卷三·第九十八章　生时校正诸法：赫密斯之秤

Divers wayes of rectifying Nativities.

校正本命的几种方法。

He that would judge upon the future actions and contingencies depending upon the influences of heaven in a Nativity. it is necessary that he have in the first place the place of the Planets, viz. their Motions exactly calculated, rectified, and fitted for judgement, according to the Moderne and best approved rules of Art; that is, he ought first to set his Figure according to the estimative time given unto him; and then to consider whether that be the true time of Birth yea or not, lest he be deceived either wholly in the Signe ascending, or by a fallacious and uncertaine houre mistake many degrees thereof, viz. either in having few or no degrees, or the latter part of any Signe ascending; by which errour no certaine or rationall judgement can be given, either of the Complexion,forme, constitution or fortune of the Native.

凡要依本命中天体的影响去判断将来的行为与偶然之事的人，首先必须掌握诸行星的位置，即按现代最受认可的技艺规则，把诸星的运行精确算出、校正、调整到合于判断；就是说，他应当先按给他的估计时间起盘；然后考虑那是不是真正的出生时间，以免在上升星座上全盘受骗，或因一个靠不住、不确定的时辰把上升的度数弄错许多度，即把上升取成很少度数或零度，或取成某个星座的后段；有这样的错误，对本命者的气质、形貌、身体构造或命运，就给不出任何确定或合理的判断。

The Ancients for solving this error and amending the time, have delivered some wayes and meanes unto posterity, whereby the supposed time of ones Nativity might be rectified and brought to its true and perfect time; whose Methods I will now deliver in the first place, and then declare what or which of them, I hold most fit for the Student, and ought to be followed.

古人为了解决这个错误、修正时间，给后世传下了一些办法，使推测的出生时间可以校正，归到真正而完善的时刻；我现在先介绍他们的方法，然后说明其中哪一种我认为最适合学生，应当遵循。

The first way then of rectifying a Nativity, and reducing it to that moment of time when first the Infant was seperated from his Mother, and received the breath or ayre of this world, was by the Trutine or Scrutiny of Hermes (one of the wisest of all mortall men, and as ancient as Moyses) and this way is farre more ancient then the Animodar of Ptolomey, allowed by Ptolomey himselfe in his 51.

那么，校正本命、把它归到婴儿最初离开母体、吸入这个世界的气息那一刻的第一种方法，是赫密斯之秤，或称赫密斯的审察（赫密斯是凡人中最有智慧的人之一，与摩西一样古老）；这个方法远比托勒密的阿尼莫达尔古老，托勒密自己在他的第五十一

Centiloquium (if that be his) as I undoubtedly conceive it is; his words are, What Signe the Moon is in at time of the birth, make that very Signe the ascendant at Conception; and what Signe the Moone is in when the Childe is conceived, make that Signe, or the opposite unto it the Signe ascending at the Birth, &c. For Hermes was of this opinion, that the very degree of the same Signe wherein the ☽ was at the conception of the Childe, should be the true degree of the ascendant at the Birth.

条金言里也认可它（如果那是他的书）——我毫不怀疑是他的；他的话是：出生时月亮在哪个星座，就把这个星座作为受孕时的上升；受孕时月亮在哪个星座，就把这个星座或它的对宫星座作为出生时的上升星座，等等。因为赫密斯的看法是：月亮在胎儿受孕时所在星座的那一度，应当就是出生时上升的真正度数。

This manner of verification, though it is of great use and much experience, wiil not in many examples hold firme not to a degree two or three, all the use I ever have or could make of it, was, that when an uncertaine time was given me, or the time mistaken by an houre or two, it would helpe me to the Signe ascending, but rarely to the degree ascending or neer unto it; yet doe I know Junctine doth insist much upon it, and produces many examples verified by it, which did concurre with the Scheames of heaven corrected by Accidents; many Authors also had a good opinion of it as well as he, viz. Schoner, Pontanus, Sir Christopher Heydon, and others.

这种验证方法虽然很有用处，经验也多，但在许多例子里连两三度之内都不能稳稳成立；我历来能从中得到的全部用处，只是在别人给我的时间不确定，或时间错了一两个小时的时候，它能帮我找出上升星座，却很少能找到上升的度数或接近它；不过我知道琼克蒂努斯很坚持这个方法，并举出许多用它验证过的例子，与用事件校正过的天宫图相合；许多作者也和他一样看重它，如舍纳、蓬塔努斯、克里斯托弗·海登爵士等人。

The Correction of an estimate Scheame of Heaven by the Trutine of Hermes.

