Rev. Valerie Love
READINGS
I never felt like I fit in when I was growing up.
I had big feet, skinny legs and nagging low self-esteem.
And I was weird.
I barely spoke.
I saw things it seemed like other people couldn’t (or didn’t) see, people from the other side and spirits. I felt things I couldn’t explain. I knew things without knowing how I knew them.
Since my mom was one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, all that was taboo. The party line was that if you see anything, it has to be demonic because Angels don’t show themselves anymore after the Bible was finished being written.
That story didn’t settle well in my spirit. Even when I was little.
I grew up not celebrating birthdays or holidays (from the age of 4) and sitting outside my classrooms while kids inside ate cake and ice cream.
To this day, I consciously choose to check my tendency to think I’m on the outside and everybody else is on the inside having fun.
At 30 I had a debilitating depression.
My life was falling apart.
Everything in it was caving in on me.
I had gotten married at 23 and had my first baby at 26 and my second child when I was 29. Part of the depression could have been post-partum. I think the only reason that baby survived was because I was breast-feeding. There was no way I could’ve made bottles.
So there I lay, in the bed, with the baby, day after day, night after night, doing almost nothing. My house looked a wreck and so did I. My husband must have wondered what in hell was wrong with me.
One day, I heard The Voice say “GET UP”.
I did.
I shot straight up in bed and got up.
Then The Voice said “GO OUTSIDE”.
What?!?!? You gotta be kiddin’ me! I can barely get in the shower and dressed, how am I supposed to go outside?!?!?!?
I did it anyway.
I got up, got dressed, went downstairs and swung the front door open.
It was like Count Dracula popping out the coffin. I thought the sun was going to toast my butt.
The Voice said “BREATHE”.
I thought I was already breathing. Apparently I was not.
I breathed deeper. Something in me woke up.
The Voice said “WALK”.
I put one foot in front of the other and started walking.
The Voice said “LOOK UP”.
I looked up at the big bright beautiful blue sky. This was what I had been missing. Later I found out that looking up while walking outside can lift depression.
I felt better. I was coming alive again.
That was 20 years ago as of this writing. I still walk outside almost every day.
The Voice knew what to do to save my life, because a few days before I had eyed a bottle of 800 mg pain killers they had given me after having the baby and wondered how many it would take for me to take a nap and never wake up.
The depression came from not living my authentic life. I was slowly dying under the weight of doing what everybody else told me to do.
I was a nice girl.
I did what my mother told me to do.
I did what my religion told me to do.
I did what the elders of my religion told me to do.
And when it was all said and done, I looked up and had a life of unconscious creation.
Whose life is this?!?!? I kept asking. It was mine, but it wasn’t mine by design because hardly any of it was what I wanted.
So I made the decision to let go of what didn’t fit any more. The husband. The house. The religion. I changed almost everything in my life. I went on a furious search for truth. I ditched everything I had been taught and started from scratch, with ONE tender morsel from my deconstructed house of beliefs:
God is love.
That’s it.
That’s all I had to go on. And it was more than enough. I let that simple little Truth carry me through the next few years on a trek to slowly find myself.
I’m not saying the journey is over. Nope. It’s in full swing.
As I write this, I’m 50 years young, doing what I love, in a life I mostly love, with people I love.
Most of all, my knowing that God is love expresses in my life every day. YUM!
Along the way I discovered, no, I remembered I am a Witch. I was born a Witch, so it wasn’t actually so much a discovery as it was a remembrance. It took me decades to make peace with myself.
I’m writing this to share my story with the intention and prayer that it will inspire you… to LIVE, to LOVE to make a difference and to share your unique journey so the rest of us can learn and grow.
I love you.
Namaste,
Rev. Valerie Shona Ife Love
Love your website, it really reconfirms for me what I have always felt in my heart and mind about the meaning,knowledge and study of metaphysics.I have been born with the innate drive to study and understand self and the science of humanity.In your information and website you have clearly put into words what is a metaphysician for my understanding.In this too is part of a divine plan. I thank you.
