卷三·第一章　释放者、总管与寿年的推算

In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.

奉至仁至慈的真主之名。

Here begins the third book of Dorotheus, which he composed on the releaser (hīlāj) and the kadkhudah, that is, the governor and the indicator of the time of the years of life.

多罗修斯第三卷由此开始，他写这一卷论释放者（hīlāj）与 kadkhudah，即总管与指示寿年之时者。

[1] I. First of all, he said:

[1] 第一章。首先，他说：

[2] Look at Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars. If you find them oriental or in one of the two stations, then even if they are under the beams of the Sun, within the Sun's degrees, this is not reckoned as occidental.

[2] 看土星、木星与火星。若见它们东出，或在两个停留点之一，那么即使它们在太阳光束下、在太阳的度数之内，也不算西入。

[3] If you find them, seven days before the birth or seven days after it, in the places I have named for you, within the bounds of these three, that planet is the governor of the nativity.

[3] 若在出生前七天或出生后七天，见它们在我给你说过的位置、在这三颗星的界限之内，那颗星就是诞生盘的总管。

[4] A planet is oriental when it is behind the Sun, and occidental when it is in front of it.

[4] 行星在太阳之后就是东出，在太阳之前就是西入。

[5] When there are fifteen degrees between Saturn and the Sun, and likewise between Jupiter and the Sun [lacuna] degrees, between Mars and the Sun eighteen degrees, between Venus and the Sun [lacuna] degrees, and between Mercury and the Sun nineteen degrees — whenever you find them behind the Sun by these degrees, say that they have the power of orientality.

[5] 土星与太阳相距十五度，木星与太阳相距〔此处原文有缺〕度，火星与太阳相距十八度，金星与太阳相距〔此处原文有缺〕度，水星与太阳相距十九度——只要见它们在太阳之后达到这些度数，就说它们有东出之力。

[6] If one of them is under the beams of the Sun, it is the one that is not seen.

[6] 若其中一颗在太阳光束下，就是看不见的那颗。

[7] Look also, on the third day after the birth, at the Moon: in the terms of which planet she is. If that planet is a benefic and its lord is in a good place, regarding the Moon from a sound place in trine, and the Moon is in an angle or in the place following an angle, say that the native's affairs are all good.

[7] 还要看出生后第三天的月亮，在哪颗星的界里。若那颗星是吉星，它的主又在好位置，从一个好位置以三分照见月亮，而月亮在角或紧随角的位置，就说此人诸事皆好。

[8] If the lord of the Moon's terms is a malefic and is in an angle, and the Lot of Fortune is opposite the Moon, say without doubt that the native is bad.

[8] 若月亮的界主是凶星且在角，福点又与月亮相对，就毫无疑问地说此人不好。

[9] If the lord of the terms, whether benefic or malefic, is in a good place regarding the Moon, it is middling.

[9] 若界主不论吉凶，在好位置照见月亮，就是中等。

[10] Look at the conjunction of the Moon, both her quarters, and the opposition, which is the full moon; for if the Moon is in one of these stations, the lord of the Moon's terms has the stronger claim to the native.

[10] 要看月亮的合朔、上下两弦，以及对冲即望月；因为月亮若在这几个位置之一，月亮的界主对此人就最有主权。

[11] If you do not find the lord of the Moon's terms in an angle or in the place following an angle, look at the lord of the Ascendant's terms, for the degree of the Ascendant then has the better claim.

[11] 若见月亮的界主既不在角、也不在紧随角的位置，就看上升的界主，因为这时上升的度数更有资格。

[12] If it is as I have said, look to see who is the lord of the house,

[12] 若如我所说，就看庙主是谁，

[13] and if it is oriental in a good place, it has the better claim. If you find the lord of the house under the beams, look at its own lord, and look at the place in which it is, whether it is masculine or feminine.

[13] 若它东出又在好位置，就更有资格。若见庙主在光束下，就看它的主，并看它所在的位置是阳是阴。

[14] If the lord of the Sun's terms is in a good place, it is the governor of the releaser.

[14] 若太阳的界主在好位置，它就是释放者的总管。

[15] If the Sun is in the seventh or the eighth sign and the sign is masculine, the lord of the Sun's terms has the stronger claim; but if the Sun is in a feminine sign, it is not so, for the Sun has then been made feminine twice, once by the sign in which it is and once by its place among the twelve.

