Summoning the papers from her desk Imogen quickly flicked her wand. What happened next was simple, the papers simply folded themselves into little paper cranes and simply flew over to the students one by one before unfolding neatly on their laps. The notes would definitely be helpful for them now? Wouldn’t it? She had thought so while planning the lesson.

SPOILER!!: notes & responses

SPOILER!!: I made notes for people

✗ Chakras are split into 3 sections, two triangles – upper and lower, and a balance point in the middle
✗✗ the lower triangle deals with the physical needs of the body
✗✗ the upper triangle deals with the metaphysical and spiritual aspects
✗✗ the balance point is where both physical and spiritual are combined and balanced. This balance point contains only one chakra.
✗ the lower triangle contains 3 chakras, the base chakra, second, and first chakra.
✗ the base chakra is Muladhara
✗✗ located around the tailbone or base of spine
✗✗ associated with security and survival
✗✗ color is red
✗✗ element is earth
✗✗ planet associated with it is saturn
✗ the second chakra is Swadisthan.
✗✗ located around the pelvic region
✗✗ associated with creativity
✗✗ color is orange
✗✗ element is water
✗✗ planet associated with it is jupiter
✗ the third chakra is Manipura
✗✗ located around the solar plexus / navel point
✗✗ associated with action and balance
✗✗ color is yellow
✗✗ element is fire
✗✗ planet associated with it is mars
✗ the balance point contains only the fourth chakra
✗ the balance point heart chakra or Anahata
✗✗ it is located in the middle of the chest
✗✗ associated with love and compassion
✗✗ element is air
✗✗ color is green
✗✗ planet associated with it is venus
✗ the upper triangle deals with the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth* chakras
✗ the Fifth chakra or Visshudi
✗✗ is associated with the projecting words, reand the power of words,
✗✗ it is located at the throat
✗✗ the color is light blue
✗✗ element is ether
✗✗ planet associated with it is mercury
✗ the sixth chakra or ajna
✗✗ is associated with intuition and wisdom
✗✗ it is near the eyebrows / third eye
✗✗ the color is indigo
✗✗ planet associated is it is the moon/sun
✗ the seventh chakra or Sahasrara
✗✗ is associated with connection of goodness, the divine source / humanity/vastness
✗✗ at the crown of the head
✗✗ the color is violet
✗ the eighth chakra*
✗ not always indicated as a chakra because of the fact it is above the crown chakra, however in Kundalini it is considered to be an element of the Chakra system
✗✗ is the aura
✗✗ it is the color white
✗✗ it is the electromagnetic field surrounding the body

SPOILER!!: the responses

SPOILER!!: I laughed with you guys, love it

Imogen looked at the students and could barely hold back her laugh. Dear merlin, those faces were so perplexed and confused. That reminded her of how she had been when teaching Annabelle to walk and how not peeing in house plants was a good thing…still, Annabelle had been a toddler at the time. It wasn’t like she was a first year with dire bladder issues.

Her eyes did widen as she watched the Gryffindor male Prefect nearly fall over. "do you need anything?...you look a little woozy?" she asked the concern seemed to radiate off of her in the way it only seemed to do with mothers....the Question young Derf had made Imogen grin. "I think you have a good point there Mr. Ashbury-Hawthorne...but, alas its more associated with the tailbone so right above the bum," she grinned. "Too bad eh? would have been poetic."

SPOILER!!: squee I love you guys seriously

Hattie Patton got a small smile when she gave her answer. "The idea of a balanced body is more akin to what we will be learning with Ayurveda, as it not only deals with mental health but has been used for generations as a meditation and medical practice." It was after all far older than modern western medicine. "I do believe that reading chakras can be effected with how centered you are, not only physically because if you aren't physically centered it can be from an outlying problem such as having weak core body muscles or general aches and paines" she gave a small smile to Miss Patton before glancing around at everyone.



If Imogen had known of Leesha's dislike of divinations...which with her kinship to Laurel Vance she probably should have been aware of it...still, she would have warned her that Arithmancy is a subset of Divinations. A form using only numbers....after all it is a mancy.



Looking over to everyone she gave them small smiles. "I'm sorry I failed to mention that I had notes coming to you earlier," she smiled softly before listening to the answers the students were trying to give. "calmness and concentration are a good point, as yes it does have strong effects on these aspects of life." She gave Etta a small nod for her answer.


