卷三·第一百零四章　海勒格、杀星与给寿星

Of the Prorogator of Life, called Hylech, or Hyleg, or Apheta: and of the killing or interficient Planet.

论生命的释放星，称为海勒奇、海勒格或阿费塔；并论杀星，即致死之星。

[What Hyleg is.] The word is Chaldean, and it signifies no more, then either that Planet or place of Heaven, which being directed by his or its Digression, we judge of Life or the state thereof.

〔海勒格是什么。〕这个词是迦勒底语，它的意思不过是：那颗行星或天上的那个位置，按他或它的推进去推运时，我们借以判断寿命或寿命的状况。

The Hylech is thus found out; in a Diurnall geniture, take the ☉; in a Nocturnall, the ☽; and if either of them be in convenient Hylegiacall places, they shal be Hylech: they are then said to be in convenient Hylegiacall places, and shall be capable to be accepted for Hyleg, when they be either in the first, tenth, eleventh, seventh or ninth houses, or within the Orbs of the houses; what space of the Æquator is under the earth is rejected, unlesse within five and twenty degrees of the ascendant; for it is generally amongst all Astrologians received, that all Planets who are at the time of Birth under the earth, are of lesse efficacy in the superiour Hemispheare; the eighth house and twelft are in this judgment rejected, as having no affinity with the ascendant, and rarely signifying any good to the Native, (as touching life;) I meane the ☉ or ☽ in either of those houses, cannot be Hyleg.

海勒奇这样求：白天出生取太阳；夜间出生取月亮；它们若在合宜的海勒格之位，就作海勒奇：它们在第一、第十、第十一、第七或第九宫，或在这些宫的容许度之内，就称为在合宜的海勒格之位，可以被接受为海勒格；赤道在地平之下的部分都不取，除非在上升的二十五度之内；因为一切占星家普遍公认，出生时在地平之下的所有行星，其效力不及在上半球的；第八宫与第十二宫在这个判断中也不取，因为它们与上升毫无亲缘，又很少对本命者有什么好处（就寿命而言）；我是说，太阳或月亮在这两宫中任一宫，都不能作海勒格。

If the ☉, by reason of his ill position, is not capable of being Hyleg, then see if the ☽ may be admitted; which if not, then consider if the geniture be diurnall, and whether a new ☽ did precede the Nativity; but in a nocturnall, observe the full ☽ going before the Birth: see also what Planet had most domion in those places, and what Planet hath most dignities, at least three essentiall fortitudes, in the place of the ☉, in the ☌ or ☍ preceding; but in a nocturnall geniture, in place thereof, if a full ☽ preceded, take the place of ⊗, examine which of the Planets hath most dignities in these three places, and is also constituted in an Hylegiacall house;

若太阳因位置不佳不能作海勒格，就看月亮可否接受；若月亮也不行，就考虑：若是白天出生，出生前是否有一次新月；若是夜间，就看出生前的满月：还要看哪颗行星在那些位置上主管最多，哪颗行星在太阳的位置、在之前的朔或望的位置上尊贵最多，至少有三项必然尊贵；但在夜间的本命里，若之前是满月，就以福点的位置代替它，看哪颗行星在这三个位置上尊贵最多，并且又位于海勒格之宫；

I say, that Planet may well be appointed Hyleg; but if the Planet who hath most dignities in the places aforesaid, be not in an apt house, then simply, and without further trouble let the Horoscope be Hyleg; and indeed there are some Artists doe ever use the ascendant for Hyleg, rejecting all other wayes.

我说，那颗行星就可以定为海勒格；但若在上述位置上尊贵最多的那颗行星不在合适的宫，那就干脆、不再费事，以上升作海勒格；确实有些星占家总是用上升作海勒格，摒弃其他一切方法。

Besides, observe in diurnall genitures that you must ever regard the degree of the Ecliptick wherein the new ☽ was before the Birth, though a full intervened a little before the Birrth, for by day the ☉ is more powerfull then the ☽.

此外要注意，在白天的本命里，你一定要始终看出生前新月所在的黄道度数，即使出生前不久中间隔了一次满月，因为白天太阳比月亮有力。

In nocturnall genitures, take that Planet who hath most power by his essentiall dignities in these three places,

在夜间的本命里，取在这三个位置上凭必然尊贵最有力的那颗行星，

Viz. Place of the ☽ at Birth.

即：出生时月亮的位置。

Place of the ☍ preceding.

之前的望的位置。

Place of ⊗ at the Birth.

出生时福点的位置。

For if such a Planet be in an Apheticall place, he shall be Prorogator; but if not so, then, if a new ☽ preceded, take the ascendant; if an ☍, take the ⊗, if it be in an Apheticall place, else take the ascendant.

