Minderwiz
The two systems based on the Lots, seem to differ mainly in that those from Fortune are more concerned with the outside or surface body parts and those from Spirit are more internal parts. Valens explicitly states that the Fortune system has Cancer in the first place (The Lot of Fortune is the Lot of the Moon) and Leo in the first place for the series from Spirit (The Lot of Spirit is the Lot of the Sun).
In this section Valens has the headingInjuries and Diseases; Injuries are more likely to be suffered to the outer parts of the body and more easily fit in with the concept of Fate or Chance, which Fortune represents. Disease or illness is more difficult to attribute but even in Valens time there was a recognition that disease could be caused by imbalances in the body. A popular view was that disease was the work of daemons or the gods. It seems in this section that Valens attributes injury to the Lot of Fortune and Disease to the Lot of Spirit.
Valens sign based third system is the one that was most used in the ensuing centuries and you'll find it in Lilly when you get on to Medical Horaries (sixth House questions).
In Example 1, The Lot of Fortune is in Capricorn and so injuries are likely to be of a Capricorn nature. That will be brought out more from Its ruler, Saturn, Valens also tells us to look at the Place of Occupation (the tenth to see if there are malefics or benefics there. In this case Saturn is in the Place of Ocupation. and it's the out of sect malefic. Just to make matters worse, the other malefic, Mars is in Capricorn with the Lot. So injuries to something ruled by Capricorn are likely. From the list we might well go for knees as first choice, because this is the more modern connection. However there are three clues as to why he takes blindness. Firstly he lists it as connected with Capricorn. Secondly, the Sun is in Capricorn and the Sun is connected with vision and eyesight, the means by which we take in most imformation from sense perception. The third clue is that he tells us that the subject was indeed blind (as this was perhaps the most notable feature of the man, Valens probably thought that his poor vision was likely to be related to Capricorn and the badly positioned Sun.
The Gout is a more obvious conclusion. Daemon is in Pisces, which is connected to the feet. So Valens is looking for a disease or sickness connected to the feet. Gout is a fairly obvious one, even in Valens' day. Daimon is ruled by Jupiter, which is badly placed in the sixth, the place of bad fortune, Capricorn is ruled by Saturn. Gout is a form of arthritis and is therefore linked to joints and sinews and Valens specifically links arthritis to Pisces.
Valens does mention constellations in Book 1. When he discusses the Nature of the Sign of Taurus (In Section 2) he says:
Taurus is feminine, solid, lying in the Sun’s spring tropic, full of bones, with some limbs missing, rising backwards, setting straight down. This sign lies for the most part in the invisible sky. It is calm. From its first degree to 6° (the section of the Pleiades) it is worthless, even destructive, disease-producing, thundering, causing earthquakes and lightning flashes
I can only surmise that Saturn is placed in this part of Taurus. You will find other references to constellations in this section. Valens too was using effectively a sidereal zodiac, so his references to constellations and fixed stars, should be very close to modern sidereal positions.
In this section Valens has the headingInjuries and Diseases; Injuries are more likely to be suffered to the outer parts of the body and more easily fit in with the concept of Fate or Chance, which Fortune represents. Disease or illness is more difficult to attribute but even in Valens time there was a recognition that disease could be caused by imbalances in the body. A popular view was that disease was the work of daemons or the gods. It seems in this section that Valens attributes injury to the Lot of Fortune and Disease to the Lot of Spirit.
Valens sign based third system is the one that was most used in the ensuing centuries and you'll find it in Lilly when you get on to Medical Horaries (sixth House questions).
In Example 1, The Lot of Fortune is in Capricorn and so injuries are likely to be of a Capricorn nature. That will be brought out more from Its ruler, Saturn, Valens also tells us to look at the Place of Occupation (the tenth to see if there are malefics or benefics there. In this case Saturn is in the Place of Ocupation. and it's the out of sect malefic. Just to make matters worse, the other malefic, Mars is in Capricorn with the Lot. So injuries to something ruled by Capricorn are likely. From the list we might well go for knees as first choice, because this is the more modern connection. However there are three clues as to why he takes blindness. Firstly he lists it as connected with Capricorn. Secondly, the Sun is in Capricorn and the Sun is connected with vision and eyesight, the means by which we take in most imformation from sense perception. The third clue is that he tells us that the subject was indeed blind (as this was perhaps the most notable feature of the man, Valens probably thought that his poor vision was likely to be related to Capricorn and the badly positioned Sun.
The Gout is a more obvious conclusion. Daemon is in Pisces, which is connected to the feet. So Valens is looking for a disease or sickness connected to the feet. Gout is a fairly obvious one, even in Valens' day. Daimon is ruled by Jupiter, which is badly placed in the sixth, the place of bad fortune, Capricorn is ruled by Saturn. Gout is a form of arthritis and is therefore linked to joints and sinews and Valens specifically links arthritis to Pisces.
Valens does mention constellations in Book 1. When he discusses the Nature of the Sign of Taurus (In Section 2) he says:
Taurus is feminine, solid, lying in the Sun’s spring tropic, full of bones, with some limbs missing, rising backwards, setting straight down. This sign lies for the most part in the invisible sky. It is calm. From its first degree to 6° (the section of the Pleiades) it is worthless, even destructive, disease-producing, thundering, causing earthquakes and lightning flashes
I can only surmise that Saturn is placed in this part of Taurus. You will find other references to constellations in this section. Valens too was using effectively a sidereal zodiac, so his references to constellations and fixed stars, should be very close to modern sidereal positions.