DADAstrology: American Beauty with Martha Fearnley

new podcast episode + writer/performer/astrologer, Martha Fearnley, TALKTALKTALKS growing up in Hollywood & writing about the movies

My first experience with Martha Fearnely was watching her play a 12th house Moon in Virgo, tucked away in a dark corner of the Philosophical Research Society, jotting down anxious thoughts onto an oversized notepad. This wasn’t a one-off occurrence. 

Martha regularly plays the Moon — although not always in the sign of Virgo. She’s part of the clown group, Planets Planets Planets, whose shows center around acting out the astrological chart of the performance. This particular show took place in the wake of the recent solar eclipse in Aries, dramatized  by the Sun’s ego death. I have never identified more with a piece of astro-commentary. As someone whose natal Sun was eclipsed during this cycle, I now have a new understanding for this experience. April shall forever be remembered as the month of mass ego annihilation. 

Back to Martha, whose writing I was introduced to by my friend, Katherine, with the preface, “I don’t know anyone who thinks about astrology like she does.” Martha writes …