卷三·第十三至十四章　受孕之盘与交点求寿；福点与最小年数

XIII. How One Must Find Precisely the Sun, the Moon, and the Ascendant at the Conception.

第十三章　怎样精确求得受孕时的太阳、月亮与上升点。

We shall explain the finding in brief rather than at length. In every nativity the square of the Sun is the seminal sign (sometimes, indeed, the trine as well, when the Sun happens to be at many degrees, especially in the signs of short ascension; and in the signs of long ascension, the sextiles); and wherever the Ascendant of the delivery falls, there one should mark the Moon of the conception, and so learn whether the conception was conjunctional or full-moon. For example: the Sun in Aquarius, the Moon in Scorpio, the Ascendant in Virgo; the Sun of the conception is in Taurus, the Moon of the conception in Virgo; it is clear that the conception is conjunctional, for the Moon, that is, the Ascendant, has not yet passed the point opposite the Sun of the conception. But if the Ascendant of the delivery is found after the point opposite the Sun of the conception, the conception will be a full-moon one. One must make the same releases for the conception as have been shown for the delivery. For the most part, those who have a conjunctional conception die at a full moon, and those with a full-moon conception die when the Moon is at conjunction.

我们将简略而不冗长地说明求法。在每个本命中，太阳的四分是受孕的星座（有时也是三分，当太阳恰在较多的度数上，尤其在上升时间短的星座；而在上升时间长的星座，则是六分）；分娩时的上升点落在哪里，就应在那里标出受孕时的月亮，由此得知受孕是合朔的还是望月的。例如：太阳在水瓶，月亮在天蝎，上升在处女；受孕时的太阳在金牛，受孕时的月亮在处女；显然受孕是合朔的，因为月亮，即上升点，还没有越过受孕时太阳的对冲之点。但若分娩时的上升点被发现在受孕时太阳的对冲之点之后，受孕就会是望月的。对受孕所做的释放，必须与对分娩所示的一样。大体上，受孕为合朔的人死在望月时，受孕为望月的人死在月亮合朔时。

Another way. Having learned in what sign the conjunction or the full moon took place, one must count from that same degree in the order of the signs up to the ascending node, and the total thus gathered, if the nativity is diurnal, count off from the Ascendant in the downward direction, and if nocturnal, in the upward direction toward the Midheaven. If the ascending node falls at the Midheaven, one must count off the total from the Midheaven: if the nativity is diurnal, in the downward direction, as toward the Ascendant; if nocturnal, in the upward direction toward the setting. If perhaps the ascending node falls at the setting, when the nativity is diurnal one counts off the number from the setting as toward the Midheaven, and when nocturnal as toward the IC. If the ascending node happens to be at the IC and the nativity is found to be diurnal, one counts off the size of the number from the IC in the upward direction, as toward the Ascendant; if nocturnal, from the IC as toward the setting. By way of example, let the ascending node be in Gemini at 23°, the conjunction in Pisces at about 8°, the Ascendant in Pisces at 4°, the Midheaven in Sagittarius at 13°. I took from the conjunction up to the ascending node: it comes to 105 degrees. These I counted from the Ascendant, since the nativity is diurnal; the count ends at the 19th degree of Gemini; and in the 2nd clime these amount to about 76 years and [lacuna] months. So many years the native lived.

另一法。得知合朔或望月发生在哪个星座之后，就必须从那同一度数按星座次序数到升交点，所合计的总数，若本命是昼生，就从上升点按向下的方向数出，若是夜生，就按向上的方向朝中天数出。若升交点落在中天，就必须从中天数出总数：若本命是昼生，按向下的方向，如同朝向上升点；若是夜生，按向上的方向朝向下降。若升交点恰落在下降，本命为昼生时，就从下降如同朝向中天数出这个数，夜生时如同朝向天底。若升交点恰在天底而本命被发现是昼生，就从天底按向上的方向、如同朝向上升点数出这个数的大小；若是夜生，从天底如同朝向下降。举例来说，设升交点在双子二十三度，合朔在双鱼约八度，上升在双鱼四度，中天在射手十三度。我从合朔取到升交点：合一百零五度。因为本命是昼生，我把这些从上升点数出；数终止于双子第十九度；在第二气候带这些约合七十六年又〔此处原文有缺〕个月。本命者活了这么多年。

These are the methods I have set out, which I myself have also used; for in a nativity I used to examine, from the limits set out above, whether two or three or more coincided at the same point, and in this way I made my pronouncements about the end without fail. Hence I have not shown it at random or haphazardly that every method, both on its own and compared with another, is well fitted; and if anyone keeps to this, he will have the truth of what is sought within easy grasp. Some things, then, we have also written down in mystical fashion, for the discernment and judgment of the readers, not carried away by envy or by simplicity, but intending to bring a certain eagerness and perseverance to the science. For everyone who has obtained what he desired without restraint has regarded the gift as without grace, whereas he who has obtained it with toil and inquiry has brought to the work not only pleasure but also success.

