卷三·第一至二章　论主导；四角的显要度数

BOOK III. The Third Book of the Anthologies of Vettius Valens of Antioch.

卷三　安条克的维蒂乌斯·瓦伦斯《选集》第三卷。

I. On Predomination.

第一章　论主导。

Concerning the substance of the years of life, different authors have handed down different teachings; but since the subject appears to be varied and many-sided, we ourselves too, having tested the methods, shall explain them further. Let our first account be that concerning predomination, the casting of rays, and rulership; and before everything let predomination be sought with respect to the Sun and the Moon.

关于寿年的根基，不同的作者传下了不同的教导；但既然这个题目看来多变而多面，我们自己也检验了诸方法之后，要进一步加以说明。让我们的第一个论述是关于主导、投射光线与主管的；而首先要就太阳与月亮来寻求主导。

Some, then, assigned it by day to the Sun and by night to the Moon; but I say that the Sun predominates by night as well, and the Moon by day, if they happen to be advantageously configured; and if this befalls both of them, the predomination is to be assigned to the one that is more fittingly configured and has obtained its sect or triplicity. From the terms of the predominator the ruler too is found; but if both fall out of the favourable places, the term of the degree in the Ascendant or of the Midheaven will produce the rulership, and for the most part that one whose lord holds a fitting configuration to the Ascendant.

有些人白天把它归给太阳，夜里归给月亮；但我说，太阳在夜里也会主导，月亮在白天也会主导，只要它们恰好格局有利；若两者都是如此，就要把主导归给格局更相宜、又得了本方或三方的那一颗。从主导之星所在的界也就找到了主星；但若两者都失位，上升点那一度的界或中天那一度的界就产生主管，而多半是那一个其界主与上升点有相宜格局的。

Let these, then, be the predominations as we have tested them. First predomination: when the Sun is in Leo and the Moon in Cancer, whichever is advantageously configured to the Ascendant or the Midheaven will predominate, and the lord of its term will hold the rulership; and if both have the term of one and the same planet, that planet will indisputably be judged the ruler as well. Second predomination: if the Sun is in the Ascendant while the Moon is in the Bad Daemon, the Sun will predominate; if the Sun is in the Good Daemon and the Moon at the Midheaven, the Sun will predominate. If the Sun is setting while the Moon is in the place that follows the setting, the Sun will predominate. If the Sun falls in the place cadent from the Midheaven while the Moon is in the Ascendant, the Moon will predominate. If the Sun likewise falls in the place cadent from the Midheaven while the Moon is succedent to the Ascendant, the Moon will predominate. If again the Sun falls in the place cadent from the Midheaven while the Moon is at the Midheaven, the Moon will predominate. If the Sun falls in the place cadent from the Midheaven while the Moon is succedent to the Midheaven, the Moon will predominate. If the Moon happens to be in the place cadent from the Midheaven and the Sun in the angle under the earth, the Sun will predominate. If the Moon is cadent from the Midheaven and the Sun happens to be in the place succedent to the angle under the earth, the Sun will predominate. If the Sun is cadent from the angle at the zenith while the Moon is succedent to the angle under the earth, the Moon will predominate. If the Sun is cadent from the angle at the zenith and the Moon happens to be in the angle under the earth, the Moon will predominate. When both luminaries are cadent from the Midheaven, the Ascendant will predominate and the lord of its terms will be judged the ruler. If the Moon is succedent to the Midheaven and the Sun happens to be in the God, the planet that first casts its ray to the Ascendant by degree will predominate. When the Moon and the Sun are in the third place, cadent from the Ascendant, the Midheaven will predominate and the lord of its terms will be ruler; hence, if the birth takes place by day, the luminaries being without authority in the hemisphere above the earth, the Ascendant will predominate and the lord of its degrees will be ruler; but by night, when they are cadent in the hemisphere under the earth, the Midheaven will predominate. If the Sun and the Moon happen to be in the setting sign, the term of the conjunction will predominate and the lord of those degrees will be ruler. Likewise, if both happen to be in the Ascendant, or at the Midheaven, or under the earth, the term of the conjunction will predominate and the lord of the terms will be ruler; for whether they hold the term of one planet in the same sign or in another, that planet will without fail be ruler. If perhaps the Sun is found in his own depression, he will not be releaser, unless he happens to be in the Ascendant by degree; and likewise the Moon in Scorpio. The Moon, when found at conjunction and fallen under the beams of the Sun, does not become releaser, unless she too is in the Ascendant by degree. But when she is moving toward full moon, if she completes the phase within the term of the Ascendant, she is releaser, and she herself also destroyer, if she completes the full moon on that very day. One must therefore examine how many degrees there are between her and the full moon, and, having learned the number of the years, make one's pronouncement.

