卷五·第九章　十二年周期为何不应：命运、希望与诸星释放

IX. What Is the Reason Why the Same Effects Do Not Come About through the Twelve-Year Period, but at Times, when Good Things Are Expected, Bad Things Have Happened, or Conversely Good Things instead of Bad, and Sometimes, Even when the Division Falls in Empty Signs, Great Good or Bad Things Have Happened.

第九章　为何经过十二年周期不会带来同样的效验，有时期待好事却发生了坏事，或反过来，期待坏事却来了好事，有时即使划分落在空的星座，也发生了大的好事或坏事。

One must foresee the past, the present, and the future periods and compare them, whether they arrive from active periods at inactive ones, or from malefics at benefics. For often someone who had a time liable to lawsuits or full of fear because of the chronology of the malefics was condemned, but afterwards, when the benefics took over in turn and the general chronology showed the nativity to be not easily overthrown, a restoration of both his reputation and his livelihood came about through another defence, and his substance advanced to a greater fortune. Whenever, then, the nativity is carried toward a general defeat and the periods run together, various accusations, judgements, losses, and enmities are prepared beforehand, until that cause arrives which had to come about. Likewise, if an occasion of good arises in the course of the periods, friendships, introductions to greater persons and their sympathies, inheritances, bequests, and gifts are prepared beforehand; whence those who were without reputation and weaker in respect of their causes come to be held young [text uncertain], prudent, and lovable through the bounds of good fortune, while those who are very brave and educated, but condemned by their original foundation, being thought harsh, cowardly, and inactive, are oppressed by their inferiors and, nobly enduring their lack of reputation, yield to the laws of Fate. We find also in the case of nativities of governors that, before they have fulfilled the time of their office, they make their changes by succession to others, some to what is more glorious and beneficial, while others linger on toward the opposite and to ruin; whence for some evils accrue for their good and their safety, while for others what seemed good afterwards becomes the cause of evils.

必须预见过去、现在与将来的时期并加以比较，看它们是从作为之期走到无为之期，还是从凶星走到吉星。因为常常有人因凶星的年代推算而有一段易受诉讼或充满恐惧的时间，被定了罪，但后来，当吉星轮流接手、总的年代推算又显示本命不易被推翻时，他通过另一次答辩恢复了名声与生计，他的根基也进到更大的好运。所以，每当本命被带向总的失败而诸时期又同时走到一起时，各种控告、审判、损失与敌意就会预先备好，直到那个必须发生的原因到来。同样，若在时期的进程中出现好事的机缘，友谊、对较大人物的引荐与他们的同情、继承、遗赠与礼物也会预先备好；因此，那些没有名声、在自己的事由上较弱的人，借着好运的界限被认为年轻〔原文疑有讹误〕、明智而可爱，而那些很勇敢、有教养、却被本来的根基判定了的人，被认为严厉、怯懦而无所作为，受到不如他们的人压制，高贵地忍受着名声的缺失，屈服于命运的法则。我们在总督的本命中也发现，他们在任期未满之前，就借着继任而转到别处，有些转向更荣耀、更有益的，有些则拖向相反与毁败；因此对有些人，恶事反为他们的好处与安全而来，对另一些人，看似好事的后来却成了恶事的原因。

