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Nimble Thinking

Living Our Deeper Song

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

This is becoming the age of the Digital Nomad.  We learned how to work from anywhere because of the pandemic so why not go live where you want to? More and more people are conducting their online business from interesting parts of the world. 

What naturally follows is that financial transitions are becoming creatively fluid.  My friend Thuy Pham gave me a lesson on Bitcoin the other day. I think part of the rapid growth of digital coin is from the Digital Nomads who are doing business with each other in many countries and need an international way to exchange money. How wonderful to simply be able to exchange your own digits money without figuring out or obtaining foreign currency. Having your own currency is a way to work around third-party institutions. So there are now digital entrepreneurs creating their own money and using that for peer-to-peer transactions. Two people, anywhere in the world, can send virtual coin to each other without the involvement of a bank, government, or other institution. Think what opportunities that opens up!!! This is helping artists and musicians sell their own work directly.

It made me realize how radically our thinking needs to change in order to move into this new life that is unfolding. Apparently, you can set up ways through virtual money to rent a car or obtain entrance to the vacation rental you booked.  It’s a whole new way of paying each other.  

So guess what, we all get to learn something really new. And I’m still at the stage that I had to have help activating a new bank debit card and then getting it on Venmo. With virtual money there is no bank!  Consider that.

We are going to have to become aware and know a bit about a lot of new ways to do all manner of things. I have no idea how to keep up with this other than to stay curious and go a bit deeper into the fields and resources and uses that are useful in the direction we are going.  

Younger generations cannot write their name in cursive or write a check and they know how to type with their thumbs. The world is changing and we need to keep learning and changing in order to keep up. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am open to learning new ways to do everything. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • If you are in business for yourself you may want to check out Brian Clark.
  • Keep studying the changes in your own industry. Explore the new options. Learn what you need to learn.
  • Be open to change in your thinking and your actions.

===INNER WORK===

Draw Your Way to Clarity

Drawing is a very powerful tool – use it to draw your way to clarity. I’ve been doing pencil drawings of some of my shamanic journeys for quite some time.  This week I drew an experimental garden to explore what crops I want to plant for next year.  Drawing an idea shows you sequence, priorities, and levels of importance.  You gain insights based on what order you draw the features, how big or small it is, where it is placed on the page, and how you find one word that holds many concepts.  For instance, I thought I was going to draw all sorts of “steps” for healing my body, and instead I drew one very tall, very strong tree.  I have a Path of Curiosity winding throughout my garden and a hedgerow of Imagination.  See how this goes? You have an idea and drawing it adds dimensions to your understanding that you might not have seen before.  

Stick figures and signs with labels are fine.  Drawing your thoughts is an amazing way to clarify what you are seeing inside you.   Start drawing your vision into being.                                                                                                                                                                                                       

===SELF-HEALING===

One Small Shift

Self-healing occurs in increments – sometimes very small increments. One moment I got up from a chair and found that I was standing straighter. That affected everything I did. My walking improved but most of all it lifted my spirits. That small cornerstone shift is rippling up through my body. And I expect there to be more positive changes. 

You know how sometimes if you shift your gaze you see a whole new vista? Our life choices are like that. We need to shift our gaze even a little bit, and the view will be different. New opportunities will appear. New possibilities will come to mind. All because we made one small shift. How can you shift your gaze today?

Release Fear

In the drawing of the experimental garden that I prepared in order to understand what I’m gonna do next year, I put a compost pile. And the only thing I put in it this time was fear. It was quite a relief to put fear in the compost pile. I’m not afraid of being dead because all sorts of interesting things are going to be happening then, but I’m not exactly excited about going through the process of dying since I don’t know what’s going to quit on me to make me leave the planet. But now I have placed my fear in the garden compost pile of my experimental garden and I will keep it there in all my future gardens.  

What are you uncertain about?  What are you apprehensive about?  What are you fearful about?  Put it in the compost pile and let it turn into nourishment for your ongoing garden of self.  

Watch For the Small Shifts

As my body goes through its course of self-correction I am watching two things – the shifts that affect the whole body and thus opens up new possibilities, and how/where my attention and choices are shifting as new opportunities unfold. 

My body continues to release and thus dramatically rearrange itself.  Suddenly a whole section is working and interacting differently and new movements are possible.  A small shift of releasing one small something enabled a huge portion of my body to work with more alignment.  That realization shifts my attention to greater possibilities, more activities and my expectation of what is possible. It’s not so much about keeping track of the small shifts.  It is about paying attention to what new possibilities open up because of  your shift in view. Watch for the small shifts and look ahead to the newly opened vistas.

===OUTER  WORK===

Building a New Habit

You know it’s good for you.  You know you want to do it.  How do you build a new habit so that you look forward to the experience and do it regularly? My favorite trick is to say, “Think how good it will feel when (the task you are dreading) is completed…” That moves me into the sense of accomplishment that will be my reward. That trick started when it became harder to take my trash out because of my ability to walk. But now I have solved that problem with my walker and taking the trash out is simply a walk outside. But it’s still a good trick. “Think how good it will feel when I…”  

Choose what you want to establish with awareness. Is it too hard or too easy or is it too boring? How can you make it an adventure?

Where you put this new habit in your day makes a difference. My morning time at my computer is sacred creative time. So nothing else gets to go there. But I may want to establish a study time. And that feels like the afternoon might be a good place for that. Look at the rhythm of your day and your energy and experiment until you find the right place to place that new activity so it has a chance to become the new habit you wish to establish.

Stay Fluid and Flexible

It’s easy to get too rigid in your life – certain times to do this, certain days to do that.  What if you just went with the flow, the flow of inspiration, the insights of the moment, the unexpected ideas and opportunities that need exploring.  What a flowing, fluid life we would lead.  Add a little more give and take to your life.  Be more fluid and flexible. 

Do You Feel Relevant and Effective?

I was thinking about what I wanted 2022 to feel like and I realized I want to feel reliant and effective.  To me, that means continuous exploration of the Unseen World and openness to identify new choices the transformational community might work with. 

That means I have to be flexible, creative, imaginative, and allow myself to be guided to new ideas that can raise our awareness and our consciousness.  That’s a good way to spend a year. 

Rethink Your Systems

The end of the year is the perfect time to examine your systems.  Declutter.  Reorganize.  Rethink.  There is a clean slate aspect to a new year.  Examine your systems, how you handle your data, how you set priorities and create systems that will move you effectively and efficiently through the coming year. Create and adjust until you get your new system right. 

Persistence and Determination

My time with the physical therapist is nearly up. And I realize that all of whatever unfolds next, is up to me and my persistence and my determination. It is up to me to do whatever exercises seem to work the most. It is up to me to consciously stand up straight whenever I walk  so that my body gets used to standing straight. It is up to me to expect healing and hold the vision of wholeness.

