Begin Again

This is the completion of Agape East’s third cycle around the sun as a Spiritual Center and Beloved Community in Coastal VA and virtually since March of 2020. We have all in some way navigated political upheavals, social reckonings, financial insecurity, pandemics, tremendous loss, illness of friends and family, and the accompanying grief. Yet here we are, at the end of another cycle and ready to begin again. This is our monthly theme, Begin Again.

As co-creators of our lives, we are always pregnant with something, giving birth to something, whether through intentional use of metaphysical laws or by default. We are responsible for what we bring to term AND we can always start over, get a redo, try again with wisdom, gratitude and foresight.

Humanity celebrates this season of Light’s return with so many traditions and religious rites, giving us an opportunity for reverence, gratitude, and devotion to the Eternal Spirit within each of us. I love what this Solstice Season demonstrates for me- the return of our Sun, the Light of our Consciousness, the Christos with the longer days now dawning. I am so grateful that humanity can count on this Light.

My heart is filled with gratitude as I sit down to write this letter to you. I am so grateful for YOU, for your generosity to this center, our mission and purpose; your fellowship and faces on Zoom; your sacred service; your commitment to grow and evolve individually and as a collective human consciousness. I am grateful for the Spiritual Masters and Master Teachers whose shoulders we stand on, that we may pick up the mantle of Light, Love & Truth during our time on this planet. I am grateful for the structure of Agape East that lives and broadcasts a message of Truth: Love always wins; The Light always shines; Truth prevails! How blessed we are to study, celebrate and practice these Principles of Truth together!

In Love and Light,

Rev. Victoria

Cornucopia 

This image of bountiful fruits and vegetables flowing from the horn of plenty represents the harvest, the abundance and bounty that Mother Earth provides when we align with Her. It is this eternal and invisible Life Force that we celebrate this month as we reap the harvest and enter the holidays. Eternal Love and Infinite Life demonstrate and out picture as the physical, yet temporary necessities for our lives on Earth. Inside of one apple seed are the blueprints and potentials for thousands of apple orchards. This principle is always at work, always seeking physical avenues to manifest Itself. We become that very avenue when we align our awareness with this Truth. 

Therefore, it is completely within our power to create a life of abundance and prosperity through awakening our own individual awareness. Join me this month as we turn away from the world of effects and turn within to that which is Eternal and Real, and invite this greater awareness as the activity of our consciousness.

In Love and Light,
Rev. Victoria

Wholehearted Living

This October we are celebrating Wholehearted Living as our theme. Let’s use this autumn season to explore our living and walking in a way that is open to miracles and insights, speaking and listening in a way that is interested in moments of Grace, serving, and giving in a way that is willing to be guided by the power of unconditional love and forgiveness. 

Wholehearted Living requires us to get out onto the field of our life and play full-out, as if everything depends upon our own participation, because it does. A broken heart is an open heart, I like to say. Without the brakes and cracks, we cannot know the depth of the Divine Mystic within our own soul. The mind can never understand this, but the heart knows. When the mind wants to deflect, contract or list reasons to defend or protect or shrink our living, let us become unreasonable and turn to the place where love and wisdom reign supreme, our heart, to let it be the arbiter of our perception.
This is how we step into Wholehearted Living.

In Love and Light,
Rev. Victoria

Original Blueprint
We are celebrating our Original Blueprint as our September monthly theme. We are each created out of the Mind of God, the Mind of the Love Intelligence that created everything and that governs our universe. We are in our essence this pure perfect Light, perfect Spirit no matter what has taken place in our individual experiences. Regardless of our race, culture, beliefs, lineages, ancestral imprints, and inheritances, our Divine Origin remains untouchable.

My prayer is for our individual cultivation of a greater awareness of our true Original Blueprint, the Light of the world. When we remember who and what we really are, the miracle occurs.

In Love and Light,
Rev. Victoria

Compassion

This month we are celebrating a world that works for everyone with our August theme, Compassion. This is one of my favorite words because it contains the word “passion” and that is something I feel very deeply about God, Great Spirit, Divine Mind, Creator, Unified Field, whatever one chooses to call the only One Life, One Love, One Source, One Power.

