Bess was one of Sue's editors on Transitory Nature, and over the last year they developed a deep friendship. Bess and Sue dive into ALL THINGS ASTROLOGY together for the remainder of 2021 in this episode. We discuss Bess's book on Virgo & Leo, as well as her current creative and writing projects. Bess is also the narrator of the Audible version of Transitory Nature. "I loved working with Bess over the last year and deeply respect her voice, work and creations out in the world." says Sue. This is an Ep. you might listen back to several times exploring transits, eclipses and all 12 signs of the zodiac and the planetary currents for the rest of 2021. Enjoy! HAPPY CANCER NEW MOON!
About Bess:
"As a fierce, fiery youth (Aries stellium + Leo Moon), I spent the time I wasn’t dancing in leopard print leotards or running around my neighborhood shirtless, speaking about all things mystical into my tape recorder for my closet cosmic radio show, and writing what I called “lipstick horoscopes” for an imaginary trapper keeper-bound mag called Teen Talk.
I’d first discovered the mystical language of archetypes at age 10, in the glossy, full-color pages of DK’s classic Parkers’ Astrology volume. These pages detailed not only each zodiac sign’s energetic and psychological components, but where you could find these energies in the material world. I reveled in my Aries Sun sign and its associations with everything from the pungency of cayenne pepper to the rough and ready streets of Marseilles, France.
As I completed a PhD and finished up the final throes of my Saturn Return, everything came undone. In the words of my beloved tarot teacher, Lindsay Mack, it was a “sub-basement Tower moment.” Broken down and bottomed out, I nearly left the planet. And in that pitch black of 2013-2014, the stars were my headlamp. I returned to the mystical world and its cavernous capacity to beckon us closer to our complete carnality, as I reckoned with what lived inside of me. I learned to look it in the eye, to lick its skin, and to love it, no matter the cost.
My work bloomed into everything from tarot dance classes to birth chart fragrance making. I slowly crawled back up to the surface of my own existence and built a career out of my belief that star-kissed synesthesia can bring us back to the selves we already are and are always becoming, as close and vital as a makeup case or dinner plate.
I love with ferocity and tenderness and I can’t stop, won’t stop. I cry easily and hard. I’m scared of flying and don’t ever want to die." + Bess Matassa
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