卷八·第 518–523 问　周期四分、年主、本命的海勒格与推运

§518. What are the cycles mentioned in connection with the conjunctions, and their quarters?

第五百一十八问　与会合一起提到的诸周期及其四分是什么？

Each of the cycles is 360 years, and the quarters are its quarters. Some make the quarters equal, making each of them 90 years, because they put the cycle in place of the zodiac. Others make them differ, making the first quarter 90 years, the second 85 years and 3 months, the third 90 years and the fourth 94 years and 9 months, because they put the cycle in place of a year and its quarters in place of its seasons.

每一个周期是三百六十年，四分就是它的四分之一。有些人让四分相等，每分九十年，因为他们把周期当作黄道。另一些人让它们不等：第一分九十年，第二分八十五年又三个月，第三分九十年，第四分九十四年又九个月，因为他们把周期当作一年，把它的四分当作一年的四季。

§519. What are the beginnings by which the second division is distinguished and set apart from the first?

第五百一十九问　第二部借以与第一部区分开来的起点是什么？

They are the revolutions of the years, taken in relation to the beginnings of the first division; then the revolutions of their quarters, and the conjunctions, oppositions and quarters between them, and the fāsīsāt; and the anwāʾ mentioned for the days of the year from the experience of the people of each region; then the eclipses, combustions, applications and retrogradations that occur in the years. Some of the practitioners of the art compute the ascendants for the passage of each of the Sun and the Moon through the signs, and go on from them to the five planets; but that is arbitrary and of no real use.

它们是诸年的回归，与第一部的起点相参照；然后是四分的回归，以及其间的合、望与弦，还有法西萨特；以及各地之人凭经验为一年中的诸日所记的安瓦；然后是诸年中发生的交食、焦伤、入相与逆行。有些从业者为太阳与月亮各自经过诸星座之时推算上升点，再由此推到五星；但那是任意的，没有真正的用处。

§520. What is the sālkhudāh?

第五百二十问　何谓萨尔胡达？

In the revolutions of the years of the world it is the planet that is in the ascendant, or in one of its angles, having testimonies from its place; if there is none, then in what follows an angle; if there is none, then one that is not fallen away from the aspect of the ascendant and its lord. Among the Indians it is the planet that has the turn, in the order of the lords of the days, a year to each planet, by procedures of theirs for this which would take long to mention.

在世界之年的回归中，它是在上升点或在其某个角里、从所在之处得到见证的那颗行星；若没有，就取在随角之宫里的；若也没有，就取不从上升点及其主星的照中落空的那一颗。在印度人那里，它是按日主的次序轮到当值的行星，每颗行星一年，其推法很长，提起来要费许多时间。

§521. What are the beginnings by which the third division is known?

第五百二十一问　借以知道第三部的起点是什么？

Every thing that comes into being has a time by which the first of its being is fixed, and from the ascendant and the figures of the planets at it its circumstances are inferred. The like of this is not used for plants and crops, nor for animals other than man. Man has two beginnings: one of them is the time of sowing, known as the fall of the seed (masqaṭ al-nuṭfa), and the other the time of coming forth, which is the birth. From the planets and their figures at these two are known the hīlāj, the kadkhudāh, the mubtazzes, the gifts, the additions, the subtractions and the cutters; and from the revolutions of the years of nativities, the ends, the directions, the lord of the cycle, the jānbakhtār, that is, the divider, the managers of the weeks, and the firdārs.

每一个生成之物都有一个时刻，它存在之初由此确定；从那时的上升点与诸行星的格局，推知它的境况。像这样的做法，不用于草木庄稼，也不用于人以外的动物。人有两个起点：一个是播种之时，称为落种（马斯卡特·努特法）；另一个是出来之时，即降生。从这两个时刻的诸行星及其格局，可知海勒格、给寿星（卡德胡达）、诸胜星（穆卜塔兹）、赐予、增益、减损与截命者；从本命诸年的回归，可知终点、推运、周期之主、詹巴赫塔尔即分配者、诸周的管理者，以及法达。

§522. What is the detail of that and its explanation?

