卷四·第十四至十六章　相态与进入；三九之位；本命的起伏

XIV. On the Phase of the Planets and on Entry.

第十四章　论诸星的相态与进入。

This must be observed in general for all the planets: when they are found oriental while handing over or receiving and being lords of the year or of the general periods, and by entry they come into the productive places and make their rising, they bring about actions conspicuously; for their power is then aroused, and each brings about its own effect according to its own nature. For whatever power and effect it is lord of in the nativity, or whatever the year signifies [text uncertain] in the sign in which it is, it will make that effect active. If they are holding their first station and are found retrograde, they put expectations, affairs, benefits, and undertakings into postponement. Likewise at their acronychal risings they will be weaker and obstructive, displaying only appearances and hopes. If somehow they make their second station, they dissolve the postponements, restore natives to the same undertakings, and lead them into stability and success in life; but if they are carried under the setting, they bring hindrances and griefs in what is undertaken, and further bodily dangers, sicknesses, and pains of the hidden places. Often, too, having first displayed glories or great hopes, they have turned for the worse. When, then, a malefic brings about something in the nativity and holds the year, and a malefic comes upon it by entry, it will intensify the evil; but if a benefic, it will bring some consolation and help. Let the like be understood of the benefics too; and in every nativity, especially the star of Jupiter, coming by entry upon the years or upon their squares or oppositions, when the periods are good or in productive places, brings about great benefactions and glories, and especially when he becomes oriental he will prevail more than those that seem to hold power over the periods; but when they are bad, he too, coming by entry, will be weaker, and, postponing the benefactions and glories, will leave things in suspense; but if he happens to be oriental, he will console or benefit moderately.

对所有行星总要留意这一点：当它们在交出或接受、身为年主或总时期之主时被发现东出，又以进入来到得力的位置并作升起时，它们就显著地造成作为；因为它们的力量那时被唤起，每颗星按自己的本性带来自己的效验。因为它在本命中主管什么力量与效验，或这一年在它所在的星座象征什么〔原文疑有讹误〕，它就使那个效验有作为。若它们正处在第一次留而被发现逆行，就把期望、事务、利益与事业推入拖延。同样，在入夜升起时，它们会较弱而成阻碍，只显出外表与希望。若它们以某种方式作第二次留，就解除拖延，使本命者回到同样的事业，把他们引入生活的稳定与成功；但若它们被带到西沉之下，就在所从事的事上带来阻碍与忧伤，还有身体的危险、疾病与隐秘之处的疼痛。也常常先显出荣耀或大的希望，然后转坏。所以，当一颗凶星在本命中造成某事并持有这一年，又有一颗凶星以进入来到它之上时，就会加重恶事；但若是吉星，就会带来一些安慰与帮助。对吉星也应同样理解；在每个本命中，尤其是木星之星，以进入来到年之上，或来到它们的四分或对冲之处，当时期良好或在得力的位置时，带来大的恩惠与荣耀，尤其当他成为东出时，他会比那些看似持有时期之权的星更占优势；但当时期不好时，他以进入而来也会较弱，推迟恩惠与荣耀，使事情悬而不决；但若他恰好东出，就会适度地安慰或带来益处。

XV. On the Third and Ninth Places from the Ascendant.

第十五章　论上升起的第三与第九位。

The 3rd or the 9th place from the Ascendant, when it hands over or receives while benefics are upon it, brings about residence abroad for the good, or the planets bring about undertakings and recommendations abroad or from foreigners; and if the place happens to be bicorporeal, natives will be benefited very often or will reside abroad much. Some, then, in these places receive oracles from a god and foreknow the future, and provide sacrifices, prayers, or votive offerings to the god; others, having escaped sickness, confinement, a charge, suffering, or danger through the providence of a god, give thanks to the god. When the substance is great and the general periods give strength as well, they receive gifts from the king and governing trusts or authorities, or, having obtained a release from affairs and a charge through royal fortune, they become esteemed; others, having built temples or shrines or statues of kings, gain an ever-remembered fame. But when malefics are upon the places or testify to them, natives are abused abroad and fall into losses or wants, and do not prosper in their foreign residence, but are overturned by wanderings and dangers, and continue as though under the wrath of a god, blaming their own destiny. Some in those periods also deny the divine, worship other gods, or eat forbidden foods; others come into foreknowledge and give oracles or prophecies, or are seized as if mad; others, established in greater fortune and glory, incur troubles from abroad or from foreigners, notoriety, and uprisings of crowds or of cities, on account of which they endure no ordinary danger because of the trust placed in them, as well as enmities and betrayals; and sometimes, falling into accusations and royal fears, they meet with the ruin of their glory and livelihood.

