卷九·第三至五章　月亮九年之法；关口之数；卧病与起事

III. Method for the Active and Inactive Periods and for Life, in Relation to the Moon.

第三章　从月亮论有作为与无作为的时期与生命之法。

From experience I have also found another release, as Zoroaster hinted, in relation to the zones of the planets. Beginning from the Moon, he assigned to each planet in the upward direction: to the Moon 9, then to Mercury 9, next to Venus 9, then to the Sun 9, then to Mars 9, then to Jupiter 9, then to Saturn 9; and next in the downward direction, until the completion of the 108 years of the complete periods of the Moon. These he set out in cosmic fashion for the sake of example, as did the King too and very many others.

我从经验中也发现了另一种释放，正如琐罗亚斯特所暗示的，与诸行星的诸带相关。他从月亮开始，按向上的方向分给每颗行星：给月亮九，然后给水星九，接着给金星九，然后给太阳九，然后给火星九，然后给木星九，然后给土星九；接着按向下的方向，直到满月亮完整的时期一百零八年。这些他是为了举例而以宇宙的方式列出的，王与其他许多人也是如此。

All, then, use them as set out; but it seemed good to me to make this distribution: to count off the number of years carried down from the lunar sign, first casting out the difference, that is, the degrees the Moon occupies, and to allot the remainder toward the completion of the 9 years, then to give 9 years each to the following signs; and if a sign does not hold 9 years, then to give monthly periods to each sign until the completion of the period sought, having first observed the sign that has been allotted the nine-year period, from which the release of the 9 months also took place; and wherever it ends, to judge according to the procedure written before whether it ends in an active or a weak condition. For if the 12 releases somehow hold the same power, with regard to matters of life they will bring the end, but with regard to matters of action they will be signified as weak. And so, distributing 9 years to each of the 12 signs, we shall find the completion of 108 years; but if, having first distributed to the signs, we assign to the same signs again a second time, some excess and deficiency will be found with regard to the planets. Besides, it is impossible and unfitting that most nativities at the same time should have a single chronocrator. The zodiacal release, then, in each direction, and the Moon, changing according to her positions in the nativity, bring about no ordinary difference. One must therefore examine, as I said before and shall now necessarily make clear, the planet Jupiter, whether he regards the Ascendant by degree, that is, whether he cast his rays within its degrees or beyond the degrees. If he is found to have the retrograde configuration from more degrees, he is strong for help; for he is borne as it were toward the degrees of the Ascendant; if from fewer, the natural position is better; if he is found turned away from the Ascendant, he is harsh. And for as long as he regards some releasing place, whether of a planet or of a sign, during the transition of the period sought, he becomes a benefic; but when he departs from the sign or from the degrees in a forward-moving or retrograde phase, he is a malefic and harmful. One must also observe the Moon in relation to the equal degrees of the Sun and of the angles, or their square, trine, or opposition; and not only so, but also at the intervals of 15 degrees or of half the rising time of the sign; for then she seems to make her movement. Especially, then, when at some period she is borne at two bonds, the destruction will be indisputable; and the discrimination of the deadly cycle will be grasped from the solar and lunar degree, as we have set out for both [text uncertain] and according to the methods revolving, or else from another powerful method coinciding with the bonds.

所以所有人都照所列的那样使用它们；但我觉得要作这样的分配：把所推下的年数从月亮的星座数去，先去掉差数，即月亮所占的度数，把余数分配到满九年为止，然后给接下来的星座各九年；若一个星座容不下九年，就给每个星座以月计的时期，直到满所求的时期，事先观察分得九年期的那个星座，九个月的释放也从那里开始；无论终止在哪里，都按前面所写的程序判断，它终止在有力的还是虚弱的状况。因为若十二次释放以某种方式具有同样的力量，在生命之事上它们会带来终结，在作为之事上却会被显示为疲软。所以，给十二个星座各分九年，我们会发现满一百零八年；但若先给诸星座分过，又第二次分给同样的星座，就会发现对诸行星有某种过与不及。此外，大多数本命在同一时间有同一个时主，是不可能、也不相宜的。所以按两个方向的黄道释放，以及月亮在本命中随她的位置而变化，造成不寻常的差别。所以，正如我前面说过、现在又必须讲明的，必须查看木星这颗行星，看他是否按度数照看上升点，也就是说，他是在它的度数之内还是越过那些度数投射光线。若发现他从较多的度数有逆行的格局，他就有力相助；因为他好像是朝着上升点的度数运行；若从较少的度数，自然的位置较好；若发现他与上升点背离，他就是严厉的。只要他在所求时期的过渡中照看某个释放之位，无论是行星的还是星座的，他就成为吉星；但当他以顺行或逆行的相态离开那个星座或那些度数时，就是凶的、有害的。也必须观察月亮与太阳及诸角的等度，或它们的四分、三分或对冲；不仅如此，还有十五度的间隔，或星座上升时间一半的间隔；因为那时她似乎在作她的运动。尤其当她在某个时期被带到两个结上时，毁灭将是无可争议的；致死的循环的分辨，将从太阳与月亮的度数来把握，正如我们为两者〔原文疑有讹误〕并按轮转的诸法所列的那样，或从另一种与诸结相合的有力方法来把握。

