Kim is a published astrologer who has studied mythology, tarot, and metaphysical philosophy. She is well-versed in many subjects because she s also studied alternative health, Jungian psychology, art history, quantum physics, self-sufficiency farming, marine biology, veterinary nursing, dressage, animal husbandry, scuba diving, and nursing mother s counseling. Her work is contemporary and ancient, dark and uplifting, shocking and enlightening.
00:06:13.100And of course, with a lot of more open beliefs around the time of Plato and so forth, became
00:06:19.640Christianized and there was all this conflict.
00:06:21.800I mean, the, the religious aspects of being had to make sense.
00:06:28.980And the idea of astrology and the idea of choice and the ideas of fate and free will were, to count, it was just a big can of worms for bringing in a coherent religion to bring the people together.
00:06:47.200So, um, a lot of things were, um, well, demonized.
00:06:52.040They were considered, um, evil, dark, sinister, um, uh, counterproductive to the healthy young mind.
00:07:02.480So, yeah, it's kind of had a, uh, a lot of bad press for, for a while.
00:07:09.020And perhaps maybe that's why we're in such a bad state as well on the planet, because we haven't embraced some of these concepts.
00:07:16.160Sure, you narrow, once you start narrowing, uh, the mind and narrowing the playing field, you're, you're definitely, the priorities change and the outcomes change.
00:07:27.240So, of course, anything that, the reverse, anything that opens the mind becomes curious and, uh, looking at, okay, what is this?
00:08:21.420I've, I've been writing all my life and, uh, it's only really come together in the last maybe 10 years where, uh, this particular story and a particular storyline grabbed me so hard I couldn't let go of it.
00:08:40.060And I went through, I mean, becoming a published author is probably, uh, at least as challenging as writing the book to start with.
00:08:54.580With speculative fiction, of course, we're looking at series.
00:08:57.340We're looking at, um, stories that have long arcs and because readers are expecting to get into that world and, and, um, be in it for a while.
00:09:05.760So, yeah, it's probably in, um, 2001 or so.
00:09:12.580I actually started with the story idea and stuck with it.
00:09:16.100And then I've got my first, uh, three book contract in 2007.
00:09:38.700It's, uh, finding that it's during, um, I mean, my whole life has been research because I'm just like, yeah, definitely the eternal student.
00:09:47.900Yeah, you do a little bit of everything.
00:09:49.400I was pretty impressed with all your diplomas.
00:10:10.540But generally, the story, the story wells up and the story has to be told.
00:10:15.320And I'll be ripping along, getting the story down, and I'll come to a character or a, an environment or a situation that I, something's going to happen.
00:10:27.160And I don't really understand how that could happen.
00:11:26.940As a matter of fact, technology has turned around and absolutely bit them in the ass in ways that nobody expected.
00:11:36.320So there's this quality in that world of something being very advanced and very futuristic, but the themes of geoengineering, the themes of gender biases, and the themes of water and environments and so forth are extremely relevant to what's happening right now.
00:11:55.560So the speculative side of it gives us distance so we can get into the story and we can go, oh, this is happening, and we're gripped by it in ways that if we're like, if we saw this on the news, it would have a completely different effect.
00:12:12.160There would be a distancing that you, in the story, you can fall into it.
00:12:17.280So there's the dystopian Earth that's the near future.
00:12:22.720And then there's a parallel world because I use a lot of quantum physics theory, including the many worlds theory.
00:12:31.200So we've got this parallel Earth called Gala, and it's completely different.
00:13:00.180The reason why I – this all burst into books was one sentence, one idea of a writer that I just idealized, Arthur C. Clarke, and he said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
00:13:34.960And so on Gala, we have a world where the – air quotes magic – is basically thoughts becoming things very fast, right, instead of taking their time.
00:13:49.560As they do in this world, thoughts – there is an instant – atoms rearrange in an instant.
00:13:56.920Thoughts become things instantaneously, and they call it magic.
