卷四·第四章　论所作事业的性质

The lord of action is apprehended by two methods, from the sun and from the culminating sign. For it will be needful to look both for the planet that has made its morning appearance closest to the sun, and that which is at mid‑heaven, particularly when it occupies the application of the moon; and if the same star occupies both the aforesaid positions, this alone must be employed, and similarly if none occupies one of these places, we must use only the one which occupies the other of the places.

事业之主由两种方法求得：从太阳，以及从正当中天的星座。因为须同时寻找离太阳最近而作了晨出的那颗行星，以及位于中天的那颗行星，尤其当它承接月亮的入相时；若同一颗星占有上述两个位置，就只用它；同样，若其中一处无星，就只用占有另一处的那颗。

And if one planet has made the nearest morning appearance and another is associated with the mid‑heaven, and with the moon, we must employ them both, giving preference to the one which by reason of its strength has the greater number of claims to domination according to the scheme which we have already set forth.

若一颗行星作了最近的晨出，另一颗与中天、并与月亮相关联，就两颗都用，而以凭其力量、照前面已述的体系拥有较多主宰之权的那颗为先。

But if not one is found which either has made an appearance or is at mid‑heaven, we must take the lord of the latter region, with reference however to the occasional pursuits of the subject, for persons with such genitures are for the most part inactive.

但若既找不到作了显现的星，也找不到位于中天的星，就须取后一个区域的主星，不过只用来推断其人偶尔从事的营生，因为有这种本命的人大多无所作为。

Thus, then, we shall determine the planet that governs action. The quality of the action, however, is to be discerned from the character of the three planets, Mars, Venus, and Mercury, and from that of the signs through which they happen to be passing. For if Mercury governs action, to speak generally, he makes his subjects scribes, men of business, calculators, teachers, merchants, bankers, soothsayers, astrologers, sacrificers, and in general those who perform their functions by means of documents, interpretation, and giving and taking.

这样，我们就能确定主管事业的行星。至于事业的性质，则要从火星、金星、水星这三颗行星的特性，以及它们恰好正在经过的星座的特性来辨别。因为若水星主管事业，概括地说，他使其人成为书记、商务之人、算账者、教师、商人、银钱商、占卜者、星占家、献祭者，总之是凭文书、解说以及收付来履行其职的人。

And if Saturn testifies to him, they will be managers of the property of others, interpreters of dreams, or frequenters of temples for the purpose of prophecies and inspiration. If it is Jupiter that witnesses, they will be law-makers, orators, sophists, who enjoy familiarity with great persons.

若土星为他作见证，他们会成为代管他人财产的人、解梦者，或为求预言与神启而常在神庙出入的人。若作见证的是木星，他们会成为立法者、演说家、智术师，得以亲近大人物。

If Venus rules action, she makes her subjects persons whose activities lie among the perfumes of flowers or of unguents, in wine, colours, dyes, spices, or adornments, as, for example, sellers of unguents, weavers of chaplets, innkeepers, wine-merchants, druggists, weavers, dealers in spices, painters, dyers, sellers of clothing. And if Saturn testifies to her, she makes them dealers in goods used for pleasure or adornment, sorcerers, poisoners, panders, and those who make their living from similar occupations. If Jupiter testifies, they will be athletes, wearers of the wreath, persons deemed worthy of honours, and men who derive advancement from women.

若金星主管事业，她使其人的活动在于花香或香膏之中，在于酒、颜色、染料、香料或装饰品之中，例如卖香膏的、编花冠的、开客店的、卖酒的、药商、织工、香料商、画工、染工、卖衣服的。若土星为她作见证，她使他们成为经营享乐或装饰之物的商人、巫者、下毒者、淫媒，以及靠类似营生过活的人。若木星作见证，他们会成为运动员、戴冠的胜者、被认为配得荣誉的人，以及靠女人得到擢升的男子。

Mars, in aspect with the sun, makes his subjects those who use fire in their crafts, such as cooks, moulders, cauterizers, smiths, workers in mines; if he is not with the sun, those who work with iron, such as shipbuilders, carpenters, farmers, quarrymen, stone-dressers, jewellers, splitters of wood, and their subordinate workers. If Saturn testifies to him, he produces seamen, drawers of water, tunnelers, painters, gamekeepers, cooks, embalmers. If Jupiter testifies, he produces soldiers, servants, publicans, innkeepers, ferrymen, assistants at sacrifice.

火星若与太阳成相位，使其人成为在手艺中用火的人，例如厨师、铸工、烙治者、铁匠、矿工；若不与太阳同在，则成为用铁干活的人，例如造船匠、木匠、农夫、采石工、石匠、珠宝匠、劈柴人，以及他们手下的帮工。若土星为他作见证，他造就水手、汲水者、挖隧道的人、画工、看管禽兽的人、厨师、尸体防腐师。若木星作见证，他造就兵士、仆役、税吏、客店主、摆渡人、献祭时的助手。

Again, when two planets are found to rule action, if Mercury and Venus take the rulership, they bring about action expressed by the arts of the Muses, musical instruments, melodies, or poems, and rhythm, particularly when they have exchanged places. For they produce workers in the theatre, actors, dealers in slaves, makers of musical instruments, members of the chorus, makers of strings, painters, dancers, weavers, and wax-moulders. And again, if Saturn testifies to them, he produces those in the aforesaid callings, as well as dealers in feminine finery. If Jupiter testifies, he produces lawyers, supervisors of counting houses, public officers, teachers of children, leaders of the populace.

