Radio 3Fourteen - Quantum Enchantment_ Astrology _ Laws of Attraction

00:00:00.000 This video was made from Murata

00:00:02.680 Thank you.

00:00:32.680 This is Radio 314 on the Red Ice Radio Network.

00:01:02.680 Kim is also a published astrologer who has studied mythology, tarot, and metaphysical

00:01:08.860 philosophy.

00:01:09.920 Really, she is well-versed in many subjects because she's also studied alternative health,

00:01:14.400 Jungian psychology, art history, quantum physics, self-sufficiency farming, marine biology,

00:01:21.300 veterinary nursing, dressage, animal husbandry, scuba diving, and nursing mother's counseling.

00:01:27.920 That's not all because she's also studied yoga and knows how to play three musical instruments.

00:01:32.840 Her work is contemporary and ancient, dark and uplifting, shocking and enlightening.

00:01:38.100 Welcome, Kim.

00:01:38.840 How are you?

00:01:40.340 Good.

00:01:40.980 Thank you.

00:01:41.860 And I'm just so delighted to be here.

00:01:43.720 Thank you for having me.

00:01:45.060 So how did you end up in Byron Bay, Australia?

00:01:47.260 Oh, a man.

00:01:53.620 Usually that's how.

00:01:55.520 It's boiled down to a man.

00:01:57.480 But yes, back in California a long decades ago, I met a man and we had adventure on our

00:02:06.080 minds and we wanted to go somewhere we'd never been before.

00:02:09.480 And we immigrated to Australia before we even set foot.

00:02:14.240 Wow.

00:02:14.940 So it was an adventure.

00:02:17.860 The man's not here anymore.

00:02:19.940 But I am and I love it.

00:02:23.640 And I'm very happy that, you know, whatever it takes to get me moving, that's fine.

00:02:29.840 Do you miss living in the United States at all?

00:02:32.240 Um, I, there are aspects of, I'm from Santa Cruz, California, and there are things like

00:02:40.260 the mountains so close to the sea and that green color of the ocean and kelp.

00:02:46.240 Yeah.

00:02:46.600 And I miss the redwoods.

00:02:48.840 There are a few, some things, fog.

00:02:50.920 I haven't seen fog in so long and I didn't think I'd ever miss it.

00:02:55.320 But yeah, just those home things, even earthquakes, you know, that make you feel very much alive.

00:03:00.780 And I lived bang on the San Andreas fault line.

00:03:04.860 So yeah, just part of growing up.

00:03:08.060 So yeah, there are things, of course, my family too.

00:03:10.760 My sister's California and yeah, I miss her together.

00:03:14.200 Australia is pretty similar to the U.S. though.

00:03:16.320 There's a lot of things that are, yeah, I'd say of all the countries, Australia is probably

00:03:19.900 the closest to the U.S.

00:03:22.220 There are a lot of similarities and there's a lot of cultural links.

00:03:28.000 I certainly haven't felt estranged in any way.

00:03:31.920 I've felt very welcomed to this country.

00:03:34.360 It's also has its differences and there's something very powerful and there's earth magic

00:03:39.620 here that you, oh, it's amazing.

00:03:43.020 I mean, you're surrounded by all these exotic birds.

00:03:46.340 It's like being inside of, you know, bird sanctuary only it's just step outside your door and there's

00:03:51.500 flocks of parrots and there's marsupials and all these very ancient kind of mammals.

00:03:58.820 It's fabulous and it's very inspiring, extremely inspiring to be here.

00:04:04.220 I think it's amazing how many interests you've studied.

00:04:07.240 So when did you first begin studying astrology and occult subject matters?

00:04:12.620 Childhood, pretty much, my teens.

00:04:15.820 My father was an astrologer before me, so it was just part of the life.

00:04:23.100 It was part of the language and I was very interested in my late teens.

00:04:27.660 I started studying it formally and it kind of gave me a road in to connect with my dad.

00:04:35.080 He was a very busy man and, you know, just not always had time for me.

00:04:40.620 And so studying astrology, I think my initial main interest was, I suppose, to get his approval

00:04:49.820 and get time with him to discuss the planets and the intricacies.

00:04:54.900 And then, of course, it just became language of my life.

00:04:58.500 And yeah, yeah.

00:05:00.520 So long, many decades of it.

00:05:03.080 It's just in my blood.

00:05:04.400 I think I read somewhere, too, that you said your father used astrology to basically predict

00:05:08.860 things on the market, right, financially?

00:05:10.900 He used to find it, yes.

00:05:12.400 He liked to make it very practical for financial gains and so forth.

00:05:18.000 And he was very successful at it.

00:05:19.880 I don't, I wish I picked his brain in that department a little bit more because when I

00:05:26.100 was younger, you know, who cares about money, finance, security?

00:05:29.240 That's just not what the interest is at all.

00:05:31.880 And now I'm thinking, what did he do?

00:05:36.520 Anyway, yeah.

00:05:38.200 Why do you think there's so much fear discussing occult subject matters in the mainstream?

00:05:46.380 Oh, it's because it's unfamiliar.

00:05:48.240 It's unfamiliar and it's been, it's, it's been demonized.

00:05:53.820 It's just like fear of empowering women. 1.00

00:05:56.940 It's like fear of anything that, that, that human, the culture feels estranged from because

00:06:06.780 of, oh, it's just, where, where do we start?

00:06:11.240 Patriarchy, I suppose. 0.93

00:06:13.100 And of course, with a lot of more open beliefs around the time of Plato and so forth, became

00:06:19.640 Christianized and there was all this conflict.

00:06:21.800 I mean, the, the religious aspects of being had to make sense.

00:06:28.980 And 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.

00:06:47.200 So, um, a lot of things were, um, well, demonized.

00:06:52.040 They were considered, um, evil, dark, sinister, um, uh, counterproductive to the healthy young mind.

00:07:02.480 So, yeah, it's kind of had a, uh, a lot of bad press for, for a while.

00:07:09.020 And 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.

00:07:16.160 Sure, 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.

00:07:27.240 So, of course, anything that, the reverse, anything that opens the mind becomes curious and, uh, looking at, okay, what is this?

00:07:35.380 What does this mean?

00:07:36.160 What does this say about me?

00:07:37.900 Um, how can I grow from this?

00:07:39.980 That, it's a very different culture than one that's saying, this is good and this, everything else is wrong.

00:07:46.280 You know, it's, it's the way it's gone.

00:07:49.380 But, uh, we see change and we see, I mean, we're having this conversation right now across the planet.

00:07:56.880 Look how far away we are.

00:07:58.620 And here we're like practically face to face, uh, and, uh, in talking about this thing, an open worldwide forum.

