The Eclipse Salon
Another giant start finish line in a year that will be built upon them
We make our way now to the threshold through smoke and chaos, drawing conclusions and dragging last year’s skins over the rocks. We have to find our way in this darkness, guided best by the light we fashion from within as the mood hides her face now in preparation for the eclipse. In the distance we can hear hooves, or is that thunder? We can sense change on the far side of the week, and perhaps every day between. We know the season that shifts all our shapes is already here.
This is no ordinary new moon, and neither no ordinary eclipse if there is such a creature. Many star paths lead to this junction, and more besides are weaved into its whole season. This is another begin-again in a year rippling with fresh start lines and smarting with all we can, perhaps must, now leave behind.
Eclipses are a dance of shadow and light, conjuring both from our depths. Replete with endings and beginnings, mayhem and magic alike, eclipses offer us a regular reset button frequently knocking us back on to our soul’s path if we have been led astray. This time around sweeping up even chaos and revelation, changing the world from the ground up and barrelling it towards a new earth.
The next new moon from the far end of Aquarius delivers our lunar new year. A solar eclipse that squares its ruler Uranus also in the final straits of Taurus and pinging all our extinction thresholds. Anaretica offers completion of multiple cycles and life sequences but not without effort, calling into question all that knocks us far from our authenticity and hankering for the change writ large. It is the only thing that can save us now.
At the same time you cannot possibly have missed all the Fire Horsing about online, as Western social media claims its own version of Chinese mysticism for itself. The days of us all cherry picking the bits of Eastern wisdom that suit our agendas while tossing the rest and then smushing into a shape that we prefer are passing. Thank the dragons for that. We have already seen the reckoning in yoga and shamanism that was long overdue. Please head towards actual (human) experts whose study and experience in the field is genuine and authentic. In the same way that we can demand integrity by starving corporations of our dollars in order for them to toe the lines of decency and fair play, so too must we do the same to ensure the scourge of AI and cheap imitation does not continue to decimate the field of human knowledge.
In our Coven we walk with the moon and work with all her distinct faces and phases, eclipses and cycles… and we have done since 2019. This is lifechanging work for menstruating women whose cycle reflects the moon’s and becomes a remarkable anchor through the changing climes of menopause. For more than 15 years I have been writing and speaking and teaching eclipse lore, as path to deeper intimacy with the soul self through mooners and meditation, e-books and literally thousands of posts and articles, blogs and podcasts. If you want to align to the mighty forces of the stars and work with them in any meaningful way, authentic experience counts. Because the thing about all this moon and star malarkey is that if you get your foundations wrong - by time or place, by absorbing instead of learning, by reading info from the north when you live in the south - it simply does not work. This knowledge has been power for centuries and well hidden to protect both its value and integrity.
As we approach thresholds like this, we make our way amid modernity’s late stage catch cries that demand you contort or reinvent yourself. Tosh! Instead it is more valuable to find yourself, just as you are and with all that is concurrently going on in your world, in time and space. Not aspirational or imaginary, not how you want things to go, but how they are. How you are, here and now. Then these thresholds become anchor points rather than self defeating sites of exhaustion, judgement or criticism. And so I have crafted a number of ways you can engage with this threshold that don’t make you feel like you have not shed enough skin. Most of us had 2025 take off far more bark than we wanted.
Come As You Are is a little e-book I have put together to craft your own I Am Here. It offers lots of information and journalling prompts, methods and techniques to work with this huge set of star forces and let them carry you across the threshold. You can purchase it as a standalone for $33. If you would like it to go even deeper include a big shebang session with me - an hour and a half of cards and channel, shadow and light, tea and empathy - as well this weekend for $250.
You can join me this Sunday for a very special mooner as I wax lyrical about the mayhem and magic of this complex sequence, discussing both the specifics of (all) the astrology and the broader context in our world and lives. Our Eclipse Salon will be diving into the longer eclipse cycles and patterns and splicing in the lunar new year influences from distinct pantheon will deliver us well beyond our current frame. Ready or not. And we will be enjoying an imaginal adventure to scope out the year with aid of seer sight and oracle.
Our Eclipse Salon will be held in circle live on Zoom on Sunday 15th February at 9am AEDT in the shadow of the dark moon, its scrying pool a unique opportunity to peer out from the chaos into a wider wend and weave. Featuring astrology and moon lore, history and prophecy, story and shadow and light, this event offers a path to navigate these powerful forces and find yourself among them and tickets are $17. Join us live online or, if the time does not work for you, receive a full video and audio recording at the conclusion of the event for you to listen to at your leisure.
And of course you are always welcome to try a month in our Coven community and see if it floats your mystical boat (it will). As well as a high volume of content every month focused on your personal spiritual development through the anchor of nature and the lens of the ‘craft, witches of the Covens Electric ($10/month) and Coven Devotional ($30/month which includes both our Dark and Full Mooners every month) gather in circle at the conclusion of these events, sitting in ritual together to mark the threshold and find our place in it.
So many ways, so many paths across this line in the stars. Find your way and yourself through it, darklings or this threshold just becomes one more thing that seems to get away.
Catch you Sunday with bells on,
Kerrie xo