卷二·第八十六章　能否得到所谋的官职

If attaine the Preferment desired?

能否得到所想要的升迁？

AT the same time within four or five minutes thereof, a Gentleman desired to know if he should obtaine an Office or place he looked after.

就在同一时间，前后不过四五分钟，一位绅士想知道他能否得到他所谋求的一个官职或位置。

The ascendant and ♀ are for the querent, the tenth house for the Office or place of preferment he expects.

上升与金星归问卜者，第十宫归他所期待的官职或升迁之位。

Finding the ☽ placed in the tenth, which is in the house of the thing looked after, viz. Preferment, it was one argument the querent should have it.

发现月亮落在第十宫，即所谋之事、也就是升迁的那一宫里，这是问卜者会得到它的一条论据。

In the next place, the ☽ applyed to a △ of ♄, who hath Exaltation in the ascendant, and who receives ♀, and is received of her again.

其次，月亮入相土星的三分，土星在上升星座有旺，他接纳金星，又反过来被金星接纳。

Besides, the ☽ applying to ♄, who is Lord of the fourth, argued, that in the end he should obtaine the Office: but because ☉ was in the seventh house in ☍ to the ascendant, and with the ☋, and was Lord of the eleventh, I judged he did employ as a Friend, a Solar man, who was false, and did rather envy then affect him.

此外，月亮入相第四宫之主土星，表示他最终会得到这个官职：但因为太阳在第七宫，与上升相冲，又与龙尾同在，并且是第十一宫之主，我断定他托了一位太阳型的人作朋友，此人虚伪，对他与其说是关切，不如说是嫉妒。

I concluded for the reasons above-named, that with some difficulty he should obtaine the Dignity, notwithstanding the opposition a pretended Friend did make; and so it came to passe within lesse three weeks, and he then discovered that his Friend was false, who had a great scarre in his Face, was not of bright or yellow Haire, but of a blackish, dark colour, occasioned by ☉ his neernesse to ☋: the separation of ☽ from a □ of ☿, argued, he had delivered many Petitions about it, but hitherto whithout successe.

根据上述理由，我断定，尽管一位假朋友从中作梗，他还是会费些周折得到这一尊位；不到三个星期，事情果然如此，他也随即发现他的朋友是虚伪的，此人脸上有一道大疤，头发不是明亮的金黄色，而是偏黑的深色，这是太阳靠近龙尾所致：月亮离开与水星的四分，表示他为此递过许多请愿书，但一直没有成功。

The eleventh House, and those Questions properly belonging unto it.

第十一宫，以及本属这一宫的问事。

It is the House of Friends, Hope, Substance or Riches of Kings.

这是朋友、希望、国王的财产或财富之宫。