卷八·第 460–477 问　诸宫所主、福点与其他诸点

§460. [What are the conditions of the signs with respect to the horizon?]

第四百六十问　［诸星座相对于地平的情形如何？］

Let us now mention the conditions that come about for the signs according to the horizon. The manner of the houses has already been mentioned among them; and the most correct course in them is to treat them after the model on which we treated the matter of the signs and the planets, setting out their conditions in tables of distinct kinds, so that they may be easy to find and to comprehend, if God, exalted is He, wills.

现在让我们讲按地平而发生于诸星座的情形。宫的样式已在前面讲过；而处理它们最正确的路数，是照我们处理星座与行星之事的样子，把它们的情形列在分门别类的表里，使它们易于查找、易于领会，如果真主——至高者——意欲。

§461. [The houses and their significations]

第四百六十一问　［诸宫及其所主］

§462. [The houses and their significations]

第四百六十二问　［诸宫及其所主］

§463–472. [The houses and their significations of man, the members, the colours and the planets]

第四百六十三至四百七十二问　［诸宫在人、肢体、颜色与行星上的所主］

§473. [The quarters of the houses and their conditions]

第四百七十三问　［诸宫的象限及其情形］

§474. What is the condition of a house when two planets share in it?

第四百七十四问　两颗行星共有一宫时，这宫的情形如何？

What is required is to mix the two of them, if their conditions are close: one then takes both their lords together, if they both regard it; or the one that regards it, if one of them is fallen away; or the one with more share and testimony, if both are fallen away. Then the predominance is given to the one that has more shares in that house.

所要做的是把两者相混，如果它们的情形相近：若两者都照这宫，就把两个主一起取；若其一落空，就取照它的那一颗；若两者都落空，就取份额与见证较多的那一颗。然后把优势给在这宫里份额较多的那一颗。

§475. What is the Lot of Fortune?

第四百七十五问　何谓福点？

It is a place in the orb that is distant from the ascendant, in the order of the signs, by a distance equal to the distance of the Moon from the Sun in the order of the signs. Finding it is that you put the true position of the Sun in a first place, the true position of the Moon in a second place and the ascendant in a third place. Then cast off what is in the first place from the second place, beginning with the signs, and cast them off from the signs. If the signs of the first place are more, add 12 to the second place, then cast off the signs of the first from it. Cast off the degrees of the first from the degrees of the second; if that is not possible, subtract one from the signs of the second and add 30 to its degrees, then subtract the degrees of the first from them. Subtract the minutes of the first from the minutes of the second; if they are not enough, subtract one from the degrees of the second and add 60 to its minutes, then subtract the minutes of the first from them. When you have done this, erase the first place, for you no longer need it. What has resulted in the second place is the distance of the Moon from the Sun. Add it to the third place, signs to signs, degrees to degrees and minutes to minutes, and erase the second place. Then look: if there are more than 59 in the minutes, cast off 60 from them and add one to the degrees for it; if there are more than 29 in the degrees, cast off 30 from them and add one to the signs for it; and if there is an excess over 11 in the signs, cast off 12 from them. What remains in the third place is the Lot of Fortune.

它是天球上的一个位置，按星座次序离上升点的距离，等于按星座次序月亮离太阳的距离。求它的方法是：把太阳的真位置放在第一处，月亮的真位置放在第二处，上升点放在第三处。然后从第二处减去第一处，先从宫数起，宫减宫。若第一处的宫数较多，就给第二处加十二，再从中减去第一处的宫数。从第二处的度数减去第一处的度数；若不能减，就从第二处的宫数减一，给它的度数加三十，再从中减去第一处的度数。从第二处的分数减去第一处的分数；若不够，就从第二处的度数减一，给它的分数加六十，再从中减去第一处的分数。做完这些，就抹去第一处，因为你不再需要它了。第二处所得的，就是月亮离太阳的距离。把它加到第三处，宫加宫，度加度，分加分，再抹去第二处。然后看：分数若多于五十九，就从中去掉六十，为此给度数加一；度数若多于二十九，就从中去掉三十，为此给宫数加一；宫数若超过十一，就从中去掉十二。第三处所剩的，就是福点。

Its example: the ascendant is Virgo 8 degrees 20 minutes, the Sun in Cancer in 27 degrees 44 minutes [corrected: MS has 54 minutes], and the Moon in Taurus in 15 degrees and 25. We put them down as we said, thus.

它的例子：上升点是处女八度二十分，太阳在巨蟹二十七度四十四分〔抄本作五十四分，据算改正〕，月亮在金牛十五度二十五分。我们照所说的把它们写下，如下。

Then we wanted to subtract the signs of the Sun from the signs of the Moon, and it was not possible, since what is subtracted from was less; so we added 12 to the signs of the Moon until they became 13, then subtracted the 3 from them. We also wanted to cast off the degrees of the Sun from the degrees of the Moon, and the like prevented it; so we took one from the signs of the Moon, which are above them, and added 30 to its degrees, and they became 45; then we subtracted the 27 from them. Likewise it was not possible to subtract the minutes of the Sun from the minutes of the Moon, so we took one from its degrees and added it to its minutes as 60, until they became 85; then we subtracted the 44 from them. We erased the first place, and the two remaining places stayed thus. Then, after this, we wanted [to add] what is in the second place to the third place: we added the signs to the signs, and they became 14; we added the degrees to the degrees, and they became 25; and we added the minutes to the minutes, and they became 61. We erased the second place. The minutes exceeded 59, so we cast off 60 from them and added them as a degree to the degrees; the degrees did not exceed 29, so we left them; and we cast off the revolution, which is 12, from the signs. Then what was in the place became thus.