For Fate has laid down for each person an unchangeable working of effects, having walled it about with many causes of good and evil, through which two self-begotten goddesses, Hope and Fortune, acting as her ministers, hold sway over life, and by compulsion and deception allow men to bear what has been laid down. The one of them is manifest to all, proving herself through the outcome of the effects, at times good and blessed, at times sullen and savage; for some she raises up that she may cast them down, others she hurls into lowliness that she may raise them up more splendidly. The other is neither sullen nor cheerful, but, always hidden, she goes about everywhere unnoticed and, smiling upon all like a flatterer, she points out many choices of good things which cannot be grasped; deceiving most people, she holds them fast, and they, though wronged and having become followers of pleasures, are drawn back again by her, and hoping, they believe what they wish, but they meet with what they do not expect. And if ever she grants some firm expectation, she abandons it and goes off to others, and she seems to be with all while remaining with none. Hence those who are inexperienced in foreknowledge, or who do not wish to engage with it at all, are led about and plundered by the aforesaid goddesses and, enduring every punishment, are chastised with pleasure. Some, attaining part of what they expected and gaining greater confidence, await firm and fine outcomes, not knowing how easily overthrown and precarious the reverses are; others, condemned in their judgements not for a season but for ever, having handed over their soul and body as a surrender to their desires, dishonoured and shameless, or wholly unable to attain anything, remain in subservience to unstable Fortune and deceiving Hope. But those who have occupied themselves with the foreknowledge of the future and with the truth, having acquired a soul that is not enslaved and is free, despise Fortune, do not persist in Hope, and do not fear death, but live untroubled, having trained their soul beforehand to be courageous; they neither exult at good things nor are humbled by bad ones, but are content with what is present. Not longing for impossible things, they bear with self-control what has been laid down, and, having become estranged from every pleasure or flattery, they become soldiers of Fate. For it is impossible for anyone by prayers or sacrifices to overcome the original foundation and to fashion for himself another according to his wish; for what has been given will come about even if we do not pray, and what is not fated will not happen even if we pray. Just as actors on the stage, following the scripts of the poets, play their parts becomingly, at times as kings, at times as robbers, at times as rustics, commoners, and gods, in the same way we too must play the parts with which Fate has invested us and adapt ourselves to the fortunes of the times, even if we do not agree with them. And if anyone is unwilling, "he will become base and suffer this very thing." If anyone pays heed to the instructions and general chronologies composed by me, he will find everything in due order; but if he has looked into some parts and has not learned the causes or the other solutions, he will pass judgement of praise and blame alike; and if he does not engage with them at all to obey [text uncertain], such a man will be refuted as ignorant and undisciplined by men who are lovers of the beautiful and more self-controlled.

因为命运为每个人定下了不可更改的效验之运作，用许多善恶的原因把它围住，借着这些原因，两位自生的女神——希望与幸运——作为她的侍从，主宰着人生，以强迫与欺骗使人承受所定下的事。其中一位向众人显现，借着效验的结果证明自己，有时善良而有福，有时阴沉而凶蛮；有些人她抬高是为了摔下，另一些人她扔进卑微是为了更光彩地抬高。另一位既不阴沉也不欢快，而是总隐藏着，到处走动而不被察觉，像谄媚者一样对众人微笑，指出许多抓不住的好事可供选择；她欺骗了大多数人，把他们牢牢拘住，而他们虽受了亏、成了快乐的追随者，又被她拉回来，怀着希望，相信自己愿意相信的，却遇到自己没有料到的。若她什么时候给了某种确定的期待，她又把它抛下，走到别人那里去，她似乎与所有人同在，却不与任何人同留。因此，那些对预知没有经验、或根本不愿与之打交道的人，被上述女神牵着走、被劫掠，忍受种种惩罚，在快乐中受责打。有些人得到所期待的一部分，有了更大的信心，就等着确定而美好的结局，不知道逆转是多么容易推翻、多么不稳；另一些人在判断上不是一时而是永远被定了罪，把灵魂与身体作为投降交给自己的欲望，没有荣誉、不知羞耻，或全然得不到任何东西，一直屈从于不稳的幸运与欺骗的希望。但那些致力于预知将来与真理的人，获得了不受奴役而自由的灵魂，轻视幸运，不执着于希望，不惧怕死亡，而是无忧地生活，预先把灵魂锻炼得勇敢；他们既不因好事而得意，也不因坏事而卑屈，而是满足于当下所有。他们不渴求不可能的事，以自制承受所定下的，远离一切快乐或谄媚，成为命运的兵士。因为任何人都不可能以祷告或献祭胜过本来的根基，按自己的意愿为自己另造一个；因为所赋予的，即使我们不祷告也会到来，而没有注定的，即使我们祷告也不会发生。正如舞台上的演员，照着诗人的剧本，得体地扮演他们的角色，有时是国王，有时是强盗，有时是农夫、平民与神，同样，我们也必须扮演命运给我们披上的角色，使自己适应时运，即使我们不赞同。若有人不愿意，“他就会变坏，而仍遭受同样的事”。若有人留意我所编写的训示与总的年代推算，他会发现一切都有条理；但若他只窥看了某些部分，而没有学到原因或其余的解法，他就会同时下赞美与责备的判断；若他根本不与之打交道而服从〔原文疑有讹误〕，这样的人就会被爱美而较有自制的人驳斥为无知而放纵。