The outcome is all up to me. There’s no one in this body but me. So what develops, what unfolds, comes from what I do. This means I have to pay attention to my beliefs and my choices and my actions and my expectations. I have to do the work. No one can do it for me. Are you taking charge of your life? Are you aware of your role in creating everything that occurs in your life? It’s all you. It’s your beliefs. It’s your imagination. It’s your expectations. It’s  your choice. All change comes from within you. You may have some work to do.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Winter Solstice Holy Day Writing 

by Maeanna Welti 

The night breathes slow, deep, long. The breath of the Earth moves up to meet the stars. Slow down, dear one. Slow down. Breathe.

The dark has its own music. The dark has its own spell. The dark is the breath that unclenches, bringing sweetness to our depths.

Be as the sleeping mountains. In the rhythm of your patience, the world will be revealed. In the drum beat of our hearts, all the lessons of the year will tell their stories. 

Winter is stillness. It is deep calm. It is huge. 

Carry your candle, yes. But do not let it blind you to the radiance of the dark. Do not let it crowd out the silence. Do not let it deafen the music of heartbeat, breath, starlight, humanity. 

We turn the wheel of the year. We are time unfolding, seasons following seasons flowing through us, bodies, hearts, minds. We walk through the grace of the year, and our wholeness is revealed. 

We walk through the wisdom of the seasons and learn ever more how to love and what we love. 

—Maeanna Welti © Mother Tongue Ink 2020. To learn more about Pagan Holy Days visit our blog,

Pagan Holiday Rituals and Traditions!  

This was printed in WE’Moon Lunar News.  I love her art. She has a  Weekly Starcode blog

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

Visit Your Future and Do Some Rearranging

Take time to visit your future. If you continue on this path where will you end up? What will it be like? What will you be like? Do you know where your current choices are taking  you? Is that where you want to go? Do you need to change directions? 

What do you believe is possible? That’s a huge consideration for what you are able to bring to your future. What do you believe is possible? What you believe you deserve is another huge thought process that affects the outcome of your future. Because the world is changing so dramatically we really get to make stuff up for our future because so much is possible we don’t even know about yet. So if you were making up your future what would it look like?  Perhaps you want to draw a few scenarios or describe them verbally, but go into some detail to explore what could be unfolding for you and be mindful of the steps you take right now and where they might lead you. We make up our lives. Let’s make up a good one.

 My View of the World

My view of the world is a tree, the sky, and a parking lot.  I no longer go anywhere.  How has your view of life become restricted?  Narrowed?  Confined?  Are you living in your own little corner or are  you seeking other ways to connect with a greater whole?

My tree is a messenger from me to the world.  Her roots send my love through the earth to other roots all over the planet.  Her life cycle keeps me tuned to my own life cycle.  

The sky is a harbinger of change.  Between shape-shifting clouds and remarkable sunsets, it is alive and vibrant and it speaks to me.  My one view is full of interconnection with nature, the planet, the cosmos, the Great Awareness.  

Wherever you are you can find the sky and connect with the world. How will you let nature expand your sense of belonging? 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Stay Fluid – A Flexible Who-And-Do-What Statement

I have a new who-and-do-what statement that is broad enough to move with the unfolding Divine Feminine’s ongoing revelation of her qualities and her purpose.  I was going to suggest we create a new who-and-do-what statement for the new year until I realized that could possibly lock us in because the world is unfolding in so many new directions.  There will be new jobs, new needs to serve, and new directions to explore.  We could make a vow to stay true to our gifts.  That would hold us in good stead.  Go exploring and be true to our gifts – whether they are already developed or simply waiting to be put into a new place of service. 

Having said that I have a new Who and Do What Statement for 2022.

A who-and-do-what statement is a powerful way to identify and focus your role.  I learned it from Michael Port as a Book Yourself Solid Coach.  A  who-and-do-what statement can change your direction and focus your intentions.  You do need to check it periodically to see if it is big enough for where you want to go. 

I help (who you help)

To do (what you help them do)

So that (what they can do when you help them)  

Let me show you how dramatically this can change your understanding of the direction you are going and the role you are developing. 

Here’s the one I just had: 

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

Here’s the one I just created: 

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.

That sure propelled me into a new vision of what I am doing.

It does help to give deep thought to who you want to serve.  Is it a group of people, is it the planet, is it follow explorers? If you write a who-and-do-what for 2022 keep it broad and flexible. Keep it on your desktop and change it as the year and the opportunities unfold.  

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

How Are You Still Relevant and Useful?

I’m working on my vision for 2022 and as a really old person, I still want to feel relevant and useful. I can thank my mind and my curiosity for keeping me exploring.  Thank  you for reading and listening to my thoughts.  My life would be quite empty if I did not have you to share with. I had not thought about evaluating each choice to see if it is relevant and usefull.  Playing Spider Solitaire is not relevant or useful. Hugging my cat is.  Writing my newsletter and podcast are both relevant and useful. I now make choices that deepen my spirituality, expand my wisdom and entertain my curiosity. 

Career Paths in the Divine Feminine

We are happiest when we are using all our gifts during our days.  That means in our job and our choice of free time.  The Divine Feminine is asking us to reevaluate our gifts and put them to work for the highest good.  You may be excited to be the creator and developer of an idea or you might be just as excited to be the person who puts together one piece that makes the whole project come together.  Each role is important and we are to take pleasure and satisfaction in the role we take. We are to keep choosing for the highest good. 

As the Divine Feminine emerges, we have to become explorers. Our job is to understand the gifts we have been given, the passion we hold in our hearts, and find the most effective and satisfying place of service in this rapidly evolving world. 

Where I am now in my life, what I know how to do, is what brought me to where I stand on the path today. 

The more open I stay to unfolding opportunities, the more I get to explore and discover and implement. Keep an eye on what is unfolding in the Divine Feminine and identify new places of service that could be rewarding for you.  Then go do them. 

===INTENTION BLESSING===

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

May we expand our hearts and our expectations.

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

May we keep our gaze on the summit.

May we take this journey with a full heart. 

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

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

Spiritual Practice

How to Hold High Watch for the Planet

Self Healing

What Do You Need to Leave Behind?

Expanding Awareness

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

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

and the 

Deeper Song Website

===CARA’S CORNER===

Choose From the Future

Your future is the higher potential inside you and it is already part of the cosmos. It evolves from the choices you make that stimulate new growth and evolution.

The highest potential inside you.  How do we know what that is? As I watch the world change, everyone’s role is changing.  Our choices are changing. Our responsibilities are shifting.  It is an extremely fluid time.  

We have choice – in every moment. We choose what we believe.  We choose what we think.  We choose what we say.   We choose what we do.  And each one of those acts sends out a ripple that reaches and touches and changes – something.  We need to put our ripples out with care and conscious choice.  

What is the highest potential inside you?  How do you find it?  How do choose it and turn it into action?

Listen to your inner voice.  Listen to the subtle nudges and hunches the universe provides. Your next steps, your path, are waiting there for you to recognize and embark upon. Keep looking.  Keep choosing.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Reaching Your Highest Potential  

My highest potential awaits fulfillment. It is mine to recognize and fulfill.  

My highest potential awaits fulfillment. It is mine to recognize and fulfill. The choices I make create my reality.

My highest potential awaits fulfillment. It is mine to recognize and fulfill. The choices I make create my reality. I observe carefully and choose from my deepest awareness.  

