卷一·第一章　行星、星座与相位的名号

AN INTRODUCTION TO ASTROLOGY.

占星学入门。

The number of Planets, Signes, Aspects, with their severall Names and Characters.

行星、星座、相位的数目，以及它们各自的名称与符号。

In the first place you must know that there are seven Planets, so called and charactered.

首先你必须知道，行星共有七颗，名称和符号如下。

Saturne ♄, Jupiter ♃, Mars ♂, Sol ☉, Venus ♀, Mercury ☿, Luna ☽: there is also the Head of the Dragon, thus noted ☊; and the Tayle ☋. ☊ and ☋ are not Planets but Nodes.

土星 ♄、木星 ♃、火星 ♂、太阳 ☉、金星 ♀、水星 ☿、月亮 ☽；此外还有龙头，记作 ☊，以及龙尾 ☋。☊ 和 ☋ 不是行星，而是交点。

There be also twelve Signes: Aries ♈, Taurus ♉, Gemini ♊, Cancer ♋, Leo ♌, Virgo ♍, Libra ♎, Scorpio ♏, Sagittarius ♐, Capricornus ♑, Aquarius ♒, Pisces ♓: Through these twelve Signes the Planets continually move, and are ever in one or other degree of them. It's necessary you can perfectly distinguish the character of every Planet and Signe, before you proceed to any part of this study; and also the characters of these Aspects that follow, viz. ⚹ □ △ ☍ ☌.

星座也有十二个：白羊 ♈、金牛 ♉、双子 ♊、巨蟹 ♋、狮子 ♌、处女 ♍、天秤 ♎、天蝎 ♏、射手 ♐、摩羯 ♑、水瓶 ♒、双鱼 ♓。诸行星不停地穿行于这十二个星座之中，总在其中某一座的某一度上。在着手这门学问的任何部分之前，你必须能完全分辨每一颗行星、每一个星座的符号，还有下面这几种相位的符号，即 ⚹ □ △ ☍ ☌。

You must know, every Signe containes in longitude thirty degrees, and every degree sixty minutes, &c. the beginning is from ♈, and so in order one Signe after another: so the whole Zodiack containes 360. degrees, the second degree of ♉ is the the two and thirtieth degree of the Zodiack, the tenth of ♉ is the fortieth, and so in order all throughout the twelve Signes; yet you must ever account the Aspects from that degree of the Zodiack wherein the Planet is, as if ♄ be in ten degrees of ♊, and I would know to what degree of the Ecliptick he casteth his sinister Sextil Aspect; rekoning from ♈ to the tenth degree of ♊, I find ♄ to be in the seventieth degree of the Zodiack, according to his longitude; if I adde sixty degrees more to seventy, they make one hundred and thirty, which answers to the tenth degree of the Signe ♌, to which ♄ casteth his ⚹ Aspect, or to any Planet in that degree.

你必须知道，每个星座在黄经上包含三十度，每一度包含六十分，等等。起点是白羊，然后一个星座接一个星座依次排下去：所以整个黄道共有三百六十度；金牛第二度是黄道第三十二度，金牛第十度是第四十度，十二个星座都这样依次类推。不过，相位必须始终从行星所在的那一度黄道算起：比如土星在双子十度，我想知道他向黄道的哪一度投出左方六分相，就从白羊数到双子第十度，按黄经得知土星在黄道第七十度；再加六十度，合为一百三十度，正对应狮子座的第十度，土星就向那一度、或向在那一度上的任何行星投出六分相。

When two Planets are equally distant one from each other, sixty degrees, we say they are in a Sextill Aspect, and note it with this character ⚹.

两颗行星彼此相距六十度时，我们说它们成六分相，用这个符号 ⚹ 来记。

When two Planets are ninety degrees distant one from another, wee call that Aspect a Quartill Aspect, and write it thus, □.

两颗行星彼此相距九十度时，我们称这种相位为四分相，写作 □。

When Planets are one hundred and twenty degrees distant, we say they are in a Trine Aspect, and we write it thus △.

行星相距一百二十度时，我们说它们成三分相，写作 △。

When two Planets are one hundred and eighty degrees distant, we call that Aspect an Opposition, and character the Aspect thus ☍.

