Today we’d like to introduce you to Vida Valdes.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
The Almighty Pineapple has transformed me personally in my life. You see the Pineapple is a running joke with my longstanding clients. I always tell my clients to Pray/Meditate a.k.a. the 1-2 combo (like a punching combination in boxing). I don’t particularly care in who you believe in and I don’t judge anyone. If you choose to honor Energy, Jesus, Spirit, Source, Allah, Buddha, a chocolate dragon or the Almighty Pineapple, it is all good with me. If the Almighty Pineapple brings you to a higher level of Ascension and restores your faith in yourself, then ALL HAIL THE ALMIGHTY PINEAPPLE. It made all my clients laugh during the first 10 minutes of a reading. Laughter heals and it’s important for me that my clients are comfortable with me.
That’s how I got the logo with the Pineapple and after doing much research, I saw how it resonated with me completely. Pineapples are associated with wealth, good fortune and good luck. Dried pineapple makes for excellent sachets and incenses that can draw wealth to the home and encourage financial gain, or fresh pineapple can be baked into cakes and desserts to gift to friend and bless them with good fortune as well. Pineapple is ruled by fire and the sun and carries the energies of strength and power. It can be incorporated into charms for vigor and courage. It’s a benefit to spiritual power and can increase personal magical energy as well as strengthen psychic experience and intuition. So you see how perfect it fits!! Makes sense I’m a triple fire sign. Ha ha I think!
Anyways back to who I am. I am Vida, I am a Life Coach, some call me Soul Coach, also I am a Spiritualist, I am an Apetebi in the Ifa Tradition, I am an Aborisha in the Santeria religion as well. I am an Espiritista aka Psychic Medium, Seer, Consejera (reader since 1988) into Past Lives, Akashic Records, Channeled messages, Mentor/Teacher, Shaman (since 1997), initiated through an actual Death & Resurrection aka Curandera (Medicine Woman), Ancestral Rituals & Hoodoo Practitioner aka Rootworker (see paragraph below), Pranic Healer & an ordained Minister (since 2019), with a non-denominational church that honors all faiths & culture. Sacred Sexologist I’m Certified in Cosmic Sexuality (2021). I also am a Certified Intuitive Hypnotherapist, aka Certified Hypnotist Internationally. I wouldn’t associate myself with practices that belittle anyone of any background. I am also a verified Harvard recipient with several certifications of achievement in numerous spiritual studies. Things I don’t like labeling in any way shape or form; but in this society, it’s ridiculous how a title changes perception. I rather go by INTUITION & experience. I am a hyper sensitive energetic intuitive, also I am clairvoyant, clairsentient, claircognizant, clairaudient, clairtangent, clairsalient and clairgustant. I am also called a Physical Empath or a highly sensitive person with personality type INFJ.
I began seeing Spirits and speaking to the dead since I was three years old. When I was a child I had visions, I heard voices, I talked to Source, I saw Angels, I visited other worlds, I spoke to spirits. I thought everyone saw the same. I was told I had a wild imagination only by those who could not see. I was lucky enough to have an amazing mother who accepted my ability and grandparents who encouraged me even though I was taught very young not to discuss my “abilities” to others in the family. I was able to let my grandmother know who was calling her on the phone before she answered (no caller ID back in the day) and little did I know my grandmother and I were a lot alike. She was a psychic medium, hoodoo practitioner and rootworker as well in Cuba and did readings and held seances (misa’s) in her home. When she came to the United States, she stopped practicing out of fear but always held her altars high for her Orishas and Saints.
So no you can’t learn to be a medium. I didn’t ask for this, it chose me and I am so glad it did. It has not been easy at times, during my times of ascension and transitioning into the 5th/6th dimensions (while living in 3rd dimension-UGH) but I have an amazing unseen squad. My divine team my guardian angels who have been with me during every lifetime (yes I have been here numerous times-prehistoric soul), my spirit guides, my ancestors from this lifetime and prior lifetimes, archangels, ascended masters, orishas, elemental beings, power animals and of course the one and only Source!
I cast spells and Hoodoo is to change certain elements in your life but at the end of the day, it is all about Free Will! Everyone on this earth has that right. *Custom orders🕯🌬🌊🍃 (spell work) upon request and more detailed situations. Binding, hex breaking, love, money, etc. These can be done for a certain number of days or by force of power; for example once, twice or thrice the spell. The more times I do the spell work obviously the more potent. 👁Available for group readings, hoodoo/rootwork, parties, events and conventions upon request.
Respect my boundaries and conditions. I may be a Life coach, spiritual advisor and an ordained minister but I am having a human experience just like you. I am flawed in the human realm, just like you. I am no better than anyone, just like you. I just surrendered to my life purpose, soul contract and made it my mission to change the Human Race, Animal Race & Environmental Race; one heart at a time and one day at a time. I am off on Sundays I honor Sabbath and on Saturdays, I have pre-booked events in advance through 2021.
****Please follow me on Instagram & Twitter to see my work firsthand. My work is through referral and word of mouth, or if you found my website just fill out the contact form and let me know. Check me out first and always trust yourself That way you decide and are led by Spirit. Please follow your INTUITION when finding a life coach, Minister, spiritual advisor/practitioner, I say this to everyone. Even if you don’t choose me. 💜
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
It has been a huge and difficult road of discovery. I have previous trauma from abusive relationships, sexual assault, domestic violence, depression and attempted to commit suicide twice in my short life. I was able to overcome these issues with my faith. I have many tattoos, but I have a couple of quotes on me that I look at daily. One is on my left shoulder that reminds me that “Love endures all things. God is in love with me & (my fave) My faith is my force” created in a pattern of a shooting star. Another tattoo on my left forearm that I look at every day multiple times a day to remind me how far I have come that says “Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.” My faith, my own practices of prayer, meditation, following my intuition, working with my higher power, ancestors & spirit guides have saved me time & time again.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I am a Psychic Medium, I do readings, mentoring sessions and teach courses. Some call me Life Coach, some call me Elder or Madrina (godmother in my belief system), and several titles. I specialize in teaching people how to love themselves, put them first, investing in themselves to enhance every area of the individual’s life. What sets me apart is that I am super vulnerable with my community. Every issue set back & pain I share with my community I don’t hide it. Since I have experienced so much trauma in my life, my elders call me a “wounded healer” which allows me to relate to my community & I am here to show them that there is life after pain, hope after heartache, joy after death (transformations/regeneration) in all of our lives. There are ways to survive and still thrive.
Is there a quality that you most attribute to your success?
Tenacity, honesty & vulnerability is all that I will ever need to succeed in helping the people in my community.
Pricing:
- Readings range from $200-$425
- Guided Meditations is $185
- Fire Cleansing (energy work) is $175
- Hypnotherapy $125
- Rebirth Retreat Puerto Rico 2023 $4000 plus
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.thealmightypineapple.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/readingsbyvida
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/readingsbyvida
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQaBYrSMcAEhz486hBgtr3A
- SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-980784551
- Other: Tiktok @readingsbyvida
Image Credits
Photos by Denisse Myrick & animated graphic by Pea the Feary
