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Once you arrive to the Divination classroom, you enter to find what looks like a standard classroom setup. Desks arranged in the center of the room, facing Professor Bishop's desk and organized into pairs, look toward a charmed blackboard which currently simply says "Divination Lesson 1" in a graceful cursive. A good-sized bookshelf is against the right-hand wall and contains a large amount of small fabric-wrapped shapes.
Professor Bishop is seated at her desk, writing on something, the wooden box from her office moved to the desk in here, but she's still aware of the room. Don't think she isn't, just because she looks occupied with other things.
Feel free to take a seat, talk quietly, get your things ready and class will start shortly.
Feel free to post your character entering, speaking to each other or the professor. I'll check in when I can, so don't go overboard, and the lesson will begin tomorrow.
Raven get an idea now, he raised his hand before he say "Professor, how about Palmistry --the arts of reading hand print", he say it, because it's novice and common in muggle world.
Oooh tarot. This reminded Mia of the old lady in the commune who was always trying to tell people's fortunes with tarot cards but unfortunately she wasn't very good at it.
Mia raised her hand. "There are four suits to a tarot deck that correspond to the suits of a normal playing deck. Each of these suits has pip cards numbering from ace to ten and four cards with faces that equal a total of fourteen cards. In addition to these suits the tarot has a separate twenty one card trump suit and a single card known as the fool."
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Parke scribbled frantically, attempting to copy down the list, as well as pay attention to what the professor was saying. Multi-tasking was something he wasn't too good at. When he finished, he took a look at his notes. His eyes widened briefly. Were they to learn about all these different forms?!
Tarot? The teacher had asked about Tarot. Those were those cards. He'd taken notes on those whilst he'd been studying. He pulled his stack of notes out of his bag, looking for the Divination section. He was suddenly thankful that he'd decided to take notes on the most common forms. Ah, yes, there it was.
He took a moment to skim over his notes before raising his hand. "Tarot cards have four suits: coins, swords, wands, and cups. They're said to actually correspond directly to the four life sustaining elements, those being , carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen respectively; Which, to me at least, suggests a kind of biological connection to our life path. A tangible proof, almost, that fate and destiny are intertwined with our physical bodies..." He was rambling. How embarrassing. Of course, thinking about his embarrassment just caused him to flush severely. And right in the middle of class. In front of everyone. How undignified.
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Hmm.
Well, she really was going to name off a form of Divination, but before she could raise her hand, someone already mentioned her favorite kind. And that sorta depressed her. Pssh. Which is why she sat in her seat, arms crossed, and glancing around the room to compare the difference of it from the term before. Not that much different. She still felt tired.
However, as they were beginning to move on to the next part of the lesson, the Slytherin squeezed her eyes shut for a moment before looking towards the professor. Right. Stay awake. Answering questions to stay awake. As if she could even get an answer in...eesh some of these people. Must be Ravenclaws. "Tarot cards can be dated back as far as the 1400's." she said after raising her hand before tapping her fingers on her desk and lowering her voice some to get a more mysterious effect. "Perhaps even farther than that too."
You just never know nowadays on what goes down in history and what they're missing.
Once again, Ced's hand flew up in the air as soon as the professor finished speaking. He knew some about Tarot. They had studied it before anyway. "The tarot cards' meanings vary from deck to deck though what a card symbolizes and its element stay just the same," Cedric paused, not just for the heck of it but rather for breathing, for he got more to say, "it's certainly and essentially the mood and symbolism of a card that must be interpreted. I think we can pretty much trust or, let even, our intuition to convey what a tarot card particularly say."
Completing their divination list, as established by the students, Renée turned back to the students who'd spoke about tarot cards with another smile. "It seems you might be a bit hopeful about that subject," she said to the two who had mentioned them by name, before turning back to the class as a whole. "Cartomancy, or its similar cousin Taromancy, is quite the delicate study. As was mentioned, it can most commonly be considered reading cards, Taromancy being more specific to the Tarot while basic cartomancy can use any form of cards. Actually, most common is a basic deck of Muggle playing cards. And there's another offshoot that simply uses what are known as oracle decks, which is a bit more, well specific than either divination with playing cards or Tarot cards," she said, moving slightly toward the bookshelf as she spoke. If anyone was curious, she could explain their uses as well, but at a later time.