00:08:07.520 Things have changed.

00:08:08.800 Things have changed for the better.

00:08:10.460 That's right.

00:08:11.640 So, at what point did you decide to begin writing speculative fiction?

00:08:16.080 Ah, um, I think it was five.

00:08:20.180 I was pretty young.

00:08:21.420 I'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.

00:08:40.060 And I went through, I mean, becoming a published author is probably, uh, at least as challenging as writing the book to start with.

00:08:53.200 And that's just the one book.

00:08:54.580 With speculative fiction, of course, we're looking at series.

00:08:57.340 We'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.

00:09:05.760 So, yeah, it's probably in, um, 2001 or so.

00:09:12.580 I actually started with the story idea and stuck with it.

00:09:16.100 And then I've got my first, uh, three book contract in 2007.

00:09:21.160 So, thank you.

00:09:23.480 Yeah.

00:09:23.860 And then it's just expanded from there.

00:09:26.500 So, uh, perseverance, uh, definitely pays off in the, in the writing world.

00:09:32.160 So, do you do quite a, do you do quite a bit of research before you write your books?

00:09:37.400 During.

00:09:38.140 Oh, okay.

00:09:38.700 It'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.

00:09:47.900 Yeah, you do a little bit of everything.

00:09:49.400 I was pretty impressed with all your diplomas.

00:09:52.340 I know.

00:09:53.300 It's really, it's crazy how much stuff I've done and how diverse it is. 1.00

00:09:57.580 And it's just amazing because when you go to write things, I have, I can draw on memories.

00:10:04.860 And if I don't have the memory, if I don't have it right, I know how to research it.

00:10:08.740 I know where to get the information.

00:10:10.540 But generally, the story, the story wells up and the story has to be told.

00:10:15.320 And 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.

00:10:27.160 And I don't really understand how that could happen.

00:10:29.640 So I, then I go into the research.

00:10:32.680 So you.

00:10:33.560 And then, yeah, write more.

00:10:35.340 And then another thing comes up and research.

00:10:37.540 So it's, it happens in the first draft.

00:10:39.940 A lot of research happens there.

00:10:41.480 Okay, and then you have two book series, right?

00:10:44.420 Quantum Enchantment and Quantum Encryption?

00:10:47.340 Yes.

00:10:47.800 Okay.

00:10:48.080 Yes.

00:10:48.500 So what are the, some of the deeper themes that you cover in those series?

00:10:53.300 Well, they, and they are basically, those six books are the one big giant story arc.

00:11:00.780 They're based in two worlds.

00:11:02.860 A futuristic earth, which is, it's dystopia.

00:11:07.700 There has been environmental collapse.

00:11:11.780 There's been government collapse.

00:11:13.360 There's been tectonic plate shifts.

00:11:15.480 The only currency is drinking water.

00:11:18.420 It's a very dark place.

00:11:21.440 And technology has just crumbled. 0.99

00:11:26.940 As a matter of fact, technology has turned around and absolutely bit them in the ass in ways that nobody expected. 0.57

00:11:36.320 So 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.

00:11:55.560 So 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.

00:12:12.160 There would be a distancing that you, in the story, you can fall into it.

00:12:17.280 So there's the dystopian Earth that's the near future.

00:12:22.720 And then there's a parallel world because I use a lot of quantum physics theory, including the many worlds theory.

00:12:31.200 So we've got this parallel Earth called Gala, and it's completely different.

00:12:36.420 There is no technology.

00:12:37.840 It's a magical hegemony.

00:12:39.200 It's agrarian.

00:12:40.000 Genders are equal, and there's a lot of empowerment.

00:12:45.260 There's also – they have different sort of problems there.

00:12:48.160 And, of course, a porthole opens between them, and there are links between them that we discover as it goes along.

00:12:58.240 And it's amazing.

00:13:00.180 The 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.

00:13:20.300 That's right.

00:13:20.740 And I always get chills when I think about that.

00:13:25.240 I wanted to know how that – how can I – how can that be true?

00:13:30.980 How – where is that true?

00:13:32.900 And what would that look like?

00:13:34.960 And 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.

00:13:49.560 As they do in this world, thoughts – there is an instant – atoms rearrange in an instant.

00:13:56.920 Thoughts become things instantaneously, and they call it magic.

00:14:01.340 Whereas, of course, on Earth, they're still struggling to patch up whatever technology they can salvage, et cetera.

00:14:10.400 So it's really interesting contrasting worlds to write in and see what happens to characters when you put them in both these situations.

00:14:18.640 Definitely.

00:14:19.760 So 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?

00:14:26.980 Well, 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.

00:14:47.620 We have – it's because it's all – it could be all set up for that.

00:14:51.840 But I don't believe in it.

00:14:53.400 I believe in Gala.

00:14:54.940 I believe that we have it right here, right now, the ability to create whatever we want in this reality.

00:15:03.860 And it's all where we want to put our focus.

00:15:07.260 So I'm not sure if that answers the question.

00:15:11.080 Yeah, it definitely answers it.

00:15:12.540 Yeah, we have everything already within us, but we've just been so out of touch.

00:15:16.260 We're not actually accessing it.

00:15:18.340 Our own technology.

00:15:19.280 I mean, when you think about it, the body is technology, right?

00:15:23.040 Exactly.

00:15:23.760 If we're spirits in a – I call it the flesh bag suit, you know?

00:15:27.900 Yeah, yes, very – yeah, that's very literal.

00:15:35.260 Beautiful, yeah.

00:15:36.400 Do you think some of your characters or stories might come from some kind of past life memory?

00:15:43.060 I know that a lot of them come from this life memory.

00:15:48.120 And I – and I – you know, an author can only bring themselves to the work.

00:15:54.900 You're just bringing yourself to it.

00:15:58.740 Even when you're researching or whatever you're doing, that's what you're getting.

00:16:03.580 And I think even fiction can be quite autobiographical, which is a little embarrassing for at the moment to think about.

00:16:11.940 Because don't think about it that way when you read.

00:16:13.980 You won't because you'd be in the story.

00:16:16.080 But it is.

00:16:17.300 And there are so many things.

00:16:21.560 I meditate.

00:16:22.040 I've been meditating for 40 years?

00:16:26.020 Yes, 41 years.

00:16:28.400 Well, another gift from my dad, transcendental meditation.

00:16:31.320 Well, that's a great gift.

00:16:33.120 Yes.

00:16:33.920 Yeah, astrology and TM.

00:16:36.680 And other things, too.

00:16:38.040 But 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.

00:16:57.660 But the greater whole.

00:17:02.480 The ability to connect with everything.

00:17:05.880 We're all connected.

00:17:07.280 We're absolutely all connected.

