Welcome.
I’m Virginia—a highly intuitive writer
and real magic theorist who’s spent the past decade experiencing real magic, chronicling its presence, and excavating its meaning through creative storytelling.
About Virginia Mason Richardson
Welcome.
I’m Virginia—a highly intuitive writer and real magic theorist 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. Instead, 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, I have thousands of pages of notes that I rely upon to keep my stories as accurate as possible. And while I love nothing more than discussing the big questions: How does magic work? What does it mean? How can it help us in our lives? I no longer question whether it’s real. For me, the only logical deduction is: 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. No, we shouldn’t punish people for it. And adding: Because magic is a natural creative force. Magic is beautiful.
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, interconnection, and yes, magic. 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 true magical stories have inspired readers to gift me the sobriquet “The Queen of Synchronicity.”
NOW
I’m transforming my experiences into a contemporary fantasy, an epic modern myth—rooted in real science, history, and of course, magic.