One must also know beforehand, according to the natural reckoning, that the same things are not given to all, nor are they of benefit to all:

也必须按照自然的道理预先知道，同样的东西并不给所有的人，也不对所有的人有益：

"For to one the god has given the works of war,

“因为神给了一个人战争的事业，

to another dancing, to another the lyre and song,

给另一个人舞蹈，给另一个人竖琴与歌唱，

and in another's breast far-seeing Zeus places a mind

而远见的宙斯在另一个人的胸中放进一颗

that is noble, and many men have the benefit of it,"

高贵的心，许多人都从中得益，”

as the writer also says. For not all men have thoughts or actions like those of all other men. These things we have set out against those who dare to speak against the work, and for those who possess a nature gifted by the stars and are lovers of learning. Hence the substance of the science is sacred and venerable, as having been handed down to men by god, so that they too may have a share of immortality through foreknowledge; but the judgement as to whether it is true, or without substance, or hard to grasp, is tested by those who engage with it. Just as earthen jars that have received a single substance of costly wine from one estate, after a time, some give back the deposit to those who entrusted it full and pleasing, with pleasure and delight, while others, having diminished the bulk of the measure and not being strong enough to bear it up, after the finest part has boiled over, neither changed in respect of the pleasure nor refused the taste of the substance, but failed in both, while still others, neither holding out for a time nor preserving their nature, turned at once (as one can see the like in the case of other plants too: for from one tree one fruit is gathered sweet and ripe, another hard and wild, another bitter and rotten or harmful to those who use it), in the same way are the minds of those who engage with the science. For the one who has pursued his studies with eagerness and perseverance has acquired the pleasure to the end; but those who are without natural aptitude and unlearned, having made their entrance with the tips of their fingers and not having stayed long because of their impatience, nor having studied under lawful guides, have brought a proof of their lack of education against themselves and blame against the writers of treatises.

正如那位作者也说的。因为并非所有人都有与其他所有人相同的思想或行为。这些我们是针对那些胆敢反对这部著作的人，以及为那些具有星辰所赋天性、热爱学问的人而写下的。因此这门学问的本质是神圣而可敬的，因为它是由神传给人的，好让人也借着预知分得不朽；但它是真实的、还是没有实质、还是难以把握，这判断要由与之打交道的人来检验。正如从同一处庄园接受了同一种名贵酒的陶罐，过了一段时间，有的把寄存之物满满地、可口地交还给托付者，带来快乐与欢喜，另一些减少了量，承受不住，最好的部分沸溢出去之后，既没有在愉悦上变化，也没有拒绝本质的味道，却在两方面都失败了，还有一些，既撑不了一段时间，也保不住本性，立刻就变了（正如在其他植物上也能看到类似的事：从同一棵树上，摘下的果子一个甜而熟，一个硬而野，一个苦而烂或对食用者有害），同样，那些与这门学问打交道的人的心智也是如此。因为以热心与毅力追求学业的人，得到了直到终点的愉悦；但那些没有天分而未受教的人，用指尖入了门，又因不耐烦而没有久留，也没有在合法的导师门下学习，就给自己带来了缺乏教养的证据，给论著的作者带来了责备。

Leaving aside what concerns plants and substance, let us come down to the human race and examine it. From two natures, from the same father and the same mother, many children are born, but they do not possess a nature like that of the seed or of their sympathy toward one another; carried along by an unlike fortune through their foundation, some, brought up decently and nobly, bring glory to their family and become blessed, and through their own love of the beautiful construct works and temples and become pleasing to the crowds, and leaving behind the offspring of children and statues, they are glorified while living, and when dead they are deemed worthy of eternal fame. Others, having become most hateful not only to their parents and kinsmen because of a depraved character, but also to those not related to them, have turned many away from begetting children; and others, pursued by nature and by god, have endured a just punishment and have come to a most shameful or violent end. And this, I think, is what will happen to those who speak against the science.

