卷九·第六至七章　求上升星座与度数；男女之命与怪胎

VI. On Finding the Sign in the Ascendant and the Ascendant Degree.

第六章　论求上升的星座与上升的度数。

The zodiacal Ascendant is grasped by day from the degrees of the Sun counted off from the solar sign, one degree to each sign; wherever the count ends, that sign is in the Ascendant for the Moon [text uncertain], as is the sign of like kind to it and the diurnal or nocturnal semicircle. If the single degree somehow falls into a nocturnal sign when the nativity is diurnal, the sign opposite to it or its square will be in the Ascendant; by night one must likewise count off the single degree of the Moon from the Moon herself.

黄道上的上升，白天由太阳的度数从太阳的星座数去而求得，每个星座一度；数到哪里终止，那个星座就为月亮〔原文疑有讹误〕在上升之中，与它同类的星座以及白天或夜里的半圆也是如此。若本命在白天，而单度以某种方式落进夜间的星座，与它相对的星座或它的四分将在上升之中；夜里则必须同样把月亮的单度从月亮本身数去。

Otherwise. One must cast out the dodecatemory of the Sun from the left trine; wherever it ends, that sign will be in the Ascendant, or the sign of like kind.

另法。必须把太阳的十二分部从左方三分数出去；它终止在哪里，那个星座或与它同类的星座就在上升之中。

Otherwise, for the compulsory method. As long as the Sun is present in the conjunctional sign while the Moon is passing through the sign that follows the conjunction, the Ascendant is in the conjunctional sign, or in the sextiles, trines, or opposition of the Moon, at least from her inclination, from which the test is found. When the Moon happens to be with the Sun and is angular, if the Sun has passed beyond the conjunctional sign of the Moon while she is still passing through the first circle, the Ascendant will be found in the squares of the Moon or in the unconnected sign. If someone knows beforehand whether it was night or day, but without the hour, one must judge two signs to be in the Ascendant.

另法，用于强制之法。只要太阳还在合朔的星座，而月亮正走过合朔之后的那个星座，上升就在合朔的星座，或在月亮的六分、三分或对冲，至少从她的倾向来说，检验就从这里求得。当月亮恰好与太阳同在而居角时，若太阳已经越过月亮合朔的星座，而她仍在走第一圈，上升就会在月亮的四分或在不相连的星座。若有人预先知道是夜里还是白天，却不知道时辰，就必须判断有两个星座在上升之中。

VII. On Male and Female Nativity and on Monsters or Four-Footed Creatures.

第七章　论男性与女性的本命，以及怪胎或四足之物。

In every nativity one must examine where the dodecatemory of the Moon has fallen; and if it is in a feminine sign and its lord in a feminine sign, one should say that the nativity is for the most part female. If it happens to be masculine, one should reckon an addition and subtraction of the hour, as much as allows the masculine dodecatemory to be in the Ascendant, calculating from the table of rising times. One must also examine the opposite dodecatemory; and if the dodecatemory, or the one opposite to it, or their lords, fall into a bestial sign, one should declare a monster or an irrational creature.

在每个本命中，都必须查看月亮的十二分部落在哪里；若它在阴性星座，而它的主星也在阴性星座，就应说这个本命多半是女性。若它恰好是阳性的，就应按上升时间表计算，算出时辰的加减，加减到足以让阳性的十二分部在上升之中为止。也必须查看相对的十二分部；若十二分部、或与它相对的那个、或它们的主星落进兽形的星座，就应宣告是怪胎或无理性的生物。

For example, let the Moon be in Pisces, degree 19; the dodecatemory is in Libra, a masculine sign of human form, and the nativity is male. Its lady, Venus, is in Sagittarius; the hour has neither addition nor subtraction, since it has fallen into a sign of human form. I take, then, the lords of Libra and of Aries, Venus and Mars; Mars was in Virgo and Venus in Sagittarius; and the Ascendant, calculated from the table of rising times according to the given Ascendant, was found in Leo, degree 15. I cast out dodecatemories from this as far as Mars and Venus, and the one nearest to the Ascendant degree, Leo 15, I take as lady of the single degree. As far as Mars in Virgo, then, from Leo degree 15, the interval comes to 55; into the 15 I count off two further dodecatemories as far as Scorpio; they come to 16 degrees; for Venus was found in Sagittarius, so that if we give Sagittarius too a part of the dodecatemory, they will be 12; these degrees are nearest to Leo 15. Since, then, the dodecatemory comes nearest, one must seek the single degree of Venus in Leo at about degrees 11, 12, and 13, and take that as the Ascendant.

