卷三·第九十九章　以阿尼莫达尔校正生时

Of the Rectification of a Nativity by Animodar.

用阿尼莫达尔校正本命。

Many and those very learned, doe at this day use the correction of the estimative time of birth by this way of Animodar.

许多人，而且是很有学问的人，至今仍用阿尼莫达尔这种方法来校正估计的出生时间。

When you have erected your Scheame of heaven as neer as you can to the true estimative time, Ptolomey directs you to consider diligently the degree of the Signe wherein the last new Moone was before the Birth, or if it was a full Moon, the degree of that Signe wherein either of the lights that was above the earth was in, See what Planet in your Scheame hath most dignities, viz. essentiall in that degree; and if the degrees he is in be neerer to the degrees of the cuspe of the ascendant then to the cuspe of the Mid-heaven, place so many degrees ascending as the Planet is in the Signe who rules the degree wherein either the new ☽ or full ☽ was; but if his degrees be neerer the Mid-heaven then the ascendant, make the degrees of the Mid heaven the same his are, and so vary your former figure according to either of those Angles; but if it happen sometimes two Planets have equall dignities in the degree aforesaid, accept of him who is neerest in degrees to the Ascendant, &c.

你尽可能按接近真实的估计时间起好天宫图之后，托勒密教你仔细考虑出生前最近一次新月所在星座的度数；若之前是满月，就看两个发光体中在地平之上的那一个所在星座的度数；看你盘中哪颗行星在那一度拥有最多的尊贵，即必然尊贵；若他所在的度数离上升宫头的度数比离中天宫头的度数更近，就让上升的度数与这颗行星——即主管新月或满月所在那一度的那颗星——在他所在星座里的度数相同；但若他的度数更接近中天的度数而不是上升，就让中天的度数与他的度数相同，然后照两个角宫中的这一个，修改你原先的盘；但若有时碰上两颗行星在上述那一度的尊贵相等，就取度数最接近上升的那一颗，等等。

Though our Nativity was rectified by accidents, and so needs not this way of rectification, yet for illustration thereof we will examine whether the verification hereof by Animodor will concurre with what is verified by accidents; for the estimative time given me at first did not differ from the true and corrected above one degree in the ascendant, &c.

我们的本命虽已用事件校正过，不需要这种校正，但为了说明起见，我们来看看用阿尼莫达尔验证的结果，是否与用事件验证的相合；因为最初给我的估计时间，与校正后的真实时间相比，上升相差不超过一度，等等。

Vpon the 15. of Septemb. 1616. being Sunday there was an ☍ of the ☽, or a full ☽ foure dayes before the birth, and it was about eleven of clock in the day time, the ☉ being in 2. degr. 32. min. of ♎, and then above the earth, therefore I examine what Planet hath most dignities in that degree: if you looke into the Table of Essentiall dignities page 104. you shall finde ♄ by reason of his exaltation and triplicity in the Signe and terme in that degree wherein the ☉ is, that he is principall ruler of that full ☽: if we examine the degree wherein he is in our Figure, we shall find him in 9 ♉, which being neerer to the degree Ascending then of Mid-heaven, the Ascendant by this correction ought to have been the ninth of ♑ and 2. min. but had we accepted of ♀ to have most dignities, as some would have done, you may then see a strange concurrence.

一六一六年九月十五日，星期日，出生前四天，有一次月亮的对冲，即满月，时间约在白天十一点，太阳在天秤二度三十二分，那时在地平之上，所以我考察哪颗行星在那一度尊贵最多：你若查第一百零四页的必然尊贵表，就会发现土星因在那个星座得旺、得三方，又在太阳所在的那一度得界，所以他是那次满月的主要主星：我们再看他在我们盘中的度数，会发现他在金牛九度，这离上升的度数比离中天的度数近，所以按这种校正，上升应当是摩羯九度二分；但若我们像有些人那样，取金星为尊贵最多，你就会看到一种奇特的吻合。

I have onely delivered the way of this manner of emendation of the Horoscope by that Method which is called Animodar, but neither the Trutine of Hermes, or this, are of so sure foundation, as that Correction which is performed by Accidents. But when we set Childrens Nativities before any accidents happen, we use this way and the other.

我只是介绍了这种称为阿尼莫达尔的修正上升的方法；但赫密斯之秤和这种方法，都不如用事件所作的校正根基稳固。不过，在孩子尚未发生任何事件之前给他们起本命时，我们就用这种方法和另一种。