卷二（五）　四个门轴与天上的宫位

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三十三

The Celestial Houses

［天上的宫位］

Be careful then, and with a curious Eye, / Observe the four fixt Hinges of the Sky; / One constant point their settled place defines, / Altho' they vary in their moving Signs:

那么要用心，用好奇的眼睛观察天上四个固定的门轴；一个恒定的点规定它们固定的位置，尽管经过它们的星座在运动中变换：

The Hinges. See Fig. 10

［门轴。见原书图十］

One sixt i'th' East, where with a gentle Ray / The Sun views half the Earth on either way, / And here brings on, and there bears off the Day.

一个固定在东方，太阳在那里以柔和的光线向两边各看见半个大地，在这里带来白昼，在那里带走白昼。

One in the West, from whose declining steep / The Sun falls head-long, and enjoys the Deep: / The Third in Heaven's high point, where midst the Course / Bright Phoebus stops, and breaths his weary Horse / He stands a while, and with an equal Ray, / Views East and West, and then drives down the Day.

一个在西方，太阳从它下倾的陡坡一头栽下，享有深海：第三个在天的最高点，明亮的福玻斯在路程的中间停下，让疲倦的马喘口气，他站一会儿，以相等的光线看着东方与西方，然后驱车把白昼带下去。

Oppos'd to this, the Fourth securely lies, / The immoveable Foundation of the Skies; / The lowest point, to which with steddy Rein / The Stars descend, and whence they mount again: / These Points in Fate the greatest Interest claim, / Because they settle, and support the Frame;

第四个与此相对，安稳地躺着，是诸天不动的地基；那最低的点，群星以稳定的缰绳降到那里，又从那里重新上升：这些点在命运中要求最大的权益，因为它们固定并支撑着框架；

In these fixt Points were not the Quarters ty'd. / Oth' Top, oth' Bottom, and on either side, / The Ball would cleave, the whirls would dissipate / The agitated parts; and break strong Fate. / Now different Powers these several Hinges grace

假如四方不被系在这些固定的点上——在顶上、在底下、在两边——天球就会裂开，旋转会驱散被搅动的各部分，打破坚强的命运。现在，各个门轴被不同的力量装点，

The Medium Coeli

［中天］

And vary with the dignity of Place; / The chiefest that which on the Top doth lie, / And with a narrow limit parts the Skye, / There Glory sits in all her Pomp and state, / The highest place requires the highest Fate;

随着位置的尊贵而不同；最主要的是位于顶上、以一条窄窄的界线分开天空的那一个，荣耀以全部的排场与威仪坐在那里；最高的位置要求最高的命运；

Thence Places, Dignities, Preferments flow, / And all that Men admire and wish below; / High Honours, Offices, in Suits success, / Right to make Laws, and Power to give Peace; / Thence Scepters, and supreme Command accrue, / And Power to give them, where Rewards are due.

从那里流出职位、尊荣、升迁，以及下界人们所赞叹和渴望的一切；崇高的荣誉、官职、诉讼的胜利、立法的权利、给予和平的权力；从那里得来权杖与最高的统领，以及在应得奖赏之处赐予奖赏的权力。

The Imum Coeli

［天底］

The next, (tho' lowest and contemn'd it lies) / The sixt, and sure Foundation of the Skies, / Great in effect, altho' it seems but small; / It governs Wealth, and Wealth's the stay of all: / It rules Estates, it shows what Mines contain, / What secret Treasures we may hope to gain, / Without this Power the other Fates were vain. / As great in Power is that where Beams display

其次的那个（虽然它躺在最低处，受人轻视），是诸天固定而稳固的地基，效果巨大，虽然看起来很小；它掌管财富，而财富是一切的支柱：它统辖产业，显示矿藏中有什么，我们可以希望得到什么隐秘的宝藏；没有这个力量，其他的命运都是徒然。光线在那里显出

The Horoscope. or Eastern Point

［上升点，即东方之点］

Their rising luster, and renew the Day; / The Greek (no other scanty Tongues afford / A single proper and expressive Word) / Names this the Horoscope.

