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Arithmancy Lesson Two: Arithmancy & You | Cores & Companions
The Arithmancy classroom is rather warm and cozy despite the rather chilly spring air outside of the castle. Professor Cararro has yet to enter the room though it is unlocked and the chalkboard has yet to be decorated with anything. The usually hidden chalk is visible sitting on the Professor’s desk unguarded and ready for anyone to use it.
OOC: class will be moving along in approximately 12 hours (or more depending on rl situations). Please feel free to post and join in whenever. class has started however please feel free to post and join in – just pretend you were here all along!
Uhh... had he gotten the incorrect time? Henry didn't think he was early or had come to class on the wrong day or anything, but as he stood in the doorway and saw not a single soul inside, he had to wonder. No teacher, no students. Weird.
Perhaps he was a few minutes early though and after he paused a moment to make sure he indeed was at the right place at the right time, the fourth year walked into the classroom. Hey, beanbag chairs! That was kind of awesome, and first to arrive meant choice of seats. Um.. middle of the room? That worked.
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"Good morning Professor, how are you?" Kitty asked pleasantly as she stepped into the brightly lit and cozy classroom and made her way over to the front row on the left to sit on one of the red beanbags. She always liked this classroom. Wonder what they were going to study today?
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Arithmancy was a class that Aoife didn't particularly excel in, but more importantly, the classroom set up was SO PRETTY, and that was all that mattered. The Gryffindor strode into the classroom, books neatly under her arm and since she was pretty early, she perched herself very close to the front of the classroom. The comfy beanbags were a real winner in her eyes, although she did feel a bit sunken down.
She rested her books in front of her. Books she probably wouldn't even need for Arithmancy. It was all for show.
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Kimi entered the classroom seeing that the Professor wasn't there but the chalk was unguarded he crept up to the chalk and wrote Hogwarts Rules on the board and proceeded to sit down on one of the comfy beanbags
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Arithmancy...
It was one of Azura's worst subjects.. ever. Second only to Divination! She was useless at that.. her slug had just sat on her arm when she had asked about music school.. apparently she wasn't getting into any of them?
*sigh*
Azura slowly moved into the classroom and looked around.. huh.. no Professor.. She looked around and smiled as she saw Kitty and she waved at her prefect.. before moving into a chair next to Henry. It had been awhile since she had talked to the Hufflepuff and she smiled as she looked over at him..
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Maybe it was just because it was her last term, or maybe she was just bored enough to have continued to come to the lessons. Brooklyn wasn’t sure which, or if either one was the actual reason she had bothered to take the trip up to the second floor and to the Arithmancy classroom for another lesson. She had entered the room silently, already having noticed that the professor was nowhere to be found. It meant she didn’t have to necessarily greet anyone if she want inclined to, and for the most part there wasn’t many people there who she was. Maybe a nod toward the Ravenclaw prefect who’d encountered her earlier in the term in the portrait hall, but that was about it before she made her way to a seat somewhere near the middle of the room.
She doubted the professor was going to teach them about school rules. Although the beanbag chairs oddly reminded her of some of her DADA classes way back when she started. It was interesting to think about what she’d been like as a first year. She knew she’d changed, but in some ways she imagined most people felt she hadn’t.
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Paige performed a bit of a stutter step as she entered the Arithmancy classroom. For one...the lack of professor, which almost made her pull out her class schedule to recheck things except for the fact that there were others already in attendance. The second...beanbag chairs...that was going to be awfully distracting to sit in during a lesson of a subject she already struggled with. Even if beanbag chairs did mold to one's body and such...they were just hard to move in and the Hufflepuff always struggled to get out of them.
Finding a spot towards the back of the room, the seventh year set her bag down and proceeded to attempt to sit down in her beanbag chair...which ended up engulfing her as she mistimed her descent while reading what was written on the blackboard and ended up sinking into the plush material back first and legs flailing about in the air.
EEEEEEEEEEEP!
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Arithmancy wasn't her FAVOURITE but sometimes it could be fun, Char found, depending who she got to sit with. The professor wasn't here yet that she could see and there were no weird instructions, so she went ahead and found a spot and made herself comfy. Right in the middle. Centre of the action. Yeaaah!
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Still, no actual chairs to sit on? Jace kept his face neutral as he entered the classroom and was not at all surprised that there was no professor waiting for them. He could be under the disillusionment charm, so Jace was careful not to touch anything that he knew was prohibited to get his hands on; Exhibit A: The unguarded chalk on the teacher's table.
Jace proceeded to snag a seat right up front and center, and waved at the people already present. He hid a smile as soon as he caught sight of Paige waving her legs about, while the other seventh year who was present, Brooklyn, kept her regal disposition.
Interesting lot, yes?
