卷四·第一节第一章　年运盘的根据：太阳入白羊与起盘张数

SECTION I. Containing the Ground-work of Revolutions, considerations before Judgement, and the true Significators of such things as are necessary to be judged of in this manner of Work.

第一节　包含年运盘的根据、判断前的考量，以及在这类工作中须判断之事的真正征象星。

WE shall desire the Studier and Well-willer to this most Heavenly and delectable Art seriously to consider and weigh the subsequent Rules since this general part, and it only (as you have sufficiently heard) is to be accounted ASTROLOGIE in its purity without fallacy or abuse.

我们希望研习并爱好这门最属天、最令人愉悦之术的人，认真考虑、权衡以下的规则，因为这普遍的部分，也只有它（如你已充分听过的），才可算作纯粹的、没有谬误与滥用的占星学。

Wherefore for the better illustration thereof, as also instruction of the well-willers thereunto, I shall in the handling of this our Introduction to the Judgement of Annual Revolutions of the World follow this Method.

所以为了更好地阐明它，也为了教导爱好它的人，我在处理这篇世界年运判断的入门时，将遵循这样的方法。

First to demonstrate (since you have heard already in the Epistle the extent of Revolutions, and what general Accidents may be foreknown thereby in the Elements and Elementary World) the ground on which Astrological Judgements are to be laid, or from whence to be deduced, for the predicting or knowing any accident or mutation in the World, and how many Schemes or Figures of the Heavens ought to be erected for the performance thereof.

第一，说明（既然你已在书信里听过年运的范围，以及凭它在元素与元素世界中可以预知哪些普遍的事件）星占判断要奠立在什么根据上，或从何处推出，用以预言或知道世界上的任何事件或变化，以及为此应当起多少张天象盘或星图。

Secondly, what is to be considered before Judgement be given thereon, necessary for the accomplishment of the work.

第二，在作出判断之前要考虑什么，这是完成此项工作所必需的。

Thirdly and lastly, most rational and authentick Rules deduced from natural causes, how to judge of all accidents whatsoever portended by Revolutions of the years of the World, which (notwithstanding you have already heard them expressed) by reason some of the Antients have reduced them excellently to four heads, I shall thus further illustrate.

第三也是最后，从自然原因推出的最合理、最可靠的规则，怎样判断世界之年的回归所预示的一切事件；（虽然你已听人讲过它们）因为有些古人已把它们极好地归为四类，我将这样进一步阐明。

The first, denoteth such accidents as are visible in this World, and to every mans sight obvious, and common to every one, as any Epidemical or general thing, fertility and sterility, rain, hail, storms and the alteration of the ayr and weather and such like.

第一类，表示在这世上看得见、人人眼中明显、人人共有的事件，如任何流行的或普遍的事，丰收与歉收，雨、冰雹、风暴，空气与天气的变化之类。

The second, such as are invisible in the Elementary World, either general or particular, as are Earthquakes, Thunders, Floods, &c.

第二类，在元素世界中看不见的事，不论普遍或个别，如地震、雷、洪水等。

The third, things peculiar to one single Nation or People, as Wars, Peace, &c.

第三类，只属于一个民族或人民的事，如战争、和平等。

The fourth, relateth to such things as happen in the ayr, such as are fiery apparitions, Lightnings, Comets or Blazing stars, and such like, &c.

第四类，关于空中发生的事，如火光异象、闪电、彗星或扫帚星之类，等等。

CHAP. I. Showing the Ground-work on which Astrological Iudgements for the judging of Revolutions are to be built, and how many Schemes or Figures of Heaven ought to be erected for this Work.

第一章　说明判断年运的星占判断要建立在什么根据上，以及为这项工作应当起多少张天象盘或星图。

IN this matter the Ancients (in those days wherein the Art remained obscure in some points) have had divers opinions, some grounding their judgments in these businesses on the Ascendent of the Law, Nation, Commonwealth or Kingdom, concerning which they have undertaken to write, and others on Eclipses, and great Conjunctions, the which although considerable in some matters, and to be taken also into consideration in every annual Judgement; yet the true time from whence Judgement is to be raised for the exact knowledge and predicting of future natural events in the Elements for any year, is when the Sun enters the first point or minute of Aries, which as you have heard is the first sign of the Zodiack, and (in the 24.

在这件事上，古人（在此术某些方面还隐晦不明的那些日子里）有种种不同的意见，有的把他们对这些事的判断建立在律法、民族、共和国或王国的上升之上，也就是他们着手要写的那些；另一些人建立在交食和大会合之上，这些虽在某些事上值得考虑，在每年的判断中也要加以考虑；然而要准确知道、预言任何一年元素中将来的自然事件，提出判断的真正时间，是太阳进入白羊第一点或第一分之时，如你已听过的，白羊是黄道的第一个星座，而（在第二十四

Chapter of our Second Book Of the Judgement of the Stars) that the Sun was in this very sign, and in this very punctum at the first Creation, and therefore (I say) it is all the reason in the World his return thereunto every year ought to be the chiefest ground on which Astrologers are to build their judgements, touching the Natural events of all sublunaries; especially since he is (as you have been shewn in the first Book) Fons Vitae the Fountain of life, and Anima mundi the soul of the World, by which all things, as well Vegetatives as Sensitives have their subsistence and vivifying nourishment.

