It doesn't help being mathematically challenged. And to think I questioned my high school trig teacher about what possible purpose advanced math would serve me in life.
Uh, I failed trig. I had to drop the course in order to remain eligible to play football my senior year (that wasn't Ohio High School Athletic Association rules, that was our school district's rules).
Ok, let's skip Valens. The charts in Oracle are auto-derivative charts. The birth date is July 7th, and the day three chart is cast for the exact same time on July 9th. The 7th is the first day, the 8th is the second day, so the 9th would be the third day of life. Are we having a counting problem? Or is the chart cast improperly?
All the charts are cast for the exact moment of the nativity on the 3rd, 7th, and 40th days of the nativity if we count the date of birth as day one. So, correct or not?
The software is wrong.
The software should progress, direct, transit the Moon, not cast new charts.
tsmall, I'm highlighting that in order to note any differences between the two charts under discussion that you attached
then
there needs to be a difference to note
- and there clearly is none
Yet one is the OP natal chart
and ORACLE software claims that
the other is the 3rd Day of the Moon chart
Since the 3rd Day of the Moon chart
traditionally highlights/considers/homes in on the location of the transiting Moon 3 days after the Nativity
THEN
the natal Moon location as illustrated by the natal chart
MUST differ from the location of the transiting Moon 3 days AFTER the birth
as illustrated by the 3rd Day of the Moon chart
HOWEVER
since you have explained that the 'Days of the Moon' charts you posted are all auto-derivative charts using Oracle software
THEN
EITHER
it's a software glitch
OR
it's a data input problem
ALTERNATIVELY
it's a Valens glitch as dr. farr has surmised 
I vote for Glitch. Glitch would make a wonderful president or prime minister of some hapless country.
Yep, sorry, I've been such a dullard. Reading Valens again, he proposes that you use the ideal of the adjacent sign/square sign/opposition sign respectively. He then says that others use the actual 3rd, 7th and 40th days of the Moon. It is the old ideal vs. actual debate! If you use the actual, obviously you would count the day of birth as "one" as there was no zero in ancient mathematics and every other time-lord system counts the beginning point as one and not zero.
"Robert Kaplan, author of The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero and former professor of mathematics at Harvard University, provides this answer:
The first evidence we have of zero is from the Sumerian culture in Mesopotamia, some 5,000 years ago."
Well, there you go. Glad we got that cleared up.
The short story is this.....some idiot noticed that ancient civilizations did not write Zero exactly like we do as '0'....therefore, ancient civilizations did not have Zero and didn't know what it was.
That is really bad logic, not to mention completely erroneous, but once disinformation or misinformation gets taught in a culture, it is almost impossible to eradicate.
The symbol we use for zero --- '0'--- did not come into universal formal use until about the 7th Century of this Era.
Zero was most certainly used in mathematics from the most ancient times ever, but, there was no standardized formalized '0' as a universal alphanumeric character.
In other words, Zero was like the letter "a" meaning that every culture had their own variation a à á â ã ä å æ ā ă ą ǽ (and I forgot the German "a" with the
umlaut). Just as some cultures have more than one alphanumeric symbol for the letter 'a' --- like Romania 'a' ....'ă'...'â' ---some cultures also had more than one alphanumeric symbol for Zero, and the exact symbol used depended on the function of Zero as they were using it, so that one symbol for Zero was used as a place-holder, another symbol used for fractional numbers, and so on.
The charts are all transit charts cast for the time of birth on the chosen days. I did test this by simply creating a new chart for such a time in the natal location on the calendar date shown in each chart and it is identical to the software chart. Note that the positions of the planets moves in each, as does the ASC.
For the sake of clarity and education then, what we want to look at using this method are transit charts for the days in question, which anyone can do, and it only remains to determine where to start the counting of days?
Yeah, he does say that he actually wanted to take the option out as it doesn't work the way he wanted it to but was worried about people getting annoyed at that. He told me he may redo the whole thing at a later date. He claims that the ancients looked only at the Moon, and not the whole chart, so I may be wrong with wanting to look at the full chart. It is the usual problem of isolating factors, and seeing what is doing what.
As for where to start, for me there really isn't any question of where to count from as the ancients would always have counted the day of birth as "one", just as they did with all levels of profections. When Valens (or anyone) says XYZ happened in the 40th year, the native would be 39 years old by our reckoning. For me being born in 1984, my 40th year would be 2023 when I am 39 years old to everyone living now.
So then, using that particular form of reckoning,
1 = beginning of 2nd whole sign house and so on around the natal chart
- as shown by the attached illustration
I can't believe you people made me go read Valens.
My text is formatted differently, so I don't have corresponding page numbers, but this is what Valens says....
/176/ For forecasts of dangers to health, diseases, bleeding, or the mother, we will start with the moon.
Bearing that in mind...
