What happens when the messenger of the gods is received into the heart of the Sun? This weekend, Mercury reaches its cazimi—a moment of profound reset and illumination. During a retrograde, the mind often feels clouded, communications tangled. But at the cazimi, Mercury is not burned up; it is reborn, purified, and empowered. It is as if the king has granted you a private audience, and what was once hidden suddenly becomes visible.
In this episode, we explore what the cazimi meant for traditional astrologers—and what it means for you. We walk through Mercury's synodic cycle, from evening star to morning star, and consider how this rebirth invites clarity, wise counsel, and sometimes difficult truths. I also share a modified horoscope approach using the Purushartas, offering elemental perspectives for fire, earth, air, and water signs.
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Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/].
Today we're going to take a look at Mercury's Cazimi, which is taking place over the weekend, that is the conjunction of Mercury with the sun. I'm going to talk a little bit about what this meant for traditional astrologers, why it can be a very exciting sort of brilliant and fortunate conjunction, specifically for the significations of Mercury, we'll talk about why that is, and I'm also going to do some, some kind of modified horoscopes.
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If we fast forward this just a little bit to Sunday, we're gonna see that it is Sunday, july 12, that the two planets - if I speed this up a little bit - the two planets come on to the same degree in the morning on this coming Sunday, july 12. Excuse me. And then the two planets are going to move through the heart of the sun, which different astrologers have defined differently, some would say within 17 exact minutes, some would say just on the same degree, but whatever way we look at it, on Sunday at 20 degrees of Cancer, Mercury will come together with the sun.
Now that can be.. let me just actually highlight it. So there's the two planets about 8pm central time coming together by degree on Sunday. Now, if we give that about, you know, a full degree, that means that Saturday night there's still a degree and a half away, so it's really Sunday morning all the way through about Monday morning. If I go into, if I go one more day forward, you're going to see that they're a full degree of separation away by Monday evening.
So, it really is sort of Sunday that the two planets come together, just barely separating by Monday morning. This is happening as a new moon also comes through, and so the new moon in Cancer will kind of move right. Through the space of the Mercury Cazimi, and if I speed this up just a little bit, you'll see that the new moon hits that Kazimi marker at 20 degrees, just a degree behind where the new moon will form.
That's Tuesday, early Tuesday morning, july 14. So, in the beginning of next week is really busy, because we also have a Venus square to Uranus at the start of the week, followed immediately by the new moon in Cancer, so a busy, busy start to next week, for sure, and then getting into one of the more dynamic stretches of 2026 when Jupiter and Pluto start opposing one another at the same time that all of the outer planets are configured by sextiles and trines, so it's a really dynamic moment, which could make this Mercury Kazimi just a little bit more potent.
So, when we think about this today, what I want to do is try to highlight the traditional meaning of Mercury Cazimis, any kind of Kazimi. What did traditional astrologers say about this? What might we notice specifically from Mercury, when Mercury is at the heart of the sun, then what I want to do is I'm going to give you some horoscopes. Here's the way that I'm breaking them down.
Today, we're going to look at horoscopes through the lens of the Purushartas, which are the Indian philosophical designations of the houses that are all joined by trines, and this is going to give us some basic things that we can say for this Mercury Cazimi, for all of the fire signs, all of the earth, air, and water signs, and to me that's just kind of a fun way of giving you some broad things to think about for this Mercury Cazimi, which I find Mercury Cazimis are very hard to do horoscopes for because they're very specific, and horoscopes do better for big general things, like ingresses, or, you know, a big square, or something like that.
The cazimi, I think, I think having a philosophical way of thinking about it through the Purushartos, which I'll explain in a minute, if you don't know what those are, will be really useful. So, anyway, let's talk, for starters, though, and I've got this as unstructured today. This is unstructured atom. We're going to talk about Casimi. So, the word comes from the Arabic, and I can't pronounce it, but it looks - it almost sounds like Kazmimi, but it means as if in the heart or the core of the sun, and the Latin medieval astrologers translated as in corde solis, which means in the heart of the sun.
