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"Professor, the number nine represents completion not only because it is the last new number introduced, but the addition of the numbers one through nine equal forty-five, and four plus five equals nine." He shared after having raised his hand. Eino was slightly confused by the characterization of nine as the number of endings, since there are numbers after nine, even if they are repetitions. "Is it also possible that nine might be associated with new beginnings? If there is an end to something, then something else must begin, correct? Plus, both nine and the word new share the same roots in Latin." He added with his hand raised, and wrote down some of his own thoughts and other students'.

"Well professor nine represents attainment, satisfaction, accomplishment, and our success to achieve an influence in our circumstances. The spiritual meaning of number nine deals with intellectual power, inventiveness, influence over situations and things. nine beseeches us to recognize our own internal attributes, and extend these abilities out into the world to make a positive, influential difference." She said

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Originally Posted by Roselyn (Post 9930632)

Hmm wha?

Raising a brow, Evelyn stared at the professor for a moment before giggling. Yes, she giggled. That is, until she realized what she did and cleared her throat instead. That, didn’t happen. Ever!

"No, I'm fine. Got too excited over it I suppose." Grinning, she tapped her pencil on her desk before looking elsewhere. It wasn’t like she was going to repeat an answer that was already said, so she had said three. Three was an awesome number! Pfft.

Sighing, Evelyn rubbed her eyes for a moment before looking down to the book, her eyes gazing at the words given for the number nine.

Hmm... "Being a number of completion and farewells, the number nine also represents the meanings of a person's spiritual and artistic self. Mostly referring to one's higher self and need to fulfill...one's charitable nature." she said, after raising her hand of course. "Which I suppose could all tie in with the whole 'completion' and 'endings' theme, since if you think about it, as one gets older, towards their end i should say, they are more in tune with themselves and their surroundings... not to mention are very wise and usually end up teaching the world or someone a thing or two about life. Hence, the spiritual and artistic or charitable self...and since nine is the last number in the system here..." Trailing off, the Slytherin stared at the book and words. "Would nine also be represented as the oldest number?"

If that made any sense at all. If not, perhaps she really should head to the nurse. Meep! Comparing numbers to old people. Yeaaa....

Oh good, Evelyn was fine! The last thing she needed was one of her best Arithmancy students feeling all wonky and mentally unstable. And if her response wasn't enough to convince, her answer about the number nine and some of its characteristics certainly were . . .

"Excellent and nicely said." Of course. "I'm not quite sure what you mean by nine being the oldest number, but if you're talking about it being the final single digit, then you're correct in that thinking... But as for number meanings, it's not necessarily oldest...."

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Originally Posted by The1HBIC (Post 9930664)

Ooh, Marie knew this, or rather she though she did. "Not only is it the number of ending, the number nine is also the number of dramatics. Which means this number MUST be all about Destiny." Yeah, no one was more dramatic than her friend. "I don't know anyone who is more dramatic than she is." That girl could turn the simplest happening into something over dramatic. Like getting hit with jelly and falling to the floor pretending to be dead.

Yep, major drama queen that girl is.

Nice interesting reply ... well the first part of it was, but then Marie started talking about her supposed friend ... "The number nine does indeed refer to dramatics...." Fina agreed with the young Slytherin, "And it'd be interesting to see just how much your friend falls under the number nine, wouldn't you agree? As in, with her core numbers?" Or if it was just simply a case of being a teenage girl, because majority of teenage girls were dramatic, and Fina doubted this was an isolated case.

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Originally Posted by RachieRu (Post 9930720)

The Number 9? Wasn't that just a random number? Well Finlay knew it wasn't but he did want to kind of make a intellectual answer, because he wasn't that stupid. He jotted a few ideas onto his parchment, and he listened to some of the other students say there answers? The end number? Well he could see where that was coming from. He decided that maybe he should give an answer now, and so put his hand up before speaking. "I think that the number 9 relates to completing, in the evolution of someones life? So like a person completing there life maybe?"

