卷四·第七至九章　月亮行向水星、月亮空行、离开土星

VII. The Moon to Mercury.

第七章　月亮行向水星

[1] If the Moon is moving toward Mercury and joins itself to it by the aspect of its course, and is full of light, it will make the natives sagacious, talented, orators shining with the highest distinction of eloquence, especially if Mercury, placed in favorable places of the nativity, is found in its own signs or in its own degrees, and Jupiter has aspected it with a trine aspect; for then the greatest insignia are conferred on them by merit of their learning and the splendor of their eloquence. For these men restrain by the power of their eloquence the fickle minds of the people, stirred up by turbulent seditions, and by the freedom of their speech they can soothe raging minds stirred up by the indignation of desperate fury; they will know calculation, they will know music, they will always practise wrestling, and they come to know the secrets of heavenly and divine discussions, and on these grounds a substance of glory and the greatest preeminence are decreed for them.

〔一〕倘若月亮行向水星，以它运行的相位与之相结，而光满，就会使本命之人聪敏、有才，成为以最高的雄辩声誉而光彩照人的演说家，尤其是倘若水星落在本命的吉利宫位，又被发现在自己的星座或自己的度数里，而木星以三分的相位照着它；因为那时凭学问之功与雄辩的光彩，极大的徽章会赐给他们。因为这些人能以雄辩之力约束被动荡的叛乱激起的民众浮动之心，能以言辞的自由平抚被绝望狂怒的愤慨激起的狂暴之心；他们会懂计算，懂音乐，总练习角力，又得知天上与神圣论说的奥秘，因这些缘故，荣耀的实质与极大的首位判给他们。

[2] But if the Moon is moving toward Mercury so placed, with such a testimony of Jupiter, it will always cause them to be put in charge of the accounts of the treasury or of the people, or at any rate renders them such men as are entrusted with deposits, even by foreign nations; it will also cause the handling of money to be entrusted to them in continual dealings.

〔二〕但倘若月亮行向这样落位、又有木星这样见证的水星，就总会使人被派去主管国库或民众的账目，或至少使他们成为连外邦之人都把寄存之物托付给他们的人；它还会使钱款的经手在不断的往来中托付给他们。

[3] But if the Moon, waning, is moving toward Mercury, it will make men malignant, malicious, wicked, unstable in their desires, wavering in error, who always hold all their plans in suspense through erratic doubt of manifold kinds, who change their actions by continual alteration, who deny the things entrusted to them or long to make public what is hidden, and who betray by public denunciation the counsels committed to them; impostors, always deceiving with malicious desire, or men who share a guilty knowledge with housebreakers or with thieves, or else they will themselves be thieves or housebreakers; they will indeed be weak in body, languid, defective, and such as illness, brought on by malignant humors, always enfeebles.

〔三〕但倘若亏缺的月亮行向水星，就会使人阴毒、恶意、邪恶，欲望不定，在谬误中摇摆，总以多种多样漂浮的疑虑把一切计划悬而不决，以不断的变更改换自己的事务，抵赖托付给他们的东西，或渴望把隐藏之事公开，以公开的告发出卖托付给他们的机密；他们是骗子，总以恶意的欲望欺骗人，或与破门盗贼或窃贼同谋知情，或者他们自己就是窃贼或破门盗贼；他们当然身体虚弱、萎靡、带缺损，由恶性体液招致的疾病总削弱他们。

VIII. If the Moon Is Moving toward No Planet.

第八章　倘若月亮不行向任何行星

[1] But if the Moon is so placed that it is moving toward no planet, and does not join itself to any star by its own aspect, and no benefic star occupies the angles, it will make men poor, abject, destitute of all necessities, denied the supports of daily life, always wanting the help of others to sustain life, and enduring the straits of poverty by wretched begging; they will be infinitely inferior to their parents, and their body will be weak, languid, and wasted by continual emaciation.

〔一〕但倘若月亮这样落位，以致不行向任何行星，也不以自己的相位与任何星相结，又没有吉星占住四角，就会使人贫穷、卑贱，缺少一切必需之物，被拒绝给予每日生活的依靠，总需要他人的帮助来维持生命，以可悲的乞讨忍受贫穷的窘迫；他们会远远不如父母，身体虚弱、萎靡，被不断的消瘦耗损。

They will be assailed by malignant humors and worn down by the continual swelling of sores; and in them a malignant humor beneath the skin always binds the joints with stony concretions, especially if the Moon, running through the void, which the Greeks call cenodromos, is struck by Saturn or Mars with a square or opposite aspect, or if, running through the void on the third day after birth, it has been struck by Mars or Saturn with the same aspect we have mentioned, or if the malefics are placed in the angles.