"For now, let's stick with the basics, though," she continued. "Maybe with the Tarot." And her discussion was turning a bit more casual, it seemed. "Does anyone want to offer a fact or two about the Tarot? Anything about the specific cards in the deck, or whatever else you can think of." Then maybe they could look into the correlation between that deck and the others. It would depend on what she got right now.[/COLOR]
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She had read about tarot cards. She was a bit cynical about divination, but she was intending on doing her best, so she read anything she thought might come to be of importance. She raised her hand again. "Different readers of tarot cards will look and interpret tarot cards differently, with their own perspective." She said.
[Completing their divination list, as established by the students, Renée turned back to the students who'd spoke about tarot cards with another smile. "It seems you might be a bit hopeful about that subject," she said to the two who had mentioned them by name, before turning back to the class as a whole. "Cartomancy, or its similar cousin Taromancy, is quite the delicate study. As was mentioned, it can most commonly be considered reading cards, Taromancy being more specific to the Tarot while basic cartomancy can use any form of cards. Actually, most common is a basic deck of Muggle playing cards. And there's another offshoot that simply uses what are known as oracle decks, which is a bit more, well specific than either divination with playing cards or Tarot cards," she said, moving slightly toward the bookshelf as she spoke. If anyone was curious, she could explain their uses as well, but at a later time.
"For now, let's stick with the basics, though," she continued. "Maybe with the Tarot." And her discussion was turning a bit more casual, it seemed. "Does anyone want to offer a fact or two about the Tarot? Anything about the specific cards in the deck, or whatever else you can think of." Then maybe they could look into the correlation between that deck and the others. It would depend on what she got right now.
Freya copied the list of Divination to her notes. Wooo..There are a lot of form of Divination there. She sighed and put her quill down. She heard Professor Bishop asking about Tarot. Oh they going to learn about tarot?Yay..!! She raised her hand before saying "Tarot cards are a set of 78 cards that is used for occult purposes. The cards were divided into two parts. The Major Arcana and The Minor Arcana. The Major Arcana cards are thought of as the "power" cards in a tarot reading, while the Minor Arcana serve in supportive roles and augment the reading with further insight and detail of circumstances."
It had been Professor Nolan's lesson last term that had led Patroclus on the road to a further study of the magic of Tarot and there was one particular bit of information that he found rather interesting and thought worthy of sharing.
"Professor, the tarot deck known as the Tarot de Marseille" Patroclus pronounced in his rarely used native french, "or the Tarot of Marseilles was a tarot deck that has been traced back as far as the 15th centuary, and is seen by many to be the basis on which most of the recent Tarot patterns have been based. It was this deck that was first introduced the most English-speaking Tarot readers by the French." Patroclus was half french, on his Mother's side so he was proud of this little fact.
["For now, let's stick with the basics, though," she continued. "Maybe with the Tarot." And her discussion was turning a bit more casual, it seemed. "Does anyone want to offer a fact or two about the Tarot? Anything about the specific cards in the deck, or whatever else you can think of." Then maybe they could look into the correlation between that deck and the others. It would depend on what she got right now.
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And we're talking about cards again which was not as interesting as interpreting dreams but it was more interesting than Runes anyways- no offence to the nice professor. So, Tarot cards are known to Louisa. "I read, Professor, that long ago there was someone who thought that the word Tar was coming from the Egyptian word "Royal" and ro was coming from the word "Pathways" which makes it "Royal pathways" to wisdom in that man's opinion." Pause. "I remember his name. He was Gebelin." She added thoughtfully. "Yet, further researches didn't approve of Gebelin's study and found out that the Gypsies were the one who introduced Tarot cards to Europe rather than the Egyptians." See? She loved reading historical books ^__^
"There's more than just one type of deck when it comes to Tarot cards," Jamie said her hand in the air.
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But right now he raised his hand and saiiiidddddd... "The pictures... like, MEAN something. There's pictures of people but of THINGS as well. Like... the Tower. The Tower is my favourite one."
Jake glanced very briefly at Treyen. If he so much a MOVED HIS HEAD, he would wake up in a sandpit.
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Completing their divination list, as established by the students, Renée turned back to the students who'd spoke about tarot cards with another smile. "It seems you might be a bit hopeful about that subject," she said to the two who had mentioned them by name, before turning back to the class as a whole. "Cartomancy, or its similar cousin Taromancy, is quite the delicate study. As was mentioned, it can most commonly be considered reading cards, Taromancy being more specific to the Tarot while basic cartomancy can use any form of cards. Actually, most common is a basic deck of Muggle playing cards. And there's another offshoot that simply uses what are known as oracle decks, which is a bit more, well specific than either divination with playing cards or Tarot cards," she said, moving slightly toward the bookshelf as she spoke. If anyone was curious, she could explain their uses as well, but at a later time.