那么，就让这些作为我们检验过的主导。第一种主导：当太阳在狮子、月亮在巨蟹时，哪一颗与上升点或中天格局有利，就是它主导，它所在之界的主就掌有主管；若两者都在同一颗行星的界里，那颗行星就毫无争议地被判为主星。第二种主导：若太阳在上升点而月亮在恶灵之位，太阳主导；若太阳在善灵之位而月亮在中天，太阳主导。若太阳正在下降而月亮在下降之后的位置，太阳主导。若太阳落在中天的果宫而月亮在上升点，月亮主导。若太阳同样落在中天的果宫而月亮在上升点的续宫，月亮主导。若太阳又落在中天的果宫而月亮在中天，月亮主导。若太阳落在中天的果宫而月亮在中天的续宫，月亮主导。若月亮恰好在中天的果宫而太阳在地下之角，太阳主导。若月亮落在中天的果宫而太阳恰好在地下之角的续宫，太阳主导。若太阳在天顶之角的果宫而月亮在地下之角的续宫，月亮主导。若太阳在天顶之角的果宫而月亮恰好在地下之角，月亮主导。当两光都在中天的果宫时，上升点主导，它的界主被判为主星。若月亮在中天的续宫而太阳恰好在神之位，那颗按度数最先向上升点投射光线的行星主导。当月亮与太阳在第三位，即上升点的果宫时，中天主导，它的界主将是主星；因此，若出生在白天，两光在地上半球无权，上升点主导，它度数之主将是主星；但在夜里，当它们在地下半球落果时，中天主导。若太阳与月亮恰好在下降星座，合朔的界主导，那些度数之主将是主星。同样，若两者恰好都在上升点，或在中天，或在地下，合朔的界主导，那些界之主将是主星；因为无论它们在同一个星座里还是在另一个星座里拥有同一颗行星的界，那颗行星都必定是主星。若太阳恰好被发现在自己的落，他就不会是释放星，除非他按度数恰在上升点；月亮在天蝎也一样。月亮在合朔时被发现、落在太阳光下，就不成为释放星，除非她也按度数在上升点。但当她趋向望月时，若她在上升点的界内完成这一相，她就是释放星，而她自己也是杀星，如果她就在那一天完成望月。所以必须查看她与望月之间有多少度，得知年数之后再作宣告。

For example: the Moon in the Ascendant, Aquarius, Aries 22° [probably: “Aquarius” is intrusive, i.e. the Moon in the Ascendant, Aries 22°] [text uncertain]; and on the same day she completes the full moon at about the 27th degree of the same sign. The interval between her and the full moon is 5 degrees, which comes to 4 years. So many years the native lived. And especially if a malefic casts its ray and testifies to or opposes the sign, death will result; but if a benefic likewise regards it, death will not result, but an injury or a suffering. The remaining phases of the Moon too, up to the dissolution of the bond, are destructive. One must judge the predomination to be firm only when the Sun and the Moon testify to the lord of the terms and that lord happens to be angular or in the productive degrees; but if it is found turned away, the nativity will be judged to be without a ruler. And if the lord of the solar or lunar sign and the lord of the terms exchange terms, in this way too the rulership will be without predomination. One must also look whether the planet that seems to be ruler happens to be under the setting; for in this case too the nativity is again without a ruler.

举例来说：月亮在上升点，水瓶，白羊二十二度〔或当删「水瓶」，即月亮在上升点白羊二十二度〕〔原文疑有讹误〕；在同一天，她在同一星座约二十七度完成望月。她与望月之间的间隔是五度，合四年。本命者就活了这么多年。尤其若有凶星投射光线，为那个星座作见证或与之对冲，就会死亡；但若有吉星同样照看它，就不会死亡，而是伤损或病苦。月亮其余的诸相，直到结的解除，也都是致死的。只有当太阳与月亮为界主作见证，而那个界主恰好居角或在得力的度数时，才必须判主导为稳固；但若它被发现背离，本命就被判为无主星。若太阳星座或月亮星座之主与界主互换了界，这样一来主管也就没有主导。还必须看那颗看来是主星的行星是否恰在西沉之下；因为在这种情形下，本命同样无主星。

