卷四·第二节第二章　判断君王与掌权者的长久

CHAP. II. Teaching how to judge of the permanency or durability of Kings, or such as are in Authority by any Revolution.

第二章　教人怎样由任何回归判断国王或掌权者的长存或长久。

MUch time and paper might I here consume in delivering unto you all the ways the Learned in former ages have set down for the judging of this matter; but lest I then deviate from both my intentions at this time, and natural inclination to short discourses, and trouble both thee and my self to no purpose, since it may as well be delivered in fewer words, I shall satisfie my self with these following rules.

前代学者为判断这件事所定下的种种方法，我在这里可以耗掉许多时间和纸张来交给你；但为免那样偏离我此时的本意，也违背我天生喜好简短论述的性情，徒然烦扰你我，既然用更少的话也能讲明，我就以下面这几条规则自足。

First, Erect your figure of the Heavens, which for the judging of these matters must be according to that punctum of time the King was first Elected or Crowned; if you are to judge of a Senate, take the time of their first sitting or assembling together, or wherein they were first created or made a Free State, or assumed power to act according to what their own counsels shall produce.

第一，起你的天象盘，要判断这些事，它必须照国王初次被推选或加冕的那一刻来起；若你要判断一个议院，就取他们初次开会或聚集的时间，或他们初次成立、成为自由国家，或取得权力、依自己的议决行事的时间。

Then having exactly placed the Planets therein according to their then several places, and reduced them to the just hour and minute of the day, especially the Moon, you are to see what Planet is Hylech or Alchochoden or Giver of Life in your Figure, and Almuten or Chief Ruler of the Ascendent, to know the state of his body or person; what of the mid-heaven, to judge of the state and condition of his Kingdom or Regal power; and having thus done thou mayst easily judge of either of these in this manner.

然后把其中的诸行星照它们当时各自的位置精确安放，并换算到那一天的准确时分，尤其是月亮，你要看在你的盘中哪颗行星是海勒格，或给寿星，即生命的给予者；哪颗是上升的胜星，即主要统治者，以知道他身体或本人的状况；哪颗是中天的胜星，以判断他的王国或王权的状态与状况；这样做了以后，你就可以按下面的方式容易地判断这两者。

Observe what sign, degree and minute ascends and culminates, what sign, degree and minute the Sun and Moon possesses, and where to a very minute also is your Almuten and Hylech of each House; then see in every Revolution, Eclipse or great Conjunction, how these places and significators are disposed, and how aspected by the Malevolents, and judge the continuation or subversion of their Government according as you see occasion.

看上升与中天的是什么星座、几度几分，太阳和月亮占什么星座、几度几分，你每一宫的胜星与海勒格也精确到一分在哪里；然后看在每一次回归、交食或大会合中，这些位置与征象星处在怎样的状况，怎样被凶星照看，就依你所见的情形判断其统治的延续或倾覆。

If your Hylech or Giver of Life be afflicted, judge the evil (according to the strength of the afflicting Planet) to fall on the person or persons of the Rulers, or touching their lives: if the Almuten of the mid-heaven, upon their Regal power; and so contrariwise if they be assisted and fortunately beheld, or come to the places of the Fortunes, or the Fortunes fall in any of their places in any Revolution, Eclipse or great Conjunction, judge the contrary; still remember the good or evil doth depend on the power of the Benevolent or Malevolent Planets; for if much afflicted, much evil is to be expected, and so on the contrary as you have already been taught.

若你的海勒格或生命的给予者受害，就判断凶事（视施害之星的力量）落在统治者本人身上，或涉及他们的性命：若是中天的胜星受害，就落在他们的王权上；反过来，若它们得助，受吉照，或来到吉星之处，或在任何回归、交食或大会合中吉星落在它们的任何位置，就判断相反；始终记住，吉或凶取决于吉星或凶星的力量；因为受害多，就要预料凶多，反之亦然，如你已经学过的。

If any of the aforesaid places or significators fall in the place of any Eclipse or great Conjunction, judge the mischief threatned to happen according to the signification of the Eclipse or Planets so in Conjunction; warily judging according to the nature of the Houses wherein they are in the Scheme of the Eclipse or Conjunction, and the signification of their own nature, and the nature of the Houses which they rule and are located in at the time of the Kings Coronation or Election; This you shall more fully understand in the delivering the rules of this Art touching the Judgement of Eclipses and great Conjunctions at the latter end of this Treatise.

