卷五·第二十五章　船只初次下水

XXV. Chapter: On Beginning to Launch a Ship into the Water.

第二十五章　论船只初次下水。

To those who long to sail you may speak these truths.

对那些想要航海的人，你可以说出这些真话。

[1] When no malefic, nor yet a benefic, testifies to the Moon, and she herself is carried above the earth, passing through the first degrees of Aries up to the tenth, so you may judge a fair voyage: that ship will go on its way and set out well and soundly.

[1] 当既无凶星、也无吉星为月亮作证，而她自己在地平之上运行，正经过白羊的头几度、直到第十度时，你可以断定航程顺利：这船会一路前行，出航顺当。

[2] In Taurus there will be a great storm, and waves will meet the ship on the way; and let no malefic look at her, since a grievous end always attends the work for these: if the malefics regard the Moon while she is in Taurus, it signifies the ship's destruction in those waves.

[2] 在金牛，会有大风暴，船在途中会遇上浪；不可有凶星望着她，因为这样的事结局总是悲惨：若月亮在金牛时有凶星照见，表示船会毁在那些浪里。

[3] In Gemini, when someone puts to sea from the eighth degree, the homecoming will be long, but pleasant: the ship will bring what is in it to its goal and be profitable, but delay and slowness will enter into its return and homecoming.

[3] 在双子，若有人在第八度起航，归程会长，却令人愉快：船能把所载运到目的地、有所获利，但回程归来会有耽搁与迟缓。

[4] Cancer, again, will vex them with many calms, yet he will arrive unharmed wherever he wishes: no waves will strike the ship, it will come through safely, and its people will profit by it.

[4] 巨蟹则会以多次无风的平静困扰他们，但他会毫发无损地到达想去的地方：船不会遇浪，平安度过，船上的人从中得益。

[5] If the Moon happens to be descending through grim Leo, there will be some danger on the sea for this man, and a destructive planet, testifying, will add pains upon pains: a calamity will befall the people in the ship, and if the Moon is afflicted, it will add calamity upon calamity for them.

[5] 若月亮恰好经过凶猛的狮子下行，此人在海上会遇到某种危险，若有毁灭性的行星作证，就会痛上加痛：船上的人会遭灾，若月亮受克，便灾上加灾。

[6] The grain-bearing Virgin, indeed, will bring the men no swift voyage, and the return will be neither easy nor quick.

[6] 手持麦穗的处女不会给人带来快速的航程，归程也既不顺也不快。

[7] If the Moon is in Libra, from its beginning up to ten degrees, there is no good in travel by land or by sea, for it is bad; but if she has passed ten degrees of it, it is not bad for travel by sea or by land: the traveller will find no fault with the watery path, nor with anything else, even if he is going home.

[7] 若月亮在天秤，从开头到十度，无论陆行海行都不好，因为这是凶的；若已过了十度，海行陆行都不坏：旅人对这水路不会有怨，对别的也不会，即便他是在回家的路上。

[8] When the Moon is in Scorpio she will make their affairs on the sea safe, and they will come safely through the sea and its calamities; but she is wont to trouble the soul, and the ship's people will meet with such terror that it takes their breath away.

[8] 月亮在天蝎时，会使他们在海上的事平安，他们能安然度过大海及其灾祸；但她惯会搅扰人心，船上的人会遇到令人屏息的惊恐。

[9] Sagittarius drags storm and other fears in its train: misfortune and calamity will befall the ship from the waves.

[9] 射手带来风暴与别的惊惧：船会因浪而遭不幸与灾祸。

[10] Capricorn gives fair sailing when the Moon has passed nine degrees of it, yet it too brings some disturbance to the heart: the people of the ship will meet with such terror that it takes their breath away.

[10] 月亮过了摩羯九度，摩羯便利于航行，但它也会使人心有些不安：船上的人会遇到令人屏息的惊恐。

[11] Aquarius is sluggish: trouble, slowness, and delay will enter into their return, but the end is not to be blamed.

[11] 水瓶迟滞：归程会有纷扰、迟缓与耽搁，但结局无可挑剔。

[12] In Pisces it signifies dangers and calamity and misfortune, and illness besides, especially if Thouros (Mars) looks on with baleful testimony; guard the ship's mast.

[12] 在双鱼，主危险、灾祸与不幸，此外还有疾病，尤其图罗斯（火星）以凶险的证据望着时；要当心船的桅杆。

[13] The Moon signifies all of this when neither the benefics nor the malefics regard her.