00:17:09.320 And 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.

00:17:21.520 It's aham brahmasmi. 0.97

00:17:23.300 I am the universe.

00:17:24.840 We are all one.

00:17:26.860 So I'm really getting far out from the question now.

00:17:30.260 No, I love it.

00:17:31.140 You can go with it.

00:17:32.800 Oh, okay.

00:17:33.340 But in terms of past life, I think everything.

00:17:40.120 When 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.

00:17:49.340 We call it the muse.

00:17:50.520 But you're opening the doors to your memories, to the collective unconscious memories.

00:17:56.220 And maybe your past lives dwell in there, too.

00:17:59.040 You are opening the doors.

00:18:00.460 So, of course, it's going to be in the books.

00:18:03.440 Yeah, that's right.

00:18:04.460 How could it not be?

00:18:06.280 For the painting, yes, yes.

00:18:08.060 So, long story short, yes.

00:18:10.960 Do you think it's possible for new mythologies to be born?

00:18:15.060 We're doing it.

00:18:16.040 And we have to do it.

00:18:17.700 Yes, I do believe that.

00:18:19.980 And this is what – to me, this is what speculative fiction does.

00:18:24.200 Because 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.

00:18:37.760 We're combining these.

00:18:38.940 And by reading these stories, it is like participating in the mythic journey.

00:18:44.660 Because, basically, our old myths are not equipped to deal with the world that we've got right now.

00:18:51.920 That's right.

00:18:52.460 That's a good point.

00:18:53.880 Yeah.

00:18:54.380 Well, they weren't written for me talking to you.

00:18:57.480 How many – are we, like, 10,000 miles away?

00:19:00.100 Yeah.

00:19:00.280 This is like mental telepathy, almost, or something.

00:19:05.960 Because, yeah, our thoughts are just going back.

00:19:09.080 I don't know.

00:19:09.620 I'm looking at my computer screen, you know, and there you are.

00:19:13.580 So, we don't have mythologies for that, except maybe shamans who are time travelers, you know, and popping up in different times.

00:19:23.840 Because even for me to get to where you are, it would take a day.

00:19:28.620 This is time travel and telepathy all in one, what we're doing, right?

00:19:32.480 Yeah.

00:19:32.840 And we need those mythologies to ground us, to give us a storyline, to know how to be.

00:19:41.580 And I think writers do it.

00:19:43.680 Artists do it.

00:19:44.820 They are the shamans that are helping us.

00:19:48.380 Artists, musicians do it, helping us cope with our new world.

00:19:54.520 Yeah.

00:19:54.960 And unfortunately, sometimes those fields really get hijacked.

00:19:58.120 So, it's like, hmm, what knowledge is really going to be preserved, you know?

00:20:02.560 Well, yes.

00:20:04.800 Then we set intentions.

00:20:08.400 We set strong intentions about what is preserved and what is meaningful.

00:20:13.680 And paradigms shifts happen when we set strong intentions and we see it happening now, not to worry about it not happening.

00:20:25.180 So, it's about, you know, being open and also being focused and believing in what can be.

00:20:34.640 Well, some of your work really explores a changing paradigm.

00:20:37.440 So, do you think that we really are in the midst of a changing paradigm?

00:20:40.440 And what do you think we're changing into?

00:20:41.880 Absolutely, I believe this is a changing paradigm.

00:20:46.960 You can just feel it all around you.

00:20:49.260 And 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?

00:21:01.960 And we've got this consensus, collective consciousness that is projecting this reality.

00:21:06.800 And let's just look.

00:21:08.240 Let's just have a brief look at what we see out there.

00:21:11.180 It's radical.

00:21:13.140 And there has been no time in the history of humankind where we could see this much of the world and know what is going on in an instant.

00:21:24.360 I mean, I can go on Twitter and I can find out what's happening all over the world in, like, really intimate details.

00:21:34.520 It's not just, you know, who had what breakfast.

00:21:36.820 You know, when someone's washing the dishes.

00:21:39.460 Exactly, exactly.

00:21:41.260 And who just broke up and probably bigger things like political, whatever.

00:21:44.700 But, 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.

00:22:00.300 And it is so diverse.

00:22:03.600 It is so extremely.

00:22:05.660 There is such an extreme.

00:22:07.040 And I think when we see that extreme, we know that we're in for transformation.

00:22:15.360 Yeah, I feel it, too.

00:22:16.380 It's there.

00:22:17.760 Yeah, 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.

00:22:30.180 I'm not going to use the big words.

00:22:31.480 But when a cell goes to divide, it's, you can see, you can watch this, you can watch this on YouTube.

00:22:39.620 It's amazing.

00:22:40.920 But 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.

00:22:52.300 And you have this absolute extreme thing happening.

00:22:55.900 And then, bloop, suddenly you have two cells.

00:22:58.240 And I think that's what we're doing right now, metaphorically, of course.

00:23:03.640 I think that light consciousness is, of course, drawn to light consciousness.

00:23:11.880 And the more people that are becoming more aware, more open, are meditating, are raising the consciousness of the planet, they are doing their thing.

00:23:22.400 And we are doing our thing with this.

00:23:25.940 And it is what's going to lift the entire, the entire collective into a higher level of awareness.

00:23:36.460 We just need 1%.

00:23:38.000 1% of the population.

00:23:41.580 I think, too, maybe some of that is even integrating with our higher self.

00:23:45.340 If we're not all completely in our body, maybe getting in touch with the rest of us that's out there somewhere in the cosmos,

00:23:51.460 and then becoming more powerful here in this realm.

00:23:54.640 Exactly.

00:23:56.240 Exactly.

00:23:57.080 It just, you connect with source and you, it changes everything.

00:24:03.140 There, you, it makes you, you feel lighter.

00:24:06.460 You worry less about anything.

00:24:09.680 And you, there's a sense of empowerment and there is lack of judgment.

00:24:15.960 Things that before, you know, ooh, that's bad and that's good.

00:24:19.940 Not so much anymore.

00:24:21.380 It's just, okay, this is all energy.

00:24:24.160 And it's amazing the level of peace and, well, just peace that you feel when you are connected to that higher source,

00:24:35.440 that higher self, the higher, we call it higher because, you know, we're linear and we have to put it somewhere on the scale.

00:24:44.140 But this, this, this aspect of ourselves that we, with, with awareness, we, we feel connected to and it changes everything.

00:24:54.980 Absolutely.

00:24:55.580 Well, you read about parallel universes.

00:24:57.500 Do you think that we do exist in other parallel universes?

00:25:00.860 Oh, God, yes.

00:25:02.060 Yes.

00:25:03.540 Absolutely.

00:25:04.440 And there's this, there's some just wonderful theories out there.