– Cara Lumen, December 2021

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

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

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The Path Above the Chaos

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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

The Backpack Journey

Journey to a Chamber of the Seven Sacred Rays

Your Role as a Visionary Harp

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

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===

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)

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

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To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

We Are Cosmic Consciousness- A Deeper Song Expanded Perspective

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

Your Role as a Visionary Harp

Journey to the Sacred Feminine

Journey to the Sacred Masculine

Journey to a Chamber of the Seven Sacred Rays

The Backpack Journey

===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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Autonomy – The New Freedom

By

Autonomy  – The New Freedom

Creating Conscious Connection

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

Autonomy is about self-governing.  Being independent. Taking responsibility for all your choices – and their outcome.  It is very freeing.  Autonomy is about being true to yourself. It is about having a sense of freedom and control in your life.  

On the mental level I feel very free in my life.  I get to write about what calls to me and explore what beckons without any regard to trying to make a living. I truly can explore anything I want – mentally.  Physically not so much anymore. But my inner world is expanding…

I have a very strong sense of purpose and the imagination and flexibility to allow my focus to shift as I expand my awareness and my horizon. I go exploring a lot.  And I listen to my inner voice all the time.  

Autonomy is about your sense of purpose. I am exceedingly lucky to be 88 and have such a strong sense of purpose. It makes my days rich in exploration and discovery.

Autonomy is also about what you refuse to put up with any longer. I made a very unusual decision 50 years ago to leave the Midwest and go to New York City.  It was life-changing.  My first week in NYC, I attended an event with a panel of achieving women saying they were more powerful because of having taken  “est” and that was the beginning –  est, Reiki Master Teacher Fourth Degree, Certified Bach Flower Counselor, Trager Practitioner.  I taught Reiki to young men when the AIDS epidemic was just beginning.  I read only philosophical books and took classes at the New School with powerful teachers and I immersed myself in a great city for discovery and expansion.  I explored things that were not yet in the mid-west I had left. 

Even when I was working for someone else, I worked as a temp rather than commit.  I was an explorer on a roll!

This is a fascinating time to reposition ourselves, to open up new paths to explore and potentially take.

Pause to examine what you are tolerating now that you don’t want to do, don’t need to do, or seems not to be lining up for you right now.  What can you release?

What is your passion?  Your primary gifts? Are you using them?

Cultivate a new community of like-minded friends online and support each other in moving along your similar paths together. 

What do you want to manifest in your life right now?   Choose one and find creative ways to make it happen. 

How are you expressing your autonomy – your individuality – your sacred calling? 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I make choices that are true to my gifts and my purpose. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • This is a time of great change. Look back at your life and see what unused or unexplored gifts you have that you would love to explore.
  • Do that. 

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 have a discussion on the Deeper Song Explorers!

===DEEPER SONGS I EXPLORED THIS MONTH===

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

An Exploration of the Unseen World

We are in an era of profound change.  How we form our “next”, our future, is up to us and the choices we make today – in each moment.  

The world seems so chaotic. There is so much going on, that it is easy to feel helpless, like a small pebble in a very large ocean. But we have great power and it lies in each choice, each thought, each belief. 

Our destiny is up to us. We must take self-responsibility for what we think, the words we speak, the actions we take, the choices we make and the beliefs we hold. That’s how we manifest our “next.”  Our destiny.

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and Founder of the Deeper Song Community is a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

In this episode we explore

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

(17 Minutes)

(Listen Here)

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

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

What Do You Need to Leave Behind?

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

The Vibration behind Your Beliefs

The Magical Power of an Affirmation

How to Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe  

===INNER WORK===

Centered Serenity – Ready but Waiting

I’ve drawn the Oracle card “Ready but Waiting” a lot the past few months. How we wait is important.  “Centered Serenity” came up for me.  I can be expectant or excited but the best place for waiting for something to unfold is in centered serenity.  A peaceful place of being present in the now. An aware place of listening deep within. There is nothing to do – you are ready and you are to wait for your next step to unfold.

As I learn to wait with centered serenity,  I use my breath to move into my Still Point, drop my shoulders, relax my body, and immerse myself  in the silence around me. I am in a moment of being nothing – of being everything. As I allow my body to merge with and dissolve into the unseen world, I experience myself as part of a grand scheme, a larger purpose.  And I know and trust that when I wait with open willingness, my next step will be shown to me in the perfect tine. 

Make Room for Change

Change can take its time unfolding and it can also happen in an instant. We get to be both patient and alert. And don’t overthink the nudges and ideas and circumstances that show up. Let it unfold and chose in the moment.   

When a new idea or circumstance presents itself, center yourself and examine it from an overview perspective of where you are and where you want to go.  

These months of cutting back on content have given me space to rebalance, to explore new ideas, to adjust what I am doing  All because I made space – the space of nothing to do except what I felt called to do in the moment.  If that was thinking, fine. If it was a nap, fine.  If it was an idea to explore, even better.  Immerse yourself in a large chunk of nothingness and see what shows up.

===OUTER  WORK===

See the Bigger Picture 

It’s so easy to get caught up in detail and lose sight of our bigger vision.  I’m watching this new vision for process podcasts unfold and because it is unfolding I need to stay loose, I need to be flexible.  I need to be patient.  I need to give myself room for this vision to unfold – allow time for the concepts to evolve and mature.  So each step I take is leading me into a broader view of what is possible.  

Give up on the details and raise your gaze to see where you are headed.

===DEEPEN  YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

The Huge Impact of our Word Choices 

We are not always conscious of our word choices and the affirmation they give us.  “I can’t” is the first one that comes to mind.  That’s a show-stopper.  Feel the difference in these words: That’s easy.  That’s too far.  That’s hard.   That’s exciting. That’s fun.  I love this. That is beautiful.  My heart is open.  I feel the connection. All is well in my world.  

Just notice the words you say to yourself and others as you move through your day.  And perhaps rethink some of your word choices…

Where is Your Sanctuary?

A sanctuary is a place for refuge, a place of safety.  Where is your sanctuary?

Sometimes we find sanctuary in nature.  Sometimes we find sanctuary in music.   Sometimes we find sanctuary in family or friends. 

I have a pretty even life going on so the idea of seeking sanctuary is a bit odd for me but what promoted this was the idea of a “garden as refuge.” To me that means a place of serenity, tranquility, contemplation.  

My entire home is a sanctuary, a place of nurturing and restoration, a place of creativity and discovery.  And every day in ceremony, I set up protection and raise its vibration.

Sanctuary means a place where you can be alone – with just you and your thoughts and feelings. You might find sanctuary in the ring support of others, but the sanctuary I’m thinking of is where you go to be with yourself. Do you set aside time to do that?

I have a morning ceremony in which I sit and look out at nature and play my flutes and drums and tuning forks and offer my intentions for the day and draw my oracle card.  That is a sacred time for me – a meaningful time –  and it sets the tone for my day.  

Where is your sanctuary and how do you use it?     

===DEEPER SONG  INSIGHTS ===

Dictation

Have you learned to dictate to your computer yet? It is a most freeing and amazing technique to master.  