Thank you,
Peace!
Namaste Rev:
I love the new look and feel of your website! Great redesign and of course a continued abundance of valuable resources and content.
Keep shining Star and radiating the God glow.
Love & blessings,
Min. Jo Anne
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Hi im Judah or stephen(wtvr) im a 22 yr old Cherokee/black, a STRONG believer in fate i want to say student but im going through what i hope is a phase. Ive been really depressed. Unlike you In fort lauderdale where i lv now,..ppl are very closed minded. To b honest ive stayed in many states 9 high schools. and this place (for young black men ) is a modern day Gomorrah .Tonight i will thank god for leading me to you.I truly believe that a angel guided me to your channel,…that guided me to this page.Im from va, we moved to Miami when i was 16.As a lil kid in Virginia i was always in the church.Everything was evil “baptist” but my family are Cherokee, my grams was the exception of the baptist.Her mother 100% indian, would see things,predict things ect. She was the only one that said its alright to see these things,I would feel the emotions of ppl around me to the point of shutting down, nobody would play w me ppl just didn’t feel comfortable around me cuz i was really quiet. grams always told me don’t worry its ok to play alone. but i would always over analyze ppl. angels would talk to me as a child i didn’t know it was an angel.I would always see things b 4 they happen, When i got mad chairs would(still) fall over, and sometimes i even get blamed for it until last year my mom never believed me and finally, like 2 months ago it happened in front of everyone in the living room,.(still cant blv that one)That was cray.To some extent now they’re starting to at least look at life differently.I feel like i was to be a warrior for god.After reading the kabbalah. i realized that angels are always here, i love Jesus,practice a neo Wiccan style, Wiccan ritual, but my god is yeshwa bar yaweh. I think modern Christians pay little respect for him. Muslims pray 5 times a day..let me stop my ranting. I wish i could have had a teacher like u a few years i could have cut a lot of evil ppl out.
We are the few and chosen,im glad to have been blessed by someone like u keep making your vids. MADD love
Your video about being a Christian witch was rather thought provoking. The message was skillfully orated in a clear and composed manner. You seem to believe that Jesus was a magician, in the pure and proper sense of the word, which sounds to me a worthy position to hold.
Quite often, when I am studying occult type beliefs, I hear people like yourself making claims about communicating with non-human beings. I think you said you’ve come into contact with someone named Arcturis. (Forgive me if I got the name wrong). What I’m dying to know is the method or methods by which you are able to speak with this being. If it’s not too much trouble, could you give me a nudge in the right direction towards enlightenment on this topic of spiritual communication? Feel free to shoot me an email.
Excellent question. First off, I wasn’t actually looking to speak with anyone on the spirit plane when Arcturus ‘appeared’ in my 3rd eye.
I had been in a deep and intensive spiritual practice of waking up each morning at 4:00 AM, going into a specific prayer practice, following a daily intense ritual (given to me by my teachers in preparation for ministry).
The most important piece of the puzzle to me is that I had a strong intention and desire to hear from God, and God’s agents, only agents of the Light. I made that request all the time.
So I’m used to angels and spirit guides, they come to me in my sleep, in dreams and at times when I need to hear from them, or they have a message for me or for someone I love and serve.
When this being came, it was somewhat of a surprise, even though the ‘circumstances’ were right for contact with spirit beings that are of the Light. The circumstances that facilitate this contact and communication, in a way that’s helpful and supportive, are: PRAYER (when I say prayer I mean FERVENT HEARTFELT PRAYER, some Magicians pray for hours before beginning any Magickal operation), MEDITATION (to ascend consciousness out of the 3rd dimension and lower realms) RITUALS (that ground you in the spiritual practices that keep you in harmony and alignment with the Light) and LOVE (openness without fear, fear and love cannot occupy the same space, so if we’re afraid to hear from spirits, love isn’t there, and that opens us to other energies that are not of the Light).
