卡丹警句·择日　顺本命、护月亮、择居地

1. An Election signifies nothing or very little unless it correspond with the Nativity, and time wherein you Elect.

第一则：择日若不与本命、不与你择日的那个时候相应，就毫无意义，或意义甚微。

2. If you would have anything kept secret let the Moon be under the Sun beams when you do it.

第二则：你若要某件事保密，就在做这件事时让月亮处于太阳光下。

3. Make no new clothes, nor first put them on when the Moon is in Scorpio, especially if she be full of light and beheld of Mars, for they will be apt to be torn and quickly worn out.

第三则：月亮在天蝎时，不要做新衣，也不要初次穿上新衣，尤其当她光满、又受火星照看时；因为衣服容易撕破，很快穿坏。

4. When in an Election you cannot fit the Moon to two Planets that you have occasion for, at once, join her to some fixed star that is of the nature of them both.

第四则：择日时，你若无法让月亮同时配上你所需要的两颗行星，就让她与某颗兼具二者性质的恒星相会。

5. When you would suddenly finish a thing, place the Moon and significator in Moveable Signs, but if you would have your work last long, let them be in fixed ones, and for this reason it becomes so difficult for a man to attain to do both.

第五则：你想迅速办完一件事，就把月亮与征象星放在启动星座；但若你希望工作长久，就让它们在固定星座；正因如此，一个人很难两者兼得。

6. The best election a man can make is the place of his habitation: for if the Ascendant of the City he dwells in be the place of his Ascendant, he will have his health well, if the Mid-Heaven, he will come to preferment, if it be the place of the Sun in the Nativity, he will undoubtedly obtain honour and dignities, if of Jupiter he will grow rich; if of the Moon he will be very happy in most respects there.

第六则：一个人所能作的最好的择选，是选择居住之地：因为若他所居城市的上升，正是他本命上升所在之处，他会身体康健；若是他的中天，他会得到升迁；若是他本命太阳之位，他必将获得荣誉与尊位；若是木星之位，他会致富；若是月亮之位，他在那里的大多数方面都会很幸福。

7. Every man's geniture in some things agrees with, and in some differs from another's, we should therefore deal with people (as to important matters) only in things wherein their Nativities sympathize with ours, but in other things to forbear, and indeed we ought generally to avoid the society of a person the Lord of whose Ascendant is an infortune and joined with the Dragon's Tail or any malevolent Fixed Star, for unless there be a great agreement between our Nativities they will do us some mischief, though perhaps against their will.

第七则：每个人的命盘在某些方面与别人相合，在某些方面与别人相异，所以我们应当只在彼此本命相感的事上与人共事（就要紧之事而言），其余事情则应避免；而且一般说来，我们确应避开那种上升主星是凶星、又与龙尾或任何凶性恒星相会的人，因为除非我们双方的本命大为相合，他们会给我们带来某种祸害，虽然或许并非出于本意。

8. When the significators of journies are in watery signs and the Infortunes (or the Fortunes themselves unfriendly posited) be elevated above them, the querent will be much troubled in his journies with bad weather and tempests, and note that the causes or business of journies is to be discovered from the dispositors of the significators.

第八则：旅途的征象星在水象星座，而凶星（或处境不友善的吉星本身）居于其上压制它们时，问卜者在旅途中将深受恶劣天气与风暴之苦；并且要注意，旅途的缘由或事务，须从这些征象星的定位星中查出。

9. You may sometimes use the Infortunes as Physicians do poisons, for they produce strong effects; but use them like those, sparingly and with caution.

第九则：你有时可以像医生使用毒药那样使用凶星，因为它们产生强烈的效果；但要像对待毒药那样，用得节制而谨慎。

10. News or reports raised and spread abroad whilst the Moon is in the beginning of Scorpio or Capricorn are generally false, but if she be with Jupiter in a masculine sign they are like to prove true.

第十则：月亮在天蝎或摩羯之初时兴起、传开的新闻或传言，通常是假的；但若她与木星同在阳性星座，就很可能是真的。

11. Begin not to build whilst the Moon is in Scorpio or Pisces or when a southern sign ascends, nor let the Moon or Lord of the fourth apply to a Retrograde Planet, for it threatens that such edifice shall soon fall or be ruined.

第十一则：月亮在天蝎或双鱼时，或南方星座上升时，不要开始兴建；也不要让月亮或第四宫主趋近一颗逆行的行星，因为那预示这建筑不久就会倒塌或毁坏。

12. At Play and in War it is said that it is considerable for a man to have his face look towards a friendly Part of Heaven, and that if both parties do so, the contest will be tedious, if neither of them, then both in battle will be much prejudiced, and in gaming there will be little won on either side, but if one of them only look that way, he will soon conquer his antagonist.

第十二则：据说，在赌局与战争中，一个人面朝天上的友善方位是很要紧的；若双方都这样，争斗将拖得很久；若双方都不这样，那么在战斗中双方都会大受损伤，赌局中哪一方都赢不了多少；但若只有一方面朝那里，他很快就会胜过对手。

13. In every Election let the Moon and Lord of the Ascendant be free from impediment or affliction.

第十三则：每次择日，都要让月亮与上升主星不受阻碍或侵害。

14. But if when the Moon suffers some impediment from another Planet, thou art forced on that day to make an election, let a sign ascend that is either the house or exaltation of that Planet so impediting.

第十四则：但若月亮正受另一颗行星的某种阻碍，而你又不得不在那天择时，就让施阻之星的庙或旺星座上升。

15. It is best to undertake journies when the significators are in moveable signs, for they signify celerity and return with dispatch of business, but fixed signs in such cases are very bad, so also it is if the Lord of the Ascendant or Moon happen to be in the sixth, eighth, or twelfth houses.

第十五则：征象星在启动星座时出行最好，因为它们表示快捷，事务办妥后迅速返回；这种情形下固定星座很坏；上升主星或月亮恰在第六、第八或第十二宫，也一样坏。

16. It is an undeniable thing (in general) to deliver a petition or request to a great person when the Moon applies to Jupiter, and he is joined with the Dragon's Head in the Mid-heaven.

第十六则：（一般而言）当月亮趋近木星，而木星在中天与龙头同在时，向大人物递交请愿或请求，是稳妥无疑的事。