卷五·第五章　月亮受损，与开头结局之法

V. On the Corruption of the Moon.

第五章　论月亮受损。

[1] Then he mentioned the condition of the Moon and her corruption: while she is corrupted no one should begin a work or anything at all, but should put it off until the condition of the Moon and of her lord is sound.

[1] 接着他讲月亮的状况与受损：月亮受损时，谁也不要开始任何事情，要把事情推迟到月亮及其主星状况良好的时候。

[2] I shall explain her corruption to you: it is when she is eclipsed, and most severe if her eclipse is in the sign in which the Moon was at the birth of the native, or in a trine of the sign in which the Moon was when the native was born; and she harms also at the conjunction.

[2] 我来给你说明她怎样受损：一是月食，最严重的是食发生在当事人出生时月亮所在的星座，或在那个星座的三方；她在合朔时也有害。

[3] When the Moon is under the beams of the Sun, her light effaced so that she is not seen, she is corrupted; but she is useful for one who wants to commit theft or treachery or something he keeps hidden, and for every work that is concealed or kept secret and that its doer does not want made public.

[3] 月亮在太阳光束之下、光被抹去看不见时，她是受损的；但她对想行窃、背信或暗中谋事的人有用，凡要隐藏、保密、不想公开的事都适用。

Yet even being so, she is the better for evil-doing in her eclipse, and for helping one who devises guile in his heart and acts in secret, and all that calls for silence.

然而即便如此，食中的她更利于作恶，帮那心里设诡计、暗中行事的人，以及一切需要沉默的事。

[4] If it is a work whose doer wants it kept hidden, begin it while the Moon is covered under the beams of the Sun, for this is good for him; and it is worse if it is begun when the Moon is separating from the Sun and has appeared from under the beams [text uncertain].

[4] 若是当事人想隐瞒的事，就在月亮被太阳光束遮住时开始，这对他有利；若在月亮离开太阳、从光束下露出时开始，就更坏〔原文疑有讹误〕。

[5] Corruption also when the dodecatemory of the Moon falls where Mars or Saturn is;

[5] 受损还有：月亮的十二分部落在火星或土星所在之处；

when the Moon is in the ecliptic places, at the middle of the line, descending toward the south, or at the southern limit;

月亮在蚀点，即在那条线的正中向南下降之处，或在南方极限；

and when the Moon is at the full, in opposition to the Sun, for this is bad: she must bring about strife and dissension, and it signifies the onset of a dispute, the smaller of the two belonging to the one who is overcome and defeated [text uncertain].

以及月亮满月、与太阳对冲时，这是坏的：她必然招来争执与分裂，主纷争上身，两者中较小的属于被压服、败诉的一方〔原文疑有讹误〕。

[6] Also when the Moon is with a malefic or a malefic regards her; when the Moon is decreasing in her numbers in longitude or in latitude; and when the Moon is in her least course, that is, when she is decreasing in her reckoning and her motion in a day and a night is less than twelve degrees, for this course of hers resembles the course of Saturn.

[6] 还有：月亮与凶星同在，或凶星照见她；月亮在经度或纬度上数值递减；月亮在最慢的行程，即她的推算值递减、一昼夜行不足十二度的时候，因为这时她的行程像土星的行程。

[7] When it is so, difficulty and slowness enter into the work that is begun at that hour.

[7] 遇到这种情形，那个时刻开始的事情就会艰难迟缓。

[8] Likewise if the Moon in her course is in the path that the learned call the burnt path (the burnt path is at the middle of the line, and it is Libra and Scorpio); and when the Moon is in the last degrees of a sign, for she is then in the terms of Saturn or Mars, and none of their terms is more baneful than the terms at the ends of the signs.

[8] 同样，若月亮行在学者称为「焚烧之路」的路段（焚烧之路在那条线的正中，就是天秤与天蝎）；以及月亮在星座末几度时，因为这时她在土星或火星的界里，而它们的界没有比星座末尾的界更凶的。

[9] When the Moon is cadent from the angle of the house of authority (the Midheaven) into the ninth, falling in a cadent place, the work begun at that hour is dissolved, does not stay in one state, and reversal and trouble enter into it.