That’s a long answer, it’s what I felt led to share.
Pray it works/helps!!!
Val
P.S. – I’ll send it to you in an email too…
I would like to send a donation…where should I send it? Thank you.
Thank you Love!
You can send it via Paypal to valerielove@liveyourdestinytoday.com
God richly bless you
Greetings Love,
I appreciate all you stand for. You have confirmed so many of my feelings I can no longer deny the power within. I have been on a journey to find that which is hidden in this 3D realm. Through these experiences I have re-discovered a joy in my heart that allows me to be blessed and aware to recieve. I know your guidance will continue to flow my way as needed. We are returning Mother Earth to her nurturing state with all the love and good vibrations we emit. Thanks for being on the good side.
Thank you, Love, so much, for sharing (-;
Blessings & Love
Valerie Shona Ife
Greetings Of Peace,
I was captavited by your light shining. ever have i heard honesty about ones self. I grew up insecureI have a gift and i know it is all around me. I have dreams that come true. I have warned my family when the dreams come about them. I live in the Maryland area for now,. How can i speak with you?
Much Love and Respect
Helen
Hi Helen,
Click on the ‘Book Val’ tab above and you can schedule a 20-minute intro session with me.
Look forward to connecting with you.
Greetings Of Peace,
I was captavited by your light shining. ever have i heard honesty about ones self. I grew up insecureI have a gift and i know it is all around me. I have dreams that come true. I have warned my family when the dreams come about them. I live in the Maryland area for now,. How can i speak with you?
Much Love and Respect
Helen
Thank you so much for your words of wisdom. I found your videos on YouTube and followed the link to your page. I have been struggling with many of the things you touch upon here, and if nothing else, it is so wonderful to know that I am not alone! But beyond that, there is so much here in the way of direction and guidance. Your stories and your honesty have renewed my courage to continue following my own particular path, to become all of who I am. You have touched my soul and guided my spirit with your words and I can only hope that you can feel my gratitude through the sometimes cold and distancing computer screen.
Love and Bright Blessings,
Rose Awen
You are not alone! That’s for sure Rose (-;
Feeling the gratitude and radiating Love & Light in your direction!
Peace & Blessings,
Valerie
I love your videos. I don’t follow the same path of Witchcraft as you, but as a fellow Witch I agree with you on many things. I loved your video about Witches and “the devil”. You are an intelligent loving person. Please continue to be you and don’t let anyone change you. Blessed be.
I just Bought Tarot for Your Self. I can’t wait to get it. And I Love your videos! You really Inspire Me. Thank You and Blessed Be
God bless, thanx for the friend request on Facebook. En-JOY Tarot for Your Self!!!! That book did wonders for my understanding of Tarot, and for integrating it into my life as a spiritual support tool like no other.
Love from Above,
Val
I am half white and half Cherokee, and was adopted by a white family when I was eight years old. I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian home. They homeschooled, they were for arranged marriages, I was trained only to be a wife and mother. From as early as eight years old I remember knowing that I was somehow different. I’ve seen angels. I’ve been protected by angels, when I was six and in foster care.
I have felt energy flood my body and allow me to heal headaches and minor pains of others. The same energy comes to me to calm and soothe suicidal people. I can even do it over the internet. I meditate on peace, joy, love.
I have had several occasions where I felt as if I were out of my body. Sometimes I would visit a place I had never seen, and recognize that I’d been there when I finally see it.
I am a lucid dreamer.
Lately, I have been questioning my spiritual path. I still believe in God and Jesus as the son of God, not just a great teacher. But I find truth in other paths as well.
I simply cannot accept the idea that God would not let me do these things. I never studied to do them. They just happened. When I found out what I could do, I never really practiced either.
I have not found a church that I feel comfortable attending, because I am too different from others. I’m not a Muggle (incidentally, I was not allowed to read/watch Harry Potter but I did after I moved out and got married.)