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Numbers. Merlin help.
Needless to say her relationship with this subject had not improved over time. Unlike with Transfiguration... she only felt more confused the longer they carried on. Some of it was simple enough, in theory. Like, when only addition was required, but then they started talking about applying certain things to your life... and it was like.... Come on, her life was a mess right now. Could she not be reminded?
Kthanx.
Settling somewhere, in a beanbag that just screamed "too comfortable to pay attention", she took a gander around the room. Where was the professor?
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The thing about arithmancy was that both her parents were super good at it. Char was pretty sure, if she wanted to be, she could be too, it was just that......
.... it got boring quick a lot of the time. Her attention wandered a LOT of the time. She was pretty sure at this point that she would take the OWL and then bye byeeee arithmancy!
She looked around and noticed Paige flailing about.
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That looked fun, actually. Except when SHE tried it nothing happened, given she'd already sunk into the middle of the bag.
... She also couldn't reach her desk so well from here. Oh well! Good excuse not to do any work!
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She had this! Natalia always walked into Arithmancy with more confidence then any other class. She loved number, she loved working with them, so she loved Arithmancy. Nothing could ever take her down in this class as long as she was working with figures she was good. Entering the room she looked around for an empty seat. Glancing at the front she realized the professor wasn't there yet, well he'd probably be here shortly.
In anyway she made her way to one of the front seats and sat down. Pulling out her parchment and quill she was ready. The book came out of her bag next and she sat it all neatly in front of her. Eyes now focusing on people that were already in the room. Seeing Henry she gave him a wave and of course Paige was getting a wave as well. The rest of the class got a small smile if they had made eye contact.
Professor Cararro wasn’t as happy or joyous as he normally would be. The exploding letter that his sister had sent him had covered the Brazilian in glitter. Glitter, it had to be glitter. The one crafting ingredient that NEVER came off once applied…well, unless it wanted to.
”Good afternoon students,” Professor Carraro grinned at all of his students and leaned against his desk the moment he walked through the doors. ”I apologize for the…glitter my sister is notorious with april foolsday pranks” he chuckled and grinned at everyone.
Now…were any of his students planning on pranking anyone? Or eachother…that, well that seemed like a fun question to ask them though he simply decided not to ask that question today. [b”now class do you all remember our lesson that we had a few months back in December prior to winter break?”[/b] the Professor asked calmly and looked around at the students, ”now that you are all thinking about it what I want to ask you about is whether you felt that your vibrational numbers and life-path numbers are relevant to how you are as a person? In a sense, do you feel that this fits you?”
OOC: class is starting however please feel free to post and join in – just pretend you were here all along! We will be moving on in approx. 12-hours.[/color]
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Azura's hand went into the air almost immediately at the Professors question because even now.. she still didn't feel like that life number fit her..
"I don't feel like it fits me at all Professor, I got 4.. Mercury. Which means stability..and endurance.." She frowned a bit.. "My life has been anything but stable..in fact it just seems sort of.. boring.. like I'm the stable calm one.. I feel like 3, which is Jupiter would have fit me better. I have creativity.. and talent I guess you could say.. "
She put her hand down and sighed.. she hated her life path number! Why couldn't she have gotten the moon?
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"Konnichiwa, sensei." Sparkly professor. Jace instinctively leaned back on his bean bag, and gave the professor a good look. Glitters are okay, just...not on his skin and clothing. So far, he'd been very careful about pranks prior to April Fool's because...well, he'd learned a lot from his past, all thanks to his older brother, Jakub. He'd been merciless with these things claiming that he couldn't afford a post birthday gift, so a good prank would do. Talk about being decent.
Older brothers. M e r l i n.
It took Jace a moment to consider the question being asked, and apparently, they are not over with this Vibrational Life Path Number thing. Is it...really relevant to him? Jace raised his hand and offered his answer,"It doesn't fit me, professor...however, I am willing to wait it out and see if it's relevant to me or not." It won't hurt to believe in his Vibration Number or not. Could be handy in the near future.
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Hadn't she read a muggle book once about glittering guys? She eyed the Professor a moment wondering if he was acting out said book before realizing even what day it was. April fools? Was it really April first? She looked at her notes and couldn't even believe she had missed this. "Wow Professor, I hope you are thinking of something to get her back." She'd at least be thinking of a few things to do. Maybe she could do something fun on the band later.
The first question pulled her from her thoughts and Nat thought this over before raising her hand. "No professor I don't feel my numbers match me very well. It was a six and as much a I think it is an honorable thing to have said about me, a born counselor seems very far from anything I am." A born mess maybe, but counselor to help other people with their problems not so much.
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Oh. My. GAWD!
"Professor Cararro..... What lovely glitter you have! Are you interested in sharing, good sir??" Like.... Olivia was willing to take some of that off his hands, for sure. Mhm.