On a Mac Choose Edit > Start Dictation (from the Edit menu at the top of your screen).

Tip: If dictation is set up, you can also press the Function key (fn) on your keyboard twice to start dictation.

This is super fast.  That function key is in the lower left hand corner so it’s very handy.  When the microphone appears, start talking.  And be sure to speak the punctuation like “period” or you will have one doozy of a run-on sentence….

(Sorry, can’t help you on a PC.)

I’ve begun to dictate a lot and I love it!  It also spells better than I do….

===MY DEEPER SONG  ADVENTURES ===

The Seven Sacred Rays – A New Offering

I am still tingling as I write to share this.  I am taking shamanic class from Puma Fredy Quispe Singona and we are studying the Seven Sacred Rays.  We began with the red and orange ray.  I took a journey to the Red Ray yesterday but today I took a journey to the Orange Ray and I am still tingling all over as I write this. After my journey, I immediately begin to write the first draft of a guided meditation journey I will share with you in a future podcast. I wrote the first Deeper Song Guided Meditation to the Orange Ray.  It is very powerful and I will record a guided journey/meditation for each of the Seven Sacred Rays.  But meanwhile, I have just written a first draft and allowed myself to be deeply guided as I did.  There are many steps to take before I share it with you – journey for guidance, writing the script, recording, editing, but this series is a high priority. So here we go adventuring – together.

More on the Seven Ray Journeys

I have just begun my work with the Seven Sacred Rays but the message I am receiving is that the Seven Rays are portals to the Unseen World. They are our connection, our bridge.  We must simply expand our awareness, raise our sights, and journey on. This is incredibly powerful work and it has just begun.

=== MY BOOKS ON AMAZON===

Author Page

I Want to Sing a Deeper Song

The Art of Wholing: Creative Consciousness for Change

Shape Your Journey, Clarify Your Calling: A Deeper Song

Do  You Need a New Tribe?

How to Read the Signs and Signals that Help You Build Your Business From Your Inside Out

Metaphysics and the Art of Dying

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

What Do You Need to Leave Behind?

I think I even misread the concept.  The post said to rethink our services page from the standpoint of a visitor.  I like the idea of reviewing my website but since I only offer podcasts and newsletters I have no services page and I went to my About page.  I made some major changes that sharpened my focus. 

If you have a website, I suggest you review it yearly to see if it still reflects what you are doing and where you are heading.  

I’m going to do fewer personal growth posts and move more deeply into the Unseen World. I very much need to shorten my newsletter but I get excited and want to share.  

Whether you are an entrepreneur or have a job, write your who-and-do-what statement to get a handle on where you are and where you would like to go.

I help (the people you help)

To do (what you help them to do)

So that (what your work teaches/frees them to do. 

If that is your goal, how are you delivering that result?  Do you need to update your offerings? How do you need to redefine and reposition in today’s new and unfolding energy?

== MESSAGES FOR THE DEEPER SONG COMMUNITY FROM THE SACRED EARTH ORACLE CARDS===

Revision

“Revision” is the oracle card I drew for us. We are constantly revising our direction as we change our choices. We are consciously and constantly revising our conclusions as we gain more information. So does revision mean new information? Does revision mean leaving some things out? I like the idea of revising my thinking. As these new process podcasts emerge, I am  revising my thinking about what they should be like, what they should contain, what the order is. So new information and new viewpoints are some of the qualities that go into making a revision. 

What do you need to revise? What do you need to let go?  Revision can be about a total rearranging and it can also be revising one word. One phrase. What are you going to revise in your life and how are you going to do it? Oh yes, and when are you going to do it???

Sacred Earth Cards

===CARA’S CORNER===

Give Yourself Time

It isn’t that I haven’t been getting the messages, it’s that I hadn’t been heeding the messages.  I thought I had a huge breakthrough.  I re-wrote my who-and-do-what statement and it allowed many ideas to simply drop away and I felt myself rise into my new place of service. 

But in looking back over my notes from both my shamanic journeys and my notes from my daily oracle card drawings, the ideas for this change in direction have been hammering me on the head until I finally got the message.  The clues and suggestions were there – again and again, and again.  And yet the day it all came together for me was like being shot out of a cannon.  Many ideas and possibilities dropped away because they were not included in this new mission statement, this new definition of my purpose. They were no longer a part of my Grand Plan.

And it has taken months.  

And yet the day it all came together, it was like feeling myself rise to the surface ad begin to swim in strong sure strokes.  I knew my new purpose and my destination.  It feels great 

The Universe is talking to you. The Universe is showing you.  And each nudge takes you closer to where you are to do next. 

Notice what you need to free up in order to make room or this new awareness to unfold.  It has been important for me to make space to ask myself what I feel like doing – and then do that.  I was too crowded with have-to’s that I had made up to have time for many feel-like times. 

I also had to accept an idea that has bothered me since I first heard it. Last year Shamanist Ingerman said some of us were going into a new level of consciousness and it was our job to help others find the bridge and cross it or not.  Not everyone would come over and that really bothered me.  And yet, as I do a reality check on what I can and cannot do at 88, there is not much I can do on the physical plane to address physical plane needs, but I can do a lot on the inner planes.  I take a reality check to see where my choices have led me, see how aligned I am with my overarching goal, and chose my next steps that I can and will joyously do. Then I clarify my over-arching purpose. I’m like a helium balloon being let go to soar off into the sky.  

So here’s my updated who-and–do-what statement.  In many ways, it’s not new, except for the final step which allows me to stop doing some of what I was doing and focus on the adventures into the unseen world that I cherish.  

“I help those of us who are aware of our role as vibrational beings
To raise our vibration, elevate our expectations, and move into a higher level of conscious participatio
So that we can cross the bridge to a new dimension and bring others along with us.n
I do that by offering experiences that deepen our awareness of ourselves as pure vibration.”

How has your purpose changed?  What will you let go?  What does that free you to focus on?

A DEEPER SONG

I lift the anchor of beliefs and expectations. 

I lift the anchor of beliefs and expectations that have been holding me back. 

I lift the anchor of beliefs and expectations that have been holding me back and raise my sails to catch the wind!!!!!

I am off on an adventure. 

I am off on an adventure and I trust the winds of change to guide me well.  

I am off on an adventure and I trust the winds of change to guide me well.  I skim the Ocean of Perennial Promise and keep my eye on the emerging horizon. 

Yeah adventuring. 

– Cara Lumen March 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 adventurers explore the Unseen World so that we broaden and deepen our personal journey and turn to share our discoveries with others.  We are guides and way-showers with our light held high.

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It’s Time to Shift into a New Possibility

By

Creating Conscious Connection

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

A shift is a gradual change.  It is like moving your sail a bit to catch the wind differently and thus steadily directing yourself to an entirely new destination.  I like that way of changing – a shift in focus that takes me to a new destination.   

I also like the idea of new possibilities.  It means that I can make a slight shift and from that new viewpoint, I can see new vistas, new directions, new possibilities – all by simply shifting my gaze. 

A possibility is not a “have-to” place to go.  A possibility is a place to explore, to consider, to try on for size.  You can take all of it or part of it or none of it.  