撇开植物与本质的事，让我们下到人类来审视。从两种本性、同一个父亲与同一个母亲，生出许多子女，但他们并不具有与种子相同的本性，也不具有彼此之间的同情；他们因根基而被不同的好运带着走，有些被体面而高贵地抚养长大，给家族带来荣耀，变得有福，又凭自己对美的热爱建造工程与神庙，讨众人喜欢，留下子女的后代与雕像，生前受荣耀，死后被认为配得永恒的名声。另一些人因败坏的品性，不仅为父母与亲族所痛恨，也为与他们无亲的人所痛恨，使许多人不愿生育子女；还有一些人，被自然与神追赶，承受了公正的惩罚，落得最可耻或横暴的结局。我想，那些反对这门学问的人也会遇到这样的事。

In order to put the end to the treatise begun at the outset, let us append the natural and compulsory divisions. For sometimes, when through the aforesaid twelve-year period the transmission falls into empty places, exceptional things happen; or again, when the benefics alone seem to have the time, causes of evils come about as well.

为了给开头起的这篇论著作个收尾，让我们附上自然而必然的划分。因为有时经过上述十二年周期，交付落在空的位置，却发生了非常之事；或者，当似乎只有吉星持有时间时，也有恶事的原因出现。

Let there be, by way of example: the Sun and Mercury in Aquarius, the Moon in Scorpio, Saturn in Cancer, Jupiter in Libra, Mars in Virgo, Venus in Capricorn, the Ascendant in Virgo. There will be, then, from Mars and the Ascendant to Jupiter 2, from Jupiter to the Moon 2, and from Venus to Mercury and the Sun 2; so the 2nd, the 4th, the 6th, the 8th, and the 10th years belong to them. Then from Mars to the Moon 3, from Saturn to Mars 3, and from the Moon to Venus 3; so the 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th, and 15th belong to them. Then we draw from Saturn to Jupiter 4, from Jupiter to Venus 4, and from the Moon to the Sun and Mercury 4; so the 4th, 8th, 12th, and 16th belong to them. Then from Mars and the Ascendant to Venus 5, from Jupiter to the Sun and Mercury 5, and from Saturn to the Moon 5; so then the 5th, the 10th, the 15th, and the 20th belong to them. Then again from Mars and the Ascendant to the Sun and Mercury 6, and from the Sun and Mercury to Saturn 6; so then the 6th, the 12th, the 18th, the 24th, and the 30th belong to them. Then from Saturn to Venus 7, and from Venus to Saturn 7 [corrected: Kroll has a lacuna here and prints this pair in the next sentence as “from Venus to Saturn 8”]; so the 7th, the 14th, the 21st, the 28th, and the 35th belong to them. Likewise also from Saturn to the Sun and Mercury 8, and from Mercury and the Sun to Mars and the Ascendant 8; so the 8th, the 16th, the 24th, the 32nd, and the 40th belong to them. Then from the Sun and Mercury to Jupiter 9, from Venus to Mars and the Ascendant 9, and from the Moon to Saturn 9; so the 9th, 18th, 27th, 36th, and 45th belong to them. Then from the Sun and Mercury to the Moon 10, from Venus to Jupiter 10, and from Jupiter to Saturn 10; so the 10th, 20th, 30th, 40th, and 50th belong to them. Then from Venus to the Moon 11, from the Moon to Mars and the Ascendant 11, and from the Ascendant and Mars to Saturn 11; so the 11th, 22nd, 33rd, 44th, and 55th belong to them. Then from the Sun and Mercury to Venus 12, from the Moon to Jupiter 12, and from Jupiter to Mars and the Ascendant 12; so the 12th, 24th, 36th, 48th, and 60th belong to them. And by adding on, one will find the number as far as one wishes.

