Culpeper stated:
Don't panic over combustion. In horary combustion can burn up significators and so give a no answer to a question. However, in natal astrology it seems to do other things. It may strengthen planets but add difficulties and annoyances. You may be very capable at things indicated by the combust planets but have trouble being noticed. Planets are invisible when combust. I have worked on many celebrity charts with combust planets so the condition does not prevent people from being successful.
I added the UNDERLINE for emphasis!
This has been the consensus of many Modernes, yet
William F. Lilly puts that
Combustion factor '...as the worst that can happen to a planet in natal astrology...' as well.
One can be successful, but it is as when
Anthony Louis stated in his first book as a Moderne, that the effects are '...burnt up, overdone, beyond roasted, been in the barbeque of life too long..', that describes it very well.
Take the horoscope of
Arnold Swarzenegger, who has the lord of his 7th Falcifer
combust in
, as he has
Ascending with that hard
7H. Note his marriage failure and a bad relationship with a past girl friend, the first noted woman bodybuilder,
Kellie Everts, who became famous as a 'stripper for God'
. And according to some books written about Arnold he was sexually active with another past girl friend while in courtship with Maria.
http://www.vegaattractions.com/celebrity/stars/arnolds.html
And note how in California after being Govenor, his nick name was the
Govenator, he lost his great popularity in his public(7th) image.
2)I have an astrologer I'm doing a some work for who has Hermes
, Mercury ruling the 12th. Well the family knows as I do that
the native is losing it mentally yet she has thought for years the Sun made their mind strong by it's cjt to Mercury.
3)Also on another Forum a great horary artist has
Mercury combust, and despite many other horary artists telling of a certain transit that he was under, Uranus opposition the lord of his natal 3rd which brought about an unsuspecting auto accident where he found himself in the sherriff's front yard, and others urged that he should utilize outers in transit studies, he sticks to being an
Ultra-Trad regardless of the overwheliming evidence of the effects of Outers.
There are a multitude of examples!
Clinton Garrett Soule
Wise men truly know how little they know
Genesis 1:14 (ESV)
14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years