00:25:09.620 And, you know, one in particular that, oh, it's really interests me.

00:25:15.040 And 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.

00:25:23.120 But 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.

00:25:37.300 And, but there were too many, we kept finding more and more and more theories.

00:25:42.260 It wasn't the unifying theory that everybody was after.

00:25:45.340 And now the next one in the hot seat is M theory, which is like a, has been born out of the string theory idea.

00:25:53.760 But the concept around it is that, yes, all these multiple universes with multiple versions of ourselves doing slightly different things.

00:26:06.280 And 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.

00:26:17.300 And if you don't like what you're living in, then you just, you have to change your vibration.

00:26:22.700 You change your thoughts about it.

00:26:24.540 Because if you think differently about your situation, it will have to change because you've shifted your vibe.

00:26:32.800 And 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.

00:26:40.880 And that basically our consciousness is popping around to our, through these different universes that we exist in with our different, slightly different vibrations.

00:26:54.240 That's one idea.

00:26:55.340 I like that a lot.

00:26:56.780 I like that too.

00:26:57.500 Because then it means we can overcome anything and change anything.

00:27:01.220 Exactly.

00:27:02.100 Exactly.

00:27:02.700 Because we can't.

00:27:03.580 We're not.

00:27:03.820 If you can imagine it.

00:27:05.660 Yeah.

00:27:05.860 Oh, no.

00:27:06.220 There's no trap.

00:27:07.060 There's absolutely no trap.

00:27:09.860 No trap going on.

00:27:11.580 But 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.

00:27:22.960 You have this experience where life just changed dramatically.

00:27:28.460 It's like, and you almost say to yourself, what universe am I in now?

00:27:31.940 You, you, just something happened.

00:27:34.440 There's an event and your life is just different.

00:27:37.480 Your outlook is different.

00:27:38.640 The person that you're whatever is just different.

00:27:41.400 And they say those peak points are points that you pop to your different universe.

00:27:48.620 It's, it's exciting to think about.

00:27:51.180 And the idea is, it's not important whether we grab onto that and go, I believe that or not.

00:27:56.520 But just to allow for the possibility of that, that opens the mind.

00:28:01.040 We also live in such a dualistic world, you know, it's like light and dark, negative, positive.

00:28:06.580 Do you think that if the world was just peace all the time and love, that we would be progressing?

00:28:11.200 Or is that just not part of what's going to happen on this planet, this experience?

00:28:16.740 That's such an interesting question.

00:28:18.840 And it's one that I ponder because as a storyteller, okay, as an author, when you, when you write a story, what makes it interesting?

00:28:32.440 Oh, they've got this saying, take your characters, chase them up trees and throw rocks at them.

00:28:36.940 Basically, you've got to put, what makes a good story is this gripping conflict and contrast.

00:28:47.720 It's the contrast.

00:28:48.600 Here I've got these worlds and one is, I mean, like terrible things happen in this one world.

00:28:53.360 And then we pop over to this other world where we experience a completely different thing.

00:28:59.740 And we are in a world of contrast.

00:29:03.440 And it is the contrast that we don't like, the experiences that we go ouch or yuck or ooh, that helps us understand what we do want.

00:29:13.320 And it shapes us and changes us and we're in this playground at this point in time.

00:29:23.880 And I think we're all exactly, exactly in the perfect place for us right now.

00:29:30.660 And whether consciousness is going to evolve into, as you said, into this experience of just bliss, no contrast.

00:29:45.020 That sounds to me like we are, okay, completely in our source energy, completely in our higher self.

00:29:52.040 And probably we'd have, there would be no body because the actual physicality of the body creates contrast.

00:30:00.820 It has to be fed.

00:30:02.460 It has, you know, it has to be kept fit.

00:30:05.620 Otherwise, oh, there's discomfort or, oh, I just climbed that hill.

00:30:08.820 Now I feel like I'm going to have a heart attack.

00:30:10.520 You know, there's contrast.

00:30:12.900 Just being in a body, we all know.

00:30:15.420 Yeah, it's work.

00:30:17.100 Yes.

00:30:18.180 It creates contrast.

00:30:19.540 So it's almost to me that feeling of bliss and that feeling of unity and that oneness that I get when I meditate.

00:30:27.660 I'm not aware of my body.

00:30:29.320 I have no body awareness at that time.

00:30:31.120 And it is, it's pure consciousness.

00:30:35.980 And I don't, I don't know how that would work in a, this reality.

00:30:44.200 I 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.

00:31:02.140 But in the, in the physicality, in the bodies, I mean, just look at nature.

00:31:08.340 Everything eats everything else.

00:31:11.100 Yeah.

00:31:12.580 Everything.

00:31:14.020 Everything is just this full cycle.

00:31:16.220 And nature is so beautiful.

00:31:17.780 And it is so full of contrast.

00:31:20.200 And, yeah, I don't know if I can answer that question.

00:31:25.740 I think it's hard with the earth brain, the way we're wired.

00:31:28.900 It's almost like we're rigged, so we can't, can't even answer that question.

00:31:33.760 Yeah, it's, it's a very interesting one to think about, though.

00:31:37.500 And I appreciate that you brought that up because that's, that makes it very interesting.

00:31:42.680 I don't think I'd be selling a lot of speculative fiction in that world, but I'd be doing other things, I guess.

00:31:51.220 How do you view the current state of global unrest, then?

00:31:55.880 Pardon?

00:31:56.400 How do you view the current state of just global unrest?

00:32:01.380 Well, I, another very interesting question.

00:32:07.820 A, I don't really, I don't focus on it.

00:32:13.600 That's going to sound strange without explaining.

00:32:16.120 No, not at all.

00:32:16.420 But I, I put my focus on what lights me up.

00:32:24.200 Because, oh, Jung said this thing, it's so beautiful, and it's just stuck with me all these years.

00:32:30.240 He said, if there's something wrong with society, then there's something wrong with the individual.

00:32:35.740 And if there's something wrong with the individual, I need to go look in the mirror.

00:32:40.300 And 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.

00:32:58.060 And when I experience stillness and peace in me, I am contributing to that, to the world.

00:33:06.680 The 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.

00:33:16.980 And then I go research and I go, oh my God, they're doing that?

00:33:19.980 But yeah, they're doing that.

00:33:21.960 So, 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.

00:33:39.240 In other ways, it's just like, oh my God, what are they doing?

00:33:44.480 I think what we are experiencing, again, is the externalization of where we are as a collective.

00:33:51.740 And the unrest is not the enemy.

00:33:56.800 I think, ultimately, the unrest or the disturbance and all that contrast is helping people understand what they really do want.

00:34:06.420 And, 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.