Now, the famous, excuse me, the famous sort of Renaissance horary astrologer William Lilly wrote, a planet is in the heart of the sun, or cazimi, when he is not removed from him, but 17 minutes of distance, and then it's an addition of fortune, and he is wondrously strengthened, and that tends to be where most people have heard their first definition of Kazimi.
Like, for sure, that was the first place that I ever heard about Kazimi, was when I started studying horary astrology, and had to read William Lilly, and was like, "Okay, so there's this thing called Cazimi, and I was getting to know it, and it has a pretty specific role in horary that it often plays, but now I would say it's pretty common for most astrologers to know what Kazimi is, to pay attention to it, and really the basic way of thinking about it is that the conjunction of Mercury with the sun is at the heart of it, the reset of its synodic cycle, so what I'm going to do right now is I'm actually going to eliminate everything from the screen and show you the Mercury cycle really quick.
Okay, so when we are taking a look at this upcoming Mercury Cazimi, you can see right here on the screen that Mercury's retrograde has Mercury moving through the conjunction with the sun, but let's take this just because I think it helps to see it in the sky. Let's take this back like this, so you can see that when mercury is at the heart of the sun, it's at the exact degree of the sun, and that exact conjunction is occurring here in the western sky, that's the seventh house, but let's say if I just take this back one day at a time in Mercury's retrograde.
Do you see how the two planets are getting farther apart? So what happens is little by little by little the two planets are drifting, they're drifting apart because Mercury is moving out ahead of the sun. Typically, when Mercury gets about 18 degrees or beyond 18 degrees from the sun, it'll start slowing down, and then eventually it'll station, and it'll turn retrograde. So, technically, that can take place anywhere from 18 degrees to 28 degrees, but it somewhere between 18 and 28 degrees away from the sun.
In front of the sun, Mercury will station and turn retrograde. Now, what that means is that Mercury is an evening star, and I'm just going to draw a line and help you imagine the DC. Here's the descendant, that little DC. That you see on the chart, so the sun is below that, which means the sun has set. And then what I want you to notice is that that means it's evening, and in the western sky there's Mercury, so you would start seeing Mercury as an evening star, and that's always the case before Mercury stations retrograde, that it will, it will be in the evening sky as the evening star.
Now, what happens is that station comes along, and we're going to see Mercury, the little S pop up next to Mercury on the Chepso, that means Mercury stationing, and then the retrograde, the little RX appears, and then the two planets come closer together as Mercury appears from our vantage point to be moving backward toward the sun. Now, as the two planets come together, Mercury is said to be combust or burnt up, and the kind of meaning of this is that Mercury sort of being overwhelmed by the light, heat, brilliance, intensity of the sun, and therefore is considered to be it becomes it becomes invisible, and is it's it's hidden, and it's weakened.
That's the basic idea. So mercury goes through, goes through a period of being sort of debilitated, but what that really means in practice is usually that anything ruled by mercury, and possibly the significations of the house that it's traveling through in your birth chart will often undergo a period of challenge, a little bit of breakdown, and some deterioration of circumstances or events or relationships, or yeah, it's anything from appliances melting down to communication being a little bit more challenging or tough, you know, you just, you just kind of like the breakdown of a Mercury retrograde that probably everybody knows or has experienced at one point or another.
Now, when the Cazimi occurs, this is where it gets really exciting, because this is the moment of rebirth. This rebirth moment, Mercury is sort of being purified and reborn in the heart of the sun, and then as the two continue to separate. Now, what I want you to notice is when I speed this, or when I take the planets through to the opposite space.
Now you can see that if I draw a line through the ascendant, the sun has not yet risen, but Mercury has, and that means Mercury is a morning star. And so the rebirth of Mercury in through the retrograde cycle is always ushering Mercury from evening star to morning star. It's through Mercury's eventual direct motion that Mercury will turn toward the sun again and then eventually reset itself as the evening star.