两颗行星相距一百八十度时，我们称这种相位为对冲，相位的符号记作 ☍。

When two Planets are in one and the same degree and minute of any Signe, we say they are in Conjunction, and write it thus ☌.

两颗行星在任何一个星座的同一度、同一分时，我们说它们会合，写作 ☌。

So then if you find ♄ in the first degree of ♈, and ☽ or any other Planet in the first degree of ♊, you shall say they are in a Sextill Aspect, for they are distant one from another sixty degrees, and this Aspect is indifferent good.

所以，如果你看到土星在白羊第一度，而月亮或其他任何行星在双子第一度，你就应说它们成六分相，因为它们彼此相距六十度；这种相位算是中等的吉相。

If ♄ or any other Planet be in the first degree of ♈, and another Planet in the first degree of ♋, you must say they are in a □ Aspect, because there is ninety degrees of the Zodiack betwixt them: this Aspect is of emnity and not good.

如果土星或其他任何行星在白羊第一度，另一颗行星在巨蟹第一度，你必须说它们成四分相，因为两者之间隔着黄道九十度：这种相位主敌意，不吉。

If ♄ be in the first degree of ♈, and any Planet in the first degree of ♌, there being now the distance of an hundred and twenty degrees, they behold each other with a Trine Aspect; and this doth denote Unity, Concord and Friendship.

如果土星在白羊第一度，任何一颗行星在狮子第一度，两者此时相距一百二十度，它们就以三分相彼此相望；这表示团结、和睦与友谊。

If you find ♄ in the first degree of ♈, and any Planet in the first degree of ♎, they being now an hundred and eighty degrees each from other, are said to be in Opposition: A bad Aspect: and you must be mindfull to know what Signes are opposite each to other, for without it you cannot erect the Figure.

如果你看到土星在白羊第一度，任何一颗行星在天秤第一度，两者此时彼此相距一百八十度，就说它们对冲：这是凶相；你还必须留心记住哪些星座彼此相对，因为不知道这一点，你就无法起盘。

When ♄ is in the first degree of ♈, and any Planet is in the same degree, they are then said to to be in Conjunction: And this Aspect is good or ill, according to the nature of the question demanded.

土星在白羊第一度，而任何一颗行星也在同一度时，就说它们会合：这种相位是吉是凶，要看所问之事的性质而定。

That is ♈ is opposite to ♎, and ♎ to ♈; ♉ to ♏, ♏ to ♉: and so in order as they stand.

也就是说，白羊对天秤，天秤对白羊；金牛对天蝎，天蝎对金牛：其余依排列次序类推。

[Ephemeris, what, and its use.] I would have all men well and readily apprehend what precedes, and then they will most easily understand the Ephemeris; which is no other thing, then a Book containing the true places of the Planets, in degrees and minutes, in every of the twelve Signes both in longitude and latitude, every day of the yeer at noon, and every hour of the day, by correction and equation.

［星历：是什么，有何用。］我希望所有人都把前面所讲的好好地、透彻地领会，这样他们就能非常容易地看懂星历；星历不是别的，就是一本书，载有诸行星的真实位置，以度和分表示，落在十二个星座中的哪一座，黄经与纬度都有，一年里每一天正午的位置都列出，一天中每个时辰的位置则可以经过校正与均差求出。

I have inserted an Ephemeris of the moneth of January 1646 and after it a Table of Houses for the latitude of 52. degrees, which will serve in a manner, all the Kingdome of England on this side Newark upon Trent, without sensible errour; and this I have done of purpose to teach by them, the use of an Ephemeris, and the manner and meanes of erecting a Figure of Heaven, without which nothing can be knowne or made use of in Astrology.

我在书中附了一份一六四六年一月的星历，其后又附了一份北纬五十二度的宫位表，它大体上可以通用于英格兰王国在特伦特河畔纽瓦克这一侧的全境，没有可觉察的误差；我这样做，是特意要借它们来讲授星历的用法，以及起天宫图的方式与方法；不会起盘，占星学里就什么也无法知晓、无法运用。