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10-24-2008, 02:31 PM
| | |  Divination: Western Astrology
Professor Kapoor held open the latch door to his classroom to let the students in.
" Come on in, students!" He spoke with a warm and inviting tone, although the indoor vs. outdoor voice concept was a bit lost on him. " Please take your seats and have your book out. If you've forgotten, please find someone with whom you can share. We'll be going over Western Astrology today." | |
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Raising her hand, Liz replies "Wizards do things like Crystal Balls, Palm reading and tea leaves reading where Centaurs read the stars."
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Dominic frowned slightly as it appeared the Professor had not heard him. Raising his hand, the fourth year spoke a little louder this time. "Centaurs have been unraveling the mysteries of the movements in the skies over centuries. Their findings teach that the future may be glimpsed in the sky above us. The wisdom of the centaurs is both impersonal and impartial. They watch the skies for the great tides of evil or change that are sometimes marked there. It may take ten years to be sure of what they see."
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"Centaurian methods differ from the wizarding ones simply because according to Centaurs, humans are hardly ever good when it comes to divining the stars, and that it took the centaurs centuries to become competent at this, and even them, sometimes read them wrongly," The Ravenclaw replied. "With us wizards, requires a careful study of star charts relating to the date of a person's birth."
Yeah, who cared if she wasn't actually good at this? Memorizing stuff was sure paying her off. Heh
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Anna raised her hand once again to reply to the next question. "I've read that centaurs use the stars and planets to determine what lies ahead in our future. Quite the contrary, we use the stars and planets to determine our specific personality traits, such as our astrological signs and the traits associated with them," she said.
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"Centaurs watch the skies to look for signs of things which may happen and it can take years for them to see things. While wizarding techniques are more fortunetelling using techniques such as omens and tea leaves" Vanessa spoke as she raised her hand.
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Maddox raised his hand and replied, "Centaurs use the smoke from burning mallowsweet and sage to help refine their stargazing. They use the stars and the planets to divine future events instead of indicating personality traits."
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Kaika chuckled, "Well, besides the fact that they say we can't interpret right..." she started to say, "...the Centaurs watch the sky as long as it takes to figure out what it means, and they're mostly focused on their race" and don't let us know about anything.
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Rachel raised her hand and said, "Well, the centaurs watch the skies to determine what lies ahead and it can take them years. Wizards use quicker, more practical ways, like tea leaves and palmistry, amongst other things."She wasn't completely sure, but it'll do for now.
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Originally Posted by NicoT  "Centaurs use the smoke from burning mallowsweet and sage to help refine their stargazing." Nicholai responded with a frown, "They use the stars and the planets to divine future events rather than to indicate personality traits." " Good. Two points." Quote:
Originally Posted by Nymphadoraliz Raising her hand, Liz replies "Wizards do things like Crystal Balls, Palm reading and tea leaves reading where Centaurs read the stars." " Yes, and also what they read into the stars, or rather what they use the stars for is different from Wizarding styles." Quote:
Originally Posted by PhoenixRising Dominic frowned slightly as it appeared the Professor had not heard him. Raising his hand, the fourth year spoke a little louder this time. "Centaurs have been unraveling the mysteries of the movements in the skies over centuries. Their findings teach that the future may be glimpsed in the sky above us. The wisdom of the centaurs is both impersonal and impartial. They watch the skies for the great tides of evil or change that are sometimes marked there. It may take ten years to be sure of what they see." For some strange reason, the Hufflepuff boy was using a rather loud voice. " Two points for Hufflepuff." The professor shook his head. Quote:
Originally Posted by Oesed "Centaurian methods differ from the wizarding ones simply because according to Centaurs, humans are hardly ever good when it comes to divining the stars, and that it took the centaurs centuries to become competent at this, and even them, sometimes read them wrongly," The Ravenclaw replied. "With us wizards, requires a careful study of star charts relating to the date of a person's birth."
Yeah, who cared if she wasn't actually good at this? Memorizing stuff was sure paying her off. Heh " Very good! Two points." Quote:
Originally Posted by MuggleBornWitch3 Anna raised her hand once again to reply to the next question. "I've read that centaurs use the stars and planets to determine what lies ahead in our future. Quite the contrary, we use the stars and planets to determine our specific personality traits, such as our astrological signs and the traits associated with them," she said. " Gooood. Two points." Quote:
Originally Posted by Rachie..x "Centaurs watch the skies to look for signs of things which may happen and it can take years for them to see things. While wizarding techniques are more fortunetelling using techniques such as omens and tea leaves" Vanessa spoke as she raised her hand. " Yes, exactly. Two points." Quote:
Originally Posted by suzy18 Maddox raised his hand and replied, "Centaurs use the smoke from burning mallowsweet and sage to help refine their stargazing. They use the stars and the planets to divine future events instead of indicating personality traits." " Two more for Hufflepuff." Quote:
Originally Posted by Ms. Diggory Kaika chuckled, "Well, besides the fact that they say we can't interpret right..." she started to say, "...the Centaurs watch the sky as long as it takes to figure out what it means, and they're mostly focused on their race" and don't let us know about anything. Kapoor stiffled a laugh. He'd had the opportunity to work with Centaurs before studying their methods of Divination and had ran into what Miss Lockhart spoke of. " Yes, but also the way in which they interpret the stars has more to do with events and less with the individual person." Quote:
Originally Posted by fire_faerie Rachel raised her hand and said, "Well, the centaurs watch the skies to determine what lies ahead and it can take them years. Wizards use quicker, more practical ways, like tea leaves and palmistry, amongst other things."She wasn't completely sure, but it'll do for now. " Good! Two points."
