How’s your heart doing today? ❤️ How’s your energy level right now? 🧐

March feels reeeally intense—do you feel it as well? 🔥 I feel a bit exhausted for no reason but I’m loving everything that’s happening energetically! It feels like so much is in motion. Lately, life has been unfolding beautifully and I’m just grateful to be here on this planet, experiencing it all.

Spring is arriving this weekend, and tomorrow, I turn 32! (Can’t believe I’m officially a proper adult, I've even got a few white hairs coming in… so sexy! 🤣) As we step into the last week of winter, we’re also preparing to enter the real new year—a time to shed the old and embrace the new. Just as nature begins to bloom, so do we. 🌸✨

In this second newsletter, my talented friend Athenaïs, whom I met in 2020, shares her vision of Berlin, while astrologer Jennifer Eireen deciphers the cosmic energy for the next two weeks! You’ll also find two beautiful illustrations by Elsa, a Berlin-based illustrator I recently discovered on Instagram, along with a photo I took of our stunning TV tower!

PEOPLE OF BERLIN: Discover Athenaïs, producer, live act & dj

Athenaïs is a French producer, live performer, and DJ based in Berlin. Founder of Coucou Records: a label and collective fostering creative experimentation, open-genre music, and community. Her music intertwines electronic and acoustic elements. Traveling through bewitching vocals, retro synths, poetic lyrics in French or English, and textured field recordings. Drawing inspiration from Electronica, Synth-Pop, and Indie, Athenaïs merges structured melodies with raw improvisation. Her sound creates a space where nostalgia, storytelling, and experimentation meet, crafting a hypnotic experience.

What’s your favorite thing about living in Berlin

The freedom to be. Berlin doesn’t ask you to fit in, it gives you space to become who you are. It’s a city full of contrast. Chaos and stillness. Structure and improvisation. The weight of history and the spirit of rebellion. Berlin allows you to explore beyond labels and expectations. There’s room to dream, experiment, fail, and start again. Every neighbourhood has its own rhythm, its own character. Embracing creativity, diversity, and rawness. And despite being a big city, nature is always present. Places to breathe, to pause, to just be.

What’s one thing you’ve learned from Berlin that you couldn’t have learned anywhere else?

I moved here at 18. Berlin shaped me. It taught me to be independent, to trust, to let go. To take responsibility for the life I create. I left and returned, caught in that love/hate relationship. Through it, I learned that home is within. No matter where I go, I’ll always face myself. Berlin made me see that. It continues to teach me how to move through life with openness, love, and resilience.

How Berlin influenced your journey?

Berlin amplified my DIY spirit. It showed me that with imagination and dedication, you can create anything from scratch. The city is proof of that: reinventing, reclaiming, transforming. Abandoned spaces become playgrounds for music, art, and expression. That energy shaped how I live. Seeing creativity not just as something I do, but as a way of being. I’ve explored many artistic disciplines here: photography, set design, editing, music production, live, DJing, and now curating events. Berlin allowed me to embrace that fluidity and not feel confined to one path. It inspires me to show my authentic and vulnerable self, trusting that it’s enough.

What advice would you give to someone new to Berlin looking to create music?

Just dive in. Experiment. Connect with those around you, artists and friends. Learn from them. Don’t worry about asking the basic questions. Do it from the heart, not for approval. Perfectionism can hold you back. People connect with the journey, not just the result. And when you finish, you’re already starting something new!