上升起的第三或第九位在交出或接受时，若有吉星在其上，就带来为好事而客居异乡，或诸星带来在异乡或来自外邦人的事业与推荐；若那个位置恰是双体的，本命者会非常频繁地得益，或多次客居异乡。所以，有些人在这些位置上从神那里得到神谕，预知未来，向神献上祭品、祈祷或还愿之物；另一些人借神的眷顾逃过疾病、拘禁、指控、病苦或危险，向神谢恩。当根基宏大，总的时期也给予力量时，他们会从国王那里得到礼物，得到管理的托付或权柄，或借着王者的好运从事务与指控中得到解脱而受到尊重；另一些人建造神庙、圣所或国王的雕像，得到永被记念的名声。但当凶星在那些位置上或为它们作见证时，本命者在异乡受辱，陷入损失或匮乏，在客居中不得兴旺，而被漂泊与危险颠覆，仿佛在神的愤怒之下度日，归咎于自己的命运。有些人在那些时期也否认神明，敬拜别的神，或吃禁食之物；另一些人得到预知，发出神谕或预言，或像疯了一样被附身；另一些人身处较大的运势与荣耀之中，招来来自异乡或外邦人的困扰、恶名，以及众人或城邦的起事，因所受的托付而遭受非比寻常的危险，还有敌意与出卖；有时陷入控告与王者的恐惧，遭遇荣耀与生计的毁败。

XVI. On the Reversals of Nativities.

第十六章　论本命的起伏。

Before everything, then, it is necessary to learn the substance and the rank of every nativity, and only then to fit to it the natures of the planets and of the signs, so that the same effect may not be pronounced for moderate and for glorious nativities, but a different one. For each planet and each sign has a moderate nature of benefaction or of harm, and also holds a glorious one, or a greater harm; hence they become causes sometimes of great goods and sometimes of evils. When, then, we find a distinguished and brilliant substance preserved by the testimony of the benefics, while in the transmissions of the periods malefics hold the periods, or have come by entry upon the angles or the productive places, we say that the nativity will suffer nothing untoward; but the native will manage his affairs wholly without order, will incur notoriety or reproaches, and will be amid uproars and fears. If somehow the Sun or the full moon is afflicted, natives, having done something unlawful and violent, will endure troubles and much-talked-of dangers, and uprisings of cities or of enemies, on account of which they live in uproar. In such cases, then, one will have to compare the co-presence or testimony of the benefics, so that the ailments may pass by, or else predict ruin and dishonour [text uncertain]. If only the Moon or the Ascendant is afflicted, the glory of office will lose its display through bodily troubles and precarious diseases, and will be grievous and painful to those who hold it. But if somehow the substance of the nativity is found to lead an inactive and private life, one must not pronounce varied and extraordinary affairs, nor new undertakings or changes, either in the transmissions of the periods or in the configurations by entry; nor will the malefics coming by entry into the productive places harm those who are very prosperous, nor indeed will the benefics benefit the moderate, because there is a general prior determination which the particular matters cannot change. There are many nativities that descend from great fortune and glory into humility, and others that arrive from moderate fortune and from an inglorious family at prosperity and renown. When, then, the nativity is found from the general methods to be carried upward, in the particular chronologies brilliant distinctions, benefits, and advancements will follow when benefics hold the periods, while when malefics hold them there will be suspense, troubles, and bodily annoyances, but the substance will remain without being overthrown. If somehow the nativity is carried toward humility according to its general substance, the benefics, receiving the yearly periods or coming by entry, will be weaker in conferring benefit, and will give way to the malefics to harm the nativity. Thus, then, the benefics do not always hold a beneficent place nor the malefics a maleficent one, but through the general substance, interchanging in the particular chronologies, they become benefics [lacuna].

