卷八·第 506–512 问　接纳、推者、收集与传递、开门、强与弱

§[506]. What is reception?

第［五百零六］问　何谓接纳？

It is that the lower planet is in one of the portions of the upper, so that it makes itself known to it by the relation it has to it, like one who says, 'I am your son', 'I am your servant', 'I am your neighbour'. If the upper is also in the portions of the lower, the reception is complete, and it is doubled by the number of the portions, especially if it is from an aspect that is not disliked. The opposite of reception is rejection.

那是较低的行星在较高者的某一份额之中，于是它借着与它的关系向它表明自己，好像一个人说：「我是你的儿子」「我是你的仆人」「我是你的邻居」。若较高者也在较低者的份额之中，接纳就完全，并随份额的数目加倍，尤其若是出自一个不招人厌恶的相照。接纳的反面是拒纳。

§508. What is the pusher?

第五百零八问　何谓推者？

We have said that the pusher is the one that applies, and it is qualified by management. The pusher is in one of these cases: it is in one of its own portions, without regard to the state of the one pushed to, and its application is called the pushing of power; or it is in one of the portions of the one pushed to [corrected: MS has 'in one of its own portions'], without regard to its own state, and it is called the pushing of nature, which is exactly the reception we have mentioned; or the two share in the sign of the pusher, each of them having a claim there, and it is called the pushing of two natures, as though the pusher of the two pushed to it its own nature and the nature of its partner together. The name is also given to the application of a planet in its ḥayyiz to a planet in exactly the like of its ḥayyiz, because the ḥayyiz is complete only with the two conditions: so when a diurnal planet in its ḥayyiz applies to a diurnal planet in its ḥayyiz, it is called the pushing of two natures.

我们说过，推者就是入相的那一颗，它以调度为限定。推者处于以下情形之一：它在它自己的某一份额之中，不看受推者的状态，它的入相称为力之推；或者它在受推者的某一份额之中〔抄本作「在它自己的某一份额之中」，据文义改正〕，不看它自己的状态，称为性之推，这正是我们说过的接纳；或者两者共有推者的星座，各在那里有一份主张，称为二性之推，好像两者中的推者把它自己的本性与它伙伴的本性一起推给了受推者。这个名称也给予一颗在其海兹中的行星对另一颗恰在同样海兹中的行星的入相，因为海兹只有具备两个条件才完全：所以当一颗在其海兹中的昼星入相于一颗在其海兹中的昼星时，就称为二性之推。

§509. What is murādafa?

第五百零九问　何谓穆拉达法？

It is application in retrogradation, that is, the lower in its state of retrogradation applying to the upper in its state of retrogradation, so that there is no return between them, because their two states are equal. If there is reception in it, it indicates the putting right of corrupted affairs; but this application does not match application in the state of direct motion, and opinions differ about it.

它是逆行中的入相，就是较低者在逆行状态中入相于在逆行状态中的较高者，于是它们之间没有退还，因为两者的状态相同。若其中有接纳，它主败坏之事得以匡正；但这种入相比不上顺行状态中的入相，对它的意见也有分歧。

§510. Does anything stand in place of application?

第五百一十问　有什么可以代替入相吗？

When two planets, a lower and an intermediate, apply to an upper one, it has collected their light. If the two that apply aspect each other, they are in that state also applying to each other; and if one of them is fallen away from the aspect of the other, the gathering of their light stands in place of application without aspect, and this is collection. If a lower planet separates from an intermediate that is fallen away from the aspect of another, upper planet, and after its separation applies to the upper, it has carried its light to it, and this is transfer. It occurs also between two aspecting planets when their application is far off, so that this transfer stands in its place. Transfer has another form: a lower planet applies to an intermediate, and that intermediate is applying to an upper one, so it stands in place of the application of the lower to the upper. This is when one of them is fallen away from the other, because the lower, apart from aspect, is quick in catching up to join the upper. In some books the transfer of Mars between the Sun and Saturn is called the greater transfer, and the transfer of the Moon between them the lesser transfer. Sometimes two planets are fallen away from a third, or from an assigned place in the orb, and then they apply to a planet that aspects them and looks at that third or that place, so that it is like a mirror that has reflected its light from one side to the other. They have called this return, and it shares the name confusingly with the return mentioned before. They have given it another form, which is transfer itself, adding nothing to it except mention of separation: they said that when, between two planets, the lower of them has separated from the upper and applied to another, it has returned the light of one of them upon the other. And as the first stood in place of application, so this ought not to be without the force of separation. If in place of the name 'return' here some word were put that stands in its place, such as 'turning' or 'reflection', the confusion would increase.

