Mercury Cazimi: Upcoming Dates, Meaning, and Natal Lookup

Cazimi describes a planet extremely close to the Sun. This calculator uses the strict 17-arcminute threshold for cazimi, while showing a separate broader heart-of-Sun band through 1 degree. Many traditional authors read the tight condition as fortifying, but the rest of the chart still matters.

Both describe a planet near the Sun, but the orbs and meanings differ. Cazimi means within 17 arcminutes and is often read as fortifying. Combustion is the wider hidden or weakened condition close to the Sun. Under the beams, which this calculator marks through 17 degrees, is the broader visibility band around both.

Take the longitude of the planet, take the longitude of the Sun, and compute the smaller of the two angular distances between them. If the result is less than 17 arcminutes (about 0.28 degrees), the planet is cazimi. This calculator does the math for every body in your chart and classifies each into cazimi, heart of the Sun, under the beams, or clear.

It follows each planet's Sun conjunction cycle. Mercury has several cazimis per year. Venus has inferior and superior conjunction cazimis across its synodic cycle. Mars has one Sun conjunction roughly every two years. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Chiron usually have one geocentric Sun conjunction per year, with the sign and degree drifting at each body's own pace.

This calculator does not classify the Moon as cazimi. A new moon is the Sun-Moon conjunction, but lunations have their own timing and interpretation rules, so this tool keeps them out of the cazimi event feed.

Some traditional sources use a broader heart-of-Sun range than the later strict 17-arcminute cazimi threshold. We display 17 arcminutes through 1 degree as a separate tier so you can see when a planet is close to the Sun without treating it as strict cazimi.

Traditional astrology often treats cazimi as fortifying regardless of whether the planet is a benefic or malefic, but Mars remains Mars and Saturn remains Saturn. Read the condition alongside sect, dignity, house placement, aspects, and the chart topic you are judging.

Natal solar-proximity orbs are computed from the chart positions returned by Augurine's chart API. The calendar endpoint samples supported bodies once per day at noon UTC and reports the closest daily sample within each detected 17-arcminute window, so it is useful for date-level tracking, not exact start or peak times.

Switch to the Calendar tab on this page. It shows detected upcoming cazimi dates from the current and following calendar year, sorted by date, with sign, degree, and the closest daily-sample orb.

This calculator is built for a Hellenistic and modern tropical workflow. Classical Jyotish handles planets close to the Sun through combustion (asta) with its own orbs and interpretive rules, so treat this page as a solar-proximity reference rather than a Jyotish condition calculator.