So, Mercury here on the other side of the sun stations in its retrograde. You can see the S appearing again, turns direct, and then it's going to gradually move toward the sun, and it catches up with the sun because it's faster than the sun, typically, except for when it's real slow around its stations, and then we're going to see a cazimi coming through. This cazimi will be in late August at the heart of the sun in Virgo, where Mercury is exalted and in its own domicile.
And so then Mercury will move out in front of the sun, and it get gradually gets that like 18 degrees of separation here, it's at 20 degrees of separation in late September, and it continues that separation, and that separation is starting to slow down as Mercury is starting to slow down in Scorpio, and then we're going to see Mercury reach its station, and then it turns retrograde, and this is late October, so they also, the retrogrades recur in signs of the same element.
So Mercury will typically retrograde three, if not four, sometimes four times a year, and for about five to seven consecutive retrogrades, the stations will occur in signs of the same element, and then after that, the pattern will transition, so into the next element, often within one or two kind of bridge retrogrades that straddle elements before moving totally into a new elemental family, so you know that takes about one to two years, so we're in water retrogrades right now, and the next one will be this autumn in the northern hemisphere in Scorpio.
So, anyway, that's just a little bit about kind of, kind of what's going on right now, and what will, what will be taking place here over the course of, say, the next six months or so with the retrogrades, and that's just a little, almost just like a little background on the synodic cycles, but what I really want to talk about are again some of what was said about Mercury retrogrades, more specifically by traditional astrologers, so we have that that idea that as the planet, as the planet, any planet, but Mer. Mercury, here is approaching the sun.
It's weakened by the combustion, the proximity to the sun. Now, that would be mitigated if Mercury were in its one of its own signs, say Gemini or Virgo. In the case of Mercury, then it's said to be in its own chariot, which means it's protected from the combustion due to being in its own sign, where it's dignified. That's a kind of special idea. It's not applicable here, because Mercury doesn't have domicile or exaltation in Cancer, now the Cazimi is rather than being weakened, the planet is said to become exceptionally dignified and empowered, it's sort of elevated in status or it's in it's sometimes literally compared to entering the throne room of the king, or being seated along with the king on the throne, or something like that.
So, a planet approaching the king, if the king is the sun or the queen, whatever, just the emblem of power, strength, brilliance. The planet approaching is sort of being overwhelmed and weakened, but once admitted into the king's heart, it's not, it's not thought of as being weakened anymore. Instead, it's almost like an honored guest. Banati, a traditional astrologer, compares it to someone who's obtained direct access to the ruler rather than remaining outside of the palace gates.
That's a.. I think that's a nice image, because the symbolism of a planet, Kazimi is receiving royal audience, receiving a kind of protection from power or authority, being given promotion or elevation, status and empowerment, favor and good fortune. These are pretty common interpretations of Mercury Kazimi.
A medieval astrologer named Abu Machar, he says a planet in the heart of the sun signifies great strength and good fortunes, and most medieval authors repeat the same exact idea, but Bonatti, in particular, says under the beams, hidden, combust, harmed, casimi, fortified, so it's an interesting little movement that happens during the midst of a retrograde. Most of us experience the breakdown of a retrograde when the planet is stationing to turn retrograde.
That can often feel like, I don't know, something's swallowing us up, momentum is being lost, a reversal or a turn of circumstance that we don't have control over is taking place. And then, as the combustion occurs through the retrograde, it feels like something's just kind of weak and not working as well, something's breaking down a little bit, but then the reset is like a purification, honor, reception by the king, royal favor, empowerment, strength, good fortune, so there's there's something really special that happens at the moment of Kazimi, the stat, the context is everything.
Okay, it really is. Because, depending on the dignity and other factors around it, the potential for something to be elevated can be made more brilliant, bright, dazzling. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's a good thing. Let me tell you a story. I had a YouTube audience member, and some of you know this story already, but I had a YouTube audience member back in the day who was having a kind of mental emotional health breakdown, and they were contacting me privately, telling me they were the reincarnation of Christ, that they needed to come on my channel, and it turned out that on Facebook I knew some friends of friends, I reached out to them, tried to be like just a calming influence.
