Today I’ll share with you a beautiful and deeply spiritual concept in astrology, called the curtailed passage of a fixed star. I’ll speak of what it means for your destined gifts and talents and life’s path, as well as give you practical examples and expressions of how you may put in the consistent effort to bring them into the fruition your soul seeks.
Let’s begin at the beginning,
what is a curtailed passage?
Curtailed Passage, the Bridge to the Divine
Fixed stars have phases, which we track in relation to the sun; and the phases matter in our understanding and interpretation of them. “Curtailed Passage”, which in your paran table you may see written as “cp” next to the corresponding fixed star, shows a certain fatedness to events and themes related to that star.
What curtailed passage means, astronomically speaking, is that essentially the fixed star is visible both at sunset and sunrise, never dipping below the horizon throughout the night. In other words, a curtailed passage is a specific phase where the star’s arc is entirely above the horizon from sunset to sunrise.
When a star is in her curtained passage phase, it is said she walks with the immortals and gods.
In this way, the spiritual interpretation is that she has become immortal, i.e. she has risen so far up that she is no longer really “touching” the mortal realm or earth.
And so,
When you have a fixed star in paran to your inner natal planets, and she is in a curtailed passage phase, she essentially acts like an intermediary between your mortal world and your divine sense of being. Such a star shows you the way to ascend to the divine realms or god; she is a like a path shower, and may give you inspiration on your path towards your personal ascension. She may show you, through her expression, themes and qualities, and the fated encounters she brings to you, the way and means towards the divine that you seek on a deep soul level.
In ancient astrology, stars in curtailed passage phases were said to carry a fatedness to them. In one way or another, things may feel a bit more out of your control when it comes to the events or themes of the fixed star. Whether this is good or not that great depends on what else is happening in your chart, the surrounding energy, the star itself and the aspects, and your personal level of soul growth and spiritual development.
As an example, suppose fixed star Vega is in curtailed passage phase. Then this shows destined creativity. You have a real gift to bring into this world, but, it will require your conscious effort – because now, you are bringing spirit into matter.
Your creative talents are fated and inescapable aspects of your life. You will be called to use them or express them throughout your life, and fate will bring to you the people or situations through which you’ll be called to do so.
The fated aspect of a Vega curtailed passage essentially means that this gift you have is locked into your life’s path – you can’t really ignore it. Rather than being a talent you can choose to engage with or not, it tends to weave itself into key turning points and life events for you.
So it’s not like “you have this talent”, but rather it is “you have this real gift and life itself will keep returning you to it, calling you to step into it, requiring you to step into it”. In other words, the question here isn’t whether the person has the gift or not, they do, and it’s a real gift, but they need to put it in conscious effort and persevere.
In practical terms, you may be placed in circumstances where your spiritual wisdom and artistic vision are needed; or you may feel a sense of calling that cannot be ignored. And no matter how much you ignore it, life will call you to it.
Perhaps you work a job where this talent or gift are not expressed, then maybe you’ll be let go of that job, so that you need to apply your gift. Perhaps, if Vega in paran to Jupiter, you will constantly have people throughout your life seeking your advice, and no matter how much you kind of don’t want to deal with people, they will keep seeking you for your wisdom, and you’ll be in situations where you will need to apply your higher vision and knowledge.
The “fated” part of a curtailed passage is the inevitability of encountering situations where you must live it out. Of course, you’ll have allies and helpers along the way, because this is a life of interdependence and interconnection.
So let’s look at some practical ways, examples or expressions of how this may happen; and for the purpose of this discussion, I’ll use the real life example of a beautiful woman, client and friend of mine, whose Vega is in paran to Jupiter in her natal 9th house.
Vega in paran to natal Jupiter in 9th house, in curtailed passage
Firstly, this shows a calling to weave beauty and meaning into philosophy, culture, or spiritual teaching. Indeed, she carries deep visionary and artistic gifts tied to wisdom, higher belief, creativity, astrology and mysticism. She is truly gifted at expressing ideas beautifully, bringing wisdom through words, beauty, creative expression, teachings, or seeking harmony in teaching and belief. Whether she is engaging with poetry, photography, writing or teaching, there is always something spiritual that deeply touches people and transmutes higher wisdom.
Through the way she expresses herself in her every day life, she infuses spiritual wisdom and inspires people, lifting them up in their energy; all she touches and creates, in whatever shape or form, offers a bridge for people to tune into and connect to their own divine inner self. She is not just physically beautiful, but beautifully inspires people to see the world more beautiful in every step of the way, deepening them into love.
Curtailed passage phases of stars will require of us to put in the effort though, because, again, they are high up and we need to consciously shape them and work with them. The events may be fated, the people we come across may be fated, but it is still up to us and our own self effort, perseverance and absolute trust to keep going and keep working. So it’s about bridging the worlds of the divine and the tangible, so let’s focus on some practical life expressions of how this may happen.
