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THIS FUCKING GUY: Fuckboys, Narcissists, & Sobriety with Marissa Lee: Y’ALL I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS EPISODE!!! Marissa Lee is a Sagittarius sun (big surprise, Bee. You attract Sags) Pisces Moon, Libra Rising musician who lived for the last decade in Chicago and is now based in Maine.

Marissa and I break down the wild spiderweb of a story how we met and discuss how fuckboys perpetuate rape culture. We ask the big question: is cohersion via pretending to be someone else- a form of sexual assault? Why does it feel like it? What red flags should we look for when dating someone? We also talk those special rooms we shall not call by name and discuss all the amazing things alcohol recovery has taught her. This is an amazing chat & we ask the biggest question of all: where do musicians and queer people go at night once they become sober?Later we some of her music!✨Carrie Sterling is back to read a new piece called “School” ✨Bad Romance Returns this week with a submission by Erin LaNinfa ✨ Also: Bee answers your mental health questions in this week’s edition of Mailbag ✨ Self Care Tip of the week on coping skills and crisis plans🌙Add Bee online & get a reading! @thezinewitch

Today Bee talks to feminist porn icon, Madison Young (Virgo sun, Aquarius Moon, Aquarius Rising) about her new show ‘Submission Possible’ explores the queer sexual underground worlds of kink, fetish, and BDSM around the world. The series stars Young as the kinky host of our travel adventures, who has spent the last 20 years as a coniouseur of all things kink. When Young gets a case of restless wanderlust, she sets off on a mission to explore kink culture and communities in cities around the world.

In the pilot episode of Submission Possible, Young delves deep into sex magic rituals, herbal aphrodisiacs, cemeteries, sexy seances and spectrophilia in the hauntingly sexy city of New Orleans with an eco sexual sex magician (Sura Hertzberg), herbal alchemist (Gypsi Sandiego), kinky witch and tarot reader (Ashton Young), and queer leather title holder (Elyse the Beast). ✨ Bee, @DaniBickford, & @MariaSofiaAstrology answer some tough trauma focused Astro questions this week on emotional incest & Plutonic relationships✨@topfreakdaddy shares a story about one of the most bonker Tinder dates ever! (It involves a strap on and an engagement ring!) ✨ Also we have a beautiful self care tip for cleaning your energetic fields when entering your home✨ Close out song “Understand: How About No” by: @topfreakdaddy ✨

It’s episode number #23 so Bee chats with Chicagoland legend, Natalie Slater - the writer and blogger of the legendary Vegan cooking guide, Bake & Destroy. Bake and Destroy is a staple for vegan eats since - like beginning of the inter webs. This cooking goddess is a Sag sun, Libra Moon, Leo Rising. Natalie is also the marketing manager for the vegan brand Upton’s based in Chicago. We have a nice little chat about the politics of growing up a woman involved in hardcore & the humble beginnings of Bake & Destroy. She names of her favorite vegan products and give some suggestions on local vegan cheeses. Later she also discusses the passion project she worked on with Upton’s to create a vegan Chicago style hot dog that will blow your mind & shares her vegan nacho cheese recipe! @bakeanddestroy✨We open the BB Hive mailbox and answer your questions on the universe and romantic chemistry in astrology! Are the stars a big op clock? What aspects are good between romantic partners? Bee & Jeanette from Saturn Sandwich are here to answer with help from Cristina Farilla if Eighth House Astrology! ✨ Bad Romance dating horror stories sent in this week Stefanie Caponi ✨ Self Care Tip of the Week sent in by: Yoko Ono✨Some voice over by Lauren Frances, Lux, and Demi✨ Theme by “Old Wounds” by Try the Pie & other background music by Carrie Sterling & Stephen Edwards. Closing song: “Baby Love” by: Taleen Kali

This week on the Burn Black Audio Zine Bee and Sara Z. talk about growing up in a residential treatment facility! Sara Z. is a Virgo Sun, Taurus Moon, Sagittarius Rising. At 16, Sara’s mother passed away & was sent to live in a “prison like” facility outside of Philadelphia for teens. We talk what it was like, how no one deserved to be there, how I used to actually be domicile and shy & how she taught me to stick up for myself! We talk some of the experiences we had, how staff was quite abusive, and how it seemed most of the children there were medicated to compliance and given little to no therapy. We discuss learned behavior patterns in structures like these and how we made batteries and paper clips into lighters!Later we discuss how healing nature has been for Sara and how silence is her sanctuary. ✨Self Care Tip of the Week brought to you by Margret Anne (@margaretanne___) ✨ 5 Minute Diagnoses this Week sent in by Carrie Sterling on her OCD & Depression Diagnoses✨ Burn Black Book Club continues this week with a review of Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes ✨ Every Pop Culture Reference this Episode: Night Tide, The Power of Myth, Dirty Dancing, Courtney Love Behind the Music

