Is arithmancy the one with the chicken that spins in a circle and eats the seeds with the letters on? I can't remember. It's that or something beginning with "h", and it's bothering me that I don't know.

(PS, Nika, I would PM or use MSN but I'm at school, it kills the browser if I try.)

Sorcerer's Companion

Have a lookie there. You assign numbers to letters and then analyze a name or whatever, and the numbers have significance.


Apparently I have a loyal, reliable and loving character, my heart is imaginative, creative, and sweet natured, and my socialness is practical, reliable and down to earth. I am logical, also. Which is quite true. If I add my middle name, my heart goes to practical and reliable.

Vincent Leslie Carpenter, IV

Character Number: 1
Heart Number : 8
Social Number: 2
_________________________

Vincent Leslie Carpenter

Character Number: 6
Heart Number : 8
Social Number: 7
_________________________

Vincent Carpenter

Character Number: 7
Heart Number : 7
Social Number: 9
_________________________

Vincent L. Carpenter, IV

Character Number: 5
Heart Number : 7
Social Number: 7



I can pick and choose what I want

Using my full name...


Character Number: 6
Heart Number : 6
Social Number: 9

Oh my God, mine is scary accurate.

Character Number: 2
Heart Number : 5
Social Number: 6

Which, to sum it up...I'm peaceful, loyal, fair, moody, self-conscious and indecisive. My heart is instable and imbalanced and changes (I'm very fickly) and my social is very reliable, loyal, loving, gossipy and complacent.

Tried it with the name 'Soril Flomein' to see what it would come up with, and if it matched the character I have in mind with him:

Character - 3: Talent, energy, artistic nature, social ease and humour - Easy going, lucky and sucessful.

Heart - 8: Practical, ambitious, committed and hardworking.

Social - 4: Stability and firmness, practical, reliable, down-to-earth, good at organisation and getting things done.

Spookily accurate for my Celestine follower of Isune, pledged to Japhiel and Raziela...

In arithmancy's defence Rexali, the name you go choose to go by the most has its own signifance. So choosing to include the IV or not would give some input on your charachter.

On the other hand, the whole thing is a nice perversian of Gematria, because latin letters have no intrisic value, while in other languages the Letters are the same as the numbers.

I did my real name and it was nothing like me, however I did Daganev
which came up
Character Number: 9
Heart Number : 7
Social Number: 2

And well, considering Daganev has had many personalities, I was surprised that those numbers did seem to fit most of them in its own wierd way.

Hm. I tried that for both my name and Lyren's, and got rather accurate results - but, then, as I was reading over the list of possible answers I found a bit of myself in each one of them. It's kind of like reading horoscopes, if I block out the names, I can apply pretty much any of them to the day I had.

You sure its common enough to have a name? I've heard of using chicken livers or livers in general, or bones but not a chicken eating seeds... besides how would that work? do you kill the chicken and open it up to see which seeds it ate?

No, you lay the seeds out in a circle around it, and it eats them in the right order. Presumably you just watch which ones it eats really carefully.

find your fancy mancy here.

http://www.thewhitegoddess.co.uk/divinatio...tion_types.html

Sounds sort of like an ouija (that looks wrong) board, too. Only with a chicken instead of a girl at a slumber party.

Character Number: 2
Heart Number : 1
Social Number: 1


Freaky.

Aris Carthan

Character Number: 4
Heart Number : 3
Social Number: 1

I am spooked beyond measure.

Another version of popular horoscopes...
The only thing I like is adding the digits in the number until you get a single digit. In fact, I trained summing digits so hard that I can almost do it on an instant at now.