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 :)

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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.

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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