第五百二十二问　其细节与解说如何？

When the child is born it is weak in strength and is altered by the least cause, so that it is not safe, and this lasts until it has completed 4 years; these are called the years of nurture. The astrologers therefore first consider, regarding these years, whether it will get through them in nurture or be cut off before completing them. When they are assured that it has nurture, they then look to the hīlāj, whether there is a hīlāj or not. It is looked for in five places: the first is the luminary that is lord of the turn, the second the other luminary, the third the degree of the ascendant, the fourth the Lot of Fortune, and the fifth the degree of the preceding conjunction or opposition. The hīlāj is one of these when its conditions hold for it. The strongest of its claimants aspecting it is the kadkhudāh. In the angles it gives its greater number, in those that follow them the middle, and in the cadents the least, meaning by these numbers what we have mentioned among their years. Then the number goes according to its state of strength and weakness, so that it becomes years, then months, then days, then hours; and sometimes, through the malefics and weakness, some of it falls away. This is the gift of the kadkhudāh. Then every benefic aspecting it with love and reception adds to it its least number, according to its strength and weakness, and every malefic aspecting it with hatred subtracts from it its least number likewise; and what results after that is the utmost the native reaches of life, unless a cutter cuts him off from it. Sometimes there is no hīlāj in the nativity, and the native lives for a period according to the number of a benefic in it. As for the cutters, they are the bodies of the malefics and their disliked rays, and the bodies of the fixed stars known for cutting, when the direction reaches them at a time when the gift is at its half or at the places of its quarters, and the revolution is corrupted, and there is no benefic there or fortunes sufficient against the misfortunes. The practitioners of the art use the places of the thirds in the gift rather than the places of the quarters. The cutters are many: among them are the degrees of the ascendant and of the Moon, for each of them cuts the other; and among them are the degrees of the fourth, the seventh and the eighth; and there are books devoted to the mention of them. Then for each year its ascendant is computed when the Sun reaches the minute in which it was at the root of the nativity; and for each month its ascendant, when the Sun has traversed in each sign as many degrees and minutes as it had in the sign in which it was at the root and in the revolution. As for the lord of the cycle, it is that you give the first year to the lord of the ascendant and the second year to the one below it, as in working out the lords of the hours, until you reach, for your year, the lord of the cycle. The people of Babylon give the first year to the lord of the hour of the native, and the second to the one below it, and that is the lord of the cycle. As for the ends of the years, when a year is given to each sign, the end in the second year is the second sign from the ascendant at its degrees, and in the third the third sign likewise. When the sign of the end for the years and its degrees are known, one starts from it for the ends of the months, a sign for every 28 days, 1 hour and 51 minutes, so that the sign of the end is moved to it at the degrees of the root; and in the ends of the days a sign is taken for every 2 days, 3 hours and 50 minutes, and the degrees of the end of the months are moved to it.

孩子生下时力量微弱，最小的原因也会改变他，所以并不安稳，这要持续到他满四岁；这几年称为养育之年。所以星占家首先就这几年考察：他能否在养育中度过，还是在满期之前就被截断。确知他得到养育之后，他们才看海勒格，看有没有海勒格。海勒格要在五处找：第一处是当值的光，第二处是另一颗光，第三处是上升点的度数，第四处是福点，第五处是之前那次合或望的度数。其中某一处条件具备，它就是海勒格。照它的诸主张者中最强的那一颗，就是给寿星。它在角上给出它的大数，在随角之宫给出中数，在果宫给出最小数，这些数指的是我们在诸星之年中提到的。然后这个数随它强弱的状况而定，成为年，或成为月，或成为日，或成为小时；有时因为凶星与衰弱，其中一部分会脱落。这就是给寿星的赐予。然后，每一颗以爱与接纳照它的吉星，按自己的强弱给它加上自己的最小数；每一颗以憎恨照它的凶星，也同样从中减去自己的最小数；此后所得，就是本命者寿命所能达到的极限，除非有截命者把他截断。有时本命中没有海勒格，本命者就按其中某颗吉星的数活一段时间。至于截命者，它们是凶星的星体及其可憎的光线，以及以截命著称的恒星的星体：当推运到达它们，而那时赐予正当一半或在其四分之处，回归盘又败坏，那里也没有吉星、没有足以抵挡不幸的幸运时。本术的从业者在赐予中用三分之处，而不用四分之处。截命者很多：其中有上升点与月亮的度数，因为二者互相截断；其中有第四宫、第七宫与第八宫的度数；还有专书列举它们。然后，每一年在太阳到达它在本命根盘里所在的那一分时，推算该年的上升点；每一月也推算其上升点，即太阳在每个星座里走过与它在根盘和回归中所在星座里同样多的度与分时。至于周期之主，就是把第一年给上升主星，第二年给它下面的那一颗，就像推算时辰主星那样，直到数到你那一年，就得周期之主。巴比伦人把第一年给本命者出生那一时辰的主星，第二年给它下面的那一颗，那就是周期之主。至于诸年的终点：每一个星座给一年，第二年的终点就是从上升点起的第二个星座、同样的度数，第三年是第三个星座，依此类推。知道了诸年终点的星座及其度数，就从它起推诸月的终点，每二十八日一小时五十一分一个星座，于是终点的星座就按根盘的度数移到那里；在诸日的终点里，每二日三小时五十分取一个星座，把诸月终点的度数移过去。

