卷九·第二章　十二转：十二位的转借与按度数分位

II. On the Twelve-Turning, for the Topic of the Active and Inactive Periods.

第二章　论十二转，用于有作为与无作为的时期的题目。

These things being so arranged according to the cosmic harmony, the Egyptian men of old, in the ancient way, taking single parts from them, shut them up in varied and blended distinctions, using sophistical arguments and procedures; and having walled the theory round with countless buttresses and the bolts of keys not forged of bronze, they departed. Hence those who have fallen into the enclosures, wandering like blind men, because they make it without gates or have not had the good fortune to find the position of the gates, have gained the misfortune of going round ten thousand times. But I, having cut out certain parts of the gates of this fortress, have pointed out the way through more fully to those who wish it. I shall turn my mind, then, back to the course set out, and let the account be about the twelve-turning. For Asclepius too, set in motion by this, composed most of his work, and many others of the Egyptians and Chaldaeans; and likewise the eight-turning.

这些事既然按宇宙的和谐这样安排，古时的埃及人以古老的方式，从中各取单独的部分，用诡辩的论证与程序，把它们关进种种繁复而混杂的区分之中；他们用无数的扶垛与不是铜铸的钥匙之闩，把这一理论四面围住，就离开了。因此那些落进这围墙的人，像瞎子一样游荡，因为他们把它当作没有门的，或者没有幸运找到门的位置，就遭了绕行一万圈的不幸。但我凿开了这座要塞的某些门，为愿意的人更充分地指出了穿行之路。所以我要把心思转回到所列的进程上，让论述关于十二转。因为阿斯克勒庇俄斯也是受此推动，写成了他著作的大部分，埃及人与迦勒底人中的其他许多人也是如此；同样还有八转。

Hence the places taken from the Ascendant are as follows. The 1st is life and the substance of the periods and the breath of the soul, that is, the Ascendant itself; for the topic of brothers it is the Good Daemon and the place of children and friends; for parents it is the place of action; for the wife, the marriage-maker; for children, the ninth. The 2nd is livelihood and the income of possessions; for the topic of brothers it is the Bad Daemon and the place of slaves and enemies and of harmful cause; for parents, the Good Daemon and the place of friends; for children, about action and reputation; for the wife, the place of death. If the lord of the conjunction or full moon is found in this sign or in its opposite, it indicates a falling away; and likewise the conjunction and the full moon themselves are observed. The 3rd is about the life of brothers, and for parents about enemies and slaves, and for the wife it is the ninth, about reputation, action, and the begetting of children; it is also the place of the goddess, of the queen, and of action. The 4th is, for parents, the place about life and about mystic or hidden matters, foundations, possessions, and finds; for brothers, about livelihood; for the wife, about reputation and action. The 5th is the place about the life of children and of Good Fortune; for brothers it is the place about bastard and half-blood brothers and of the goddess and the queen; for women, the Good Daemon. The 6th is about injury, suffering, and harmful cause; for parents, about brothers; for brothers, about mixed or feigned parents; for the wife, about enemies and slaves. The 7th is the marriage-maker of the nativity, and for the wife about life, and for brothers the place about children and Good Fortune, and for parents about parents, foundations, possessions, finds, and mystic matters. The 8th is likewise about the death of the nativity; for brothers, about injury and suffering; for parents, about bastard children; for the wife, about livelihood. The 9th is about living abroad, the god, the king, divination, and oracles; for brothers it is the marriage-maker, and for parents about injury, suffering, and harmful cause; for the wife, about brothers, and, for livelihood, about death. The tenth is about action and reputation, and for the wife about foundations, possessions, and mystic undertaking, and it is the place of parents. The 11th is the place about the Good Daemon, friends, desire, and acquisition; for brothers, of the god, the king, divination, and oracles; for parents, about death; for children, the marriage-maker; for the wife, about children of mixed birth. The 12th is about enemies, slaves, and harmful cause; for brothers, about action and reputation; for parents, about living abroad, the god, and the king; for children, about death; for the wife, about injury and suffering.

所以从上升点取得的诸位置如下。第一是生命、时期的根基与灵魂的气息，也就是上升点本身；对兄弟的题目来说，它是善灵之位与子女、朋友之位；对父母来说，是作为之位；对妻子来说，是主婚之位；对子女来说，是第九位。第二是生计与财产的收入；对兄弟的题目来说，是恶灵之位、奴仆与仇敌之位、有害原因之位；对父母来说，是善灵之位与朋友之位；对子女来说，关乎作为与名声；对妻子来说，是死亡之位。若合朔或望月之主被发现在这个星座或它的对面，就表示衰落；合朔与望月本身也同样要观察。第三关乎兄弟的生命，对父母来说关乎仇敌与奴仆，对妻子来说是第九位，关乎名声、作为与生育子女；它也是女神之位、王后之位与作为之位。第四，对父母来说，是关乎生命、神秘或隐藏之事、根基、财产与拾获之物的位置；对兄弟来说，关乎生计；对妻子来说，关乎名声与作为。第五是关乎子女的生命与好运之位；对兄弟来说，是关乎私生与半血兄弟的位置，也是女神与王后之位；对女人来说，是善灵之位。第六关乎伤损、病苦与有害原因；对父母来说，关乎兄弟；对兄弟来说，关乎混杂的或假托的父母；对妻子来说，关乎仇敌与奴仆。第七是本命的主婚之位，对妻子来说关乎生命，对兄弟来说是关乎子女与好运之位，对父母来说关乎父母、根基、财产、拾获之物与神秘之事。第八同样关乎本命的死亡；对兄弟来说，关乎伤损与病苦；对父母来说，关乎私生子女；对妻子来说，关乎生计。第九关乎客居异乡、神、国王、占卜与神谕；对兄弟来说是主婚之位，对父母来说关乎伤损、病苦与有害原因；对妻子来说，关乎兄弟，而就生计而言，关乎死亡。第十关乎作为与名声，对妻子来说关乎根基、财产与神秘的事业，它也是父母之位。第十一是关乎善灵、朋友、欲望与获取的位置；对兄弟来说，是神、国王、占卜与神谕之位；对父母来说，关乎死亡；对子女来说，是主婚之位；对妻子来说，关乎混血所生的子女。第十二关乎仇敌、奴仆与有害原因；对兄弟来说，关乎作为与名声；对父母来说，关乎客居异乡、神与国王；对子女来说，关乎死亡；对妻子来说，关乎伤损与病苦。