他们会受恶性体液侵袭，被疮肿不断的肿胀消磨；在他们皮下，恶性体液总以石样的结块缠住关节，尤其是倘若空行的月亮——希腊人称为克诺德罗摩斯——被土星或火星以四分或对冲的相位打击，或倘若在出生后第三天空行时，它被火星或土星以我们所说的同样相位打击，或倘若凶星落在四角。

[2] But if, running in this way, that is, through the void, it has been met by the aspect of benefic stars, it will always make them empty-handed and destitute in early life, but it causes them to be worn down by continual labors and shakes them with continual occasions of misery, as they seek their support with the greatest sweat and the greatest toil; and when it has brought them close to good fortune, it makes them slip down again from the highest step in a falling ruin, and at times, though they have been brought to the very summit, it does not allow them to grasp full good fortune. For directing its course through empty signs, it causes the first part of life to be entangled in wretched and various mischances of misfortune. But when it has shaken mind and body with a heavy succession of misfortunes, has broken their youth with many dangers, and dragged them hither and thither in wretched wandering abroad, then it decrees the increase of many goods and of the greatest good fortune, so that as much as was taken from the first part of life by misfortunes is conferred in good fortune on the later.

〔二〕但倘若它这样运行，即空行，而遇上吉星的相位，就会总使人在早年两手空空、一无所有，却使他们被不断的劳苦消磨，以不断的苦难震动他们，以极大的汗水与极大的劳苦谋求依靠；当它使他们接近好运时，又使他们从最高的台阶上坠落下来，有时虽把他们带到了顶峰，却不让他们抓住完满的好运。因为它在空的星座里引导自己的运行，使人生的第一阶段陷入种种可悲的不幸遭遇。但当它以接连沉重的不幸震动了身心，以许多危险摧折了青春，以可悲的旅居异乡把他们拖来拖去之后，就判定许多好事与极大好运的增长，以致人生前一段被不幸夺去多少，后一段就以好运赐还多少。

[3] But if, running through the void, it afterwards joins itself to Saturn or to Mars, it will make men unfortunate, lunatic, epileptic, and such as are weighed down from their first years to their last by every kind of misfortune; it will make them poor, wretched, destitute, men whose body is naked but for badly hanging rags, guardians of tombs, or men shut up in the penalty of perpetual imprisonment.

〔三〕但倘若它空行之后与土星或火星相结，就会使人不幸、患月狂病、患癫痫，从最初的年岁到最后的年岁都被种种不幸压倒；它会使人贫穷、困苦、一无所有，身体只挂着破烂的布条，几乎赤裸，做坟墓的看守，或被关进终身监禁的刑罚之中。

IX.

第九章

[1] Now that the conjunctions of the Moon have been explained and shown with careful indication, let our discourse pass over to another interpretation, namely of the Moon itself, lest anything seem to have been passed over by us in such subtle discussions, especially since the whole substance of life is gathered from the courses of this deity.

〔一〕月亮的会合既已解释，并以细致的指明显示出来，现在让我们的论述转到另一种解释，即月亮自身的，免得在这样精微的论说中显得我们遗漏了什么，尤其是因为生命的全部实质都是从这位神灵的运行中汇集出来的。

The Moon from Saturn to Jupiter.

月亮从土星到木星

[2] If the Moon, flowing away from Saturn, has joined itself to the star of Jupiter or is moving toward Jupiter, and is waxing when joined to this association, it will make men wealthy, rich, abundantly supplied, famous, noble, set over great peoples or great cities; to some it grants the greatest inheritances, to others treasures, to others the greatest gifts.

〔二〕倘若月亮从土星流离，与木星之星相结或正行向木星，而在结成这一结伴时光正盈长，就会使人富裕、富有、丰足、出名、高贵，被置于大民族或大城市之上；对有些人它赐予极大的遗产，对另一些人赐予宝藏，对另一些人赐予极大的馈赠。

[3] But if it is diminished in light, it decrees nothing of the kind, but makes stewards, curators, or men entrusted with the guardianship of private affairs, and men who busy themselves with trade abroad; or it renders them pilots or shipmasters or contractors of public revenues, and men whose activities exercise the right of contracting in matters connected with water, so that from these occupations a small substance is conferred on them.

〔三〕但倘若它光减，就不判定这类事，而是造就管家、保佐人，或受托监护私人事务的人，以及忙于异乡贸易的人；或者使人成为领航员、或船主、或公共税收的承包人，以及在与水有关之事上行使承包之权的人，以致从这些营生中赐给他们微薄的资财。

The Moon from Saturn to Mars.

月亮从土星到火星

[4] If the Moon, flowing away from Saturn, joins itself to Mars when full of light, it decrees illnesses and defects and makes them perish in early youth; but if it is diminished in light, it decrees for the mother the torments of a long and very severe sickness and causes her to be bound by certain defects, and the peril of an evil death is also brought upon this same mother, so that she perishes by continually vomiting blood; and those who are born it causes to be worn down by the languors of wretched bereavement, or their parents to be divided by perpetual discord.

