【占星四书】《第三书_12》身体伤害和疾病_Of Bodily Injuries and Diseases
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【占星四书】《第三书_12》身体伤害和疾病
12. Of Bodily Injuries and Diseases.
Since the subject which comes next
is that which treats of the injuries and diseases of the body, we
shall attach here in regular order the method of investigation
devised for this form of query. It is as follows. In this case
also, to gain a general comprehension, it is necessary to look to
the two angles of the horizon, that is, the orient and the
occident, and especially to the occident itself and the sign
preceding it, which is disjunct from the oriental angle. We must
also observe what aspect the maleficent planets bear to them. For
if they, one or both of them, are stationed against the ascending
degrees of the aforesaid places, either bodily on them or quartile
or in opposition to them, we must conclude that the subjects born
will suffer bodily injuries and disease, especially if either one
or both of the luminaries as well chance to he angular in the
manner described, or in opposition. For in that case not only if
one of the maleficent planets is rising after the luminaries, but
even if it is rising before them and is itself angular, it has
power to produce one of the aforesaid injuries or diseases of such
kind as the places of the horizon and of the signs may indicate,
likewise what is indicated by the natures of the afflicting and the
afflicted planets, and moreover by those that bear an aspect toward
them. For the parts of the individual signs of the zodiac which
surround the afflicted portion of the horizon will indicate the
part of the body which the portent will concern, and whether the
part indicated can suffer an injury or a disease or both, and the
natures of the planets produce the kinds and causes of the events
that are to occur. For, of the most important parts of the human
body, Saturn is lord of the right ear, the spleen, the bladder, the
phlegm, and the bones; Jupiter is lord of touch, the lungs,
arteries, and semen; Mars of the left ear, kidneys, veins, and
genitals; the sun of the sight, the brain, heart, sinews and all
the right-band parts; Venus of smell, the liver, and the flesh;
Mercury of speech and thought, the tongue, the bile, and the
buttocks ; the moon of taste and drinking, the stomach, belly,
womb, and all the left-band parts.
For the most part it is a general principle that injuries occur
when the significant maleficent planets are oriental, and diseases,
conversely, when they are setting. The reason for this is that
these two things are distinguished thus - an injury affects the
subject once for all and does not involve lasting pain, while
disease bears upon the patient either continuously or in sudden
attacks.
For the purpose of ascertaining particulars, certain configurations
significant of injury or sickness have been specially observed, by
means of the events which generally accompany such positions of the
stars. For blindness in one eye is brought about when the moon by
itself is upon the aforesaid angles, or is in conjunction, or is
full, and when it is in another aspect that bears a relation to the
sun, but applies to one of the star clusters in the zodiac, as for
example to the cluster in Cancer, and to the Pleiades of Taurus, to
the arrow point of Sagittarius, to the sting of Scorpio, to the
parts of Leo around the Coma Berenices, or to the pitcher of
Aquarius ; and whenever Mars or Saturn moves toward the moon, when
it is angular and waning and they are rising, or again when they
ascend before the sun, being themselves angular. But if they are in
aspect with both luminaries at once, either in the same sign or in
opposition, as we said, morning stars with respect to the sun ,and
evening stars to the moon, they will affect both eyes; for Mars
brings about blindness from a blow, a thrust, iron, or burning;
when he has Mercury in aspect, in palaestras and gymnasiums or by
felonious attack. Saturn causes it by suffusion, cold, glaucoma,
and the like. Again if Venus is upon one of the aforesaid angles,
particularly the occident, if she is joined with Saturn or is in
aspect with him or has exchanged houses, and is inferior to Mars or
has him in opposition, the men who are born are sterile, and the
women are subject to miscarriages, premature births, or even to
embryotomies, particularly in Cancer, Virgo, and Capricorn. And if
the moon at rising applies to Mars, and if she also bears the same
aspect to Mercury that Saturn does, while Mars again is elevated
above her or is in opposition, the children born are eunuchs or
hermaphrodites or have no ducts and vents. Since this is so, when
the sun also is in aspect, if the luminaries and Venus are made
masculine, the moon is waning, and the maleficent planets are
approaching in the succeeding degrees, the males that are born will
be deprived of their sexual organs or injured therein, particularly
in Aries, Leo, Scorpio, Capricorn, and Aquarius, and the females
will be childless and sterile. Sometimes those who have such
genitures continue not without injury to the sight also; but those
suffer impediment of speech, lisp, or have difficulty in
enunciation who have Saturn and Mercury joined with the sun at the
aforesaid angles, particularly if Mercury is also setting and both
bear some aspect to the moon. When Mars is present with them he is
generally apt to loosen the impediment to the tongue, after the
moon meets him. Again, if the luminaries, together or in
opposition, move toward the maleficent planets upon the angles, or
if the maleficent planets move toward the luminaries, particularly
when the moon is at the nodes or her bendings, or in the injurious
signs such as Aries, Taurus, Cancer, Scorpio, or Capricorn, there
come about deformations of the body such as hunchback, crookedness,
lameness, or paralysis, congenital if the maleficent planets are
joined with the luminaries, but if they are at the mid-heaven
points, elevated above the luminaries or in opposition one to the
other, the deformations will result from serious dangers, such as
falls from a height, the collapse of houses, or the attacks of
robbers or animals. If Mars prevails, the danger is from fire,
wounds, bilious attacks, or robberies; if it is Saturn, through
collapse of buildings, shipwreck, or spasms.
