卷二·第四十六章　病人能否活下来，得的是什么病

Whether the Sick would live or dye, and what his Disease was?

病人会活还是会死，他得的是什么病？

Judgment of the Figure aforesaid.

对上面这张盘的判断。

THe Signe ascending, viz. ♍, is in the Figure most afflicted by the corporall presence of ♂, who is partly Lord of the eighth house, therefore from that house and Signe must we require the Disease, cause, and member grieved: ♒ being the Signe of the sixt, is fixed, afflicted by ☋, and ♄ who is Lord of the sixt house is in ♉, a fixed Signe, earthly and melancholly, of the same nature and Triplicity that ♍, the Signe ascending, is of; the ☽ a generall Significatrix in all Diseases, being afflicted by her proximity to ♂ and posited in the ascendant, in an earthly, melancholly Signe, together with the other Significators, did portend the Patient to be wonderfully afflicted with the Spleen, with the Wind-chollick, and melancholly obstructions in the Bowels or small Guts, small Feavers, a remisse Pulse; and as the Signe ♍ is the Signe ascending, and ☽ and ♂ therein, it argued, the sick was perplexed with distempers in his Head, slept unquietly, &c. [All which was true.]

上升的星座处女，在这张盘中受火星星体亲临的侵害最重，而火星部分是第八宫的主星，所以必须从这个宫和这个星座去求病症、病因与受害的部位：第六宫的星座水瓶是固定星座，受龙尾侵害；第六宫主土星在金牛，那是固定星座，土象而忧郁，与上升的处女同一性质、同一三方；月亮是一切疾病的总女征象星，她因靠近火星而受侵害，又位于上升，在一个土象、忧郁的星座里，与其他征象星合起来，预示病人深受脾脏之苦，有风气腹绞痛，肠或小肠里有忧郁质的阻塞，有轻微的发热，脉搏迟弱；又因上升星座是处女，月亮与火星又在其中，表明病人为头部的失调所苦，睡不安稳，等等。［这一切都属实。］

I perswaded the man to make his peace with God, and to settle his house in order, for I did not perceive by naturall causes, that he could live above ten or twelve dayes.

我劝这人与上帝和好，把家事安排妥当，因为照自然的因由来看，我看不出他还能活过十天或十二天。

And my reasons were, because all the Significators did promise no lesse then death : for first, ☉ who was the temporall light at time of the Quere, and is (fons vitalis potentiæ) was in perfect □ of ♄ Lord of the sixt in Signes fixed.

我的理由是：所有征象星所许诺的，无一不是死亡：第一，太阳是问卜之时的当令之光，也就是（生命力之源），他与第六宫主土星成精确四分，两者都在固定星座。

Secondly, the ascendant was extreamly afflicted by the presence of ♂, he being naturally ill, and accidentally almost Lord of the whole eighth house.

第二，上升受火星在场的极度侵害，火星本性不吉，偶然地又几乎是整个第八宫的主星。

Thirdly, the ☽ was neer Cauda Leonis, and afflicted by the crosse influence of ♂, in that house which signifies Life, viz. the ascendant.

第三，月亮靠近狮子之尾，又在主生命的那个宫，即上升，受火星交叉的影响侵害。

Fourthly, the ☽ did separate from the ⚹ of ☿, Lord of the ascendant, in Signes of long ascensions (which is more properly a □ aspect) and did transfer his vertue to ♃ Lord of the eighth.

第四，月亮离开上升主星水星的六分，这是在上升时间长的星座里（所以更确切地说是一个四分），又把他的力量转给第八宫主木星。

The sick dyed the 28th of July following, ☿ comming to the degree of the ☉ in the Question, and therein to the □ of ♄ Lord of the sixt, the day preceding; and the ☽ to an ☍ of the ☉, the ☽ that day transiting the degree of the sixt house at time of the Question, viz. 14. of ♒, and ☉ the cusp of the twelfth.

病人在随后的七月二十八日去世：前一天水星到达问卜盘中太阳的度数，在那里与第六宫主土星成四分；而月亮到了太阳的对冲，那天月亮正行经问卜时第六宫的度数，即水瓶十四度，太阳则在第十二宫的宫头。