它们升起的光辉、更新白昼的那个点，力量同样巨大；希腊语（别的贫乏的语言提供不了一个合适而有表现力的单词）把它叫作「上升点」。

This governs, Life, and this marks out our Parts, / Our Humours, Manners, Qualities, and Arts; / This when and where the Birth is born declares.

它掌管生命，标出我们的天赋、体液、习性、品质与技艺；它宣告出生的时与地，

And guides the various Vertues of the Stars: / By this they are settled, and as this defines / The Birth, enjoys the influence of the Signs.

并引导群星种种不同的德性：群星由它而定，所生之人按它所规定的享有星座的影响。

The Western Point

［西方之点］

The Last, the Point, whence Stars descending fall, / And view the lower surface of the Ball; / This rules the Ends of things, this Point declare / The Period, and Result of all Affairs; / This governs Marriage, and on this depends / Religion, Recreation, Death, and Friends.

最后一个，是群星从那里下落、去看天球下面的那个点；它统辖事物的终结，宣告一切事务的期限与结果；它掌管婚姻，宗教、娱乐、死亡与朋友都取决于它。

These Points considered, Their Powers distinctly seen, / Observe the Spaces that are plac't between; / The Points are little, but the Spaces large, / And every space has a proportion'd Charge. / First then the Space that rising from the East

考虑过这些点、清楚地看出它们的力量之后，再观察它们之间的空间；点很小，空间却很大，每个空间都有相称的职掌。首先，从东方升起

The intermediate Spaces

［中间的空间］

Mounts upward, is by Infancy possest, / There Childhood plays: From thence the Western space / Gay Youth demands, and fills the second place.

向上攀升的那个空间，由婴儿期占有，童年在那里嬉戏；从那里起，向西的空间归欢快的青年，占第二位。

See Fig. 9

［见原书图九］

Next from the Western Point a space descends, / Thro' under Heaven, and in the Lowest ends; / There Manhood, having past the various Maze / Of Infancy and Youth, compleats its Race: / To finish this; The space that upward tends, / And creeping slowly o're the steep Ascends / To join the Round at East, is made the way / Of feeble Age and flitting Life's decay.

其次，从西方之点有一个空间穿过下方的天空下降，止于最低处；壮年在那里经过了婴儿期与青年期的种种迷宫，跑完他的赛程；最后，那个向上伸展、缓缓爬过陡坡、在东方与圆周相接的空间，是衰弱的老年与飞逝的生命衰亡之路。

But more all Signs, whatever Form they bear, / The several Vertues of their Stations wear; / With good or hurtful Powers those points their Ray, / The Places govern, and the Signs obey:

不仅如此，一切星座，无论带着什么形状，都带上它们所在位置的各种德性；那些点以好的或有害的力量投射光线，位置在统治，星座在服从：

They turn the Round, and as they wheel their / Course, / The Place now gives, and now takes off their Force; / For as the Planets thro' the stations Err, / Those Places their own Influence transfer; / And force them, whilst within their bounds, to / take / Their ruling Vertues, and their own forsake.

它们转动圆周，在运转它们的路程时，位置时而给予、时而夺去它们的力量；因为当行星在这些位置中漫游时，那些位置转移它们自己的影响，迫使行星在它们的界限之内时，接受它们的统治之德，放弃自己的德性。

Hence now they smile, and now severely frown / With Foreign Influence that Commands their own: / Here sovereign send, there showr malignant Rays, / And spread the fatal Venom of their Place.

所以它们时而微笑，时而严厉地皱眉，带着那统辖它们自己的外来影响：在这里送下主宰的光线，在那里洒下恶毒的光线，散布它们所在位置的致命毒液。

The Twelfth and Sixth Houses

［第十二宫与第六宫］

That station which above the East doth lie, / The Third in order from the middle Sky, / Is an unhappy Seat; destructive still / To all Events, and too replete with Ill.

