Good morning ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Progressive Venerable Vedic and Astrological Talks.
Today we are going to be speaking a little bit about combustion of planets and how it is quite misunderstood.
I would think even if you go to the traditional Vedic Astrology scholars, they will kind of tend to in misinterpret this.
Only one of the texts that I have come across truly interprets this in the proper light of the soul, of the propensities and what this combustion really means.
Not just to give a basic outline on the principles.
The combustion is a thing that happens in a chart when any planet, any one of the 14 planets or points that we talk about, well not particularly applicable to the points but the planets come very close to the sun in the chart.
When we say very close, it's about 3 degrees to 7 degrees of the sun. 7 is considered typically the outer mark but if it comes below 7 degrees of the sun, that planet is considered to be combust.
Now traditionally speaking, this combustion of planets is interpreted as the planets energy is lost or is diminished or has got less strength because it is burned in the energy of the sun.
Now this is a wrong interpretation in my opinion because this is not even what I have seen in the charts.
So if you are an astrologer listening to this, I suggest you stop following such misinterpretations.
What is the sun in astrology? In terms of astrology, what is the sun depicted in esoteric terms? It is the light of the soul.
The light of the sun is the light of the soul. The sun is the soul. That's why it is the karaka or the doer of the first house, the ascendant.
It's the rising sign where the sun shines. It's when you are born. It's where your soul comes from.
So whatever your ascendant is, this lifetime is where your soul wants to shine. Now the sun being the soul, if any planet or planetary energy is let's say Venus.
For argument's sake, let's say Venus comes very close to the sun and it is combust. It's come closer than 7 degrees angle near to the sun.
So it's designated as combust. Normally people would say this combust means that its energy is gone.
Venus has less potential to act in the physical world. Yes, that might be true. But what this essentially means, combustion means is that the energy of Venus itself has gone and merged with the soul itself.
So the interpretation that I would like to follow and which I have read only from one author in the book is that the energy of the sun or the soul where the planet has gone and got itself combust is indicative that the person's soul has got, the energy of the planet is merged with the soul itself.
Venus is combust. Venus came within 7 degrees of the sun. It just means that the Venus energies and whatever it represents in the chart, whichever nakshatra it is, whichever house it sits in, including the sun because it's come so close to the sun,
it's merged with the energy of the soul. That means the soul will have those kind of Venusian qualities with it. It doesn't have to do anything to strive to achieve in the external world this lifetime.
So essentially what this means is how many of the planets are combust in a chart. That means those energies become part of the embodied soul. They don't have to struggle this lifetime to embody or learn things about that planet.
That's why it doesn't show up as external, buddhas or external events happening or qualities happening for that person. If we try to interpret astrology only in terms of gains and losses which I have spoken about earlier, we are following a very 3D concept.
We are not really evolving. We have to start examining everything in astrology, Vedic astrology of the western in terms of soul evolution. What the soul here has come to experience, that's what it's all about folks.
There's nothing else. We didn't come here to bring anything or to take away something else. It's an experience of expansion that the soul desires.
So combustion means the energy of the planet is already merged with the energy of the soul. That means this is a past life learning, very powerful past life experience that the soul is bringing this lifetime.
Let's say start from the beginning different planets. Sun and Mercury. Mercury is very close orbit to the sun. So most of the charts, lot of the charts Mercury will be combust.
Because it is very close to the sun, orbit is very close to the sun. So it usually comes within 7 degrees of the sun in a chart which means it gets combust.
Which means the intellect of the person is merged with the energy of the soul. That means the person is an intellectual by default. That's what it means.
That means there is a high degree of intellectual capacity in the person if the Mercury is combust. And it needs to bring that energy and play out in whatever house or nakshatra or any of the placements in the chart.
If it's an ascendant and Mercury is combust that becomes really powerful. Especially for Gemini and Virgo because it's ruled by Mercury in the first house.
So these people have an innate capability. It becomes an innate capability of the person to be communicating, to be talking in terms of intellect only.
