Two eclipses fall this month, sixteen days apart: a SOLAR ECLIPSE in LEO on August 12th, a LUNAR ECLIPSE in PISCES on August 28th. I made CHAKRA BALANCING SPRAY for moments such as this, and if you want it in hand before the first eclipse, now is the time to order.
As the SUN sinks toward the horizon on the 12th, the MOON will slide across its face, and for most of us watching from the UK that means around 90 percent of its light gone at once, the sky thrown into a strange, early dusk. Sixteen days later, on the 28th, the MOON turns copper in PISCES and rises full into shadow. Between these two dates we stand inside ECLIPSE SEASON, the six-monthly window when the sky's ordinary mathematics breaks, and most of us feel unsteady before we can say why.
Eclipses are hinge points in the sky. A door closes on one side and a different door swings wide on the other, and whatever stands near that hinge gets moved, whether it asked to be or not.
THE FIRST ECLIPSE: LEO, SOUTH NODE
This SOLAR ECLIPSE sits at the SOUTH NODE, in LEO. South node work is subtraction. LEO governs the heart, the stage, the child in each of us who once performed for love before she learned she was allowed to simply hold it. This eclipse asks what you have been building for applause rather than for joy, and it takes that structure down. Grief may show up uninvited. So may relief.
THE SECOND ECLIPSE: PISCES, NORTH NODE
The LUNAR ECLIPSE on August 28th falls at the NORTH NODE, in PISCES, opposite the SUN in VIRGO. PISCES dissolves what LEO's fire could not burn through: the edges we use to keep feeling manageable. Expect permeability. Old grief can surface without an obvious cause. Dreams may turn vivid and strange. This is not regression. It is the nervous system clearing static so a clearer signal can come through by December.
WHY IT LANDS IN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
Eclipses compress the usual gap between what we feel and what we understand. Sleep runs thin. Old wounds surface out of sequence. Emotions swing without warning, more intense and less linear than a regular MOON cycle. None of this means anything is wrong. It means we are metabolising six months of unconscious material inside two and a half weeks.
THE INIMITABLE SPRAY
I make CHAKRA BALANCING SPRAY by hand, by the moon, from BERGAMOT, LAVENDER, FRANKINCENSE, SWEET ORANGE, YLANG-YLANG, CEDARWOOD ATLAS, GERANIUM, PATCHOULI, CLOVE and BLACK PEPPER, and infuse it with Tibetan Black Quartz and this VERY LIMITED batch had been imbued with the JUPITER CAZIMI in LEO. Those who know it always return to it. It is beyond words.
Each note carries its own vibration which links to this ECLIPSE SEASON. FRANKINCENSE and CEDARWOOD ATLAS root you when PISCES tries to float you past the horizon. BERGAMOT and SWEET ORANGE keep the heart from closing after LEO asks it to grieve where we gave them what they wanted and hid our needs and visibility in the process. GERANIUM steadies emotion across all seven centres at once. PATCHOULI and BLACK PEPPER give courage a place to stand once LEO's fire has burned an old shape away. CLOVE holds the field, so that what dissolves in PISCES doesn't take your protection with it. YLANG-YLANG returns you to pleasure, which this season needs defending more than most. Tibetan Black Quartz clears what isn't yours to carry, and holds what is.
HOW TO USE IT
The CHAKRA BALANCING SPRAY is your compass for the next two and a half weeks. Mist it across your chest and the crown of your head. Connect with the scent, let it connect with you. Ayurvedically our bodies are drawn to the smell me need. Spray your bedroom before sleep, while dreams run stranger than usual. Carry the bottle in your bag on the 12th and the 28th, and reach for it the moment a feeling rises without a clear cause. This isn't about softening what the eclipses are doing. It's about being fully present in yourself while they do it.
For a more intimate ritual to carry on your skin, CHAKRA BALANCING ANOINTING holds the same synergy in apricot kernel oil and organic beeswax, warmed by your own body heat through the day.
Whatever these two eclipses ask you to release, release it. Whatever they ask you to protect, protect it. Be ready for the opportunties that arrive. Let the dreams be bigger and more expansive than imagined. Know your worth.
This is your moment - eat it all. I'll be watching the sky with you.