位于东方之上、从中天数起第三个的那个位置，是不幸的座位；对一切事情总是有害，充满了恶。

Nor is this bad alone, the Seat that lies / Below the Western Hinge oppos'd to this, / Is like it: Nor doth this that Seat surpass, / By Vertue of its Dignity of Place,

不只这一个坏，位于西方门轴之下、与它相对的那个座位，也和它一样：这一个也并不因位置的尊贵而胜过那一个，

See fig 9th

［见原书图九］

Is near the nobler Hinge: But both decline, / From both begin a wretched Round of time, / Of Labor full, for here you fall, and there you climb. / Nor is the World with better stations blest

虽然它靠近较尊贵的门轴：但两者都在下倾，从两者开始一段可悲的时间循环，充满劳苦，因为在这里你下落，在那里你攀登。世界也没有被更好的位置赐福，

The Second and Eighth Houses

［第二宫与第八宫］

Above the West, nor yet below the East, / That hangs above, this downward seems to bend, / This in the neighbouring Hinge still fears an end, / That unsustain'd is eager to descend.

不论在西方之上，还是在东方之下：那一个悬在上方，这一个似乎向下弯；这一个在邻近的门轴中总是害怕终结，那一个没有支撑，急于下降。

See fig. 9th

［见原书图九］

Unhappy Seats! Here Typho rules alone / And fills a dark inhospitable Throne: / This Typho Earth produc't, when Giants strove / To Conquer Heaven, and shook the Throne of Iove.

不幸的座位！堤丰独自在这里统治，占据一个黑暗而不宜居的宝座：这个堤丰是大地所生，那时巨人们力图征服天界，撼动朱庇特的宝座。

When Monsters rose, and at a wondrous Birth / In bigness equal to their Mother Earth, / Vast Sons broke forth: But Thunder stopt their Course, / And tumbling Mountains dasht the Rebells Force.

那时怪物们兴起，在一次奇异的生产中，与母亲大地一样巨大的儿子们迸生出来：但雷霆阻止了他们的进程，翻滚的山峦击溃了叛乱者的力量。

Typhorus fell: Earth was too weak to save, / And War and He lay buried in one Grave; / Yet now he heaves in his Aetnean Tomb, / And Earth still fears new struglings in her Womb.

堤丰倒下了：大地太弱，救不了他，战争与他葬在同一个坟墓里；但他如今仍在埃特纳的坟墓中翻腾，大地仍害怕她腹中新的挣扎。

The Eleventh house

［第十一宫］

That Next Heaven's topmost point, which riseth high, / Almost it's equal in the middle Sky / With fairer Hopes, and better Fortune blest, / Erects its Head, and much excells the rest; / Plac't near the highest Hinge, it riseth higher, / This Empire's Seat, and almost fills desire:

紧挨着天的最高点、高高升起的那个位置，几乎与中天相等，被更美好的希望与更好的运气赐福，昂起它的头，远远胜过其余的位置；它位于最高的门轴附近，升得更高，是帝国的座位，几乎满足一切欲望：

It's Title, the exalted Place may claim / A glorious Patron, and as great a Name, / Is Happy; Happy, if that word can fill / The Greek Expression and commend my skill.

它的名号——这崇高的位置配得上一位荣耀的守护者和同样伟大的名字——是「幸运」；幸运，假如这个词能充分表达那个希腊语词，并使我的技艺受称赞。

See fig. 9th

［见原书图九］

Here Iove presides in all his Pomp and State, / And to this ruling Fortune trust thy Fate.

朱庇特以全部的排场与威仪在这里主管，把你的命运托付给这统治的运气吧。

The fifth House. See fig. 9th

［第五宫。见原书图九］

Oppos'd, and next the bottom of the Ball / There lies a Seat as wearied with its fall; / And yet prepar'd, tho' with a world of Pain / For other Labour, and to mount again: / About to bear, and destin'd to obey / The Hinge's Power, submitting to its sway;

与它相对、靠近天球底部的地方，有一个座位，仿佛因下落而疲惫；可它又准备好——虽然带着无数的痛苦——去做别的劳作，再次上升：它即将承担并注定服从门轴的力量，屈从它的统辖；

Yet prest not by the World, it gives a Scope / To haughty Thoughts, and still permits to hope / In Greek Demonie: But our scanty Tongue / Affords no proper word to grace my Song: / Yet mind this station, it thy Thoughts may claim / Observe its Patron, nor forget the Name:

但它不受世界压迫，给高傲的思想以余地，始终允许人希望；希腊语叫它「代莫尼」：我们贫乏的语言却提供不了合适的词来装点我的诗：可是留意这个位置吧，它可以占据你的思考；留意它的守护者，也别忘了它的名字：

Tho' troublesome it seems, no toil refuse / The Labour's great, but equal'd by the Vse.

