no longer reach the floor.  I have a grabber tool in every room,  you know those pinchers on a handle with grabbers that can pick up a dime.   

I also have a tongue drum – an 18” rounded metal drum.  It sits on a plant stand in my meditation corner.  Until one day I backed up my desk chair too vigorously and the tongue drum was suddenly on the floor. A heavy, good-sized piece of metal was on the floor which is not where I wanted it to be.  I had a choice. I could wait nearly two weeks until Shelley came back to clean my apartment, or I could figure out how to get the tongue drum off the floor. I got creative. 

I seem to have lots of baskets in my home and there was one that was big enough that when I lay it on its side, I could simply use my cane to move the tongue drum into it. I used the handle of my cane to pull and scoot the metal drum into the wicker basket.  Then I used my cane to tilt the basket upright so it was taller and I could lift it up. Yea for creative innovation! I immediately rearranged my meditation corner to put the metal drum in a place where it could not be knocked over. I had gotten creative and I had solved the problem.

However, I got to do a similar thing again when I dropped an entire half-gallon of ice cream on the kitchen floor. Once again, grabbers can pick dimes off the floor but not half-gallons of ice cream. There was a definite moment of dismay and panic until I remembered my basket trick. And once again, by using my cane, I was able to scoot that half gallon of ice cream into a basket lying on its side and then right the basket and gain possession of the ice cream. Clever me. Creative me. Innovative me.

When faced with a problem, think outside the box. Work with things that you didn’t expect to work with. Try new ways of doing things that will still get the job done. Find creative solutions to the unexpected challenge that come your way.

Honor Your Resistance

I love to learn and apparently I am full up because every time I start to sign up for a new talk or a new program, I feel great reluctance and resistance.  It is definitely a feeling of being full up.  

This hesitancy to engage is probably an incubation period.  A period of purposeful non-action in which I am to release, repair, make room for, and give time for me to recognize this new next step.  Meanwhile, I do nothing, or very little And that has to be OK.  

I listen to my inner voice.  I honor those instinctual insights that repeatedly show up.  I examine them, consider them, and if called to do so, explore a bit deeper to see how fully they resonate.  

Take your time choosing a new project, or a next step.  Listen to the rhythm of your own evolving awareness. Give your choices time to expand and materialize.  Go slowly. Be patient. And know when to say no. 

Wrap It In Joy

I took a journey to seek advice for my physical state and the main message was to wrap my physical activity in joy – in particular put on some music and dance!!!! That’s much more fun than doing exercise repetitions.  Jazz music channel here I come!

Our Alternate Path

What happens when we come up against a barrier? We find an alternate path. We go around. We go over. We may even back up a bit and start in another direction. A barrier gives us an opportunity to reconsider our options.

We’ve got a problem with the thinking of a lot of people in this world. It is producing fear and negativity. I don’t want that. I don’t believe in that. So how do I create change in order to move around this huge dark energy that is covering the earth?

The opposite of dark is light. I have to embrace this darkness and cover it with light so that it can change. Not by force. But by the recognition that this path of light holds more hope and promise and potential than the path of darkness. Not everyone is going to see that. Some will even fight that. So those of us who know the path of awareness, the path of compassion, the path of inclusion is the way to go, must simply keep walking that path with clarity of purpose and resolution and determination. We turn and help those who are struggling to follow along. But we do not join our energy with those who cannot see or hear the potential of light. All we can do is keep shining a light on the path to higher consciousness. Keep walking. Keep looking higher. Keep shining.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Set Up A Purposeful Day

When you close your eyes at night, bless the day you have just lived.  When you open your eyes in the morning, bless the day ahead.  And take a moment to set an intention. An intention to be more mindful.  An intention to take time for more inner work.  An intention to release a blockage you perceive.  Have a plan, a one-step plan that will raise the expectation of your day.  Choose an inner growth purpose for your day and make it happen.  

===MY CURRENT READING ===

I am reading and being inspired by this Jean Houston book: 

The Quest of Rose: The Cosmic Keys of Our Future Becoming (Future Humans Trilogy) Book 1 by Anneloes Smithsman and Jean Houston. 

UP NEXT: 

I heard Shanini Jain on a Sound True podcast and her ideas on bitfields make great sense.  Her book is up next: 

Healing Ourselves: Biofield Science and the Future of Health by Shamini Jain

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Riding the Roller Coaster

It feels like we are being bombarded with anger, with actions that threaten our very existence. And like a roller coaster, we often feel we are simply along for the ride – the scary heights, the sudden drops, the tilted curves.  And all, what we are trying to do here is live our life. 