举例来说，设太阳与水星在水瓶，月亮在天蝎，土星在巨蟹，木星在天秤，火星在处女，金星在摩羯，上升点在处女。那么，从火星与上升点到木星是二，从木星到月亮是二，从金星到水星与太阳是二；所以第二、第四、第六、第八与第十年属于它们。然后从火星到月亮是三，从土星到火星是三，从月亮到金星是三；所以第三、第六、第九、第十二与第十五年属于它们。然后我们画出从土星到木星是四，从木星到金星是四，从月亮到太阳与水星是四；所以第四、第八、第十二与第十六年属于它们。然后从火星与上升点到金星是五，从木星到太阳与水星是五，从土星到月亮是五；所以第五、第十、第十五与第二十年属于它们。然后又从火星与上升点到太阳与水星是六，从太阳与水星到土星是六；所以第六、第十二、第十八、第二十四与第三十年属于它们。然后从土星到金星是七，以及从金星到土星是七〔据算改正：Kroll 本此处有缺，这一对误列在下句，作「从金星到土星是八」〕；所以第七、第十四、第二十一、第二十八与第三十五年属于它们。同样，从土星到太阳与水星是八，从水星与太阳到火星与上升点是八；所以第八、第十六、第二十四、第三十二与第四十年属于它们。然后从太阳与水星到木星是九，从金星到火星与上升点是九，从月亮到土星是九；所以第九、第十八、第二十七、第三十六与第四十五年属于它们。然后从太阳与水星到月亮是十，从金星到木星是十，从木星到土星是十；所以第十、第二十、第三十、第四十与第五十年属于它们。然后从金星到月亮是十一，从月亮到火星与上升点是十一，从上升点与火星到土星是十一；所以第十一、第二十二、第三十三、第四十四与第五十五年属于它们。然后从太阳与水星到金星是十二，从月亮到木星是十二，从木星到火星与上升点是十二；所以第十二、第二十四、第三十六、第四十八与第六十年属于它们。往上加下去，想求到多少就能找到多少。

This number is compulsory and doubles itself on account of the nature of the arrangement; but in many cases the one through the twelve-year period, which will be set out in the second part, seems more natural and more authoritative. One must therefore first attend to that one, count off the twelves, and seek the remainder; and if it is found to have a transmission, one should use that one rather; but if it is not found, we shall of necessity come down to this one. For example, if we are seeking year 20, having subtracted the 12 we seek the remaining 8, whether it has a transmission. If, then, it is not found, we seek the intervals by 4 and shall use the others as 8 (for the transmission is more effective) [text uncertain], or again those by 2; for the numbers that make up 8 are 2 and 4: for twice 4 is 8, and again four times 2 is 8. And in this way too the transmissions will be effective. Then the 21st and the 19th indicate by opposition: for if we subtract the 12 from the 19, 7 remain, and if we make 3 times 7, it becomes 21. And for the 27th the transmission by 3, by 9, and by 7 will also be effective. If the 24th is found to have a transmission, I shall use it, since those by 3, the 13th, the 25th, and the 37th, end in the same sign. If, then, a planet is found lying upon itself, it will also have transmitted to the sign; but if, while it lies there, other planets happen to be in the following sign, it will rather transmit to them. For example, in the nativity set out above, in the 13th and the 25th years Mars transmits to Jupiter and Jupiter to the Moon; but if no planet is found in the following sign, they will have transmitted the year to themselves. And since each number seems to be natural according to its own harmony, for the subtractions of the cycles we shall use above all, first those by 12, because of the 12 signs, and then those by 7, because of the 7 planets. If, then, a transmission of the 12 is not found, so that of necessity it may come about from these (it seemed good to append this reckoning as well, being more natural), one should make the releasings by degree, according to meeting and casting of rays, from all the planets, and compare the forecast of effects of each planet with respect to each. For if the Ascendant, judged to be the releaser, or the Sun or the Moon, making their course according to the progression of the periods and arriving at the castings of rays or the degrees of the benefics or malefics, become the causes of good or bad things, and at times even bring on the end, how will not the power of the other planets all the more be strong for releasing and casting of rays? Or do we assign the authority of the releasing to the three alone, and pass over the rest as though they were always stationary and fixed, existing merely for the sake of signs? Every planet, moving according to its own course of the wind, will be productive of effects both good and bad.

