卡丹警句·天气、农事与世事　开门、月相农时与大变局

APHORISMS TOUCHING WEATHER, METEORS, ETC.

关于天气、天象等事的警句

1. When Saturn passes out of one sign into another, you may expect for several days together strange Meteors and splendid sights or apparitions in the heavens.

第一则：土星从一个星座进入另一个星座时，你可以预期一连数日天上出现奇异的天象，以及灿烂的景象或显现。

2. When signs very different from the common course of nature appear about the Sun, or in or about the Moon, Stars, or any part of heaven, if thou observe the place where they appear, and the figure of the heaven from the beginning to the end, thou mayest come to understand what they portend.

第二则：太阳周围、月亮之中或周围、诸星周围或天上任何部分出现与自然常理大不相同的征象时，你若观察它们出现之处，以及从开始到结束的天象之盘，就能明白它们预示什么。

3. The Lord of the Interlunary Figure signifies very much as to the quality of the Air, and also the Planet that beholds him, especially if they be in Cardinal Signs.

第三则：朔盘的主星，以及照看它的那颗行星，对空气的性质大有征示，尤其当它们在启动星座时。

4. When Saturn is Combust in the houses of Mars, and Mars beholds him, he often begets conical figures which are seen in the air composed of vapours that ascend, and are signs of an earthquake to ensue.

第四则：土星在火星的庙中焦伤、又受火星照看时，常会生出空中可见的锥形，由上升的蒸气构成，是地震将至之兆。

5. Saturn and Mars, and Mars and the Sun, and Mars and Mercury, cause hail; Saturn most in summer, Sol and Mercury most in autumn, and those that cause hail in these two quarters cause snow in the winter and spring.

第五则：土星与火星、火星与太阳、火星与水星，致冰雹；土星以夏季为最，太阳与水星以秋季为最；在这两季致冰雹的星，在冬季与春季则致雪。

6. Saturn with the Luminaries, Jupiter with Mercury and Mars with Venus, make an Apertio portarum or an opening of the gates, and usually cause some notable change of weather.

第六则：土星与两光、木星与水星、火星与金星，构成「开门」，通常引起天气的显著变化。

7. When about the beginning of winter Saturn shall dispose of the Moon, expect unusual Colds with a cloudy season and rain.

第七则：入冬前后，若土星为月亮的定位星，可预期异常的寒冷，伴以多云多雨的天气。

8. Whenever Saturn is joined to the Sun the heat is remitted and the cold increased, which alone may be a sufficient testimony of the truth of Astrology.

第八则：每当土星与太阳会合，热便减退、冷便增加；单这一点，就足以作为星占之学真实的见证。

9. When Mars and Mercury are joined and behold the Moon or Lord of the Ascendant in the sixth or seventh house, they portend a great drought to ensue.

第九则：火星与水星会合，又照看在第六或第七宫的月亮或上升主星时，预示将有大旱。

10. That Star has a great efficacy on the air, to which the Moon shall be first joined after her conjunction, opposition or square with the Sun.

第十则：月亮与太阳会合、对冲或四分之后，最先与她相会的那颗星，对空气有极大效力。

11. The mixture of the beams of Jove and Mars in moist signs gives Thunder with sudden showers.

第十一则：木星与火星的光线在湿性星座中相混，带来雷鸣与骤雨。

12. Jupiter naturally raises North Winds, Saturn Easterly, Mars Western, Venus Southern, and Mercury Mixed Winds, according as he applies to other Planets.

第十二则：木星天然兴起北风，土星东风，火星西风，金星南风，水星则依他趋近哪些行星而兴起混杂之风。

SOME APHORISMS RELATING TO HUSBANDRY.

关于农事的若干警句

1. If you prune your vines when the Moon is at full in Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Sagittarius, neither worms nor birds will infest your grapes.

第一则：你若在月亮于金牛、狮子、天蝎、射手满月时修剪葡萄藤，虫与鸟都不会侵扰你的葡萄。

2. Graft not Trees, the Moon waning, or not to be seen, and if you shear sheep in her increase their wool will grow again the better.

第二则：月亮亏缺或看不见时，不要嫁接树木；你若在她盈长时剪羊毛，羊毛会长得更好。

3. Fruits and Wood for use should be cut in the decrease of the Moon, but if you would have Timber to keep long, fell it towards the latter end of the winter, the Moon being under the earth, and beheld by Saturn, for that will prevent its rotting, and render it exceedingly hard and durable.