That's Mercury combustion. Let's say next one Venus is combust. Come very close to the sun. When Venus becomes combust, it becomes 7 degrees or less. The lesser it's more combust it is.
Venus comes close. The person's ability to discern beauty, art, entertainment, qualities of any kind of talent really like music, arts, drama, etc.
Appreciation of beauty, everything. The sense of beauty is Venus really speaking.
What we perceive as beautiful is the signature of Venus. Whether it will be within ourselves or outside is a different matter like we discussed.
It goes into Satva Rajasattamas is a different matter. But the basic signature of Venus is of a sense of perception of beauty.
It's a perception. It's a sense. To perceive something as beautiful is a sense really. It's a quality.
So when Venus becomes combust goes into the energy of the sun or the soul. The person comes in with an appreciation of art, beauty, beauty in another person, beauty in another forms of expression or beauty in creation of certain things, art forms, music,
entertainment, sketches, cultures. You name it. There are so many art forms now.
So that's Venus being combust. Next, if the moon itself is being combust, well that becomes again a new moon, isn't it?
If moon comes too close to the sun, it is energy of the moon itself being lost or the manas or the mind being lost in the energy of the sun.
So moon is this fake imposter who just takes light from the sun and pretends to be the sun. That's the ego. That's the egoistic mind.
That's how it's designated in Vedic literature at least. The mind is like the moon, the manas. It doesn't have any energy or light of its own.
It's just taking and shining, reflecting the light of the sun. The sun is the self illuminating principle. Moon isn't.
So when moon comes very near to the sun or it becomes combust or there is a new moon, it goes and loses itself in energy of the sun.
So the person essentially, if they are born more towards the new moon, their mind becomes very weak as in they don't have much of individualistic perception of things.
Right? Because the mind is lost in the energy of the sun. So the sun has a capacity to shine more there minus the absence of the mind.
The lust and the passion of the mind is burnt out in the energy of the soul which is self illuminating principle as the new moon.
If you go to the next one, Mars, if Mars is burnt in the energy of the sun or combust in the chart, it means the person's aggression or drive has become merged with the soul.
So person must be a warrior in the last brother, soldier of sorts or some kind of energy they are bringing in this lifetime where they are by default a certain level of aggression.
They would need to derive it from the Mars this lifetime. That's what Mars combustion means and they would also be little less aggressive because the Mars has got merged into the soul.
When does a person want to be Martian or aggressive? When does a person really get angry? If you look at it at a deeper level, the person really gets angry if they are trying to manifest something in the world
or trying to take action and they seemingly feel blocked about it, they will get angry. That's the Mars. Mars wants to go forward. It's a drive energy. It's a drive to achieve something.
Get some task done. Get shit done is Mars. And if it goes and does that and if it feels a block or an obstacle, it will get angry about that.
That's the aggressive factor of Mars. Aggression is just a reflection of frustration of Mars, inability to get stuff done the way it wants to.
So when Mars becomes merged or it becomes merged with the sun or combust in a chart, it just means the person will be less aggressive towards things.
It doesn't need to. It knows it can whenever it wants to. That's a different subject altogether. But it won't necessarily indulge in that.
The next one, if you take Jupiter, when Jupiter merges with the energy of the sun, as we go towards outer planets, it becomes more and more rare to have combust scenarios in a chart because the corpids are very large.
They take much more than the earthy years to rotate once around the sun. So Jupiter being combust means the person's energy or the wisdom, Jupiter's what?
Wisdom, higher knowledge, tradition, culture that is all merged with the soul. This signifies an old soul.
There's a lot of talk in the esoteric circles. So there's a lot of talk in esoteric circles about old souls. Who is an old soul?
If you have gone any bit of length on the current teachings, one of my favorite talks continuously about the old soul.
The old soul is if you look at the chart, how do you see an old soul from a birth chart?