因为这样一颗行星若在释放之位，他就作释放星；若不在，那么，若之前是新月，就取上升；若是望，就取福点，若福点在释放之位，否则取上升。

Againe, in nocturnall Births, have care to the ☍, though a ☌ were next to the Nativity, for the ☽ is friend to the ☍; where note, the place of the Luminary is the place or degree of Heaven of that Light, which at time of the ☍ is found above the earth.

再者，在夜间出生的本命里，要留意望，即使离出生最近的是朔，因为月亮与望相亲；这里要注意，发光体的位置，就是望的时候在地平之上的那个光体在天上的位置或度数。

Againe, if both the Lights, and that Planet who is Governour of the proper place, either in ☌ or ☍ (who in diurnall genitures governeth in the place of the ☉, the ☌ precedant, and in the ascendant, but in nocturnal in the ☍, place of the ☽, and the ascendant) shall be in Apheticall places, that place of the Lights is to be preferred which is of greater vertue, and is a more apt place.

再者，若两光，以及那颗主管本位的行星——不论在朔还是在望（在白天的本命里，他主管太阳的位置、之前的朔和上升；在夜间的本命里，主管望、月亮的位置和上升）——都在释放之位，那么两光之中位置更有力、更合宜的那一个，应当优先。

As for example, in the nocturnall genitures, let the ☽ be in the ninth or seventh, but the ☉ in the ascendant, then the ☉ is preferred before the ☽; the sooner if he be neer the degree ascending, or in any of his dignities, or within 25. degrees of the ascendant: In diurnall genitures, let the ☽ be in the tenth and ☉ in the ninth, the ☽ shall then be preferred before the ☉: if the ☽ be in the tenth and ☉ in the eleventh, they seem then to be equall.

比如，在夜间的本命里，设月亮在第九或第七宫，而太阳在上升，那么太阳就优先于月亮；他若靠近上升的度数，或在他的某项尊贵里，或在上升的二十五度之内，就更该优先：在白天的本命里，设月亮在第十宫而太阳在第九宫，那么月亮就优先于太阳：若月亮在第十宫而太阳在第十一宫，两者看来就相等。

But to cleer all ambiguity, you must take that Light who hath most dignities, either essentiall or accidentall; if no such such difference be, but that they are equall in testimonies, see if the Planet who disposeth either of them, applyes to either of them by any good aspect; for if the Lord of that Signe who disposeth of the Apheta or Hyleg, be potent, and doth behold the same Hyleg with good aspect, he makes the Prorogator of life more strong.

但为了澄清一切疑义，你要取必然或偶然尊贵最多的那个光体；若没有这样的差别，两者见证相等，就看定位其中任一个的行星，是否以吉相位入相其中任一个；因为定位释放星即海勒格的那个星座之主若有力，又以吉相位照看这个海勒格，他就使生命的释放星更强。

[Who is interficient Planet.] I have delivered what the Ancients wrote of Hyleg, but as yet I rest not satisfied, either how to take the Hyleg aright, or whom most properly to call the Killing, Interficient or Destroying Planet, or more artificially, Interfector, or Anareta; yet the Ancients with great reason have delivered, That the Anareta or Interficient Planet, is he who is placed in the eighth house, either five degrees before the cusp of the house, or 25. degrees after. Secondly, the Lord of the eighth.

〔谁是杀星。〕我已讲了古人关于海勒格所写的，但至今我仍不满意，既不清楚该怎样正确取海勒格，也不清楚该把谁最恰当地称为杀星、致死之星或毁坏之星，或更讲究地称为截命者，或阿纳雷塔；不过古人很有道理地传下：杀星或致死之星，是位于第八宫的那颗行星，在该宫宫头之前五度以内，或之后二十五度以内。第二，第八宫之主。

Thirdly, that Planet who is joyned to the Lord of the eighth, (which I no wayes approve of.) Fourthly, the Planet who disposeth of the Lord of the eighth house when he is not therein, or he that disposeth of the Planet in the eighth.

第三，与第八宫主星会合的那颗行星（这一条我完全不赞成）。第四，第八宫主星不在第八宫时定位他的那颗行星，或定位第八宫中那颗行星的行星。

[Montulmo will not have the ⚹ of ♄ & ♂ to kill, is angry with Ptolomy.] It is usually observed, that the ⚹ dexter of ♄, and the sinister dexter of ♂, in Signes of long ascentions, are accounted malevolent aspects, and have power of killing, (this is meant in sickly genitures, or in Climactericall yeers, other malevolent directions concurring,) or when the Significators of life in aged peoples Nativities occur these aspects; the Termes of the Infortunes they being not propitious in the Nativity, are reputed dangerous, &c.

