卷二·第三章　论星座与行星的相感相斥

CHAP. III.

第三章

Of the Sympathy, and Antipathy of the Signes and Planets.

论星座与行星的相感与相斥

BEfore we come to prognostick, we must know that there is a Sympathy between Celestiall and Terrestiall bodyes, which will easily appear, if we consider that the whole creation is one entire and united body, composed by the power of an All-wise God, of a composition of discords.

在着手预断之前，我们必须知道，天上的物体与地上的物体之间有一种相感；只要想一想，整个造化是一个完整而统一的身体，是全知的上帝以其大能，用种种不和之物合成的，这一点就很容易看出来。

Also there is friendship and hatred between one sign of the Zodiack and another; for fiery signes are contrary to watry, and nocturnal to diurnall, &c.

黄道上的星座彼此之间也有友爱与憎恨；因为火象星座与水象星座相反，夜性星座与昼性星座相反，等等。

The Planets are also friendly and inimical one to another; but in their friendship and enmity, what ever the matter is, I cannot agree neither with ancient nor modern writers: And when I cannot do so, I le fly to Dr. Reason for advice; they hold Mars and Venus to be friends.

行星彼此之间也有友好与敌对；但在它们的友敌关系上，不管实情如何，我既不能同意古代的作者，也不能同意近代的作者；我不能同意的时候，就去请教理性博士；他们认为火星与金星是朋友。

And what your opinion is of all the rest, you may find by Mr. Lillies Introduction. My own opinion grounded upon reason, is this; that there are two causes of friendship and enmity, between Planets Essential and Accidental; Planets are essentially inimically three wayes.

至于其余各星，他们的意见如何，你可以在莉莉先生的《入门》里查到。我自己以理性为根据的意见是这样的：行星之间的友与敌有两种原因，即本质的与偶然的；行星在本质上相敌有三种方式。

First, When their Houses or Exaltations are opposite one to the other; and so Saturn is an enemy to both Luminaries; Jupiter to Mercury, and e contra Mars to Venus.

第一，它们的庙或旺彼此相对时；这样，土星是两光的敌人；木星是水星的敌人，反过来也一样；火星是金星的敌人。

2. Planets are Inimicall one to the other, when their temperatures or qualities are opposite; and so jupiter is an enemy to Saturn, he being hot and moist, Saturn cold and dry: So Mars is enemy to Venus, he being hot and dry, she cold and moist.

第二，它们的气质或性质相反时，彼此相敌；这样，木星是土星的敌人，因为他热而湿，土星冷而干；火星也是金星的敌人，因为他热而干，她冷而湿。

3. Planets are Inimical when their conditions differ; so there is enmity to Sol and Jupiter, for he loves the Court, and he the Country. Jupiter is enemy to Mars, for he loves Peace and Justice, Mars violence and oppressions; Mars is enemy to Venus, for he rejoyceth in the field, she in the bed; he loves to be publique, she playes least in sight. And thus you see in every respect, what a difficult thing it is to make Mars and Venus rationally friends.

第三，它们的情性不同时，彼此相敌；所以太阳与木星之间有敌意，因为一个爱宫廷，一个爱乡野。木星是火星的敌人，因为他爱和平与公义，火星爱暴力与压迫；火星是金星的敌人，因为他乐在战场，她乐在床笫；他爱抛头露面，她却喜欢藏身不见。由此你看到，无论从哪一方面看，要按道理把火星与金星说成朋友，是多么困难的事。

Accidentall inimicalnesse to Planets, is when they are in square or opposition &c. the one to the other. Also Inimicalnesse must needs be in the Signes; for if cold and heat, moisture and drynesse, be inconsistent together in one and the same place, as your eyes will tell you, if you will but please to take a pale of water and throw it into the fire; then can they not be in one and the same place in the heavens.

行星的偶然之敌，是它们彼此成四分或对冲等等的时候。星座之间也必然有敌意；因为冷与热、湿与干，不能在同一个地方共存——你只要提一桶水泼进火里，眼睛就会告诉你——那么它们在天上也不能同处一地。

And if so, as is most true, then must some signes be cold, some dry, and some moist; one sign must needs cherish one quality more then another; and seeing the first qualities are adverse the one to the other, there is a necessity, that sometimes one must yeild, and sometimes overcome: and this is the reason of the corruption, generation, and vicissitude of things.