[9] 月亮从权位宫（中天）之角落到第九宫、处在果宫时，那个时刻开始的事会解体，不能保持一个状态，其中会有反复与纷乱。

[10] Understand and consider what I have set down for you concerning the corruption of the Moon, and begin nothing while it lasts; but if a matter befalls that cannot be put off until the condition of the Moon is sound, [11] let Jupiter or Venus be in the Ascendant or in the house of authority.

[10] 要领会、思量我给你写下的月亮受损之事，受损时什么也不要开始；若遇到不能推迟到月亮状况转好的事，[11] 就要让木星或金星在上升或在权位宫。

[12] Look at the condition of the planets and their positions: if they fall under the beams, or go retrograde in their course, or fall in a bad, cadent place, that is, where a planet is falling from an angle, they have little power.

[12] 要看诸星的状况与位置：若它们落在光束下，或逆行，或落在坏的果宫——就是从角落下的位置——它们就没有多少力量。

[13] If a malefic is with one of them in the same degree, or regards it from trine, square, or sextile, or is with it in one sign, this signifies that the work has no power.

[13] 若有凶星与它同度，或从三分、四分、六分照见它，或与它同在一个星座，表示这件事没有力量。

[14] When the planets are in the signs that the learned call dark, they have no power, nor have their rays when they are so.

[14] 诸星在学者称为「暗」的星座里时，没有力量，那时它们的光线也没有力量。

[15] In every inception look to the description given by Valens the philosopher, and consider his words, for he used to look into matters with a subtle and exact consideration.

[15] 每次起事，都要参看哲人瓦伦斯的说法，思量他的话，因为他看事情精细而严密。

[16] He said: In the inception of every work look at the Sun and the Moon and at the lords of the two signs in which the luminaries are, and with that look at the Ascendant and the Midheaven.

[16] 他说：每件事起事时，要看太阳和月亮，看两光所在的两个星座的主星，同时看上升与中天。

Look at the great Sun and the swift Moon, and at the kings of the houses in which the two lights have stepped, and besides them at the Hour-marker and at the sign that touches the topmost aether, attending on the Midheaven; and see which of these places the Moon holds, and who is her lord.

你要看伟大的太阳与迅疾的月亮，看两光所踏入的那些宫的君王，再看时辰标记者（上升），以及触及最高天际、侍立中天的星座；看月亮占着其中哪个位置，谁是她的主。

[17] If someone begins a work while the Moon is in the Ascendant or the Midheaven or another of the angles, and the lord of the Moon's sign falls in a cadent place, falling away from the angle, the beginning of that work is good and its end bad, and harm and what is not desired enter into it from this.

[17] 若有人起事时月亮在上升、中天或别的角，而月亮所在星座的主星落在果宫、离开了角，这件事开头好、结局坏，由此会有伤害与不如意的事。

If he is in the cadent places and she herself in the angles, in its first stages the work will appear favourable and bright, but afterwards its bound will play him false, and its end will perish.

若他在果宫，而她自己在角，事情在起初会显得顺利光明，但后来它的界限会欺骗他，结局归于毁灭。

[18] For the beginnings belong to the much-turning Moon herself, and the end to the god who rules her house: the Moon is the indicator of the root of every work, and the lord of the sign in which the Moon is, the indicator of its end.

[18] 因为开端属于多变的月亮本身，终局属于主宰她宫位的神：月亮指示每件事的根本，月亮所在星座的主星指示它的结局。

[19] If you find the lord of the Moon in a good place and the Moon in a bad place, the beginning of that matter is bad and its end good and profitable, by God the Exalted's leave.

[19] 若见月亮的主星在好的位置而月亮在坏的位置，这件事开头坏，结局好而有益——凭至高真主的允许。

[20] If you find the lord of the Moon in a strong place and the Moon in a cadent place, this signifies that the beginning of the work will be difficult and slow, with no good in it, and its end good, coming to him as he desires.

[20] 若见月亮的主星在有力的位置而月亮在果宫，表示这件事开头艰难迟缓、没有好处，结局却好，如他所愿。

[21] If the Moon and her lord fall in strong places, this signifies that both the beginning and the end of the work will turn out as he desires.