例如，设月亮在双鱼第十九度；十二分部在天秤，一个阳性而具人形的星座，本命是男性。它的女主人金星在射手；时辰既无加也无减，因为它落进了人形的星座。所以我取天秤与白羊之主，金星与火星；火星在处女，金星在射手；上升点按所给的上升从上升时间表算出，发现在狮子十五度。我从这一度把十二分部数出去，直到火星与金星，把最接近上升度数狮子十五的那一个，当作单度的女主人。所以从狮子十五度到处女的火星，间隔合五十五；我在十五上再数出两个十二分部，直到天蝎；合十六度；因为金星被发现在射手，所以若我们也给射手一份十二分部，就会是十二；这些度数最接近狮子十五。既然十二分部最接近，就必须在狮子约第十一、十二、十三度中寻找金星的单度，并把那当作上升。

Otherwise. The Sun always shows the magnitude of the day and of the hour according to the sign in which he happens to be present. From the hour the Ascendant is constituted, from the Ascendant the degree, and from this the exact degree of the Ascendant, growing out of and guided by one another and making one another firm, especially in the case of those born by day. For those born by night one must take the remaining degrees of the Sun, and the degrees left over [text uncertain] will hold those assigned to the thirties. If some error regarding the Ascendant is supposed, one must enter the table of rising times according to the arrangement of the chart and examine the magnitude of the hour, how great an interval of the numbers it covers, and, adding to the clime-inclination and subtracting according to the supposed error, judge the degree found to be the Ascendant; for this degree, by a mere point, through the deviation of each nativity, shows the test. From here the account of the ripeness of the hour is revealed in mystic fashion; for not every nativity will hold the same eastern part or an equal interval, but sometimes one that revolves to a length, sometimes 2 or 3 signs, and sometimes none at all. If anyone wishes also to know beforehand the fraction of the Ascendant degree, it will be graspable from the degree itself that has been found, as we showed in the earlier book as well. And now let us remind you of it more clearly: having counted by degrees the interval from the conjunction to the Moon at the delivery, double the number; the first number, released upward from the conjunctional degree, shows the eastern part, and the second, downward from the conjunction, the western part. One must therefore take the interval from the eastern degree to the western and examine what fraction of the 360 the sum collected makes; and that fraction of the hour the nativity carries in addition to the completed hours. In the same way one must cast out the number of the months from the Ascendant degree, upward and downward, toward the eastern and the western hemisphere.

另法。太阳总是按他所在的星座显示白昼与时辰的大小。由时辰构成上升，由上升得度数，由此得上升的精确度数，它们彼此生长、彼此引导、彼此坚固，尤其对白天出生的人。对夜里出生的人，必须取太阳剩余的度数，而余下的度数〔原文疑有讹误〕将包含分配给诸三十的那些。若认为上升有某种差错，就必须按排盘的安排进入上升时间表，查看时辰的大小涵盖多大的数的间隔，加到倾斜度上，按所认为的差错减去，把所得的度数判为上升；因为这一度借着每个本命的偏差，以仅仅一点之差显示检验。由此，时辰成熟的道理以神秘的方式显示出来；因为不是每个本命都会有同样的东方部分或相等的间隔，有时是转成一段长度的，有时是两三个星座，有时则一个也没有。若有人也想预先知道上升度数的分数，从所找到的那一度本身就可以把握，正如我们在前一卷中也展示过的。现在让我们更清楚地提醒你：按度数数出从合朔到分娩时月亮的间隔，把这个数加倍；第一个数从合朔的度数向上释放，显示东方的部分，第二个数从合朔向下，显示西方的部分。所以必须取从东方的度数到西方的度数的间隔，查看所收集的总数是三百六十的几分之几；本命在已满的时辰之外，就带有时辰的那个分数。同样，必须从上升度数把月数向上与向下，朝东方与西方的半球数出去。