〔四〕倘若月亮从土星流离，在光满时与火星相结，就判定疾病与缺损，使人死于少年；但倘若它光减，就判定母亲受长期而极严重疾病的折磨，使她被某些缺损缠住，并给这位母亲带来恶死之险，以致她不断吐血而死；它还使出生的人被可悲的丧亲之忧消磨，或使他们的父母因永久的不和而分离。

[5] It also squanders both the father's and the mother's substance by various depredations, inflicts on them continual wounds of iron, and decrees such sicknesses that, for the sake of a cure, the remedy of burning with cauteries is applied to them; it also causes continual pains of the hidden parts, or makes them fulfil the gift of life sunk in the toil of a long sickness, or makes them die a violent death in various ways; for they perish either drowned in running waters or burned, or they hang themselves with a noose, or kill themselves with the sword.

〔五〕它还以种种劫掠挥霍父亲与母亲的资财，给他们带来不断的铁器之伤，判定那种为了医治而须施以烙铁灼烧之疗法的疾病；它还造成隐秘部位不断的疼痛，或使人沉陷在长期疾病的劳苦中度完一生，或使人以种种方式横死；因为他们或溺死于流水，或被烧死，或以绳套自缢，或以剑自尽。

The Moon from Saturn to the Sun.

月亮从土星到太阳

[6] If the Moon, flowing away from Saturn, is moving toward the Sun, it decrees the greatest misfortunes and the greatest calamities; for it will make men insane, lunatic, epileptic, dropsical, elephantiac; and it prolongs these misfortunes with stubborn persistence, so that the native is entangled in these snares of calamity up to the last day of his life.

〔六〕倘若月亮从土星流离而行向太阳，就判定极大的不幸与极大的灾祸；因为它会使人疯狂、患月狂病、癫痫、水肿、象皮病；它以顽固的持续延长这些不幸，以致本命之人直到生命的最后一日都陷在这些灾祸的罗网里。

The Moon from Saturn to Venus.

月亮从土星到金星

[7] If the Moon, flowing away from Saturn, joins itself to the star of Venus, if it is waxing in light, it will make men great, noble, and powerful, fortunate, wealthy, and rich, and of some great power, but cruel, lustful, and on this account assailed by grave infamy. But if it is diminished in light, it decrees depraved enticements of love, or causes them to be entangled in impure and unchaste lusts, or decrees shameful acts in continual succession; but none the less it makes these same men acquire and possess the greatest means of substance, men for whom both good fortune and the greatest power are procured by the support of money.

〔七〕倘若月亮从土星流离而与金星之星相结，倘若光正盈长，就会使人伟大、高贵、有权势，幸运、富裕而富有，有某种大权力，却残忍、好色，因此受严重的恶名攻击。但倘若它光减，就判定爱情的邪恶诱惑，或使人陷入不洁、无耻的情欲，或判定接连不断的可耻之事；但尽管如此，它仍使这些人求得并拥有极大的资财，凭钱财的支撑为他们谋得好运与极大的权力。

The Moon from Saturn to Mercury.

月亮从土星到水星

[8] If the Moon, flowing away from Saturn, has joined itself to the star of Mercury and is waxing or full of light, it makes men obscure, hidden, and silent, knowers of secret and forbidden writings, or occupied with heavenly rites, or interpreting the courses of the stars by expert calculations. It also makes men put in charge of business affairs and public teachers of the liberal arts; it makes orators shining with the splendor of eloquence, or physicians adorned by the testimony of all.

〔八〕倘若月亮从土星流离而与水星之星相结，而光正盈长或光满，就会使人默默无闻、隐秘而沉默，通晓秘密而被禁的文字，或从事天上的祭仪，或以熟练的计算解释星辰的运行。它还使人主管生意，做自由技艺的公共教师；它造就以雄辩光彩照人的演说家，或以众人的见证为饰的医师。

[9] But if it is diminished in light, it either impedes the sound of the voice or dulls the ears, and it also weakens the body of those who have it so with wretched exhaustion; it makes them melancholic, jaundiced, splenetic, consumptive, dropsical, phlegmatic, and it constricts the gathered fluid of the bladder in a narrow passage with the bitter trouble of pain.

〔九〕但倘若它光减，就或者妨碍声音的发出，或者使耳朵迟钝，还以可悲的疲惫削弱这样得它之人的身体；它使人忧郁、患黄疸、患脾病、患痨病、患水肿、多黏液，并以苦涩的疼痛之苦，把膀胱积聚的液体紧紧束在狭窄的通道里。