II. On the Significant Degrees of the Angles.

第二章　论四角的显要度数。

Before everything, then, having established the degree in the Ascendant and that at the Midheaven and those of the remaining angles, one must take the degrees from the Ascendant up to the degree opposite the Midheaven, and regard a third part of the resulting total, counted from the following degree onward, as degrees productive with angular configuration, and the planets in these degrees, whether benefic or malefic, as powerful; the remaining degrees up to the IC as unproductive, and the planets upon them as unproductive or inactive. The degrees opposite the Ascendant and the other angles will have the same power with respect to productive and unproductive degrees, and the planets upon them will likewise be strong. It is clear, then, that the angular degrees are not always thirty, but sometimes more and sometimes fewer; and if perhaps in the sign of the Ascendant and the setting sign the powerful degrees are fewer than thirty, then at the Midheaven and the angle of the IC there will be more than thirty degrees; but if in the angle of the Ascendant and the angle opposite the Ascendant they are more than thirty, then at the Midheaven and the IC they will be fewer.

所以首先，定出上升点的度数、中天的度数与其余诸角的度数之后，必须从上升点的度数取到中天对面的度数，把所得总数的三分之一，从下一度起数，当作以居角格局而得力的度数，在这些度数上的行星，无论吉星凶星，都有力；其余直到天底的度数则是不得力的，在其上的行星也不得力或无所作为。上升点与其余诸角的对面度数，在得力与不得力的度数上也有同样的力量，在其上的行星同样有力。所以很清楚，居角的度数并不总是三十度，有时多些，有时少些；若在上升星座与下降星座里有力的度数少于三十，那么在中天与天底之角就会多于三十度；但若在上升之角与上升的对面之角多于三十，那么在中天与天底就会少些。

For example, let Pisces be in the Ascendant at about the 13th degree, Sagittarius at the Midheaven at 22°, Gemini under the earth at the same degree, and Virgo setting at 13°. I took the interval from the Ascendant up to the IC: it comes to 99 degrees. A third of these is 33; I counted these off from the Ascendant, and the count ended at Aries 16°. These will be powerful degrees, and so will the planets upon them, while the remaining degrees, from 17° up to the IC, are unproductive; and the degrees opposite these will have the same character. Again, I took from the degree at the Midheaven up to the degree in the Ascendant: it comes to 81; a third of these is 27; I counted these off from the degree at the Midheaven, and the count ended at Capricorn 19°. These, then, are productive, and so are the degrees opposite them, while the rest are unproductive. One must do the same in other nativities too, in order to know whether the planets are in productive or unproductive degrees.

举例来说，设上升在双鱼约十三度，中天在射手二十二度，天底在双子同一度，下降在处女十三度。我取从上升点到天底的间隔：合九十九度。它的三分之一是三十三；我从上升点数去这些，数止于白羊十六度。这些将是有力的度数，在其上的行星也有力，而其余的度数，从十七度直到天底，则不得力；与这些相对的度数也有同样的性质。我又取从中天的度数到上升点的度数：合八十一；它的三分之一是二十七；我从中天的度数数去这些，数止于摩羯十九度。所以这些是得力的，与之相对的度数也是，其余的则不得力。在别的本命中也必须这样做，才能知道诸星是在得力还是不得力的度数上。

To me, however, it has seemed more in accordance with nature to hold as follows: taking the interval from the degree in the Ascendant up to that of the IC, reckoning a third of it as set out above, and counting it off in order from the degree in the Ascendant, one judges these degrees and those opposite them powerful; the next portion of degrees one judges in turn to be middling, neither particularly good nor bad, on account of the place succedent to the Ascendant, the Goddess, and the place opposite the God. The first third of the degrees from the Ascendant, then, will be productive and powerful, the next third middling, and the other third causative of harm and bad. The planets too will operate in the same way; for from the Midheaven and its angular position one must [lacuna] and the next portion, that of the succedent place, inasmuch as among the ancients too it was named the Good Daemon; and the remaining third, up to the degree cadent from the Ascendant, injurious and without configuration. Likewise the degrees opposite these will share in the strength.

但在我看来，这样认为更合乎自然：取从上升点的度数到天底度数的间隔，按上面所说算出它的三分之一，从上升点的度数依次数去，判这些度数及其对面的度数为有力；下一部分的度数则判为居中，既不特别好也不特别坏，这是由于上升点的续宫、女神之位以及神之位的对面。所以从上升点起的头三分之一度数将是得力而有力的，下一个三分之一居中，另一个三分之一则致害而不好。诸星也会照样起作用；因为必须从中天与它居角的位置起〔此处原文有缺〕，而下一部分是续宫的，正因为它在古人那里也被称为善灵；其余的三分之一，直到从上升点倾斜下去的那一度，则有害而不成格局。同样，与这些相对的度数也一同分有力量。

All this Orion too set out in his book.

这一切，俄里翁也在他的书中阐述过。