For the most part injuries come about when the moon is near the
solstitial or equinoctial signs, particularly at the spring
equinox, injuries by white leprosy; at the summer solstice, by
lichens; at the fall equinox, by leprosy; at the winter solstice,
by moles and the like. Diseases are likely to result when at the
positions already described the maleficent planets are in aspect,
but in the opposite sense, that is, evening stars with respect to
the sun and morning stars to the moon. For in general Saturn causes
his subjects to have cold bellies, increases the phlegm, makes them
rheumatic, meagre, weak, jaundiced, and prone to dysentery,
coughing, raising, colic, and elephantiasis; the females he makes
also subject to diseases of the womb. Mars causes men to spit
blood, makes them melancholy, weakens their lungs, and causes the
itch or scurvy; and furthermore he causes them to be constantly
irritated by cutting or cautery of the secret parts because of
fistulas, hæmorrhoids, or tumours, or also burning ulcers, or
eating sores ; he is apt to afflict women furthermore with
miscarriages, embryotomies, or corrosive diseases. Of themselves,
they also bring about the properties of disease in agreement with
the natures, which have been already discussed, of the planets in
aspect, as they relate to the parts of the body.
Mercury assists them chiefly to prolong the evil effects, when he
is allied with Saturn inclining toward cold and continually
stirring into activity rheumatisms and gatherings of fluid,
particularly about the chest, throat, and stomach. When he is
allied with Mars he adds his force to produce greater dryness, as
in cases of ulcerous sore eyes, eschars, abscesses, erysipelas,
savage lichens or skin eruptions, blaek bile, insanity, the sacred
disease, or the like.
Certain qualities of disease are determined by changes among the
zodiacal signs which surround the aforesaid configurations on the
two angles. For in particular Cancer, Capricorn, and Pisces, and in
general the terrestrial and piscine signs, cause diseases involving
eating sores, lichens, scales, scrofula, fistulas, elephantiasis,
and the like. Sagittarius and Gemini are responsible for those that
come about with falling fits or epileptic seizures. And when the
planets are in the last degrees of the signs they cause diseases
and injuries especially in the extremities, through lesions or
rheumatism, from which elephantiasis and, in general, gout in the
feet and hands result. Since this is the case, if no beneficent
planet bears an aspect to the maleficent ones which furnish the
cause, or to the luminaries on the centres, the injuries and
diseases will be incurable and painful; so also, if they bear an
aspect but the maleficent planets are in power and overcome them.
But if the beneficent planets are themselves in the authoritative
positions and overcome the maleficent planets that bear the
responsibility for the evil, then the injuries are not disfiguring
and do not entail reproach and the diseases are moderate and yield
to treatment, and sometimes they may be easily cured, if the
beneficent planets are rising. For Jupiter generally causes the
injuries to be concealed by human aid through riches or honours,
and the diseases to be mitigated; and in company with Mercury he
brings this about by drugs and the aid of good physicians. And
Venus contrives that through pronouncements of the gods and oracles
the blemishes shall be, in a way, comely and attractive, and that
the diseases shall be readily moderated by divine healing; if
however Saturn is by, the healing will be accompanied by exhibition
and confession of the disease, and such like, but if Mercury is
joined with her it will be with the accrual of use and gain,
through the injuries and diseases themselves, to those that have
them.