AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: Stacey Tucker

​A desire to build a bridge between today’s science and the magic of a time forgotten has landed Stacey Tucker in the world of fiction writing. Ocean's Fire was the first of three books asking readers to open their minds to the possibilities hidden behind the veils our society forces upon us. 

Ocean's Fire was the proud winner of the Gold Medal in the 2017 Living Now Book Awards for Best Adventure Fiction Novel.

Alchemy's Air was published in 2019 as the second book in the series and has been selected as a Finalist in the 2020 Canadian Book Club Awards along with the final installment of the series, Sky of Water!

She continues to redefine the word Feminine in America by speaking to women’s groups on cultivating the fire within as a catalyst for self-transformation.

Q: Can you share your thoughts about the character development of Skylar Southmartin in "Alchemy's Air" and how she has evolved throughout the story?
Answer: Our twenties are really about learning how to claim agency over our own lives. We are most likely still breaking free from the ties of authority-parents, school, extended family. And the truth is we don’t ever really break free, we learn to live in the container that our life has given us, unless we get so completely dissatisfied, we create the change, within and in our external world.

I remember being in my twenties, making the wrong decision about men, giving my power and body away to someone for attention and trying to fill the hole of self worth through the eyes of a man. Does the attention of the bad guy, the “powerful” guy make you powerful in turn? In the moment, one would say yes but looking back, the clarity of what it actually was is blatantly apparent.

As writers, we find ourselves in all of our stories. I processed my own mother’s death through these books, especially book 2. To be able to go back in time and have a relationship with your mother who has died in current day, what would that be like? How healing? How heartbreaking? How life changing would that experience be?

Over the course of the series, Skylar takes ownership of her choices, in turn grows and matures. She learns to appreciate who she is without the need to “fix” the parts she deems imperfect.

Q: The description mentions the significance of darkness within us and its impact on the soul. How did you explore this theme in the book, and what message did you aim to convey through it?
Answer: Our shadow self is simply a filter through which we view ourselves and our world. It is very convincing. The self help industry banks on the shadow self. What it boils down to is self-forgiveness. And beyond self forgiveness is self acceptance and the realization you are perfect and there is nothing to forgive. If it were simple, there would be no need for suffering. It is through our suffering that we crack open the shell around our hearts that we put there to hide our truth from others because of shame. The thing our soul wants more than anything is for our personality self to shine our unique being, despite the judgements of others and our own self judgments. It’s a work in process.

Skylar has to come to terms with her relationship choices and see them as learning experiences. We all can learn from that arc-acceptance of who we were in our past, we made decisions then that shape who we are now. But realizing the decisions we make now, shape who we will be in the future.

Q: The Akashic Library in the Underworld of Earth plays a crucial role in the plot. What inspired the creation of this unique setting, and how did it influence the characters' journeys?
Answer: I love everything mystical! Magic is all around us and the muscle of our imagination is a faculty available to all of us, but so few really tap into its wonder. It also comes down to the lens you view the world through. You can believe your horoscope matters, or it doesn’t. You can believe the date 2-2-2022 is magical or it’s just a bunch of twos. The Akashic Records are a thing, google it! Books have been written about it, people have made careers reading the records for clients. Again, it comes down to belief. My husband would tell you it’s a crock of shit. I disagree, so much that it is a big deal in my story and I have a card in my deck about the records.

I elaborate on the fantasy element for the books sake but it comes down to your history and the history of all living beings. It also sits in the cross section of faith and science. It can be comforting to believe that you and all that exists are a part of Universal Divine Love playing out what has already happened. You can’t get it wrong. You can choose what you want on this earth and return to Source Love at the end to play again another day (lifetime). It also represents quantum physics where we are all connected at a quantum level and every choice you make affects everyone else on the planet. Also true.

That is a long answer. For the books- I played with one of the theories that the records are actual holographic records kept deep within the mountains of Tibet guarded by mystical protectors to preserve the integrity and truth of the information. Only the people of purest heart and intention are permitted to enter and receive the guidance and information to help with their earthly lives.

Q: The story touches on the future of human potential and the role of the Great Mothers. How did you weave elements of mysticism and spirituality into the narrative, and what insights did you hope readers would gain from these themes?
Answer: I discovered the Divine Sophia-the feminine face of God, before I started writing this series. I was so overcome with emotion and validation as a woman, that the divine has a feminine aspect. Of course it does, it is all encompassing. But being raised Catholic, the feminine was rarely explored except in Mother Mary. To see a flowering of multiple faces of the Divine Feminine as I uncovered more information drove me to honor her with these stories.

The Great Mothers in the books are my creation based on the three Mother Letters in the Hebrew Alphabet: Aleph, Mem Shin-Air, Water, Fire. Not only the letters that all others are birthed from, but are symbolic figures as elements of creation.

When I learned that I thought How Fabulous! And wouldn’t that be so fun-to write a trilogy about these elemental mothers who created the world and are still on the planet

today. Having never written fiction before, I didn’t quite know what I was getting myself into. But I felt called to write and honor the Divine Feminine in all her forms and faces.

My hope is that a woman reads these books and recognizes herself and feels the love of the Divine as her.

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LINK for BOOK:
https://www.amazon.com/Alchemys-Air-Equal-Night-Trilogy/dp/1943006849/