[15] 若太阳在第七或第八个星座，而星座属阳，太阳的界主最有主权；但若太阳在阴性星座就不然，因为太阳被阴性化了两次：一次因所在星座，一次因在十二位中的位置。

[16] If you find the Sun in this position in a nativity, look at the Moon.

[16] 若在诞生盘里见太阳在这个位置，就看月亮。

[17] If the Moon is above the earth, in the Midheaven or in the place following the Midheaven, and in a feminine sign, the lord of the Moon's terms has the stronger claim, unless it is under the beams of the Sun.

[17] 若月亮在地平之上，在中天或紧随中天的位置，又在阴性星座，月亮的界主最有主权，除非它在太阳光束下。

[18] If you find the Moon in the angle of the Descendant or in the place following that angle, in whatever sign, the Moon is the releaser and the lord of her terms has a stronger claim to the governorship than any other; and likewise in a nocturnal nativity.

[18] 若见月亮在下降之角或紧随这个角的位置，不论在哪个星座，月亮就是释放者，她的界主比任何别的星更有资格当总管；夜生盘也一样。

[19] If you find the Moon cadent and, in a nocturnal nativity, the Sun under the earth or in the fifth place, then the lord of the Sun's terms, if it has come out of the beams, has the stronger claim to the native.

[19] 若见月亮落在果宫，而夜生盘里太阳在地平之下或在第五位，那么太阳的界主若已出光束，对此人最有主权。

[20] If the lord of the Moon's terms is under the beams, you also need to look at the Sun by night: if it is in the fifth or the fourth, it takes charge of this.

[20] 若月亮的界主在光束下，夜里也要看太阳：若它在第五或第四，就由它来掌管。

[21] But if the Sun and the Moon are both cadent or weak in their light, so that the two luminaries have no power, or one of the luminaries is weak, look at the degree of the Ascendant.

[21] 但若太阳与月亮都落在果宫或光弱，两光都无力，或其中一个弱，就看上升的度数。

[22] If you find the lord of this Ascendant under the beams or cadent, say that there is ruin in that native and that he has no upbringing.

[22] 若见这个上升的主在光束下或落在果宫，就说此人有败坏，养不大。

[23] But if there is also a benefic in the Ascendant, within fifteen degrees of it, mix this planet with the releaser.

[23] 但若同时有吉星在上升、离上升点十五度以内，就把这颗星与释放者合参。

[24] If the releaser is the Moon and the Moon is in Cancer, with the lord of her terms in square or trine to her, say that he will be reared; likewise if you find the Sun in its own house; but if it is in any other house, look at the lord of its terms and of its house.

[24] 若释放者是月亮，月亮在巨蟹，她的界主与她成四分或三分，就说此人能养大；若见太阳在自己的庙也一样；但若在别的庙，就看它的界主与庙主。

[25] Suppose that the Sun was in the first degrees of Aries and the lord of its terms and of its house regards it: then this is the indicator.

[25] 设想太阳在白羊的头几度，它的界主兼庙主照见它：那么这就是指示星。

[26] As for Mars and Jupiter, if they are in the angles, or in the places following the angles, or in the places I mentioned above, or in their own houses, terms, exaltations, triplicities, or portions, it is good; for the planet with the strongest claim to the native is the one in whose house, terms, face, exaltation, or triplicity the releaser is.

[26] 至于火星与木星，若在角、在紧随角的位置、在我上面说过的位置，或在自己的庙、界、旺、三方或尊贵之位，都好；因为对此人最有主权的行星，就是释放者落在它的庙、界、面、旺或三方的那颗。

[27] Now I shall explain to you the length of life and the number of years as I myself have tested it, for perhaps you will want to see it in the tables as I have shown you.

[27] 现在我照自己验证过的，给你讲明寿命长短与年数，因为你或许想照我教你的那样在历表里看。

[28] A native was born in the year 96 of the years of Darinus [text uncertain], in the month of Mihr, on the second day, at one and a half equal hours of the day.

[28] 有一人生于达里努斯〔原文疑有讹误〕纪年第九十六年，米赫尔月第二日，白天第一个半均时。

[29] I want to know the places of the releaser from which [the years] are born, for they are five places, and there was none of them occupied by the planets except the Ascendant, in which the Sun was, and that is the best of places.