The idea is to shift – to turn our gaze, to look more closely at new options, to perhaps even explore a bit.  

Shift.  If we keep shifting our weight from one foot to another – we don’t go anywhere, but our view is different and our body is being used differently, all because we changed the emphasis, the focus, the weight from one place to another. 

Shifting can be like moving around furniture in a room or it can be like moving a dish a few inches on a counter to line it up better.   Small changes can make things align differently, open up new vistas, and create new possibilities. 

Shift your gaze. Center your attention in one place and slowly and consciously begin to identify the different energies and the feelings and sensations that viewpoint generates. Immerse yourself in the feeling of the energy, exploring the messages you intuit.  Change your gaze or your compete location to engage in a deeper experience of the messages of the energy you are aware of. The operative concept here is to shift.  Shift your gaze. Shift your thoughts. Shift your attentions.  Shift your intentions.   

How will you shift your gaze today?  Look closely at the new vistas it opens up. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I consciously shift my awareness and go adventuring.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Close your eyes and notice how you feel, what you hear, how the air smells.  Let those experiences soak into you. 
  • Now go deeper, leaving the physical plane behind, and shift your awareness to the Unseen World.  Leave behind all awareness of your body, or all sound, even of your breathing.  
  • Where are you? What do you see?  What do you feel?  
  • See where a gentle shifting of your gaze can take you?

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 have a discussion on the Deeper Song Explorers!

 ===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEEPR SONG====

Step Beyond the Limits of Yourself

An Exploration of the Unseen World

“The Tao is vast and fathomless. You can understand only by stepping beyond the limits of yourself,” says Stephen Mitchell in the Second  book of Tao.

What does that mean? What are the limits of myself?  How do I do that?

The word “Tao” means all-ness, everything that is, everything that exists, seen and unseen.  Tao IS.

And here we sit, all stuffed into our limited bodies, relying on limited resources trying to understand this immense vastest.  Where do we even begin?

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and Founder of the Deeper Song Community is a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

In this episode we explore

Step Beyond the Limits of Yourself

(17 Minutes)

(Listen Here)

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

Important Links From This Episode:

Stephen Mitchell Tao te Ching and Second book of Tao

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Can You Experience Your Boundlessness

How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe  

How to Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

The Power of Your Still Point

The Unseen World Needs Us

The Magical Power of an Affirmation

= ==INNER WORK ===

 The Empty Room

What if your life right now was like an empty room? You could bring into it only the things you like. What would you bring in?

I love the serene energy of a basic Feng Shui arrangement – usually 3-5 pieces. That might be a chair, a lamp and a table, or it may be a dish and plant and candle on a tabletop.  But I could never just choose three of anything for a tabletop or shelf. I am definitely not a minimalist and at the same time I appreciate the serenity of simplicity.

We get to become aware how just one more thing upsets the perfect balance.   

What is the first item you would bring into your inner room?  My computer has to come – for writing and learning and interconnecting. 

I would want my cat, Sebastian, to be with me.  We have a great interactive time. He is a supportive friend.

And then I would like a schefflera plant – a big one. I love those. 

A plant, a cat, and a computer.  Good so far.

I would like a place to rest and a way to feed myself.  

That makes for a fairly simple and clear space – until I bring in my crystals and my flutes and my drums…. 

But what I have established in my own mind is my priorities.  That helps.  

I recently gave away a lot of stuff.  My daughter and her husband helped me by hauling it away.  It was amazing how the energy in my home changed with that major letting go.  And I did gradually rethink and rearrange all the surfaces in my home.  Less crowded a bit, but very meaningful for my current awareness and nurturing to look at. 

If you were to begin with an empty room, what would you bring in and in what order?  And most importantly, when do you stop adding things…

Begin with an empty room…

Listen for the Messages of Your Heart

It’s not that your inner voice and the messages from your heart are different, it’s just that they are presented in a different way to help you interpret them. 

My inner voice picks up words and ideas that trigger a response in me.  I explore them and develop them. Some I keep.  Some I don’t.  I do that so often that I’m getting really good at it. 

I really had to stop to see how I hear the messages of my heart.  My heart spoke to me when I got super excited over helping a new friend find the words for her new website. I had a great time, the results were powerful and I had a marvelous time helping her figure out the positioning of her work.  Yes, it was mental but it made my heart sing. My creativity touches my heart.

Playing my flutes each day resonates to my core.  Sometimes it is simple melodies to nature that show up. Sometimes it is the specific songs I have composed for the directions and elements.  The melodies come from my deepest inner self and resonate throughout my body. They are definitely songs of my heart.

I’m in my mind a lot so I may need to practice listening to the messages of my heart. It will be as simple as looking for them. 

Having said that, my mind unerringly leads me to ideas and actions that make my heart sing.

We are a multi-faceted being and we get to access our actions from both our heart and our inner knowing.  Which is louder for you?  How will you turn up the volume?

Use Your Intention to Transform

We manifest things through our intention.  We set an intuition to do something and we do it.  We sent an intuition to change our focus and we do.  In shamanic journeying, we set an intention for our journey. At my altar, I set an intention for my day.  I set an intention for the energy I offer my work. 

Intentional intention….!

What do you intend for today?  What do you intend for your life?   Intention is purpose.   Intention is a plan.  Intention is a focus. Intention makes things happen. What is your intention? Think big.  Aim high!

The Dreams/Expectations You Were Given

So much of what we manifest for ourselves is based on a dream we were given.  An expectation for our lives from others.  Women my age did not have jobs, we were expected to get married and raise children.  Period. 

A young woman of today does not have that expectation for herself or her future. She has multiple choices and she goes exploring. And her expectations for herself are high. 

Let’s say your entire family is artistic and had managed to make their living as artists.  Not necessarily an easy thing to do.  But what if a member of that family is artistic but can’t follow in the footsteps of the others, even though the longing is great, the skill or know-how or whatever else it takes to succeed is simply not there? What kind of a wound does that make? Does he or she keep pursuing a path that is not theirs to follow?  

What did your parents expect of you? Is that the direction you chose? Did you fail to live up to their expectations?  Or did you far exceed them?

I didn’t realize I expected all my children to go to college until my first child was brain damaged by a forceps delivery at birth and that path was never an option for her.  I had to change my expectations. 

I took a very unique turn in my life that made me who I am today.  If I had not made that unusual and daring choice, my life would be quite different.  I have lived on both coasts and my metaphysical education grew by leaps and bounds. My choice.  My experiences.  My results. 

Pause and examine what your parents expected of you and how that helped or hindered you.  Have you put aside a dream because of someone else’s expectation of who you should be and what you should do?  Not just parents, but friends, spouses, even children have expeditions that you may or may not meet. 

Pause and notice what you expect from yourself and where that expectation came from. Are some adjustments in order?

===OUTER  WORK ===

Rethink Your Routine

Routine means a fixed pattern, a sequence you continuously follow.  It may be what time you go to bed, when you eat or when you walk your dog.  My cat Sebastian, has a very insistent routine that is guid not by a clock but by his stomach.  He reminds me it is time to feed him. There are all types of prompts that create a response or a reaction. It is the thoughtfulness that goes into your choices that determine their ultimate relevance to the present moment.