所以，首先必须得知每个本命的根基与品级，然后才把行星与星座的本性套上去，好让中等的本命与荣耀的本命不被宣告为同样的效验，而是不同的。因为每颗行星与每个星座都有施恩或加害的中等本性，也持有荣耀的本性或更大的伤害；因此它们有时成为大好事的原因，有时成为恶事的原因。所以，当我们发现一个显赫光彩的根基受吉星的见证保全，而在时期的交付中凶星持有时期，或以进入来到四角或得力的位置时，我们就说本命不会遭受什么不测；但本命者会全然无序地处理他的事务，招来恶名或责难，处在喧乱与恐惧之中。若太阳或望月以某种方式受损，本命者做了某种不法而暴力的事，会遭受困扰与众口议论的危险，以及城邦或仇敌的起事，因此在喧乱中生活。所以在这类情形中，必须比较吉星的同在或见证，好让病痛过去，否则就预言毁败与耻辱〔原文疑有讹误〕。若只有月亮或上升点受损，官职的荣耀会因身体的困扰与不稳的疾病而失去排场，对持有它的人沉重而痛苦。但若本命的根基被发现是过一种无所作为而私居的生活，就不应在时期的交付或行运的格局中宣告多变而非常的事务，也不应宣告新的事业或变动；凶星以进入来到得力的位置，也不会伤害非常兴旺的人，吉星也确实不会使中等的人得益，因为有一个总的预先决定，具体的事无法改变它。有许多本命从大的运势与荣耀降入卑微，又有一些从中等的运势与无名的家族达到兴旺与名声。所以，当按总的方法发现本命是向上走的，在具体的年代推算中，吉星持有时期时，会有光彩的显赫、利益与晋升；凶星持有时，会有悬而不决、困扰与身体的烦扰，但根基会保持而不被推翻。若本命按它总的根基以某种方式被带向卑微，吉星接受每年的时期或以进入而来时，在施益上会较弱，并让位给凶星去伤害本命。所以，吉星并不总持有施恩之位，凶星也不总持有加害之位，而是通过总的根基，在具体的年代推算中互换，成为吉星〔此处原文有缺〕。

Moreover, one must examine the actions of each nativity, whether it has its activity from Mercury, Mars, Venus, or Saturn, or from the Sun, the Moon, and Jupiter, so that the substance may be found to be glorious. For in this way, when each of the planets is well configured in the transmissions or comes by entry, the year will be beneficial and glorious with respect to the occupation of action. For example, if Saturn comes upon the places of the Sun or the Moon, he will do harm in the matters that the Sun or the Moon or the places signify from their own nature; likewise if the year is upon him or falls toward him, either where he lay in the nativity or where he is by entry, we shall pronounce the effects concerning those matters. The remaining planets too, and the Sun and the Moon, when they come into the place of occupation and are chronocrators, become more effective, but when opposing it, troublesome. In every nativity, if the year counted from the Sun, the Moon, and the Ascendant announces something, it is unvarying, either good or bad. For example, if it falls toward Venus or Jupiter or into productive places, good; but if toward Saturn or Mars or afflicted places, bad; and if the transmission is made toward both, what the planets or the places signify will come to pass in the year; but if the three counts show unlike things, the year will be varied and subject to reversals. It is better, then, for the malefics to hand over to the benefics, or the benefics to the malefics; and if a planet hands over to a planet that is in one sign with it, that is, having become its house-receiver in the productive places, it makes the period active.

再者，必须审视每个本命的作为，看它的作为是来自水星、火星、金星或土星，还是来自太阳、月亮与木星，好发现根基是否荣耀。因为这样，当每颗行星在交付中格局良好或以进入而来时，这一年在作为的职业上会有益而荣耀。例如，若土星来到太阳或月亮的位置，他就会在太阳、月亮或那些位置按自己的本性所象征的事上造成伤害；同样，若年在他之上或落向他，无论是在他本命中所在之处还是在他行运所在之处，我们都会就那些事宣告效验。其余的行星以及太阳与月亮，当它们来到职业之位而为时主时，会变得更有效验，但对冲它时则令人困扰。在每个本命中，若从太阳、月亮与上升点数出的年宣告某事，那就是不变的，或好或坏。例如，若落向金星或木星，或落进得力的位置，就是好的；但若落向土星或火星，或落进受损的位置，就是坏的；若交付同时落向两者，行星或位置所象征的事都会在这一年发生；但若三种计数显示不相似的事，这一年就会多变而多起伏。所以，凶星交给吉星，或吉星交给凶星，是比较好的；若一颗行星交给与它同在一个星座的行星，也就是在得力的位置上成了它的居所之主，就使时期有作为。