"For now, let's stick with the basics, though," she continued. "Maybe with the Tarot." And her discussion was turning a bit more casual, it seemed. "Does anyone want to offer a fact or two about the Tarot? Anything about the specific cards in the deck, or whatever else you can think of." Then maybe they could look into the correlation between that deck and the others. It would depend on what she got right now.[/COLOR]
ooc: As usual, try to stick with only one fact, etc. per post. Let others get a word in. Try not to get too into chats as well and things will continue later. With more fun.
Emily contemplated the Professor's question....
She had accidently insulted a fellow Ravenclaw the previous night when she engaged herself in a discussion about Tarot cards/ divination and since then had thought it best to keep an open mind and learn as much about the vast subject as she could.
Emily raised her hand, thinking she had a valid point to contribute to the class. "The traditional symbolism found on Tarot cards have evolved over time.This has been doen to reflect particular beliefs of their creators. Examples of modified and modernised Tarot Decks include: The Rider-Waite-Smith deck, Crowley-Harris Thoth deck, the Mythic Tarot- which uses classical symbolism found in Greek mythology, and the Hermetic Tarot......... these decks have been modified in a number of ways, such as rearanging the ranks of particular cards, and the symbolism used on said decks, e.g. astrological symbolism, zodiacal symbolism, alchemical symbolism, and elemental symbolism."
Completing their divination list, as established by the students, Renée turned back to the students who'd spoke about tarot cards with another smile. "It seems you might be a bit hopeful about that subject," she said to the two who had mentioned them by name, before turning back to the class as a whole. "Cartomancy, or its similar cousin Taromancy, is quite the delicate study. As was mentioned, it can most commonly be considered reading cards, Taromancy being more specific to the Tarot while basic cartomancy can use any form of cards. Actually, most common is a basic deck of Muggle playing cards. And there's another offshoot that simply uses what are known as oracle decks, which is a bit more, well specific than either divination with playing cards or Tarot cards," she said, moving slightly toward the bookshelf as she spoke. If anyone was curious, she could explain their uses as well, but at a later time.
"For now, let's stick with the basics, though," she continued. "Maybe with the Tarot." And her discussion was turning a bit more casual, it seemed. "Does anyone want to offer a fact or two about the Tarot? Anything about the specific cards in the deck, or whatever else you can think of." Then maybe they could look into the correlation between that deck and the others. It would depend on what she got right now.[/COLOR]
ooc: As usual, try to stick with only one fact, etc. per post. Let others get a word in. Try not to get too into chats as well and things will continue later. With more fun.
Claire raised her hand....
"Um... the interpretation of Tarot cards is determined through the combination of cards and the order in which they are drawn from the deck as well as thier specific meanings based on the symbolism on the card iteself."
"For now, let's stick with the basics, though," she continued. "Maybe with the Tarot." And her discussion was turning a bit more casual, it seemed. "Does anyone want to offer a fact or two about the Tarot? Anything about the specific cards in the deck, or whatever else you can think of." Then maybe they could look into the correlation between that deck and the others. It would depend on what she got right now.[/COLOR]
ooc: As usual, try to stick with only one fact, etc. per post. Let others get a word in. Try not to get too into chats as well and things will continue later. With more fun.
Simon looked at the Professor and raised his hand. "Well Tarot must be a ship because your talking about a deck, I've never heard of anything else use a deck." Simon thought hard but he couldn't of anything else that used a deck. "Well it depends on what type of ship that you are talking about though what a ship has to do with Divination, unless it is a ghost ship."
Lucy was on it, she was all in this class as she really loved Divination, and she heard the Professor asking about the facts of Tarot. She did actually like the cards but only knew about a little bit of them and thought to express it to the class. She didn't know if that's actually right but then she had to say so she nervously raised her hand and said "Professor, Tarot is a window through which one can learn to see the future. It is best if one considers Tarot as a mirror that deeply and, for its funs, accurately reflects the feeling, dreams, thoughts and aspirations of a person." she said and paused to see what the Professor had to say about that.
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Jaina thought about this long and hard. "Um, Professor, there is a Death Card and I know it's bad to get that one, but it could be good, too. Like if it's upside down it means change, right?" She had no idea, but it was worth a shot. She was glad that Annabelle was next to her. It meant that if something went wrong, someone had her back.