00:34:22.800 Definitely, 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.

00:34:32.480 Yes, that's part.

00:34:33.800 Thank you.

00:34:34.400 Yes, exactly.

00:34:35.580 And I do that all the time.

00:34:39.640 I think it's important to distinguish between saying no to something, choosing not to participate, and fighting against.

00:34:48.900 I think when we do push against anything, fight against it, we're feeding it.

00:34:55.180 And 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.

00:35:09.720 That's fine.

00:35:10.360 So, 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.

00:35:29.860 So, personally, for what I do is focus on what's going right.

00:35:38.060 So, like, for me, it's very hard for me to think about chickens with, it's just an example.

00:35:46.600 I don't know.

00:35:47.160 I don't even want to talk about it because I don't want to think about it.

00:35:49.200 But I know that there are a lot of chickens in the world that have really horrible short lives.

00:35:56.180 Yeah.

00:35:56.940 And, okay, I don't think about that.

00:36:00.580 I think about, and I'm not a vegetarian, I think about free-range chickens.

00:36:06.640 Yeah, exactly.

00:36:08.180 And I only support and will only participate in free-range chickens and free-range eggs.

00:36:17.140 So, I don't know if that helps.

00:36:19.220 No, of course it does.

00:36:20.180 It's a good example.

00:36:21.960 Yeah.

00:36:22.180 So, 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.

00:36:44.300 Yeah, good point.

00:36:44.740 And that's not helping.

00:36:47.360 That's not helping.

00:36:49.620 That's not helping.

00:36:50.900 So, if I want to help chickens, I support free-range.

00:36:55.580 And I think about, every time I, like, see a chicken, you can think I'm nuts, but this is what works.

00:37:02.180 Every time I see a bird flying free, oh, God, there's a lot of wildlife around here and bush turkeys. 1.00

00:37:12.120 Oh, my goodness.

00:37:13.640 I remember those.

00:37:15.640 Yeah.

00:37:16.440 Crazy birds, aren't they?

00:37:18.140 But very primitive, not super smart.

00:37:21.400 But they, I look at them and I just appreciate them.

00:37:24.700 I appreciate their freedom and their, oh, the poor little deers when they try to fly, it's not super successful.

00:37:33.100 But, you know, I just love them and appreciate them.

00:37:35.360 That will do more for all the birds in the world than marching against a factory farmer.

00:37:43.660 And, of course, it's important to educate, but you need to educate without putting the focus on what you don't want.

00:37:51.860 You put your focus on what you do want.

00:37:54.060 And what you don't want diminishes.

00:37:58.540 That's right.

00:37:58.860 I think that's an excellent viewpoint you have there.

00:38:02.400 I know you're also skilled in the ancient art of the samurai sword.

00:38:05.540 So what is the way of the peaceful warrior?

00:38:09.340 Oh, you're bringing up all the contrast.

00:38:13.680 Maybe that's where I'm at right now.

00:38:16.020 Yeah.

00:38:16.320 No, it's beautiful.

00:38:17.300 It's great.

00:38:17.840 And the whole samurai training, it came about in a really interesting way.

00:38:26.620 I had written, this is back in, I don't know, early 2000-something.

00:38:32.040 And I'd written the first varied, oh, I had maybe three or four chapters of the first book in the series, which is The Spell of Rosette.

00:38:42.240 And I had a friend who's an author, and she's also a sensei in the iaido, in the samurai sword.

00:38:52.000 And I gave her the chapters to read.

00:38:55.620 She's also Sagittarius.

00:38:57.400 And so she has no problems saying exactly what she thinks and not many filters.

00:39:08.800 I admire people like that.

00:39:12.120 Yeah.

00:39:12.900 Yeah.

00:39:13.380 And I was trying to keep admiring her.

00:39:17.040 But she was great.

00:39:20.540 She's super helpful.

00:39:22.360 She came back and she said, fabulous story, Kim.

00:39:26.240 You don't know a squad about sword.

00:39:28.400 And she said, that's, you know, and she just X'd almost every paragraph that had any kind of sword, anything.

00:39:36.520 I mean, I watched Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon like 10 times.

00:39:40.440 I knew.

00:39:41.480 Didn't I?

00:39:42.080 Yeah, right.

00:39:43.200 I didn't.

00:39:44.320 I didn't.

00:39:45.060 So she said, come learn.

00:39:47.520 Come learn.

00:39:48.080 And I joined her dojo and trained for years.

00:39:53.400 And it's just, it's an amazing, it's an amazing experience.

00:40:00.900 Extremely empowering.

00:40:02.200 Most of the students were women.

00:40:04.560 And there is something very empowering about having a deadly weapon in your hand.

00:40:09.160 I know, more contrast.

00:40:10.180 But to learn how to use it.

00:40:14.300 And we were doing all the forms that the samurais would do before they went into battle.

00:40:20.000 And it's, you're doing this ancient art.

00:40:23.580 And you realize that you're making the same moves that these true warriors did, like, hundreds and hundreds of years ago.

00:40:32.420 So it's a very rich experience.

00:40:35.300 And it certainly improved my sword scenes in the books.

00:40:38.860 But as far as peace, the entire experience, because you aren't actually killing anyone.

00:40:46.080 You aren't actually, you can't spar because these are swords.

00:40:50.840 It's not like, you know, you put some shin pads on and stuff.

00:40:55.000 Actually, I think in Aikido, they do put a bunch of armor on and hit each other with sticks.

00:41:00.960 But this, with the sword, with the Aido, there's no sparring.

00:41:05.180 It's all you, the sword, and the movements.

00:41:07.780 And it's incredibly meditative.

00:41:10.980 It's incredibly difficult at first.

00:41:13.440 And when you actually make the sword sing and it's happening, it's just utterly empowering.

00:41:20.560 So there is that moment.

00:41:22.480 There is a peace in it because you get into that, I have to say the word, zen state, with the experience.

00:41:29.660 I don't think I would have that experience if I had to go out and defend the empire.

00:41:37.200 Yeah, exactly.

00:41:39.120 So, but my characters do.

00:41:42.840 And it was interesting when my publisher first read the manuscript, she called me on the phone.

00:41:50.120 And she was super excited about it.

00:41:52.640 And she said, the sword scenes are so authentic.

00:41:58.580 Very rewarding.

00:42:00.260 And yeah, yeah, it was awesome.

00:42:02.200 So moving into astrology now, what sort of approach do you take in your astrology?

00:42:09.240 Well, I do a thing that I call astro LOA, which is a law of attraction based astrology, which sounds all new and rah, rah.

00:42:18.540 But it isn't.

00:42:19.900 It doesn't do it all.

00:42:21.520 It's old.

00:42:23.100 When 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.

