Or if the Navamshaprovides some better influence. Or if the combustion happens in a house other than the 6 th, 8 th and 12 th houses. If there are beneficinfluences on this Sun+planet duo the situation is better. Major planets combust or 2 or more planets combust can reduce the longevity. If the ascendant lord himself is combust the situation is more difficult. Also check the house ruled by the Sun for atypical results. Check out which houses are owned by the combust planet, these will be adversely affected. If there are combust planets in the birth chart, their effect will last a life time. Combustion is like an eclipse, the Sun eclipses the planet. He is the King, self-referential, self-focussed, royal, not much bothered about others who are his subjects. He doesn’t allow anyone else to share center-stage with him. Sun is the sense of self, self-ego, self-entitlement, all about ‘me’. In a birth horoscope if you see a planet is combust do pay attention to what he signifies and how is this energy of combustion going to affect the chart as a whole. It is when the remaining 5 planets, the Tara-graha, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn get too close to the Sun they are considered to be combust, burnt out and incapable of giving results.These two are the two completely astral forces represented by the Nodes of the Moon also called Chhaya-graha. If Rahu or Ketu get too close to the Sun, it causes eclipses, so again a very different energy.If Moon gets close to the Sun, it is the no-moon day, Amavasya with very different energies. Sun and Moon are the two luminaries of astrology.So if planets get too close to the Sun it is called ‘ combustion’. Being too close to this ball of fire is not a pleasant experience. Sun is a natural malefic, his energies scorch and dry out.

Degrees of planets in birth chart