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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

Alive from the Burn Black Coronavirus Isolation Bunker - it’s your pal, Bee is back for another addition of the Burn Black Audio Zine. This week my coven of witches and I discuss how to heal through the elements using techniques such as breathwork, using herbs to boost our immunity, grounding techniques, and more. But first an update on my life, how I’m dealing, some thoughts on generational trauma, and of course dealing with my sister passing away and grief during isolation. Features today by: Aurora Bee of Burn Black Cristina Farella of 8th House Astrology Maggie Flood Margret Anne Kathleen Callahan, Daughter of Wands Maria Sofia of Maria Sofia Astrology Monica Lilliana of Brujas Who Brunch & Loren Ortiz one of our frequent contributors Elements by: Lauren Frances + Aurora Bee This episode is sponsored by @brideofthefox ✨ Theme by @trythepie

✨💜 This week we have a super packed Valentine’s Day episode w/ Dame Product’s Sex Astrologer & Mood Void Tarot Crestor, Stefanie Caponi! Stefanie is a Leo sun, Scorpio Moon, Libra rising. This conversation is wild & scattered all over the place. We talk Human Design- using your authority to ground into your body’s natural responses, how that can be used to heal everything from eating disorders to love addiction. We talk being 5/1’s and living in the wild world of the projection field. We talk the Leo/Aquarius polarity and navigating our romantic little water Venusses and so much more! ✨ I catch up with some of our collective members to talk Valentine’s Day & love. Talks with BB collective membz Reagan Kloiber, Lauren Frances, Noelle Del Toro, Tony Tassone, & a special appearance by my favorite 8 year old Gemini Maya Valentine ✨ Burn Black Book Club continues this week with a review of the book Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde sent in by profession and comedian, Alicia Swiz ✨Every Pop Culture Reference from this episode: Mean Girls, The Weakerthans, Alkaline Trio, Hole, Nirvana, Elliot Smith, Tears for Fears , Roy Orbison, Blink-182, That 70s Show, Friends, The Mindy Project, Boy Meets World

This week on the audio zine we talk about medical PTSD & healing our nervous system with TMC Underground’s Millie De Cherico. Millie is an Aries Sun, Aquarius Moon, Libra Rising & aside from slinging the John Waters hits for your viewing pleasure on tv, Millie also is the cohost of the (sometimes) podcast Sordid Details. This week we talk Millie’s mega random major surgery & how she ended up recuperating both body and mind. We talk a lack of spaces to talk medical PTSD and plans for the future to change that wide gap in the healing community. ✨ 5 Minute Diagnosis this week we have visual artist & writer, John Hanning (@johnhanning) who discusses his 1995 diagnoses of AIDS and how the words “fuck you” helped his survival! ✨ Self Care Tip of the Week sent in by: @deoth✨ I share with y’all one of my daily cleansing rituals to wind down from a sensory overload! ✨ As always theme by Try the Pie ✨ Every pop culture thing mentioned on this episode: Mom, Shrill, Female Trouble, TCM Underground, Sordid Details, Go Bayside!, Saved By The Bell, Screech’s spaghetti sauce, Morrissey, Lambda Legal: https://www.lambdalegal.org ✨ This episode is sponsored by @brideofthefox who has some of the most amazing vintage lingerie in Virginia!

On this week’s audio zine we talk about the incredible healing power of zines with Phoenix’s Wasted Ink Zine Distro founder, Charissa Lucille. 🔱@wastedinkzinedistro 🔱 Charissa is a Libra Sun, Cancer Moon, and a fellow Virgo Rising. The zine community seems like a fitting place for two humans ruled by Mercury to meet. So this week we get into it! We talk the smell of photocopiers, the raw energy you get when connecting to a perzine, & how the magical Secret Garden of Wasted Ink came to kismetly be one of Phoenix’s best hidden gems. ✨Later zinester @erycamsender tells us how to make your very own zine! ✨On this week’s episode of the Burn Black Book Club, I pay tribute to the recent passing of my favorite author as a teenager, Elizabeth Wurtzel & talk a little bit about what her work meant to me, how it informed my style, and how special it was my father gave me a copy of ‘Prozac Nation’ while I was in the hospital at the age of 12 ✨ Self Care Tip of the Week sent in by Barrie Cohn host of the ‘Generic Insight’ podcast! ✨Pop Culture References on this episode: Prozac Nation, Stolen Sharpie Revolution, Beverly Hills 90210✨ Theme as always by Try the Pie . Elizabeth Wurtzel Suggested Reading List: Prozac Nation, Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women, More Now Again