Question your choices.  Are they a response or a reaction? 

I have more free time than I have created for myself in a while, yet I want that time to be relevant, rich in ideas, fertile in offerings I can share.  And that’s all I need for now. Just keep your eye on your overarching goal, reset your routine and let your daily choices take you in the new direction you have chosen. 

Like Attracts Like

Pause to look at the people you have attracted to you. What are they like? Happy, angry, contemplative, jovial, serious, relaxed? They are a mirror of you.  How do you like your reflection and what would you like to change about yourself?

= ==DEEPEN  YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE ===

The Offering

I bought the Lotus Incense Holder for – incense – but instead I am using it for my personal offering – with my breath.  It has a lid which I lift as if I were letting smoke out and I name what I am offering – “I offer my curiosity, my love of writing, my sense of adventure to my day and its unfolding.”

There are many ways to make an offering. I have some paper I can write on that dissolves in water.  You can light a candle, you can use incense, you can simply use your breath to make the offering.  You can put your hands together and made a small bow. What will you offer to your world today?  How will you offer it?

Spring Equinox, March 20

If you garden, you have begun to look over the seed catalogs to see what you would like to plant for the coming year.  We can do the same for our life in the Spring Equinox. What we plant now is what we will harvest in the fall (or sooner) and what will tide us over in the winter. What will you plant?

I have a foundational planting of alternating podcasts and newsletters that seem to be a very good balance that leaves me time to explore. Now is the time for me to choose other things I want to explore or deepen or learn.

My problem is that I let things unfold and I can’t put them into a list. 

But I can make choices and go exploring.  

For instance, I want to do more shamanic journeying into the unseen world.  It’s hard to figure out any details beyond that.

One of the crops I want to plant is to expand my spiritual practice.  That means more moving meditation like Qi Gong, expanded musical meditation with flutes and drums, and using writing as meditation as I explore my thoughts.

We are plants too, growing in the Garden of Self, but I have a few “Cara” Plants growing that I would like to have less of – some habits of omission (like the need to walk more). Do keep an eye on the unwanted plants that show up. A weed is a plant too, but when it shows where it is not wanted it is considered a weed…

The overarching tone of my Garden of Self this year is exploration.  What crops are you going to plant?

= ==DEEPER SONG  INSIGHTS  ===

Koan

Shenshan was mending clothes with a needle and thread.
Dongshan asked, “What are you doing?”
Shenshan said, “Mending.”
Dongshan asked, “How are you mending?”
Shenshan said, “One stitch is like the next.”
Dongshan exclaimed, “We’ve been traveling together for twenty years now, and you can still say such a thing!
How can you be so dense?”
Shenshan asked, “OK, then, how do you mend?”
Dongshan said, “As if the whole earth were spewing flames.”

If you want to study Koan’s, I highly recommend Illana Berger, PhD

illanaberger@gmail.com, www.illanaberger.com

Formation  

I drew the Oracle card “Formation” after having drawn “Ready But Waiting” a number of times.  So perhaps this period I have gone through of knowing change was forming but not knowing what it would look like is moving forward. 

Formation can be very slow, like centuries of layers of sediment gradually build up layers to become rock.  Or it can be a rapid change, like lava pouring over the hillside to change its shape forever.  Forming is about shaping, evolving.  It is change. It is an emergence.  Like a baby bird working its way out of the shell in its own perfect time, or a caterpillar securely wrapped in its cocoon and gradually changing form.  Formation takes patience and awareness of its subtle changes. 

What is forming in your life and how is it unfolding?

= ==OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

A Path of Your Own 

The future is not about fitting into something that exists, it is about forging your own unique path, using the new technologies and concepts that are available to shape your own future.  

This is a time to celebrate your uniqueness.  To identify what sets you apart and cultivate that into a possible new path. 

This is no longer a time for figuring out how to fit into something that already exists because all that exists is in the process of changing, evolving, repurposing, and retooling. This is the time to make up a new role for yourself. 

I am listening to my inner voice make suggestions for slightly shifting my focus in a way that will both eliminate some of what I am doing and expand others. 

Whatever you develop, your path will be unique, yours alone, paved with choices that match your gifts, your interests, and your desire to serve.

Where you are standing right now is a result of the choices you have made along the line – both choices to do and choices not to do.  Identify what resonates, identify what led you to manifest that outcome, and create a path that is uniquely your own.

A Cosmic Question   

I heard the phrase “cosmic question” from Judge Merck Garland in his confirmation hearing for Attorney General in the US. It not only was an interesting phrase coming from a fact-based federal judge but I had to pause to figure out what it meant to me. 

I think it means to look at the over-arching impact. How far-reaching the answer to the question will be.  It means to look beyond the reason for the question into the potential impact of the possibilities the idea suggests.  What does that mean exactly?

A cosmic question means to look into the far-reaching consequences both for now and in the future and even in future generations.  What will this decision impact? Who will it impact? We are to look beyond the reason for the question into the possible and probable impact of the decision.

The most obvious example is our climate.  It’s not just about dropping our one plastic straw into the ocean, it’s about the zillions of other people who thoughtlessly do the same without any consideration for the future impact of that mindless act. Change is made in our consciousness -our conscious decisions, our conscious choices. 

When we do something, you can bet there are a whole lot of others doing the same.  What will our collective impact be?

Yes, we feel overwhelmed, but I control my own personal universe, as do you.  I am responsible for my own choices and for their impact. 

In essence, we are to ask a cosmic question about everything we do. Who will this impact?  What will it impact?  Is this what I want to do?

===MESSAGES FROM THE SACRED EARTH ORACLE CARDS  ===

Space

We need to give ourselves space to grow.  We need to give ourselves space to move.  We need to give ourselves space to think.  We do that with pauses. We do that with meditation. We give ourselves space when we simply pause to look out the window and connect with nature.  We open up space when we take a deep breath and move to our Still Point. 

Space is also about – well, space – the planets, the galaxy, the unseen world that is 95% of everything.  

Do you give yourself space to think?  To Feel?  To contemplate? To change?  How will you focus on space in the next few weeks?

Sacred Earth Cards

===CARA’S CORNER ===

Allow Time for It to Unfold

After many months of knowing change was coming. I finally and dramatically and totally had the vision come into being.  

I type my journeys as I experience them so when the clarity of this new direction finally kicked in, I went back to see what I had been told in my journeys of the last few months. 

The hints were there. In fact, they were more than hints.  I had just not been in a place to hear them.  Until suddenly I was and this next body of work became incredibly clear.  The Universe had to keep showing me the new direction a whole lot of times until I was ready to hear it.  

Guidance is there all the time. The more you listen, the more you hear. 

Journal, make some lists, gather more information, whatever form you need in order to make some of your ideas visible in the human realm so you can relate to them and consider them.  Write those ideas down in one place and when you are ready, you have a good-sized collection of potential answers.  

What am I going to do?  Process Podcasts.  Guided meditations that can be listened to multiple times that give you a different, individualized experience every time.  I have some processes recorded but not like these.  They are specific. These are about you filling in the experience.  So it will be different for you every time you listen because you will be accessing your inner wisdom. 