Completing their divination list, as established by the students, Renée turned back to the students who'd spoke about tarot cards with another smile. "It seems you might be a bit hopeful about that subject," she said to the two who had mentioned them by name, before turning back to the class as a whole. "Cartomancy, or its similar cousin Taromancy, is quite the delicate study. As was mentioned, it can most commonly be considered reading cards, Taromancy being more specific to the Tarot while basic cartomancy can use any form of cards. Actually, most common is a basic deck of Muggle playing cards. And there's another offshoot that simply uses what are known as oracle decks, which is a bit more, well specific than either divination with playing cards or Tarot cards," she said, moving slightly toward the bookshelf as she spoke. If anyone was curious, she could explain their uses as well, but at a later time.
"For now, let's stick with the basics, though," she continued. "Maybe with the Tarot." And her discussion was turning a bit more casual, it seemed. "Does anyone want to offer a fact or two about the Tarot? Anything about the specific cards in the deck, or whatever else you can think of." Then maybe they could look into the correlation between that deck and the others. It would depend on what she got right now.
ooc: As usual, try to stick with only one fact, etc. per post. Let others get a word in. Try not to get too into chats as well and things will continue later. With more fun.
He was nodding....until he wasn't anymore.
Tarot cards. That was...so Nolan. And he wasn't here. Treyen froze in place, remembering about the class, and Peeves, and how he made one card of Saylen. Man, he had a hard time trying to get back into what Bishop was saying. Good thing he knew a bit more about the subject thanks to last year, but it was still a good thing to listen to whatever the Professor said, right? In case she was actually dismissing the class instead of asking them something related to...er, tarot cards in this case.
The boy blinked before gaining power over his ears.
And he hoped he hadn't. Why was Jake taking Divination anyway?
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Sand... sand right in his bed.
In his food, too.
Oh, Jake would do it.
But right now he raised his hand and saiiiidddddd... "The pictures... like, MEAN something. There's pictures of people but of THINGS as well. Like... the Tower. The Tower is my favourite one."
Jake glanced very briefly at Treyen. If he so much a MOVED HIS HEAD, he would wake up in a sandpit.
Who on earth CARED which was his favorite picture? Because that's what he meant, his favorite picture, not his favorite card.
He rolled his eyes before realizing Jake was looking his way, and raised his hand, "Excuse me, Profesor," he said, before turning back to Jake, "Well, yes, Jake, those pretty pictures of yours are there to symbolize the meaning of the card. Like, The Tower will usually have a drawing of a tower to represent the card, or something that relates to it." Oh, yes, he was mocking him, alright?
Tarot cards? they totally had this lesson last year. Emmaleigh smiled at the incredibly fascinating subject. The young puff raised her hand to share her knowledge. "I believe professor Reynolds said A pack of regular playing cards can be used for the minor arcana, although, There are 56 cards in the minor arcana, and only 52 in a regular deck." She paused. "Maybe he said that they were similar?" she thought, before continuing her explanation. "And each suit in the minor arcana has a corresponding suit in the playing cards. The Pentacles matches the diamonds, the Staves and clubs go together, The Cups and Hearts, and then the Swords and Spades."
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Ronnie sighed, she didn't know the answer to this one. She wasn't sure if she should even guess to try and get the right answer...well better to try. At least then she could possibly get points.
" I think it's is a pack of cards, there are normally 78 card in the deck. Right?" Ronnie asked hoping that she wasn't making a fool of herself with the wrong answer.
Completing their divination list, as established by the students, Renée turned back to the students who'd spoke about tarot cards with another smile. "It seems you might be a bit hopeful about that subject," she said to the two who had mentioned them by name, before turning back to the class as a whole. "Cartomancy, or its similar cousin Taromancy, is quite the delicate study. As was mentioned, it can most commonly be considered reading cards, Taromancy being more specific to the Tarot while basic cartomancy can use any form of cards. Actually, most common is a basic deck of Muggle playing cards. And there's another offshoot that simply uses what are known as oracle decks, which is a bit more, well specific than either divination with playing cards or Tarot cards," she said, moving slightly toward the bookshelf as she spoke. If anyone was curious, she could explain their uses as well, but at a later time.
"For now, let's stick with the basics, though," she continued. "Maybe with the Tarot." And her discussion was turning a bit more casual, it seemed. "Does anyone want to offer a fact or two about the Tarot? Anything about the specific cards in the deck, or whatever else you can think of." Then maybe they could look into the correlation between that deck and the others. It would depend on what she got right now.[/COLOR]
ooc: As usual, try to stick with only one fact, etc. per post. Let others get a word in. Try not to get too into chats as well and things will continue later. With more fun.