用赫密斯之秤校正估计的天宫图。

The yeer, day, and hour of the birth brought unto you, erect your Figure, and rectifie the place of the ☽ to that hour, and place her in the Figure.

有人把出生的年、日、时交给你，你就起盘，把月亮的位置校正到那个时刻，放进盘里。

Then take the distance of the ☽ from the Angle of the East, or Horoscope, if she be under the earth, viz. either in the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. house; or if she be above the Earth, viz. in the 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, or 7. take her distance from the cuspe of the seventh or Angle of the West, substracting the Signes and Degrees of the Angles from the Signe and Degree of the ☽, by adding 12. whole Signes to the place of the ☽, if otherwise substraction cannot be made. With this distance of the ☽ from the Angle enter the Table subsequent, called

然后，若月亮在地平之下，即在第一、二、三、四、五、六宫，就取她离东方角宫即上升点的距离；若她在地平之上，即在第十二、十一、十、九、八或七宫，就取她离第七宫宫头即西方角宫的距离，方法是从月亮的星座度数里减去角宫的星座度数，若不够减，就给月亮的位置加上十二个整星座。拿着月亮离角宫的这个距离，去查下面的表，这张表叫做

The use of these Tables and the practicall part of them, is thus:

这些表的用法和实际操作如下：

1 Consider whether the yeer of your Birth be Common or Bissextill.

一、考虑出生那一年是平年还是闰年。

2 Observe what day of the yeer, the day of birth is, entring with whole Moneths, adding thereunto the day of the Month wherein the birth is.

二、看出生那天是一年中的第几天，用整月的天数入表，再加上出生是该月的第几天。

3 The number of the Mansion of the Childe in its Mothers wombe, is to be substracted from the day of the birth; and, if substraction cannot be made otherwayes, then adde the dayes of the whole yeer, viz. 365. or 366. to the day of the birth, and what remaines is the number of dayes wherein the conception was.

三、从出生的日序里减去胎儿在母腹中居留的天数；若不够减，就给出生的日序加上全年的天数，即三百六十五或三百六十六，余下的就是受孕那天的日序。

4 With which numbers so remaining enter the Table of Moneths, and you shall finde the Moneth and day of the Moneth.

四、拿余下的这个数查月份表，就能查出是哪个月、该月的哪一天。

5 Consider the place of the ☽ the day of Conception at noone-time, which if she be not distant from the estimative Angle or ascendant of the Nativity above 13. degrees, the day found out is the day of Conception; but if she is more remote, you may imagine either the good aspects of the fortunes put the Birth forward, or the untoward aspects of the infortunes retarded it.

五、看受孕那天正午月亮的位置，若她离本命估计的角宫或上升不超过十三度，查出的那天就是受孕之日；若离得更远，你可以设想，要么是吉星的良好相位使生产提前了，要么是凶星的不利相位使它推迟了。

In our Nativity the ☽ is in 1. 44. ♊, and under the earth, therefore I take the ascendant from her.

在我们的本命里，月亮在双子一度四十四分，在地平之下，所以我取她离上升的距离。

I enter the Table of the Childs Mansion in his Mothers wombe under the title of Signs and Degrees, and seeke out the neerest number unto mine, I finde 4. 24. and over against that on the right hand, under the title of the ☽ under the earth 285. which intimate that our Native was in his Mothers wombe 285. dayes.

我在「星座与度数」这个标题下查胎儿在母腹中的居留表，找出最接近我这个数的数，找到四个星座二十四度；在它右手边、「月亮在地平下」的标题之下是二百八十五，这表示我们的本命者在母腹中二百八十五天。

Next, I consider whether the yeer of this birth be Common or Bissextill, the yeer of his Birth is 1616. which divided by four and nothing remaining shews it a Bissextill yeer; if one had remained, it had been the first yeer after and a common yeer; if two, the second, &c. Then I looke in the Table of Months, what day of the yeer, the day of the Birth is: I finde the day is the 19. of Septemb. I looke in the Table of Moneths, and finde under the Bissextill yeer, that the number of dayes to the last of August 244 to which I adde 19. viz. the day of the birth, put together, they make 244 19 263.

其次，我考虑这一年是平年还是闰年；他出生于一六一六年，用四去除，没有余数，表明是闰年；若余一，就是闰年后的第一年，是平年；余二，就是第二年，等等。然后在月份表里看出生那天是一年中的第几天：出生是九月十九日，我查月份表，在闰年一栏下找到到八月底为二百四十四天，再加上十九，即出生那天，合起来：二百四十四加十九得二百六十三。

So then the day of Birth is 263.

