Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Virginia Mason Richardson. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Virginia, appreciate you joining us today. What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?
Thanks for having me! Hands down, The Magic Guide is my most meaningful project to date. It’s an ever-unfolding story that I started writing in 2018, and every time I sit to write, it feels like I’m answering a calling. The fact that I have the freedom to create it and have found readers who love and appreciate it means the world to me.
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
Of course! My name is Virginia, and I’m a highly intuitive person who experiences real magic every day. I share my true experiences and help people connect with the magic in their own life through my online publication, The Magic Guide.
Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?
If you had told me at eighteen that I would be writing about spirituality and magical experience, I would have laughed and rolled my eyes.
I never used to be believe in anything spiritual. Then, in my mid-twenties, I started having wild mystical experiences. My (literal) dreams would come true. I had intuitive knowings that things were going to happen and then they did. I was suddenly swimming in nonstop synchronicity. It was like a door was unlocked on an aspect of reality that I’d been denying all my life, and there was no turning back.
As I embraced these experiences, I made different choices, and through this, the three chronic illnesses I’d been struggling with since college all disappeared and my life was completely transformed.
Staying curious about my experiences has made me a healthier, happier person, and I want to inspire other people to get really curious about their own experiences too.
I think so many of us are just going through the motions, believing things we’ve been taught, and not really connecting with ourselves, each other, or the greater world. So ultimately, my mission is to help people connect to the fullness of their own experience, to open their hearts and minds to everything happening around them that they’ve been taught to ignore, and to inspire people to get out of their head and act according to the wisdom of their heart.
We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.
While there are many people who have experiences like mine and who are curious about these things, there are also a lot of people who think that my experiences simply are not possible, that I must either be making it up or be unintelligent or crazy. I’ve had people physically back away from me the moment they learn about my work. Many people have been conditioned to believe that the things I write about either aren’t possible or worse, they’re evil. I am constantly wrestling with my fears around all of this and learning to be brave enough to stand up and keep doing this work, keep writing, keep speaking, keep sharing. It would be so much easier to just keep my experiences to myself and not subject them to scrutiny, but as I mentioned earlier, this work truly does feel like a calling, and whenever I try to retreat, it feels just as terrible as the criticism. So, I keep going, reminding myself that to be a woman, having my own experience, and trusting my inner knowing is an act of rebellion. And it takes a lot of resilience.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.themagicguide.co
- Instagram: @virginia.mason.richardson
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/virginiamasonrichardson/
- Other: Complete author’s site: www.virginiamasonrichardson.com
Image Credits
illustrated by Virginia Mason Richardson