OH! Actually, she had some glitter in her bag for just such an occasion. Could she douse herself?? Could this be a new tradition in Arithmancy?? It was CERTAINLY inspire the blonde to be more excited for numbers...
Also, she tilted her head at Princess Azula. "I had a five, which was representative of Jupiter." Remember? The raven haired girl had sat with #TeamJupiter, because she'd been the only one to have her own personal number. "I remember being super confused, because I'm not a huge believer in numbers reflecting personality or personal choices."
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Kitty raised her hand. "Unfortunately I think I calculated wrongly in our lesson before Christmas so I'm not entirely certain what my number was. I think it was a three or a four, both are good numbers." But there was something she needed to say about all this.
"Professor, I don't really believe that a person's number always describes who she or he is. Aren't we allowed to be who we want to be, and not be controlled by life path and vibration numbers?"
She paused, hand still in air. "Just my opinion, not trying to argue or anything."
Rafael listened to the answers and gave all of the students nods in return when they greeted him. ”Good day indeed” did that sound a bit grumbly? Maybe, but to be fair it was perfectly acceptable when you looked like you decided to take a vacation in a wind tunnel filled with glitter cannons. He looked like he always did when he went to Carnival with his sister…she was over zealous with the glitter even then.
“I understand where most if not all of you are coming from with feeling like your numbers do not fit,” he laughed softly under his breath before turning to face Miss Phillips. ”I’m afraid it’s a rather simple story, I opened a care package my lovely sister had charmed to shoot glitter like a glitter cannon the moment I touched it…her f a v o r i t e day ever is April foolsday you see….and she always has loads of the stuff.” He laughed and remembered how his sister always was glitterfying everything. ”My entire office is filled with the stuff – anyone, if they want it is free to take some…after all its nice to have a bit of sparkle in your life eh?” or that was what his sister had always told him.
When Kitty said that she didn’t think numbers should depict ones personality, ”this is a very interesting topic to me as well Miss Valentine.” he grinned and was that a sparkle from his pearly whites or just the reflection of more glitter?
”now for this part of our lesson I want you all to as Kitty has done, say whether you believe these numbers describe you or if you don’t feel that way…now yes, of course you can feel both ways on this.” he looked around and moved his hand up to itch at his chin. Why did it have to be glitter? ”now for your own references please write down your choice on your parchment that you will be using for today’s calculations.” He nodded as he leaned against his desk.
”after you write down this information please discuss it with the people at the table with you…we are going to be moving onto our first calculations now which are our destiny nymbers.” he continued speaking calmly trying not to get any glitter into his mouth as he spoke. ”but before we calculate our destiny numbers can anyone tell me how you believe they tie into our first question of life-path numbers?” He asked calmly.
OOC: class will continue in approx 12 hours
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For whatever reason, the seventh year was completely unfazed by the glitter - hadn't there been incidents of glitter bombs with professors in the past or something of that sort? She had heard or read gossip about that somewhere...
Paige was already mentally preparing herself for whatever calculations were about to be thrown their way...when that question was brought up instead and she opted to remain silent for now. She had stewed long and hard over her number back then and, well, it had not seemed fitting to her at all at the time. Still did not really...although in light of graduation looming and that her personal journey was taking new turns now - even a whole new motivation soon given her elected major at university - perhaps it WAS more fitting than she had initially thought? She had been more concerned with the astrology aspect of things to be entirely honest...
The Hufflepuff had been so lost in her own reflection that she...er...sort of missed what it was they were supposed to be doing exactly. Calculations today? Fudgesticks...what calculations were they supposed to be doing?!
Reflecting more?
She could...do that...yes.
Flipping through her notes, Paige found her parchment from the lesson in question and gave it a look over.
Quote:
Life Path Number The Life Path Number is an element of the core that tells you both the road you will follow throughout your life and the talents and abilities that will help you along this road. This number tells you what you can depend upon to find success in the world. Note that while other people may share the same number, it is the combination of all your numbers that will explain how to proceed down this road of life.
Finding Your Life Path Number: Add together the month, day, and year you were born using the addition method of reducing first, then adding together.
February 27, 2073
= 2 | 27 | 2073
= 2+(2+7)+(2+0+7+3) *loads of crossed out math here*
= 2+9+(12) = 2+9+(1+2)
= 2+9+3
= 14 = 1+4 = 5
alternate method to check work:
2+2+7+2+0+7+3
= 23 = 2+3 = 5
FIVE (5): You'll have many forks along your path and you'll welcome each change as a new opportunity with unknown results. Change is key and once you've learned this lesson, you'll move on to the next phase - championing freedom. You're progressive and super-resourceful, which make you equally good at many different trades. Career/vocation options include working with the public, advertising, publicity, or sales - any kind of work that calls for energizing power rather than routine. Travel is well-suited to you.