〔蒙图尔莫不认土星与火星的六分能杀，对托勒密不满。〕一般观察到，土星的右方六分、火星的左方右方，在上升时间长的星座里，被视为凶相位，有致死之力（这是指多病的本命，或在关口之年，又有其他凶的推运同时到来），或在老年人的本命里生命的征象星遇到这些相位时；凶星的界，若它们在本命里不吉，也被认为危险，等等。

The Arabians doe say, that the Prorogator directed to the cusp of sixt, eight or seventh houses, as also to the cusp of the fourth, if a watry Signe be there; as also, to the Dark and Cloudy, or Nebulous parts of the Ecliptick, or to the place of a present Eclips, or place of the present appearance of a Comet, or to Azimene degrees, or to the □ or ☍ of ☿, are dangerous and fatall; as also, the ☽ or ♂ when they obviate the ascendant, and have dominon in the eighth.

阿拉伯人说，释放星推运到第六、第八或第七宫的宫头，以及第四宫宫头——若那里是水象星座——；还有推运到黄道上黑暗、多云或云雾状的部分，或当时交食的位置，或当时彗星出现的位置，或残缺度数，或水星的四分或对冲，都是危险而致命的；还有月亮或火星，当它们迎上上升、又在第八宫有主权时，也是如此。

[Alcochodon, what it is?] The Arabians did further observe, what Planet had most essentiall dignity in the place of the Hyleg, and with some aspect did behold that place, this Planet they called Alcochodon, or giver of yeers ; and they were of opinion, that the Native might live the great, greater or lesser yeers, which this Planet did signifie, according unto the naturall course of life, if he met with no very obstructive directions in the interim, or escaped sudden casualties, or avoyded the generall fate of any City or Country wherein he came to reside or inhabit, for no particular fate can resist a generall calamity.

〔给寿星是什么？〕阿拉伯人还观察：哪颗行星在海勒格的位置上必然尊贵最多，又以某种相位照看那个位置，这颗行星他们称为阿尔科科登，即给寿星；他们认为，本命者可能活到这颗行星所表示的大、较大或较小的年数，这是按自然的寿命进程而言，前提是其间没有遇到极有阻碍的推运，或逃过了突发的意外，或避开了他前去居住的某个城市或国家的普遍命运，因为任何个人的命运都抵挡不住普遍的灾难。

What the severall yeers every Planet gives, whether great, greater or lesse, you may find from pag. 57. to 83. of the first part, &c.

每颗行星所给的年数，无论大、较大或较小，你可以在第一部分第五十七页到第八十三页找到，等等。

Moreover, they said, that if either of the Luminaries be Hyleg, and in exaltation or house, that Light may be Hyleg and Alcochoden.

此外他们说，若两光之一是海勒格，又在旺或庙，那个光体可以既是海勒格又是给寿星。

If the Luminaries be Hyleg, and not posited in their house or exaltation, or proper Terme, that Planet shall be reputed Alcochodon who ruleth the Signe wherein Hyleg is: you must judge the same if any Planet, but either of the Lights, be Hyleg.

若两光是海勒格，而不在自己的庙、旺或本界，那么主管海勒格所在星座的那颗行星，就被认为是给寿星：若任何行星——而不是两光之一——作海勒格，你也要这样判断。

If many Planets seem, upon an equality of testimonies, to contend for pre-eminency, he that hath aspect to the Hyleg is preferred before he that hath none; if none aspect the Hyleg, then he that excels the rest in essentiall fortitudes.

若有好几颗行星见证相等，似乎在争优先，那么照看海勒格的优先于不照看的；若都不照看海勒格，就取必然尊贵胜过其余的那一颗。

Where observe, in the day time an Orientall Planet is preferred before one Occidentall, viz. the Planet who is neerer the ascendant then he that is next or neer unto the West angle: now if it happen the Alcochedon to be angular, strong and fortunate, especially in the first or tenth, he may possibly give his greater yeers.

这里要注意，白天东方的行星优先于西方的，即离上升较近的行星优先于离西方角宫较近的：若给寿星恰好居角宫，有力而吉利，尤其在第一宫或第十宫，他就可能给出他的大年。

As I formerly delivered, that I am not sufficiently satisfied either of the Hyleg or Anareta, so neither of the Alcochodon: I intend, God-willing, to see if I can by my owne experience give my selfe more assured content by a diligent and full examination of many Nativities, which I have seen in my time verified, the parties being now all dead; and I hope so to satisfie my curiosity, that I shall pleasure the lovers of this Learning with my further observations and paines thereupon, which, God-willing I may live to publish.

正如我先前说过，我对海勒格或杀星都不够满意，对给寿星也是如此：我打算，蒙上帝允许，看看能否凭我自己的经验，对我一生中见过并已应验的许多本命——当事人如今都已去世——作勤勉而全面的考察，给我自己更确定的满意；我希望这样满足我的求知欲，从而以我进一步的观察与心血嘉惠这门学问的爱好者，蒙上帝允许，我或许能活着出版它。