卷一·第十九章　论旺

The so‑called exaltations of the planets have the following explanation. Since the sun, when he is in Aries, is making his transition to the northern and higher semicircle, and in Libra is passing into the southern and lower one, they have fittingly assigned Aries to him as his exaltation, since there the length of the day and the heating power of his nature begin to increase, and Libra as his depression for the opposite reasons.

所谓行星之旺，道理如下。太阳在白羊时正转入北方的、较高的半圈，在天秤时则转入南方的、较低的半圈，所以古人恰当地把白羊定为它的旺，因为在那里白昼的长度与它本性的热力开始增长；又把天秤定为它的落，理由相反。

Saturn again, in order to have a position opposite to sun, as also in the matter of their houses, took, contrariwise, Libra as his exaltation and Aries as his depression. For where heat increases there cold diminishes, and where the former diminishes cold on the contrary increases. And since the moon, coming to the conjunction in the exaltation of the sun, in Aries, shows her first phase and begins to increase her light and, as it were, her height, in the first sign of her own triangle, Taurus, this was called her exaltation, and the diametrically opposite sign, Scorpio, her depression.

土星则为了与太阳处于相反的位置——在庙的问题上也是如此——反过来以天秤为旺，以白羊为落。因为热增长之处冷就减退，热减退之处冷反而增长。又因为月亮在太阳之旺白羊与太阳会合之后，在它自己三方的第一座金牛里现出第一个月相，开始增加它的光，也可以说增加它的高度，于是金牛称为它的旺，正相对的天蝎称为它的落。

Then Jupiter, which produces the fecund north winds, reaches farthest north in Cancer and brings his own power to fullness; they therefore made this sign his exaltation and Capricorn his depression.

再者，木星引起滋生万物的北风，在巨蟹到达最北，使自身的力量臻于圆满；所以他们把这一座定为它的旺，把摩羯定为它的落。

Mars, which by nature is fiery and becomes all the more so in Capricorn because in it he is farthest south, naturally received Capricorn as his exaltation, in contrast to Jupiter, and Cancer as his depression.

火星本性炽烈，在摩羯更加炽烈，因为它在那里位于最南，于是与木星相反，自然以摩羯为旺，以巨蟹为落。

Venus, however, as she is moist by nature and increases her own proper power all the more in Pisces, where the beginning of the moist spring is indicated, has her exaltation in Pisces and her depression in Virgo.

金星则本性湿润，在双鱼更增强它自己的本力，因为那里预示着湿润春季的开始，所以它以双鱼为旺，以处女为落。

Mercury, on the contrary, since he is drier, by contrast naturally is exalted, as it were, in Virgo, in which the dry autumn is signified, and is depressed in Pisces.

水星正相反，因为它较为干燥，便相应地自然以处女为旺，可以这么说——那里预示着干燥的秋季——而在双鱼落。