卷六·第二至五章　诸星之色；凶星更有力；进入；十年九月之分

II. For What Reason the Ancients Represented the Five Planets, the Moon, and the Sun by Such Colours.

第二章　古人为何以这样的颜色描画五颗行星、月亮与太阳。

One must test the planets, of what sort they are. For just as, in the case of the painter's colours, each, according to the nature it possesses, is most vivid or most brilliant by itself, delights those who see it, and becomes useful for many purposes, but when it is mixed with another, it is muddied and altered, and neither is any longer what it was by nature nor has it kept the form of what was mixed with it, but has failed in both, broadly speaking, and has taken on a forced colour, blind and unpleasing; and sometimes, having had the good fortune to make a fitting mixture, it has produced a good blending and beauty (but nevertheless the artist forms the man through many and varied colours, presenting a shadow of the work and of the truth); so too the planets at times preserve their original nature when they are alone, but one, blended with another, will distil into it the peculiar quality of its nature as well. And so, curbing a man with the bridle, they lead him with grief, meanness, and a certain blending to the affairs of life, in which, having contended in varied ways and taken the crown of self-control, he becomes what he was not. Hence the ancients fittingly likened the planets to colours. They made that of Saturn black, since he is the sign of time; for the god is slow; hence the Babylonians also called him Phainon, since all things become manifest in time. That of Jupiter they made bright; for he is the cause of life and of good gifts. That of Mars, tawny; for the god is fiery, cutting, and effective; the Egyptians, indeed, called him Artes, since he is the one who takes away the benefics and life. The Sun they made most brilliant because of the pure and eternal light that is in him. Venus they made varied in body, since she is master of desire, which extends to many things both good and bad, and she alone seems to be lord of the many things accomplished in life, both suitable and unsuitable, since, having been allotted the circle after the middle zone of the Sun, which divides the rest, and receiving the manifold emanations both of the planets above her and of those below her, she brings about both desires and actions. That of Mercury they made pale, like bile; for he is master of intelligence, speech, and bitterness, whence those born under him are also like him in nature and in colour. The Moon they made air-like; for her course is unstable and irregular, and likewise the actions and the thoughts of those ranged under her. And so that we may not seem to repeat ourselves, their natures are set out in the first book.

必须检验诸星，看它们是什么样的。因为正如画家的颜料，每一种按它所具有的本性，单独时最鲜明或最光亮，使看见的人欢喜，也对许多用途有益；但当它与另一种相混，就变浊、改变，既不再是它本性所是的样子，也没有保住与它相混者的形貌，而是两头都落空，大略地说，得了一种勉强的颜色，晦暗而不悦目；有时它有幸作了合宜的混合，就造出好的调和与美（然而画家仍是借许多多样的颜色塑造出人，呈现作品与真相的一个影子）；同样，诸星有时单独时保持它们原初的本性，但一颗与另一颗混合，也会把自己本性的特质滴注到对方之中。于是它们用缰绳勒住人，以悲伤、卑微与某种混合引他走向人生的事务；他在其中多方争斗、取得自制的冠冕之后，就成了他原先所不是的人。因此古人恰当地把诸星比作颜色。他们把土星的颜色定为黑，因为他是时间的标志；因为这位神迟缓；所以巴比伦人也称他为「法伊农」，因为万物都在时间中显现。木星的颜色他们定为明亮；因为他是生命与好的赠礼的原因。火星的颜色定为黄褐；因为这位神炽烈、锋利而有效；埃及人确实称他为「阿尔忒斯」，因为他是夺走吉事与生命者。太阳他们定为最光亮，因为他里面有纯净而永恒的光。金星他们定为身体斑斓，因为她是欲望的主人，欲望伸向许多事，有好有坏；在人生所成就的许多事中，合宜的与不合宜的，似乎只有她是主，因为她分得了太阳那条居中、分隔其余的带之后的那一圈，接受在她之上与在她之下诸星多方面的流溢，造成欲望与作为。水星的颜色他们定为苍白，像胆汁；因为他是心智、言语与苦涩的主人，所以生在他之下的人，在本性与肤色上也像他。月亮他们定为如空气；因为她的行程不稳而不规则，排在她之下的人的作为与思虑也是这样。为了不显得我们在重复，它们的本性已在第一卷列出。

