Sky Astrology Meets Eclipse Season: Above & Within with Chapeau Cloudette & Carson Coughlin

Broadcasting from three power points on the planet—Sedona's red rocks, Guatemala's Lake Atitlán, and Egypt's Red Sea—writer-filmmaker Carson Cochlan and skystrology pioneer Claudette (aka Chapeau Claudette) reunited for episode two of Above and Within, weaving together astronomy, ancestry, and the art of looking up.

What emerged was less a lecture and more an invitation: to reclaim your relationship with the sky, to verify what you've been told, and to discover that the heavens have been speaking to you all along.

Who Are the Guides Behind This Cosmic Conversation?

Carson Cochlan introduces himself simply: writer, filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, producer. But his real credential? A lifetime of choosing the metaphysical path over the material one, guided by a north node in Tauri (Taurus) that pulled him toward art and truth even when stability beckoned. "For some reason, my soul knew that that's not what I was supposed to do," he shares, describing how he rejected the traditional route his grandfather laid out in favor of the artist's uncertain path.

Claudette—broadcasting from the Red Sea where she's spent a decade developing what she calls "new ancient future technology"—is the architect of skystrology and skystronomy. Her approach is grounded in direct observation and mathematical verification. Thirty years of following Western astrology ended when she discovered it "wasn't as mathematical as it presented itself to be." So she started over, building from the ground up, looking up first.

The turning point? An August 2019 moment when she screenshot a picture of a woman from the 1600s who looked uncannily like her—and discovered the north node was at the exact degree and arc minute of her natal south node. "That changed my life," she says quietly. "I had seen it mathematically."

What Happens When You Look Up Before You Look It Up?

The conversation orbits around a simple but radical philosophy: look up before you look it up. In an age where we reflexively reach for apps and authorities to interpret the sky for us, Claudette and Carson are asking something different—that we become observers of our own reality.

"There's something that we can all agree on because it's something that's in the sky and obvious," Carson notes, discussing how eclipses create a rare meeting point for all traditions. Whether you trust astrology or not, you can look up and see the moon crossing the sun's path. You can feel the temperature change. You can hear the birds stop singing.

One woman posted on her story: "I didn't expect it, but I cried." Carson wanted to hear her crying but understood why she muted herself. That vulnerability, that direct encounter with awe—that's what gets lost when we outsource our cosmic experience to experts.

"Astrology and astronomy were the same," Claudette reminds us. "People needed to know when the eclipse was coming, because back in the day in China, if the astronomers missed the calculation, some of them were sentenced to death." The knowledge was powerful enough to kill for—or to kill over. Now we have the technology to verify these things ourselves, to use apps like SkyView or Stellarium to confirm what ancient sky-watchers could only calculate through generations of observation.

"Trust, but verify," Carson says. "Look up what astrology is saying. Verify. Look up what skystrology is saying. Verify."

What Do the Nodes Reveal About Your Soul's Direction?

The heart of the conversation turns to the nodes—those astronomical points where the moon's path crosses the sun's path, the same geometry that creates eclipses. In Vedic astrology, they're called Rahu (north) and Ketu (south), the karmic axis. But Claudette is quick to clarify: "Karma is the Sanskrit word. It means action."

Not punishment. Not debt. Action.

"You've been given this vessel. You've been given the ability to take action even if there's baby steps," she explains. The south node represents past actions, ancestral gifts, what you've already mastered. The north node? That's the direction you're growing toward, the uncomfortable edge where your soul wants to expand.

Carson's example is illuminating: south node in Ophiuchus (the serpent-bearer, that plasma bridge between Scorpio and Sagittarius) in the second house of the physical, shooting forward to a north node in Tauri in the eighth house of the metaphysical. "It's almost like Ouroboros," he realizes mid-conversation, "creating this loop of the snake eating its own tail and creating art through this alchemy of the physical versus the metaphysical."

The energy of the poles, Carson notes, creates "this dielectric torus." Claudette lights up: "The horns of the bull are showing you the torus field of the realm."

But this isn't just abstract symbolism. Claudette invites viewers to get curious about their ancestors—to ask about their birth times, their lives, their choices. "We are not here alone," she insists. "You are connected to them, not just through the DNA or the last name, but through your actions, your manner, and your soul."

The nodes currently sit in Leo (south, descending) and Aquarius (north, ascending)—though in skystrology, that north node will shift in October into what they call Capricorii, a bridge space between Aquarius and Capricorn. "It's quite a lot of water going on," Carson notes, even though one's an air sign and one's earth. "The celestial sea."

As the conversation winds down across time zones and laggy internet connections, Claudette extends an offer to YouTube viewers: "In the comments, you can say to me, my south node is in the second experience or second house. And we'll answer and give our feedback."

No gatekeeping. No five-year astrology degree required. Just curiosity, observation, and the willingness to look up.

Watch the full conversation to hear Carson and Claudette explore the mathematical magic of the nodes, share tools for finding your own positions, and invite you into a community that's decolonizing the stars—one observation at a time.

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