[13] 以上这些，都是月亮在吉星凶星都不照见她时所主的。

[14] I shall explain to you something besides this.

[14] 我再给你讲讲别的。

[15] Look: if the Moon is under the earth and the benefics or the malefics regard her, it is bad.

[15] 要看：若月亮在地平之下，而吉星或凶星照见她，就不好。

[16] If the Moon is under the earth with Saturn, Saturn being stationary and in one sign with the Moon, or the Moon is applying to the stationary Saturn or square to him, and the launching of the ship into the water is at that hour, it signifies that great pains and a great and severe calamity will enter upon them; terrible terror and violent waves will befall them, so that the water enters the ship, and those of the ship's people on whom death and destruction have been decreed perish in the sea, or in the water, in those waves.

[16] 若月亮在地平之下与土星同在，土星停留，与月亮同在一个星座；或月亮正入相位于停留的土星，或与他成四分——而船就在那个时刻下水，表示他们会遭大苦、大而重的灾祸，遇到可怕的惊恐与狂浪，以致海水灌进船里，船上命中注定要死、要毁的人就葬身在大海、在浪涛之中。

[17] If the Moon is above the earth, and Saturn, stationary, regards the Moon from trine, it signifies that the people of the ship will throw much of the goods in it into the water in the hope of saving themselves, and even so they will barely escape, after severe toil and hardship.

[17] 若月亮在地平之上，而停留的土星从三分照见月亮，表示船上的人为了求生，会把船上许多货物抛进水里，即便如此，也是历尽艰辛才勉强逃生。

[18] If the Moon is above the earth and Saturn, not being stationary, regards the Moon from trine, it signifies a terrible matter, as though they stood on the edge of a razor; yet even in that terror they are better off than when Saturn is stationary, and only a little harm reaches them.

[18] 若月亮在地平之上，而不在停留中的土星从三分照见月亮，主可怕之事，如同站在剃刀刃上；但即便在那惊恐中，他们的处境也比土星停留时好，所受的伤害不多。

[19] If Saturn in this condition is with Mercury, the terror increases in severity and dreadfulness, the more so if Mercury too is stationary; and if the benefics regard Saturn, that calamity will be lighter and easier, especially if the benefics regard Saturn from his right and from a strong place.

[19] 若这样的土星与水星同在，惊恐会更重更可怕，水星也停留时更甚；若吉星照见土星，那灾祸会轻一些、缓一些，尤其吉星从土星的右方、从有力的位置照见他时。

[20] Saturn in the Ascendant does the like of these, even apart from the round-eyed Moon: as I described the position of Saturn in these positions, so is his condition if Saturn is in the Ascendant, even though he does not regard the Moon.

[20] 土星在上升也会造成同样的事，即便与明眸的月亮无关：我说过土星在那些位置的情形，若土星在上升，即便不照见月亮，情形也一样。

[21] And if he is in the sign in which he was when the man fell from his mother, and that sign has become the Ascendant, or if he is in trine or in square to that sign, or right opposite it, then it would be most terrible and severe.

[21] 若他在此人当初离开母腹时他所在的那个星座，而那个星座又成了上升；或他与那个星座成三分、四分，或正好在其对面，那就最为可怕、最为严重。

[22] If Mars has the same kind of position as I described for Phainon, Mars being under the earth while the Moon goes through the upper hemisphere, that is, going to the tenth from him, and Mars strikes her, it signifies evils above all; but the terror and the calamity are not from water and waves, as I described for the position of Saturn, but on account of clamour, quarrelling, and every trouble from which enmity arises among the people of that ship, and from enemies who are at sea: hatreds and factions in the ship itself, even to bloodshed.

[22] 若火星有我讲法农（土星）时说的那种位置：火星在地平之下，月亮在上半天球运行，即走到他起算的第十宫，而火星击她，主最大的凶；但那惊恐与灾祸不是来自水和浪——如我讲土星位置时所说——而是因为喧哗、争吵和种种纠纷，船上的人之间结下仇怨，以及海上的敌人：船上互相憎恨、结党相争，直至流血。

[23] It also signifies that severe wounds will befall them, their joints will be broken, their blood will flow, and the like.

[23] 这还表示他们会受重伤、关节折断、血流不止，诸如此类。

[24] This is made more severe and dreadful if Mercury is with Mars; but if the benefics regard, the evils are lessened.