然后我们想从月亮的宫数减去太阳的宫数，却不能，因为被减数较小；于是给月亮的宫数加十二，使它成为十三，再从中减去三。我们又想从月亮的度数减去太阳的度数，同样受阻；于是从月亮在其上方的宫数中取一，给它的度数加三十，成为四十五；再从中减去二十七。同样不能从月亮的分数减去太阳的分数，于是从它的度数取一，作为六十加到它的分数上，成为八十五；再从中减去四十四。我们抹去第一处，剩下的两处就成了这样。此后我们想把第二处所有的［加到］第三处：宫加宫，成为十四；度加度，成为二十五；分加分，成为六十一。我们抹去第二处。分数超过五十九，就从中去掉六十，作为一度加到度数上；度数没有超过二十九，我们就留着；又从宫数去掉一周，即十二。于是那一处所有的就成了这样。

That is the place of the Lot of Fortune, and we say that it is in Gemini, in 26 degrees and 1 minute. This is the lot that Ptolemy used in this way, never changing. Others, however, work it so by day and reverse it by night, putting the Moon in the first place, the Sun in the second and the ascendant in the third; and that is one of the things that entail absurdities.

那就是福点的位置，我们说它在双子二十六度一分。这是托勒密这样用的点，从不改变。可是别人白天这样算，夜里则颠倒过来，把月亮放在第一处，太阳放在第二处，上升点放在第三处；这是会导致荒谬的事情之一。

§476. Is there any other lot besides the Lot of Fortune?

第四百七十六问　福点之外还有别的点吗？

As for Ptolemy, he did not go beyond it; but others have gone to excess in nativities. We set out what Abū Maʿshar mentioned, in tables. The pivot of every lot among them is three things: a beginning, which is what is put in the first place; an end, which is what is put in the second place; and that from which it is cast, which is what is put in the third. If you like, you may say: subtracted, subtracted from, and added to. Then a condition attaches to it: either it stays in its position by day and by night, or the position is reversed, so that by night it becomes contrary. As for the lots that they have set up for questions and prices, their number is endless, because they are always increasing: no one comes along but he adds to them; and for lack of rigour it remains a matter of copying and use. God is the one whose help is sought.

至于托勒密，他没有越出这一个；但别人在本命上走得过了头。我们把阿布·马谢尔所说的列在表里。其中每一个点的枢纽是三样东西：一个起点，即放在第一处的；一个终点，即放在第二处的；以及从中投出的那一处，即放在第三处的。你若愿意，也可以说：减数、被减数与被加数。然后它附带一个条件：或者它昼夜都留在原位，或者位置颠倒，夜里变成相反。至于他们为卜问与物价所立的点，数目没有尽头，因为它们总在增加：没有一个人来了不往上添的；又因为缺乏严谨，它就停留在抄录与使用的层面。真主是求助的对象。

That makes 87 lots: for the planets 7, and the remaining lots of the houses 80.

这就是八十七个点：属行星的七个，其余属诸宫的点八十个。

That makes 97 lots, of which 10 are attributed to the planets and the houses.

这就是九十七个点，其中十个归于行星与宫。

§477. Does the working of these lots vary, and do two of them coincide?

第四百七十七问　这些点的算法会变吗？其中两个会重合吗？

Some of them vary with the variation of conditions, namely the Lot of the Fathers: whenever Saturn is under the rays, it must be taken by day from the Sun to Jupiter, and by night the contrary, and cast from the ascendant. And the Lot of the Grandfathers: when the Sun is in Leo, the taking by day is from the beginning of Leo to Saturn, and by night the contrary, and it is cast from the ascendant; and when it is in a house of Saturn, then by day from the Sun, and by night the contrary, and it is cast from the ascendant, whether Saturn is under the rays or emerged from them.

有些会随情形的不同而变，即父亲之点：每当土星在日光之下，白天就必须从太阳取到木星，夜里相反，并从上升点投出。还有祖父之点：太阳在狮子时，白天从狮子之首取到土星，夜里相反，从上升点投出；太阳在土星之庙时，白天从太阳起，夜里相反，从上升点投出，不论土星是在日光之下还是已从中出来。

As for two lots coinciding in one place, how often that happens, and it becomes clear from the conditions: in some of them the coincidence between them is lasting, and some coincide, for example, by day and differ by night, and the reverse. For this reason there would be no use in enumerating that, given its length.

至于两个点重合于一处，那是常有的事，从情形就看得清楚：其中有些重合是持久的，有些例如白天重合、夜里分开，或者相反。为此，要逐一列举就没有用处，因为太长了。