生日与半生日星盘

你可以通过一年旅行两次的方法让你的生活各个方面发生改变。一次是你的生日，另外一次是6个月后，也就是半生日，每年太阳都会回到你出生的位置上，用来准确反映太阳回到这一时刻的星盘称为太阳返照盘，盘内的行星可以反映下一年你的运势，然而只是反映前六个月。

Six months later, you have your “Half-Solar Return Chart”, and that affects the last half of your personal year. The nice thing about these return charts is if you don’t like them, you can change them. Like any horoscope, these return charts must be set up for a place as well as a time. You can’t change the time of your birthday or half-birthday, but you can choose where to be at that moment.

当你旅行的时候，星盘与宫位就会改变，更重要的是与四角的相位就会改变，返照盘中四角是非常重要的，他们能反映你与外部世界的互动，预示着事情的发生。 原文还有一句形容四角重要的句子They are where the horoscope rubber meets the road.（^_^很形象啊，橡胶遇到道路那不就就开起来跑哈哈），对于返照盘来说当你旅行的时候四角的位置就会发生改变。

One of my favorite moves is to place Jupiter, planet of expansion and “luck” in the second house (money) and have it trine (120 degrees, a “lucky” angle) the Mid-Heaven (career). After all, if you’re going to improve career, you might as well get paid for it.

当然，还有一件事情很重要，地球围绕太阳的的轨道有点不稳定，所以太阳每年回到同一位置需要的时间要长一些，我们要修正这个时间。（是的地球是围绕太阳转，但是由于我们生活在地球上，所以星图都是以地心制的）为了更为精确我们必须修正这个时间，所以最好确定你使用的太阳返照盘是经过运动修正的，实际上这个意味着太阳比在你出生图上的太阳位置要过一点，而且这个差距每年都会变大，最后因为他的改变每个人的生日都会推后。

I have to tell you right at the start that this view is controversial among astrologers. I use the Tropical Zodiac, but precession correction is a technique from sidereal astrology. Isn’t this mixing apples and oranges? What can I say? It works. And since I have six planets in Earth signs, to me, that’s the bottom line. In December 1997, I gave a lecture at an NCGR conference comparing the corrected charts with the non-corrected ones. On several occasions, they gave similar results. However, whenever they gave different answers, the precession corrected return horoscope won hands down.

Traveling on return charts does not automatically bring you everything you desire. If you want to sit in your room and have someone knock on your door to offer you a really great job, you’re asking for a miracle, not a boost. And you will have a really long wait. If you would like to have a fantastic relationship but, to put it mildly, you don’t take care of your personal hygiene, well potential lovers will come into your life all right. But they will leave after the first whiff.

四分之三的地球表面被水覆盖，有时你计算出的最好位置正好在大海的中间，或者一些正在发生内乱的国家。这时候你可以到你的第二第三选择位置去，运势一样可以得到不少提升，六个月以后你就有另外改变位置提升运气的机会了。

一般来说你不能一次提升两种运势，所以你必须选择一个，是事业还是爱情，当然现在你可以先选一个，6个月后再选择一个。

Sometimes the planets happen to make a lot of stress aspects. No matter where you go, some area of your chart will have problems. In that case, travel to the place that’s the least bad. At least, with your knowledge of your return horoscope, you will know where the problems are and can take preventive steps in advance. Brace yourself and get through it. In six months you have another chance to travel and improve your life.

Case Histories

The best way to learn about return charts is to dive right in and do them. In most of the cases, I’ll give you the chart for the city of residence first. Then I’ll explain the reasons for being elsewhere.

第一个例子就是1981年我自己的返照盘，那年是我第一次通过生日旅行改变运势。那年我注意到我得返照盘上太阳月亮（身体）冥王星（极端的、死亡）形成一个准确的t三角，冥王为顶点，而且落在Angular宫，让这个构形力量更强大。我的本命盘上月亮落在巨蟹（发疯、忧郁症）我非常恐慌，我想如果让t三角落在Cadent宫会好一些，但是这会使太阳力量减弱，我也不想拿健康冒险，我该怎么办？

Then I remembered that elevating a planet would make it stronger. If the Sun were in the 9th house, it would be both Cadent and elevated. To do that, I would have to move the planets counterclockwise. That meant traveling at least 40 degrees west. Going to L.A. would do the trick. I went, stayed there for 36 hours (it was so smoggy, I didn’t leave the hotel) and came back. A day later, my phone started ringing off the hook with new clients. That was the year my income more than doubled and I became a full time astrologer.

让人好笑的是我并没有想过提高我的收入，我只是想让那些不良相位的行星落入弱一点的宫位。回过头去看看1981年洛杉矶的返照盘火星（行动）正好落在中天（职业）。木星土星都与火星呈120度（行星间的相位并不会因为地点改变而改变）现在他们都与中天成120度角了，当土木在一起的时候对你生活中的重要时间影响力是非常大的。

Mercury rules the house of money (Gemini is on the house cusp) and it sits in the sign Aquarius, where it happens to be very strong (“exalted” is the term). Mercury also makes wide trines to Jupiter and Saturn. So money and career are both strengthened.