Hi BBys! On the audiozine this week is my soulmate and Burn Black logo designer, Reagan Kloiber. Reagan is a Pisces sun, Aries moon, Leo Rising and a 2/4 Projector in Human Design. She is a life long collective member here at Burn Black and a recovering workaholic! This week we discuss our New Years Resolutions (*ahem* goals) and our triumph overcoming love addiction. We manifest for the future and hopefully get her son, Lux his own YouTube channel soon. ✨ Also Noelle DelToro is back and we discuss predictions & manifestations for 2020 & what we want to let go of this year. ✨ 5 Minute Diagnoses this week is on on POTS sent in to us by Sara Tea!✨ Self Care tip of the Week by Lauren Ricci who talks important self care tips when you’re on the Autism spectrum ✨ Also on the podcast this week we have etiquette for visiting an energy worker or following them on social media✨I review the book Unfuck Your Boundaries by Faith Harper ✨ Every pop culture reference on this episode: You, Real Housewives of Orange County, Miss Cleo, Courtney Love’s 20/20 special, Cometbus, Sweet Brown

Y’all! This is my favorite episode ever!!!!Terra Kenzie (Aquarius sun & moon, Virgo Rising) is my Canadian astro twin *AND* (gasp!) guess what? We are both intuitive healers who moved out of our homes at 15 & discovered the divine thru extended family - though we both knew we were intuitive from childhood! . . Terra Kenzie is an Akashic Reader and channel from Calgary, Alberta. This week Terra & I chat our parallel lives, the complexities of being a Virgo Rising when your ego refuses to ride shotgun, being connected to spirit at a young age, our Bikini Kill connection, why we need to be careful with our words & thoughts, (hint: they have impact!), what impact is and of course her work as an Akashic Records reader. P.S. Terra learned about the Akashic Records from a woman named Amor Luz from San Francisco-which led to her life path. At 10, I found my Nichiren Buddhist life path through Courtney Love. (You can chant for things you want!) C Love was also born in San Francisco and (of course) “Amor” translates to Love. Terra is also a huge Hole fan! “Love you like a sister always/soul sister/I really wanna be yr best friend rebel girl” ✨ This week I also talk the 12 laws of karma according to Nichiren Buddhism! ✨Self Care tip of the week by the Pasta Elf herself: Carrie Sterling✨ Burn Black Book Club continues with my review of “Constant Chaos” by Lauren Frances (Bean) Noll✨ 5 Minute Diagnoses this week we talk the Borderline Personality Disorder FP relationship w/ @thebrooklynbruja ✨ Every pop culture thing referenced on this episode: Netflix’s Love, Life Harvester by Colin Hagendorf, Bikini Kill, The Heavenly Body ft the always magical Hedy Lamaar! ✨ New Theme Try the Pie (written by Bean Tupou) from the Bay Area because of course that would fit the theme of massive synchronicities this week. Pick your favorite bean and nosh and hang out with us for an hour and a half! ✨

Maggie Flood (Taurus Sun, Virgo Moon, Pisces Rising) @sacred_spaces is an licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, embodiment coach & pelvic floor healer in Southern California. She founded an incredible workshop called ‘The Embodied Endo Journey’ which seeks to educate people on advocating to themselves during their Endometriosis journey. This week we talk consent based pelvic care with your physician or healer. Why is consent and placing boundaries important outside of the bedroom & in the medical/healer’s office? What does consent based care both look and sound like? How can trauma come from a doctor’s visit? Maggie also discusses normal vs abnormal pelvic health symptoms & why it takes so long for us folks with Endometriosis to get a diagnoses. She also gives advice for people who are low income to make the most out of time with their physician when you don’t always get to choose the person you get to see. ✨5 Minute Diagnoses is our new segment where people are educating others on their chronic physical and mental health diagnoses. This week Sydney Sang @nixsullivan discusses her struggle with Endometrosis. ✨ Burn Black Book Club continues this week with a selection chosen by @goldiefawn ✨ Self Care Tip of the Week sent in by: Lauren Frances ✨Every Pop Culture (or other) Reference on this episode: My So Called Life, Freaks and Geeks, Netflix’s Love, Wasted Ink Zine Distro in Arizona, Early to Bed in Chicago, Leather Archives in Chicago, The Ethical Slut, Endometrosis Memes Facebook group, Crazy Ex Girlfriend, @NewYorkEndometrosis Center

“And even if I didn’t, I just love hearing the sound of my own voice.” - Sag Sun, Noelle Del Toro ✨ Noelle Del Toro 👑 is a Sagittarius sun, (yes, I know all my friends are Sags) Aquarius Moon, Cancer Rising derby girl/legal professional living in Chicago. Her move has been quite an adjustment. She had to develop a love of overalls & mediocre burritos. This week we talk handling frustration in life and at work, I coin a new phrase thanks to Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitters Dead, we discuss nervous laughter, handling stagnation, and unlearning the toxic masculinity and fat-phobic mindsets she says California bred. Also we get into what makes a good California burrito - you know - the important stuff. We also talk about how we were going to do a podcast called Big Thick Energy last year about fitness and- we commit to homework as homage to our former podcast that never was. Can’t wait to have Noelle back so we can continue our long road to self improvement. ✨Also: I discuss my life changing weekend at the Radical Camaraderie workshops hosting by amazing Dildo Duchess, Zoe Ligon & Coriama. I get into some of the things I learned about sexuality, abuse, and owning yourself body and share a grounding technique. ✨ Self Care tip of the week sent in from @violetcassy ✨ Everything pop culture mentioned on this episode: Spectrum Boutique, Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitters Dead, My So Called Life