Bennet tried to recall anything he'd learned about Tarot cards from his readings. Raising his hand, he contributed, "The layout or spread of Tarot cards can be just as significant as the cards themselves. There are a wide variety of layouts, which give different information and insight to the person performing the reading. Some popular layouts include the Five Card Spread, The Ellipse Spread, The Celtic Cross, The Mirror Spread, The Mandala Spread, and the The Relationship Spread, to name a few."
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Sheridan had been doodeling for the past ten minutes in her notebook, and paying little attention to the others, but had jotted down the list in her notebook, next to her little Justin being killed/maimed/tortured doodles, she put her hand up, uhh Tarot cards are meant to..umm, like predict the future...and stuff, she trailed off lamely.
She hoped Hendricks wasn't in the room then otherwise she was dog meat, but she carried on you need to select more than one card to predict the future she nodded, cuz otherwise the prediction can be confused, like if you had a skeleton with something else it could be positive, but if you have it on it's own it can be confused for a negative future
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Alicia walked into the classroom reluctantly. It wasn't because she hated the class or anything as she had never known what Divination class was all about. She was raised in muggle ways so she had never heard such thing as Divination. She was extremely tired as she just returned to the castle this morning. However, she would try to behave nicely in class. "Hello Professor!" She greeted her warmly. "Sorry, I'm late. I just got back this morning. I was sent home for a few days. Umm.. Family matters." She apologized for her major lateness. Alicia did hope that Professor Bishop would still let her join the class.
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Completing their divination list, as established by the students, Renée turned back to the students who'd spoke about tarot cards with another smile. "It seems you might be a bit hopeful about that subject," she said to the two who had mentioned them by name, before turning back to the class as a whole. "Cartomancy, or its similar cousin Taromancy, is quite the delicate study. As was mentioned, it can most commonly be considered reading cards, Taromancy being more specific to the Tarot while basic cartomancy can use any form of cards. Actually, most common is a basic deck of Muggle playing cards. And there's another offshoot that simply uses what are known as oracle decks, which is a bit more, well specific than either divination with playing cards or Tarot cards," she said, moving slightly toward the bookshelf as she spoke. If anyone was curious, she could explain their uses as well, but at a later time.
"For now, let's stick with the basics, though," she continued. "Maybe with the Tarot." And her discussion was turning a bit more casual, it seemed. "Does anyone want to offer a fact or two about the Tarot? Anything about the specific cards in the deck, or whatever else you can think of." Then maybe they could look into the correlation between that deck and the others. It would depend on what she got right now.
"Tarot was first known as tarocchi,tarock and similiar names and is a pack of most commonly 78 cards.",Fee said rasing her hand in response to the professor.Oh yaay it was up for Divination again.Even though she thought it wouzld be boring the girl had grown rather interestied in it over the last year.Good thing she had read a lot of books about it over the summer. How weird was that? Her reading school books because she actually wanted to... Oh glitter.
"There are two types of arcana cards; minor and major. The minor cards hold number cards and then the court cards like a normal playing cards. Major arcana cards holds picture cards that visualize there meanings for instance the fool card would hold a joker or something like that." She replied shifting in her seat alittle the chairs weren't that comfy.
Completing their divination list, as established by the students, Renée turned back to the students who'd spoke about tarot cards with another smile. "It seems you might be a bit hopeful about that subject," she said to the two who had mentioned them by name, before turning back to the class as a whole. "Cartomancy, or its similar cousin Taromancy, is quite the delicate study. As was mentioned, it can most commonly be considered reading cards, Taromancy being more specific to the Tarot while basic cartomancy can use any form of cards. Actually, most common is a basic deck of Muggle playing cards. And there's another offshoot that simply uses what are known as oracle decks, which is a bit more, well specific than either divination with playing cards or Tarot cards," she said, moving slightly toward the bookshelf as she spoke. If anyone was curious, she could explain their uses as well, but at a later time.
"For now, let's stick with the basics, though," she continued. "Maybe with the Tarot." And her discussion was turning a bit more casual, it seemed. "Does anyone want to offer a fact or two about the Tarot? Anything about the specific cards in the deck, or whatever else you can think of." Then maybe they could look into the correlation between that deck and the others. It would depend on what she got right now.
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Violet was smiling as Professor Bishop began talking to them about Divination. She was very enthused as she was writing down the list on the boar the Professor had written. Violet's eyes widened when Professor Bishop mentioned Tarot cards, she knew about Tarots. She then raised her hand and said brightly,"Tarot cards were used by Mystics and Occultists in an effort at Divination or as a map of mental and spiritual pathways!" Violet smiled brightly at Professor Bishop again.
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