III. Why the Malefics Seem to Be More Effective than the Benefics.

第三章　为何凶星似乎比吉星更有效。

The malefics seem to have more strength than the benefics. For just as a drop of black and dirty colour poured into a bright substance of colours dims its beauty, while the brilliant mass is too weak to cover the small and staining drop, in the same way also in the case of the malefics: in whatever respects some people seem to be fortunate, in family, livelihood, body, reputation, beauty, or the rest (which is rare [text uncertain]), they convict them and become takers away of what they have acquired, overturning them with causes, or else they stain the nativities with injuries and afflictions. Good men, then, thinking that all think the same as themselves, behaving simply, trusting and doing kindnesses, are easily caught, even if they are not [simple], but nevertheless they are spoken of for their nobility. The wicked, thinking likewise that all are such as they are, and trusting neither their own people nor those they ought to, but grasping without reason, and further being deprived of what they have, produce much pleasure. For she preserves some men, even against their will, until she wishes to overturn them, some to height, others to the worst. Therefore many who prayed in vain for life, having been pierced through with evils and grieving at what has happened, blame death for delaying and contrive something against themselves or accept a violent end. By nature all men are mockers of one another and accusers of each other's faults, and rejoice greatly at evils and at the accusations of their neighbours, but repenting of what they themselves have done, they become advocates of the faults. Just as, then, preconceptions about whatever one judges present an impression of truth not only to those who have believed them but also to many others, who, even if they wish to do other things, are led by the deception, so too among those who have constructed tables, some that are easy and attractive are accepted as true, and to these the ignorant betake themselves; while the natural and precise ones are passed over and condemned, either through envy or because of the crookedness of their approach. Hence one must, having tested what is precise, attend to the natural theory, even if only approximately. For Apollinarius too, having worked on the phenomena according to the ancient observations and demonstrations of various clearings and spheres, and having brought blame against many, admits that he errs by one degree or even two. The matter of the obstruction is easy to grasp in the following way, as I myself also tried to establish the precise degree of the planet from the effects that had already come about, according to their natural activity, as the ancient also said. As the account proceeds, the matters themselves, set before your eyes, will make what is said clearer. When the degree has been found, then, it will also be possible to make declarations about the future with certainty; for the degree is hard to grasp, not ungraspable.

凶星似乎比吉星有更大的力量。因为正如一滴黑而脏的颜色倒进明亮的颜料之中，就使它的美变暗，而那光亮的一大片却无力遮住那一小滴污染的东西，凶星的情形也是同样：在某些人似乎幸运的那些方面，无论家世、生计、身体、名声、美貌或其余（这是罕有的〔原文疑有讹误〕），它们定他们的罪，成为他们所获之物的夺取者，以种种原因倾覆他们，否则就以伤损与苦痛玷污本命。所以，好人以为人人都与自己想的一样，行事单纯，信任人、施恩于人，就容易被逮住，即使他们并不单纯，然而仍因他们的高尚而被人传颂。坏人同样以为人人都与自己一样，既不信任自己人，也不信任该信任的人，而是无理地贪取，后来又被夺去所有，就造成许多快意。因为她保全一些人，即使违背他们的意愿，直到她想要倾覆他们，有些倾覆到高处，另一些倾覆到最坏处。所以许多人徒然祈求活命，被恶事刺穿，为所发生的事悲伤，就埋怨死亡来得迟缓，图谋害己，或接受横死的结局。按本性，人人都是彼此的嘲弄者、彼此过错的控告者，对邻人的恶事与所受的控告非常欢喜，对自己所做的却懊悔，成为过错的辩护者。所以，正如对任何人所判断之事的成见，不仅向相信它的人、也向许多别人呈现出一种真实的印象，他们即使想做别的事，也被这欺骗引着走；同样，在那些编制了表的人当中，有些简便而诱人的表被当作真的接受，无知的人投奔它们；而合乎自然而精确的表却被略过、被定罪，或出于嫉妒，或因为它们的路数曲折。因此，必须检验出精确的东西，留意合乎自然的理论，即使只是近似。因为阿波利纳里乌斯也是按古人的观测与种种净空与天球的论证来处理诸天象的，他指责了许多人，却承认自己差一度甚至两度。阻碍之事用以下方式就容易把握，正如我自己也曾按已经发生的效验、按它们的自然作为，试图定出行星的精确度数，正如那位古人也说过的。随着论述推进，事情本身摆在你眼前，会使所说的更清楚。所以，度数一旦找到，也就能确定地宣告将来之事；因为度数难以把握，却不是不可把握。