[24] 若水星与火星同在，就更严重、更可怕；若有吉星照见，祸患便减轻。

[25] When Pyroeis and Phainon together, and Hermes as a third, regard the Moon while she is above the earth, one from one place and another from another, or all from the same place, then comes hateful and inescapable destruction: that calamity is terrible, and there is no turning it aside and no escape from it for them.

[25] 当皮洛伊斯与法农一起、再加第三颗赫尔墨斯，在月亮位于地平之上时照见她——各从一方，或都从同一处——那就是可憎而无可逃避的毁灭：那灾祸可怕，他们无从躲避、无路可逃。

[26] Likewise baneful Ares mixed with Stilbon signifies the like.

[26] 同样，致命的阿瑞斯与斯提尔邦相混时，也主同样的事。

[27] If Kronos and Ares regard, the one the Sun and the other the Moon, they foretell unseemly and grievous things for them too: a severe and terrible terror befalls them, and more terrible if their regard is from opposition.

[27] 若克洛诺斯与阿瑞斯一个照见太阳、一个照见月亮，也预示他们会遭不堪与悲惨之事：会遇到严重可怕的惊恐，若是从对冲照见，更加可怕。

[28] When the Sun and the Moon are not afflicted, and Zeus, from the square, sees the fair-horned Moon going above the earth, then the voyage will be good, and it is good for beginning to launch the ship into the water and the sea: business and the hopes they hold in their heart will follow them, their works will be successful, easy, and sound, and the good they hoped for and laboured at will not be cut off, but they will obtain it, by God's leave.

[28] 当太阳与月亮都不受克，而宙斯从四分望见角形美好的月亮在地平之上运行时，航程就会顺利，宜于船只初次下水入海：生意与心中所怀的希望都会随之而来，所做的事成功、顺利、妥当，所期望、所经营的好处不会中断，他们终能得到——凭真主的允许。

[29] And much more so when lovely Cytherea looks on together with the Aegis-bearer; and even if she regards the Moon from another sign, she will then bestow many things such as have been said, adding great good to the matter.

[29] 若可爱的库忒瑞亚与执盾者一同望着，就更好；即便她从别的星座照见月亮，也会赐予许多上面说过的好处，使这件事大大增益。

[30] Whichever planet Mercury is with, benefic or malefic, he increases its strength in the share of good or evil that God has decreed.

[30] 水星不论与哪颗行星同在，吉星也好，凶星也好，都会增强它在真主所定的那份吉或凶中的力量。

[31] If the Moon is above the earth and Venus alone regards her, Queen Cypris, even by herself, looking at the swift Moon, will give good things and some quick benefits, a calm voyage, and the dalliance of women: no waves and no calamity will befall them on that journey of theirs, and they will be granted profit and good in it; but it is not like the regard of Jupiter and Venus together, for Venus alone is weak: without Zeus she helps less, and with Zeus she helps more.

[31] 若月亮在地平之上，只有金星照见她，女王库普里斯即便独自望着迅疾的月亮，也会赐予好处、一些很快到来的利益、平静的航程，以及与女人的欢谈：他们这趟行程不会遇浪、不会遭灾，还能得利得福；但这不如木星与金星一同照见，因为金星单独是弱的：没有宙斯，她帮得少；有宙斯，她帮得多。

[32] If the Moon and Venus are both in one sign under the earth, and Venus is under the beams, it signifies that no waves will meet them on that journey and the ship will reach the destination they want without calamity; for Venus under the beams, under the earth with the Moon, gives fair weather and windlessness, though those who put to sea are delayed on the voyage.

[32] 若月亮与金星同在地平之下的一个星座，而金星在光束之下，表示他们这趟行程不会遇浪，船能无灾到达想去的地方；因为在光束之下、与月亮同在地下的金星，带来晴朗与无风，只是出航的人在航程上会有耽搁。

[33] If Jupiter and Venus both regard the Sun and the Moon, and the Moon is with Mercury, it signifies that beginning at that hour to launch the ship into the water or the sea is the best of beginnings, and there is none better: when the governors of good things, together with Hermes, become witnesses to the two lights, the Sun and the Moon, there will be no better voyage than this.

[33] 若木星与金星都照见太阳和月亮，而月亮与水星同在，表示在那个时刻让船下水入海，是最好的开端，没有比这更好的：当掌管好事的诸星与赫尔墨斯一同为两光——太阳与月亮——作见证时，再没有比这更好的航程了。

[34] When planets of evil counsel are in the Ascendant and those that hem in well are with the swift Moon, or the other way round (that is, when the malefics are with the Moon and the benefics in the Ascendant), they make the sea unlucky: that ship will suffer a calamity from the sea, but its people will escape from that fear, by God's leave and decree.

