卷二·第七十章　夫妻谁先死

Whether Man or Wife shall dye first ?

丈夫与妻子谁先死？

Judgment upon this Figure.

对这张盘的判断。

FOR many weighty Reasons one desired me to consider, whether himselfe or wife should dye first ; Whereupon I erected the figure of heaven, as above placed.

有人出于许多重大的理由，要我推断他本人和他妻子谁会先死；于是我起了一张天宫图，如上所示。

Finding the seventh house afflicted, which signifieth the Wife by the position of ♄ in ♈ his fall, and that ♂ Lord of the seventh was cadent in ♊ and the ninth house, and disposed by ☿ Lord of the sixt from the seventh,and he Retrograde and in his fall, and the ☽ in ♏ , but the eighth house from the seventh. These considerations moved me to inquire of the querent, whether his Wife was not very sicke, and in a Consumption (for so it appeared unto me) and also infirmed (in Secretis.)

我发现代表妻子的第七宫受克，因为土星在白羊，即他的落宫；第七宫主火星在双子、在第九宫，落于果宫，又受从第七宫数起的第六宫之主水星定位，而水星逆行，又在他的落宫；月亮在天蝎，而天蝎正是从第七宫数起的第八宫。这些考虑促使我问问卜者：他妻子是不是病得很重，是不是患了消耗病（我看来是这样），是不是还有隐疾（拉丁文所谓「在隐秘处」）。

For if you observe all those Significators which have relation on unto her, are wholly unfortunate and out of their essentiall dignities. I inquired her age, her exact Nativity I could not obtaine, onely I understood she was now in her 42. yeer of age, viz. her Climactericall yeer, which is usually dangerous ; and the more unto her, she meeting with an untoward Disease neer or in that time.

因为你若观察，一切与她有关的征象星都全然不幸，又都不在必然尊贵之中。我问了她的年龄，她确切的出生时间我没能得到，只知道她现在正当四十二岁这一年，即她的关口之年，这一年通常是危险的；对她更是如此，因为她在这一年前后染上了一种难缠的病。

I considered the seventh house which was her ascendant, whereby I judged her Corporature to be small, or her Person incurvating, her visage long and leane, her complexion darke and pale, her conditions very waspish, or she very froward,&c. which was confessed, and I afterwards found. Because ♄ sheweth long lingring Diseases, and ☿ Lord of the sixt house was Retrograde ; I judged she would relaps out of one Disease into another, partly by her owne obstinatenesse,and partly by the errour of the Physician :

我考虑以第七宫作她的上升，由此断她身材矮小，或身子佝偻，脸长而瘦，肤色黝黑苍白，性情很暴躁，或者说她很执拗等等。这些都得到了承认，我后来也发现确是如此。因为土星表示久拖不愈的病，而第六宫之主水星逆行；我断她会从一种病转成另一种病，部分是由于她自己的固执，部分是由于医生的失误：

By her owne wilfulnesse,because that the Lord of her ascendant was alsoLord of the eight ; and partly by neglect of the Physician, who was signified by ♀ who was in □ with ♄ in Equinoctiall and Tropicall Signes and in Angles, arguing his or their small care of the miserable Gentlewoman: All things seriously considered, I concluded the Woman would dye first; for the Significator of the Man hath no manner of affliction, viz. ♀ she being in her Hayne, and free from the least manner of misfortune, and so was the Man from all infirmities.

说是她自己的任性，因为她的上升之主同时也是第八宫之主；说是医生的疏忽，因为医生由金星代表，金星与土星成四分，两者都在分点与回归星座，又都在角宫，表示他或他们对这位可怜的女士照料不周：通盘慎重考虑之后，我断定妻子会先死；因为丈夫的征象星，即金星，毫无受克，她正在她的海兹之中，没有丝毫不幸，这男子也确实没有任何病痛。

For the time when she should dye, I observed when ♄ and ♂ came to an ill aspect ; for ♄ did most of all represent her in person and condition ; and I found that about the latter end of September following ♂ came to an opposition of ♄ , ♂ then being neer the place of the ☽ at time of the Question, viz. in 2. degr. of ♏ , and ♄ in two of ♉ , the ☽ at that moment in the place of ♂ , viz. in 20. degr. of ♊ or thereabouts.

至于她何时会死，我看土星与火星何时成凶相位；因为土星在人身与境况上最能代表她；我发现大约在随后九月底，火星来到土星的对冲，那时火星靠近问卜之时月亮的位置，即天蝎二度，土星在金牛二度，而那一刻月亮正在问卜时火星的位置，即双子二十度左右。

From thence I concluded, that it was probable she would dye or be in great danger of death about the latter end of September or beginning of October ; and in truth she dyed the eight of October, upon which day ♂ and ☿ were in ☌ in the eight degree of ♏ ; the one in the Question being Lord of the ascendant, and the other of the sixt, the degree it selfe the very same of the ☽ in the question, and ☽ to the 12. of ♎ the opposite degree to her ascendant in the Question.

由此我断定，她很可能在九月底或十月初死去，或有极大的死亡危险；她实际死于十月八日，那天火星与水星在天蝎八度会合；这两颗星在问题盘里，一个是她的上升之主，另一个是她的第六宫之主，那个度数又正是问题盘中月亮所在的度数；月亮则到了天秤十二度，正是问题盘中她的上升度数的对面。