这些是我所列出的方法，我自己也用过；因为在一个本命中，我常从上面所列的诸界限查看是否有两个、三个或更多相合于同一点，这样我对终结的宣告便从未失误。因此，我并非随意或草率地表明，每一种方法，无论单独用还是与另一种比较，都是很合适的；谁若持守这一点，所寻求的真理就在他伸手可及之处。所以，有些事我们也以神秘的方式写下，留给读者去辨别与判断，不是出于嫉妒或出于天真，而是想给这门学问带来一种热忱与坚持。因为每个毫无节制地得到他所欲之物的人，都把这礼物看得毫无可感之处；而以辛劳与探究得到它的人，给这项工作带来的不只是快乐，还有成功。

By way of example, let the Sun be in Taurus at 1°, the Moon in Gemini at 16°, the Ascendant in Taurus at 14°, the conjunction at about the 27th degree of Aries, the ascending node in Capricorn at 25°. I took from the conjunction to the ascending node in the upward direction: it comes to 92. These I counted off from the degree of the Ascendant in the upward direction: the count ended at the 12th degree of Aquarius. The 92, then, amount in the clime of Alexandria to 70 years 1 month; the native died in the 70th year and 1 month. From the conception thus: since the full moon of the conception took place in Capricorn at 21° [lacuna], which comes close to the years found. Another. The Sun in Aquarius at 29°, the Moon at the beginning of Aries, the Ascendant in Capricorn at 18°, the conjunction in Aquarius at 26°, the ascending node in Scorpio at 16°. I took from the conjunction in the upward direction up to the degree of the Ascendant: it comes to 38. These I counted from the degree of the Ascendant in the downward direction: in the first clime they amount to about 33 years. The native lived 32 years and five months. The place of the conception did not have the release; for the full moon of the conception and the ascending node happened to be at the same degrees. Hence he had a dangerous delivery and a violent end.

举例来说，设太阳在金牛一度，月亮在双子十六度，上升在金牛十四度，合朔约在白羊第二十七度，升交点在摩羯二十五度。我从合朔按向上的方向取到升交点：合九十二。我把这些从上升的度数按向上的方向数出：数终止于水瓶第十二度。所以这九十二在亚历山大里亚的气候带合七十年一个月；本命者死于第七十年又一个月。从受孕这样推：因为受孕的望月发生在摩羯二十一度〔此处原文有缺〕，这与所求得的年数相近。另一例。太阳在水瓶二十九度，月亮在白羊之初，上升在摩羯十八度，合朔在水瓶二十六度，升交点在天蝎十六度。我从合朔按向上的方向取到上升的度数：合三十八。我把这些从上升的度数按向下的方向数出：在第一气候带约合三十三年。本命者活了三十二年又五个月。受孕之位没有得到释放；因为受孕的望月与升交点恰在同样的度数。因此他分娩时有危险，结局也是横死。

XIV. On the Lot of Fortune with respect to the Place of Life, with an Example; in which also the Least Years of the Planets.

第十四章　以福点论生命之位，附例；其中也有诸星的最小年数。

I found this method concerning the periods of life too, intricately woven by the ancients in varied fashion; but I myself, having investigated it by experience, have set it out distinctly, and I think it will rather please most people. For in the 13th book the King, after the preface and the arrangements of the signs, introduces a Lot of Fortune from the Sun, the Moon, and the Ascendant, which he holds in the greatest esteem [text uncertain], mentions throughout the whole book, and judges to be a sovereign place; concerning it he has also set a riddle, "backward and forward": "And the Sun, beginning from the dawn, hands on the vessel of all the age, completing the western circle, as is seen. But when night comes on, the Moon will not always be found bearing light; at times, having appeared in the evening, she sets; at other times she remains up to a certain part; and sometimes she will travel through to the end of the night; wherefore she has consequently entrusted the circle wholly to the Sun." About this thought different people will declare different views; but it seemed right to me, for a diurnal nativity, to take from the Sun to the Moon and an equal amount from the Ascendant; and for a nocturnal one, as long as the Moon is above the earth, that is, until she sets, to take from her to the Sun and an equal amount from the Ascendant, but after her setting from the Sun to her. For this is what the added words seem to mean: "wherefore she has entrusted the circle wholly to the Sun." One must examine in what place the lot fell and regard this as sovereign; then survey in what sign the lord of that sign happens to be; and third, the ruler of that one; for from these three places and their rulers the period of life will be found according to the three limits.

我发现关于生命时期的这个方法，也被古人以多样的方式错综地编织在一起；但我自己凭经验考察之后，把它清楚地列了出来，我想它会更讨多数人喜欢。因为在第十三卷中，那位王在序言和诸星座的排列之后，引入了一个由太阳、月亮与上升点而来的福点，他极为看重它〔原文疑有讹误〕，在全书中处处提到它，判它为至高之位；关于它，他还设了一个「倒着读与顺着读」的谜语：“太阳从黎明开始，把整个世代的器皿传递下去，完成西方的圆，如所见那样。但当夜来临，月亮并不总被发现带着光；有时她在黄昏出现后就落下；有时她留到某一部分；有时她会走完整夜；所以她随之把这个圆完全托付给了太阳。”对于这个意思，不同的人会宣告不同的看法；但我认为，昼生的本命，应从太阳取到月亮，再从上升点取同样的距离；夜生的，只要月亮在地上，即直到她落下为止，从她取到太阳，再从上升点取同样的距离，但在她落下之后，就从太阳取到她。因为附加的那句话似乎就是这个意思：“所以她把这个圆完全托付给了太阳。”必须查看这个点落在哪个位置，把它视为至高之位；然后审视那个星座之主恰在哪个星座；第三，再看那一颗的主星；因为从这三个位置及其主星，就能按三种界限求出生命的时期。

