Oops... Well, her answer had been correct. Almost at least. That was all the water's fault anyway. Why had it chosen to flood the Dungeons and therefore their Common Room?! Couldn't it have like flooded one of the towers or something? Well, quite unrealistic but whatever...

So...some more calculations. Nancy listened carefully as Professor Shackleton explained something about the letter "y" as it was important to her due to the "y" in her first name. Which apparently was considered a vowel in her case. Okay...here we go.

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Originally Posted by Calculations

Soul Number:

N A N C Y
1+7= 8

H U D O N S O N
3+6+6=15 --> 1+5=6

8+6=14 --> 1+4=5

Oh, wow. 5 again. Well, different meaning this time, though, of course. Nancy flipped through the pages with the tip of her wand until she'd reached the pages that dealt with Soul Numbers.

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Originally Posted by Arithmancy Textbook

FIVE (5): Your primary desire is to be entirely unrestricted, followed closely by a passion for travel and change. You can't stand to feel confined or lulled by routine. You love to experience variety and the stimulation life can offer. In matters of the heart and friendship, you are exquisite and extraordinary, adventurous and ready to risk. But most of all, you crave variety.

Oh, change again? A lot of change for Nancy in the future, eh? What?! According to the textbook she craved variety in matters of the heart and friendship. Uh-huh... Hey! That was, or at least could be, quite negative. So if she had a boyfriend she would get bored of him soon and go search for something different, a little change.

Okay. Vowel time!

Oooh. Hmm. Karma only wondered what that meant now. Now to the book!

Yeah, that definitely reflected Karma alright. The other ones had said that she was independant, and now her soul number was saying she didn't want to be restricted. Those two things were totally in common, so it made her feel better. Routines were BORING - and guess what, soul number clarified that as well.

She let out a small squee of excitement.

"All of my numbers match up so far," she said happily. "OOOH Jelly Slug."

She had TOTALLY forgotten about the little dude that Professor Shackleton had set on her desk. Nomnomnom.

Scoot scoot scoot. Karma shifted her seat to see over to Cela's paper to see what she was talking about. After reading what One meant in Soul Numbers, Karma had to give her own two cents.

"No, you're not. But you could be a cranky old witch when you grow up," Karma said, giggling slightly. "But who knows, maybe it's just wrong for once. The rest of it is totally you."

"I don't want to be cranky OR old." Celandine sort of sighed and crossed her leg the other way. "You think it's me?" Cela re-read it and chewed on her lip a bit. "It's hard seeing this stuff as positive is all."

Professor Shackleton pushed herself away from her desk and strode toward Reid. She quickly glanced at his calculations, finding a small error at the bottom of the page, "You have one tiny thing that needs to be changed. In your last name, the 'y' is not acting as a vowel. It is actually silent and the 'a' in the last syllable of your name is acting as the vowel. So the calculation should just be five plus nine plus one, which equals fifteen and reduces to six. Add that to the five and three from your other names, and you get a Soul Number of fourteen which reduces to five." Macadrian departed and headed for the next student.

"Sounds like your number is right on point! Congratulations." Professor Shackleton glanced at Evangeline as she glanced at Clifford and smiled. Oh the joys of young love!

Professor Shackleton could relate to that inability to see one's self as clearly as others see you. "I dare say others would disagree with you. I'm sure you have some friends who think you are extraordinary!"

"You don't seem cold and distant to me, but I only see you in class." Professor Shackleton winked. "Try not to focus on what you see as the negative qualities of the number. Do any of the other aspects apply? Desiring to be above mediocrity? Having high expectations? None of these things are necessarily bad as long as you're still treating others with respect. Not everyone will live up to your expectations and that is ok, as long as you aren't putting people down for falling short."

"Nope. Your calculations appear correct. Not a fan of the number 7 Soul Number?"

Shaking her head, Professor Shackleton explained, "Well, not really. If the final number adds up to a Master Number, that is important. If the vowel components in each name add up, it had much less significance - not really worth noting."

Addressing the class, "It is important to remember that your Soul number works together with all of the four Core Numbers. For balance and wholeness, it is important to incorporate your Soul Numer into the other aspects of your overall energy pattern."

"Does anyone have any questions before we move onto the Personality Number?"