What colostrum lacks in volume it makes up for in power. Some people refer to colostrum as "high octane" milk. It's full of antibodies and immunoglobulins, which not only help protect newborns as they come into our world of bacteria and viruses, but also has a laxative effect that helps them expel the tarry first stools called meconium.
http://www.babycenter.com/404_whats-colostrum_8896.bc
Colostrum is extremely easy to digest, and is therefore the perfect first food for your baby. It is low in volume (measurable in teaspoons rather than ounces), but high in concentrated nutrition for the newborn. Colostrum has a laxative effect on the baby, helping him pass his early stools, which aids in the excretion of excess bilirubin and helps prevent jaundice. When your baby is breastfed early and often, your breasts will begin producing mature milk around the third or fourth day after birth.
Colostrum has an especially important role to play in the baby's gastrointestinal tract. A newborn's intestines are very permeable. Colostrum seals the holes by "painting" the gastrointestinal tract with a barrier which mostly prevents foreign substances from penetrating and possibly sensitizing a baby to foods the mother has eaten.
Colostrum also contains high concentrations of leukocytes, protective white cells which can destroy disease-causing bacteria and viruses.
http://www.llli.org/faq/colostrum.html
Infant Stomach Capacity
Colostrum is high in carbohydrates, high in protein, high in antibodies, and low in fat (as human newborns may find fat difficult to digest). Newborns have very small digestive systems, and colostrum delivers its nutrients in a very concentrated low-volume form.
It has a mild laxative effect, encouraging the passing of the baby's first stool, which is called meconium.
This clears excess bilirubin, a waste product of dead red blood cells which is produced in large quantities at birth due to blood volume reduction, from the infant's body and helps prevent jaundice.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/c/colostrum.htm
Okay, let's put this together.
Valens is copying from older sources (like Dorotheus --although Dorotheus is not that much older).
Romans counted differently than other contemporary cultures did.
3 Days is 3 Days. Add 3 to birth date eg July 10 + 3 = July 13; May 26 + 3 = May 29 and so on.
This is medical health only, as it relates to infant/mother's health and not about the Native's misery or fortune in life or anything else....once again...
/176/ For forecasts of dangers to health, diseases, bleeding, or the mother, we will start with the moon.
...at least he got that part right.
So....(I called my mother to confirm this -- yes, she likes Astrology)....I have Pitted Mars in the 6th.
Mars is Below Earth, indicating something internal rather than something external (Above Earth means external).
Mars rules liver.
6th House/Sign signifies intestines, liver and kidneys.
I was born with jaundice, caused by liver things.
Doctor told my mother it would go away after a couple of days of breast-feeding, as the aforementioned medical stuff explains much better than I could.
True or False? False. If the doctor practiced Astrology, he wouldn't have been so stupid. Direct Natal Moon by Transit three days ahead and we find Transiting Moon in the 6th House at 20° Aries joining Mars at 28° Aries.
That is a medical issue; specifically to wit, my mother was unable to produce either colustrum or milk, and therefore I had to go back to the doctor, and I won't share what happened next.
Once again, 6th House is intestines, liver and kidneys, Mars is liver, and here's Transiting Moon joining Mars, not to mention Natal Moon was in the 5th House which is stomach and liver.
Next up.....
Jose Feliciano
Sep 10 1945, 10:00 am, +3:00
Lares Puerto Rico 18°N18' 066°W53'
Natal Moon at 1° Scorpio in 1st House (but 2nd Sign).
Directed Moon by Transit on day 3 which is September 13, and we find Directed Transiting Moon at...
...7° Sagittarius....which is an Azieme Degree.
Moon....Azieme.
Directed Transiting Moon square Mercury and Sun in Virgo.
Anyone think Jose Feliciano was blind? Uh, he was blind.
He's still blind.
Let's see.....Moon and Mars are Planetary Enemies......but we knew that....Moon and Mercury are Planetary Enemies and Moon and Sun are Planetary Enemies....you think Mercury enjoys being squared by Enemy Moon from Sagittarius, a Sign that Mercury hates?
On Day 7, Directed Transiting Moon falls at 27° Capricorn, which is not only Moon's Fall, it is a Pitted Degree, and it is....an Azieme Degree.
Moon....Azieme.....blind...pretty obvious.
On Day 40, Directed Transiting Moon comes to 17° Aries which is the 6th House but 7th Sign, and Dispositor Natal Mars is at 1° Cancer.
Note that human gestation is like 39-40 weeks.
One more....
Olive Brasno Oct 8 1914, 3:00 am, +5:00
Old Bridge New Jersey
40°N24'53'' 074°W21'57''
On Day 7, the Directed Transiting Moon falls at 27° Leo in the 12th House/Sign which is a Pitted Degree....and Azieme.
Brasno was a dwarf (she was not a Munchkin in the Wizard of Oz, but her husband was).
Note that Natal Venus is also Azieme.
Anyway, I think this technique is designed solely for the purpose of examining the health of the infant and mother. Note that it is rare, but not unusual for women to hemorrhage in the few days after giving birth. I wouldn't be surprised to see that in the original technique, the position(s) of Transiting Moon would also be compared against the mother's Natal Chart.