Bear in mind that this is the emergence of the power of the feminine and the masculine is scared because they know it is no longer their turn.  They know that the dominant qualities of compassion and inclusion and caring are taking over.  

Think about how that is shaping our life. What will it feel like when all choices are made for the highest good of all – not the few dominant males?  What if our guiding principles were compassion and inclusion?  Do we even know how to live that way?  We get to learn. 

As a woman, I say, “You go, girl!”  As I start to put on my warrior outfit to go to battle, I realize that is not how the feminine is to advance – not with masculine ways.  And I get to think long and hard about how a woman does fight, how she does claim authority.  How she guides and leads.  She does it with an awareness of human nature, of the need to feel valued, the need to be heard and heeded.  She listens, she considers and she walks a path that is inclusive while still getting the job done.  Even that path will not make everyone happy.  It’s not about taking the middle road, it is about taking an inclusive road, the road that made the most room for the most participation, the most effect, and the most powerful outcome. That may take some doing… 

Be patient as we figure out how to evolve this next part of our journey.  Allow yourself to consider and experiment with and explore new ways of thinking, new ways of doing things.  We evolve together and we must be very, very flexible and open to change. 

The Highest Good

I live in the US where not enough people are considering the highest good for all. We are mired in selfishness. I’m not sure how we get to move out of it. Except to look closely at our own lives to see where we are making choices that are not for the greater good but are based on our own fears or superstitions or greed or need.

We need to back off to see the greater picture, the over-arching impact of a belief, of choice, in order to see what is the highest good for all is. The greater good. The actions that will positively impact the most people. All people face these kinds of choices – do I choose for me or us? All countries face that. Our world faces that. Me or we.

Next time you start to make a choice or even experience a strong belief, examine it for its over-arching impact and make a choice that will benefit the most people and circumstances. Act for the highest good of all.

Moving Toward the Next Version of You

I continue to explore this idea that we really have two paths to consider – our path of personal expansion and our path of global service.  They may or may not be the same. 

I notice that people are quitting jobs in droves because they want and expect more for themselves, their life expression, their life experience.  So they go searching for it and the hum-drum, non-satisfying jobs go unfilled.  

Or, they could find a way to make a boring job meaningful.  Not sure how to do that.  I’m the moving-on type.  

First, ask “What do I want to change? What is working? What is not working? What is really not working?” Get to work on that first. 

Change can be scary. Change can mean really, really letting go and moving on, moving forward, moving over change. First, you let go. Let go of what is holding you down. Let go of what no longer makes you happy. And that includes relationships. It may include where you live. It may include the job you’ve had for a lot of years. Let go and move on. What do you want in the “next” you are going to experience? Not what you want it to look like or be like, but what do you want it to feel like? 

I would like my body to get strong again but my focus needs to be on what I can do again when it is stronger.  Like walks in nature. Focus on what you will be able to do when the change is complete. Hold that focus as you continue to make changes. 

I’m not sure it’s so much about planning the next version of you as it is about making room and space and time for this next version of you to evolve and emerge.

“The Master allows things to happen. 

She shapes events as they come. 

She steps out of the way and 

lets the Tao speak for itself.”

   -Tao Te Ching, Stephen Mitchell

“The Master lives in the center of the universe,
which turns out to be the center of herself. 
When things seem to be in discord return to the center.” 

Stephen Mitchell 2nd Book of Tao

===OUR UNFOLDING ROLE===

Creating Our Next

In my secret garden is an Indego Carillon, a bell tower, and when it plays its music, the sound goes throughout the countryside. Some pause to listen. Some do not. But it represents my voice and my ideas and it spreads throughout the world. It occurred to me that we are each an instrument of vibration that is sending our song out into the world for others to hear and be touched. Their spirits are lifted. Their expectations are raised. All because we sing our song. We are the instruments ringing out the tones that vibrate and create throughout this other world.

Make certain your melody is joyful and encouraging. Make certain your harmonies raise spirits. Make certain your rhythm is one that motivates people and leads them forward. Play your melody. Sing your song. And raise the vibration of the world.

The Double Path of Unfolding

There are two paths that are unfolding right now for each of us.  Our personal role in our own life and our role in the unfolding and far-reaching change on our planet.  There is probably a third one – the Cosmic Consciousness and our role in its evolution.