Otherwise. Each of the lots on its own shows the Ascendant degree; for example, if the Lot of Fortune has fallen broadly in some sign; but according to the reckoning by degree of the Moon one will count off the degrees, for instance from the Moon to the Sun, and give the resulting number from the lot in the upward direction; wherever it ends, that will be in the Ascendant. Likewise the Daemon too, in general, for both nocturnal and diurnal nativities, will operate by sign for the comparison, but by degree according to the Sun; then one must count thus: by day from the Sun to the Moon and the equal amount from the Daemon in the upward direction, by night from the Moon to the Sun and the equal amount from the Daemon in the downward direction, or from the Sun to the Moon and the equal amount from the Daemon in the upward direction; in both ways the result has its ending at the same place. This, then, will be judged the productive degree; and the comparison of what is sought according to the method set out will be grasped from the table of rising times and the deviation: one must reckon for how long a time the magnitude of the hour has been taken up, adding to the clime-inclination or subtracting, how great the interval of the degrees is; and, adding these again to the productive degree found before or subtracting them, take that as the Ascendant. Hence the positions of the inhabited regions, being measured differently at different times according to the deviation of the horizon, show no ordinary difference, and those born in Rome will not live the same periods as those in Babylon, nor others as others; but sometimes the difference will be found to be least, sometimes greatest, sometimes excessive. For if one hour, by rising beyond another, has ten thousand times the power, even of a day, how should not one clime have more than another, because of the shadows of the earth and the wanderings off the road and the stations of the Sun with respect to the horizons? But these things are hard to attain and nonsense to most people, while to the wise the effects that come about are the proof of what has been set out.

另法。每个点自身都显示上升度数；例如，若福点粗略地落在某个星座；但要按月亮的度数推算来数出度数，例如从月亮到太阳，把所得的数从福点按向上的方向数出；它在哪里终止，那就在上升之中。同样，精灵点在总体上，无论夜生还是昼生，为了比较都按星座运作，但按度数则依太阳；然后必须这样数：白天从太阳到月亮，再从精灵点按向上的方向量出相等的距离，夜里从月亮到太阳，再从精灵点按向下的方向量出相等的距离，或从太阳到月亮，再从精灵点按向上的方向量出相等的距离；两种方式所得都终止在同一处。所以这将被判为得力的度数；按所列的方法对所求之事的比较，将从上升时间表与偏差来把握：必须计算时辰的大小被占去了多长的时间，加到倾斜度上或减去，度数的间隔有多大；再把这些加到先前找到的得力度数上或减去，把它当作上升。因此，人所居住的诸地区的位置，按地平线的偏差在不同的时候被不同地量度，显示不寻常的差别，生在罗马的人不会与生在巴比伦的人活同样的时期，其他的人与其他的人也不同；有时会发现差别极小，有时极大，有时过度。因为若一个时辰凭着比另一个先升起，就有一万倍的力量，甚至胜过一天的力量，一个气候带怎么会不比另一个更有力，由于大地的阴影、离道的游移与太阳相对于地平线的诸站？但这些事难以达到，对大多数人是胡言，而对智者，所发生的效验就是所列之事的证明。

