#1: New Year, New World
Hello! Welcome to ‘Groovy Baby’ 👽 thank you for subscribing and being one of the first readers! The year is 2022, we are all glad we made it to the other side, Rona is still out causing havoc, most people still haven’t taken down the Christmas decoration and I haven’t finished eating all the chocolate of my Advent Calendar. Hopefully this newsletter is like a letter from a friend that will warm up your soul and put a smirk on your frozen January face. Feel free to reply to this email, or comment on Substack if you feel like it. It will most definitely make me feel good and important.
You are probably wondering by now what is this newsletter about and what to expect from me. If you care about art, music, obscure knowledge and the mysterious ways of The Universe, this is the place for you. Pretty much all the things we find hard to put a finger on and difficult to talk about sometimes (oh my, what a task I’ve set for myself). Bare in mind I am not a writer and the content might change as I go along, but here are a few things it might include:
A thought process
Esoterica
Spiritual discoveries
Hopefully a different perspective
Trial and error of a City Witch (BAEVA- my Bulgarian surname literally means a witch/natural healer)
Good books
Good music
A display of wacky sketches you won’t be able to see elsewhere
December was a very chill month for me. I didn’t do a lot of work, however I became passionately obsessed (with two things). But before I share what I got obsessed with, I want to talk a little bit about obsession itself first. It’s such a villainized state mainly associated with love and addiction, however obsession can be a really powerful tool for creativity and growth. Most of all obsession is a sign of pure focus, which I find so freakin’ HOT and empowering! If we have the capability to get obsessed with people, video games, alcohol, smoking, picking, refreshing the feed, we sure can get obsessed with learning, creating, reading, meditating. I urge you this year to get obsessed with being focused! If there is one resolution I am actually going to do this year it’s going to be to get obsessed with being focused!
The two things: Human Design and The Beatles. Worth every single minute, hour, day of the last month I spent reading, listening and absorbing their pure goodness like a sponge.
If you are a Beatles fan like me you have probably watched ‘Get Back’ already, and if you haven’t you should cancel your plans for the weekend and get stuck in. Hours and hours of footage of the documentary was sitting in The Beatle’s vault for 52 years before Peter Jackson immersed himself for four years to bring to life the end of the long and winding road of the band. In the 3 parts (2-3 hours each) we see the creation of the ‘Let it Be’ album happening right there, while they have band fights, acid trips, Yoko screams into a microphone, George leaves the band and Ringo falls asleep on multiple occasions. The documentary is long and epic and it might seem like they are just wasting their time but somehow among the chaos there is the obsession and the focus that gives birth to some of the greatest songs ever written. Thinking about it makes the hair on my arms stand on end.
Continuing with the Beatlemania, before watching ‘Get Back’ I watched ‘George Harrison: Living In The Material World’ directed by Martin Scorsese. The documentary was recommended to me by my friend Ross (hi Ross) 5 years ago, but I only got to watch it now (unbelievable). Harrison is a guitar genius, quiet, mysterious, a rock’n’roll Buddha who wrote ‘Here Comes the Sun’ , ‘My Sweet Lord’ , ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ , ’Something’ . All of his songs carry the muse of the mystical and obscure force of the Universe. He dedicated most of his life to understanding the invisible and transcending through music, while making it relatable and easy to digest. ‘Isn’t a Pity’ is a great example of a song that brings a tear to my eyes as it hits straight in the heart and carries so much truth, yet it’s so simple:
Isn't it a pity
Now, isn't it a shame
How we break each other's hearts
And cause each other pain
How we take each other's love
Without thinking anymore
Forgetting to give back
Isn't it a pity
Some things take so long
But how do I explain
When not too many people
Can see we're all the same
And because of all their tears
Their eyes can't hope to see
The beauty that surrounds them
Isn't it a pity
Here is one of my favourite interviews with George from 1997 on Fame, Bliss and Consciousness. 25 years later his words are still relevant and I perhaps more people now than ever would find meaning in them and understand them truly.
You might be thinking “oh here is another person romanticising the past”, and you are probably right to some extent. However the year 1969 is known to be very astrologically, vibrationally and even historically similar to the time we are entering now. The midst of the Vietnam War (we are exiting a pandemic), the hippie movement was at it’s peak, boom of psychedelics, a beginning of a new era and a noticeable Earth's collective energy shift, cultural and spiritual revolution. We are definitely not out of the woods yet, but we can’t deny that our old world does not feel like ‘home’ anymore and the new one is yet to be built. Here I think we can look at the past and learn from it, see what went wrong and what went right. The Beatles had a lot of things figured out which is why their work is still relevant and carries evergreen wisdom that transcends us to a different plane.
Teals Swans forecast for 2022 is a must watch:
Human Design. My dear friend Dani introduced me to it and quite frankly it took me to a next level of understanding how this world works. HD is a system that seems to hold all the necessary truths about the mechanics and purpose of a human being, it combines astrology, I Ching, Kabbalah and Vedic Philosophy. Generators, Projectors, Manifestors and Reflectors, those are the 4 types of people on the planet, all here to do and learn different things and contribute to the greater Universe. The main thing you can take from it is to locate where your intuition in your body is (mine is in my sacral centre) and pay attention to it every time you enter into something or make a decision. Honour it and let it guide you instead of your mind. Very esoteric, I know. Think about it though, how many times has your mind mislead you and you wished you listened to your ‘gut’ about a certain situation? Right!? Quite often. I won’t bore you with more details, but I highly recommend having a look at it finding out what your chart is.
Here is a link if you are interested.
Thank you so much for reading and getting to the end of this! Hopefully you found something interesting and useful and you’ll let me continue showing up in your inbox every now and then ;) Happy New Year, goodbye 2021 and like The Beatles said:
Everybody had a hard year
Everybody had a good time
Everybody had a wet dream
Everybody saw the sunshine
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Peace and love,
Dessy