这个数是必然的，由于排列的本性而自己加倍；但在许多情形下，经过十二年周期的那个，即将在第二部分列出的，似乎更自然、更有权威。所以必须先留意那一个，去掉若干个十二，求余数；若发现它有交付，就宁可用那一个；但若找不到，我们就出于必要下到这一个。例如，若我们求第二十年，减去十二，我们就求余下的八，看它有没有交付。若找不到，我们就求以四为间隔的，并把其余的当作八来用（因为这交付更有效验）〔原文疑有讹误〕，或者再求以二为间隔的；因为构成八的数是二与四：二乘四是八，四乘二也是八。这样，这些交付也会有效验。然后第二十一年与第十九年按对冲显示：因为若我们从十九减去十二，余七，若我们作三乘七，就成二十一。对第二十七年，以三、以九、以七的交付也会有效验。若发现第二十四年有交付，我就会用它，因为以三为间隔的第十三、第二十五与第三十七年终止在同一个星座。所以，若发现一颗行星落在它自己之上，它也就把这一年交付给了那个星座；但若它落在那里时，恰有别的行星在下一个星座，它就宁可交付给它们。例如，在上面所列的本命中，在第十三与第二十五年，火星交给木星，木星交给月亮；但若在下一个星座找不到行星，它们就把这一年交付给了自己。既然每个数按它自己的和谐似乎都是自然的，在周期的减除上我们首先最要用以十二为单位的，因为有十二个星座，其次用以七为单位的，因为有七颗行星。所以，若找不到十二的交付，好让它出于必要从这些中产生（附上这个推算似乎也好，因为它更自然），就应当按度数、按会合与投射光线，从所有行星作释放，并比较每颗行星对每颗行星的效验预告。因为若被判为释放星的上升点，或太阳或月亮，按时期的推进运行，来到吉星或凶星的光线投射或度数上，成为好事或坏事的原因，有时甚至带来终结，那么其余诸星的力量岂不更有力于释放与投射光线？还是说我们只把释放的权柄归给这三个，而把其余的略过，好像它们总是留驻不动、只是为了星座而存在？每颗行星按它自己的风的行程运行，都会造成好与坏的效验。

These things I recommend having tested them myself from experience; for often, when no domination was properly found, nor any occasion of rulership, nor any other method showing activity, great and unexpected causes of good came about, and at times dangerous and deadly circumstances followed; and these I grasped from the releasing of the planets. For the malefics, having come by movement by degree upon the Ascendant or the Sun or the Moon, brought on the end, and upon the Midheaven or the important places, inactivity and troubling or dangerous causes; likewise also the benefics brought glories, prominence, and benefits, if the releasing of the substance is also found about the Sun or the Moon or the Ascendant and about the ruler. Concerning, however, the other starting points of affairs and the choices that come about concerning life, one must pay attention to the other releasings, testimonies, and castings of rays of the planets. For how will not Saturn and Mars, coming by releasing by degree upon the Ascendant or the Sun or the Moon, when there is a substance of years, bring about weakness and sudden climacterics, or the death of the father or the mother, or enmities of greater persons, or the overthrow of reputation, or precarious fears, and the rest, whatever their nature indicates? And upon the places and degrees of Venus, the deaths of a wife or of female persons, or enmities, disturbances, harassments in livelihood, censures, and shameful passions; upon those of Mercury, lawsuits and abuses on account of writings or money matters or secret affairs, or the deaths of brothers or kinsmen or slaves; and upon those of Jupiter, glories, inheritances, acquisitions, the begetting of children, advancements, and introductions to greater persons. Likewise each planet will be effective according to its own power and according to those lying upon it or casting rays to it; and in the productive or angular signs they will be more secure and stronger for the effect, but in the cadent places weaker. If, however, a planet is found retrograde, we shall make the releasing not in the order of the signs but in the upward direction; and having examined up to which degree it goes back, we shall compare which planet that degree can cast rays to at that time. For if it happens at present to be turned away from some planet or angle, but according to the chronology of its retrogradation, having come from one sign into another, it casts rays, it will be effective for good or for bad.

