“Put on your zeitgeist hat,” says Holiday Mathis, syndicated astrologer and author of How to Fail Epically in Hollywood, “then pour everything you can into the part of your art you can control.” In this episode of Emerging Form, we talk about how to gather “textures” from daily life for creative practice, what she’s learned from writing, editing, publishing and narrating her new novel, the importance of beta readers, dreaming big, and the healthiest relationship to rejection letters we’ve ever heard.

Holiday Mathis writes the daily horoscope for The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and hundreds of newspapers around the world. In her decades-long syndication she's published almost nine million words on luck, the stars and the human condition. She's also a multi-platinum selling songwriter with songs recorded by Miley Cyrus, Emma Roberts and more. Holiday is the author of several books including How to Fail Epically in Hollywood.

Previous Holiday episodes:

Episode 28 bonus: Extended Interview with Holiday Mathis

Episode 63: Reviving abandoned projects with Holiday Mathis

Episode 63 bonus: Holiday Mathis on creative process

The blog post that started our friendship with Holiday: I Know Astrology Is B******t, But I Can’t Stop Reading My Horoscope by Christie Aschwanden

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