既然如此（这是千真万确的），那么必定有些星座冷，有些干，有些湿；一个星座必定比另一个更助长某一种性质；又因为第一性质彼此对立，所以必然有时一方让步，有时一方得胜：这就是万物败坏、生成与变迁的原因。

Moreover the Moon constituted in a signe, commonly strikes upon the nature of the signe she is in: as if she be in a fiery sign, she stirs up Choler, &c.

再者，月亮落在某个星座里，通常会触动她所在星座的本性：比如她在火象星座，就激起胆汁，等等。

Also as every Climate hath two qualities, so hath every celestiall sign; the Aereal signes are hot and moist, the Farthly signes cold and dry, the Fiery signes hot and dry, the Watry signes cold and moist: And thus you see how the concords are made of discords; for Aery signes are joyned to fiery by heat, and to watry by moisture: Watry are joyned to aery by moisture, and to earthly by coldnesse: the Earthly are joyned to the watry by coldnesse, and to fiery by drynesse; this is an old true maxime of Philosophers; which I shal not at this time be captious against.

又，正如每个气候带都有两种性质，天上的每个星座也有两种：风象星座热而湿，土象星座冷而干，火象星座热而干，水象星座冷而湿。由此你看到和谐是怎样由不和造成的：风象星座以热与火象相连，以湿与水象相连；水象以湿与风象相连，以冷与土象相连；土象以冷与水象相连，以干与火象相连。这是哲学家们一条古老而真实的格言，我这次不想去挑它的毛病。

Besides, the congresse and configurature of the Planets and fixed Stars is diligently to be heeded; of these, some are obnoxious and hatefull; a Quartile and Opposition, as also the Conjunction of bad Planets; others are healthful, as Sextile and Trine, and Conjunction of good Planets; and indeed the chiefest part of Astrology consisteth in the due observation of configurations; for by these come alterations in things below, either to better or worse, according to the nature of the Planets or Stars that signifie them: for when two Stars are joyned with ⟨?⟩ aspected to one another, they seminate something in Sub-Lunary bodies according to their owne nature;

此外，行星与恒星的会聚与格局也要用心留意；其中有些是有害可憎的，如四分与对冲，以及凶星的会合；另一些是有益健康的，如六分与三分，以及吉星的会合。确实，星占之学最主要的部分，就在于恰当地观察格局；因为下界万物的变化，或好或坏，都由此而来，依照象征它们的行星或恒星的本性：当两颗星相会或彼此成相位时，它们就照自己的本性，在月下界的物体里播下某种东西；

It dissention be between the starres, the sperme proves malicious and destructive, and tumultuous, even as the opposition of winds, especially the North and South winds, produceth thunder, lightning and pestilentiall vapours, and this we find never failes, if the South-wind prevails, and the Moon and Mercu ry behold one another.

如果星与星之间不和，那种子就会变得恶毒、具破坏性而纷乱，正如风与风相对，尤其是北风与南风相对，会产生雷、闪电与带瘟疫的蒸气；我们发现，如果南风占上风，而月亮与水星彼此相望，这从来不会落空。

Thus you see a reason, if you know but what a reason is, or ever heard of such a thing, why diseases in the body of man are either exasperated, or remitted, according to the good or evill meeting of the Planets.

由此你看到一个道理——只要你知道什么叫道理，或者听说过有这么回事——为什么人身上的疾病，会随着行星好或坏的会遇而加剧或缓解。

Of the Aspects opposition is the worst of all, not by any contrariety, or diversity of nature of the Signs in which the oppositions fall out, but in respect of the Planets themselves opposing, which being at greatest distance are most inimicall; they being in a posture to outface one another, and this is the most principall cause of enmity.

诸相位中，对冲是最坏的；不是因为对冲所落的星座之间有什么相反或本性的差异，而是就相对的两颗行星本身而言：它们相距最远，敌意最大；它们摆出彼此对峙、互不相让的架势，这是敌意最主要的原因。

A Quartile is inimicall, because the Stars so aspected be in signes of contrary nature; as Sol in Aries; Luna in Cancer, the aspect is hatefull, because Aries is hot and dry, Cancer cold and moist; Aries masculine, Cancer feminine; Aries diurnall, Cancer nocturnall.