Rachel Jordan is a Sagittarius sun, (We get it, Bee. You like Sags. Also this is my Jupiter Return year- oh my!) Libra moon, Aries Rising native originally from the Midwest now living in sunny LA. She was just a girl with a dream living a life with better weather who stumbled upon a career as a celebrity (vegan) dog groomer. But, what Rachel is really passionate about is ASMR. Rachel has been making ASMR videos for only a few months but has been a fan for years- and we both share a special love of the same ASMR artist, Karuna Satori whom we fall asleep listening to regularly. I’ve had insomnia my whole life and I swear between Karuna and Rachel’s videos- I’ve conquered the ongoing battle between myself and the pillow. This week we do a small dive into the world of ASMR. What is ASMR? Why is it so freaking healing? We discover the secret of life is just following your joy and living in action not worry. Finally, we discuss what it’s like to live in Delaware, California, and Chicago and the unique experience of living on every coast and the punishment of trying to make friends in a new city. I talk the social currency of all 3 cities and what “fuck you” really means in each respective city. ✨ Burn Black also launches its audio zine book club with the help of Oklahoma librarian, Reagan Kloiber this week. I answer questions you sent in and go on a rant about why Kristen Doute gets a bad edit on Vanderpump Rules & explain why I think she is the heart of the show. ✨ I share a breathwork technique to help with anxiety. ✨ Self Care tip of the week sent in by Robert Herrera of the band Long Knives from Oakland, California ✨ This is a stacked audio zine episode. ✨ Rachel’s YouTube channel: YouTube.com/c/racheljordanasmr @rachelxvx and @rachelcolantgrooming on Instagram ✨ Every pop culture reference on this episode: Joni Mitchell, Courtney Love, Karuna Satori ASMR, Massage ASMR, Friends, Frasier, Vanderpump Rules, Mad Men, My So Called Life

Sex, punk rock, and wrestling. What do these three things have in common? How is wrestling just a form of performance art? Destiny Laurice is a good friend/wrestler/artist/sex educator which is perfectly fitting for a Sagittarius sun, Taurus Moon, and Scorpio Rising. Destiny and I chat this week about the role of race, gender, economic status and representation in typically white cishet spaces. We discuss becoming comfortable with ourselves and being truly authentic online and our creative outlets and doing deep inner child work. Destiny also answers your sex and kink questions as we discuss everything from how to differentiate trauma responses from actual threats to creating boundaries for ourselves, yes/no/maybe lists and why BDSM can be so gosh darn healing. We also talk why cishet men often feel intimidated by sex toys & how they can begin to face their fears in the bedroom by getting over their egos. Self care tip of the week brought to you by: Diane Books recommended on this episode: Playing Well with Others: Your Field Guide to Discovering, Navigating and Exploring the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities by: Lee Harrington and Mollena Williams-Haas The Ethical Slut by: Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy

Today on the Burn Black podcast we have Ria Deters who is a queer artist living in New York City. They specialize in the embroidery of erotic art & are the art & publications director at The Peter Blum Gallery in NYC. They were also the very first person to ever buy Burn Black Zine and have been a *HUGE* supporter from day one. I find it no coincidence that this weeks episode coincides with a lot of grief I was feeling over this Pisces Moon for my friend, Melissa + to find out out Ria & Melissa shared not only the same birthday and job description but overall spirit. Ria’s energy is erratic, intelligent, deeply sexual and all the things that remind me of my dear friend. I love them so much. And you will too. In this episode we discuss DragCon, my memories of going to modeling school as a 12 year old grunge kid, the AIDS epidemic, how Ria dressed up as Jenna Jameson for Halloween as a child and her love of erotic art! We also discuss masterbating with the remote control, painting with blood, & Bob Mizer going to jail for DICK PICS! 🍆 Melissa loved to draw dicks so this episode is amazing but a little grief heavy. Hear Melissa’s voice and love her like I did! Self care tips the week brought to you by Rachel Kalom + Emma Kirkland. Rachel gives you a simple breathwork technique to try at home when you are in crisis. Emma talks making a solid playlist! Ciao bitches! ✨ Follow Ria at @alexandria.deters.art

Rachel Kalom is an amazing pelvic floor yoga instructor for ALL BODIES y’all! In this episode she will go over what it means to be inclusive in a yoga space, some simple breath work techniques, and our upcoming workshop on getting back into your body & upping your intimacy while getting off solo. ⛓ 👅 This episode is great, sexy, body positive, and worth a listen. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Or rather the man looking into Rachel’s car window as we recorded this jawn. Burn Black, always raw as fuck.