再者，若发现有两颗行星主管事业：若水星与金星取得主权，它们带来以缪斯之艺、乐器、旋律或诗歌以及节奏来表现的事业，尤其当它们互换了位置时。因为它们造就剧场里的工作者、演员、奴隶贩子、乐器匠、歌队成员、制琴弦的人、画工、舞者、织工和蜡塑匠。再者，若土星为它们作见证，他造就上述各行的人，以及经营女子服饰的商人。若木星作见证，他造就律师、账房的督管、公职人员、童子的教师、民众的领袖。

If Mercury and Mars together assume lordship of action, they produce sculptors, armourers, makers of sacred monuments, modellers, wrestlers, physicians, surgeons, accusers, adulterers, evil-doers, forgers. If Saturn testifies to them, they produce murderers, sneak-thieves, burglars, pirates, cattle-thieves, villains. If Jupiter testifies, they produce men-at‑arms, duellists, energetic, clever persons, busybodies, who meddle in others' affairs and thereby gain their living.

若水星与火星共同取得事业的主权，它们造就雕塑匠、制甲胄兵器的工匠、造神圣碑像的人、塑模匠、摔跤手、医生、外科医生、控告人、通奸者、作恶者、伪造者。若土星为它们作见证，它们造就杀人者、小偷、入室盗贼、海盗、偷牛贼、恶棍。若木星作见证，它们造就披甲的武士、决斗者、精力充沛而机灵的人、好管闲事的人——他们插手别人的事并借此谋生。

But if Venus and Mars together dominate action, they produce dyers, perfumers, workers in tin, lead, gold, and silver, farmers, dancers in armour, druggists, physicians who employ drugs in their treatments. If Saturn testifies to them, they produce attendants of sacred animals, those who bury men, mourners, pipers at funerals, fanatics, who resort to wherever there are mysteries, laments, and bloody rites. But if Jupiter testifies, frequenters of temples, interpreters of omens, bearers of the sacred instruments, supervisors of women, interpreters of marriages and matches, making their living by such occupations, and at the same time devoted to pleasure, and reckless.

但若金星与火星共同主宰事业，它们造就染工、制香者、锡、铅、金、银的工匠、农夫、披甲而舞的舞者、药商、用药物治病的医生。若土星为它们作见证，它们造就侍奉圣兽的人、埋葬死人的人、哭丧者、葬礼上的吹笛人、狂热之徒——凡有秘仪、哀哭与血祭之处，他们便去。但若木星作见证，则造就常出入神庙的人、解释征兆的人、执持圣器的人、管领妇女的人、解说婚姻与配对的人，以这类营生为生，同时又耽于享乐、行事轻率。

Likewise the specific natures of the signs in which are the rulers of action contribute to the variety of the action. For anthropomorphic signs are of some assistance to all scientific pursuits or those useful to man; the quadrupedal assist in those that concern mines, commerce, building, and carpentry; the solstitial and equinoctial, those that are interpretative, involve barter, or concern measuring, agriculture, and religion; the terrestrial and aquatic, activities in or with liquids, or those that are botanical, or concern shipbuilding, and furthermore burial, or pickling, or salting.

同样，事业之主所在星座的特殊性质，也使事业更加多样。因为人形星座对一切学问之事或对人有用之事有所帮助；四足星座有助于涉及矿场、商贸、建筑与木工之事；至点与分点星座，有助于解说之事、交换之事，或涉及丈量、农耕与宗教之事；陆生与水生星座，有助于在液体之中或用液体进行的活动、与草木有关的活动，或涉及造船的事，此外还有殡葬、腌渍或盐渍之事。

In a special way, again, if the moon holds the place of action, and is moving away from conjunction, together with Mercury, in Taurus, Capricornus, and Cancer, she produces soothsayers, makers of sacrifices, and adepts in lekanomancy; in Sagittarius and Pisces necromancers and those who can arouse daemons; in Virgo and Scorpio magicians, astrologers, prophets, those who have second sight; in Libra, Aries, and Leo persons inspired by the gods, interpreters of dreams, and exorcists.

又特别地，若月亮占据事业之位，正离开会合，又与水星同在，在金牛、摩羯与巨蟹，她造就占卜者、献祭者、精通盆占的人；在射手与双鱼，造就招魂者和能唤起诸灵的人；在处女与天蝎，造就术士、星占家、预言者、有预视之能的人；在天秤、白羊与狮子，造就受神灵感发的人、解梦者与驱邪者。

So, then, the particular species of action will have to be conjectured by such means, through combinations; its amplitude must be discovered from the power of the dominating planets. For when they are rising or angular the actions which they cause are independent, but if they are setting or declining from the angles, subordinate; when beneficent planets overcome them, great, glorious, profitable, unerring, and gracious; but if maleficent planets overcome them, mean, inglorious, profitless, and fallible. With Saturn in opposition, they bring cold and mixtures of colours; with Mars, temerity and notoriety; with both together, utter ruin of action.

所以，事业的具体种类须这样借组合来推测；它的规模则要从主宰诸星的力量去发现。因为它们在升起或在角时，所致的事业是自主的；若在沉没、或从四角下落，则是从属于人的；吉星压制它们时，事业宏大、光彩、有利、无误而受人喜爱；凶星压制它们时，则卑下、无光、无利、易于出错。土星对冲时，它们带来冷与杂色；若是火星，带来鲁莽与恶名；两者同时，则事业彻底败坏。

In general the period of increase or diminution, again, is calculated by means of the position, from time to time, of the planets responsible for the effect relative to the eastern and western angles.

一般而言，事业兴盛或衰减的时期，也是根据致此效应的诸星随时变换的位置、相对于东方与西方两角的情形来推算的。