BDE (Big Dyke Energy)

It's been a long time, we shouldn't have left you... without a dope pod to enjoy. Missy Misdemeanor references aside, we mean to keep showing up for you. But, how to show up as if nothing has changed when everything has changed? How to reconcile the healing self with the self in the burning room? With the passing of our depressive episodes and the turning of the wheel into Aries season, we invite you to join us as we grapple with the disparity of creating art in such a destructive time. To inspire us and lead us into this terribly beautiful terrain--we look to none other than Aries Supreme Tracy Chapman, whose brief (but mighty) return to public consciousness is the sign we've all been waiting for. Are there ga(y)mes? Certainly play is a part of it? Are there gripes? What's a dyke without one? Are you ready? Then listen up! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigdykeenergy/support

Deep in Virgo season, Rose and Gala reappear to reap the seeds that Venus Rx and Mercury Rx have sown. What's on the table this harvest season? A medley of astrology roots. We're talking sisters and we don't mean beans and corn. What do Capricorn and a Cancer have in common? What's Leo got that Aquarius hasn't got? How likely is it to find an Aries and a Libra chilling in the same room? What is the sign of soup? Gather round as we stir the pot and add a dash of creative chaos. Did you think a Virgo season episodes would be tidy and tight? Mutables like Virgos contain multitudes, my dudes. Here, along theVirgo/ Pisces axis, we know that love of the process is a profound and sacred love. Do we talk about pets and illness? 6th house says YES. Do we play an absurd lesbionic survival game with hypothetical scenarios? Who would we be if we didn't? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigdykeenergy/support

On this episode of BDE, Rose and Gala delve into the depths of this season’s dramatic Venus Rx transit using the common language of trashy television. If deciphering all this transit talk has got you in a tizzy, take heart and tune in as we take our astro advice and stick it to the dykes, deviants, and delightful normies on N*tflix’s Queer Ultimatum. De-stress with our arm-chair relationship psychology banter chased with a rousing game of “would you rather?” In a world of Venusian ultimatums, would you rather have Aussie call you "mate" during sex or let Mildred's stylist do your hair? We answer the tough questions so you don’t have to… because we love you as only a sapphic (devotee of Venus) can! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigdykeenergy/support

This is an episode dedicated to Poker Face, a practically perfect new show starring Natasha Lyonne (who is also an executive producer). An episodic murder mystery, the only real crime this show commits is heterosexual camp. It’s a good thing we’re here to Scooby the crew, pull off their masks, and unveil the homosexual energy that hides behind them. Stay tuned for astrological games, sapphic nostalgia, and a hearty dose of fanfare. Spoilers galore, beware all who enter here. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigdykeenergy/support

Saturn has shifted into Pisces and —while all the Saturn in Aquarius babes are taking a deep breath—our Saturn in Pisces pals are getting ready for life school. What’s a dyke got to learn from the lord of time and discipline under the sign of intuition and fluidity? Can a person known for boundlessness learn to set boundaries? Settle in and ponder these imponderables with us as we talk Saturn Return dos and don’ts. Join us as we consult the gnostic Saturn Rx texts otherwise known as lesbian books, albums, and movies made for dykes in their late 20s. Get in homos, we’re giving the shapeless shape in this episode of BDE! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigdykeenergy/support

Nipping at the heels of awards season, Rose and Gala are here to talk Tár and tarnished protagonists. A little bit of kvetch and a lot of klatch, there’s a game of sapphic villain top-bottom-vers to keep our spirits gay after asking the hard questions: What makes a villain juicy? What makes a straight cis man decide to make a movie about a lesbian predator? What makes a straight cis woman choose the role? Is the world short on narratives that cast queer people in a predatory light? Kick it with us as we dream up a lavender menace worth the price of our salt. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigdykeenergy/support

There’s a good chance that if you were a dyke in the early aughts, then a Tegan and Sara song has the power to open up a deep well of nostalgia and possibly even regret in you. In this month’s episode, Rose and Gala harness that power for their own purposes, roping you into a Tegan and Sara retrospective chord by opening chord. Listen in your living room as we debate which hit songs belong to which signs. Let us get back in your head with an accompanying Spotify playlist :) …Celebrate the first true representation of soft butches wearing thermals under band shirts in High School (tv show based on Tegan & Sara’s teen years co-created by Clea DuVall). If those two topics don’t satiate you, enjoy a clever meal of dyketastic comparisons in the form of a game we’re calling “Sisters or ‘Sisters’.” Listen along to our picks for each sign here :) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigdykeenergy/support

There's no crying in baseball, and no clams in the dugout. But there are clam-diggers! What? Haven’t heard that old chestnut in a while? Well strap in because this episode, devoted to late summer’s best stone fruit (blues?)—the Georgia Peaches, is packed with old things made new again. Tune in from the bleachers as Rose and Gala each take a swing at the astrological make-up of the cast of the new A League of Their Own. Throw back some stale popcorn while Rose methodically (Virgo-ically?) rounds the bases and watch out for Gala’s Libra-fueled curve balls. Make sure to let us know if we hit it out of the ballpark! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigdykeenergy/support