[34] 当心怀恶意的行星在上升，善于护持的行星与迅疾的月亮同在，或反过来（即凶星与月亮同在、吉星在上升）时，它们使大海不吉：这船会在海上遭灾，但船上的人能脱离那场惊恐——凭真主的允许与裁定。

[35] If the Moon, without the regard of the benefics and void of course, is in an angle and in one of the signs named at the beginning of this book, in which it is good for the Moon to be, and the Ascendant holds one of those signs with a benefic, it is good, by God's leave.

[35] 若月亮无吉星照见、处于空亡，而在角上，并在本书开头所列、月亮在其中为吉的星座之一，上升又是这些星座之一且有吉星同在，就好——凭真主的允许。

[36] If the Moon and the Ascendant are empty of the benefics and the malefics, none of them regarding them, and are void of course, let the beginning of launching the ship into the water and the sea be when the Ascendant and the Moon are in one of the signs that I have chosen and approved for beginning this matter, namely Taurus, Gemini, Pisces, Capricorn, Cancer, Virgo, and Sagittarius; then there is no harm for those who put to sea.

[36] 若月亮与上升既无吉星也无凶星，没有哪颗照见它们，又处于空亡，就让船只下水入海的开端，定在上升与月亮位于我为此事挑选、认可的星座之一时，即金牛、双子、双鱼、摩羯、巨蟹、处女、射手；这样出航的人就不会受害。

Above all, one must see that the Moon is not harmed in any of the ways set out in the chapter on the corruption of the Moon.

最要紧的是，要看月亮有没有受到「论月亮之败坏」那一章所列任何一种方式的伤害。

[37] If you want to set out on a ship and want to examine the beginning of that matter, the consideration of its beginning is when the ship is first loosed and pushed off into the water, that is, when the sailors draw the anchor out of the sand; and the beginning of each one who boards it is when the man first sets his foot in it.

[37] 若你想乘船出行、想推求这件事的开端，那么开端要从船初次解缆推入水中时算起，即水手把锚从沙里拔起之时；每个乘船者的开端，则是他第一次把脚踏进船里之时。

[38] When the ship and its people reach the land to which they were bound, the consideration of the beginning of the arrival of the ship and of its people should be a single one.

[38] 当船与船上的人到达所去之地时，推求船与人到达的开端，应当只取一个。

[39] Look into the beginning of a journey by land or by sea: if a man wants to travel by land, and the Moon falls in the seventh, not in a dry sign, and the dry signs have the malefics in them or the malefics regard them; or if he wants to travel by sea, and the Moon is not in a watery sign or a sign of watery nature, and the malefics are in it or regard it, then the beginning of that journey by land or by sea is not good, and what is hateful and hardship will befall him.

[39] 要推求陆行或海行的开端：若有人想走陆路，月亮落在第七宫，不在干燥星座，而干燥星座里有凶星或有凶星照见；或若他想走海路，月亮不在水象星座或水性星座，而其中有凶星或有凶星照见——那么这趟陆行或海行的开端就不好，他会遇到可憎之事与艰难。

[40] If the Moon is afflicted but the benefics are in the dry signs of the land, or regard those signs, it signifies that most likely no calamity will befall them on that journey, and if one befalls them, it will be less than I mentioned.

[40] 若月亮受克，但吉星在属陆的干燥星座，或照见这些星座，表示他们这趟行程多半不会遭灾，即便遭了，也比我说的轻。

[41] If the people of that journey are among those on whom death has not been decreed and whose years have not run out, they will return to their homes; and if hardship befalls them, it will be less than I mentioned.

[41] 若同行的人不在命定当死、寿数已尽之列，他们会回到家中；即便遭了困厄，也比我说的轻。

[42] Of the malefic planets the most harmful are Mars when the traveller travels by land, and Saturn on the sea and the water;

[42] 凶星之中最为害的：陆行时是火星，海上、水上是土星；

[43] and they are most harmful when Jupiter and Venus do not regard them. The worst is when the Moon is in the terms and the face of the malefics, a malefic regards the Moon from opposition or square, and neither Jupiter nor Venus, both or either, regards the Moon.

[43] 木星与金星不照见它们时，为害最甚。最坏的情形是：月亮在凶星的界与面里，有凶星从对冲或四分照见月亮，而木星、金星——两颗或其中一颗——都不照见月亮。