卷二·第二十至二十二章　看宫之法、本命的品级与四种相位

XX. On the Names of the Twelve Places, Which Planets Have Been Allotted Them, and Their Effects.

第二十章　论十二宫的名称、哪些行星分得了它们，以及它们的效验

[1] Now, since we have described the qualities, names, and substance of the twelve places, we ought to show these same places by a brief signification. Let our beginning, then, be the Ascendant, whose starting point the other places follow.

〔一〕现在，既然我们已经讲了十二宫的性质、名称与实质，就应当以简短的指示把这些宫位再显示一遍。那么，让我们以上升点为开端，其余宫位都跟随它的起点。

[2] It will be fitting to call these places by these names: life, hope, the Goddess or brothers, parents, children, health, spouse, death, the God, the Midheaven, the Good Daemon, the Bad Daemon. Through these names and through these places the substance of the whole nativity is sought; once you have carefully examined them, grasped them in your mind, and joined them all together in a combined association, observe which planets occupy those places.

〔二〕宜用这些名字称呼这些宫位：生命、希望、女神或兄弟、父母、子女、健康、配偶、死亡、神、中天、善灵、恶灵。凭这些名称、凭这些宫位，探求整个本命的实质；你仔细考察了它们，在心里把握住它们，又把它们全都以混合的交往联结起来之后，就要注意哪些行星占据着这些宫位。

[3] You will also carefully examine the conditions of the day and night planets, and also what sort of testimonies the benefic planets bear to the individual places, and with what aspect the malefic planets strike these places.

〔三〕你也要仔细考察昼间与夜间行星的阵营，还有吉星为各个宫位作怎样的见证，凶星又以什么相位打击这些宫位。

[4] For whatever place the benefic planets have aspected, whether placed in that same place or by trine or by sextile, all the things we have said must be sought there turn out happily.

〔四〕因为吉星照着的任何宫位，无论是落在那同一宫位，还是以三分或以六分照着，我们说要在那里探求的一切，都会幸运地实现。

[5] But if, without the testimony of the benefic planets, the malefic planets alone have infected these same places, whether placed there or by square or by opposition, then, according to the quality of each place, they heap up with frequent calamities of misfortune all the things we have said must be looked for in the individual places.

〔五〕但倘若没有吉星的见证，只有凶星污染了这些宫位，无论是落在那里，还是以四分或对冲，那么，它们就按每个宫位的性质，把我们说要在各宫中寻看的一切，用频繁的厄运灾祸堆积起来。

[6] But if both benefic and malefic planets have aspected with equal aspect, felicity is diminished, misfortune is mitigated, and the whole substance of the place is settled on a moderate principle of balance, so that people are freed from the harmful malefics by the saving protection of the benefic planets.

〔六〕但倘若吉星与凶星以相等的相位照着，幸福便减少，不幸便缓和，这个宫位的全部实质便以一种适中的均衡道理安顿下来，使人凭吉星的救护之力，摆脱有害的凶星。

[7] Examine also which planet, placed in which place, occupies the domicile or terms of which planet; and if it is placed in another's house, examine which place of the nativity its lord occupies, whether it is in the first angles of the nativity, or in the second places, or in the idle ones, and whether in its exaltation or in its fall, and whether in signs in which it rejoices or in signs in which it is saddened by a certain natural grief.

〔七〕还要考察哪颗行星落在哪个宫位，占据了哪颗行星的庙或界；倘若它落在别星的庙里，就要考察它的庙主占据本命的哪个宫位：是在本命的第一等角里，还是在次等宫里，还是在闲置宫里；是在它的旺，还是在它的落；是在它喜乐的星座，还是在它因某种天生的悲伤而忧愁的星座。

[8] For if the lord of the sign has been well placed, the planet we are inquiring about also borrows a share of its felicity from the joy of its host; but if the lord of that sign is in any way cast down, then the planet we are inquiring about, even if it is placed in suitable places of the nativity and is readily strengthened to grant something, is hindered by the fall of the planet that is lady of the sign, sharing in its dejection.

〔八〕因为倘若星座的主落位良好，我们所探问的那颗行星也从它的东道主的喜乐中借得一份幸福；但倘若那个星座的主以任何方式被打落，那么我们所探问的那颗行星，即使落在本命合宜的宫位、又容易被加强去赐予什么，也会被身为该星座之主的那颗行星的落所阻碍，分担它的低落。

[9] And this you can easily gather from our own doings: if you have entered someone's house as a guest, and the master of the house is lifted up by happy increases, you too become a sharer in his felicity, for you borrow the joy of gladness from the felicities of your host; but if your host is disfigured by wretched squalor and entangled in the abject chances of misfortune, the shared torments of grief and misfortune wear you down as well.