00:14:01.340Whereas, of course, on Earth, they're still struggling to patch up whatever technology they can salvage, et cetera.
00:14:10.400So it's really interesting contrasting worlds to write in and see what happens to characters when you put them in both these situations.
00:14:19.760So do you think in real life, do you think that we're heading somewhere spooky with all the technology and possibly even AI coming in?
00:14:26.980Well, I think – what I think is if we – if we lack awareness, it's very easily – could go the way my futuristic Earth has gone extremely easily.
00:14:47.620We have – it's because it's all – it could be all set up for that.
00:16:38.040But through meditation, I can tell you, there's – I think there is a blurring in me when I think of what I remember in this life and what I remember and whatever – I don't know how to define it.
00:17:09.320And when you tune into that, I don't – I'm not sure how we label things, you know, a past life or a current life or to channeling someone else or – because ultimately we are.
00:17:33.340But in terms of past life, I think everything.
00:17:40.120When you're writing, when you're in the creative process, and you would know this with music and with writing, too, it's – you are opening the doors.
00:18:19.980And this is what – to me, this is what speculative fiction does.
00:18:24.200Because it's asking what if – and we're starting to write stories that combine technology and magic and myths and memories and ideas of the law of attraction.
00:20:49.260And it's not, I mean, reality, I'm doing air quotes again, reality out there is, in the big picture, from the big perspective, it's a projection of consciousness, right?
00:21:01.960And we've got this consensus, collective consciousness that is projecting this reality.
00:21:41.260And who just broke up and probably bigger things like political, whatever.
00:21:44.700But, you know, I can be intimately connected with the whole globe and get, you know, this bird's eye view into this world of ours, this reality.
00:22:17.760Yeah, the metaphor is like when a cell, I don't, I should have looked up my scientific, just any scientist out there or biologist, put your hand up because, but you'll know what I mean.
00:22:40.920But you will see the nuclei will, the DNA strands will all gather at a polarity, like they will split and they will gather at either end of the cell.
00:22:52.300And you have this absolute extreme thing happening.
00:22:55.900And then, bloop, suddenly you have two cells.
00:22:58.240And I think that's what we're doing right now, metaphorically, of course.
00:23:03.640I think that light consciousness is, of course, drawn to light consciousness.
00:23:11.880And the more people that are becoming more aware, more open, are meditating, are raising the consciousness of the planet, they are doing their thing.
00:25:04.440And there's this, there's some just wonderful theories out there.
00:25:09.620And, you know, one in particular that, oh, it's really interests me.
00:25:15.040And if anyone reads, yeah, my series, if you get to Errors of Time, you're going to find out how very much it interests me.
00:25:23.120But the idea that, okay, we, it's related to M theory, which is the, like, the next step up from, we had string theory and everybody got very excited about it and thought, oh, this is going to be it.
00:25:37.300And, but there were too many, we kept finding more and more and more theories.
00:25:42.260It wasn't the unifying theory that everybody was after.
00:25:45.340And now the next one in the hot seat is M theory, which is like a, has been born out of the string theory idea.
00:25:53.760But the concept around it is that, yes, all these multiple universes with multiple versions of ourselves doing slightly different things.
00:26:06.280And one of the ideas that kind of links to law of attraction is that when, you know, how the idea of law of attraction is like attracts like.
00:26:17.300And if you don't like what you're living in, then you just, you have to change your vibration.
00:26:24.540Because if you think differently about your situation, it will have to change because you've shifted your vibe.
00:26:32.800And one of the ideas is that when you change your vibration, pop, you're popping over to that other universe where that is your vibe.
00:26:40.880And that basically our consciousness is popping around to our, through these different universes that we exist in with our different, slightly different vibrations.
00:27:11.580But they, I don't know who they are, but part of the theory is that when you have an experience, we've all done this and we can all think about it for a second.
00:27:22.960You have this experience where life just changed dramatically.
00:27:28.460It's like, and you almost say to yourself, what universe am I in now?