这些我是自己从经验检验过才推荐的；因为常常，在没有恰当地找到主导、也没有主星的机缘、也没有别的显示作为的方法时，却发生了巨大而意外的好事，有时也随之出现危险而致死的情形；这些我是从诸星的释放中把握到的。因为凶星按度数运行来到上升点、太阳或月亮上，就带来终结，来到中天或重要的位置上，就带来无所作为与令人困扰或危险的原因；同样，吉星带来荣耀、显要与利益，若根基的释放也被发现在太阳、月亮或上升点周围以及主星周围的话。然而关于事务的其他起点，以及关于人生所生出的种种选择，就必须留意诸星的其他释放、见证与光线投射。因为土星与火星按度数的释放来到上升点、太阳或月亮上，当有寿年的根基时，岂不会带来虚弱与突然的关口，或父亲或母亲的死亡，或较大人物的敌意，或名声的倾覆，或不稳的恐惧，以及其余凡它们本性所指示的？来到金星的位置与度数上，带来妻子或女性之人的死亡，或敌意、扰乱、生计上的骚扰、责难与可耻的激情；来到水星的，带来因文书、钱财之事或秘事而来的诉讼与凌辱，或兄弟、亲属或奴仆的死亡；来到木星的，带来荣耀、继承、获取、子女的生育、晋升与对较大人物的引荐。同样，每颗行星都会按自己的力量，并按落在它上面或向它投射光线的诸星而有效验；在得力或居角的星座中，它们对效验更稳固、更有力，在果宫的位置则较弱。然而若发现一颗行星逆行，我们就不按星座的次序、而按向上的方向作释放；并审视它退到哪一度，比较那一度在那时能向哪颗行星投射光线。因为若它此刻恰与某颗行星或某个角不相照，但按它逆行的年代推算，从一个星座来到另一个星座而投射光线，它就会对好或坏有效验。

One must, however, examine the movements by degree from the treatise on the tables in accordance with the phenomena; for the general substances and chronologies are governed by these releasings. Hence most people, not knowing that affairs are brought to completion through many choices, suppose the science to be without existence, or unable to reach completion, or hard to grasp, having always occupied themselves with the power of a single method; but those who, with all precision, have introduced many choices of power and have used a new and natural method according to the choice that befits the nativity have acquired an easily grasped working of the effects. Just as foreign men coming down into certain cities, and especially into a royal country, make their arrival at different times in different ways and not by one road, but some arrive on foot from the ends of the earth, passing through desert places and hard roads and falling into fearful dangers, others easily and without danger, using highways, and others, often picturing death to themselves in the storms of the sea and the blasts of the winds, carry their purpose to fulfilment; and there is no rivalry among them, nor any prize set for a short or hard entry, but each, according to the working of the periods at that time, meets either with benefits and glory or with the things he purposed, or else, falling into other causes or being overthrown, loses his life as well; some remained there to their ruin, others to an unexpected benefaction, although they had been eager to make their departure as quickly as possible; in the same way we too must attend to the science in varied ways and come down to the effect as if making our way straight by many roads. For many and countless are the things that happen to men, which are constituted not through one method nor through one planet, but through many. And since in each nativity 12 places are signified, and from these and from the nature of the planets very many are found, one must observe the arrangements of the angles and the interchanges of the places; for often two places fall together in one sign, or an angular configuration also shows the character of a cadent place; and this happens in connection with the causes of the Ascendant.