This week Bee and Chad from Astral Integrations astrology talk all about healing from generational trauma, ancestral cosmic DNA in our birth charts, & the karmic planets. They also chat a bit about being on the Autism spectrum & how astrology is a great tool for family with children with Autism spectrum disorders. It’s one of my favorite chats so far on the podcast so its worth a listen! ✨ Later Bee talks healing from trauma bonds? What chemicals are released during toxic relationship cycles? Why do we go back? How is like an addiction? How can we recover? ✨Later Burn Black Book Club returns this week by collective member & world’s favorite riot grrrl librarian, zinester, mama bear & artist, Reagan Kloiber @sweetbabyrage who reviews the book ‘Stop Telling Women to Smile’ by: Tatyana Fazlalizadeh!✨Self care tip of the week submitted by: Anna Tomlin✨Theme as always ‘Old Wounds’ by San Jose’s Try the Pie + Additional music by: Marissa Lee, Carrie Sterling, & Stephen Edwards/some voice segments narrated by Lauren Frances & Dimitra Yaou ✨ This episode is sponsored by The Chocolate Moose & Bride of the Fox!

This week Bee talks to fellow witch & sex educator, Gwenndolyn Walsh (Virgo sun, Taurus moon, Gemini Rising) about sex magick, tantric practices, the ethics of working with goddess energy, goddess worship, healing trauma through kink and BDSM, and much more. ✨Self Care Tip of the Week sent in by: Dominique of Mindful Mentors ✨ Burn Black Book Club returns this week & Bee reviews a zine that means an awful lot lot to her: ‘Lanky’ by Aaron Cometbus ✨ Music by: Yoko OK & Try the Pie ✨ POP: The Politician

This week on the audio zine we have Shannon O’Neill Loyola - a magickal intuitive healer and Akashic Records reader living in Mexico. We discuss her life story, intuitive healing, and much more. ✨ Later Bee briefly discusses Draconic Charts ✨ Lauren shares her Cancer Season self care tip & I review the book High Magick: A Guide to the Spiritual Practices that Saved My Life on Death Row by Damien Echols

Stephanie Ryan is an intuitive watercolor artist from Pennsylvania. Her soothing, soulful, intuitive paintings are inspired by nature and the feelings that bind her to it, creating an introspective mood that connects the viewer with her art. It is visual poetry—beautiful colors with touches of light and inspired thoughts. Inspired by ritual, Stephanie shares with us today her creative journey. ✨ Also on the episode Bee discusses valuable lessons she learned this week from Will Smith & updates on their personal life ✨ Pop Culture References on this episode: The Waterboy

This week on the audio zine we have the ever delightful and Ireland born and bred, Hannah (Aquarius sun, Aries Moon, Virgo Rising) of YouTube channel, Hannah’s Elsewhere. Hannah and I chat about our chart similarities- as both of us are Aquarius suns with Virgo ascendents & our chart ruler in the 5th House. Some topics include the similarities of the Aquarius & Virgo archetypes, growing up with Mercury Square to Pluto, futuristic thinking, religious upbringings, and the differences between the 5th & 8th houses. ✨ Later Bee talks the Third house and things we can do in our community right now to create impact and change! ✨ Then Bee talks the Sabian Symbols. What are they? Why are they so important in a natal chart? I read the interpretation of Donald Trump’s 24 degree Taurus Midheaven + you can decide. ✨ Bee also talks about the 5 different apology languages and encourages y’all to navigate conversations with your loved ones about these powerful healing tools! ✨ Next we talk manifesting, The Kybalion & the seven hermetic principles & Manifesting! ✨ Self Care tip of the week sent in by Whiskey Stevens, author and fellow witch ✨ Pop Culture References in this episode: The Good Wife, Love & Hip Hop, Elon Musk, Google Eye

Welcome back to the BB Hive y’all! This week Lauren and I chat about attachment theory, inner child work, and triggers that have come up for us during this lockdown. We touch a little bit on Lauren’s Triple Definition in Human Design & some pro tips for finding variety when you’re stuck working from home. We chat a little bit about being empaths and the difficulty of letting go of our own anxious attachment styles. And I share a spooky story that involves Rage Against the Machine & the time a dead body was in the backseat of my ride to work. It’s a great episode here so check it out. - The Zine Witch ✨Self Care tip of the week: I share some ways to nourish your inner child using your IC placement! ✨Every Pop Culture Reference on This Episode: Dead to Me, Rage Against the Machine, & Vanderpump Rules