卷三·第一百四十八章　本命者的职业：取职业征象星之法

Of the Magistery, Exercitation or Profession of the Native.

论本命者的职业、所习之业或行当。

ASTROLOGERS name the Magistery of the Native, a Study or Delight, an Art or Action wherein any one leads his Life, gets his Living, preserves his Estimation, and wherein he spends the principall part of his Life, whether it be publike, as of Kings or Princes, whereof some administer Justice; others Military Exercises; others Huntings; others delight in other actions; others in Philosophy and Theology; others in the Mathematicks.

星占家所说本命者的职业，是指一门学问或爱好、一种技艺或作为，一个人靠它度日、谋生、保住名望，一生的大半光阴也花在其中；不论是公共的，如君王诸侯，其中有的执掌司法，有的从事军旅，有的从事狩猎，有的喜好别的事务，有的从事哲学与神学，有的从事数学。

Or whether his Profession be private, either learned from another, or attained by his owne industry, or mechanicall, laborious, and for pleasure; for doubtlesse every man hath inclination more or lesse to some one Quality, Profession, &c. or other.

或者他的行当是私人的，或是从别人那里学来，或是凭自己勤勉得来，或是手工的、劳力的、为了取乐的；因为毫无疑问，每个人都或多或少倾向于某一种品性、行当等等。

Three things are wont to be considered in this Judgement.

这一判断通常要考虑三件事。

First, Whether the Native is to have any Magistery at all, viz. any Trade, Study or Profession; or whether he shall be without any.

第一，本命者究竟会不会有职业，即任何手艺、学问或行当；还是一无所业。

Secondly, The kinds of his Art or Study, what it may be.

第二，他的技艺或学问属于哪一类。

Thirdly, What fortune he shall have therein, and whether he shall prove famous therein yea or no.

第三，他在其中运气如何，会不会因此出名。

The Significators are taken in this manner.

征象星按如下方式取。

[If the Native shall have an Art.] You are to consider ♂ ♀ and ☿; ☿ shewes the Wisdome and parts of the mind; ♂ the Strength of body to endure; ♀ the Delight: If then any of these is posited in places of Heaven fit to designe Magistery, that is, in the tenth, first or seventh, in their owne Dignities, not Combust, or under the ☉ beams, that Planet so posited, or those Planets, shall have signification of the Art, Profession or Magistery the Native is inclinable unto.

（页边注：本命者是否会有一门技艺。）你要考虑火星、金星与水星；水星表示心智的智慧与才具；火星表示身体耐劳的力气；金星表示其中的乐趣：若这几颗星中有任何一颗落在天上宜于标示职业的位置，即第十、第一或第七宫，在自己的尊贵中，不焦伤，也不在太阳光束之下，那么这样落位的那颗或那几颗行星，就主本命者所倾向的技艺、行当或职业。

If no one of those Planets is so posited, consider if any of the three be Lord of the Signe of mid-heaven, and placed in his essentiall Dignity; for if he be Peregrine or in his Fall, he is not capable to undergoe this signification.

若三星中没有一颗这样落位，就看三星中有没有哪一颗是中天星座之主，又落在自己的必然尊贵中；因为它若游离或在落，就担不起这一意义。

if this consideration take not place, see if any of these three Planets behold the ☽ partilly, if two or all three doe behold her, preferre the strongest, and him that hath the best aspect, and that aspect which is most partill, and the sinister before the dexter.

若这一考量也用不上，就看这三星中有没有哪一颗与月亮成精确相位；若有两颗或三颗都照月亮，取最强的，取相位最好的、相位最精确的，并且左方相位优先于右方相位。

If none of the three before named Planets behold the ☽, see which of them aspects the ☽, within the mediety of her Orbs and with a powerfull aspect, that Planet shall you take to signifie the Child's Magistery, so that he be not afflicted of the malignant Planets, either by corporall ☌ or □ or ☍, for if he be so, you must not accept him.

若前述三星都不与月亮成精确相位，就看哪一颗在月亮容许度的一半以内、以有力的相位照她，就取那颗行星来主这孩子的职业，只要它不受凶星侵害，无论是本体会合、四分还是对冲；若受了侵害，就不可取它。

If none of these considerations will hold, take him of the three Planets who according to the first mover anteceds the ☉, and give unto him dominion of the Profession.

若这些考量都不成立，就取三星中依第一原动天而走在太阳之前的那一颗，把职业的主权交给它。

You must observe, if none of these three Planets shall signifie the quality of the Native's Profession, according to the first or second rule, but according to the third, fourth or fift; such usually handle some ignoble Profession, and manage it negligently, or else lead their life without any Magistery or Art at all.

你必须注意，若这三星不是按第一或第二条规则、而是按第三、第四或第五条来表示本命者行当的性质，这样的人通常操某种卑贱的行当，且经营得马虎，要不就一生没有任何职业或技艺。

I have ever gathered much knowledge concerning the Trade of any that came unto me, from the Signe of the tenth, from the Signe and house wherein the Lord of the tenth was placed.

凡来找我的人，他从事什么行当，我向来是从第十宫的星座、从第十宫主所在的星座与宫位，得知许多情形。

Ptolomey his judgement was, that the Lord of ones Profession was to be taken two wayes; from the ☉, and from the Signe of the mid-heaven, and adviseth to consider that Planet who riseth next before the ☉ in the Morning, and the Lord of midheaven, or Planet therein, if he behold the ☽; and if it chance that one Planet doth not only rise next before the ☉, but shall also be Lord of the tenth, or posited in the tenth, this Planet shall be Master or Significator of the Actions and Arts of the Native: if one Planet performe not both these works, take him that doth the one.

托勒密的判断是，一个人的行当之主要从两方面取：从太阳，和从中天的星座；他建议考虑清晨在太阳之前最近升起的那颗行星，以及中天之主或中天里的行星，若它照月亮的话；若碰巧有一颗行星不但在太阳之前最近升起，而且是第十宫主或落在第十宫，这颗行星就是本命者行事与技艺的主宰或征象星：若没有一颗行星兼做这两件事，就取做到其中一件的那颗。