然而必须按照天象，从关于表的论著审视按度数的运动；因为总的根基与年代推算都由这些释放来统辖。因此大多数人不知道事务是经由许多选择而完成的，就以为这门学问不存在，或不能完成，或难以把握，因为他们总是只钻研一种方法的力量；但那些以全部精确引入了许多有力的选择、并按适合本命的选择使用一种新而自然的方法的人，就得到了易于把握的效验之运作。正如外邦人下到某些城市，尤其下到王的国土，他们抵达的时间与方式各不相同，不是走一条路，而是有的从地极步行而来，穿过荒僻之地与难行的路，陷入可怕的危险，有的轻松而无危险，走的是大道，另一些人在海上的风暴与狂风中常常想象自己的死亡，却把目的带到实现；他们之间没有竞争，也没有为短的或难的入城设下奖赏，而是各人按那时时期的运作，或遇到利益与荣耀，或遇到他所打算的事，或者落入别的原因、被倾覆，甚至丢了性命；有些人留在那里直到毁败，有些人则遇到意外的恩惠，虽然他们原本急于尽快离开；同样，我们也必须以多种方式留意这门学问，下到效验，就像走许多条路而一直走到。因为人所遇到的事众多而无数，它们不是经由一种方法、一颗行星，而是经由许多而构成的。既然在每个本命中都标示了十二个位置，从这些位置与诸星的本性中又找出极多的东西，就必须观察诸角的排列与诸位的交换；因为常常两个位置落在一个星座里，或一个居角的格局也显出果宫之位的性质；这是与上升点的原因相关而发生的。

For example, Gemini in the Ascendant, the Midheaven in Aquarius by degree: this place, then, will hold the topic of action, reputation, and children, and also that of foreign lands and god, since by sign it is found in the 9th from the Ascendant; and the transmission by 4 and 5 is found from it to the Ascendant to be productive, and the transmission from the Ascendant to it by 9 and 10 is productive. Likewise also the sign opposite Aquarius, that is Leo, which is the subterranean angle, will hold the topic of foundations, possessions, and parents, and also that of god, brothers, and foreign lands; and the transmission by 3 and 4 from the Ascendant to it will be strong, and from it to the Ascendant the one by 10 and 11. Let the like be solved in the same way also for the other signs, those of long rising, whenever the Midheaven falls in the sextile; hence if we examine the places by degree, or also the intervals of the planets, we shall not stumble. For example, Mars in the Ascendant in Virgo, the Moon in Scorpio in the IC, the Midheaven in Taurus; one must seek the 34th year. When two twelves are subtracted, 10 remain: the transmission from the Moon to Mars was strong, because of the angle, and also that from the Ascendant and Mars to Taurus, that is the Midheaven. For in that period the native was active in a foreign land and had friendships with greater persons, and on account of a female person he was in danger of perishing and fell into cuttings and bloodlettings; other transmissions too were productive in this period, but they did not reveal the causes. So, then, often, when the period is not suspected, causes of evils come about, or again, when it is not expected, great glories and benefits follow.

例如，双子在上升，中天按度数在水瓶：这个位置就会掌管作为、名声与子女的论题，也掌管异乡与神的论题，因为按星座它在上升起的第九；并且从它到上升点以四与以五的交付被发现是得力的，从上升点到它以九与以十的交付也是得力的。同样，水瓶对面的星座，即狮子，作为地下之角，会掌管根基、产业与父母的论题，也掌管神、兄弟与异乡的论题；从上升点到它以三与以四的交付会有力，从它到上升点则以十与以十一的交付有力。其他星座，即上升时间长的那些，每当中天落在六分之处时，也应同样这样解。所以若我们按度数审视诸位置，或也审视诸星的间隔，我们就不会失足。例如，火星在上升处女，月亮在天蝎、在天底，中天在金牛；必须求第三十四年。减去两个十二，余十：从月亮到火星的交付有力，因为有角；从上升点与火星到金牛即中天的交付也有力。因为在那段时期，本命者在异乡有作为，与较大人物有友谊，又因一个女性之人而有丧命的危险，陷入割伤与放血；在这段时期其他交付也得力，但没有揭示这些原因。所以常常，当时期不被怀疑时，恶事的原因出现；或者，当不被期待时，大的荣耀与利益随之而来。