41. When the significator of either good or evil shall be stationary, and angular, it shall be more durable. But it shall be the more mutable and variable, if the significator shall be cadent from angles, and retrograde.

吉凶的象征星,当其停留落于角宫,势将持久;若逆行落于果宫,多变,性情不定。

42. The lord of the second house hath the same strength in hurting, as the lord of the eighth; the lord of the sixth, the same with the lord of the twelfth.

2宫主星与8、6、12宫主星一样,能带来一定程度的凶险。

43. Mars occidental in Cancer not beheld of Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, or Sun, makes a good phlebotomist. But if Mars shall be in Capricorn, it makes a destroyer of men, and one that delights to shed blood.

火星西入于巨蟹,且不与木星、土星、金星、太阳相照,利于放血。若火星位于魔羯,将危害人命且不利于放血者。

44. The best artist in the world may chance to err, when he mistakes a true significator for a false one.

当其判断征象星真假错误时,最好的术家亦可能犯错。

45. When Saturn shall be elevated above Venus, and in square of her, it makes the native shameless, and a perfect woman-hater. But if Venus be elevated above Saturn, he shall be a great friend unto women.

当土星高于金星且与金星相刑,命主将蒙羞且憎恨女性。若金星高于土星则得女性之缘。

46. If in any nativity Mercury shall be in the ascendant, oriental, and swift; the native will be eloquent, and learned in the liberal sciences: the same happeneth, if he shall be in Sagittarius in his proper terms.

若水星东出、顺行速行落命宫,命主将是雄辩之人且为通才,若水星落于射手在自己的界中亦然。

47. The first of the angles is the ascendant: the second, the M.C., the third, the seventh house, the fourth Imum Coeli. But of the rest of the places, the eleventh is first, then the second; after that, the fifth; then the ninth, and third; but the sixth, eighth, and twelfth, are accounted the worst.

强宫之中以命宫为首、其次天顶、再次7宫、4宫最末;余以11宫为强,再次2宫、再次5宫、再次9宫、3宫最末;6宫弱、8宫更弱、12宫最为不吉。

48. Mars’s influence is never abated, unless by the interposure of a benevolent planet.

火星之恶未能稍减,除非逢吉星化解。

49. Let your significator agree with his, whom you intend to supplicate.

注意征象是否符合案主所问。

50. The ascendant, or a planet found in the last degree, the signification must be taken from the following sign; but if in 29 deg. in the same sign, the strength of a planet is considered three ways, viz. in the degree where he is found, and next preceding and succeeding.

命度或星体在星座后面度数,征象可以其后星座为主,但若落29度,星体力量须考虑三种途径,即是29度与29度前后。

51. We should consider of future contingents from the conjunctions of the planets, but things past or present from their separations.

从行星入相考虑将要发生的事件,从离相考虑过去的或现在的事情。

52. When Jupiter shall be in Cancer removed from the ascendant, and no way impedited of any other star, the native will be rational, and very expert in science; but delighting to lead a recluse life, and shall not have the due applause of his learning.

当木星在巨蟹远离上升,并不被其他行星以任何方式刑克,其人是理性的,专长科学;但乐于过一种隐居的生活,因而不会因其学识被人们称赞。

53. In the world many evils will happen, when in one month there shall happen an eclipse of both luminaries; chiefly in those places subject to the sign in which they happen.

当某个月如果发生日月食,世界上会发生很多不幸的事,主要发生在那些归日月食发生的星座管辖的地区。

54. When the Moon shall be in the combust way, or peregrine, in the beginning of a journey, the person will either fall sick in his journey, or shall be otherwise grievously troubled and molested.

在旅行之始,如月亮在“燃烧之路”,或浮游,其人要么在旅途中生病,要么有令人讨厌的麻烦和干扰。

55. It behooves the astrologer to consider the time in directions of the planets; but in the fixed stars it is not so needful.

占星家有必要考虑此时行星的顺逆行,(还是行星的向运)对于恒星就不需要了。

56. The father’s estate shall pass to the son, if Saturn shall be fortunate, and in friendly aspect of the lord of the ascendant: but this more freely, if Saturn shall be lord of the fourth.

土星吉,并且和命主有友好的相位(吉相位),父亲的财产将传给儿子,如果土星是4宫主,更是容易发生。

57. Fortunate planets being in signs wherein they have no dignity, their benignity is translated another way.

吉星在其落入的星座内没有尊贵势力,他们的吉性将以另一种方面表达。

58. Mars almuten of a nativity, and not joined to good planets, signifieth the native to suffer by envy and hatred.

火星是盘主星,且不和吉星有相位,表明其人遭遇嫉妒和憎恨。

59. The fortunate stars confer great felicity, when they shall be received of each other in their proper houses; and when the evil planets are so received, they refrain from doing much mischief.

当吉星彼此接纳时,他们会赋予极大的幸运;当凶星互容时,会抑制他们产生更多伤害。

60. The native will be sickly and weak, when Saturn is elevated above Mars; but if Mars shall be elevated above Saturn, he shall be fat and lusty.

当土星高于火星,主其人容易生病和虚弱;如火星高于木星,主其人易发胖和健壮。