I was a social worker for a little while with adults who were diagnosed with schizophrenia, and I remember very well, you know, just just being a calm, loving presence, right? So I was trying to do that the best I could, but I contacted some people who seemed to know both of us from the weird connections of Facebook world, which was kind of surprising. Anyway, I said, yeah, this person has some really serious health problems, and they ended up doing a wellness check, and under the Mercury Cazimi, while they had gone into a kind of total delusion about being the second coming, and that they needed to come on my channel, and all this, they took their own life.
That was an incredibly intense Mercury Cazimi moment, where they believed that they were the messenger of God. Right, so you can see, and that was a debilitated Mercury in Sagittarius, and there were there were there was a debilitated condition for Jupiter at the time, as well. The host, so it's.. I don't want people to hear this and think that there's no room for nuance. I was just unanimously.. it's just good fortune.
Context is everything. A Mercury at the heart of the sun, being greatly empowered when it comes to certain circumstances versus others, will mean very different things, is the point, but that's why that's why context has to be remembered. You can't ever just have some kind of generic good or bad designation, but notice that exactly what was said about Mercury in that case is specifically was specifically true, although.
In a really unfortunate context, honor reception by the King, royal favor, protection, empowerment. This was someone who believed that God had risen them up to be the second coming of Christ, and this delusion occurred, and taking their own life occurred under a Mercury Cazimi, that sense of being the messenger of God, and having special favor, and then needing to use my channel to, you know, like all of it, was was actually spot on for Mercury Casimi.
It just happened to be that when you place that into the hands of someone who is deeply suffering from mental health challenges, that that looked a very different way, so yeah, I think that's a really good lesson that I've shared many times, because it was really, it really impacted me and changed me, not only as a person, but as an astrologer.
Anyway, so when Mercury Casimi happens, specifically Mercury as the king's messenger, being empowered by the light of the sun, can signify things being especially bright, brilliant, and vivid around speech, language, reason, writing, commerce, marketplaces, interpretation, mediation, argumentation, calculation, even astrology itself, which is the art of Hermes, clarity of mind. I know that I just gave an example that seems like that doesn't seem like very clear-minded, but think about the quality of clarity of mind, like the, in this case, some he was absolutely convinced he was having a very clear download from God, you know what I mean, and like that.
For most of us, and most people I've met throughout the course of my career, the positive or constructive version of that will be an incredible sense of clarity or illumination, an idea, the solution to a problem, the good idea for a business, an insight about your own unconscious that's really helpful in healing the clarity, really is a thing, but so too could be an amplified sense of mental pride or arrogance, or you know, almost like a bit of delusion, so you do have to be aware of that, because I think again we can just be a little bit too, like unanimously, it's so it's just fortunate and good, you know.
Yeah, Mercury Cazimi will favor when it's at its best, wise decisions, or making an accurate interpretation, or coming up with a good idea, discernment, wise counsel, and also there's there's, you know, Mercury loves rumors and gossip, just like it's just common, it's, it's an easy mercurial thing to be just chitter chatting about whoever or whatever, but there's something that becomes more important, important or focused or potentially purposeful or sort of elevated, the mind is elevated to pure whole transcendent thoughts or something like that, but you can see with the sun how the same exact idea could be that there's a kind of the mind is being totally amplified by the ego or something like that, and it's like my thoughts are superior or something.
I think that speech often becomes very empowered. I have given some of my most memorable talks while Mercury's Ben Kazimi, not because they were anything the content was brilliant, but more just like the way that I was able to communicate or convey the idea for the day felt a little bit more on point than usual. The speech can be inspired, in fact, some traditional texts say that words convey truth more powerfully or effectively when Mercury is casimi, and revelation is there as well, things that have been invisible suddenly become visible.
It's as though Mercury diving into the underworld, hitting the sun in the cazimi, takes things that are invisible and suddenly illuminates them. And so the truth, the illumination of the sun and the mind of Mercury coming together as Mercury is invisible, is almost like revealing unconscious material, or sometimes secrets, or even scandalous things happen to be made public or known somehow. When Mercury is casimi, so it is a rebirth or a reset, you could think of it that way.