Pursing her lips, Paige turned her attention not so much to the number itself, but to the planet association - Jupiter. That was more where...she felt things resonated and quickly wrote down what she could recall about Jupiter in this particular capacity. Sorry, professor, not speaking aloud though.
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JUPITER: Jupiter is the thinking-person's planet. As the guardian of the abstract mind, this planet rules higher learning, and bestows upon us a yen for exploring ideas, both intellectually and spiritually. Intellectually speaking, Jupiter assists us in formulating our ideology. In the more spiritual realm, Jupiter lords over religions and philosophy. A search for the answers is what Jupiter proposes, and if it means spanning the globe to find them, well, that's probably why Jupiter also rules long-distance travel. In keeping with this theme, Jupiter compels us to assess our ethical and moral values; it also addresses our sense of optimism. This is a kind and benevolent planet, one that wants us to grow and flourish in a positive way. It takes Jupiter about 12 years to circle the zodiac (the planet visits an average of one sign a year). It is masculine energy and rules both Sagittarius and Pisces, and the Ninth and Twelfth Houses.
Looking down at her parchment - feeling that the assigned planet was far more fitting a description of her - Paige looked up as the professor continued speaking. THAT she had heard this time and her hand was up before she realized it. "Compatibility, professor," she answered softly. "Life path numbers describe one's natural characteristics, talents, and traits ... whereas destiny numbers help display one's direction in life or what you must achieve or become. These two numbers are often used in numerology for finding and understanding relationship compatibility."
Of course, the seventh year was still inclined towards astrology for this sort of affair.
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Oh.
Apparently the professor didn't care that she didn't know her numbers. And now... what?
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How was she supposed to say if she thought it fit or not when she'd just said that she didn't know if it fit cos she couldn't remember it? So what was she supposed to write down? Char tried to keep the confusion from her face. She couldn't answer the last question either. How was she supposed to know how stuff tied together if she didn't know what it was? Awkward. Was she supposed to know? Probably her parents had explained it at some point but.... well...it was just so HARD to keep that stuff in her head when there were so many other things to think about!
Oh gosh. She was gonna fail this class so bad, and there wasn't enough glitter in the world to make it otherwise. She squished herself deeper into the beanbag and remained uncertainly silent.
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Well then....
Not only had he ignored her when she asked him if he was planning on doing a prank as well, but he now just said that Kitty had a comment. Hello hand raised, was called on, told him hers DID NOT! Well teachers pet much? Anyway she was back to her happy place with her eyes on her book and her hand already moving with her quill to just do calculations that she wanted to do since obviously this class was going to just be a review again on what they had been doing.
Her number was 6 she didn't need to fully write it all down. She had done it enough so she just wrote six as they were to redo their life path yet again. So now she would just wait until it was time for the next step.
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Jace stared up ahead, feeling the gears in his brain falter for a moment. They were in Arithmancy class right? What is up with all this glitter talk anyway? That seemed to be the center of discussion now, and Jace wasn’t too excited about it. The Ravenclaw did an inward sigh as he got his old notes out and copied his answer from their last discussion. There was no point sharing the same thing again when he already said his opinion for everyone to hear.
SPOILER!!: Parchment
Jacen Riley Tamazaki Reed
31 March 2077
3+1+0+3+2+0+7+7 = 23
2+3 = 5
Life Path Number (5) You'll have many forks along your path and you'll welcome each change as a new opportunity with unknown results. Change is key and once you've learned this lesson, you'll move on to the next phase - championing freedom. You're progressive and super-resourceful, which make you equally good at many different trades. Career/vocation options include working with the public, advertising, publicity, or sales - any kind of work that calls for energizing power rather than routine. Travel is well-suited to you.
Vibration Number (5) Jupiter
The spiritual meaning of number Five deals with travel, adventure, and motion. With the highs that come with these attributes, Fives also carry instability and unpredictability, and radical changes. The spiritual meaning of Five draws our attention to the wonder of life, and beckons us to appreciate the perception of chaos all around us. Five has wild vibrations: primitive and erratic. When Five continues to pop up in your life be prepared for some action, like a trip. Remember, trips aren't all necessarily taken physically. Some of the best journey's are taken in the mind and spirit.
Opinion: It doesn't fit me, however, I am willing to wait it out and see if it's relevant to my life or not.
And for the next question, Jace raised his hand as soon as he was done writing his notes, “While the Life Path Number foretells the path we’re about to take...I assume the Destiny Numbers will tell the purpose of our existence.” That’s why they call it destiny, right?
Now that is more promising...and scarier at the same time.
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