[29] 我想知道释放者的位置——年数由此而生——这样的位置有五个，其中除了太阳所在的上升外，都没有行星；而上升是最好的位置。

[30] Reckon for this native from the degrees of the Ascendant, and let its degrees proceed in the clime in which the native was born, which is the fourth clime.

[30] 这个人就从上升的度数起算，让它的度数按此人出生的纬度带推进，那是第四纬度带。

[31] Saturn was in Taurus at 4 degrees 34 minutes [corrected: Arabic has 4 degrees 30 minutes; chart and computation], and it casts its ray by sextile to 5 degrees of Pisces.

[31] 土星在金牛四度三十四分〔校改：阿拉伯文作四度三十分；据盘面与本文算式〕，以六分把光线投到双鱼五度。

[32] Since the Ascendant was at 18 degrees, it had already passed the ray of Saturn and does not come down to it.

[32] 因为上升在十八度，已过了土星的光线，不会再降到那里。

[33] Then Mars, in Taurus at 24 degrees 50 minutes, casts its ray to 25 degrees of Pisces.

[33] 再者，火星在金牛二十四度五十分，把光线投到双鱼二十五度。

[34] I wanted to know in how many years the Ascendant reaches the ray of Mars.

[34] 我想知道上升要几年才到达火星的光线。

[35] I took the 18 degrees of the Ascendant and found, in my clime and in the table of the twelve signs, set beneath it 352 degrees 30 minutes, and I wrote this down separately.

[35] 我取上升的十八度，在我所在纬度带的十二星座表里，查到它下面列的是三百五十二度三十分，另行记下。

[36] Then I took 24 degrees 50 minutes, where Mars casts its ray in Pisces, and found the rising times beneath it to be 356 degrees 48 minutes; I subtracted the 352 degrees 30 minutes of the Ascendant, and there remain 4 degrees 18 minutes.

[36] 再取火星投射光线所到的双鱼二十四度五十分，查得其下的上升时间是三百五十六度四十八分；减去上升的三百五十二度三十分，余四度十八分。

[37] I said that the degrees of the Ascendant reach the sextile ray of Mars in 4 years and a fifth and a tenth of a year.

[37] 我说，上升的度数在四又五分之一又十分之一年时到达火星的六分光线。

[38] Because Venus is in this term, she dissolved the fear and affliction that Mars signified; it did not kill him, and this affliction passed him by. For whenever the ray of a benefic is found together with the ray of the malefics, the benefic dissolves what the malefic signified; but if the malefic alone casts its ray, without the benefics, he does not survive long before he dies.

[38] 因为金星在这个界里，她化解了火星所主的惊恐与灾祸；他没有死，这场灾祸从他身边过去了。因为只要凶星的光线里同时有吉星的光线，吉星就化解凶星所主的事；若只有凶星投射光线而无吉星，他不久就会死。

[39] Then, when the degrees of the Ascendant leave Aries, they come down to the terms of Taurus and to the place in which Saturn is.

[39] 接着，上升的度数离开白羊，降到金牛的界与土星所在的位置。

[40] I reckoned this in the following way in the clime in which I am, and found the rising times beneath 30 degrees of Aries to be 19 degrees 12 minutes.

[40] 我在我所在的纬度带这样计算，查得白羊三十度之下的上升时间是十九度十二分。

[41] I wanted to subtract from this the time-degrees beneath the degree of the Ascendant.

[41] 我想从中减去上升度数之下的时间度数。

[42] Because those are more than the 19 degrees 12 minutes of Aries and I could not subtract them, I added the whole circle, which is 360 degrees, and subtracted the 352 degrees 30 minutes beneath the degree of the Ascendant; there remain 26 degrees 42 minutes.

[42] 因为它比白羊的十九度十二分大，减不了，我就加上整圈三百六十度，再减去上升度数之下的三百五十二度三十分，余二十六度四十二分。

[43] I said that the degree of the Ascendant leaves Aries in 26 years and a half and a fifth of a year.