Well, this is one of the ways you can see it. If outer planets like Neptune, Uranus, Pluto or Jupiter and Saturn are merged with the sun or combust in a chart, this signifies an old soul because the energy is already merged with the energy of the sun.
Not the personal planets but the outer planets. Like if Jupiter we are speaking of is combust. That means Jupiter energy has become merged with the energy of the sun.
So the person carries innate wisdom which he or she will bring to this lifetime. It doesn't need to learn wisdom from others. It is bringing its own quota or quality of wisdom this lifetime.
It's a very wise old soul. People with merged Jupiter are typically very rebellious against all traditions, against all mainstream religions, against all forms of preached and taught spirituality in the world because they have come with their own sense of experience.
They have experienced many of this in their past lives. You have got to understand something from the Vedic perspective here. From the Vedic perspective, the soul's light is absolute. It is part of the oneness of all that is.
So what soul brings into this lifetime or what soul learns through lifetimes as an old soul, nothing else can beat that. No Vedas, no texts, no sacred texts can beat the experience of a soul through lifetimes.
That is the most highest and exalted learning and we can spot this in a chart by the combustion. The combusted planets mean that the energy is already merged with the sun. So Jupiter which we are speaking of is merged with the sun.
This is a wise old soul. This is a soul who is bringing in a lot of learning from the past life and depending upon which nakshatra or house or etc. which ascended their place, they will bring that knowledge into that particular area.
Saturn, if Saturn is combusted, that means this person knows what is dharma or what is karma or what is the right thing to do in this lifetime. These are the people who will be very very satanic and disciplined and focused in their approach.
But you cannot con these kind of people. These people are not easily fooled with because they have the energy of the satan merged with their soul. Saturn is all about dharma.
Saturn is all about doing the right thing, taking the right action in the world which we will see very less of these days. Everybody who just wants to like and follow and become a civilization full of followers rather than leaders.
So Saturn here in a combusted scenario will make the person very very rightful, righteous kind of a person. They will want to do the right things. They will not want to do right things by the people. They will be very externally focused.
They already have the knowledge within themselves. They will bring it to the outside world. Well what about outer planets? What about Uranus's combusted?
Well that's even more of a different scenario, isn't it? If Uranus, the higher mind itself is combusted in a planet, means the person has come with a lot of maverick knowledge about how to get stuff done which is happening more and more in this new energy.
New children are coming in with a lot of these outer planets combusted in their charts the way I see it. So Neptune if it becomes combusted, the person has a very high degree of innate intuition. They can become very dreamy by default.
They are not ostens- they will feel as if they are not of this world. They are always living in some abstract arbitrary world. That's what Neptune combustion means. Pluto combustion on the other side. Pluto is the lord of the underworld, the shadow side, the dark world.
And Sun is the self-illuminating principle of the light. So when these two are merged, these people have a strong hold or upper hand on duality itself, the dark and light.
You've got to understand duality exists only in this plane of existence. When duality comes in, soul comes and plays it in the duality in this existence, it is always faced with the dark and light. It's always faced with the good and bad.
How you manage it is quite another scenario and that's what can be seen in the charts. If Pluto is combusted, it means the dark and light emerge within the person. This person can become a great teacher of sorts.
This person can have very great occult kind of powers to change things. I think he's spoken enough. That gentleman is my interpretation of combust planets in a chart.
It doesn't mean that the energy of the planet is lost. You can never lose anything in this dimension. It just goes and merges with something else. You can have a merging of things. You cannot lose things in one universe.
If this is the one universe, everything exists. The soul, the elements of the body, everything is just recycled in a different form and format. Just interpret it the right way. Everything is dependent on interpretation here.
So that, ladies and gentlemen, is my interpretation and if you like my podcast, do consider donating a few chips to maintain this channel to be helpful. You can follow me on my YouTube channel for presentation style videos. You can even see me there.
And if you want to hook up with me, have a consultation, you can get in touch with me on Facebook. The links are in the description box. Take care, be safe and have a very good day. See you tomorrow.