〔九〕这一点你从我们自己的行事里就容易推知：倘若你作为客人进了某人的家，而这家的主人正因幸运的增益而高升，你也成了他幸福的分享者，因为你从东道主的幸福里借得了欢喜之乐；但倘若你的东道主被悲惨的污秽所毁容，被厄运卑贱的遭遇所缠绕，那么共同分担的悲伤与不幸的折磨也会把你消磨。

[10] So too the planets, when as lords of the signs they have been well placed, [probably: raise up their guests; but when badly placed they] [lacuna] cast down, and they bring the dweller and guest of their house into the condition of their own state on an equal principle of association, and shape the power of the guest to their own license.

〔十〕诸星也是如此：作为星座之主，它们落位良好时，〔推测：就提携客星；落位不佳时，客星便随之〕〔此处原文有缺〕被打落，它们就以平等的交往之道，把它们庙中的居住者与客人带进自己状态的处境，并按自己的放任塑造客人的权力。

[11] Inquire also, if it is a day nativity, how the planets that rejoice in day nativities are placed, and how those that rejoice in night nativities; for if the planets that rejoice by day have occupied the chief places in a day nativity and have been found in the first angles, they decree the greatest increases of felicity. But if the planets that we have said rejoice by night have occupied the chief places or the first angles of the nativity in a day nativity, they announce endless misfortunes with unbroken calamities.

〔十一〕还要探问：倘若是白天的本命盘，在昼间本命盘里喜乐的行星落在何处，在夜间本命盘里喜乐的又落在何处；因为倘若白天喜乐的行星在白天的本命盘里占据了首要的宫位，又被发现在第一等的角里，它们就判定幸福的最大增长。但倘若我们说在夜里喜乐的行星，在白天的本命盘里占据了本命的首要宫位或第一等角，它们就宣告无尽的不幸与连续的灾祸。

[12] This we must observe in night nativities as well, but with the order of power reversed; for if in a night nativity the planets that we said rejoice by night have occupied the chief places or the first angles of the nativity, in the same way they decree the greatest increases of felicity. But if in night nativities those planets that we said rejoice in the daytime have occupied the chief places or the first angles of the nativity, they cause the whole adornment of felicity to be entangled in ruinous chances of misery.

〔十二〕这一点我们在夜间的本命盘里也必须遵守，只是权力的次序反过来；因为倘若在夜间的本命盘里，我们说在夜里喜乐的行星占据了本命的首要宫位或第一等角，它们同样判定幸福的最大增长。但倘若在夜间的本命盘里，我们说在白天喜乐的那些行星占据了本命的首要宫位或第一等角，它们就使幸福的全部装饰被缠进毁灭性的苦难遭遇之中。

[13] If all these things have been gathered by careful method, and if you have associated the mixtures of the benefic and malefic planets, the force of the places, and the powers of the signs and degrees by an equal comparison of their combination, you will mark out by an easy explanation of definition the whole man, from his first to his last day, and all his life and hope, his brothers too and parents and children, his health, spouse, death, sect, actions, honors, travels abroad, domicile, foundations, the condition of his friends and enemies, accusations, and dangers.

〔十三〕这一切倘若都用仔细的方法掌握了，倘若你把吉星与凶星的混合、宫位的力量、星座与度数的权能，以对其组合的平等比较联结起来，你就会以容易的定义说明，标出整个人，从他的第一天到最后一天，以及他的全部生命与希望，还有他的兄弟、父母和子女，他的健康、配偶、死亡、宗派、作为、荣誉、出外旅居、居所、根基，他的朋友与仇敌的境况，控告与危险。

[14] This much we have said sufficiently for the present in this book of instruction; but when we come to the effects, we shall state everything first platically, then by precise interpretation, showing all things by easy designation, so that no anxiety of doubt may hinder the knowledge of making pronouncements.

〔十四〕这些，在这本入门书里暂且说得足够了；但当我们到了论效验之时，会把一切先概略地、再以精确的解释说出来，以容易的标示显示一切，好让任何疑惑的不安都不会妨碍下断语的学识。

XXI. On the Qualities of Nativities.

第二十一章　论本命的品级

[1] It is fitting for us to know this too: that a nativity is moderate which has one planet placed in its own domicile and located in the chief places of the nativity; one who has two planets placed in their own domiciles in suitable places of the nativity is lifted up by middling felicities; one who has three will be happy and powerful beyond measure; one who has four planets placed in their own domiciles comes close to the felicity of the gods. The substance of the human race does not allow of more than this number. But one who has no planet placed in its own domicile will be unknown, ignoble, and always entangled in wretched doings.

