生日与半生日星盘

You can improve any area of your life by traveling to the right place twice a year, once on your birthday, and again, six months later on your “half-birthday.” Every year, the Sun “returns” to the degree it occupied when you were born. A horoscope made for that exact time and place is called a Solar Return Chart and it affects you for the next year. Most of the effect, however, comes in the first six months.

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。

占星学家之间还有一个争议，我用回归黄道带，但是运动修正的方法来自与恒星黄道带。这不是把两个不同的东西混在一起么？说什么好呢？但是他确实起作用，因为我有6颗行星落在土相星座，所以这就是为什么。（真是霸道啊，竟然说自己星星位置好）1997年12月，我在一个NCGR会议演讲时比较了两种方法，经过运动修正的与不经过运动修正的，大多情况下得到相似的结果，但是当结果不同时，修正过的通常可以轻易胜出。

A Few Caveats

Three quarters of the Earth’s surface is water. Sometimes, the best place to be on your birthday or half-birthday turns out to be in the middle of the ocean. Or it might be some country that is in the midst of a civil war. What do you do in cases like that? You go to the second or third best place. You will still get some improvement and, six months later, you get another chance to travel and change things again.

一些告诫

就算你改变了位置，好运也不会自动的撞上你，如果你坐在家里，等着人敲你家的们，然后给你一份好工作，那就可以称的上是个奇迹了。如果你希望一段好姻缘，但是确连自己卫生状况都无法保证的话，好姻缘就算来了，也会马上离开你。

You can seldom improve more than one thing at a time. For instance, it will be either career or relationships. However, you could choose one now, and the other six months later.

一些时候，一些行星会有一些不良相位，不管你移动到哪里，生活中的一些方面都会受到影响，这种情况下你只能尽量降低不好的一面，再通过你对返照盘反映信息的分析，作出必要的预防，帮助你顺利渡过难关。

Results depend on your initial situation. If you are a 90 year old high school dropout, a birthday trip cannot make you a nuclear physicist or an Olympic champion. When it comes to income and career, the best improvements seem to come when you are self-employed, are paid on commission, or are looking for a new job. If you work for civil service, on the other hand, your salary and position are set by law and contract. In a case like that, you don’t get the best benefits of birthday travel. Unless, of course, you are moonlighting on the side. The more flexible and open your position, the better the results.

当然一切还的取决与你的自身条件，如果你已经90岁高龄了，你就不要指望通过旅行把你的身体条件提高到奥运会水平，自己经营一个公司的人会比拿固定工资的职员相比，会更受到改变地点的影响，当然你有第二职业除外。

最好的学习返照盘的方法就是立刻开始做，大多情况下，我会先给你做现在居住城市的星盘，然后我再给你解释为什么

The first example is My own solar return for 1981, the year I first traveled on my birthday. Notice that there is a T-square formed by the Sun and Moon (which co-rule the body) with Pluto, planet of extremes (including death). On top of that, this fell in Angular houses making the configuration stronger. Naturally, since I have the Moon in Cancer (sign of hysterics and hypochondriacs) I panicked. I figured if I could get that T-square in Cadent houses instead, it would be weakened. But that would also weaken the Sun and I didn’t want to risk health. What to do?

我想起elevating（振奋提升？）一颗行星能让它更强，如果太阳在第九宫，它就是既elevated又Cadent。为了做到这一点我必须反转星盘，这意味这至少向西移动40度，最后我去了L.A.洛杉矶呆了36个小时，由于雾很大我甚至没有出旅店就回来了，一天以后就有客户找我算命了，那一年我收入翻番，而且做起了全职的占星师。

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。