For example, each of the planets is master of its own period: Saturn of 30 years, Jupiter of 12, Mars of 15, the Sun of 19, Venus of 8, Mercury of 20, the Moon of 25; and likewise each is master of its own rising times according to the lot. According to the clime, then, one must compare whether the lot is angular and productive, or succedent, or cadent, and likewise the rulers of the signs, just as the Ancient also records, saying: "Every planet that is angular gives its own periods in full, but when outside the angles, whatever it allots is diminished from its own numbers." They also allot their complete periods and the rising times when they are well placed; and their sect-partners share in the allotment when they are present with them, or testify, or happen to be in their own signs, unless perhaps both sects share in the allotment; and in this case too, likewise. First one must reckon the numbers, hours, days, months, then years, and use the three limits, least, mean, and complete, adding the first to the second or to the third. For often one place allotted days, another months, another years, according to the differences of the productive signs and of the rulers, or of the harmful causes and oppositions. After the years they also allot in addition months equal in number to the periods. The Daemon and the place of the Ascendant will have the same power as the lot with respect to the allotment, whenever the places of the lot or their lords have fallen out of the favourable places, especially whenever the lot yields the allotment to the Daemon; for the planets too yield in turn to one another; we shall show this also in the course of our account, in the sub-allotments.

例如，每颗行星主管它自己的周期：土星三十年，木星十二年，火星十五年，太阳十九年，金星八年，水星二十年，月亮二十五年；同样，每颗星也按这个点主管它自己的上升时间。所以必须按气候带比较这个点是居角而得力，还是在续宫，还是落果，星座之主也同样，正如那位古人也记载的，他说：“每颗居角的行星都全数给出它自己的周期，但在角外时，它所分配的就从它自己的数目中减少。”它们位置良好时，也分配它们完整的周期与上升时间；同方之星与它们同在、作见证，或恰在自己的星座时，也分享分配，除非两方都分享分配；这种情形也一样。首先必须计算数目，即时、日、月，然后才是年，并使用三种界限，即最小、平均与完整的，把第一种加到第二种或第三种上。因为常常一个位置分配日，另一个分配月，另一个分配年，按得力星座与主星的差别，或按有害的原因与对冲而定。在年之后，它们还另外分配与周期等数的月。精灵与上升之位在分配上将与福点有同样的力量，每当福点的位置或它们的主已失位时，尤其每当福点把分配让给精灵时；因为诸星也轮流彼此相让；这一点我们在论述的过程中，在次分配里也会说明。

Let there be by way of example the Sun and Venus in Cancer, the Moon and the Ascendant in Pisces, Saturn in Sagittarius, Jupiter in Capricorn, Mars in Scorpio, Mercury in Leo, the Lot of Fortune in Cancer, in the Good Daemon. The lady of the lot was found on the angle. I set down the least years of the Moon, 25, and the rising time of Cancer in the second clime, 32 years, and the years of the Moon's ruler, Jupiter, 12: together this makes 69 years. At so many years the native died.

举例来说，设太阳与金星在巨蟹，月亮与上升点在双鱼，土星在射手，木星在摩羯，火星在天蝎，水星在狮子，福点在巨蟹，在善灵之位。这个点的女主人被发现在角上。我列出月亮的最小年数二十五，第二气候带巨蟹的上升时间三十二年，以及月亮之主木星的年数十二：合计六十九年。本命者在这个岁数死去。

Another. The Sun in Aquarius, the Moon and the Ascendant in Virgo, and likewise Mars; Saturn, Jupiter, and Mercury in Capricorn, Venus in Pisces, the Lot of Fortune in Aquarius, cadent. Its lord, being in the Good Daemon, contrary to sect, allotted his own 30 years and the same number of months, being in his own sign. Jupiter, being present with him, allotted a year. The native died in the 34th year.

另一例。太阳在水瓶，月亮与上升点在处女，火星也一样；土星、木星与水星在摩羯，金星在双鱼，福点在水瓶，落果。它的主在善灵之位，与本方相悖，既在他自己的星座，就分配了他自己的三十年与同数的月。与他同在的木星分配了一年。本命者死于第三十四年。

One must therefore observe in every nativity the instructions written at the beginning, and the phases and the degrees, so that we may not seem to be reminding you under each heading and writing the same things; for I was obliged to set out nativities in advance by way of example.

所以必须在每个本命中遵守开头所写的指示，以及诸相与度数，免得我们看来在每个标题下都在提醒你、写同样的东西；因为我不得不预先列出本命作为例子。