" The Centaurs practice a type of divination using the placement of the stars and planets that is very similar to a type of Astrology known as 'mundane', which is geared more towards predicting world events, as some of you have mentioned." He cleared his throat. " The type of Astrology we will be studying today is galled 'genethiliacal', who can think of another name for this type of astrology?"
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"Natal astrology, maybe." Jess answered.
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Anna raised her hand to reply. "The other name is Natal Astrology," she said.
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With a small frown, that usually meant she wasn't sure of what she was about to say, Evangeline rose her hand. "Would that be natal astrology, Sir?" She said.
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Originally Posted by SlytherinSistah "The Centaurs practice a type of divination using the placement of the stars and planets that is very similar to a type of Astrology known as 'mundane', which is geared more towards predicting world events, as some of you have mentioned." He cleared his throat. "The type of Astrology we will be studying today is galled 'genethiliacal', who can think of another name for this type of astrology?" Raising his hand and shooting the professor a smile Nico responded, "Natal Astrology, sir. Which is where we look at our birth charts and also the angles planets make with each other."
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Raising her hand "Is it Natal Astology?
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Rachel racked her brain. Na.. Nar.. Natal! "Professor, natal astrology is another name." she said, raising her hand.
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Originally Posted by relly1611 "Natal astrology, maybe." Jess answered. " Natal Astrology, definately. Take a point." Quote:
Originally Posted by MuggleBornWitch3 Anna raised her hand to reply. "The other name is Natal Astrology," she said. " Very good, Prefect. One point." Quote:
Originally Posted by Crayola With a small frown, that usually meant she wasn't sure of what she was about to say, Evangeline rose her hand. "Would that be natal astrology, Sir?" She said. " It would, yes. Take one point." Quote:
Originally Posted by NicoT Raising his hand and shooting the professor a smile Nico responded, "Natal Astrology, sir. Which is where we look at our birth charts and also the angles planets make with each other." " Precisely! One point." Quote:
Originally Posted by Nymphadoraliz Raising her hand "Is it Natal Astology? " Yes, it is. Take one point." Quote:
Originally Posted by fire_faerie Rachel racked her brain. Na.. Nar.. Natal! "Professor, natal astrology is another name." she said, raising her hand. " Good! One point."
" Very good, everyone! Now, moving on to the zodiac. The Western zodiac is made up of 12 differnt signs, each having one of four classical elements. What are these four classical elements?"
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Raising her hand "Are they Fire, Earth, air and water?"
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Anna raised her hand. "Those elements are earth, air, fire, and water," she said.
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"Professor, the four elements are fire, earth, air and water," she said, raising her hand.
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Originally Posted by SlytherinSistah "Very good, everyone! Now, moving on to the zodiac. The Western zodiac is made up of 12 differnt signs, each having one of four classical elements. What are these four classical elements?" "The four classical elements represented in the Western Zodiac are Fire; which are Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius, Earth;Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn , Air;Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius and Water;Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces." Nicholai answered, with has hand raised.
"What about the thirteenth sign... does that have an element?" Nicholai wondered out loud.
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Astrid raised her hand and said, "The four elements are fire, earth, air and water, Professor."
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Originally Posted by Nymphadoraliz Raising her hand "Are they Fire, Earth, air and water?" " Yes. One point." Quote:
Originally Posted by MuggleBornWitch3 Anna raised her hand. "Those elements are earth, air, fire, and water," she said. " Exactly. One point." Quote:
Originally Posted by LisaPotter1125 Astrid raised her hand and said, "The four elements are fire, earth, air and water, Professor." " Very good, Astrid. Take a point for Gryffindor." Quote:
Originally Posted by fire_faerie "Professor, the four elements are fire, earth, air and water," she said, raising her hand. " Yes. Another point for Ravenclaw." Quote:
Originally Posted by NicoT "The four classical elements represented in the Western Zodiac are Fire; which are Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius, Earth;Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn , Air;Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius and Water;Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces." Nicholai answered, with has hand raised.
"What about the thirteenth sign... does that have an element?" Nicholai wondered out loud. " Some Astrologers speculate that Ophiuchus could be categorized as a water sign. For the purposes of the class, we'll mostly be looking at the traditional twelve. Take two points for your answer."
" Speaking of water signs, they are of negative polarity and feminine gender. Can anyone tell me what gender and polarity earth, fire and air are?"
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Originally Posted by SlytherinSistah "Some Astrologers speculate that Ophiuchus could be categorized as a water sign. For the purposes of the class, we'll mostly be looking at the traditional twelve. Take two points for your answer."
"Speaking of water signs, they are of negative polarity and feminine gender. Can anyone tell me what gender and polarity earth, fire and air are?" Nico nodded musingly and made a note, before raising his hand, "Fire and air are positive polarity and masculine gender signs; and earth is the same as water with negative polarity and feminine gender, Sir."
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"Fire and air have a positive polarity and a masculine gender, whereas earth, like water, has a negative polarity and a feminine gender," Rachel said clearly.
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Astrid raised her hand and said, "Fire and air have a positive polarity and a masculine gender, and earth, like water, has a negative polarity and a feminine gender."
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