This reckoning too seems to be natural: that the release of the years be made from each place that signifies something, for example from the Midheaven when we inquire about action, from the place of marriage when about a wife, from the place of slaves when about slaves, and likewise from the place of children. If, then, we find benefics upon the place where the count ends or testifying to it, or the sign productive, we shall pronounce the outcome to be success, or benefit, or the fulfilment of one's intention. In every kind of matter one will have to consider together the ruler of the ruler, in what sign it is and how it is configured; for if the ruler of the sign, having fallen badly, shows some ailment, while its own ruler falls well, there will be a dissolution of the evil and a partial benefit or success in what was hoped for; some also receive trusts or gifts from greater or royal persons, when the general periods are held by the Sun and the Moon or the benefics and the sub-division turns out well. Above all, in general, in a nativity, if Jupiter overcomes Saturn, or is in square, trine, or opposition with him, or present with him, and likewise if Mars is found in trine or square, or in the place that follows the setting while Jupiter is in the IC, the gifts are greater and beneficial. As for those who provide gifts to others, or seek glory among the people and spend upon the crowds: if Mercury in the nativity is found without testimony from Saturn and Mars and receives testimony from Jupiter and Venus, they will be lovers of glory and will partake of very great acclaim and honour; but if he is regarded by Mars, they will have regret, blame, trouble, and much-talked-of notoriety, even if they are led into lavish expenditures; if by Saturn, they continue sparingly and blameworthily or dangerously; and if by benefics too, both things will happen.

这种算法看来也是合乎自然的：从每个象征某事的位置作年的释放，例如问作为时从中天，问妻子时从婚姻之位，问奴仆时从奴仆之位，同样也从子女之位。所以，若我们发现数终止的位置上有吉星或吉星为它作见证，或那个星座得力，我们就宣告结果是成功，或利益，或意愿的实现。在每一类事上，都必须把主星之主一同考虑，看它在哪个星座、格局如何；因为若星座之主落得不好，显示某种病痛，而它自己的主落得好，就会有恶事的消解，以及部分的利益或所期望之事的成功；有些人也会从地位较高或王家的人那里得到托付或礼物，当总时期由太阳与月亮或吉星持有，而细分又结果良好时。总之，最重要的是，在一个本命中，若木星压制土星，或与他成四分、三分或对冲，或与他同在，同样若火星被发现成三分或四分，或在下降之后的位置而木星在天底，礼物就更大而有益。至于那些给别人提供礼物，或在民众中求荣耀而为众人花费的人：若本命中水星被发现没有土星与火星的见证，而受木星与金星的见证，他们会爱好荣耀，享有非常大的喝彩与荣誉；但若他被火星照看，即使被引入奢靡的花费，他们也会有后悔、责难、困扰与众口议论的恶名；若被土星照看，他们就吝啬地、受人指责地或危险地度日；若也被吉星照看，两种情形都会发生。

Every testimony of a planet is powerful, but especially that by square or opposition; it will also be judged in the signs of equal rising. A transmission taking place in Taurus and Virgo from these shows the effects too as insecure, full of postponements, or litigious, or [lacuna]; in Sagittarius and Capricorn, enigmatic and harmful, because the signs are incomplete. Since the division is rather natural, one will have to examine the transmissions not only in nativities but also in inceptions and for runaways, learning the hour and casting the planets, and using the same method as for nativities and inceptions. When Saturn and Mars have a relation to the Sun and the Moon or the Ascendant, either by opposition, or by overcoming, or by some other power of harm [lacuna], and if somehow the nativity of a child is given who is not yet able to receive an effect such as the beginning of an action, while transmissions of the planets are found, the effects will concern the father and the mother, and sometimes the master, until the native, having reached the time of his prime, himself takes up what is signified; one must assign to him only what he is able to receive, such as a gift, a bequest, or a double name, a slackening [text uncertain], rashes, and the rest. Sometimes, then, extraordinary effects usually befall such children, which become evident from the general comparison of the planets. One must, then, fit the effects to the ages, to the customs and laws of the places, and to the periods signified; for in this way the work will be judged infallible. In the case of two nativities, whether of brothers, or of husband and wife, or of kin, or of other friendly persons, one must pronounce the effect for the one to whom it belongs by nativity, according to the time that applies, and say that it will happen to him earlier or later, while assigning the manner to the other as the second party. For example, if it is someone's lot to be benefited from an occasion of death, while for another there is in general an inheritance from which the former expects the benefit, the benefit will not come in his periods but in those of the one who expects the inheritance; for the effect will come about from the Midheaven; or often the effect has happened sooner for one, while for the other the same has happened after a time, either through travel, or a lawsuit, or an accusation, or some other cause; and let the like be understood of glory, gifts, purchases, sales, partnership, union, residence abroad, and the other things accomplished in life. Hence effects sometimes usually come early and sometimes are delayed, because of the sympathies or the oppositions of the nativities; and just as through an instrument, nature has unfolded the powers of the effects from the revolution of the planets, sometimes to bring them on suddenly or unexpectedly, sometimes to draw them out and hold them fast under compulsion, until the planet that has the harmonious occasion of the affairs receives the planets.