Friendship bracelets, field trips, team sports, and sporty sandals… is there anything gayer than summer camp? In this brand spanking new episode of BDE, Rose and Gala make the case for summer camp as a homosexual root and a faggy foray. Swing a while in the sapphic hammock of lesbian yearning and discontent, reminisce about the days when no-talent shows were a drag dream and the bounds of Orthodox Jewish camp were no match for a budding young dyke. Play along as we top, bottom, vers our way through all the summer camp signifiers. What’s toppier? Dr. Pepper Chapstick or event-themed T-shirts? Tune in and find out! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigdykeenergy/support

Straights talk a big game about daddy issues but dykes everywhere know that mommy issues are really the mother of it all. Of course, here at BDE, we know that anyone and anything can be a mother--including but not exclusively the Earth. We're here for the mothers who give birth to babes and the mothers who give birth to movements. Mothers as mind-blowing as Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All At Once (time-defying mother), as irreverent as QweenAmor (channeling the Whore Mother Mary Magdalene!), and as filthy as John Waters (guardian of perverted taste). Come dip into the dark with us as we talk cosmic strategies, mother stones, and the secrets garbage keeps---reveling in the unexpected wisdom of a sentient compost pile. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigdykeenergy/support

Join Rose & Gala on a Mercury-fueled ride down memory lane as they wax sapphic about LiveJournals past and all the trappings of being emotionally online in the early years of social media. Perhaps you, too, were a Woman In STEM (ie: learning code to add backgrounds and MUSIC to your online journal). Perhaps you never used Both Hands to share your inner world online under a silly pseudonym like FuriousRose or SaltWaterTears, perhaps you were simply there to watch and witness. Whether you were a goth deadjournaler), an emo livejournaler, or a voyeur whose life opened wide the moment pages like Birls (boyish girls) came on the scene, this episode is for you. Of course, your favorite dykes with big (bisexual?) energy can't let an episode go by without acknowledging the reason for the season. With the Sun's tenure in Gemini coming to a close, Rose & Gala are here to threaten you with a good time and some good games too. Play along as we take turns making a queer case for Gemini celebrities like Pam Grier, Paula Abdul, Isabella Rosellini and Robin Tunney (happy birthday!!!). In True Gemini fashion, it's not about the truth, it's about the conversation. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigdykeenergy/support

Come slither along the Taurus Scorpio axis on this Eclipse season episode of BDE. Or, should we call it the Horny/Spooky axis? And which is which—-really—-when you get down to (on) it? Much to perceive and little to do has your favorite dykes delving into sapphic media for all the answers. Can you recognize the Scorpio/Taurus axis in Killing Eve—can you figure out whose the villain…now? What about Benedetta… or is there another horny/spooky show that hits the spot? If not then perhaps a game of ultimatums featuring Taurus/Scorpio dyke (and dykealike) stars and stars moments will do you in. If you’re holding out for a deeper dive or a cool rider, we get it cuz we’re holding out too. As Scorpio poet Eli Coppola once asked, “what’s a warm blooded animal to do? With all you so cool?” --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigdykeenergy/support

It's another episode of BDE, coming at ya this time with that Big Top Energy. Edging out of hot and heavy Aries season with a lot of confidence, this episode is a five course fist, serving up the tops that left an impression (a burning smack) on our bottoms and our psyches. Pull up a chair and sit in it homosexually as we comb through the top tops of dyke medias past: Violets, Cleos, Cleas, Candances--oh my! Like the classic tv show, Who's the Boss? No episode of Who's the Top can be complete without cheesy hijinks and a little debate. Join us as we get into a heated game of whose Mars sign is topping who. Or, if astrology isn't in your lexicon, perhaps a debate about whose eyebrows are topping whose fits your bill. How fine is the line between a moody top and a cheesy top anyway? At the edge of Aries season with Taurean indulgence on the horizon--more is more and we're here to deliver it with patience and a firm hand. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigdykeenergy/support

AND SHE'LL EAT FOR THE REST OF HER LIFE. That’s what she said—and by “she” we mean Rose, the Pisces rising and Mercury, on this very Piscean episode of BDE. Come for the astrology, stay for the dykology, as we pour over the the full moon in Virgo, the Mars Saturn conjunction, the Jupiter Neptune conundrum and how Euphoria fits in. Get in the water while we float the questions on everyone’s minds: What’s going on with Sharon Stone? What’s the vibe and what do The Betts have to do with it? Are harnesses a lesbian invention? Is pregnancy a Rihanna invention? Is there a nuclear war on the horizon? Tune in and sail away (sail away). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigdykeenergy/support