章，我们第二卷《论星辰的判断》中）太阳在最初创世时就在这个星座，就在这一点上，所以（我说）他每年回到这里，就应当是占星家建立他们关于一切月下之物的自然事件之判断的首要根据，这是世上最有道理的事；尤其因为他（如你在第一卷里已看到的）是生命之泉、世界之魂，万物，不论有生长之能的还是有感觉之能的，都靠他得以存续，得到使之生机勃勃的滋养。

Besides we see that when the Sun enters this Equinoctial all things increse and flourish, the Trees and Earth grow green and blossom, and also fructifie by degrees afterwards, which may also prove unto us the manifest certainty of that opinion, or rather affirmation of the Antients that the Sun was in this first sign at the Creation of them; and truly, if we will be regulated by reason, it will be sufficiently proved by the very Word of God, which although not expresly in terminis testifying so much unto us in plain words, yet will the Text delivered in the first of Genesis verse 11. be sufficient together with the sequel, verse 12. shewing the effect, be enough in all reason to evince the Carpers at both this Art and Artists tenets, which for the most part are guided by passion, errour and tradition in all their discourses they publish against them.

此外我们看到，当太阳进入这个分点时，万物增长繁茂，树木和大地变绿开花，之后又渐渐结果，这也可以向我们证明古人那个意见、或不如说那个断言的明显确实性，即太阳在创造万物时就在这第一个星座；确实，若我们愿意受理性的规范，这凭上帝的话就足以证明，那话虽不是用明白的字句明言告诉我们这么多，然而《创世记》第一章第十一节所传的经文，连同第十二节表明的结果，在一切道理上都足以使那些对此术和此术之人的主张吹毛求疵的人折服，他们在发表来反对的一切言论中，多半受激情、错误和传统支配。

So likewise on the contrary, we see when he enters Libra which is the sign opposite to Aries and the other Equinoctial, all things decay and diminish in their vegetative vigour; the earth becomes as it were barren, the leaves fall from the Trees, &c.

同样，反过来我们看到，当他进入天秤，即白羊对面的星座、另一个分点时，万物在生长的活力上衰减，大地仿佛变得不毛，树叶从树上落下，等等。

Thus have you heard the time of erecting your Scheme for your Work; now you are further to note thus much, that your Figure of Heaven be exactly set for the Region or place on which you would give Judgement, having first punctually taken the Elevation of the Pole.

这样你已听过为你的工作起盘的时间；现在你还要进一步注意这一点：你的天象盘要准确地为你要判断的地区或地方而起，先要精确地取得天极高度。

And then having also reduced the Planets and Dragons-head to the instant of time the Sun enters the aforsaied point, and erected your figure according to Art and placed them therin, you may proceed to Judgement.

然后把诸行星和龙头推算到太阳进入前述那一点的那一刻，依此术起好你的盘，把它们放进去，你就可以着手判断了。

Yet first take this for a Rule; Note. if your ascendent at this time be a moveable sign, then must you not content your self with that Scheme alone; but for every quarter of the year must you erect another, this induring no longer then till the Sun enter the first point of Cancer, and from thence (as of the former you do judge of the Spring Quarter, comprehending March, April, and May, under the signs Aries, Taurus, and Gemini) may you know the events of the Summer Quarter, being June, July and August, under Cancer, Leo and Virgo; the third figure, for the third Quarter, and that which is termed Autumnal, being September, October and November, under Libra, Scorpio and Sagittary, is to be erected for the Sun his entrance into Libra; and then the last for the Winter Quarter when he enters Capricorn, which together with Aquaries and Pisces doth rule December, January and February.

不过先把这当作一条规则；（注）若你的上升在这时是启动星座，你就不能只满足于这一张盘；而必须为一年的每一季另起一张，这一张只管到太阳进入巨蟹第一点为止，从那时起（就像你凭前一张判断春季，包括三月、四月、五月，在白羊、金牛、双子之下）你可以知道夏季的事件，即六月、七月、八月，在巨蟹、狮子、处女之下；第三张盘，管第三季，即所谓秋季，即九月、十月、十一月，在天秤、天蝎、射手之下，要为太阳进入天秤而起；最后一张管冬季，在他进入摩羯时起，摩羯连同水瓶、双鱼主管十二月、一月和二月。

If your Ascendent at the Suns ingress into the first point of Aries be a common sign (you have already in the Second Book Chap. 24. been shewn which signs are common, also which are movable, and which fixed, wherefore we shall not here make any repetition) then must you erect two Figures, that of the ingress into Aries continuing in force but the first half year, viz. but till the Sun enters the first Punctum of Libra, for which time you must erect a Scheme for the other half year, and for the knowing of the effects portended thereby.

若太阳进入白羊第一点时你的上升是双体星座（你已在第二卷第二十四章看过哪些星座是双体的，哪些是启动的，哪些是固定的，所以我们在这里不再重复），你就必须起两张盘，入白羊的那张只在前半年有效，即只到太阳进入天秤第一点为止，到那时你必须为另外半年起一张盘，用以知道它所预示的结果。

But if your sign ascending be fixed, then will that figure serve for all that Revolution, or to the end of the year, viz. you may thereby undertake to predict or acquaint your self with all matters signified thereby, even till the next ingress, without erecting any figure of the Suns ingress into the other points.

但若你上升的星座是固定的，那张盘就可管整个回归年，或到年末，即你可以凭它着手预言、了解它所表示的一切事，直到下一次进入，而不必为太阳进入其他各点起任何盘。

Thus much for your foundation and Platform, viz. the Schemes; but first now before thou layest one stone, let me advise thee to acquaint thy self well with these following necessary considerations, and then mayst thou safely and with more judgement go through with thy work.

关于你的根基和规划，即这些盘，就讲这么多；但现在在你放下一块石头之前，先让我劝你熟悉以下这些必要的考量，然后你就可以稳妥地、更有判断力地完成你的工作。