〔一〕我们也宜知道这一点：一个本命，若有一颗行星落在自己的庙中、又位于本命的首要宫位，是中等的；有两颗行星落在自己的庙中、位于本命合宜宫位的人，被中等的幸福所抬举；有三颗的人，将幸福而有权势，超乎寻常；有四颗行星落在自己庙中的人，接近诸神的幸福。人类的实质不容许超过这个数目。但一颗行星也不在自己庙中的人，将默默无闻、出身卑贱，总被悲惨的境遇所缠绕。

XXII. On Opposite, Trine, Square, and Sextile Signs, and on Those Disjunct or Unseeing.

第二十二章　论对冲、三分、四分、六分的星座，以及不相接或不见的星座

[1] In instructing the astrologer we must also teach this first of all: what opposition is, what trine, what square, what sextile, what is unseeing, and also which is the right trine and which the left, which the right sextile and which the left.

〔一〕教导星占家时，我们首先还必须教这一点：什么是对冲，什么是三分，什么是四分，什么是六分，什么是不见；还有哪个是右三分、哪个是左三分，哪个是右六分、哪个是左六分。

[2] The opposite of Aries is Libra, and of Libra Aries; the opposite of Taurus is Scorpio, and of Scorpio Taurus, and all the other signs in the same way. But so that you may find this not only with your eyes but also by computation, we teach it by a brief example: whatever sign is the seventh from a given sign, that is its opposite. This is always a malignant and threatening aspect.

〔二〕白羊的对冲是天秤，天秤的对冲是白羊；金牛的对冲是天蝎，天蝎的对冲是金牛，其他一切星座也都一样。但为了让你不仅用眼睛、也用计算找到它，我们用一个简短的例子来教：从一个星座数起，第七个星座就是它的对冲。这总是一种恶毒而带威胁的相位。

[3] The trine is the 5th sign from the sign from which we begin, as is taught by this example: from Aries to Leo is a trine, from Taurus to Virgo; thus through all the signs, whatever sign is 5th, that is the trine.

〔三〕三分是从我们起数的那个星座数起的第五个星座，如这个例子所教：从白羊到狮子是三分，从金牛到处女也是；这样遍及一切星座，凡是第五个星座的，就是三分。

[4] We must also know which is the right trine and which the left. The right trine is the one behind the sign from which we begin, the left the one ahead; for example, the right trine of Aries is Sagittarius, the left is Leo; in the same way the right trine of Leo is Aries, the left Sagittarius; the right trine of Sagittarius is Leo, the left Aries. So you will seek the trines in all the other signs as well. This is a prosperous and happy aspect.

〔四〕我们还必须知道哪个是右三分、哪个是左三分。右三分是在我们起数的那个星座后面的，左三分是在前面的；例如白羊的右三分是射手，左三分是狮子；同样，狮子的右三分是白羊，左三分是射手；射手的右三分是狮子，左三分是白羊。在其他一切星座里你也这样寻找三分。这是一种顺遂而幸福的相位。

[5] The square is whatever sign is fourth from the sign from which we begin, as is taught by this example: the square of Aries is the sign Cancer, of Cancer Libra, of Libra Capricorn, and of Capricorn Aries.

〔五〕四分是从我们起数的那个星座数起的第四个星座，如这个例子所教：白羊的四分是巨蟹座，巨蟹的是天秤，天秤的是摩羯，摩羯的是白羊。

[6] Which is the right square and which the left you will find on the same principle as we stated for the trines; for whatever is behind is the right square: the left square of Aries is Cancer, the right is Capricorn; just as in all the other squares, what is behind is right, what is ahead is left. This too is a threatening aspect, composed of malicious power.

〔六〕哪个是右四分、哪个是左四分，你可以按我们讲三分时所说的同样道理找到；因为凡在后面的，就是右四分：白羊的左四分是巨蟹，右四分是摩羯；正如在其他一切四分里，在后面的是右，在前面的是左。这也是一种带威胁的相位，由恶意的力量构成。

[7] Sextiles are the same as trines, except that they are of lesser power; the sextile, then, is the third sign from the sign from which we begin; for example, Gemini is the sextile of Aries.

〔七〕六分与三分相同，只是力量较小；所以六分是从我们起数的那个星座数起的第三个星座；例如双子是白羊的六分。

[8] Which is the right sextile and which the left you will find as with the rest; but so that there may be no dispute, we give examples of this too: the right sextile of Aries is Aquarius, the left is Gemini; so too in the other signs, what is behind is right and what is ahead is left. But those sextiles are stronger which have tropical or double signs between them, while those divided by solid signs are ineffectual.

〔八〕哪个是右六分、哪个是左六分，你可以像其余的那样找到；但为了不起争议，我们也给出这方面的例子：白羊的右六分是水瓶，左六分是双子；在其他星座里也是这样，在后面的是右，在前面的是左。但那些中间夹着回归星座或双体星座的六分较强，而被固定星座隔开的则无效。