IV. On Climacterics.

第四章　论关口。

In particular, the applications and adherences of the planets to the Sun and the Moon become effective both for good and for ill; and one must also examine the periodic periods of each planet, whether they coincide with the periods of the benefics or malefics, and of which numbers they are composed. For example, in the case of Saturn the period is 30 years; I seek in how many other numbers the 30 can be productive; I found it thus. I began from four and put together the others in succession: 4, then 5, they make 9; then 6, then 7, they make 22; then 8, 30; so the 30 is completed from four numbers. Saturn's climacteric, then, will be the one by 4, and then also the 30 itself. Jupiter, for beneficence and glory, by the triad: 3, 4, 5 make 12; Mars 4, 5, 6, they make 15. Venus was found unconnected; she will have, then, the one by the 8. Mercury the one by the dyad: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 make 20. The Moon was allotted the triad: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 make 25. The Sun the ennead: 9, 10 make 19; and the Sun is also master of the twenty; this is composed of the monad and the nineteen, since the Sun passes through one degree in a day and night, that is, in the 24 hours he makes 4 phases, one from rising to midday, a second from midday to setting, a third from setting to midnight, a fourth from midnight to rising. If, then, we add together the degrees of the phases, of the 1st hour 6, of the 2nd twelve, of the 3rd 18, and of the fourth 24, it makes 60; the day and night makes 60. The mode must be understood as being immediately productive according to the positions of the planets, in accordance with the nature of the signs.

特别地，诸行星对太阳与月亮的入相与黏合，无论对好事还是坏事，都变得有效；也必须查看每颗行星的周期时期，看它们是否与吉星或凶星的时期相合，又由哪些数组成。例如，就土星而言，周期是三十年；我寻求三十能在其他多少个数上得力；我这样找到了。我从四开始，依次把其他的数加在一起：四，然后五，得九；然后六，然后七，得二十二；然后八，三十；所以三十由四个数凑满。所以土星的关口将是经由四的那一个，然后还有三十本身。木星为了施惠与荣耀，经由三：三、四、五得十二；火星四、五、六，得十五。金星被发现无法连成；所以她将有经由八的那一个。水星是经由二的：二、三、四、五、六得二十。月亮分得三：三、四、五、六、七得二十五。太阳分得九：九、十得十九；太阳又是二十的主人；这由一与十九组成，因为太阳在一昼夜里走过一度，也就是在二十四小时中他造成四个相态，一个从升起到正午，第二个从正午到落下，第三个从落下到半夜，第四个从半夜到升起。所以，若我们把诸相态的度数加起来，第一时六，第二时十二，第三时十八，第四时二十四，就得六十；一昼夜就成为六十。必须理解，这一样式按诸行星的位置，依星座的本性，是立即得力的。

V. On Decumbiture and Inceptions.

第五章　论卧病与起事。

One must also compare the decumbitures that occur in this way. Having learned the number of days from the natal conjunction to the day of birth, we cast out four-year cycles as often as possible; noting the remainder of the 4 numbers, we take the interval from the conjunction of the year carried down to the birthday, and, casting out four-year cycles, we note the remainder. As a third reckoning one must take the interval from the conjunction before the decumbiture to the day of decumbiture and, casting out the four-year cycles, compare the remaining number with the previous ones. If the numbers of the reckoning somehow end in one number, the period will be judged deadly; if they differ, a danger passes through by illness, suffering, or injury. From experience it seemed good to us to consider productive not only the inceptions of decumbitures but also those of any matter whatsoever, lesser, notable, constructive, blameworthy, of partnership; and in short not only things accomplished upon men but also those done by men, such as the building of acquisitions and dedications, the conduct of military commands and of war leadership, of bad and good undertakings; and if I wished to speak of them by kind, my account of these would be long in the completing.

也必须这样比较所发生的卧病。从本命的合朔到出生之日，得知日数之后，我们尽可能多次地去掉四年周期；记下四个数的余数后，我们取从所推下那一年的合朔到生日的间隔，去掉四年周期，记下所余。第三个计算，必须取从卧病之前的合朔到卧病之日的间隔，去掉四年周期，把余数与前面的数比较。若计算的诸数以某种方式终止于同一个数，这个时期就会被判为致死；若它们不同，危险就会借疾病、病苦或伤损而过去。从经验中，我们觉得不仅卧病的起事是得力的，任何一件事的起事也都是如此，较小的、显著的、建设性的、该受责备的、合伙的；简而言之，不只是对人所成就的事，也是由人所做的事，例如获取之物与奉献之物的建造，军事指挥与战争领导的执行，坏的与好的事业；若我想按种类来说它们，关于这些的论述就会很长才能完成。

Hence the account of effects will be judged according to the time of the inception, the time of the hour, and that of the kind itself alone, whether good or alternating, lasting or easily overthrown, beneficial or harmful; and not as certain sorcerers try to speak of all matters from a single inception, not only about practical affairs but also about the periods of life, wishing to deceive the souls of those who come to them. For it is enough if, a chart having been set up, someone begins with sober reasoning to interpret it according to its blended and angular structure, not through a multitude of words but through brief ones that lead straight to the truth; such a man would seem to have become a helmsman of life, a good counsellor, and an exact prophet of fate. But some things happen among the ignorant and the lovers of money; for by flattering and bringing in false pleasures they darken the reasoning and, having kept the souls lifted on high, cast them down from the aether to the earth; whence most people, receiving painful wounds, make out foreknowledge to be without substance.

因此，效验的说法将按起事的时间、时辰的时间与这一种类本身来判断，看它是好的还是起伏的，持久的还是容易推翻的，有益的还是有害的；而不是像某些术士那样，试图从单一的起事谈论一切事，不只是实际的事务，还有生命的时期，想欺骗来找他们的人的灵魂。因为只要排出一张盘之后，有人开始以清醒的推理按它的混合与居角的结构来解释，不是借着一大堆言辞，而是借着直通真理的简短之言，就够了；这样的人看来会成为生命的舵手、好的谋士、命运的精确先知。但有些事发生在无知者与贪财者之中；因为他们借着谄媚、带进虚假的快乐，使推理变暗，把灵魂高高托起之后，又把它们从以太摔到地上；所以大多数人受了痛苦的创伤，就宣称预知是没有实质的。