[43] 我说，上升的度数在二十六又二分之一又五分之一年时离开白羊。

[44] This makes it clearer that the reaching of the degree of the Ascendant to a malefic signifies a great affliction if none of the benefics casts its ray to that term; for perhaps affliction and death come to him even before the degree reaches the malefic.

[44] 这就更清楚了：上升的度数到达凶星，若没有吉星把光线投到那个界里，主大灾；因为他也许在度数到达凶星之前就遭灾而死。

[45] That is in 26 years and a half and a fifth of a year.

[45] 那是在二十六又二分之一又五分之一年。

[46] But I wanted to know when it reaches the degree of Saturn.

[46] 但我想知道它何时到达土星的度数。

[47] I took the 4 degrees 34 minutes [corrected: Arabic has 4 degrees 30 minutes; chart and computation] in which Saturn is, in the clime and the table of the twelve signs, and found the rising times to be 22 degrees 21 minutes.

[47] 我取土星所在的四度三十四分〔校改：阿拉伯文作四度三十分；据盘面与本文算式〕，在纬度带的十二星座表里，查得上升时间是二十二度二十一分。

[48] Because this is less than what I wanted to subtract from it, I added the circle to it, making 382 degrees 21 minutes, and subtracted from it what is set beneath the degree of the Ascendant, 352 degrees 30 minutes; there remain 29 degrees 51 minutes.

[48] 因为它比要减的数小，我就加上整圈，得三百八十二度二十一分，再减去上升度数下面列的三百五十二度三十分，余二十九度五十一分。

[49] I said that in 29 years and a half and a quarter and a tenth of a year the degree of the Ascendant reaches Saturn.

[49] 我说，在二十九又二分之一又四分之一又十分之一年时，上升的度数到达土星。

[50] Because the Sun cast its ray by sextile to the first term of Taurus, where Saturn was, the heat of the Sun repelled the affliction of Saturn; a severe affliction passed over him, and he did not perish.

[50] 因为太阳以六分把光线投到土星所在的金牛第一界，太阳的热力挡住了土星的凶害；一场重灾从他身上过去，他没有死。

[51] At 22 degrees of Taurus the degree of the Ascendant reaches the place where Mars is.

[51] 到金牛二十二度，上升的度数到达火星所在之处。

[52] I took 22 degrees of Taurus and entered them into the clime and the table of the twelve signs, and found the rising times to be 35 degrees 24 minutes.

[52] 我取金牛二十二度，放进纬度带与十二星座表，查得上升时间是三十五度二十四分。

[53] Because it is small and I could not subtract from it what I wanted, I added the circle to it, making 395 degrees 24 minutes, and subtracted the 352 degrees 30 minutes belonging to the Ascendant; there remain 42 degrees 54 minutes.

[53] 因为它小，减不了，我就加上整圈，得三百九十五度二十四分，再减去属于上升的三百五十二度三十分，余四十二度五十四分。

[54] I said that it reaches the term in which Mars is in 42 years and a half and a third and two-thirds of a tenth of a year.

[54] 我说，它在四十二又二分之一又三分之一又十分之一的三分之二年时，到达火星所在的界。

[55] The degree of the Ascendant to the degree of Mars:

[55] 上升的度数到火星的度数：

[56] I reckoned it thus. I entered the 24 degrees 50 minutes that Mars has in Taurus into the clime in which I am and its table, and found the rising times to be 37 degrees 43 minutes; because it is small I added the circle, making 397 degrees 43 minutes, and subtracted the 352 degrees 30 minutes belonging to the Ascendant; there remain 45 years and a sixth and half a tenth of a year, when the Ascendant reaches Mars.

[56] 我这样算：把火星在金牛的二十四度五十分放进我所在的纬度带及其表里，查得上升时间是三十七度四十三分；因为它小，就加上整圈，得三百九十七度四十三分，减去属于上升的三百五十二度三十分，余四十五又六分之一又半个十分之一年，这时上升到达火星。

[57] Because Venus too casts her ray by sextile to this place, she dissolved the affliction of Mars, and he did not perish, because of the regard of Venus and the ray that she cast to that place; and this affliction passed him by.

[57] 因为金星也以六分把光线投到这个位置，她化解了火星的凶害；由于金星照见、把光线投到那里，他没有死，这场灾祸从他身边过去了。

[58] Then no ray reached him until the Ascendant reached Cancer, and the degrees of Taurus and Gemini pass over him, because none of the malefics regards until it reaches the degrees of Cancer.

