Combustion in Astrology : Whenever a planet (except Rahu and
Ketu) comes very near to Sun i.e., the planet and the Sun have close longitude
in the same zodiac, the planet is said to be combust. Due to combustion, the
planet loses its strength and all areas signified by the planet are affected.
At present Sun is transiting in Scorpio. It
entered Scorpio on 17th November 2023. At that time Mars was already
in Scorpio. Sun having higher speed, crossed the longitude of Mars on 18th
November 2023. As the longitude of Mars and the Sun coincided, Mars became
fully combust. Since the Sun travels faster, the distance between the
longitudes of the Sun and Mars is now increasing every minute reducing the
effect of combustion on Mars. Mars gets combust when it is within a range of 17
degrees from Sun whether it is before Sun or after Sun. Mars was also combust
when Sun left Libra since distance between Mars and Sun was less than
17degrees. However on 18th November, this distance became zero making
Mars completely combust.
The combustion of Mars will still remain till
16th January 2024 with a decreasing effect of combustion every day
as the distance between Mars and the Sun keeps increasing.
The significations of Mars which might get
affected due to combustion are related to younger siblings, property, efforts,
courage. Mars as a planet signifies all these areas in astrology and when Mars
is fully combust then a person tend to get
affected on account of these areas. For those who are born during this period,
Mars become a combust planet in their birth chart giving some weakness to these
significations throughout their lives.