Within a larger cycle, we did Mercury retrograde horoscopes on the channel not long ago. You could go back and look at those and think about this as a moment where whatever that process has been bringing up for you through the whole sign house of your birth chart, or whatever house system you use, I guess this is a reset moment where some of the heart of the teachings, learning insights that you've been receiving through this retrograde cycle will sort of appeal.
Her and the second part of the cycle, where the separation from the sun is occurring, it's really more of a recovery phase. It's more integration, it's more like the revision being implemented, and a reset kind of starting to occur from this moment forward. There's a re-emergence and a proclamation that starts to happen when Mercury emerges as the morning star.
It's like the process emerges, and there's almost a theme of like mental, in this case, maybe mental, emotional individuation taking place, a process of breakdown, repair, restoration, reset, and then it kind of re-emerges as the morning star, and almost can can bring like an announcement with it, so So what else. Yeah, I think that's that's pretty good. Let's go to the Puru Shartas.
So I want to give you guys some brief horoscopes for where this reset or moment of empowered, you know, kind of kind of empowered brilliance might be coming from. Let's go, so if you are, we're going to do these for the elemental triplicities, so fire signs coming first. If you're an Aries rising, a Leo rising, or a Sagittarius rising, you have the cazimi taking place in house four eight or 12, which means a moksha house.
Moksha means liberation, liberation from suffering, liberation from bondage, which is really at the core of these ancient mystical traditions. The soul suffers insofar as it does not see truth, it does not see divinity, it does not understand it's that it is participating in eternity, and it gets lost, it gets entangled in unconsciousness. By unconsciousness we mean just not seeing your real nature and not seeing the real nature of others and of life itself, and so the Moksha houses their purpose, from a kind of spiritual developmental standpoint, is to bring liberation emotionally, mentally, karmically, however you want to think about it.
We're talking about feeling freer and loosening ties and bonds that create suffering, and so all houses four, eight, and 12 have to do with finding that release. Houses eight and 12 certainly a bit more difficult for the most part than house four, at least house we all experience the houses, but regardless, think about emotional liberation, think about freedom and clarity of mind think about releasing emotional weightiness and entanglements, and that is true for Aries, Leo, or Sagittarius.
Now let's go on to the earth signs. Now this is if you're a Taurus, if you're a Capricorn Taurus, or Virgo rising, I've got Taurus on the rising here, but it doesn't matter. All three earth signs place the mercury cazimi into a comma house that would be house three seven or 11. All three houses in the Indian Purusharta system have comma in common as an underlying philosophical thread that ties them all together. Comma means bliss or pleasure, emotional satisfaction.
that kind of feeling of delight or bliss or happiness that is emotional in nature. We often experience it through intimacy, we experience it through social acceptance or success, we experience it as a basic psychological kind of everyday, every moment reality, but all of us are seeking happiness, and happiness is something that is a basic aim of human life. While we're here, Kama can be a real distraction from Moksha, insofar as you know, if we, if we always seek happiness, and we cannot, we just can't stand the fact that life also includes uncertainty or boredom or anxiety or depression, or you know, so-called negative emotions, and we do everything we can to stave off and avoid and deny the existence of difficult states of emotion and only privilege positive states of, you know, emotion or psychological states, then we have a real issue, but insofar as it's also, it would be unnatural for us to not seek happiness.
Then happiness is a real thing we have to look at, and we have to stay on top of. It's important that we feel good, whether that's within yourself, in your intimate relationships, socially, publicly, professionally, happiness. What does that look like for you right now? If you're an earth sign, the question of happiness and emotional fulfillment is at the center of this casimi. Something is being reset that really has to do, at the core, with feeling good, feeling.
In some some level of emotional satisfaction, and whatever needs to change, or whatever insights are there, so that you can feel that sense of fulfillment. That's what the reset is probably pointing toward on some level. All right, let's go to the air signs. So, for the air signs, the Purushartha takes place in all three of the art to houses, that's 10, two, and six.