第三则：供使用的果实与木材，应在月亮亏缺时采伐；但你若要木料久存，就在冬末、月亮处于地平之下并受土星照看时伐倒，因为这能防止它腐朽，使它极其坚硬耐久。

4. But fire wood and what you would have grow quickly again, cut when the Moon is above the Earth in the first quarter joined either to Venus or Jupiter.

第四则：但柴薪，以及你希望很快再长出来的东西，应在月亮处于地平之上、在第一个四分段并与金星或木星相会时砍伐。

5. Sow or Plant when the Moon is in Taurus, Virgo or Scorpio in good Aspect of Saturn, but when she is in Cancer set or sow all kinds of pulse, and in Libra or Capricorn dress your gardens and trim your small trees and shrubs.

第五则：月亮在金牛、处女或天蝎，与土星成吉相位时，播种或栽种；但她在巨蟹时，栽种或播种各类豆类；在天秤或摩羯时，整理你的园子，修剪小树与灌木。

6. Saturn in fixed signs causes scarcity of corn, dear years, and the death of many men.

第六则：土星在固定星座，致谷物匮乏、年成昂贵、许多人死亡。

7. When Trees blossom they are most apt to be affected with injuries from the Heavens, for then they are like teeming women, and when they have put out their fruits like Nurses giving suck, which can endure more than when they went with child; and therefore if Eclipses happen whilst a tree is so blooming, it most times causes a scarcity of that kind of fruit that year, and indeed the plenty of corn and fruit is not much discovered from the vernal figure or Revolution of the World, as from the temperature of the air, in moisture, dryness, or inequality, as also from the new and full Moons, and risings of the Stars; and Eclipses, especially happening then whilst things respectively blossom.

第七则：树木开花时最容易受天象伤害，因为那时它们像怀胎的妇人；结出果实后，则像哺乳的乳母，比怀胎时更能经受；所以若树正开花时发生交食，那一年这类果实多半歉收；而谷物与果实的丰歉，其实与其说是从春分盘或世界回归盘看出来，不如说是从空气的湿、燥或不匀的气质看出来，也从新月与满月、诸星的升起，以及交食看出来，尤其是在万物各自开花之时发生的交食。

8. A Malevolent Planet being Lord of the year, though fortunate, generally hurts all fruits of the earth, but those particularly signified by himself.

第八则：凶星为年主，即使吉利，通常也伤害大地的一切果实，尤其是它自己所征象的那些。

APHORISMS RELATING TO GENERAL ACCIDENTS.

关于世事的警句

1. Saturn obtains Kingdoms or Supremacy of power by labour, fraud, and infamy; Mars by valour, rapine and cruelty; but Jupiter by Justice and great opinion of goodness and honesty.

第一则：土星凭劳苦、诈术与恶名取得王国或至高之权；火星凭勇武、掠夺与残暴；而木星凭公正，以及仁善正直的极好名声。

2. When Saturn is in Libra and Jupiter in Cancer, great changes and alterations shall happen in the world.

第二则：土星在天秤、木星在巨蟹时，世上将发生重大的变化与更迭。

3. For discovering such grand mutations we should well consider the great, mean, and lesser conjunctions of the Planets in the several Trigons, the removes of the Superiors from one sign to another, as also their applications to the fixed Stars.

第三则：要发现这类大变局，我们应细察诸行星在各三方中的大会合、中会合与小会合，上行星从一个星座迁入另一星座，以及它们与恒星的相会。

4. Likewise the changes of the Absides of the Planets cause mutations in governments and laws, which is a point very much to be regarded.

第四则：同样，诸行星拱点的变动，也引起政体与法律的变迁，这一点很值得重视。

5. Mercury with an unfortunate Planet in the eleventh, denotes the establishment of some severe or unjust laws in the world.

第五则：水星与一颗不吉的行星同在第十一宫，表示世上将确立某些严酷或不公的法律。

6. A Conjunction of Mars and Saturn in the sixth or eighth house, especially in a humane sign, signifies a great Pestilence.

第六则：火星与土星在第六或第八宫会合，尤其在人形星座，表示大瘟疫。

7. When in the Radix of any City Mars shall be in the Mid-heaven, the Inhabitants will be inclined to Sedition: If Saturn be there they will be very mischievous, yet very laborious.

第七则：任何城市的根盘中，若火星在中天，居民将倾向作乱；若土星在那里，他们会非常好害人，却也非常勤劳。

8. If Wars be signified note the Angle of the figure wherein Mars is posited, for from that Part the Enemies shall come.

第八则：若有战争的征象，要注意火星落在盘的哪一个角，因为敌人将从那个方向来。