Ooh a non-Slytherin to speak up! "Yes you are correct, the number 9 does relate to completing," Fina said, but she thought they already figured THAT much out, that it dealt with farewells and completion. "It doesn't have to necessarily be completing a life though, as you'll find out shortly."

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Originally Posted by mellamaet (Post 9930775)

Cass raised her hand and answered "Maybe 9 is the number for goodbyes because it is the number for perfection? I mean, if you've already perfected something, wouldn't you already stop doing it?" She bit her lip tentatively, she knew she had a point, but she just didn't explain it properly.

Fina tilted her head at the girl in confusion, blinking for a moment. "Yes, it does mean perfection, but I'm not sure why you would stop doing something just because you've perfected it. Though perhaps it would give you a goal to work toward...."

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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie (Post 9930827)

Kurumi closed her book for a moment not wanting to spoil her thinking process by the text. What did she know about the number 9...hmmm... "Growing up, the number 9 was always seen as a kind of unlucky number because one of the pronunciations of it in Japanese means suffering," she explained playing with her ponytail a bit. "Perhaps it is connected a little to it being the number of good byes because we always feel a bit sad when we say good bye...you could call that suffering..." She was probably stretching things a bit, but it made some sense when you looked at it...or squinted really hard.

She then returned to her thought, rather question, she had asked earlier. "I don't believe many things in life are a coincidence," she smiled.

And another non-Slytherin; one of her top Gryffindors, actually. Josephina smiled when the girl closed her text and just started speaking with what she knew and what was true, rather than regurgitating the textbook. She nodded with each word the girl spoke, knowing each to be more true the next. "Nicely said! And you're quite correct, things in life are rarely coincidental, but rather always with meaning."

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Originally Posted by Steelsheen (Post 9930829)

"Uhm... suffering?" the Slytherin lad responded, "You know, farewells-- almost always involves some sort of suffering from at least one person."

"Farewells doesn't have to be a bad thing, though, Mr Salander." Fina argued. "Because while a farewell may involve suffering, it could simply be a See you soon type thing. Or even if it's a dying type of farewell, if the person has truly lived, then they may be dying in peace rather than by suffering. Or doing for a noble cause."

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Now this was a Ravenclaw-type answer! Start talking about addition and proofs and ultimately the WHY it's this way. "Yes very true points," Fina smiled at the boy, "And we're going to get to that in a moment... But you're quite on the right track by thinking that the end may be associated with new beginnings. A new cycle perhaps," she hinted at him, but didn't continue on with anything else just yet....

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Originally Posted by lilithpotter (Post 9931012)

At first it sounded almost like the Hufflepuff had decided to regurgitate the textbook, but then Fina realized she had just been speaking random words that she felt associated nicely with the number nine. Or in Muggle psychology, this may have been termed, free-association. "It is fully a sign of accomplishment, I agree. A reminder that we've completed yet another cycle in our lives. More success, I daresay."

Fina addressed the whole class once more, as she flicked her wand and the chalk on the board wrote the words 'Nine-Year Cycles'. "Has anyone ever heard of the concept nine-year cycles? What do I mean when I refer to that phrase?"

The Nine year cycles? Finlay mused for a second, writing that title down on his parchment, and underlining it, as he thought about the question that the Professor was asking. He'd heard of it, and read it in the text book, so he was going to be rather nerdy, and know the answer. He stook his hand up in the air before speaking. "The nine year cycles are a cycle which happens repeatedly in an individuals lifetime, but with a different them ruling the cycle of each one. It's said that there are 9 of them because our life experiances are symbolished in the numbers 1 - 9" and then he put his arm down because he was definetly being too nerdy

Jacqueline raised her hand. ''Well, the first and foremost of the several cycles that influence your experience of life is the Personal Year Cycle number.
Each year of your life is part of an evolving pattern that can be described as a nine-year cycle or epicycle. These cycles begin at your birth and progress, one by one, through nine steps that complete an epicycle, and then begin again. The cycle starts with a 1 Personal Year, progresses to the 2 Personal Year, and so on to the 9 Personal Year.Each numbered year has its own characteristics, as symbolized by the number itself - A 1 Personal Year has all the qualities the number 1 has.'' She sat down and looked around the classroom. Then she started taking some notes.

