Hi Guys,

HOW ARE YOU ALL?! Haven't been on this board for must be nearly two years. Sorry for the disappearance, as I value you all more than I can express.

In these two years I have established a freelance writing business. After struggling to create a career in London, I moved back home to Los Angeles in June 2010.

I'm now working for a news agency in London, an art and fashion magazine in Australia (my feature just made cover this April's issue!) and am involved in lots of projects with various other artists and entrepreneurs. Love life, appreciate it, 'cause boy did I bleed as I got battered by rejection, pain, reality, penury and instability on the way up. And the people surrounding me are inspiring, beautiful human beings and I'm just really grateful for the wonders around me.

I'm still broke though! But I went on a trip to New Orleans in March anyway to interview seven different musicians. Went on a whim with a team, photographer and production assistant, and captured SEVEN SPECTACULAR conversations with dynamic musical innovators. My agency is too mainstream to publish and my blog client in Los Angeles won't pay me for the features.

I sent a pitch out to MAJOR national American music magazines three weeks ago Wednesday, directly to editors' inboxes, as I have a masthead from a professional organization I'm a member of.

Wrote that pitch for days, tailored it... It's solid, had a few people read it, it's dynamic, very quality, big team effort and really passionate about the subject, cultural movement.

Anyway I have heard NOTHING. No rejections, NOTHING.

I asked the Yi this:

"Yi, what is occurring with my BUKU pitch that allows me to hear NO word from editors?"

Answer: 55.1.2.5 to 28

Here's my interpretation:

The editors are reviewing a stack of pitches, they have gathered up the harvest, their favorite ones.

Line one indicates that someone's recognized the value of the pitch and is fully supportive of it.

Line two indicates that there is something blocking the forward movement of the pitch, like bureaucracy, higher ups, getting stuff approved, someone else needs to see it. It also tells me that there's nothing I can do about it, so don't force the issue, stay quiet.

line 5 indicates that it will be approved and there will be "unexpected good fortune and rewarding results for all concerned"

And then transitioning to 28, that means that higher ups are ready to make a move!

And it's gonna happen FAST and it's gonna come from ANY direction out of nowhere!


What are your thoughts????

Thank you so much for your time! And I hope you're all having AWESOME days. xx

-YM

What is occurring with my BUKU pitch that allows me to hear NO word from editors?
55.1.2.5 > 28

Congratulations on making the cover. Is BUKU slang for beaucoup?
Line 1. Personal contact is needed.
Line 2. seems rather dark. Could you have kicked up too much dust by an overly intense pitch? Are multiple simultaneous submissions kosher?
Line 5. Auspicious but suggests delay. Aren't magazine articles planned months in advance? And aren't they sometimes commissioned?

Hexagram 28 suggests renewal of the old. Are some of the artists you interviewed mature?

pocossin said:

What is occurring with my BUKU pitch that allows me to hear NO word from editors?
55.1.2.5 > 28

Congratulations on making the cover. Is BUKU slang for beaucoup?
Line 1. Personal contact is needed.
Line 2. seems rather dark. Could you have kicked up too much dust by an overly intense pitch? Are multiple simultaneous submissions kosher?
Line 5. Auspicious but suggests delay. Aren't magazine articles planned months in advance? And aren't they sometimes commissioned?

Hexagram 28 suggests renewal of the old. Are some of the artists you interviewed mature?

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Hey Pocossin,

How are you? It's so nice to hear from you again!

THANK YOU for cover acknowledgement, appreciate it, so stoked!!! I don't know, I thought the same thing about BUKU!

Line 1. I agree with you!

My book reads:

"Meeting a worthy teacher. In each other’s company ten days without anything going wrong. To go into the world. To do things."

It sounds like deliberation. But, a long deliberation, like people are talking. Meeting a worthy teacher suggests, me, person that has not been published in SUPER huge magazine like this before, meeting someone established who is willing to take me in.

Line 2. You said "seems rather dark. Could you have kicked up too much dust by an overly intense pitch? Are multiple simultaneous submissions kosher?"

My book reads:

"Crowning glory. A bud. The sun at noon The Dipper still visible. Going ahead. Finding suspicion. Ill feelings. Have confidence. Deal with things that way. All goes well."

I feel like the suspicion and ill feelings reside within me. I think this is SOOO big that it can't possibly happen. YOUR interpretation is amazing though Pocossin, because it indicates to me that something about the pitch caught an editor's attention, even if it pissed them off with simultaneous submissions! That's AWESOME!

I'm interpreting it as someone is paying attention.

Line 5. "Auspicious but suggests delay. Aren't magazine articles planned months in advance? And aren't they sometimes commissioned?"

They are planned, but cold pitches from random freelancers like me are welcome too. WOW, this just clicked in my head after reading your interpretation and matching it with my book that says "Coming up. Lines. Therefore congratulations. A good reputation. Things go well."

Firstly, I felt delayed this whole process. Festival was in the middle of Mercury Retrograde, I still have these imagined deadlines: EVERYTHING was too late, but it all worked out perfectly, so my imaginary timeline has been inaccurate throughout this whole experience!

Long story short, I see it as someone followed my links, read my work, checked me OUT and liked what they saw. Someone in a position to approve my feature. May suggest that they are discussing something about movement... like, where to squeeze my piece in on their editorial flat plan or whatever, something like that.

"Hexagram 28 suggests renewal of the old. Are some of the artists you interviewed mature?"

The artists I interviewed, two of them were huge, hundreds of thousands of followers on Facebook, others independent, all impressive careers. All hip hop and underground electronic musicians.

WOW, Pocossin, this just gave me chills. One of the magazines I submitted to started off as a rogue counter culture magazine that covered incendiary out of the box stuff like this in its infancy. Maybe this pitch is getting people talking 'cause it hearkens back to those envelope pushing 1960s revolution days or something?

I don't know, and please don't take this as hubris, because I am NOT saying that I wrote my pitch like Ernest Hemingway would've or anything like this, just rolling with the good ol' imagination!

THANK YOU AGAIN POCOSSIN, YOU ROCK!!!!