当两颗行星，一颗较低、一颗居间，入相于一颗较高者时，它就收集了它们的光。若入相的两颗彼此相照，它们在这状态里也彼此入相；若其中一颗与另一颗的相照落空，它们之光的聚合就代替了没有相照的入相，这就是收集。若一颗较低的行星离开一颗与另一颗较高行星的相照落空的居间行星，离开之后又入相于那较高者，它就把它的光带给了它，这就是传递。它也发生在两颗相照的行星之间，当它们的入相还远时，这种传递就代替了它。传递还有另一种形式：一颗较低者入相于一颗居间者，那居间者又正入相于一颗较高者，于是代替了较低者对较高者的入相。这是在它们其中一颗与另一颗落空时，因为较低者撇开相照，追上较高者以与之相接是快的。在有些书里，火星在太阳与土星之间的传递称为大传递，月亮在两者之间的传递称为小传递。有时两颗行星与第三颗、或与天球上一个指定之处落空，然后它们入相于一颗与它们相照、又照看那第三颗或那处的行星，于是它就像一面镜子，把它的光从一边反射到另一边。他们称之为退还，它与前面所说的退还共用一名，造成混淆。他们又给它另一种形式，即传递本身，除了提到离相之外毫无增加：他们说，在两颗行星之间，若其中较低者离开了较高者而入相于另一颗，它就把其中一颗的光退还到另一颗上。而正如前者代替了入相，这一种也不应没有离相的效力。若在这里用某个能代替「退还」的词，如「折返」或「反照」，混淆就会更多。

§511. Opening of the door.

第五百一十一问　开门。

Any two planets whose houses are opposite each other: the application of one of them to the other is called the opening of the door. Thus the application of the Moon and the Sun to Saturn is called the opening of the door of still rain, drizzle and snow; the application of Venus to Mars is called the opening of the door of quick rain, hail, lightning and thunder; and the application of Mercury to Jupiter is called the opening of the door of the winds.

任何两颗庙彼此相对的行星：其中一颗对另一颗的入相称为开门。所以月亮与太阳对土星的入相，称为开静雨、毛毛雨与雪之门；金星对火星的入相，称为开急雨、冰雹、闪电与雷之门；水星对木星的入相，称为开风之门。

§512. How do the strength and weakness of the planets come about?

第五百一十二问　行星的强与弱是怎样来的？

We have mentioned their states with respect to the Sun, to one another, to their orbs, to the orb of the signs and to the figure of the houses, by which the goodness and badness in each of them is known. The sum of all the qualities of goodness, or most of them, in one planet is the utmost of strength for it, and as they decrease its strength decreases; their opposites and contraries, taken together, are the utmost of weakness for it, and as they decrease the weakness decreases. As for setting them out one by one: when the planets are direct in their course, swift, increasing, free from concealment by the rays, eastern if they are upper and western if they are lower, in an aspect of the two luminaries while these are fortunate, praised and receiving; with the benefics present with them or aspecting them, and the malefics fallen away from them, or the fixed stars agreeing with them in nature in conjunction with them; then if they have risen in their orbs so that their passage mentioned before is above the malefics and below the benefics, and they are in the north, ascending, and have alighted in the signs in the houses of the benefics and in their own portions and in what agrees with them in nature, or in houses of theirs with respect to the horizon, and they are in their ḥayyiz, advancing in the angles and in those that follow them, in the joys and in the increasing quarters that agree with them, rising above the malefics and overpowering them: then they are strong in the utmost degree. When they are slow and going toward retrogradation, fallen away from the two luminaries or aspecting them with enmity, not receiving; with the malefics aspecting them with enmity or present with them, and the fixed stars contrary to them in conjunction with them; and they are going down in their orbs so that in the passage the malefics are above them and not the benefics; and they have descended in the south, and have alighted in the houses of the malefics and their portions, strangers to their own pourings forth, and they are in their detriment or their fall and contrary to their ḥayyiz, and have declined from the angles and those that follow them to the decreasing quarters that are contrary to them, in the places opposite their joys, and the malefics have risen above them: then they are at the extreme of weakness. This is the state of strength and weakness in simple speech; then it varies by mixing, and the way to that is found when practice has brought skill to completion.

我们已经提到它们相对于太阳、相对于彼此、相对于它们的天层、相对于星座之天球与诸宫之形的诸状态，由此可知每颗行星的好与坏。一颗行星集好的诸品质于一身，全部或大部分，就是它力量的极致，品质减少，力量也减少；它们的反面与对立面合在一起，就是它衰弱的极致，这些减少，衰弱也减少。至于一一列举：当诸行星在行程上顺行、迅速、增长，没有被光线遮蔽，上行星东出、下行星西入，与两颗光体成相照而两光又是吉的、受称许的、能接纳；吉星与它们同在或相照它们，凶星与它们落空，或与它们性质相合的恒星与它们会合；然后若它们在自己的天层里升高，以致前面所说的行经是在凶星之上、在吉星之下，又在北方上升，落在吉星之庙的星座里、在自己的份额里、在与它们性质相合之处，或在相对于地平的它们自己的宫里，又在它们的海兹之中，在四角及随其后之宫前进，在喜乐之处与相合的增长象限里，升在凶星之上并压制它们：这时它们就强到极点。当它们行速迟缓而走向逆行，与两光落空或以敌意相照它们，不接纳；凶星以敌意相照它们或与它们同在，与它们相反的恒星与它们会合；又在天层里下降，以致在行经中凶星在它们之上而吉星不在；又在南方下降，落在凶星之庙与其份额中，对自己的倾注而言是异客，又在陷或落中，与它们的海兹相反，并从四角及随其后之宫落到与它们相反的减损象限，在与其喜乐相对之处，凶星又升在它们之上：这时它们就在衰弱的极端。这是用简单话说的强与弱的情形；然后它随混合而变化，而达到这一点的路，要在实践使技艺臻于完满时才找得到。