[58] 此后再没有光线到他身上，直到上升到达巨蟹；金牛、双子的度数从他身上过去，因为在到达巨蟹的度数之前，没有一颗凶星照见。

[59] Then the degrees of the Ascendant enter the beginning of Cancer, and Saturn regards them.

[59] 接着上升的度数进入巨蟹之初，土星照见它们。

[60] I reckoned in this way.

[60] 我这样计算。

[61] I entered 30 degrees of Gemini into my clime and its table and found the rising time to be 71 degrees 15 minutes [corrected: Arabic has 71 degrees 25 minutes; computation]; because it is small I added the circle and subtracted the 352 degrees 30 minutes, and there remain 78 degrees 45 minutes.

[61] 我把双子三十度放进我所在的纬度带及其表里，查得上升时间是七十一度十五分〔校改：阿拉伯文作七十一度二十五分；据算〕；因为它小，就加上整圈，再减去三百五十二度三十分，余七十八度四十五分。

[62] I said that the degrees of the Ascendant enter the first term of Cancer and the sextile ray of Saturn in 78 years and a half and a quarter.

[62] 我说，上升的度数在七十八又二分之一又四分之一年时进入巨蟹第一界与土星的六分光线。

[63] Then I reckoned its reaching the degree of Saturn.

[63] 接着我算它到达土星度数的时间。

[64] I took the 4 degrees 34 minutes [corrected: Arabic has 4 degrees 30 minutes; chart and computation] at which Saturn is and entered them into the rising times of Cancer, and they come to 76 degrees 20 minutes; I add the circle and subtract from it the 352 degrees 30 minutes, and there remain 83 years and a half and a third of a year.

[64] 我取土星所在的四度三十四分〔校改：阿拉伯文作四度三十分；据盘面与本文算式〕，放进巨蟹的上升时间里，得七十六度二十分；加上整圈，再减去三百五十二度三十分，余八十三又二分之一又三分之一年。

[65] Because the Sun regards from trine and casts its ray to this term in which the ray of Saturn is, the affliction was dissolved this time; then he perished when the ray of Mars came to him.

[65] 因为太阳从三分照见，把光线投到土星光线所在的这个界里，这一次灾祸被化解了；后来火星的光线来到时，他就死了。

[66] It is never right to look at the course of these degrees alone; you must also look at the course of the Moon's degrees, for the reaching of the Moon's degree to the malefics signifies affliction, especially if the benefics do not regard together with them; if they do regard, the affliction and death are dissolved.

[66] 只看这些度数的推进是绝对不行的，还要看月亮度数的推进；因为月亮的度数到达凶星主灾，尤其没有吉星一同照见时；若有吉星照见，灾祸与死亡就被化解。

[67] You should look at the transits of the planets and at the revolution of the years by them; perhaps they made it troublesome and ruined the life, though we have not found this description in everyone.

[67] 你该看行星的行经，以及按行星推的流年；它们也许会带来麻烦、败坏性命，不过我们并非在每个人身上都见到这种情形。

[68] For I have sought this through long years and taken every pain until I set this down.

[68] 因为我多年来探求此事，费尽辛劳，才把它写定。

[69] Look also at the casting of rays in latitude; for perhaps a planet regards from opposition, but when you reckon it by latitude you find one in the south and the other in the north; this is neither an opposition nor a casting of rays, and yet it still signifies affliction.

[69] 还要看黄纬上的光线投射；因为也许一颗星从对冲照见，但按黄纬一算，一个在南、一个在北；这既不是对冲，也不是投射光线，却仍主灾祸。

[70] If you find the Sun and the Moon in the sixth, the eighth, or the twelfth, and the malefics regard them, they signify destruction when their degrees reach the malefics.

[70] 若见太阳与月亮在第六、第八或第十二，又有凶星照见，它们的度数到达凶星时主死亡。

[71] But if they are in a bad place and are not afflicted, and you find the malefics casting their rays at the same degrees as theirs, the affliction that comes passes, and he does not perish in it.

[71] 但若它们在坏的位置而本身没有受克，又见凶星把光线投到与它们相同的度数，那么来到的灾祸会过去，他不会因此而死。