IV. On Entries.

第四章　论进入。

The entries of the planets will be judged strong whenever those that are master of the periods enter upon the places, or are square or opposed to them, just as in the case of those who have obtained offices or governorships each, having made his entry at the hour allotted to him, is strong to save or to destroy, and no one can hinder his threat or his benefaction toward some, even if he happens to be very much greater in family, livelihood, or rank, but yields to the laws of the time, until he lays down the office; but when he has completed his period, handing over the governorship to another, he becomes weak for good or bad. The forecasts of effects of the transmissions and their tempering testimonies and co-presences with one another have been shown by us in what precedes; and these one must also use, each planet being effective according to its own nature and according to the period that falls to it, and indicating the kind of the effect.

每当作为时期之主的诸星进入那些位置，或与它们成四分或对冲时，诸星的进入就会被判为有力；正如那些得了官职或总督之任的人，各自在分给他的时辰到任之后，就有力量去救或去毁，没有人能阻挡他对某些人的威胁或恩惠，即使那人在家世、生计或品级上恰好大得多，也要服从时势的法则，直到他卸下官职；但当他满了他的任期，把总督之任交给另一人，他就变得无力为善为恶。诸交付的效验之说，以及它们彼此调和的见证与同在，我们已在前面说明过；这些也必须运用，每颗行星都按自己的本性、按落到它身上的时期而有效，并指出效验的种类。

V. On the Division of Active and Inactive Periods into 10 Years and 9 Months.

第五章　论把有作为与无作为的时期划分为十年九个月。

This division too, which had been cast aside obscurely and at random because its approaches were enigmatic, I have tested, discovered, collected, and appended, so that lovers of the beautiful, coming down through many routes to a single power of effect, may deify nature, considering that they have arrived at one place through many straight and difficult roads.

这一种划分，因为它的路数如谜，曾被晦暗而随意地弃置一旁，我也检验了、发现了、收集了、附上了，好让爱好美的人，从许多条路下到效验的单一力量上，把自然奉为神圣，想到他们是经由许多条笔直而艰难的道路到达同一处的。

Let our reckoning, then, be to take as releaser, in diurnal nativities, the Sun, if he is well placed, and in nocturnal nativities the Moon, since, as has been written by us earlier in the dominations, one must judge to be releaser that one of the diurnal and nocturnal luminaries which is well placed. But if both luminaries fall out of the favourable places, the planet found after the Ascendant will allot the periods first, second the one lying after it, and the others in order.

那么，让我们的推算是这样：在昼生的本命中，取太阳为释放星，若他位置良好；在夜生的本命中取月亮，因为正如我们先前在论主宰时写过的，昼夜两光中位置良好的那一个，必须被判为释放星。但若两光都落出了有利之位，就由上升点之后被找到的那颗行星第一个分配时期，第二个是在它之后的那颗，其余依次。

For the sake of an example of the division of 10 years and 9 months, let the Sun be releaser: he himself will take 10 years 9 months, and after him in order the planet lying next in the nativity according to the revolution of the zodiac 10 years and 9 months, and one should give the yearly periods as far as the number of the years allows. Since one must take together with the yearly periods the periodic hours, days, and months of each, and compare the general master of the periods with the master of the months, of the days, and of the hours, and the cycles, how many there were, and which receives the cycle and the week from which. For in this way the periods, cycling round, even if they arrive at the same planets, do not do so from the same weeks or the same cycles; but one, fitted to another cycle according to the sequence of the period, alters the powers of the planets, and the same planet becomes at times the cause of goods, at times bad, according to the activity and the familiar or contrary disposition of the one that transmits and the one that receives. One must foresee the present and the future periods and examine them, and if they are passing to benefics, foretell the good, even if the malefic still holds sway for the least time; for the power of the malefic withers in advance through the beneficence of the receiving planet, which prepares beforehand various starting points: friendships, sympathies, introductions, prosperity, glories, benefits, the accomplishment of what is desired. Sometimes, indeed, having stained with secret or ineffable or hazardous activities, it has brought about good fortune, so that the natives are pleased, or bear moderately what they formerly were vexed at, and repent as having lost an inactive time in vain. Likewise also, whenever the periods pass from benefics to malefics, they are drawn into enmity, dishonour, betrayal, loss, and danger, and into sudden and unexpected causes and overthrows; hence many repent of not having defended themselves against their enemies in advance, but of having kept faith and sympathy in vain, and, not getting what they wish, they are pained at the goods of others and are subjected against their will.

