Cazimi, Combustion, and Under the Beams
Cazimi, Combustion, and Under the Beams explains author-specific thresholds for planetary distance from the Sun. Elongation is 8 arcminutes, so Mercury is.
Overview
These traditional solar-proximity conditions divide a planet’s angular distance from the Sun using thresholds that vary by author, body, latitude, and later school. The page separates calculation from interpretation and keeps this worked result conditional: elongation is 8 arcminutes, so Mercury is cazimi under the stated threshold. Verification follows this declared method: Compute the exact Sun–planet elongation, state the cazimi, combustion, and beam thresholds, handle Mercury/Venus separately if required, and show the source table.
At a glance
- Topic
- Cazimi, Combustion, and Under the Beams
- Method family
- Cazimi, Combustion, and Under the Beams · traditional and specialist methods
- Case inputs
- ☉ 10°00′♊ and ☿ 10°08′♊; declared cazimi threshold 17 arcminutes
- Measured finding
- elongation is 8 arcminutes, so Mercury is cazimi under the stated threshold
- School frame
- Cazimi, Combustion, and Under the Beams · traditional procedural method
- OpenFate tools
- Cazimi, Combustion, and Under the Beams · birth chart
Definition and exact scope
these traditional solar-proximity conditions divide a planet’s angular distance from the Sun using thresholds that vary by author, body, latitude, and later school
Calculation or decision rule
compute the exact Sun–planet elongation, state the cazimi, combustion, and beam thresholds, handle Mercury/Venus separately if required, and show the source table
Worked case and illustrative near miss
☉ 10°00′♊ and ☿ 10°08′♊; declared cazimi threshold 17 arcminutes. elongation is 8 arcminutes, so Mercury is cazimi under the stated threshold.
Illustrative near miss: Mercury 1° from the Sun may be combust under a chosen table but is not within this 17′ cazimi threshold.
School and variant boundary
Tables and procedures differ by author, era, translation, and sect; the selected authority must remain visible.
Product, safety, and verification boundary
OpenFate can expose the chart inputs needed for Cazimi, Combustion, and Under the Beams, but it does not claim a dedicated automated interpretation for this technique. Verification retains failed measurements and uncertainty, then revises interpretation rather than the receipt. Cazimi, Combustion, and Under the Beams cannot diagnose a person, remove consent, or guarantee an event.
Sources and editorial basis
- NCGR-PAA Level II CurriculumPDF pp. 4–5, lines 104–119, “Classical Astrology — Beyond the Basics”.A professional curriculum naming sign classifications, five levels of rulership, reception, dispositors, sect, minor aspects, declination, antiscia, fixed stars, lots, and time-lord systems.
- William Lilly: Christian Astrology, Books I and IIBook I, pp. 113–115, solar proximity, combustion, under the beams, and fortitude/debility table.A public scan of a seventeenth-century primary text used to verify Lilly-era terminology, tables, and worked rules without presenting that historical system as universal.