Rose and Gala get back to the drawing board, beginning a new season of BDE with a tried and true approach: one episode, one theme, and all sapphistry all the time. Join us for a deep dive into the astrological archetypes of the girls formally known as Yellowjackets. Who’s right? Who’s wrong? Cast your votes in the comments! Play along while we bring our girls into some lower stakes chaotic lesbian survival scenarios. Lascivious lasagna? Incontinent pit-bull? Unsealed deck in the rain? Who you gonna call? If hypothetical games are your cup of foraged wine, then stay tuned for the bonus round—right after we talk Taissa full moon, subterranean Pluto return, Pisces new moon, and a conjunction or two. Did we miss the chance to mention Kristin Hersh? We each only have two hands. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigdykeenergy/support

Venus is STILL retrograde and the devil is in the details this Capricorn season. But with a moody full moon in Cancer blessing the month of January and an exhausting square between Mars and Neptune, not to mention a spaced out Mercury Retrograde in Aquarius, the devil is bound to have her say. Why not let the fallen angels have it? What's an indulgence or two or three between friends who haven't been to a homosexual house party in three years? If you aren't feeling sexual and ruinous at the end of the world perhaps you're better off making soup. Gazpacho if you're holding down that Southern Hemisphere. Turn up the flame and cut your shallots beautifully while you tune into our astro weather forecast. Simmer down while we cook up our Capricorn karaoke theories. Are you more of a Meatloaf-singing Cap or a country crooner? It's all coming back to us now as we salt and pepper to taste and discuss the patterns in sapphic media today compared to yesteryear. If you'd like a transcript of this episode, please contact us here :) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigdykeenergy/support

A choose your own (Sagittarian) adventure episode where each adventure is a quest to find good sapphic media. Welcome, one and all, to Rose and Gala's shameless TV corner where we embrace the winter solstice in totality but laying on the couch and having a good cathartic media binge. Take a load off those strong lesbian shoulders while we discuss 12 Dates of Christmas and the tragic affliction of "main character energy." Mix up some fair-trade cacao while we kvetch about what's missing in the world of holiday romcoms. Kick off those Blundstones as we wax on about Melanie Lynskey as queer canon and her place in our hearts and role in Yellowjackets, the only good tv for medium-aged dykes. Yes, they recount the SATC reboot, but at what cost? Do Aquarians or Sagittarians talk more shit? This episode is a case study. Of course, no Sag season episode would be complete without a hot debate to polarize the masses so stick around for Gala's Case Against Carol, sure to turn you against her forever. What to a Sag rising is likability? What do Sagittarius' even need when they still have Teyana Taylor performing 2018's “3Way,” grinding on the likes of Rubi Rose and Yung Miami on her 2021 farewell tour? Give yourself the gift of watching this performance through the years this holiday season. A farewell tour only happens once, but a lap dance recorded on YouTube lasts forever. Do we ever get past the fruitless search for representation and discuss what actually matters: the moon, the stars, the sacred texts of the cosmos? Yes, and it's hardly a gay old time. What, to a homosexual, is holiday cheer? Omicron is here. Stay inside, Save a life. If you'd like a transcript of this episode, please contact us here. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigdykeenergy/support

Welcome to the Taurus full moon panic room! What kind of goddess decided to cast Venus’ Rx shadow the day before the eclipse? Is it the same goddess in charge of these Uranus oppositions and Saturn squares? Speaking of Saturn, would you live stream 6 middle aged dykes building a deck? Surely it’s better than Tampa Baes. And while we’re on the subject of lesbians with mansions, let’s talk about hidden assets: who has them and what does Taurus/Scorpio have to say about it. Why be fragile when you can be a force of nature? Come ride these waves and howl along on this latest episode of BDE. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigdykeenergy/support

Time to talk about the L word again…. Libras! Libra is ruled by Venus and Venus is all about our values so this episode we’re putting our values under a delicate vintage magnifying glass. Is it possible to own land and still be invested in justice? Once you marry someone who wants to colonize space are you queer? What makes a lesbian commune vs. a queer lesbian commune? And since Venus was still in Scorpio, and Scorpio loves other people’s money, play along while we imagine what dyke diversions we might dip into with $89,000,000. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigdykeenergy/support

Join Rose and Gala as they wrap up Virgo season and prepare for Mercury retrograde in Libra by asking hard-hitting questions and not expecting you to answer them. Everyone knows that while Virgo is The Virgin in the texts of olde, they’re everyone’s favorite freak. But, isn’t it also true that Virgo’s the most bisexual of all the Zodiac signs? Cameron Diaz, Sara Ramirez, Evan Rachel Wood, Pink, Lili Reinhart, Jada Pinkett Smith, need we say more? Never-mind, we do. Speaking of bisexuals, and we definitely are, isn’t it time to retire “Gold Star” as a thing? Don’t we all put on our blazers one sleeve at a time? Isn’t it time for a little mutual reception? Whether you’ve been sowing and reaping, or heauxing and sleeping, the hosts of BDE are here to serve up a farmer’s market of dyke digressions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigdykeenergy/support