为了举十年九个月的划分为例，设太阳为释放星：他自己取十年九个月，在他之后，按黄道的运转，本命中紧接着的那颗行星依次取十年九个月，应当一直给出年份的时期，直到年数所容许的地方。因为必须把每颗星周期性的时、日、月与年份的时期一并取用，并把总的时期之主与月份之主、日之主、时辰之主比较，还有循环，有几轮，以及哪一颗从哪一颗接受循环与七日周。因为这样，诸时期循环往复，即使到达同样的行星，也不是从同样的七日周或同样的循环而来；而一个按时期的次序被配到另一个循环上，就改变了诸星的力量，同一颗行星，按交付者与接受者的作为以及亲和或相反的配置，就时而成为好事的原因，时而成为坏事的原因。必须预见现在与将来的时期并审视它们，若它们正在转到吉星，就预言好事，即使凶星还在掌管最短的时间；因为凶星的力量会因接受的那颗星的施恩而预先枯萎，那颗星预先备好种种起头：友谊、同情、引荐、兴旺、荣耀、利益、所愿之事的成就。有时，它确实以秘密的、不可言说的或冒险的作为玷污之后，仍带来了好运，使本命者欢喜，或适度地承受他们先前所恼恨的事，并懊悔自己白白失去了一段无作为的时间。同样，每当时期从吉星转到凶星，他们就被拖进敌意、羞辱、背叛、损失与危险，以及突然而意外的原因与倾覆；所以许多人懊悔没有预先防备敌人，却白白守信、白白同情，得不到想要的，就为别人的好事而痛苦，并违背意愿地屈服。

Let there be for us a nativity by way of example, so that we may show the approach more briefly. The Moon in Pisces 18°, Venus in Aries, Jupiter in Libra, Saturn and the Ascendant in Sagittarius, Mars in Aquarius, the Sun at the beginning of Aquarius, Mercury in Pisces; for so they lay in order. We are seeking 52 years and, of the 53rd, Payni 15. Since, then, in this division the days and the cycles have their treatment with respect to 360 days, while the years of the nativity are with respect to 365¼, I took for the 52 complete years 5¼ for each: they make 273; and from Mechir 12 to Payni 15 they make 124; and together they make 397 days. I subtracted a cycle of 360; there remain 37 days. The Moon, then, since the nativity was nocturnal, being in the IC in a feminine sign, a triplicity of her sect-partner, and suitably placed, was judged releaser of the general periods. First, then, she took from the aforesaid years 10 years 9 months, then next Venus in Aries 10 years 9 months, then next Jupiter in Libra 10 years 9 months, then next Saturn in Sagittarius 10 years 9 months: they make 4 cycles, 43 years. After them in order follows Mars: his cycle is 10 years 9 months, to the completion of 53 years and 9 months. Since, then, the yearly period exceeds the aforesaid period sought, I ran down to the monthly period and gave to Mars himself, the lord of the cycle, 15 months, adding them to the completed fourth cycle of 43 years in number; and it became 44 years 3 months. Then to the Sun 1 year 7 months, then to Mercury 20 months, then to the Moon 25 months, then to Venus 8 months, then to Jupiter 12 months: and they make 51 years and 3 months. Next Saturn takes 30 months, to the completion of the cycle of Mars of 53 years and 9 months; since, then, this period too exceeds the aforesaid one, I resolved it into days as follows: up to Jupiter, 51 years 3 months were collected; I took the remaining days of the 52nd year, 270, and of the 53rd, 360, and of the 54th year 37 days: and together they make 667 days of Saturn, who receives from Mars. Of these he transmitted to himself and to the planets lying next in order 1 cycle of 129 days; then he yielded the 2nd cycle to Mars, likewise 129, and Mars allotted to each its own days; the Sun took over the 3rd cycle from Saturn and allotted 129 days, the 4th Mercury, and the 5th the Moon, who allotted 129 days. There remain 22 days of the 6th cycle, which is Venus'. She allotted, then, to herself 8 days, then to Jupiter 12 days; the remaining 2 days, up to the day sought, are Saturn's.