"I suppose the desiring to be above mediocrity is true, and I have high expectations of myself, but I don't really mind if other people totally suck at things." Celandine answered earnestly, "I don't put people down if they do."

She tipped her head to one side and thought about it a bit more while Professor Shackleton talked to a few others.

Cela raised her hand, "I have one queston, Professor. About the numbers that are calculated from your name? If you have a baby, can you name it especially so that certain numbers come up? And would it be fair to do that?"

Vowels were fun.

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S H U M E E T A

U E E A
3 5 5 1

3 + 5 + 5 + 1 =14
1 + 4 = 5


L E C K T E R

E E
5 5

5 + 5 = 10
1 + 0 = 1


5 + 1 = 6

Shumeeta shrugged and turned her eyes to her book. What did it say about the number six, she wondered?

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SIX (6): Three things most important to you are beauty, harmony, and home. Understanding, loyalty, devotion, affection and commitment are top priorities. You want to protect, nurture, and love your family and home. In matters of the heart and friendship, you are the idealistic romantic and friend. In love, you want to be committed and love deeply. In friendship, you want lifelong companionship and confidences.

Home? Well, she wuz not exactly a home-maker - more ov the tomboy sort. But yehh, she wuz definitely a hopeless romantic and a very supportive friend. Relationships mattered to her - polishing them up was a very major part ov her life.

"Professor, I think what my number says about me is pretty much true," she said, raising her hand. "But I'm not sure if I calculated it right." As usual, arithmancy was being a little confusing for her - not her strongest subject.

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"Does anyone have any questions before we move onto the Personality Number?"

Oooh, she did. Shumeeta raised her hand.

"Professor, wouldn't our number change if we spelled our name differently?" she asked curiously. "A friend of mine who shares my name spells her name S-H-U-M-I-T-A. Does that mean our soul urge number is dependent on the way we spell it?"

That's all.

Daniel raised his hand, "Professor, what if the Life Path Reading and the Soul Number Reading contradicts? What does that mean?" he said asking a bit of a confusing question.

Ahh that made sense now. Reid quickly fixed his calculations.

Flipping through his book Reid quickly located the correct number.

Now that seemed to go much better with his other numbers. It also seemed to resonate more with how he felt and what he knew himself to be like. He'd gotten worried that time he calculated incorrectly. This was a much better result.

Via scribbled on her notebook with her book propped open in her table.

She extracted the vowels on her name and checked the book for the assigned numbers on each letter.

So that's her soul number. 7. The magic number 7. She gladly checked her book again for the meaning of her number. Hoping she got her number right, the meaning was so right for her.

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Originally Posted by textbook

1---2---3---4---5---6---7---8---9
A---B---C---D---E---F---G---H----I
J---K---L---M---N---O---P---Q---R
S---T---U---V---W---X---Y---Z

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P - L - Y - M - O - U - T - H

7 + 6 + 3 = 16
1 + 6 = 7
7

G - L - E - N - N
5

M - O - R - G - A - N
6 + 1 = 7
7

7 + 5 + 7 = 19
1 + 9 = 10
1 + 0 =1

Soul number = 1

"I'm number ONE!!!!! Woo!" Plymouth flipped quickly to the right page again to read about his ... desires. Or soul. Something.

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Originally Posted by Plym's read

ONE (1): You want to lead more than anything and may want to control others too. You do not like being subordinate or taking orders. 1 Soul Numbers are often ambitious, independent, headstrong, and willful. You stay away from teams, committees - and mediocrity. In matters of the heart and friendship, everything is great when the object of your affection/friendship lives up to your expectations. You expect that person to be as charming, clever, and independent as you are. You may seem cold or distant but it is only because you are protecting yourself.

Plymouth raised his hand quickly too, feeling much the same as Cela (but he liked SO MUCH that they matched with their heart numbers...). "Professor Shack... mam... Maybe... With the exception that my heart number matches Cela's," he paused to do an automatic air nuzzle, "this makes me SAD. I feel sad. I was feeling so good, too..." Sigh. Plymouth didn't have any expectations at all! This 1 personality sounded like Perni's dad.

Chris finished the work the Professor had asked for and looked at it. And then copied down what his Soul Number meant.

Chris looked at his meaning. "It is right, I like to have close relationships with my friends and family!" he was yet again impressed with the accuracy of Arithmancy.