It takes time for ideas to unfold but when you are ready, they will be there in order to move you forward! Keep listening…!

===A DEEPER SONG ===

A new path opens, a new journey begins. 

A new path opens. A new journey begins and the road ahead widens.

A new path opens. A new journey begins and the road ahead widens to reveal untold possibilities. Here I go adventuring!!!!!!

-Cara Lumen

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 adventurers explore the Unseen World so that we broaden and deepen our personal journey and turn to share our discoveries with others.  We are guides and way-showers with our light held high.

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Adventures in Curiosity

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Adventures in Curiosity

Creating Conscious connection

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

Curiosity is one of our most powerful gifts.  Curiosity is a strong desire to know more about something.  Curiosity leads us on awesome adventures. 

How do you develop curiosity?  Wonder.   Wonder at the world around you.  Wonder at what others are doing.  Wonder at how an idea calls to you for more exploration.  

Not everyone seeks to be curious.  I’m writing this because we have all been shut in for so long and our curiosity is our key to learning and sociability and spiritual guidance.  

What are you curious about?  

It is easy to learn anything on the internet. There is a myriad of online classes.  I have taken classes in shamanism, drumming, native flute, Qi Gong, and sound healing.  Each time I took a class I gained a level of competence but I also satisfied or elevated my desire to learn more.  It’s good to be able to interpret how the learning resonates.  

You need a filter for what you choose to learn because it is easy to become overwhelmed.  For instance, there are many opportunities to study astrology but I am clear about how deeply I do or do not want to go into that topic. I am clear what I want to use it for – I’m interested in understanding the overarching  flow of planetary energies as a prompt to focus my energy work. That awareness of how I want to use it becomes a filter for me and enables me to choose only those sources that offer me the viewpoint I want to explore.

Podcasts are abundant.  Pick a topic and go find people who call to you.  Videos teach you everything from starting a plant cutting to elaborate computer techniques.

Be prompted in the moment.  I remember years ago when I kept a garden here, that several of us went to a bait shop to get earthworms to put in our garden. When I came home and had safely deposited mine in my raised garden bed, I went online to see how long an earthworm lived. (Eight years, though one to two is more likely.) Simple actions and a lively curiosity can lead to the search for new knowledge. 

Know when you are full up on a topic. Know how the topic rates on your level of interest.  Be selective. And go exploring.

I really liked the sound healing courses I took but there came a point when I realized that was not a direction I wanted to explore more deeply.  I was full up.  

On the other hand, I have a new shamanic teacher – my fourth.  I know he will add depth to my shamanic work. 

Sometimes it the topic that draws you more deeply.  Sometimes it’s the presenter.

There is great wisdom being shared on every topic.  Type in a keyword and go exploring. 

Curiosity will take you on amazing adventures. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I encourage my curiosity to open new doors for me.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Pick one topic and do a search. 
  • Explore three sources.
  • Notice what format draws you – video, audio, written words, courses.
  • Notice what presenter appeals to you – and why – their vocabulary, their topic, their presentation skills, or just a resonance. 
  • Keep exploring.  Leave a top behind when you feel satisfied and turn and go in another direction. 
  • Curiosity takes you on great adventures. Enjoy the journey!!!

I’d love to hear of your experiences – caralumen@gmail.com or let’s have a discussion on the Deeper Song Explorers!

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 have a discussion on the Deeper Song Explorers!

REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST

Become a Pillar of Light

An Exploration of the Unseen World

There are many ways we can self-heal.  Experiencing yourself as a pillar of light is a powerful way to heal yourself and raise your vibration. 

As I journey to the Unseen World I am given suggestions, nudges, ideas to explore.  Then I have to figure out how to apply them. 

Experiencing ourselves as light is very powerful because that is who we are.   The Pillar Light is a powerful process of deepened awareness to add to your spiritual practice.

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and Founder of the Deeper Song Community is a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

In this episode, we explore how to sell heal as you Become a Pillar of Light.

Become a Pillar of Light

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To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

When I See Myself As Light

Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work 

Another Part of You-The Unseen World 

How to Interpret the Messages from Within 

Energy Cannot Be Destroyed – Only Re-Purposed

***INNER WORK***

What is the Vision You Have For Yourself?

That is a particularly interesting question to ask at age 88!!!!

Your “next” is up to you.  What you choose to let go.  What you choose to bring along.  What you choose to ignore. Each moment, each choice shapes your future.  Be aware and go exploring.

My body is very grouchy so my focus is on finding ways to make her happy. This requires some exploration, experimentation, and some discipline.   

My eyesight is diminishing and I am learning to dictate more and at some point, I’m going to need help. That’s a bummer for me so I’m working on my adaptability and exploring what I will substitute for some of the things I depend on my sight for.  Do a reality check and make plans around what you discover. 

Look at what you have created and know that your actions and choices have brought you here.  Then decide what you would like to change it and get busy. 

Figure out what you need to know next.  Technology is leaping forward and opening fascinating new doors. You can make new friends all over the world.  You can take fascinating classes.  Make choices that add richness to where you are in your life right now and go exploring to see what new path you would like to take.  

The Guidance in Overwhelm

It was a great idea. A great new venue for learning things and I felt immense overwhelm.  It was too much.  I could not absorb it all.  I stopped to figure out why – I love to learn – what was turning me off of a great learning opportunity?

Overwhelm is like a flagman signaling for a train to slow down and even stop.  We need to pay attention to overwhelm.

I love to learn but what I realized was that I did not want to learn this – this particular focus was not where I was headed.  And that was a key realization. Know what direction you want to travel in. 

I’m no longer going where I was headed, I’m going in a slightly different direction and it is still unfolding.  This feeling of overwhelm is like a huge signal from the Universe saying – this is not for you – it will pull you off track.  

If it is particularly hard to do, if you do not want to do it, pay attention and see if you can see where the reluctance comes from.

This reluctance to explore practical ideas is because my work is now focused on energy work – not physical plane work.   I needed to figure that out. 

Overwhelm is a signal that something is not right – it is not balanced or it is not taking you in the direction you need to go next.  

Explore overwhelm for its messages and insights. 

Allow Space and Time for Renewal

I’ve drawn the oracle card Renewal three times this month and each time, I was able to move more deeply into what I thought that meant to me.

Allow space and time for renewal.  

I gave away a LOT Of stuff this month and it gave me the opportunity to reconfigure everything in my life from my pantry to my closets.  Create space for renewal by redefining your space and the items you choose to keep close around you.  How does your home need to support you at this point in time?

Restructure is also about leaving time so I can tune in to my inner voice and explore new opportunities, make new choices.  This has been huge for me, cutting back on the number of offerings so I can literally sit here and say, “What do I feel like doing?” And then do that.

And finally, renewal is about restructuring my time and my efforts. It is about allowing time for my ‘“next” to unfold.  Be patient with renewal.  It is an unfolding process. 

What kind of action steps will you take to allow space and time for renewal?