让我们以一个本命为例，好更简短地展示这个路数。月亮在双鱼十八度，金星在白羊，木星在天秤，土星与上升点在射手，火星在水瓶，太阳在水瓶之初，水星在双鱼；因为它们就是这样依次排列的。我们要求的是五十二年，以及第五十三年的帕尼月十五日。既然在这个划分里，日与循环是按三百六十日处理的，而本命的年份是按三百六十五又四分之一日，我就为五十二个满年每年取五又四分之一：合得二百七十三；从梅希尔月十二日到帕尼月十五日合得一百二十四；加在一起合得三百九十七日。我减去一个三百六十的循环；余下三十七日。那么，因为本命是夜生的，月亮在天底，在阴性星座、在她的同方之星的三方里，且位置合宜，就被判为总时期的释放星。所以她先从上述年数中取十年九个月，然后接着白羊的金星十年九个月，然后接着天秤的木星十年九个月，然后接着射手的土星十年九个月：合得四轮，四十三年。在它们之后依次跟着火星：他的一轮是十年九个月，到五十三年九个月满。既然年份的时期超过了上述所求的时期，我就下到月份的时期，把十五个月给轮主火星本人，加到已完成的第四轮、计数四十三年上；就成了四十四年三个月。然后给太阳一年七个月，然后给水星二十个月，然后给月亮二十五个月，然后给金星八个月，然后给木星十二个月：合得五十一年三个月。接着土星取三十个月，到火星这一轮的五十三年九个月满；既然这个时期也超过了上述的时期，我就这样把它化成日：到木星为止，积得五十一年三个月；我取第五十二年余下的日数二百七十，第五十三年的三百六十，以及第五十四年的三十七日：合在一起是土星的六百六十七日，他从火星接受。其中，他把第一轮一百二十九日交给自己和依次紧接的诸星；然后把第二轮让给火星，同样是一百二十九日，火星给每颗星分配它自己的日数；太阳从土星那里接过第三轮，分配一百二十九日，第四轮是水星，第五轮是月亮，她分配一百二十九日。余下第六轮的二十二日，这一轮是金星的。于是她给自己分配八日，然后给木星十二日；余下的二日，直到所求的那一日，是土星的。

The general chronocrator of the years, then, was Mars, having received from the Moon; that of the months Saturn, having received from Mars; and that of the days Venus, having received the cycle from Saturn. In the 52nd year, then, there was the grievous death of his wife, and precarious illnesses and losses followed for him; and in the aforesaid days the native was condemned, having a lawsuit on behalf of a woman and against a woman concerning matters of the dead and old affairs, and he was hard pressed by greater persons and came near to danger, and took on grief from his own people or from strangers, so as to fall into despair, and he was entangled in other affairs, both precarious and costly. For Saturn still held sway over the period, being in the Ascendant contrary to sect and overcoming the Moon, the releaser, and Mercury; hence very many forgeries followed, false statements, deceptions, very many expenses, and precarious illnesses.

所以，年份的总时主是火星，从月亮接受；月份的是土星，从火星接受；日的是金星，从土星接受这一轮。所以在第五十二年，他的妻子悲惨地死去，随之他有不稳的疾病与损失；在上述那些日子里，本命者被判有罪，他为一个女人、又与一个女人打官司，关乎死者之事与旧日的事务，被更有势力的人逼迫，濒临危险，从自己人或外人那里受了悲伤，以致陷入绝望，又被卷进其他不稳而耗费的事务。因为土星仍在掌管时期，他在上升点而与本方相悖，并压制释放星月亮与水星；所以接连有极多的伪造、虚假的陈述、欺骗、极多的开销与不稳的疾病。