00:42:34.600 And you're just learning the language and getting a handle on all the components of the symbol system.

00:42:40.460 And she said, Mercury is everything.

00:42:43.920 Mercury represents communication and the mind and thoughts.

00:42:48.540 And she said, everything you think, everything that Mercury in your chart is generating, that's your reality.

00:42:57.980 She was saying thoughts become things long before it became popularized.

00:43:06.340 And, of course, this tradition goes back thousands of years.

00:43:11.280 And so the approach, I call it a law of attraction approach.

00:43:15.960 And 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.

00:43:35.520 You've got whole textbooks written on – oh, yeah, it's just not where it's at.

00:43:43.880 So the approach is that the chart is a map.

00:43:47.840 And it's – the big thing about the map is it's describing the territory.

00:43:53.480 It's describing your natural, authentic vibration in various areas of life.

00:43:59.720 So 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?

00:44:06.700 Do I need a coat?

00:44:08.020 Or am I going to the ocean and I'm going to bring my tugs?

00:44:10.740 Because you're looking to understand yourself.

00:44:17.240 You're looking to understand your territory.

00:44:19.140 What is it like there?

00:44:20.120 What is it like when I relate?

00:44:21.940 What is it like for me when I seek a career and want to create or start a family or all those things are in there because it's a map?

00:44:32.960 But you don't ask the map what you're supposed to do.

00:44:38.160 Yeah, I see what you mean.

00:44:39.720 You don't say, you know, the map is – hello, map.

00:44:44.300 How's this going to go for me?

00:44:48.020 It's going to talk about the terrain.

00:44:50.200 So I – my – I was going to say my purpose, so that must be true.

00:44:56.040 My purpose is to get out there and re-educate the entire planet on this incredible tool that they have for self-understanding.

00:45:06.780 Know thyself.

00:45:07.760 This is the gift.

00:45:11.000 And when you know yourself, you get in alignment with what you really want.

00:45:17.220 And this is meditation.

00:45:18.500 This is your higher self.

00:45:20.140 This is your purpose in life.

00:45:21.960 And life changes.

00:45:23.760 Everything around you changes.

00:45:24.900 And I mean changes for the better.

00:45:27.600 Yeah.

00:45:28.520 So by understanding our chart, basically, you're saying that we can really understand our life path, maybe?

00:45:33.340 The north and the south nodes, are they really telling us the score?

00:45:37.860 It's – okay.

00:45:39.060 As the map tells you the score, yes.

00:45:41.960 That map is telling you that, you know, the mountains are over here and they're this tall.

00:45:49.580 And in the winter, that's the temperature.

00:45:52.000 Yes, it's that literal.

00:45:53.100 It's going to tell you the score of what your energy is and what happens when you go to those certain parts of yourself.

00:46:02.460 And I think one of the greatest gifts of studying astrology or understanding what it's really about is non-judgment.

00:46:12.900 When 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.

00:46:27.060 And you start to open up and realize that, oh, there's not just one way.

00:46:34.020 I'm not just all fire sign and all, you know, rah, rah, charge forward.

00:46:39.880 It's got to be this way.

00:46:41.520 Oh, no, there's this earthy component.

00:46:43.540 Oh, I understand that now.

00:46:45.000 Oh, there's this airy intellectual component.

00:46:47.720 I understand that now.

00:46:48.640 There's this watery, feeling, mute component.

00:46:51.880 Now I understand that.

00:46:54.020 We 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.

00:47:07.100 It changes everything.

00:47:08.840 It changes everything.

00:47:09.500 Are there any important astrological events that we should be aware of right now or later into this year?

00:47:16.040 Any trends?

00:47:17.320 Yeah, yeah.

00:47:18.560 There's exciting things always happening up there.

00:47:21.420 And, of course, every time there's like some big thing, everybody thinks, oh, this is the big thing.

00:47:26.440 But there's big things happening all the time.

00:47:28.940 There's always very, very cool things happening in this symbol system.

00:47:33.940 But in particular, tonight, or this is today, I don't, where are you in time-wise?

00:47:42.320 You must be in.

00:47:43.340 We're Western Europe time.

00:47:46.200 Yes, that's right.

00:47:47.700 So, but anyway, just a few hours ago, Saturn has just gone direct.

00:47:51.980 And 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.

00:48:08.640 Especially 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.

00:48:20.860 Oh, you know, there's been this feeling of things not moving forward.

00:48:25.100 Mainly that's because when Saturn went retrograde, the message is basically you want to reflect on this.

00:48:35.740 You want to dial it back.

00:48:37.140 Slow down.

00:48:37.660 Don't push forward so far.

00:48:39.760 Go back.

00:48:40.740 There's something to reflect on.

00:48:44.040 And most of the time, we don't do that.

00:48:46.020 We just want, we have our idea and we want to create it and let's do everything we can to push it forward as fast as we can.

00:48:52.160 And that's why it feels like there's been resistance.

00:48:56.280 But now, hopefully, we've all done reflecting.

00:49:00.740 Maybe we've been forced to reflect.

00:49:02.480 And it feels like we're being forced.

00:49:07.100 And we can very much feel like that.

00:49:09.200 And now, there is a feeling of moving forward.

00:49:13.080 And 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.

00:49:23.680 So that's exciting.

00:49:25.700 And also, yes, yes.

00:49:28.500 And Venus in a couple days is going to go forward again.

00:49:31.860 And so there's been a month's long transit in the sign of Gemini, which is very rare.

00:49:38.640 And there's a once-in-a-lifetime experience of Venus occulting or transiting the sun, which just happened a few weeks ago.

00:49:51.600 And 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.

00:50:07.220 And so we don't know quite how to nail this.

00:50:13.980 But 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.

00:50:29.620 We've seen the light of it in some ways.

00:50:32.400 And now we move forward with a lot clearer intention.

00:50:36.160 And we're more in touch with what we really want, not what we thought we wanted, if that makes sense.

00:50:43.460 Yeah, of course it does.

00:50:44.520 So how influenced are we really by these transits?

00:50:47.240 Do we have a choice or not?

00:50:49.120 You know, even if someone didn't believe in some of these influences?

00:50:52.380 Absolutely, always have a choice.

00:50:55.900 And it's, I don't even use the word influence.

00:50:59.640 This is part of my, or I try not to, re-education because what we're seeing is the, as above, so below.

00:51:10.900 Things are happening in consciousness here in me, in you.

00:51:14.580 And it is reflected out there in the movement of the planets.

00:51:20.460 And, okay, it's, it seems like, okay, Saturn goes retrograde and we think, oh, crunch, everything's going to be hard to move forward.

00:51:32.540 That's, that is not the energy of Saturn.

