Above & Within: Chapeau Cloudette & Carson Coughlin on Eclipses, Nodes, and Sky Astrology

Broadcasting from three corners of the realm—Lake Atitlán in Guatemala, the Red Sea in Egypt, and the red rocks of Sedona—Chapeau Cloudette and Carson Coughlin returned for episode two of Above & Within, their ongoing exploration of what they call Sky Astrology and Sky Astronomy. The conversation unfolded like the eclipse itself: a slow reveal, a moment of awe, and an invitation to look up.

Cloudette, who calls herself "the downloader of this new ancient future technology," has spent a decade at the Red Sea developing what she describes as a reunification: bringing astronomy and astrology back together after millennia of separation. Carson, a writer and filmmaker, serves as co-pilot and translator, bridging Cloudette's cosmological insights with grounded storytelling and a playful insistence on clarity. Together, they hold a room—virtual though it may be—with warmth, rigor, and a shared commitment to removing the gatekeeping from the stars.

What Happens When the World Looks Up Together?

The eclipse was still fresh. Cloudette opened with gratitude for "so many people looking up yesterday together, looking up above to our sky, witnessing the phenomena of our sun and as we say, the measuring moon, having an interaction and changing your experience." She spoke of the visceral responses: the temperature shift, birds going silent, strangers weeping. One woman on Instagram confessed, "I didn't expect it, but I cried." Carson saw it too: the crying, the awe, the universal recognition that something larger was moving through.

"Look up before you look it up," Carson reminded viewers—the phrase that anchors their practice. It's both instruction and philosophy: direct observation over received authority, personal experience over inherited belief. "We're not here to tell you what to feel," Cloudette said. "We're here to help you verify what is."

What Are the Nodes, and Why Did They Change Cloudette's Life?

The heart of the conversation moved to the nodes: the north and south points where the sun's constant path crosses the moon's wandering one. These are the places where eclipses happen—and in Vedic astrology, where karma lives. "The south node is past action, past gifts," Carson explained. "The north is future growth, where we're headed. South past, north future."

Cloudette's story unfolded slowly, with the cadence of someone who has lived inside a mystery. For thirty years, she followed Western astrology but never paid attention to the nodes. Then, in August 2019, while researching a historical figure she'd been drawn to since the 1980s, she saw a portrait of a woman who looked like her. She took a screenshot. Later that week, she checked the transits. "The north node in our sky was the exact degree and arch minute at the time that I screenshot this picture," she said. It pointed directly to her south node—the place of past lives, ancestral memory, soul inheritance.

"That changed my life," Cloudette said simply. She spoke to a scholar in India who studies reincarnation and learned that "people travel in pods and are connected to each other." The nodes became her doorway—not into belief, but into verification. "I found the math," she said. "And it was crazy because everybody was just downplaying it. But I found the math."

How Do You Find Your Own Nodes—and What Do They Mean?

Carson offered himself as example. His south node sits in the second experience—what traditional astrology calls the second house, associated with the material and physical. But it's also in Ophiuchus, the serpent bearer, the plasma bridge between Scorpio's depths and Sagittarius's fire. His north node? The eighth experience—metaphysical, ancestral, hidden—and in Taurus, the sign of making something tangible and lasting.

"I knew from a very young age that I was not supposed to take the traditional route," Carson shared. His grandfather laid a path; his schooling pointed toward security, money, stability. But his soul knew otherwise. "I was supposed to be an artist. I was supposed to risk it all to live for something greater, which is truth."

Cloudette sees this as the gift of the nodes: they show not just where you're going, but how you get there. "It's the path that one takes, the perspective that one has—that's where the honey is, that's where the gold is." She invited viewers to investigate their own: find your south node, find your north node, ask your ancestors for their birth times. "You are connected to them, not just through DNA or the last name, but through your actions, your manner, and your soul."

The nodes are currently in Leo (south) and Aquarius (north) in Sky Astrology's system, though in October the north node shifts into what Cloudette calls Capricorii—the bridge space where Aquarius and Capricorn share the sky. "This period of shadow phenomena is a perfect time to look within," she said, "and to explore the action of your past and bridge that to what you're curious to do."

By the end, the transmission felt less like instruction and more like remembering. Cloudette and Carson weren't teaching; they were inviting. The full replay offers the spaciousness to sit with these ideas, to verify them against your own sky, and to ask: What have I been here before to do? And what am I being called toward now?

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