00:30:35.980And I don't, I don't know how that would work in a, this reality.
00:30:44.200I suppose, I mean, we can speculate that because reality is an, you know, it's an externalization of consciousness, as consciousness shifts, we'll start to experience out there as being quite different.
00:31:02.140But in the, in the physicality, in the bodies, I mean, just look at nature.
00:32:16.420But I, I put my focus on what lights me up.
00:32:24.200Because, oh, Jung said this thing, it's so beautiful, and it's just stuck with me all these years.
00:32:30.240He said, if there's something wrong with society, then there's something wrong with the individual.
00:32:35.740And if there's something wrong with the individual, I need to go look in the mirror.
00:32:40.300And I think what I really got from that is the place to work on all the unrest in the world, the only place to address that is in our own hearts, in our own beings.
00:32:58.060And when I experience stillness and peace in me, I am contributing to that, to the world.
00:33:06.680The fact that we do, you know, if I don't watch the news, but of course I hear things on Twitter and other connections, obviously.
00:33:16.980And then I go research and I go, oh my God, they're doing that?
00:33:21.960So, yeah, we, obviously, when I'm exposed to these experiences of unrest and this, like I said, the huge contrast of how some, how people live and how, in some ways, people can be incredibly generous.
00:33:39.240In other ways, it's just like, oh my God, what are they doing?
00:33:44.480I think what we are experiencing, again, is the externalization of where we are as a collective.
00:33:56.800I think, ultimately, the unrest or the disturbance and all that contrast is helping people understand what they really do want.
00:34:06.420And, again, the more people that meditate, if we get 1% of the population meditating, we're going to shift that and we're going to slowly ease that and shift it and move it into a, obviously, more loving and more beautiful experience.
00:34:22.800Definitely, and I think there's probably a second phase to that, and that's saying no more, putting your foot down and boycotting maybe certain products that are, you know, poisoning people and whatnot.
00:34:39.640I think it's important to distinguish between saying no to something, choosing not to participate, and fighting against.
00:34:48.900I think when we do push against anything, fight against it, we're feeding it.
00:34:55.180And this is a very difficult concept, really, for us, especially as, you know, warrior evolved humans where, you know, the conflict resolution was, you know, club them over the head.
00:35:10.360So, we're coming from, you know, we're coming from that, and it takes time to shift it, but the more we push against something, the more we fight it, the more we're putting our attention on it, and the more our attention is on it, the more of it we will see.
00:35:29.860So, personally, for what I do is focus on what's going right.
00:35:38.060So, like, for me, it's very hard for me to think about chickens with, it's just an example.
00:36:22.180So, but if I went out there with a protest sign and marched on chicken farming, I am energetically putting my focus and anybody who will take a snapshot of me or march with me, all that focus is going on chicken farming in the way that we don't want to farm chickens.
00:42:23.100When my very first teacher, formal teacher, when I was 17, first thing she said to me is when she was talking about the planets, because, of course, you've got the signs and planets and houses.
00:42:34.600And you're just learning the language and getting a handle on all the components of the symbol system.
00:42:43.920Mercury represents communication and the mind and thoughts.
00:42:48.540And she said, everything you think, everything that Mercury in your chart is generating, that's your reality.
00:42:57.980She was saying thoughts become things long before it became popularized.
00:43:06.340And, of course, this tradition goes back thousands of years.
00:43:11.280And so the approach, I call it a law of attraction approach.
00:43:15.960And my idea is to educate people because, obviously, astrology has gotten into hands of so many different hands and hands that are not necessarily – I mean, some of the interpretations make me cringe at what's – textbooks, you know.
00:43:35.520You've got whole textbooks written on – oh, yeah, it's just not where it's at.
00:43:43.880So the approach is that the chart is a map.
00:43:47.840And it's – the big thing about the map is it's describing the territory.
00:43:53.480It's describing your natural, authentic vibration in various areas of life.