虽然它看来麻烦，不要拒绝任何辛劳；劳作很大，但用处与之相当。

The third and ninth Houses

［第三宫与第九宫］

Ith' Ninth, and Third gay strength and health Delight, / Or Sickness arms its venom'd Darts for fight; / Why Contraries should thus these Seats possess / 'Tis hard to find, but Phoebus aids my guess;

在第九与第三宫里，欢快的力量与健康喜悦，或者疾病武装起它有毒的箭来作战；为什么相反的东西会这样占有这些座位，很难找出原因，但福玻斯帮助我猜测；

See fig. 9

［见原书图九］

The mighty Patrons, whom these Seats obey, / In one determin'd time bear different sway / And Day succeeds the Night, and Night and Day.

这些座位所服从的强大的守护者，在同一个确定的时间里施行不同的统辖，白昼接替黑夜，黑夜又接替白昼。

The ninth House

［第九宫］

That Seat which next: the Highest Hinge doth lie / The first declining from the middle Sky / The Sun possesses: From his Rays we draw / Our state of Health, He gives our Bodies Law: / Its Title God.

紧挨着最高门轴的那个座位，从中天下倾的第一个，归太阳所有：我们从他的光线得到健康的状态，他给我们的身体立法：它的名号是「神」。

The third House

［第三宫］

Oppos'd to this, which first begins to rise / From Heaven's low bottom, and brings up the / Skies, / A Seat appears just tipt with Light, and guides / The Starry Night, in this the Moon presides.

与它相对的，是从天的低底开始最先升起、把天空带上来的那一个，一个座位刚被光照到尖端，引导星夜，月亮在这里主管。

The Moon that sees her Brother's adverse Ray, / That looks up to him as he guides the Day.

月亮看见她兄长相对的光线，仰望着正在引导白昼的他，

And imitates his Influence the wrong way: / She rules our Bodies, but her Face derives / Moist rotting Powers, and wastes the Health He gives.

并以相反的方式模仿他的影响：她统辖我们的身体，但她的面容带来潮湿腐败的力量，耗损他所给予的健康。

It's Title Goddess: But how mean these words / Compar'd with those, expressive Greece affords?

它的名号是「女神」：但这些词与表达力强的希腊所提供的那些词相比，是多么贫乏！

The tenth House. See fig. 9

［第十宫。见原书图九］

But as for Heaven's high top, the utmost point / Of Rising, and beginning of Descent, / Where 'twixt the Eastern rise, and Western fall / Iove hangs the Beam at which He weighs the Ball; / This Venus graceth, here she seats her Throne, / And in the World's high Face erects her own;

至于天的最高顶点，上升的极点、下降的开端，在东方的升起与西方的落下之间，朱庇特在那里挂起衡量天球的秤杆；维纳斯装点这里，在这里设立她的宝座，在世界高高的脸上竖起她自己的脸；

That Face, whose awful force Mankind admires, / And yields Obedience to her pleasing Fires: / Her Charge is Marriage, for what else can prove / The Office of the beauteous Queen of Love?

那张脸，它令人敬畏的力量受人类赞叹，人们服从她令人愉悦的火焰：她的职掌是婚姻，因为美丽的爱之女王还能有什么别的职务？

Pleasure's her aim, yet she forgets her Ease, / And puts on Providence on design to please.

欢乐是她的目标，可她忘了自己的安逸，为了取悦而戴上了深谋远虑。

Fortune's the station's Name; observe the Place; / My Muse grows weary, and contracts her pace, / Refusing to expatiate in her Race.