[21] 若月亮与其主星都落在有力的位置，表示这件事的开头与结局都会如他所愿。

[22] If the Moon and her lord fall in cadent places, the beginning and the end of that work are alike useless.

[22] 若月亮与其主星都落在果宫，这件事的开头与结局同样无用。

[23] If the lord of the Moon falls in the signs that follow the angles, which are called the difficult ones, this signifies that the work begun will have delay in its beginning and slowness in its end.

[23] 若月亮的主星落在紧随诸角之后的星座——称为「难」的那些——表示所开始的事开头有拖延，结局也迟缓。

[24] Look also from which planet the Moon is separating.

[24] 还要看月亮正在离开哪颗星。

[25] If you find her separating from the benefics, it is good for every work that is begun, except for one who wants to flee from the ruler, or from his land, or to run away from his master; for these fare best when the Moon at that hour is separating from the malefics, and it is more likely that they will not be caught.

[25] 若见她离开吉星，对所开始的任何事都好，只有想逃离君主、逃离本乡或背离主人的人除外；对这些人来说，那个时刻月亮离开凶星最好，他们更有可能不被抓到。

[26] With that look at the lord of her ninth-part (nawbahr) and at the planet to which the Moon applies; for the consideration of the beginning and the end of a matter of this kind is not right until you look for its beginning to the lord of the Lot of Fortune, and for its end to the planet to which the Moon applies.

[26] 同时要看她的九分部（瑙巴赫尔）之主，以及月亮入相位的那颗星；因为这类事的开头与结局要判断得准，就得从福点之主看它的开头，从月亮入相位的星看它的结局。

[27] This subject has been described in the chapter in which he treats of flight and theft.

[27] 这一项在他论逃亡与盗窃的那一章里已经讲过。

[28] He said: Look at the Moon, at the lord of the house in which she is, and at the planet to which the Moon applies, and see how you find the position of the Moon and of the planet to which she applies, and their strength in the angles, for these two are the indicators of this.

[28] 他说：要看月亮、她所在宫的主星，以及月亮入相位的那颗星，看月亮与那颗星的位置如何、在诸角中的力量如何，因为这两者是此事的指征。

[29] If the Moon is with two malefics in one sign, pressed between them in that sign, and the benefics regard her from square, a man will be saved and escape from the calamity and trial with which he is afflicted at that hour.

[29] 若月亮与两颗凶星同在一个星座、被夹在它们中间，而有吉星从四分照见她，那么人在那个时刻遭遇的祸患与考验，他会得救脱身。

[30] If the Moon falls where the lords of her triplicity are benefics, and none of the malefics is in opposition to the Moon, and the benefics and the malefics regard her from square, this signifies that he will be saved from what he has fallen into, but will fall into another calamity before he escapes from his first; then he will be saved, if God the Exalted wills.

[30] 若月亮所在之处的三分主是吉星，没有凶星与月亮对冲，而吉星与凶星都从四分照见她，表示他会从所陷之事中得救，但在脱离第一场祸患之前又会陷入另一场；然后得救——若至高的真主意欲。

[31] If you find the Moon in trine with the benefics and the malefics regard her from square, this signifies the same.

[31] 若见月亮与吉星成三分，而凶星从四分照见她，主的也是同样的事。

[32] In the inception of every matter look at the Ascendant and the Moon. [33] The Moon is strongest when she is above the earth, especially by night; and the Ascendant is strongest when the Moon is under the earth by day.

[32] 每件事起事都要看上升与月亮。[33] 月亮在地平之上时最强，尤其在夜里；白天月亮在地平之下时，上升最强。

[34] This is what he mentioned at the head of his book; then for every work that people begin he set down a separate chapter, containing the power of the seven and the twelve, which of the seven and the twelve is lord of that work, and on what day and hour one should begin each work.

[34] 以上是他在书首所讲的；此后他为人们所开始的每一种事各立一章，讲七星与十二宫的力量、七星与十二宫中谁是那件事的主，以及每件事该在哪一天、哪一时开始。