I am starting to wonder if this is my path, or whether it is even a close fit. I take a liberal interpretation of the New Testament. I don’t reject Paul entirely but I believe that a lot of what he had to say was cultural. But I try to Love God and Love my neighbor. That is my Christianity. What a lot of Christians do to their neighbors does not show love.
Please let me know what you think. is this my path? Can I adopt the things in it that I can agree with and reject others, or at least put them on hold until I am more comfortable with the idea? Or is my path similar to this but not quite?
Blessings Luv,
You are definintely NOT a muggle! (-;
The good news is, you know it.
It sounds like the real question you are asking is “is it okay for me to be me?”
The answer is a resounding YES!
You need no one’s permission to be you, to do what speaks to your Soul, to heed your inner Voice, to follow your heart, to worship the Divine in any way that the Divine draws you, to be who you are, without apology.
Religion is a construct, a man-made idea. God did not create religion. We did. We must be clear on that. We had a very good reason for creating religion. We wanted to re-link to God, our Source. We somehow felt that this human experience had the tendency to draw our attention away from the Divine, and we wanted to be linked to our Source.
Hence, we created rituals, prayers and religious orders that, we hoped, would serve the purpose of re-linking us to the Divine, bringing us ‘home’.
For many, religion does just that, it reminds us of our true home in God, it gives us rituals and rites that remind us to love, to show compassion, to honor God and mankind.
For some, religion has become a crutch, a reason and an opportunity not to grow. This is not its intended purpose. We are not meant to get stuck in religious ruts.
For fewer still, religion has become a reason/right to do whatever one wants to do, including killing in the name of God.
You don’t need religion, though it can be helpful.
Spirituality, on the other hand, everyone has. We are spiritual beings. Period. If you never went to a church, or a synagogue or a mosque, you would be just as spiritual as you would be if you did.
Spirituality is universal. It has no bounds. It does not call one person right and the other wrong. There is no measure as to if you’re doing it ‘right’ other than LOVE. LOVE is the supreme law.
So I side with the Dalai Lama when he expresses that his religion is kindness.
For me, my religion is kindness, compassion, in a word: LOVE.
Love couldn’t kill anyone, it never has, and it never will.
Love doesn’t condemn anyone, it never has, and it never will.
Love doesn’t judge anyone, it never has, and it never will.
LOVE IS.
That’s it.
As the Witch’s Creed says, ‘do as ye will, yet harm none’.
Sounds like good living to me.
Thank you for taking the time to write me, to reach out, and to share your journey with us, and your questions. You are a gift!
Rev. Val
I watched a couple of your vids on UTube, brought to my attention by my friend Jen who has just got free of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Well, thank you for helping her, to start off with. She’s brave and so are you. Actually I kind of made the same journey myself some time ago. When I was in my twenties, I was a follower of an Indian guru known as Guru Maharaj Ji. It was a bit like being in the Witnesses, I think. Anyway it was difficult to break free from that but one thing that helped me a lot was getting a proper university education – not a spiritual education (in the narrow sense anyway) but a secular education. I went to university and studied Sociology, gave up spirituality and became an atheist and Marxist. (In fact I should like to reccomend a book to you: ‘Jaques Lacan’ by Anika Lemaire. If anything could replace religion, I think it is Lacanian psycho-analytic theory. It is extremely profound). On the other hand, while these things were intellectually satisfying, they have never been emotionally satisfying to me. I just accepted this as the cost of freedom, kind of thing. (Some people may infer more from this than I really intend). I guess the main point of this comment is this: I found your UTube videos very positive. You are a beautiful human being, I think – whether or not I agree with everything you believe in isn’t really important. What is important is the positive vibe I get from you and your lovely tone of voice. (As an atheist, you understand, I don’t normally express myself in these terms). I like the idea of being wholly oneself. This is surely true and right. Thanks anyway and good luck!
Thank you, for the positive and uplifting message. I feel honored.
Good luck to you as well!
Val