The letter A is the letter of momentum: in a name, it brings the first step and the idea that comes before the action.
A equals 1: the vowel of the first step, which gives a name the urge to begin.
Launching a project the same day the idea appears, without waiting for perfect conditions.
Announcing a decision to those close to you instead of submitting it to them.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
Does your first name start with A?The initial A
The number 1 puts initiative here, the urge to take a first step without waiting to be invited.
At the head of the alphabet, A equals 1: its rank and its value coincide, and no other letter starts something as clearly. A is also a vowel, so it feeds the Soul Urge number: what it carries has more to do with motivations than with appearance.
It belongs to the mental plane, along with G, H, J, L, N, and P: action goes through an idea, a plan, a sentence said before acting. A person with many A’s in their name likes to announce what they are going to do, then do it. Its shape recalls a point or a roof, a peak toward which two lines converge, and ancient alphabets made it an upside-down ox head. Its sound is that of the mouth wide open. Saying A takes little effort, and you don’t think about it: it is the sound you let out when stretching or in front of a beautiful landscape.
In matters of the heart, A pushes you to make the first move: suggest the outing, write the message the other person hesitates to send.
When this 1 appears often in your name, you probably want to keep a share of independence within the couple, a project of your own, a territory of your own. The possible difficulty lies in rhythm: waiting for the other person’s decision may weigh on you more than making one.
The letter A shows in a taste for launching things: opening a new file, proposing the method, being the first to speak in a kickoff meeting.
With several A’s in the name, the tendency is to prefer autonomy to a tight hierarchy, and beginnings to follow-through. Delegating the finishing touches, or surrounding yourself with patient people, often balances this momentum.
Several A’s in a name, as in ANNA or ALEXANDRA, give a lot of weight to the 1: the name gains confidence and independence, with a risk of taking charge too quickly.
Without an A, the 1 can come from J or S; if none of the three appears, the 1 is missing from the inclusion chart and personal drive is worked on through other paths. A first name starting with A, like AMANDINE, thus recalls the 1 from the opening, before any other letter.
The I card (The Magician), and as its ancestor the Phoenician letter aleph: reported correspondences, which play no part in any calculation.
Aleph, value 1 in Hebrew
A Phoenician letter whose name the Hebrew alphabet keeps. These correspondences are reported: they play no part in any calculation.
Illustrations: Nicolas Conver’s Tarot de Marseille, dated 1760, restored by Tarot World Project, CC BY-SA 4.0 license, via Wikimedia Commons — images resized and compressed by Versana.
The initial A suggests drive: people see you as the one who starts, proposes, and moves forward without waiting for the signal.
Transit letter A gives the year a taste of beginnings: what you start on your own finds its momentum more easily.
The first vowel A is the vowel of initiative: faced with a setback, you act at once, before you have even understood everything.
Each letter is worth its place in the alphabet, reduced to one digit. A, 1st letter: equals 1.
A equals 1: it stands for the beginning, initiative, the first step. A vowel of the mental plane, it colors motivations rather than visible behavior. This page describes A wherever it appears; the pages on the initial A, the transit letter A, and the first vowel A cover its particular positions.
A equals 1, like J and S. First in the alphabet, it carries the smallest value in the chart, the one from which everything else is counted. In a first name like ANA, it appears twice and so weighs 2 in the total.
Yes, the first letter of the first name is also read for itself: it is the initial, the signature people see first. An A at the head, as in ARTHUR or ALICE, places the 1 at the very opening of the first name, before any other value. The page on the initial A details this role; the one on the first vowel covers the case where A opens the family name.
If the birth name has no A, no J, and no S, no letter in it carries the 1, and its box stays empty: it is a missing number 1. This does not describe a lack of character, rather a quality to exercise: taking initiative, saying “I” without waiting for others’ approval. If only the A is missing, J or S is enough to keep the 1 present.
It is often linked to two correspondences, reported here without entering into the calculation. Through the history of the alphabet, A descends from the Phoenician aleph, a name Hebrew kept for its first letter. In tarot correspondences, the 1 of A points to the Magician (Le Bateleur), the first card, a young man standing behind a table loaded with tools. None of this changes the calculation: it is a cultural reference point, reported as it is.