若前面说的任何位置或征象星落在任何交食或大会合之处，就依那次交食或会合诸行星的征象判断所预示的祸害；要审慎地依它们在交食或会合盘中所在诸宫的性质、它们自身的本性，以及它们在国王加冕或推选时所主、所在诸宫的性质来判断；这一点你在本卷末尾讲交食与大会合的判断规则时会更充分地明白。

I utterly for my own part Refuse to follow the rules of the Ancients touching their giving a year to every sign betwixt the Planet afflicting and afflicted, for the judging the time of the alteration of any Government and the like; for that they stand not with much reason, or are they built on any strong foundation, so as to stand unquestionable; a little experience and observation will soon manifest unto thee the truth hereof; for touching the just time when any such accident shall happen, I conceive ought rather (and that with a great deal of more reason) to be left to the good pleasure and will of the Most High, who is the great orderer and disposer of all the Causes in Nature, and will according to his own good time effect what is most agreeable unto his Divine will.

我自己完全拒绝依从古人在施害之星与受害之星之间每一个星座给一年、以判断任何政权变更之时的规则；因为它们没有多少道理，也不是建在任何坚固的基础上，以致无可置疑；一点点经验和观察很快就会向你显明这一点的真相；因为至于任何这种事件发生的确切时间，我认为（而且有多得多的道理）应当留给至高者的美意与意志，他是自然中一切原因的大安排者与支配者，会按他自己所定的好时候成就最合他神圣旨意的事。

Wherefore let it suffice to know by the inclinations of those Glorious Bodies the alterations and durabilities of sublunary things, without enquiring how or when it will be performed; if thou findest at the beginning of any Government or State the Angles of Heaven fixed, the Lords thereof well disposed, especially of the Ascendent and mid-heaven, and free from the malevolent presence and Configurations of the Infortunes, and essentially dignified and aspected by the adjuvant Planets, thou mayst from hence conclude the firmness and permanency of the Rule or Government then set up; but if thou findest these places and significators contrariwise afflicted, moveable and weak, judge the contrary thereunto.

所以只要凭那些荣耀天体的倾向知道月下事物的变更与长久就够了，不必追问它将怎样或何时实现；若你发现在任何政府或国家开始之时，天上的四角是固定的，其主星，尤其上升与中天的主星，状况良好，免于凶星的凶恶临在与格局，有必然尊贵，受相助的行星照看，你就可以由此断定当时建立的统治或政府稳固而长久；但若你发现这些位置与征象星相反地受害、在启动星座、虚弱，就判断与此相反。

If Saturn be then Lord of the Ascendent, and essentially well dignified and altogether free from the affliction of the Malevolents and Angular, say that the Kingdom, State, Rule or Government then began shall flourish and continue unchangeable 465 years, being the greatest years of Saturn; and if he be not altogether so well placed, but free from all impediment and in a succedent House, the Government or Rule then setled shall continue firm and unaltered 57 years, being his greater years; if he be significator and essentially dignified, and free from all impediment aforesaid, and in a Cadent House, say it shall continue in the condition it first was in, 43 years and a half, being his mean years; but if he be but thus meanly placed and but moderately dignified, judge the continuance thereof to be but 30 years, which are his least years; and so accordingly judge of all the other Planets when they are significators, and well placed and dignified, as you have heard of Saturn, their greatest, greater, mean and least years being all recorded in our Introduction to the Judgement of the STARS, where the nature and significations of the Planets are delivered, &c.

若土星那时是上升之主，必然尊贵良好，完全免于凶星的侵害，又在角宫，就说那时开始的王国、国家、统治或政府将兴盛，并且四百六十五年不变，这是土星的最大年数；若他位置不是那么好，但免于一切阻碍，在续宫，那时建立的政府或统治将稳固不变地延续五十七年，这是他的大年数；若他是征象星，有必然尊贵，免于前面说的一切阻碍，而在果宫，就说它将照最初的状况延续四十三年半，这是他的中年数；但若他只是这样平平地安放，尊贵也只是中等，就判断它只延续三十年，这是他的小年数；其他一切行星作征象星、位置好、有尊贵时，都照你听到的土星这样判断，它们的最大、大、中、小年数都记在我们的《星辰判断入门》里，那里讲述了诸行星的本性与征象，等等。