Lucy opened her textbook to page with letters and their respected numbers.

Lucy then flipped through her book again, looking to what her soul number meant.

Okey dokey. Soul number, huh? Easy peasy. Zeke like Arithmancy a lot. He was pretty excited for this.

EZEKIEL
EEIE
5+5+9+5 = 24 4+2 = 6

JEREMIAH
EEIA
5+5+9+1 = 20 2+0 = 2

WEASLEY
EAEY
5+1+5+7 = 18 1+8 = 9

6+2+9 = 17 1+7=8

Hmm. That didn't sound like him. Weird.

Hannah worked her soul number out on her parchment, scribbling furiously.

HANNAH
AA
1+1 = 2

MARIE
AIE
1+9+5 = 15 1+5 = 6

WEASLEY
EAEY
5+1+5+7 = 18 1+8 = 9

2+6+9 = 17 1+7 = 8

Hmm. That's odd. That didn't sound like her... at all. I wonder what Zeke got? she thought, peeking over at her brother's parchment. Hmm... he got the same thing as her! That's odd. Maybe it was because they were siblings? But it really didn't describe either of them very well.

"Professor?" she asked, raising her hand. "Why don't mine or my brother's describe us well? And is it common for siblings to have the same soul numbers as each other?"

Spot on indeed! Evangeline beamed at the woman and nodded her head slightly. Yup, hers was right. But that didn't seem to be happening with lots and lots of people! Awww! Why was that? Hmmm. Evangeline raised her left hand, as her right one was busy drawing doodles in a spare piece of parchment. "Hmm. Professor? What does it mean exactly when you don't identify with your name's soul number? Is it cause you were named wrongly?" That sounded just weird.

Professor Shackleton thought over the question and responded, "That is a very insightful question. You certainly could try to name your child so that certain numbers added up, though it would be nearly impossible to do that for more than a few numbers. And whether it is fair, I think it is hard to say. Choosing the name for baby is a very important step because you're choosing for another soul the pattern for their life. Either way, a parent is going to choose a name. Whether they do it with careful consideration of the numbers or with just the thought that they like the way it sounds, they are still choosing the name, and thus, influencing the child's life.

"I have much to say about this subject and we're already running a little behind in our lesson, but if you're interested in knowing more, please stop by my office and I'd be happy to share with you the opinions of some of the experts in the field."

With a nod, "It absolutely would change your number is the names were spelled differently. All these numbers based off the names get their meanings from the spellings specific to that name. So your Destiny and Soul number are dependent on the way you spell it, as is the next number we're going to cover in a moment."

Professor Shackleton frowned slightly, "Hmm. That is a good question. It is possible, though I'd hate to think it true, that in that case, the Life Path may be requiring you to put your responsibilities to others ahead of those to yourself. If the two can't be reconciled in some way, you can either choose to obey the inner promptings dictated by your Soul Number and deny your Life Path, or do the opposite and risk being unhappy or unsatisfied deep down. With that said, I am a firm believer that nearly every pair or set of numbers have a common ground and can be reconciled, thus preventing that situation from ever occurring."

With a small sigh, "As I explained to Celandine, the number One is not a bad number. While the textbook's wording may be harsh in some parts, you need to look at the positives in there and live up to those. Remember - every number has a higher and lower a vibration. The higher represents all the positive qualities and the lower, the negative. Live up to the higher vibration of the number and you avoid the negatives you seem so upset by."

Professor Shackleton glanced over their parchments, "Your numbers probably seem off because you both made the same mistake in your calculations. The 'y' in your last name is not acting as a vowel. The 'e' is the vowel in that syllable of your last name, making the 'y' a silent consonant. Make those corrections and recalculate and perhaps the numbers will fit better.

"As for your other question, it is neither common nor uncommon for siblings to have the same soul numbers. Sometimes it just happens."

Professor Shackleton mulled that over before replying, "Another very insightful question! A number of things could be possible - the Soul Number could be describing something about yourself that has not yet been recognized. Perhaps that person hasn't taken a truly deep look into their inner desires or it is something that will be more applicable to adulthood. Another possibility is that the parents didn't tune into their own inner guidance and listen to their intuition to come to a name that truly fits their newborn. This happens especially when parents choose a name before the child is born and don't bother to determine if the name really fits the incoming child's inner spirit. Does that make sense?"


