Twins Suns, Revisited

NASA illustration

In January of this year, we did a post called Twin Suns.  To summarize, it’s about an experience we had before our daughter, Megan, was born. A recap:

In the late 1980s, my parents, Rob and I went over to my sister’s place for dinner. The house actually belonged to her husband – now ex-hubby – and during dinner, we talked about past-life hypnotic regression. My sister’s ex  thought it was all pretty silly, but my dad was intrigued and wanted to try it. I think my mother went along with it because of my dad. So after dinner, Rob, my parents, and I went into another room.

My parents and I stretched out on the rug and, with Rob as our hypnotist, went through a deep relaxation. Rob’s voice is pitch perfect for this, quiet yet firm, and he led us through ever deeper levels of relaxation. At some point – I’m not sure when – my mother left, but my dad and I didn’t move.

I suddenly found myself  on a dusty road, walking alongside  wagons with heavy wooden wheels, beneath the glare of twin suns. I remember how the brilliant light practically washed out my shadow on the ground. I remember how dry the air smelled. I remembered thinking, OK, this is weird, where am I? And then I came out of it.

When my dad reported seeing the same images – including the twin suns – I felt certain this was something significant.  The image has haunted me ever since.

So in the writing of Ghost Key, the sequel to Esperanza, the twin suns crept in. I alluded to the possibility that the original 7 tribes of shape shifters, who play an important part in Esperanza and in Ghost Key,  came from a place with twin suns. Now, in the outline for third book, called Twin Suns, I’ve been trying to define this place. Rob made some important suggestions about the outline, so while he was finishing it, I went online and checked MSNBC.COM and the first thing I see is an updated story about a planet with twin suns.

“Planet-hunters say they’ve detected the first world that’s absolutely known to circle two stars, like Luke Skywalker’s home planet Tatooine in the fictional “Star Wars” saga,” writes Alan Baugh.

The planet is called Kepler-16b and it orbits a red and an orange star in the constellation Cygnus, 200 light-years from Earth. NASA’s Kepler telescope looks for dips in light coming from 155,000 stars in a 105-degree patch of sky in the constellations Cygnus and Lyra, then scientists like Laurance Doyle and his colleagues use hi-tech software to determine if the pattern is caused by a star.

Kepler-16a is believed to be about comparable in size to Saturn, but denser, and less denser than water.  “The Kepler team says Kepler-16b is the first confirmed, unambiguous example of a planet orbiting two stars,” writes Baugh.

William Borucki, the astronomer who is the Kepler mission’s principal investigator, says the discovery  “confirms a new class of planetary systems that could harbor life.”

The synchro seems clear. Move ahead.

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PS. I did this post some time back. The Twin Suns proposal didn’t work and I had to completely revamp the story and re-title it.  This has happened several times now, where I  experience what seems to be a supportive synchro connected to my writing, only to later realize the story just doesn’t work. It’s as if that mischievous guy, the dark trickster, is playing around and having a really hearty belly laugh. So now I am a little less enthusiastic about embracing these types of synchros unless there’s a cluster of them. I figure clusters of anything have to be a genuine nudge to move in a particular directions, right?

Well, we’ll see!