四分是敌对的，因为如此成相位的两星落在本性相反的星座里；比如太阳在白羊，月亮在巨蟹，这个相位就可憎，因为白羊热而干，巨蟹冷而湿；白羊阳性，巨蟹阴性；白羊昼性，巨蟹夜性。

Andnow by the leave of my Author, and also of of great Ptolomy himselfe, and of all the sons of Art this day living, who build their judgement upon Doctor Tradition, and not upon the sound principles of Doctor Reason; if this be the originall of the enmity of of a square aspect, as is agreed upon on all sides:

那么现在，请我的原作者、也请伟大的托勒密本人、以及今日在世的一切术中之人原谅——他们把判断建立在传统博士之上，而不是建立在理性博士的可靠原理之上——如果这就是四分相敌意的根源，正如各方都同意的：

Then, Why do they hold that a Quartile in Signs of long ascentions is aequivalent to a Trine; and a Trine in Signs of short Ascentions as pernicious as a Square? put the rest of the non-sence into the bundle: and when you have done, look upon it a little while, and when you have viewed it a little, tell me I pray, Doth the longnesse or shortnesse of the ascentions adde or take away any thing from the quality of the Signes?

那么，他们为什么认为，在上升时间长的星座里的四分相，等同于三分相；在上升时间短的星座里的三分相，与四分相一样有害？把其余的胡话也捆进这一捆里吧；捆好之后，看它一会儿；看过一会儿，请告诉我：上升时间的长短，难道会给星座的性质增添或减少什么吗？

Is not this the way, the onely way to bring the Art into a Labyrinth, if not into a confusion? in truth in my opinion it is; This I will confesse, and give you my reason for it when I have done; one square is not so bad as another; as from Aries to Cancer is worse then from Cancer to Libra, because the Signs Cancer and Libra are in better harmony, as agreeing in passive qualities; namely, moisture, whereas Aries and Cancer disagree totally. By this rule you may find out the rest.

这难道不是把此术引入迷宫——即便不是引入混乱——的办法，而且是唯一的办法吗？说实话，依我看正是如此。有一点我承认，说完之后再给你我的理由：四分与四分并不一样坏；比如从白羊到巨蟹，就比从巨蟹到天秤更坏，因为巨蟹与天秤更为和谐，在被动性质上一致，即都湿；而白羊与巨蟹则完全不合。照这条规则，其余的你可以自己推出来。

Also this I affirme, and will prove it when I have done; that some Semisextiles are worse then some Quartiles; for Pisces is more inimical to Aries then Capricorne; first because it is the twelfth Signe from him, 2. besides disagrees more in qualities.

还有一点我断言，说完之后会加以证明：有些半六分比有些四分更坏；因为双鱼对白羊，比摩羯对白羊更敌对：第一，因为双鱼是从白羊数起的第十二个星座；第二，此外它们在性质上也更不合。

A Sextile Aspect is good, because the Signs which are in Sextile the one to the other are both of the same active quality, both of a sexe both of a time, for example, Aries and Gemini are both masculine, both Diurnall; Taurus and Cancer are both cold, both Feminine, both Nocturnall; but because they differ all in passive qualities, it is not altogether so friendly as trine aspect is; for that consists altogether of Signes of the same nature, sexe, quality and time, and are correspondent the one to the other every way.

六分相是好的，因为彼此成六分的星座，主动性质相同，性别相同，时分相同；例如白羊与双子都是阳性、都是昼性；金牛与巨蟹都冷、都是阴性、都是夜性；但由于它们的被动性质都不相同，所以不像三分相那样完全友好；因为三分相全由本性、性别、性质与时分都相同的星座组成，彼此处处相应。

A Conjunction or Synod is the strongest of all, and cannot properly be called an aspect. A Conjunction of good Planets with good, is exceeding good: It is good in the highest degree. A conjunction of bad Planets with bad Planets is as bad, as the former was good. A conjunction of good Planets with bad is no ways commendable. I have now done, if you will be pleased but to take notice, that the conjunction of all Planets with their Sun is bad, because the Sun who gives them their efficacy, takes it aw⟨?⟩y at such times. I could be Criticall at this, but I shall sorbear it at this time.

会合，或称会聚，是一切之中最强的，严格说来不能叫作相位。吉星与吉星会合，好极了，好到了最高程度。凶星与凶星会合，其坏正如前者之好。吉星与凶星会合，无论如何都不值得称道。我说完了，只请你注意：一切行星与太阳会合都是坏的，因为赋予它们效力的太阳，在这种时候把它们的效力夺走了。对此我本可以评论一番，但这次暂且忍住。