Professor Shackleton glanced at her watch, "Alright, we really need to move along to the final part of our lesson. Any other questions can be asked in my office or after class. The final number of discussion for today is the Personality Number. What is so important about this number and how do we calculate it?"

"The personality number is so important because it tells us what others think of us after first meeting us, how we come across to people who don't know us. To find the personality number we have to add all the consonants in our names, separating them into first, middle and last. After we have the reduced number we then add them all together and reduce to a single digit unless we get a Master Number." Reid intoned while raising his hand.

The Personality Number? Clifford had a sneaky peek through the textbook he'd borrowed before raising his hand. "The Personality Number tells us about our ... personality?" That made sense. "I mean, it tells us how others see us.. I think. And you figure it out by using your full name again.. but this time you add up all the letters that aren't vowels." What were they called again? "The continents?" Erm.

As Professor Shackleton answered her question, Evangeline listened very intently, a frown forming on her forehead as she thought it over. It made perfect sense, especially the first part. They were only VERY young people, after all, it was highly unlikely they knew all about themselves and their inner desires! "It makes perfect sense, Miss, thank you." Hehe.

Personality number?! Oooh. That was one Evangeline had never calculated! Not that she remembered, anyway.

"The personality number tells us what's .. hm ... the first impression we leave on others, really." In a simple way, it was that. "What they remember us after we've met. And we find it out doing the exact opposite from the Soul Urge number ... meaning we add up the number given to each consonant of our name!"

Cela raised her hand, "The Personality number allows us to get an idea of how people see us, the external front we show to the world. First impressions and stuff like that. It's calculated like the Soul Urge number except with the consonants and not the vowels, each name added seperately and reduced before adding them all together and reducing to get a root number."

Chris raised his hand, "The personality Number shows us the view of others towards us. To ge this number calulate the Sole Urge number with only consenents, (no vowels) and then reduced each final number and then add the sum of each name together."

"Precisely correct."

She replied with a smirk, "Those would be con-so-nants, but you're correct nonetheless."


"Both of you are correct."

Professor Shackleton jotted down some more notes about house points, then confirmed, "As mentioned, the Personality Number is what others remember about you after your first encounter. It is what's most obvious to others about you and is sometimes called the 'outer you' or 'external image.' Of course, what others see may not really be a true reflection of who you are, of your inner self, which is why we leave that to the Soul Number.

"The Personality Number can offer clues to habits, mannerisms, and behaviors of the people you know in your life, as well as for your own self discovery. It helps you make the best possible impression, as well as allows you to see yourself as others see you."

Professor Shackleton gestured with her hands, "As was mentioned by your classmates, it is calculated using the consonants of your birth name. Once again, lay out your full name, just as you did for the Destiny and Soul Numbers, and assin the appropriate numbers to the consonants in the name. If you have a 'y' in your name and it is silent, consider it a consonant and count it as such. Next, add together all the consonants for each name separately. Then add the final reduced number for each name together.

"Why don't you all go ahead and quickly do this calculation for yourselves. I'll answer any questions or help with calculations if you need me."

Chris started to get his number like he waqs instructed:

Chris smiled. he liked his personality Number alot. Especially the good looking part. He laughed a bit to himself. "Um Professor this part does seem to be right, about me being a friendly person who is very optomistic."

Reid happy to have earned more points quickly got to work. He was extremely interested in knowing what kind of impression he left on a person after the first meeting.
His first master number was for his personality, that was interesting. Wanting to know what others thought of him after a first meeting Reid quickly flicked through the book in a slightly excited manner. Scanning the page he copied down what the book said before paying any real attention to it.

Reading over what he had copied down Reid thought the number was quite good and definitely truthful. However he wouldn't say he dressed conservatively, I mean yeah it was all designer labels but it wasn't conservative. Especially not what he wore when working, that was because other people dressed him at those times though. Then again the conservative dress may come into it when he got older, I mean he didn't know all about himself right now and tastes and styles change. And Reid didn't often plan things, it came across that he did but most of the time he just went with it. However this was the impression that others got and so therefore it wasn't necessarily true of him... Oh well at least this was a number he could be happy with, even if it was saying he was a work a holic, which truth be told he was.