Sarah had been quiet up till then. She really wasn't as sure in this lesson as she was in some of the others, so thought it best to just take notes and keep her mouth shut. But that might not look good for the Head Girl to be doing it ALL lesson, so she bided her time until a question she knew came up.

Raising her hand, she cleared her throat. "The nine year cycle is what a person goes through in their life. Each of the numbers, and their meanings, represents a particular year, and once someone had gone through all nine it starts again. Hence the cycle part. It's constant, and looping." Okay, so it wasn't a very detailed answer, but it was the best she had. Unless she copied verbatim from the textbook in front of her. But she kinda figured Professor Hadley might see through that one.

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Originally Posted by RachieRu (Post 9931607)

Josephina nodded at the first to speak up; a Ravenclaw boy, who she hadn't recognized from previous terms but seemed to have a good grasp on Arithmancy. "Precisely right! Nine year cycles repeat through our life... Every nine years, we start a new cycle!" Wasn't that cool? It was kinda like the nine lives of cats thing.

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Originally Posted by MeredithRodneyMcKay (Post 9932110)

Hearing the Head Girl speak up for the first time all lesson, Fina looked over in her direction and smiled. "Isn't that cool though? It's like someone said before, nine isn't really the ending, but it's also the beginning... Because it symbolizes that next year will be the start of a new cycle!"

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Originally Posted by alohomora♥ (Post 9932034)

Ah yes, someone to bring up the topic that she was ultimately working towards. Josephina gave a small nod toward the Gryffindor before continuing. "Yes, these years are operating on a particular theme... which is also called your personal year number. What exactly is this Personal Year Number though that I speak of? Please don't tell me how to calculate it just yet though!" Cause one step at a time, ya know?

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Originally Posted by Orchideae (Post 9932698)

Marie knew this, she remembered it from a previous lesson they had about this same thing. Raising her hand she said, "Your Personal Year Number is a number that describes what is happening for you, personally, this year. Each year has a number and brings with it an energy that vibrates to or resonates with that number." In other words, your number would tell you want your year was going to be like.

Having been listening what was being spoken about the nine year cycle and all that jazz, Evelyn stopped flipping the pages in her book and went back to the page which held the beginnings of chapter four as a new question arose. Personal year number?

Glancing towards Marie, she had to look away rather quick before the laughter erupted again. Her answer about Destiny was making it really difficult to not burst out into a laugh. It was soooo true! "I think the name is pretty self explanatory." she snickered before clearing her throat and putting all ~~giggles~~ laughter in the back of her mind. "It's your own personal year number. The number tells you what you really should be focusing on in your life during that year, or whatever year you're living in at the moment, and what can really be expected. Sorta like guidelines or a 'what to do' list. And if you don't follow them, you'll pretty much...be done for." No not really, bu still. Your year will just be crappy.

Teehee. Fun, right?

Kurumi didn't know much about these life numbers, but the fact that there were 9 of them made her think about...cats...soft fluffy and adorable cats. "Professor..." she said raising her hand timidly. "Does the expression 'cats have 9 lives' come from this notion of life numbers?" Fair question, right?

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Originally Posted by Orchideae (Post 9932698)

Freya have been listening to the Professor and wrote down some notes on her parchment. Then she heard Professor Hadley asking about what Personal Year Number is. She had had heard about it, she raised her hand "Personal Year Number gives you insight on how to create happiness throughout the year and you could also learn some valuable information you could use to help you optimize the year's influences." she said and lowering her hand.

Cass scanned her book quickly before answering "Well, I think, a personal year number can help you find out what's in store for you for th year. Like, your own personal horoscope reading."