I’ve been noticing my personal flow as the topics of my exploration continue to flow into new venues.  I feel those coming and have learned to recognize them.

It’s the unfolding role in the greater picture that I am just beginning to recognize and define.  

I use words like the “Great Transformation” as we move into the power of the Feminine. But where are we going and what is our role there?

Your role will be newly defined.  There will be evolving and unfolding choices that shape our future 

The role of the Light Bearers in the larger shift is only now beginning to define itself.  And I have a feeling that the task at hand is so huge that we will go through many layers of unfolding revelation.  Be alert.  Be aware. Be ready. Creatively embrace change.

How We Walk the Path

I was on a lovely journey and I was getting deep messages.  When suddenly I got: “You do not need to know the destination, it is the path and the way you walk it that counts for now.”  And I abruptly ended the journey.  I have been looking for my next. The goals. The path. And that’s not what I should be looking for. I am to notice and be aware of how I am walking my path. Is it with a broad and inclusive awareness? Is it with a deeper understanding? Is it with a willingness to explore and perhaps change directions if called upon? Am I flexible? This is not a time to make concrete plans. It is it a time to look deeply within to understand why you came onto the planet in this particular bodily expression.  What deep core calling is guiding you and how are you are to be in service, particularly now, in this time of dramatic change. Be still and listen. And you will hear. 

How Meaningful is Your Work?

Does your work make your heart sing? Do you love to go to your place of employment, your place of service, and do your thing? Do you end your day feeling fulfilled and satisfied and rewarded knowing that you have made a difference? You’ve changed a life.  That you have used all your skills and gifts and talents for the highest good?

I get those kinds of feelings when I finally release something to the world. It may be my newsletter or it may be a podcast. It may be an email or Zoom exchange. The act of writing those offerings is my growth process. It is my period of exploration and choosing. But it is the moment of release when I send it out into the world that gives me a sense of completion and accomplishment. Once again the image of the bell tower, the carillon that is in my Sacred Garden comes to mind. Pealing my words, my thoughts, my ideas, my version of life out into the world to be heard or not heard. To be listened to or to or ignored. The point is I play my music. I sing my song. And I send it out into the world. 

I have control over who or how my end product affects others. Perhaps your work is a piece of a greater whole. Focus on the greater whole. The part you help to create. Your role in the over-arching outcome.

Choose work that is meaningful. Find ways to make your contribution meaningful. Bless your work and fill it with the energy of purpose to go with it as it leaves your hands. Perhaps create a blessing for your work as you complete each aspect or bless tour contributions at the end of your day, sending it out with purpose for the highest good. How meaningful is your work and how can you raise your sights?

===EMBRACING CHANGE – WEEKLY NEWSLETTER ===

I know these newsletters are long but I keep learning exciting concepts I want to share and explore with you.  I seem to be entering a particularly exciting stage of discovery right now.  I am going to start sending out a newsletter every week so hopefully, they will not be so long for one sitting and I can keep sharing all the exciting things I am learning. I’m not sure that will solve the length problem but it sure will take us on some exciting adventures! 

===CARA’S CORNER===

Weaving 0ur New Home

Those of us who are aware are weaving a new home, a new way to exist.  Like the spider, we must weave from within ourselves – from the inner work we do, from the visioning we do, from our expanding consciousness of the high level of our vibration. 

We must make internal changes before weaving our new home from within our own vision.  

Give yourself over to the unimaginable – how do you want to exist?  A land of supportive interaction working toward the higher good of all?  We create  that with visioning.  We create that by raising what we believe is possible. 

First, we imagine it.  Then it takes form.  What are you focusing on? What do you believe is possible?

As an older person not in the thick of things, I have to trust others to see the new possibilities and to step into them.  But I can hold the intention.  I can hold the essence of a very high vibration. I can hold an expectation of what is possible.  Visioning counts.  Intention counts.  Expectation counts.  Step upon the high road and become the leader you are and light the way to a higher way of being. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Web I Weave

My web is made of silken thoughts, each brought forth from within me with care and deliberate craftsmanship. 

My web is made of silken thoughts, each brought forth from within me with care and deliberate craftsmanship. I breathe love into it.  I breathe inclusion into it.  And the strands grow stronger.  

My web is made of silken thoughts, each brought forth from within me with care and deliberate craftsmanship. I breathe love into it.  I breathe inclusion into it.  And the strands grow stronger.  The web I weave is my home.  I build it with deliberate and caring intention.

-Cara Lumen, October 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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