***OUTER WORK***

Rethink Your Routine 

A routine can easily turn into a rut.  There are so many aspects of our life that we do mindlessly because – well, that’s the way we’ve always done it, or that’s the pattern we have fallen into.  

There is HUGE freedom in rethinking your routine.  It makes you more efficient but when you tune in to your own rhythm, you can make mindful shifts in when you do what.  

Routine is a series of steps that are followed over time – a fixed process.  You can’t grow with a fixed process. You can’t explore with a routine. There’s no fun in that!

You are the person who decides on your routine and you are the one who can change it.  

This past week I put out my podcast on Saturday instead of scheduling it for Sunday.  It was huge for me, my energy, and the sense of completion I got from completing the posting on one day instead of working on different aspects for two days.  We’re talking a few hours here and it made a huge difference. I’m the person that decided on Sunday, which makes me also the person that can make any changes that works best for me.

What rules have you set for yourself that no longer work?  How will you change them?

Find your own rhythm and find the sequence and rhythm for the things you need to do on a regular basis.  

Question everything you do – when you exercise, when you take a mindful break, whether you create or maintain.  Rethink your routine so it is spontaneous and aligned with how you feel and what you feel like doing – or not doing!

***DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE***

The Rise of Quan Yin

I have a fair number of Buddha statues around my home.  I like Zen Buddhism but I was also drawn to the figures of Buddha because they remind me to stop and be mindfully present. The Buddha figure is shown with different mudras (hand gestures). I also have several Quan Yin statues.  Quan Yin is one of the major deities in Buddhism. She is known as the Goddess of Mercy and Compassion, The Chinese name Guanyin is short for Guanshiyin, which means “[The One Who] Perceives the Sounds of the World.”

She is often shown pouring from a vase – she is pouring compassion on the world. I have several figures of her in that position.  But I also have a really sassy Quan Yin figure where she is seated with one leg bent and her foot on the seat she is sitting on, and her arm extended rather arrogantly across her knee as if saying, “Bring it on.” It’s called the royal ease position.  I like that one a lot!

I’ve been rearranging my surfaces recently and as I rethought each shelf and tabletop, Quan Yin was elected in position. Moved to the more visible spaces.  And then I had to laugh. I was welcoming in the age of the famine by moving around small states.  

I’m keeping up with the changing times…. Yeah for the rise of the feminine….!

*** INSIGHTS  OF A DEEPER SONG ***

A New Insight on Mercury in Retrograde

How often have you heard people say they can’t get anything done because Mercury is in retrograde? Yes, Mercury is about communication – intelligence, the transference of information.  I like that part. 

Retrograde is when the planet looks like it is moving backward.  But what I just learned is that when Mercury is in retrograde, the mind turns inward, freed to think in independent, imaginative, innovative terms.

That sure changes how I will experience it, since Mercury goes retrograde three or four times in a calendar year, for about three weeks at a time.

Time for deeper inner exploration. How fun. 

Mercury turned retrograde on January 30 for three weeks. It is a time to find new solutions to old problems It is a pause to see what we left behind that we need to move forward. Pause to look over the past year and repair or bring forward or release what still needs to be handled.  

In 2020, Mercury will be in apparent retrograde motion during the following ranges of dates: February 17 to March 10. June 18 to July 12. October 14 to November 3.

What kind of introspective work are you planning?

***OUR EVOLVING FUTURE***

Are You Afraid of Change?

Some of the rebellion in the world is about power but another part of the rebellion is fear of change.  The strong desire to keep things as they are. Familiar.  Comfortable. Reassuring in their familiarity. Considering the giant changes in the world, we each need to become more flexible – curious, and flexible.  What is newly possible and how do we want to adjust?

It is comforting to keep things the way they are.  There are no surprises.  However, there is also no adventure, no new discovery. 

Change can be scary. It can make you move into unfamiliar circumstances and forces us to make new decisions and even change our direction.  

But change is inevitable. It is ongoing.  And we must learn to embrace and cultivate it.

Do you have a fear of change? Do you want to keep things the way there are – familiar, comfortable, reliable, unchanging?  

If you are not willing to change, you cannot grow and you will never have any adventures….!

You need to be introspective in order to understand what is being offered to you.  You need to be patient and allow life to unfold.  You need to have moments of contemplative stillness in order for the Universe to guide you to your new place of being or new place of service. 

This new era that is unfolding is one adventurous, unexpected, and unusual choice after another.  Begin by letting go of all but your bare bones, and thoughtfully explore and try on new ways to change.  And how that change – enthusiastically embracing that change – will change the unfolding of your future.

Don’t go back Go forward. Keep changing. Keep experimenting.  Keep exploring. Changing is a wonderful adventure and will lead you where you need to be next.

MESSAGE FROM THE SACRED EARTH ORACLE CARDS

Balance

“Balance” is the oracle card I drew for us to consider. It shows two women, one in red, one in blue held together by a band of energy but leaning in opposite directions.  I know that feeling.  How do you find and keep balance in your life?

First, you have to notice how you are balanced.  Is your time focused more heavily on work?  Are you more focused on one activity than another? Are things not getting done that need to be done? It’s great to get lost in enthusiastic exploration, but we must learn to mindfully make choices that return us to balance.  

My prime example comes from cutting back on my offerings. It gives me space and time in which I get to check inside to see what I feel like doing or not doing next. Taking that pause to find my balance gives me time and space to let my new ideas mature and be evaluated as to their place in my overall journey. It gives me time to explore.

This care shows two paths, going in different directions.  How can you align your paths so they move side by side in the same direction? How are you being pulled in two different directions? What do you need to change?  Let go of? 

Look over your spiritual life, your work life, and your relationships and see what you need to bring into greater balance.   How will you do that?

Sacred Earth Cards

CARA’S CORNER

Our World as the Circle of Light Beings

I am a guide, an explorer who does not choose to travel the worn paths but instead, uses her curiosity and desire to expand to move off into the Unseen World.  I feel and experience two distinct levels of being on our planet.  There is my all-inclusive awareness of the Circle of Light Beings, to which everyone reading this belongs.  And there are others who are not yet aware of their own light.  As far as I can tell, our job as an aware light being is to keep raising our vibration  and singing our light through every choice we make, every thought we think. Those who can, those who are ready, will see that light shining in themselves and choose to work with it, to develop it, to expand it, to let their inner light guide them.  Shaman Sandra Ingerman said not everyone will choose this path and we have to be OK with that.  She also suggested we would eventually live in parallel universes.  Hummm.   I do know that I chose to be with and work with and learn from those who are working and living in their own light, who continue to find new ways to raise the vibration of their light and its reach.  

We have choice here.  Keep raising your vibration, extend the reach of your light, and invite others to join us in this raised consciousness and purposeful journey of light. 

A DEEPER SONG

I am a beacon of light. 

I am a beacon of light who reached broadly and deeply into the world around me. 

I am a beacon of light who reached broadly and deeply into the world around me and encourages others to do the same. 

We are One Light Energy.

– Cra Lumen, 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 adventurers explore the Unseen World so that we broaden and deepen our personal journey and turn to share our discoveries with others.  We are guides and way-showers with our light held high.

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