Jacqueline said
''Through one cycle there are years where everything runs smoothly and others it can be quite frustrating. Integrating and understanding these cycles can only bring peace and harmony in our lives, consequently, evolution of self and prosperity.
We identify the years of our cycle as Personal Years. Each and every personal year has its own characteristics and specific energy.
Personal Year Number gives you insight on how to create happiness throughout the year and make most of it.''she sat down and took some notes. This class is very interesting.

Hmm. The Personal year number? Finn had read about that too hehe. He really was a nerd, but he did like this subject. "The personl year number is the number which tells us what is happening to us in the course of one year. Each year has a number, which represents a different energy, this allows individuals who know what the energy means to direct what they do in that year, to get the best results." which seemed pretty good really...

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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie (Post 9932872)

Hearing the question from the Gryffindor, Josephina pressed her lips thoughtfully together as she contemplated the answer. "It's definitely an interesting similarity, with the nine lives of cats and then us being on a nine-year cycle, but I don't believe it comes from this notion. Animal numerology is rather different from human numerology ... perhaps a topic for future studies." Actually that would make for an interesting topic; Fina decided, making note to study up on that topic during summer break.

Text Cut: all ye smart students!

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Cass scanned her book quickly before answering "Well, I think, a personal year number can help you find out what's in store for you for th year. Like, your own personal horoscope reading."

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Originally Posted by RachieRu (Post 9933325)

Josephina nodded at each of the students, as they each said something rather similar but different about the personal year number. "Quite right. The personal year number is like your personal theme for that particular calender year. Actually it is one of the most significant numbers in your life, so it would do well to take some time to figure out what it means."

"Before we move onto some classwork and ultimately your homework, I just want to introduce to you how to calculate this personal year number. Using the current year, 2073, can someone tell me how to calculate the personal year number?"

With her quill in one hand jotting down something on the parchment set in front of her, Arithmancy Journal right next to that, Katie raised her other hand before speaking up, "You calculate your birth month, day and the current year, and reduce numbers where it's needed until you come up with the answer."

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Originally Posted by D.A Forever (Post 9934574)

Josephina waited a bit to see if any other students had information to add on about calculating the personal year number, but at the silence, she decided not. "Correct... assuming if by calculate, you mean adding those three numbers up and reducing each to a single digit," she said, smiling at the young Hufflepuff. Mae? Why did that name sound rather familiar? Shrugging it off she continued the last part to her lesson.

"So as Miss Mae informed us, this is the formula used to calculate the Personal Year Number," Fina spoke as she wrote the formula on the board. "It's also in page eighteen of your textbook."

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Personal Year Number = month of birth + day of birth + current calendar year

"Using my own birthday, April 2nd, I'm going to demonstrate how to calculate this number for the current year."

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Originally Posted by Chalkboard

4 + 2 + (2+0+7+3)
4 + 2 + (12)
4 + 2 + (1+2)
4 + 2 + 3
= 9

"As you can see, this year is personally my ninth year in my nine year cycle. The conclusion of the cycle," and what it means, only Fina knew those deepest secrets, but it was still was fascinating. "And now for your assignment. You may take the time now, if you wish to discuss with your peers over what the year was or will be for the times in your life I've asked you find your personal year. Though as I know some of you have other exams you're stressed over at this time of year, you may also leave if you have no further questions."

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Originally Posted by The Assignment

As we discussed with the number nine, in one's lifetime, a nine-year cycle occurs repeatedly, which is also called a numerological cycle. Your life is operating on repeated nine-year cycles, each year having a number which has a particular meaning. This meaning is your theme for the year, also called your personal year.

Find your personal year number for the following years in your life:

- When you were born
- When you started Hogwarts
- The current year
- When you will graduate Hogwarts

Please show all calculations necessary to find these numbers and describe what each number means for you and your life.

This assignment is worth 16 points
Due: November 20th, 11:59pm EST

ooc: You may stick around and RP to your heart's content with your characters working out these calculations and interpretations. However please DO NOT post any actual answers or interpretations [that you will submit via PM to me]. Any questions, ask me =)