Welcome.
I’m Virginia, and for the past decade, I’ve been experiencing real magic, chronicling it in magical records, and writing true stories about all that I’ve seen.
I never used to believe in magic.
Then everything changed.
A graduate of Vassar 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 it would only get worse. Instead, my intuition opened wide, and in the years that followed, 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, acting like scientific fieldnotes. I rely on these to keep my writing as accurate as possible, validate my experiences, and help me make connections I would otherwise miss. All of this has led me to believe that which 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. This history has rippled through my life in awe-inspiring ways, and while I never would have thought I’d be doing this work when I was young, these days it feels akin to fate.
Storytelling is a kind of magic.
Synchronicity swirls as I type.
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, readers have consistently named me “The Queen of Synchronicity.”