Imogen listened to what Olivia Phillips was saying about her mother’s connection to Meditation and the singing bowls. That must be nice for her mum to have some way to calm her mind in a tranquil and relatively easy way. ”I understand, honestly in my studies I have found it is a very personal experience, and I have to commend you on answer dear.” she smiled again.

Someone had obviously read ahead…or well, already knew what they were talking about maybe? That was probably it. Something like that at least. For the moment when Imogen followed Olivia's gaze she had to stifle a laugh.



The gryffindor Prefect got a large grin when she brought up numbers. Yes, that was clearly one of the methods to meditate. "that is a common meditation technique the idea is to imagine a staircase and count down until you have essential quelled your mind into a sense of complete and serene calmness. It is quite relaxing...impossible on planes though - for me that is." She added the last bit with a little grin. Yeah, that was an interesting plane ride...meditating on an international flight was about as useful as a Swiss army knife that only had multiple spoons for its utensil. Quite impractical indeed.



Daisy's confused look got her a small smile. Imogen did of course feel sorry about the utterly dreadfully long discussion on chakras that just happened...still, it was an integral part of Kundalini and Tantric numerology which was well, what they were learning about today.



Wait...had he said Nadis? HE DID! Imogen grinned over to the second year. "Nice work Mr. Westwood, yes that is a way, it is also about unblocking and finding why they are blocked and using your mindful and intent filled energy to unblock it so you can have steady and balanced chakras." she smiled over to him. Good job kid. Good job.


Imogen nodded over to Kane Westwood as he gave his attempted answer. It was good, really, he was trying and that was all that she ever asked people to do. To try. "Yes that is a key part of meditation and really mental health in general." she gave him a small smile. "It is also just a good practice in life in general as you never know what might arise that could throw you off of you game."

SPOILER!!: there is a dog in here somewhere

Imogen watched as Sinead’s quill broke. Oh, she hated when that happened to her. ”I’m sorry Miss Dance, here, take one of my quills…or the handouts I gave with detailed notes” she smiled over to her softly. It was the least that she could do.



Was he SLEEPING? Imogen’s eyebrow raised at the previously ’meditating’ Ravenclaw Prefect. She didn’t want to make a scene…no, that wasn’t like her at all. No, instead she simply gave a little light whistle noise to little Yeti.

THE NOISE…furry ears twitched at the whistle…humans? Feeding…he could smell treats. TREAAATS…TREAT ME HUMANS. The little lab had perked up at the sound his human had given him whenever she wanted him to get up and do things….

What things?

The squishy thing was comfy.

The squishy thing that sleeping human beanbag chair was sleeping on looked comfier. Sleeping human looked comfy. Sleepy…he was sleepy. must. Sniff…don’t lick. Just sniff. No lick…no lick his mind was a whirl of whimpering grunts and undecipherable noises…well, to the human mind that is. The small fuzzball stretched out shook his head lightly before slinking over to the human beanbag chair next to him and promptly sat down on beanbag’s chest. Beanbag had foodybreath…food breath.

Snifff.

Sniff.

SNIFFFFFFFFFFFF….he liked breath. The paper like somewhat wet tongue had already darted out of his mouth to lick the air before he pressed his snout against the salty beanbag chair’s chin…no food there. Where was food? In the mouth? Yes. Mouth. Immediately Yeti’s wet nose was on the human salt lick’s face…he was salty. Salt.

With a little yip he tried to tell the beanbag chair to feed him…and to give him his salt. Where did he keep his salt? Why was it on his face?



Imogen Greyvson simply raised an eyebrow at the head girl as she seemed to be rather agitated indeed. ”Yes this is a part of Arithmancy Miss Franks-Mundie.” Imogen spoke in a calm and merely matter of fact tone. ”This is actually more connected to the practice of Kundalini and Yogic Numerology or as we are learning Tantric Numerology…this, is just the basis of it. Is there anything else you want to know miss?” She asked with a kind tone but her eyes were far less friendly now.

