Welcome.
I’m Virginia—a former atheist turned modern-day mystic who’s spent the past decade experiencing real magic, chronicling its presence, and excavating its meaning through creative storytelling.
Welcome.
About Virginia Mason Richardson
I’m Virginia—a former atheist turned modern-day mystic who’s spent the past decade experiencing real magic, chronicling its presence, and excavating its meaning through creative storytelling.
I never used to believe in magic.
Then everything changed.
In college, I was studying physical anthropology and conducting research with one of the world’s foremost primatologists when illness overtook my body. I was diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy, fibromyalgia, and Sjögren's syndrome, and I was told that it would only get worse. But in the years that followed, my intuition opened wide, and a series of strange, magical events led me into complete remission.
Now, I chronicle the magic I see.
Because memory’s a fickle thing.
I directly experience a wide range of magical events that I record while my memory is fresh. Today, my highly detailed records span thousands of pages, and I rely upon these to keep my writing as accurate as possible. I also use my records to validate my experiences and make connections I otherwise would not be able to make. All of this has led me to believe what I once thought was impossible: magic is real.
Real magic is in my blood.
Or maybe it’s just karma.
My eighth-great grandma was accused of witchcraft in Salem. Her husband (my eighth-great grandfather), Reverend John Hale, was an early proponent of the Salem Witch Trials turned fierce critic who was later immortalized in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. But centuries before that, he wrote A Modest Enquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft. In it, he dispelled the persecution of “witches,” and here I am, 300+ years later, carrying his torch, blazing with the message: Yes, magic is real, but we have been blinded by dogma and fear. And adding: Because the truth is: real magic is not evil. It is holy.
All my writing is a collaboration.
Spirit laughs at my outlines.
Words wake me in the night. I’m given details in dreams, and the themes are always the same. I write about time, memory, family, the nature of reality, and magical phenomena. Between 2015 and 2019, I wrote a weekly and monthly column for Horoscope.com and the Fleeting Connections blog. From 2019 to 2024, I wrote the online publication The Magic Guide. And in 2022, my essay on Salem and the social perceptions of witchcraft was published in the Lincoln Center Theater Review. Over the years, my work has inspired readers to gift me the sobriquet “The Queen of Synchronicity.”
WHAT’S NEXT?
I’m pulling together 20+ years of experiences to tell the whole, true magical story — spanning centuries, generations, and realms. So mostly, you’ll find me in the hermit cave — receiving messages and writing — or in sessions, helping you connect with real magic.