The Stillness Of Winter Calls To You

Have you answered the call?

Author

Carrie Suwal
February 11, 2026

The Oracle Summary

Special Intention For Your Card Pull

This week’s oracle card pull gives you an opportunity to ask a question. What is something you have been wanting guidance on in your life? Bring that question to mind, and then see which card speaks to you before choosing it.

Oracle Card Pull

These cards are from Kyle Gray and Lily Moses: Keepers of the light oracle cards.

Card 1 - MELCHIZEDEK - Higher Learning - You have gained knowledge from experience. Further inner study is now required for continued progress.

This message encourages you to reflect on your valuable knowledge. It's like having grown a beautiful lemon and now getting to enjoy its juice. What aspects of your wisdom need deeper exploration?

Reflect on your insights and delve deeper. Consider how they apply to various situations in life. Do they remain valid when faced with significant challenges or difficulties? If not, is it true wisdom? If it withstands the test of time and adversity, learn to embody it and express it through all your actions.

Card 2 - KUTHUMI - Cloak of Wisdom - You already know the answer you seek. Trust what you know.

What a beautiful message for you to receive. You are holding the key to unlock the answer you have been seeking. It is already here, within you. All you need to do is go inward now and receive the answer. Let it rise from a sense of knowing. Allow the enlightening "aha" moments to have breathing room so they can fly and soar into your life. Release the pressure, stop seeking, and receive it.

Card 3 - LADY VENUS - Downloads and Understanding - Truth is being revealed. Deep insights are coming from the heavens and the astral realm.

This card asks you to open yourself to the great beyond, to open your mind to something that is beyond the mind, to receive your spirit. Tune into the frequency of the universe and allow it to reveal the truth to you.

This can happen through meditation, creating a quiet moment, journaling, reflection, or simply relaxation. The answer comes through surrender, not force. The more we force, the more we block it. The more we surrender, the easier it will flow to you.

Pausing for Reflection

Winter is traditionally a time to turn inward, to rest and reflect, to gain clarity about what lies ahead on our paths. It is a time to assess where we are and what changes we may need to make to align more fully with who we are today. This can be challenging, especially living in the cold (though not so cold currently) and long winters of Canada.

Are we expected to turn inward for six months, without any palpable progress or deep effort exerted? Are we really like black bears meant to hibernate until spring? There is no definitive answer here, just a need to listen to your own body and its needs. What feels right to you is what is right on your path.

Although we can't completely do nothing for six months, I have found that it is greatly beneficial to society and to ourselves to do nothing when we can. Doing nothing brings about the greatest "something" there is. It allows us to feel our deep value beyond our "productive" selves. Doing nothing gives our busy minds a true restful respite. It prevents burnout, calms our nervous system, and most importantly, it opens a doorway. This doorway is an empty space, like a cloudless and clear sky. It allows us to connect to our intuition, our deep well of knowing that is always trying to shine its wisdom through the clouds of our thought-filled mind. This empty space offers a feeling of peace that is inaccessible when living life through the lens of a busy mind. It lets us move into the space that holds the thoughts of the busy mind, to move beyond it.

For many people, doing nothing brings up stress, resistance, and an itching feeling that "I just need to do something." Doing nothing has a close companion you can call on if it is hard for you to find stillness: doing less. Doing less can mean doing more simple things, like listening to a guided meditation, reading, doing a puzzle, or going for a slow walk in nature in silence. All of these activities bring us closer to this spacious awareness within us, this empty cloudless sky, where we can find the true rest that winter calls us toward.

This Saturday, on Valentine's Day, I am doing an act of deep self-love❤️ by attending a two-week meditation retreat. No phone, no internet, just me, my thoughts, and an empty, spacious inner landscape waiting for me to reconnect with. I hope to gain deeper insight into awareness of awareness itself, the nature of suffering and non-suffering, and cultivating a more mindful way of living. Not only for myself, but to share with others through how I show up for them, so I can be more present, more open-hearted, and aligned with the deep self when speaking and acting. I hope you are able to cultivate your own little ways of turning inward and tending to your sacred self.

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