Under The Beams

Under the Beams describes a planet that is close to the Sun but not as close as combustion, traditionally within about fifteen degrees. The planet is partly lost in the Sun's brightness, dimmed but not fully overwhelmed. It is the mildest of the three conditions that describe a planet's nearness to the Sun. A planet under the beams is somewhat weakened and obscured, its energy softened by the Sun's light without being burned away. The matters it governs may be a little harder to see clearly or to express fully, though the effect is gentler than combustion. As the planet moves nearer the Sun it becomes combust, and nearer still it reaches the rare strength of cazimi. The three conditions form a sequence based on distance from the Sun. Beyond about fifteen degrees a planet is free of the Sun's glare and operates normally, within fifteen it is under the beams, within roughly eight and a half it is combust, and at the exact heart it is cazimi. The work of a planet under the beams is to bring its slightly hidden energy into the open, since the Sun can quietly overshadow it.