GROUNDWATER HEALING &
THE GOLDEN STONE WISDOM SCHOOL
Enter into the Winter Dream Cave
I welcome you to enter into the Dream Cave of Winter. The cozy and warm wombspace of the Dark Goddess herself.
Here you’re wrapped in velvet blankets and encouraged to rest, to doze, to day dream. Encouraged to enter into the wider, mythic realms of your life.
Here you get to listen to what’s under the surface of the noise. Here you get to see, and feel into, the spark of creative desire or longing that has planted itself in you at Winter Solstice.
You get to listen deeply to yourself and this longing. You get to tend to it, build out the energetic and structural containers that support the growth of this seed-of-life.
Just because New Year’s is a couple days away, doesn’t mean we need to jumpstart ourselves into action. Just because the year is being born, doesn't mean we need to rush forward.
Just as you wouldn’t hurry towards the darkening Autumnal time right after Summer Solstice, let’s not rush towards the light of Spring at the dawning of Winter.
Winter often gets hurried by in our tireless drive towards production and manifestation.
But let me tell you a secret: It’s in Winter’s Dream Cave where we set the proper foundation for the manifestation of our desires. It’s where we form relationship with who it is we want to be, and what it is that’s dreaming itself through us.
Without proper relationship, we falter.
How many of us have set New Year’s Goals, gotten to it, and then lost steam a few weeks or a month later?
There’s many reasons for this, but I’m suggesting that one of them is because we didn’t give the dream-seed proper incubation.
We didn’t allow ourselves to really listen and learn from our desire, to fortify the structures it needs to create lasting change.
We didn’t tend to the parts of ourselves that actively don’t want what it is we long for.
Winter watches us do this, year after year.
So how about this year we normalize staying in the cozy, dreamy earth-cave at least through the first half of Winter? And at Imbolc we can reassess, and begin to point our arrow of action outwards?
Some questions that Winter may be asking you right now:
- What spark of longing, desire, or creation is being planted in you for this growing year?
- What way of being wants to emerge in you? (Get super specific with all your senses - how do you dress/look? What are you saying? Who are you with? What landscape are you in? Are there smells or tastes? What does it feel like in your body?)
- What does this spark of creation, or way of being, need from you in order to grow and thrive?
- What parts of you don’t want this to happen/want to keep you stuck or safe? And how can you support those parts of you? What do they need in order to allow what wants to come through you to come through?
May the gifts of Winter not get passed by this year!
WINTER SUPPORT
In Winter's Inner Well, you’ll be guided to explore and support this spark of creation within you through embodiment rituals, reflective prompts, and plant medicine support. And you'll learn to understand your personal relationship with the energetics of Winter more deeply.
Blessings to you and yours as we turn the corner into 2026.
Thank you for being a part of my community. I truly hope that these musings I share with you are supportive for the unfolding of your true, magical Self, as an extension of Earth.
In gratitude,
Amy Terepka
IG: @groundwaterhealing
www.groundwaterhealing.com
www.goldenstone.love