Otherwise. Adding together the degrees of the Sun and of the Moon, one should take them as the productive gnomon and the degree that holds things together, and as effective according to the judgment of the one who presides; then, beginning from degree 1 of the sign thought to be in the Ascendant, make the two lots, until the Sun and the Moon become equal in number. For of necessity two degrees must be in the Ascendant for each sign, or sometimes even 3, when the whole number of the Sun and the Moon ends at the beginning of the sign, in the middle, or at the end; for the addition and division made according to equinoctial time will show the agreement of the degrees. Likewise in the case of the Sun and the Moon; for the Moon passes through the sign in two and a half days. The gnomon, then, being cut in two, returns to the same agreement. For nature, sending to us the emanations from the immortal elements, brings about the cosmic fastening together and quietly fashions all things, without reward and without variation [text uncertain], and, not overstepping the bounds of the law laid down, governs the cosmos; and serving the cosmic powers, and roused out of sleep [text uncertain] and revolving into a long age, the generations of men and of animals and the kinds of plants and crops she in part destroys and consumes and brings to oblivion, and in part, begetting and nourishing, renews again; and there is nothing everlasting and prolonged in the abiding of things on earth, nor yet perishable and desolate, so that the earth too, being bereft, should take on the stamp of shapelessness; but, governed by the heavenly bodies and rejoicing in the goods about her and bearing splendour, and transformed by kinds of colours, she is made beautiful; for none of the elements in the cosmos is without shape. The sea too, exercised by the ebbs and the winds, they renew, and on account of its colour sailing is restored, and it is heaped up with streams from the land, and though always flooding it never ceases, nor yet floods beyond its nature, but, poured back into itself with countless billows, seems to stand still, though it is without fixed footing; and, nourishing in its gulfs and hollows a multitude of swimming fishes, it fashions some from sea-monsters [text uncertain], some for the use of men, and some as food for one another. Nor yet is the air, which seems to be seen as empty, idle and inactive; but, guided by the winds and quickly transformed, it is seen as varied, and unnoticed it produces for us the vital breath with good tempering, and the form of all kinds of winged creatures, dancing in it, provides a throng and delight for the beholding. And so, among the elements, according to the natural account, one coming to be from another and being reshaped, and possessing its own beauty and use, displays the cosmic structure; for nothing, remaining by itself, has the advantage of another, but is useless and harmful; but when blended with another it brings about good tempering and, being used throughout by all, is not used up; and, as we see, the earth seems to be arbiter over the rest, holding all things as their forebear.

另法。把太阳与月亮的度数加在一起，应把它们当作得力的晷针与维系万物的度数，按主事者的判断是有效的；然后从被认为在上升之中的那个星座的第一度起，作出两个点，直到太阳与月亮在数上相等。因为每个星座必然有两度在上升之中，有时甚至三度，当太阳与月亮的总数终止在星座的开头、中间或末尾时；因为按赤道时间所作的加与分，会显示诸度数的一致。太阳与月亮的情形也一样；因为月亮两天半走过一个星座。所以晷针被分成两半，回到同一种一致。因为自然从不朽的元素向我们送来流溢，造成宇宙的扣合，静静地塑造万物，不求报酬，也无变化〔原文疑有讹误〕，不越过所定法则的界限，统治着宇宙；她侍奉宇宙的诸力，从睡眠中被唤起〔原文疑有讹误〕，转入漫长的岁月，人与动物的世代、植物与庄稼的种类，她一部分毁灭、吞噬、带入遗忘，一部分生育、养育，又重新更新；地上之物的存留没有什么是永久而延长的，也没有什么是会朽坏而荒凉的，以致大地也被剥夺而带上无形的印记；而是受天体统治，因周围的好东西而欢喜，带着光彩，被种种颜色所改变，她被装点得美丽；因为宇宙中没有一种元素是没有形状的。海也被潮汐与风操练，它们使之更新，因为它的颜色，航行得以恢复，它又被陆地的河流堆满，虽然总在涨溢，却从不停止，也不越过它的本性而泛滥，而是以无数的波浪倒流回自身，看来像是静止的，虽然它没有固定的立足之处；它在海湾与深处养育众多游鱼，有的从海怪中塑造〔原文疑有讹误〕，有的供人使用，有的彼此为食。空气看来是空的，却也并不闲置不动；而是受风引导，迅速变化，显得多样，不知不觉地以良好的调和为我们产生生命的气息，在其中舞蹈的各种飞禽的形体，为观看者提供热闹与欢喜。所以在诸元素中，按自然的道理，一个由另一个生成并被重塑，各有自己的美与用处，展示出宇宙的结构；因为没有什么独自存留就胜过另一个，而是无用而有害的；但当它与另一个混合时，就带来良好的调和，被众人通用而用不尽；正如我们所见，大地似乎是其余元素的仲裁者，作为它们的先祖而包容万物。