00:43:59.720So just like you would consult the map, if you wanted to go on a holiday, like, oh, do I want to go to the mountains?
00:45:53.100It's going to tell you the score of what your energy is and what happens when you go to those certain parts of yourself.
00:46:02.460And I think one of the greatest gifts of studying astrology or understanding what it's really about is non-judgment.
00:46:12.900When you – first thing you do is you learn all 12 signs and you realize that we all have all 12 signs in our charts and each sign has its own orientation, its own way of looking at things.
00:46:27.060And you start to open up and realize that, oh, there's not just one way.
00:46:34.020I'm not just all fire sign and all, you know, rah, rah, charge forward.
00:46:54.020We start to understand ourselves and accept and get in touch with and we start to understand each other and appreciate the qualities in each other.
00:47:47.700So, but anyway, just a few hours ago, Saturn has just gone direct.
00:47:51.980And this is exciting because that retrograde period that we've experienced since February-ish has probably, for a lot of people, coincided with feeling like, oh, things are not moving forward.
00:48:08.640Especially ideas that we had in November, 2011, feels like a lot of people are saying, oh, it's stuck or that fell apart or relationships.
00:48:20.860Oh, you know, there's been this feeling of things not moving forward.
00:48:25.100Mainly that's because when Saturn went retrograde, the message is basically you want to reflect on this.
00:49:09.200And now, there is a feeling of moving forward.
00:49:13.080And especially projects that we had in mind in November are going to start to, we're going to see some results more at the pace that we generally feel comfortable with.
00:49:28.500And Venus in a couple days is going to go forward again.
00:49:31.860And so there's been a month's long transit in the sign of Gemini, which is very rare.
00:49:38.640And there's a once-in-a-lifetime experience of Venus occulting or transiting the sun, which just happened a few weeks ago.
00:49:51.600And those, of course, we don't know a lot about what that actually means for individuals because astrologers have only been aware of it, Western astrologers have only been aware of it for a short period of time.
00:50:07.220And so we don't know quite how to nail this.
00:50:13.980But with Venus turning direct on the 28th, again, a feeling of things, especially in terms of creativity, money, relationship, we get a feeling that we've readjusted.
00:50:29.620We've seen the light of it in some ways.
00:50:32.400And now we move forward with a lot clearer intention.
00:50:36.160And we're more in touch with what we really want, not what we thought we wanted, if that makes sense.
00:56:51.060It's always super cool for the, well, for me as an astrologer to get feedback like that because you never, when you're, when you're reading, you're in your just kind of your little world and it's you and the chart and you're just connecting to it.
00:57:07.740But then when you get the, you know, how the person is actually using that energy, that's, that's exciting.
00:57:13.500Well, as we begin to wind down, I just wanted to have you talk a bit about your new series that you're working on.
00:57:23.020Oh, thank you for asking about that because, yes, very, well, just very briefly before we jump to the new series, there is a final book, a novella in the Earth and Gala series that's coming out soon.
00:57:41.260I don't have an exact date, but I just saw the book trailer my sister did for it, which will also be public soon.
00:59:08.040But this dynamic, this dynamic of the sea was just so powerful.
00:59:14.980And these, the idea of the sentient creatures of the sea and how alluring they are and the idea of what they, how we connect in the sea being, of course, the unconscious.
01:00:31.900And there is a population that lives in, in the sea under the water in a kind of, they're called the Mar.
01:00:38.600And, and then there are, there's a population that lives in the lands, which are this one beautiful continent and surrounded by the single sea.
01:00:55.160Are you familiar with the expanding or growing earth theory that said, you know, once all the continents were joined, but because earth is growing, that's why all the continents started splitting and separating?
01:01:28.160You also mentioned, I was reading an article someone else interviewed you, that you were going to get into some DNA altering in your new book.
01:01:53.880In the, in the new series, things have changed.
01:01:58.160Definitely, the, their, the whole DNA has split and gone down two different tracks, and it's very, obviously very far.