这个位置的名字是「命运」；留意这个位置吧；我的诗神累了，收住她的步子，不肯在她的赛程中多作铺陈。

The fourth House

［第四宫］

But now go on, the lowest point of all / The fixt Foundation of the solid Ball, / Which looking upward, sees the circling Light, / And lies it self immerst in deepest Night,

现在继续：最低的那个点，坚实天球的固定地基，它向上看着旋转的光，自己却浸在最深的夜里，

See fig. 9

［见原书图九］

Is Saturn's Seat; tho' once he rul'd above, / Enjoy'd that Power, and fill'd the Throne of Iove; / But thence thrown down, he makes his last retreat / To this low place, and fills this humble Seat: / Himself a Father, He pretends to bear / Respect to Fathers, and makes Age his care:

是萨图恩的座位；他曾在上方统治，享有那权力，占据朱庇特的宝座；但被从那里抛下，他最后退到这个低处，占据这个卑微的座位：他自己是父亲，就自称尊重父亲们，关照老年：

This only station double Cares enlarge, / For Sons and Fathers Fortune are its charge: / Severe and thrifty; This the Greeks proclaim / Demonium, its power expressing in its Name.

只有这个位置有双重的职掌，因为儿子与父亲的运气都归它管：它严厉而节俭；希腊人称它为「代莫尼翁」，在名字里表达它的力量。

The tenth House

［第十宫］

Now turn thine Eye, and view the Eastern Plain, / The space whence Stars renew their Course again; / Where moistned Phoebus from the Floods retires, / Climbs up, and shakes the Water from his Fires, / Then gathers Beauties, whose enlivening Heat.

现在转过眼睛，看看东方的平原，群星从那里重新开始行程的空间；湿漉漉的福玻斯从水中退出，攀登上来，从他的火上抖落海水，然后聚集起美，他那使人振奋的热

See fig. 9

［见原书图九］

First strike thee, Mercury, and refresh thy Seat. / O happy Seat, on whom the Art that sways / O're Heaven it self, bestows its Authors rays!

首先照到你，墨丘利，使你的座位焕然一新。哦，幸福的座位，统辖天界本身的这门技艺，把它的创造者的光线赐给了你！

The Fates of Children this is doom'd to bear, / And all the Hopes of Parents are its care.

子女的命运注定由它承担，父母的一切希望都归它照管。

The seventh House

［第七宫］

One Seat remains, from whose declining steep, / The Stars fall headlong, and enjoy the Deep, / Which turns the World, and now can only trace / The back of Phoebus, that once view'd his Face: / No wonder Nature doth this Seat bequeath / To Pluto, and inexorable Death;

还剩一个座位，群星从它下倾的陡坡一头栽下，享有深海；它转动世界，如今只能追踪福玻斯的背影，从前却看着他的脸：难怪自然把这个座位遗赠给普路托和无情的死亡；

For here the Day expires, this draws the light / From all the World, and buries Day in Night, / Nor is this all its care, on this depends, / Faith, solid Constancy, and Friends, / So great that Place's power, which waste the Ray, / Which takes in Phoebus, and puts out the Day.

因为白昼在这里终结，它把光从整个世界拉走，把白昼埋进黑夜；它关照的还不止这些，信义、坚定的恒心与朋友都取决于它；那个使光线消逝、接纳福玻斯、熄灭白昼的位置，力量就是这么大。

The stations these, to which in constant Course / The Stars arriving give and take new Force, / Where Planets touching as they wheel their round, / Mix foreign Powers, and with their own confound: / Admitted once they make the Seat their own, / And turn Usurpers in another's Throne.

这些就是各个位置，群星按恒常的路程到达那里，给予并接受新的力量；行星在运转中触到那里，混合外来的力量，与自己的混在一起：一旦被接纳，它们就把那座位当作自己的，在别人的宝座上成为篡位者。

But this, if Fate my Life and Health prolong, / Shall make the subject of a future Song: / Now ends the Book, which hath describ'd at large / The Heavenly Houses, Guardians, and their Charge; / For which the Masters of the Art have found / A proper Name, but of a foreign Sound;

但这一点，如果命运延长我的生命与健康，将成为将来一首诗的题材：本卷到此结束，它详细描述了天上的宫位、守护者及其职掌；对此，这门技艺的大师们找到了一个合适的名字，但发音是外来的；

'Tis Octotopos. / With mighty labour I these Rules prepare, / Forgetting Pleasure, and possest with Care: / So hard it is in numerous Verse to close / Unwieldy Words, and smooth uneven Prose.

它叫「八位」。我以巨大的辛劳准备这些法则，忘却享乐，满怀忧虑：用有节律的诗句收拢笨重的词语、磨平不平的散文是多么困难。