00:51:37.440 Saturn's not up there making a decision, oh, you've got this project and I think you need to think on it more.

00:51:42.920 I'm going to make it really hard for you to move forward.

00:51:45.360 That's not what's happening.

00:51:46.880 What's happening is a higher intention in consciousness to get something right.

00:51:53.380 Saturn's big thing is authenticity, being authentic to ourselves.

00:51:58.160 And often we get an idea and we push forward and it starts to happen.

00:52:02.520 But the idea was something that maybe we wanted years ago and it's not authentic anymore.

00:52:08.040 Or maybe it's something our partner or our parents wanted us to do.

00:52:11.800 And we're all, we're, we're not consciously aware that it's not really our authentic goal.

00:52:18.580 So what happens is the higher consciousness is wanting us to be in alignment with our authenticity and our truth.

00:52:28.440 And we have a coincidence, a coinciding of Saturn retrograde with a time where we can get in touch with what we really want.

00:52:38.100 And so that's not something happening to us because of that planet and certainly not something negative happening.

00:52:46.640 It's just consciousness evolving, basically.

00:52:50.820 And the planet's movements out there reflecting it.

00:52:54.180 But to answer your question about is, do we have a choice?

00:53:00.040 Awareness gives us choice.

00:53:02.440 I think the less you know about it, the more you are at the mercy of it.

00:53:09.040 I know that sounds great, but I think the more aware you are, the more you can choose how you're going to respond to the energy.

00:53:21.300 It's just energy.

00:53:23.240 And if you resist it, it's going to hurt.

00:53:26.120 It's going to crunch in some way in your life.

00:53:28.740 You're going to get pinched off, and you're not going to feel connected to your source, and it's not going to feel good.

00:53:34.180 If you put awareness on it and just appreciate it as energy, you're open.

00:53:38.900 Now it's flowing.

00:53:40.060 You're going to experience it in a different way.

00:53:43.740 So I can look at a person's chart, and if they are, let's say, not interested in astrology,

00:53:52.600 not really interested in metaphysics or philosophy or opening their mind.

00:53:58.660 They just want this career and that relationship.

00:54:01.880 And let's just say they're focused on very practical things.

00:54:06.960 And I can get extremely predictive with their chart.

00:54:12.040 It's very easy for me to interpret how they're going to experience the next 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years.

00:54:19.960 Because they're not asking questions.

00:54:24.320 They're not, at that point, they're not putting awareness on it.

00:54:28.660 Therefore, they don't even know they have choices.

00:54:32.040 They're just in reaction.

00:54:34.200 So the person, the more aware a person is, the more the interpretation or the dialogue about what's happening astrologically

00:54:46.240 becomes, well, it becomes more interesting, obviously.

00:54:51.440 But there's just the choice.

00:54:53.380 And there's always choice.

00:54:54.320 And the choice is how you want to experience the energy.

00:54:59.600 Do you want to judge it and see it as negative and, of course, experience it that way?

00:55:05.160 Or are you going to just let go and go with the flow?

00:55:08.460 You did a draconic chart reading for me, and it was really accurate, by the way.

00:55:13.480 Thanks for that.

00:55:14.180 Oh, thank you.

00:55:15.220 Thank you.

00:55:15.840 I remember that.

00:55:17.800 And I get very excited when I get asked to do the draconic readings because not everybody's, you know,

00:55:24.040 that's not their first go-to thing.

00:55:26.600 Why not?

00:55:27.520 Why is the draconic chart not so popular?

00:55:31.920 Well, a lot of people don't know what it is.

00:55:34.400 Very few astrologers use them.

00:55:36.300 I don't even know anybody who use it, but I'm sure they're out there.

00:55:40.100 I think there's some books on them out there, so there's definitely some astrologers using them.

00:55:44.700 But when you look at the draconic, you're really looking in.

00:55:49.220 You're saying, who am I?

00:55:51.940 Who am I?

00:55:52.840 And what is authentic to me on a really deep level?

00:55:57.140 There's no, you know, pretending that there's a mundane question there, really.

00:56:02.260 You're asking to go in.

00:56:04.820 So that's very exciting kind of reading to do because right away, the person you're reading for is open.

00:56:12.960 And so things just, yeah, tend to flow.

00:56:16.720 And so it's popular, but to a smaller portion of the reading public.

00:56:25.080 Well, it was funny because you even mentioned, you know, there was some communication stuff in there and radio.

00:56:30.080 And that was right about the time when we were launching this little program.

00:56:33.200 So even that was accurate. 0.95

00:56:35.440 Yeah, that's so exciting.

00:56:36.680 And then you came back and said something about or told me about your radio and would I be interested?

00:56:42.800 And I was like, oh, wow.

00:56:45.420 Oh, gosh, that was fast.

00:56:46.960 She got that together fast.

00:56:49.700 Yeah, that was very cool.

00:56:51.060 It'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.

00:57:07.740 But then when you get the, you know, how the person is actually using that energy, that's, that's exciting.

00:57:13.500 Well, as we begin to wind down, I just wanted to have you talk a bit about your new series that you're working on.

00:57:22.440 Okay.

00:57:23.020 Oh, 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.

00:57:41.260 I don't have an exact date, but I just saw the book trailer my sister did for it, which will also be public soon.

00:57:47.400 And it's just awesome.

00:57:48.800 I just.

00:57:49.400 And your son does the artwork, right?

00:57:50.900 He does a great job.

00:57:52.020 Yeah.

00:57:52.220 Yeah.

00:57:52.780 Yeah.

00:57:53.420 He did the artwork for the second series and, yeah, he's brilliant.

00:57:58.400 They're both, yeah, they're brilliant.

00:58:01.240 So it's wonderful to have that support.

00:58:03.920 But this new, the new series is really exciting.

00:58:09.240 It's very different from what I've been writing for the last decade.

00:58:17.260 So it's based on, there are two huge prompts for it.

00:58:23.940 And one is a John Waterhouse painting.

00:58:27.380 I don't know if you know John Waterhouse.

00:58:29.660 Yes, I do.

00:58:30.880 Okay.

00:58:31.320 And anyone interested, Google John Waterhouse because he was, oh, it's just beautiful, beautiful.

00:58:37.280 Yeah, definitely beautiful work.

00:58:39.280 Yeah.

00:58:39.540 And this one's called The Siren.

00:58:42.480 And I was just enchanted by this image, just enchanted, this beautiful siren with her music.

00:58:51.560 And she's leaning over the rock and this probably sailor that she's about to drown. 1.00

00:58:57.840 I don't know.

00:58:59.380 It's a gorgeous young man looking up at her. 1.00

00:59:01.880 And kill him, right? 1.00

00:59:03.160 No, I'm not sure. 1.00

00:59:04.160 She looks very lovely.