天王星，占星学上具有统治力的行星，正好落于财经轴（第二宫第八宫连线上）月亮与冥王星也形成友好的相位，我开始没有注意宫头的相位不过他们确实起了作用。

The next example is the chart of a client who’s company was downsizing. They were going to get rid of her entire department. She wanted to travel to increase “luck” in her career area so that she could get a new job. I outdid myself with this one. In Client One, New York horoscope, Mars made a trine to the Mid-Heaven, but that wouldn’t do. Mars would just give her extra energy to use in her career.

当你肯定要摆脱一切限制发展一些事情的时候，就得用到木星了（确定它没有受到其他行星的折磨）她的纽新兰星盘第二宫的木星与中天呈120度角，生日后的几个星期她告诉我除了她，她部门所有的人都被解雇了，她的职位级别也没有改变。

Another client came to me in tears because she was close to loosing a building she owned. She spent thousands for renovation and it was still half vacant. The bank was talking foreclosure. The next solar return set for New York was not good Client Two, New York. Gemini was the sign on the Mid-Heaven (career) and Sagittarius was on the Nadir (the bottom of the chart). The Nadir rules the home, but I find that it rules real estate matters in general. The planets that rule these signs (Mercury and Jupiter) were making a square (90 degrees, a stress aspect). Not good for a real estate business. It was time to turn the wheel.

一个客户哭着来找我因为她就要失去她自己的房子了 ，她花费了很多钱改善房子的条件，但是还有大部分是闲置的；银行也在催促她还贷款。她纽约的返照盘不好，中天（职业）落在双子座，天底（家庭）落在射手座，天底掌管家庭的事情，但是我发现它还关系到产业的方面，掌管这些事物的行星水星和木星形成刑相位，不适宜这方面的事情。我们需要转动星盘。

She called me 3 months later to say she couldn’t talk to me because she was too busy showing apartments (only a Sagittarius or a Gemini would do that!). Within 5 months, all of the apartments were rented. In the meantime, her bank sold the mortgage to another bank. The new mortgage holders lowered her interest by a point and they forgave over $2,000 in late fees that the first bank had charged her.

三个月后她打电话告诉我她几乎没有时间与我多聊，因为她每天都忙于带人看房（仅仅是射手或双子就能这样！）五个月之内，所有得房间都出租出去了，在这段时间，那家催她还钱得银行被另外一家银行收购，新的银行降低了她的贷款利率，还减免了她2000$。

Here’s another example of improving business and finances. The solar return in our next example did have Jupiter in the 2nd house (money). But, as you can see in the Client Three, New York chart, it was way at the end of the house. Besides that, there were no aspects to the Mid-Heaven, meaning little action in career. I sent him to Saint John’s Newfoundland as well. As you can see from the Client 3, Newfoundland horoscope, Jupiter makes an almost exact aspect to the Mid-Heaven. The closer the aspect is to exact, the greater the effect. When he came back for an update, he told me that there was a potential client whose business he had been trying to get for over two years but they couldn’t work anything out. While he was in Newfoundland on his birthday, she called to tell him that he got the deal. Oh yes. He also told me that his phone was “ringing off the hook” with new business for the next three months

这里还有一个例子是改善企业财务状况的。这个例子的返照木星也落在金钱宫，但是你可以看到客户3纽约的盘，它落在宫尾，而且没有与中天的相位，所以对职业的影响力是有限的。我建议他去纽新兰，我们可以看到，在纽新兰的返照盘上，木星和中天构成精确相位。相位越精确，所产生的作用就越大。当他回来以后，他告诉我他有个潜在的客户在那边，但是两年都没有谈成，当他到纽新兰的那段时间里，他们在那里达成了协议，当然后来他还告诉在那3个月以后他还做成了很多新生意。

如果任意方向转动30度就可以使刑相位消失，如果东移30度，就在巴西，但是冥王就落天底冲中天。冥王去影响事业和家庭实在不是件好事情啊！所以西移30度到了丹佛。

“I have a boyfriend now, but these people are still calling me and writing me and bothering me” she complained. Since I’m a Capricorn Sun Sign, I told her to make a list of their names and sell it to other women. She was not amused. A few weeks later, that episode of “Rolanda” was rebroadcast, and my client got even more calls and letters. For years afterwards, every time she came for an update, she would ask where she had to be to improve money and career. Romance was not mentioned. And that is why I say...

提醒一下，经常检查下你的行运 推运 太阳弧盘，最好再检查他们的中点，我有个一个客户不想做一个完整的检查，因为她只关心她生日那天最好在哪里，能让她得到一份工作。我也忘了她去了哪里，她回来后两个月突然被解雇了，她受到了行运的影响，虽然2个星期后她又得到了一份更好的工作，如果让我做一份完整的检查，这样让人不爽的情况应该士可以避免的。