Now that the lecture portion of the class was over Imogen was ready...or welllll more ready to introduce the new subject matter to the students. ”Now that we have covered the basics of Chakras we can move on to today’s main subject, that is Tantric and Yogic numerology.” She looked around at everyone before tapping the board again. The information on the chakras faded away to simply be replaced by a list of the spiritual bodies associated with Tantric numerology.



”now the bodies here are used in Tantric Numerology…which first off everyone that believes they know what tantra is. Stop. It isn’t what you think it is at all.” her voice was calm and almost peaceful as she spoke. Using her wand she tapped the board and the definition appeared.



”Tantra is a Sanskrit word meaning loom or weave.” she paused for a second, ”when we use this along with numerology which is the basis of Arithmancy we see it means the study of weaving numbers…or how numbers weave through our lives. Now, with Arithmancy it means a similar thing, divining how numbers weave through our lives.” She smiled softly. There. Wasn’t a nasty word…just something quite simple and rather beautiful really.

”if you don’t already know Sanskrit is one fo the first written languages, and it is the primary sacred language of Hinduism and Mahãyãna Buddhism, a philosophical language in Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism.” There. She had given them the true meaning of Tantra…”Tantra is also an esoteric tradition in both Hinduism and Buddhism. In Indian traditions it has a systematic meaning that is rather broadly acceptable, those are text, theory, method, system, instrument, practice and technique.” she gave them a small smile because clearly, this was new to them? It wasn’t like it was a scary thing that they had to fear.

”now when are calculating Tantric Numerology and Kundalini the only thing we will need is our birthdate, this makes it a bit easier then some of the more complex forms of Arithmancy we have learned in the past.” she gave them a small smile.

”The numbers we are calculating today are the soul number, the karma number, the gift number, the destiny number, and the path number. Please do not confuse these with the numbers you find in your normal Numerology textbooks, as they have slightly differing meanings and calculation methods when using the Kundalini and Tantric approach…however, these are still calculated similar to the Chaldean method with addition used to reduce numbers,” she nodded and wrote down the instructions on the board.



”each of the numbers we will figure out are related to the spiritual bodies, and therefore to your chakras.” Imogen grinned. There. She was almost to the best part. ”I will be handing out a parchment with what the numbers relate to as well as what the meaning of the five numbers we are calculating today mean in Tantric Numerology.” she smiled over to everyone…well almost everyone.

SPOILER!!: the definitions & numbers

Soul Number;
Indicates your relationship with yourself. Represents the link you have to your undying and infinite soul. The soul is deep, inner peace which can only be attained when you go inside of yourself.

Karma Number;
Indicates your relationship with others. It describes what you need to do to achieve harmonious relationships.

The Gift Number;
This refers to given talents. You calculate this number in order to recognize and use your talents.

Destiny Number;
Tells you how others see you, represents the quality for which you have been working on for many years and lifetimes. This quality is in you, people can see this quality it is something you are a master in and you can use it to help yourself and others as well.

The Path number;
Indicates who you are, and what your purpose on earth is. It lets you know about that one trait that you need to manifest in your daily life. The one thing that will help you live a fluid life.

”now the bodies defined on the board are the definitions we are looking for in our readings. See, this is a simple part, and by calculating these numbers it can tell you what parts of your life you need to focus on to awake the spiritual energy within you…or at least, that is the premise of Kundalini.” Imogen smiled and looked around.

”Everyone please take the lap desks and your writing utensils and start calculating…I will calculate these along with you, as really, I do find this quite interesting myself.” she said while pulling one of pillowed desks onto her lap and writing down her information.

SPOILER!!: calculations

Imogen Greyvson
August 31st, 2059
08. 31. 2059.

Soul Number: 31 = 3 + 1 = 4
Neutral mind/Meditative Mind.
Karma Number: 08 = 8
Pranic Body
Gift Number: 2059 = 5+9 = 14 = 1+4 = 5
Physical Body
Destiny Number: 2059 = 2+0+5+9 2+5+9 = 16 = 1+6 = 7
Auric Body
Path Number: 08. 31. 2059 = 0+8 + 3+1 + 2+0+5+9 = 8+4+7 = 19 = 1+9 = 10 = 1
Soul Body

ooc: take the next 8-12 hours to calculate, then we're going to do one last thing before closing the lesson! you guys are all great, i love your creativity.