For a detailed distinction of the significations, it has been made clear elsewhere. These places having been laid out in outline by comparison, one will need to examine which planets are upon them or testify to them, whether benefics or malefics, whose signs they happen to be, and whether tropical or solid or bicorporeal, watery or terrestrial, licentious or devoted to worship, and the rest; and likewise the lords of the places, which, being lord of which, is present in which place. And in the particular divisions of the periods one must examine from which place to which the period ends, and count off from each place the years that one carries down; and so the 12 places, revolving into one another, will reveal beforehand both the effect and its kind. Above all one must reckon the places by degree, and when the degree of the Ascendant has been grasped, count from that degree up to the completion of thirty degrees in the following sign; and that will be the place about life; then likewise, up to the completion of another 30 degrees, the place about livelihood, and the rest in order as set out. For often two places, falling together into one sign, reveal both kinds according to their intervals by degree. Likewise one must examine the lord of the sign, in which sign it happens to be or which place it controls according to its own table of equal degrees; for so the mode will be judged easy to survey. If one should reckon broadly one place for each sign, which is rare, people come into confinements and outrages or entanglements in affairs. If Mercury is joined to these periods, either with the Sun, or in the appropriate signs with Mars, it shows that the charge or the arrest will be on account of writings, and so on.

关于诸象征的详细区分，已在别处讲明了。这些位置既已按比较大致列出，就需要查看哪些行星在它们上面或为它们作见证，是吉星还是凶星，它们恰好是谁的星座，是回归的、稳固的还是双体的，属水的还是属土的，放荡的还是专事敬神的，以及其余；同样也要看诸位置之主，哪一颗作为哪一位之主，处在哪个位置。在时期的个别划分中，必须查看时期从哪一位终止到哪一位，并从每一位数出所推下的年数；这样十二个位置彼此轮转，就会预先显示效验与它的种类。最重要的是必须按度数计算诸位置；当上升点的度数已经掌握，就从那一度数到下一个星座里满三十度；那就是关乎生命的位置；然后同样，直到再满三十度，是关乎生计的位置，其余依所列的次序。因为常常有两个位置同落一个星座，按它们按度数的间隔，显示两种事。同样也必须查看星座之主，看它恰好在哪个星座，或按它自己的等度之表掌管哪个位置；因为这样，这一样式就会被判为容易通观。若有人粗略地一座算一位，这是少见的，人会陷入拘禁与凌辱，或事务上的纠缠。若水星与这些时期相连，或与太阳同在，或在相宜的星座与火星同在，就表示控告或逮捕将因文书而起，等等。

One will also be able, then, to determine the entries of the planets and their passages out of the signs according to the periods, as is set out [text uncertain]. One must reckon thus: adding to the day of birth as many days as the years the nativity carries down, and examining which day it is of another month or of the month of birth itself, and first casting the positions of the planets for that day, see whether some planet is in the Ascendant or has passed on to some planet, and whether from an angle to a succedent or to a cadent place, or from a cadent to an angular place, or whether, being oriental at the time of the foundation, it has gone down under the setting, or into another, disordered phase, or a better one; and from these the effects for the season will become clear to you. This too seemed good to me: adding the years carried down to the day of birth and reckoning in which month the day falls, to cast the planets for the year carried down itself and compare them, as is set out. With the entry and passage of the planets shown before, we shall find Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars at a great difference [text uncertain], yet imperceptibly, even when they are upon the places themselves; but with this method we shall find them coming into square, trine, and opposition.

所以，也能按时期确定诸行星的进入与它们从星座中离开，如所列的那样〔原文疑有讹误〕。必须这样计算：在出生之日上，加上本命所推下的年数那么多的日数，查看那是另一个月的哪一天，或者就是出生之月的哪一天，先把那一天的诸行星位置排出来，看是否有某颗行星在上升点上，或已移到某颗行星那里，是否从角宫到续宫或到果宫，或从果宫到角宫，或者在根基之时是东出的，如今已沉到西方之下，或进入另一种失序的相态，或更好的相态；从这些，那一时节的效验就会对你变得清楚。这一点也使我觉得好：把推下的年数加到出生之日上，算出那一天落在哪个月，就为所推下的那一年本身排出诸行星，并加以比较，如所列的那样。用前面所示的诸行星的进入与离开，我们会发现土星、木星与火星有很大的差别〔原文疑有讹误〕，但不易察觉，即使它们就在那些位置上；但用这个方法，我们会发现它们来到四分、三分与对冲。