所以出生的日序是二百六十三。

Number of dayes of the Childes Mansion 285.

胎儿居留的天数二百八十五。

Which are to be substracted from the day of the Birth, by adding one whole yeer unto 263. the yeer of the Birth being Bissextill, therefore I adde 366. dayes unto 263. not 365. being the dayes of a Common yeer. I conceive this a maine reason why many have erred a day or more, by not adding the full number of 356. dayes to the day of Birth when it happened in a Leap-yeer.

这要从出生的日序里减去，办法是给二百六十三加上一整年，出生那年是闰年，所以我给二百六十三加上三百六十六天，而不是平年的三百六十五天。我认为许多人误差一天或更多，一个主要原因就在这里：出生在闰年时，没有给出生的日序加上整整三百五十六天。

The day of the Birth and 366. added together make 629

出生日序与三百六十六相加，得六百二十九

from wch if I substract the number of the Child's Mansion 285

从中若减去胎儿居留的天数二百八十五

remaines 344

余三百四十四

With 344. I againe enter into the Table of Moneths, and find the last day of November under the Common yeer to be 334. unto which if I doe adde 10. dayes more, they make 344. and bring me to the tenth day of December being Sunday 1615. the ☽ that day at noon in Origanus, being in 28. 13. ♐, not above 8. degrees distant from the Ascendant of the Birth.

我拿三百四十四再查月份表，找到平年一栏十一月的最后一天是三百三十四，再加上十天，就是三百四十四，这就把我带到一六一五年十二月十日，星期日；按奥里加努斯的星历，那天正午月亮在射手二十八度十三分，离出生时的上升不超过八度。

If you then consider the diurnall motion of the ☽, you shall finde it 15. degrees 7. min. a most swift motion; and if you would know in how many houres she may in that tenth of Decemb. come to the 6. degr. of ♑, you shall finde by calculation, that the motion of the ☽ being 15. degr. &c. she will come to be in the sixt degree of ♑ that Sunday at night, much about one of the clocke. Whether that be not a fit time, &c. For begetting of Children, I leave to the judgment of, &c.

再看月亮的日行，你会发现是十五度七分，非常快；你若想知道十二月十日那天她要几个小时才能到摩羯六度，计算一下就会发现，月亮每天走十五度多，她会在那个星期日夜里大约一点钟到摩羯第六度。那是不是一个合适的时刻，等等，至于生儿育女之事，我留给……去判断，等等。

This Nativity is precisely rectified by Accidents, both by those depending upon the Directions of Medium Cœli, and of the ascendant to their respective Promittors.

这个本命已用事件精确校正过了，既有取决于中天推运到其允诺星的事件，也有取决于上升推运到其允诺星的事件。

Some have delivered a way to find out the hour of Conception, but I hold it a matter too nice fully at this time to be handled, nor give I any credit unto it : yet it's thus,

有人传下一种求受孕钟点的方法，但我认为这件事太过精细，此时不宜详讲，我也一点不信它：不过方法是这样的，

You must take the right ascention of the ☉ for the Noon of the day of Conception, deduced from ♑, in what Signe soever ☉ is: you must take the oblique ascention at the day of birth, of the ☽ under the elevation of the Pole where the Birth is; substract the ☉ his right ascention from the oblique of the ☽ , what remains convert into time,and those houres shew the time of conception.

取受孕那天正午太阳的赤经，从摩羯起算，不论太阳在哪个星座；再取出生那天、在出生地的极高之下月亮的斜升；从月亮的斜升里减去太阳的赤经，余数化成时间，这些小时就表示受孕的时刻。

Or thus: Take the time from Noon in the Table of houses, adhering to the 10. house, over against the degrees of the ☉ in the Signe he is in at the conception. Take the time from Noon over against the place of the ☽ in the birth under the Ascendant. Substract the houres corresponding to the place of the ☉ in the 10. house, from those answering the place of the ☽ in the ascendant, by adding 24. houres, if need be ; what remaines, is supposed to be the time of the houre of Conception.

或者这样：在宫位表里，对着受孕时太阳所在星座的度数，取附在第十宫一栏的正午后时间；再对着出生时月亮的位置，在上升一栏取正午后时间。从月亮在上升所对的小时里，减去太阳在第十宫所对的小时，必要时加二十四小时；余下的，便被认为是受孕的钟点。