00:59:08.040 But this dynamic, this dynamic of the sea was just so powerful.

00:59:14.980 And 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.

00:59:30.900 And I was fascinated.

00:59:33.640 I have a print of that painting in my bedroom.

00:59:37.180 And, yeah.

00:59:37.900 So that was part of what drew me to this new creation.

00:59:44.320 And the other, the other part was, I was on YouTube.

00:59:49.220 Everyone goes on there.

00:59:51.920 And they have, this is amazing.

00:59:54.900 They have, you know how we were all, the continents were all one.

00:59:59.040 And slowly they separated out and you can kind of watch that process.

01:00:02.940 Well, you can keep watching and it keeps going.

01:00:07.040 And in 250 million years from now, it's all back to one.

01:00:12.040 And it's called Amassia.

01:00:15.320 And that's the name of the series.

01:00:16.860 And the idea is, it's not futuristic in that sense because 250 million years from now, and it's, there's not even a lot of technology.

01:00:28.020 But human genome has gone, has split.

01:00:31.900 And there is a population that lives in, in the sea under the water in a kind of, they're called the Mar. 0.78

01:00:38.600 And, 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.

01:00:53.200 Stuff happens.

01:00:54.300 It's very interesting.

01:00:55.160 Are 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?

01:01:06.400 Oh, that's interesting.

01:01:07.860 Yeah.

01:01:07.880 It's not too popular, but it's out there.

01:01:10.980 I will look that up.

01:01:13.260 I don't, I didn't know about that.

01:01:14.840 That's very, yeah, interesting about the growth.

01:01:19.160 Well, it's certainly alive, and things alive do tend to grow.

01:01:25.820 So, yeah, interesting.

01:01:28.160 You 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.

01:01:35.100 Is that true?

01:01:37.160 There is, that's interesting.

01:01:40.400 Well, I'm not sure what I said.

01:01:42.580 But, but there's DNA, there's a lot of DNA altering in the previous, in the other books.

01:01:50.980 Okay, then maybe that's what it was.

01:01:52.120 So, that's my bad then.

01:01:52.940 Yeah.

01:01:53.880 In the, in the new series, things have changed.

01:01:58.160 Definitely, the, their, the whole DNA has split and gone down two different tracks, and it's very, obviously very far.

01:02:06.500 We're looking extremely far in the future.

01:02:08.400 And, but in the, I suppose I just haven't left the whole DNA thing alone, have I?

01:02:14.760 Because in the previous, I didn't realize that.

01:02:17.520 In the previous series, in the Earth and Gala series, there has been some very interesting changes done to the DNA.

01:02:28.140 And, and when I wrote this, I put nanotechnology in the DNA, in the, in the series.

01:02:37.040 I had my techno witches, who are very sophisticated scientists, do this. 1.00

01:02:45.640 And, 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.

01:02:56.200 That they, being us, our scientists, were already talking about doing it.

01:03:01.140 So, that was very cool and interesting.

01:03:03.580 Their 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.

01:03:19.960 Uh-oh.

01:03:21.220 Yeah, I know.

01:03:22.340 Well, they're probably pretty far away.

01:03:25.560 I, I mean, it's not happening tomorrow, and maybe it's not happening at all, but people were thinking about it.

01:03:33.340 But I thought, this is amazing.

01:03:34.940 This is what I had my, my, my crew doing on their futuristic Earth, and then I found out that they're, yeah.

01:03:43.620 That happened with a few, few instances.

01:03:47.100 But 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.

01:03:55.320 Except 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.

01:04:05.700 I mean, as humans, we're only on the planet for a short period of time.

01:04:09.440 And I think we're almost due for one, right?

01:04:12.580 Um, not, not yet, but, well, not yet in the terms of anything that we would consider very close.

01:04:21.520 But they're, um, the cycles run about, well, there's major ones that run, um, every 25,000 years.

01:04:31.600 And, yeah, and what, okay, so what happens?

01:04:35.680 And, uh, so a lot of the story is based on those cycles of extinction and how, um, how species survive.

01:04:44.740 And how, how our human species has survived.

01:04:49.320 So there, yeah, in that sense, there's been some major changes in our DNA.

01:04:56.040 I'm definitely going to have to read this book series and get some of your other ones.

01:05:00.260 So please tell us about your websites where we can get your books and how people can get a reading.

01:05:04.560 Yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you.

01:05:06.860 Uh, well, I have, everyone's welcome to come and, uh, chat with me at my, um, blog, which is called The 11th House.

01:05:15.720 In astrology, you've got 12 houses and The 11th House is the house of community and connection, like-minded others and so forth.

01:05:24.100 So, um, it's called The 11th House and it's kimfalconer.wordpress.com.

01:05:30.780 And 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.

01:05:46.120 And if you want my, um, basic site for my books, that's kimfalconer.com.

01:05:52.380 And 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.

01:06:05.360 It's a porthole and you'll see when you go there.

01:06:07.940 Um, and there were no models for it and it took me months to work out how to, to, um, use it.

01:06:15.980 But anyway, you have to be a little creative.

01:06:17.900 You've got to hover your mouse, your mouse over the various glyphs and symbols to navigate around.

01:06:23.760 So, uh, it's a participation experience there.

01:06:27.420 But you can find out, um, about my books and where to get them.

01:06:31.220 You can get them anywhere in the world from fishpond.com who ships for free.

01:06:36.060 So, I love fishpond.com because they get, they'll get my books anywhere.

01:06:41.560 And plus, um, those who love their Kindles or Kobo and other devices can get them electronically through, um, Kindle and their various outlets.

01:06:54.120 Uh, also my astrology side, I've got this huge web presence.

01:06:58.500 It's built up since, like, the internet started.

01:07:02.700 So, it's, it's big.

01:07:04.440 Um, 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.

01:07:21.920 And a lot of links to current, um, things that I've got going on.

01:07:26.120 And then I'm on Facebook and Twitter.

01:07:28.780 So, I'm pretty accessible if anyone, uh, wants to connect.

01:07:33.180 That's right.

01:07:34.320 Okay.

01:07:34.620 Well, thanks a ton for coming on and speaking with me.

01:07:36.560 I knew you were going to be a lot of fun.

01:07:39.020 Thank you.

01:07:39.960 I really appreciate it.

01:07:41.440 And this has just been a wonderful delight.

01:07:43.940 And thank all of you across the planet for listening.

01:07:46.040 No matter what it may appear to be, we can and do possess the power to manifest our own reality.

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Radio 3Fourteen - June 28, 2012

Quantum Enchantment_ Astrology _ Laws of Attraction

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