01:02:06.500We're looking extremely far in the future.
01:02:08.400And, but in the, I suppose I just haven't left the whole DNA thing alone, have I?
01:02:14.760Because in the previous, I didn't realize that.
01:02:17.520In the previous series, in the Earth and Gala series, there has been some very interesting changes done to the DNA.
01:02:28.140And, and when I wrote this, I put nanotechnology in the DNA, in the, in the series.
01:02:37.040I had my techno witches, who are very sophisticated scientists, do this.
01:02:45.640And, and while I was researching how this could possibly, at the extreme stretch of the imagination, be true, I found out that they had a model for it.
01:02:56.200That they, being us, our scientists, were already talking about doing it.
01:03:01.140So, that was very cool and interesting.
01:03:03.580Their idea was to create nanotechnologies, we're talking about something very, very small, nanocomputers, nanoquantum computers inserted into the DNA to monitor health and whatnot.
01:03:34.940This is what I had my, my, my crew doing on their futuristic Earth, and then I found out that they're, yeah.
01:03:43.620That happened with a few, few instances.
01:03:47.100But in Amasia, there is not the, we're looking, we're jumping to that place, and we're not looking at what got them there.
01:03:55.320Except the series of extinctions, because we have cycles of extinctions that we're not super aware of, because we're, we don't last that long.
01:04:05.700I mean, as humans, we're only on the planet for a short period of time.
01:04:09.440And I think we're almost due for one, right?
01:04:12.580Um, not, not yet, but, well, not yet in the terms of anything that we would consider very close.
01:04:21.520But they're, um, the cycles run about, well, there's major ones that run, um, every 25,000 years.
01:04:31.600And, yeah, and what, okay, so what happens?
01:04:35.680And, uh, so a lot of the story is based on those cycles of extinction and how, um, how species survive.
01:04:44.740And how, how our human species has survived.
01:04:49.320So there, yeah, in that sense, there's been some major changes in our DNA.
01:04:56.040I'm definitely going to have to read this book series and get some of your other ones.
01:05:00.260So please tell us about your websites where we can get your books and how people can get a reading.
01:05:06.860Uh, well, I have, everyone's welcome to come and, uh, chat with me at my, um, blog, which is called The 11th House.
01:05:15.720In astrology, you've got 12 houses and The 11th House is the house of community and connection, like-minded others and so forth.
01:05:24.100So, um, it's called The 11th House and it's kimfalconer.wordpress.com.
01:05:30.780And that's my blog and it's, um, just informal, but if you're interested in all the various happenings of law of attraction and for emerging writers and astrology and all that, rah, rah, is there in a current way.
01:05:46.120And if you want my, um, basic site for my books, that's kimfalconer.com.
01:05:52.380And it's, that site was designed by my son and it, it's very cool in the sense, I did all the HTML and CSS, so I made it circular.
01:06:05.360It's a porthole and you'll see when you go there.
01:06:07.940Um, and there were no models for it and it took me months to work out how to, to, um, use it.
01:06:15.980But anyway, you have to be a little creative.
01:06:17.900You've got to hover your mouse, your mouse over the various glyphs and symbols to navigate around.
01:06:23.760So, uh, it's a participation experience there.
01:06:27.420But you can find out, um, about my books and where to get them.
01:06:31.220You can get them anywhere in the world from fishpond.com who ships for free.
01:06:36.060So, I love fishpond.com because they get, they'll get my books anywhere.
01:06:41.560And plus, um, those who love their Kindles or Kobo and other devices can get them electronically through, um, Kindle and their various outlets.
01:06:54.120Uh, also my astrology side, I've got this huge web presence.
01:06:58.500It's built up since, like, the internet started.
01:07:04.440Um, falconastrology.com is my main astrology site where, uh, you'll see, there's about, I don't know, 100 or more articles on astrology and, and so forth.
01:07:21.920And a lot of links to current, um, things that I've got going on.