Love is at the root of passion and when we take this holy love affair and turn it toward our brothers and sisters, then we are One Love in action.

Action is so important these days and each of us is being called now to take action in some way for greater Love. Greater self-love, greater love for each other is also the action of Spiritual Truth Principles.

When one starts studying these principles of truth, often it is to relieve personal suffering in some way. Continuing, one may learn how to use the laws of metaphysics and manifestation to improve conditions. It works. But as one keeps studying Truth Principles, the sense of little self expands into Higher Self, Consciousness extends Itself to embrace ALL as integral to our own freedom.

This month, Let’s imagine a world that really is working for all, as we use our understanding of Truth and our Love in action to make other lives better than just our own. That’s compassion.

In Love and Light,

Rev. Victoria

Catching the Vision

This month at Agape East we are celebrating the theme of Catching the Vision!  Vision is a beautiful gift. It is an inner sight of what is possible, and with Love all things are possible. To be able to have an idea held in mind, consistently and clearly held, is true vision. The idea may seem unlikely or impossible, the steps may not be obvious, but the metaphysician understands that what is visible had its origin in the invisible, as vision and applies the principle and practice of seeing, feeling and speaking it into form.

But we are more than metaphysicians. We are here for more than just being able to use the principles and laws of metaphysics to manifest what we need and what will help us thrive. We are vessels also. We are also here to evolve our consciousness and lives and the human species, and that evolution requires catching the Vision of a Divine Intelligence, the Creative Force, the Primal Source of all Life so that we can move forward open and interested in what is trying to be revealed and manifested. If we are evolving based upon our own current thinking, our best ideas and intentions only, then we may not be actually evolving, we might even be accidentally devolving. We must Catch the Vision of Spirit, beyond our present paradigm.

Catching a Vision requires making it welcome because the Vision is always broadcasting. It is our own receptors that need the tuning. There are many ways we may do this naturally in our own lives. Meditation, yoga, exercise, time in nature, gardening, being creative, chanting, affirmative prayer, sacred study, vision quests are all ways we make ourselves available for a Divine Download. The clearer the intentions and questions, the clearer the Vision.

At Agape we tune in and make it welcome together with the Life Visioning Process, as taught by my teacher, Michael Bernard Beckwith. This community practice creates an environment for individuals to receive guidance and inspiration in a shared group setting and we do this on a regular basis. With practice and sharing, we begin to develop the spiritual muscles of intuition, inner listening, trusting the still small voice within, trusting the download, so that we can be led to the Highest Unfoldment, beyond what our limited rational minds think is best.

I hope you will join us Wednesday, July 14, for our Life Visioning meeting at 7pm Eastern in our Zoom Sanctuary! Join me, our Agape Licensed Spiritual Practitioners, our Board of Trustees and catch the vision of the next stage of evolution for Agape East together!          

In Love and Light,

Rev. Victoria

Radiance

This June we celebrate Radiance as out monthly theme. We awaken fully now, from a seeming long slumber, emerging into the fullness of the Summer Sun. Let us find ways to step into the game of living our own lives fully now, stepping out from the sidelines of playing small and dimming our light. Life and our time here together is more precious than ever.

The Freedom to fully shine, fully Radiate our greatness, our compassion, our generosity, our understanding, our creative gifts and talents, without a sense of withhold or embarrassment, without compromise or defensiveness is at hand now. This is Radiance, unabashed courage and love.

Happy Pride! Happy Juneteenth! Happy Father’s Day and Happy Summer Solstice!

In Love and Light,

Rev. Victoria

The Divine Feminine

May is here and with it, an enjoyment of the new baby birds and wild animals, new tree growth and beautiful flowers of Spring! It is no wonder we celebrate Mother’s Day this month, for the Divine Feminine is making Herself known and available to all with Nature’s magnificence in the play of the circle of Life.

Our theme this month is The Divine Feminine, giving us an opportunity to lean into a greater awareness of the qualities of the Goddess: Creativity, Intuition, Compassion, Wisdom, Sensuality, Gentleness, Receptivity, Nurture and Nature.

Whether we are born into masculine or feminine bodies, we all have access to the embodiment of the Divine Feminine and Her qualities. Let’s celebrate!

In Love and Light,

Rev. Victoria