行星的每一种见证都有力，尤其是以四分或对冲的见证；在上升相等的星座中也要判定它。在金牛与处女中、从这些发生的交付，显示效验也不稳固、充满拖延，或多诉讼，或〔此处原文有缺〕；在射手与摩羯中，则隐晦而有害，因为这些星座是不完整的。既然这种划分相当合乎自然，就不仅在本命中，也要在起事之盘与逃亡者的问题中审视交付，得知时辰并排出诸星，用与本命和起事之盘同样的方法。当土星与火星对太阳、月亮或上升点有关系时，或以对冲，或以压制，或以别的某种加害之力〔此处原文有缺〕；若某个孩子的本命被给出，他还不能接受像作为之开端这样的效验，而又发现有诸星的交付，效验就会关乎父亲与母亲，有时关乎主人，直到本命者到了盛年之时，自己承受所象征之事；只应给他分派他能接受的，如礼物、遗赠，或一个双重的名字、松弛〔原文疑有讹误〕、疹子以及其余的。所以有时，非常的效验通常会降临这类孩子，这从诸星总的比较中显现出来。所以必须使效验适合年龄、当地的习俗与法律，以及所象征的时期；因为这样，这项功夫就会被判为不会出错。在两个本命的情形中，无论是兄弟、夫妻、亲属，还是别的友好之人，都必须把效验宣告给按本命属于他的那个人，按适用的时间，说它会较早或较晚发生在他身上，而把方式分派给另一个人作为第二方。例如，若某人命中注定从死亡的机缘得益，而另一人在总的方面有一笔继承，前者期待从中得益，那么这利益不会在前者的时期中来，而在期待继承的那个人的时期中来；因为效验会从中天而来；或者常常效验对一个人来得较早，对另一个人则过一段时间才发生同样的事，或通过出行，或诉讼，或指控，或别的某种原因；荣耀、礼物、购买、出售、合伙、结合、客居异乡，以及生命中所完成的其他事，也应同样理解。因此，效验有时通常来得早，有时被延迟，这是由于本命之间的感应或对立；正如借着一件仪器，自然从诸星的运转中展开效验的力量，有时使它们突然或出乎意料地到来，有时把它们拉长，在强制之下牢牢扣住，直到那颗具有事务之和谐机缘的行星接受诸星。

One must also learn such examples from cosmic events and compare them: the Sun does not always make the same changes of the air from the tropical degrees, but sometimes, coming early, he leads the cosmic state into a good tempering, and sometimes, having passed through the winter solstice in fair weather, he has afterward produced a great storm and a fearful rush of winds; nor does the Moon bring about the rains at the phases one would expect, or hold back [text uncertain] the air after the bonds, but sometimes she brings storms early and anticipates the cause of nature, so that an unexpected and no ordinary confusion of the seasons occurs, and sometimes, having shown no wintry state at all, she has made the air fair at the phase itself, and sometimes, having passed the loosing of the bond, she has gone over into a wintry change. Likewise the other weather-signs and settings of the stars will not come about in the same way, but sometimes they will anticipate, sometimes make their phases later, and sometimes give no sign at all. These things happen to vary according to the risings of the year, the conjunctions, the full moons, the eclipses, the four-year cycles, the general and cyclical rulers, and the changes in the timely entries.

也必须从宇宙的事件中学习这类例子并加以比较：太阳并不总在回归的度数上造成同样的空气变化，而是有时来得早，把宇宙的状态引入良好的调和；有时在晴好的天气中过了冬至，之后却造成大的风暴与可怕的狂风；月亮也并不在人们预期的相态上带来雨水，或在解结之后约束〔原文疑有讹误〕空气，而是有时提早带来风暴，抢在自然的原因之前，以致发生意外而非同寻常的季节紊乱；有时根本没有显出冬天的状态，在那个相态本身使空气晴好；有时过了解结之后，又转入冬天的变化。同样，其余的天气之兆与诸星的沉落也不会以同样的方式发生，而是有时提前，有时较晚作出它们的相态，有时根本不给任何征兆。这些事会按年的升起、合朔、望月、交食、四年的循环、总的与循环的主星，以及合时进入的变化而有所不同。