卷二·第六十章　她能否嫁给心仪的男子

If she should marry the man desired?

她能否嫁给心仪的那个男子？

The Judgment.

判断。

The querent was of tall stature, ruddy complexioned, sober, discreet and well spoken, &c. The quesited was very tall, slender, leane, and of a long visage, black haire: His talnesse I attribute to ♃, as being in the Termes of ☿, and the cusp of the seventh being also in his Termes: and indeed the being of a significator in the Termes of any Planet, doth a little vary the party from his naturall temper and constitution, so that he will retainea small or great tincture from that Planet according as he is dignified: The sadnesse of his haire, I conceive to be from ♃ his aspect to ♄, and the ☽ her □ unto him, being her self subterranean.

问卜者身材高，气色红润，稳重、谨慎、谈吐得体，等等。所问之人非常高，细长，瘦，脸长，黑发：他的高，我归因于木星，因为木星在水星的界里，第七宫的宫头也在他的界里：确实，征象星在任何行星的界里，都会使那人稍稍偏离他本来的气质与体格，因而按那颗行星的尊贵程度，多多少少带上它的一点色彩：他头发颜色深，我认为是由于木星对土星的相位，以及月亮对他的四分，而月亮本身又在地平之下。

☿ Is here Significatrix of the querent, Retrograde, under the Sun-beames, was in some distresse and feare that the quesited would not have her; and she might and had some reason for it, for ♃ was in his Exaltation, and neer the ⚹ of ♀, an argument the man stood upon high termes, and had been tampering with another; yet were both Significators in a Semisextile, and in good houses, from which I gathered hopes, that there was some sparks of love betwixt them; but when I found the ☽ separating from a □ of ♃, and carrying his light by a △ aspect to ☿ the Lord of the ascendant, and he in an angle, receiving willingly, by his Retrograde motion, that her vertue which she brought from ♃.

水星在这里是问卜者的女征象星，逆行，在太阳光束之下，她正处于某种苦恼与担忧之中，怕所问之人不要她；她也确有些理由这样想，因为木星在他的旺宫，又接近金星的六分，这表示那男子摆着高姿态，并且一直在与另一个女子周旋；不过两颗征象星成半六分，又都在好的宫位，我由此看出希望，知道两人之间还有几点爱的火花；而当我发现月亮离开木星的四分，以三分把他的光带给上升主星水星，水星又在角宫，以他的逆行乐意地接受她从木星那里带来的德性时，

I was confident the Match would suddenly be brought to passe by such a one as ☽ was, or represented by her, who did much interpose in the businesse, and who at last, with a little difficulty, produced the Marriage to effect, to the content of both parties.

我确信婚事很快会由月亮那样的人，或由她所代表的人促成，此人在这件事里多方居中周旋，最后虽有一点困难，还是让婚事成就了，双方都称心满意。