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\"\"<\/a>a bookazine<\/p>\n

+++<\/p>\n

Some synchronicities are in your face, so obvious that you would have to be blind and deaf to miss them. But others are apparent only in retrospect and they\u2019re usually more subtle, unfolding over a greater length of time, and it isn\u2019t until you reflect on what\u2019s happening that you see them. Like a game of hide \u2018n seek.<\/p>\n

On June 11, 2012, Jupiter moved into Gemini (my sign), where it will be until late June 2013. Any time Jupiter transits your sun sign, your life expands in several ways. Even though some doors slam shut, new opportunities surface. This 12-year cycle is one to anticipate.<\/p>\n

For a sense of history here, the last time Jupiter was in my sign, we were living in a three-bedroom house that we had outgrown when my dad moved in with us and our daughter, Megan, gave him her bedroom and she slept in the living room. In June 2000 we moved from our three-bedroom home, into a\u00a0 larger house that could accommodate my dad, Megan, and our offices. My mother passed away a few weeks after that move. \u00a0In August of that year, Rob, Megan and I traveled to Venezuela, where I was born, for a week of windsurfing on Margarita island. Megan entered middle school that fall. Work-wise, we both had contracts. Life was good, but with my mother gone, life was also very different.<\/p>\n

In June 2012, our Omarr contract, which we had for nine years, wasn\u2019t renewed. I had felt this was coming and dreaded it. I knew that when I turned in my final manuscript for the Esperanza series in October 2012, that contract would be done, too. In nearly thirty years of writing, this would be the first time we were without a single contract. Scary. It kept me awake nights. The other thing was that on July 16, 2012, Rob and I celebrated our 29th<\/sup> year anniversary.<\/p>\n

The 29th<\/sup> year is known as the Saturn return in astrology, a major milestone in life, in relationships, in everything. In life, it\u2019s when major transitions occur \u2013 you get married or divorced or start a family; you begin your real career, your real path; you embark on a quest. You get the idea. The second Saturn return happens between the ages of 58-60 and the third, when you hit 90. Each Saturn return is different.<\/p>\n

I knew it had to be significant for our marriage, but wasn\u2019t sure how.\u00a0 My parents were married for more than 50 years, but I have no clue what happened to them during the first Saturn return of their marriage. I just felt that the coinciding of Jupiter in my sign and the Saturn return for our marriage would be significant also.<\/p>\n

On June 12, 2012, a day after Jupiter entered my sign, we connected with David Wilson at Crossroad Press<\/a> and suddenly it was going to be possible for us to bring our out of print books back into \u201cprint\u201d digitally. There would be no upfront costs to us and this entrepreneurial company not only fills a niche, it redefines it. On August 7, while Rob was visiting his mother in Minnesota, we got a call from Tony Seidl, who had been Rob\u2019s agent at one time. Would we be interested in writing some bookazines?<\/p>\n

We\u2019d never heard of bookazines. They\u2019re a cross between books and magazines, focus on one particular topic, are often connected to an event of some kind, have no advertising, and are distributed through airports, grocery stores, drug stores, Barnes and Noble, and other outlets that have magazines. They are owned by Hudson News, who has newstands across the country. The photo above is one of the first that came out this month. The other one is on Abe Lincoln, a tie-in to the Spielberg\u00a0 movie on Lincoln that will be released soon.\u00a0 I felt the contact and opportunity were significant. Tony was a guy from the past (Saturn return), who was proposing something expansive (Jupiter). Sure, we\u2019re interested, we told him. What\u2019re the details?<\/p>\n

The details are as intriguing as the bigger picture. The editor for these bookazines is Bob Guccione, son of the man by the same name who started Penthouse <\/em>\u2013 and OMNI Magazine<\/em>,\u00a0 for whom we wrote shortly after we were married. In those days, OMNI was a slick cutting edge magazine that featured articles about the frontiers of knowledge (the Monroe Institute,<\/a> for example) and fiction by well known writers.<\/p>\n

We wrote for their anti-matter section, on UFOs, the paranormal, and they paid better than any other magazine, anywhere, and they also paid a kill fee if they didn\u2019t publish what you\u2019d written. Through OMNI<\/em>, we met Betty Hill and Budd Hopkins. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0For us, professionally, that connection was huge.<\/p>\n

So when we learned that Guccione\u2019s son would be the editor for these bookazines, \u00a0we recognized the synchros- astrologically and otherwise. Today, October 9, as Jupiter forms an exact conjunction with my Gemini sun (16 degrees) and is right in the middle of Rob\u2019s financial area, we got our contracts for our first two bookazines, Sexy Horoscopes<\/em> and Ghosts and Spirit Guides,<\/em> with two more to follow next month on UFOs and lost everythings \u2013 ships, planes, people, continents.<\/p>\n

These bookazines are short \u2013 between 14,000-20,000\u00a0 words (a book\/novel runs between 60,000 to 150,000 words, and some are MUCH longer), so we\u2019ll still have time to write our other stuff. And the topics we’ve proposed are about things that interest us. The bookazines are also a visual feast, beautifully laid out, and are filled with information you might not find anywhere else, not in one place.<\/p>\n

So, since June, we’ve been fortunate enough to connect with two visionaries – David Wilson at Crossroad and Tony Seidl – who recognized a niche in the market and are filling it. Wherever there are endings, there are also beginnings and new opportunities.<\/p>\n

Perhaps this is what the paradigm shift is about – finding new ways of doing things, new ways to connect not only with other people, but with a deeper part of ourselves, and to enjoy these new connections. It seems that everywhere I look, everyone I know, is going through this reconnection in some way. Some people hate it and are locked in a kind of spiral of despair. But other people are adapting, are redefining themselves\u00a0 so that it works for them.<\/p>\n

Going with the flow: isn’t that part of what synchronicity is about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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