As for the lord of the week: when the days that have passed since the birth of the native are cast out by weeks, the number of castings kept and counted from the ascendant of the root, the sign it reaches belongs to the lord of the week. Then go round with what remains, which is not more than seven, from the lord of the ascendant, then the one before it, against the order of the signs, in the root places; and the planet reached is the lord of the day of the week of that sign. Some go round with the remainder among the planets in the order of the signs.

至于周主：把本命者出生以来所过的日数按七日一周去掉，把去掉的次数记住，从根盘的上升点起数，所到的星座属于周主。然后用剩下的、不超过七的数去轮，从上升主星起，然后是它之前的那一颗，逆着星座次序，在根盘的诸位置上；所到的行星，就是那个星座的周日之主。有些人用余数在诸行星间按星座次序去轮。

§523. What is the direction of the counted ones among them?

第五百二十三问　其中诸计数之项如何推运？

What has been said before of direction in the ends, the thousands and the cycles is well known, and makes explanation needless here. In nativities it is not by the degrees of equality but by the degrees of the ascensions. The degree of the ascendant and the planets that are in it are directed by the ascensions of the town, a year to each degree; the degree of the setting and the planets that are in it by the descensions of the town, which are the ascensions of the opposite of the ascendant and the signs that follow it, because the descensions of each sign in the town are equal to the ascensions of its opposite. Each of the degrees of mid-heaven and of the angle of the earth, and the planets lying in them, is directed in all dwelling-places by the ascensions of the right orb. If the planet being directed is not at these four degrees, but between two angles, its direction is by ascensions mixed from the ascensions of the two angles, by a long procedure and a difficult computation. They direct only the hīlāj, because it is the indicator of life, and they direct nothing else except for a particular matter; the kadkhudāh gives the quantity of life; and the degree of the ascendant is directed in every case, whether it is the hīlāj or not. When the place that the hīlāj reaches is known, in the revolution or at any time desired, the lord of the term of that place is the divider called the jānbakhtār, because life, when it runs from the place of the hīlāj to the place of the cutter, is divided by the terms in between, and their lords are the lords of the division; and whatever planet is in that term or casts its rays upon it, the management of the division is ascribed to it. As for the mubtazzes, for each house the planet whose testimonies in it are many is ascribed the prevailing over it; and the absolute mubtazz, which has mastery over the nativity, is the planet whose testimonies are many in the ascendant and its lord and the five hīlājes, at the root of the nativity or in its revolution. As for the firdārs, we have mentioned them for each of the years of the world and of nativities.

前面讲过的终点、千年与周期中的推运，是众所周知的，无须在这里解释。在本命中，推运不用均等的度数，而用上升时间的度数。上升点的度数与在其中的诸行星，按该城的上升时间推运，每度一年；下降点的度数与在其中的诸行星，按该城的沉没时间推运，也就是上升点对宫及其后诸星座的上升时间，因为每个星座在该城的沉没时间等于其对宫的上升时间。中天与地之角的度数、以及位于其中的诸行星，在一切居住之地都按正球的上升时间推运。若被推运的行星不在这四度上，而在两个角之间，它的推运就按由两个角的上升时间混合而成的上升时间来算，步骤很长，计算很难。他们只推运海勒格，因为它是生命的征象；除非为某件特定的事，别的都不推运；给寿星给出寿命的长短；上升点的度数无论是不是海勒格，一律推运。知道了海勒格在回归中或任何想要的时候所到之处，那一处的界主就是分配者，称为詹巴赫塔尔，因为生命从海勒格之处走到截命者之处时，被其间的诸界分开，诸界之主就是分配之主；凡在那一界中或把光线投到它上面的行星，分配的管理也归于它。至于胜星：就每一宫而言，在其中见证多的那颗行星，被认为胜过它；而绝对的胜星，掌握整个本命的，是在上升点及其主星与五个海勒格之处——在本命根盘或其回归中——见证多的那颗行星。至于法达，我们已为世界诸年与本命诸年都讲过了。