So, whether you're a Gemini rising, a Libra rising, an Aquarius rising, any of the three air signs, if that's your rising sign, you could listen to these for your sun sign as well. But if that's your rising sign, then through the whole sign house lens, you have the Mercury Cazimi in Cancer taking place in one of your art to houses. Now, arta means your work in the world, material security, well-being, power, wealth, notoriety, influence in the world.
But at the same time, excuse me, but at the same time, there's a kind of higher hierarchy. It's like Maslow's hierarchy, kind of like the basic level, I know it's an imperfect hierarchical scheme, but let's just say the very basic stuff has to do with, do I have money in my bank account, food in my refrigerator, you know, clothing on my back, or my bills paid, do I feel safe and secure, and then there's, you know, we move from there to like, how wealthy can I be?
How much can I possess? How powerful and influential can I be? How notable and famous can I be? What kind of reputation can I have, and status, and those are almost like, you know, higher up on the hierarchy compared to, like, do I have a paycheck. But the art of realm is concerned with all of those things. It's also unnatural for human beings to say, well, that's not very spiritual, so I can't do that.
That would be bypassing you. Have to, everyone has some concern at the very basic level with material security and well-being. And then most of us have, you know, kind of a spectrum of needs or desires that climb up that ladder. I want to be the most astron astrological, or I want to be the most popular astrologer ever. I have to, like, consciously tell myself that's not the point, right?
Because my head can go there, and we, but we all have things like this in our life, where the art of realm is in effect, so whatever that looks like for you right now, jobs, wealth, material success, and stability, assets, resources, etc. And whatever they give us that makes us feel okay or good or great. The air signs right now are dealing with the Mercury Casimi in the art of houses, which means it's about your work in the world, it's about the grind of work, it's about the income and the assets and the material security, the wealth, the success, the mastery.
There's something resetting around these topics right now for you, or perhaps receiving a moment of good fortune. So that's the way to think about those art to houses. All right, let's put Cancer on the ascendant. Let's talk about the water sign. So if you're a water sign rising, that'd be Cancer, Scorpio, or Pisces. The water signs are all featuring the Mercury Kazimi in one of the Dharma houses, that's house one, nine, and five.
The dharma houses have to do with what is real, what is essential, what is true, what is something's nature. So, on the first house level, we're thinking about that in terms of ourselves. Who am I? What is real? What is authentic? What is true about me? In the ninth house, we're thinking about what is true or real about reality, God, divinity, the cosmos. That's just why it's a place of religion, philosophy, and higher learning, because we want to know what is real or true about reality itself.
And the fifth house has to do with what is real or true that is conveyed from my creative essence, so it's not just in the first house, it might be like these are the things that sort of define me, this is what I am or who I am, but in the fifth is this is what I create, this is what extends from my nature into creation, I wouldn't, I would not be Adam without creatively writing books or creating Nightlight or whatever. So, all of us have, or my children, which is why the children are also connected with the fifth house.
So, all three dharma houses have to do fundamentally with our experience of what is essential and what is true and real about who we are and about reality in life, about our creative essence. So, the water signs are receiving a really deep teaching right now about what is true and real about yourself, about reality, or about your creative participation in it. Some good fortune around that, some real insight, crystallizing wisdom about what is real, what is true, what is creatively vital and authentic.
Well, I think that's a pretty well-rounded discussion here. I'm going to leave it there for the day. I hope you're having a good one, as always. I hope that this channel provides you with blessings, with insights, with positivity, and encouragement.
If you're someone. Likes to learn astrology, you pick up some new ideas along the way, but hopefully we're meeting that goal here. I really want this to be like a temple of higher learning, where you feel like you're addressing your soul's needs while you're also learning more about a subject that you love and gaining insights for your everyday life. All right. Well, I'll leave it there. Hope you're having a good one. We'll see you again tomorrow. Bye, everyone.




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