The practical life expression in which this may show itself, through its fated curtailed passage, is for example, you may have people seeking you for your advice, even from early age, all your friends would seek your advice or insights into things. You yourself may be drawn into roles where you share wisdom, philosophy, or belief systems.
Perhaps you grow into being a guide in some way, whether astrologer, teacher or spiritual counsellor, or someone who naturally becomes the voice of wisdom and inspiration in their circle. Even if you don’t “seek” this path, life puts you in situations where others look to you for answers or perspective.
Another way this may express itself is perhaps through the bridge between art and spirituality. Vega is about harmony, beauty, artistry and music, and Jupiter is about wisdom, higher knowledge, expansion, spirituality, meaning and truth – so together, this is the bridge between the worlds. You may find yourself creating or promoting art with a deeper message.
Perhaps you are a poet, whose poetry may at first sight be about love and romance, and yet it carries deeper spiritual wisdom or directly expresses spiritual concepts, or perhaps it serves to inspire people deeply and uplift them. Or, you could be even a children book writer, and yet your stories weave spiritual themes or philosophy or higher morals and values.
You may also be someone who is a visionary, and life may put you in situations where you are called to see the higher vision, have the hawk eye’s view, and help others too see the threads and bigger picture. On a mundane level, you could be an architect also.
Or you could be someone who sees harmony and beauty in the places where others see chaos – and through your vision, and ability to see the more subtle things, you also inspire others to see it.
With the fated curtailed passage, there may be periods of your life where things will not be moving, because you are asked to use your gift and apply your own personal vision and creativity. In the times when things have become too “practical”, there may be shake ups, because you are called back toward creativity, teaching, or philosophy.
Throughout your life you might encounter mentors or events, or even strangers on the streets, who in some shape or form, pull you to re-align with your Jupiter–Vega gifts. You may have people project onto you – seeing you as more inspiring, wise, or idealistic than you may feel or think about yourself. But it is precisely this projection itself that becomes part of your role and destiny, because this is who you are meant to be.
In essence,
The fated gift is your ability to weave wisdom and beauty into something others can learn from or be inspired by.
The fated role is to embody your gift in the world, whether as a teacher, artist, guide, astrologer, or visionary.
And your fated challenge may be that you simply can’t really ignore this nor “not do it”, because this is a calling. Life will keep steering you back to it. The curtailed passage makes this inescapable – it is a destiny-thread.
Mozart was probably hearing music in his ears, and this calling was so deep, so inescapable, so he couldn’t really be anything else. He still put a lot of effort, and life wasn’t easy for him; and yet each challenge was kind of to put him back to on his path, whether he wouldn’t be working for others, but for himself, to have the freedom to compose the true soul music he was born to do.
Curtailed passages require effort – conscious effort. Because these are gifts from the divine, but these stars walk with the immortals; so for us, the desire is powerful and our hands are pulled towards them, but it is still up to us to reach, and hold, and keep working at it here on earth.
While we may speak of these gifts as gifts from the divine or fated, it is really important to understand that these are gifts and abilities you have earned yourself through your hard work and spiritual growth you’ve been doing for a very, very long time. For life times you’ve been building your vessel to be able to hold higher energies of the virtues, love, wisdom and inspired creativity; you made this happen, you created an opportunity to be able to hold and express higher gifts, and you yourself earned your gifts and abilities and skills also.
You see, your compassion is a gift you’ve earned yourself; to be able to feel true compassion for humanity shows deep spiritual work and growth you have done, so that you have the vessel needed for higher gifts and higher love to flow through your open kind loving heart.
Your open mindedness is a gift you have earned also, through your ability to stay open and consider perspectives and ideas and beliefs, which may challenge your own, and discern and grow from that also, rather than stay rigid.
Your ability to be generous, to support others, to raise them, to encourage them, to donate and support people you learn from – these are spiritual gifts you earned through your spiritual growth, because generosity is a gift of those with open loving hearts. Your ability to discern true from false is a gift you’ve earned through significant spiritual growth and inner work you’ve done.
The more light a person holds within themselves, it’s because they’ve seen darkness, they’ve walked through it, and they’ve risen through it, to shine brighter with courage of soul and love in heart. Not everyone is able to rise in these moments, and it may take more time to learn for some people.
So if you have deep compassion, deep feeling, deep ability to love and be generous and open minded and discerning, to be able to see things clearly and discern true from false – all these while they not be rewarded with titles and high salaries or awarded on big world stages, are actually the real wealth you hold. And it’s because you did the work, you earned them.
So keep going, keep doing the work, keep growing and expanding, and keep believing in yourself. And stay in gratitude, acknowledging your own perseverance, faith and work also, as well as the divine and staying humble to God. I know it may feel unrewarding sometimes to be a kind person, a wise person, a loving person, a discerning person, a person of faith and integrity, a person of values and ethics and moral compass, but know these are the real things, real gifts, and this is what matters truly.
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