The letter F is the letter of loved ones: it marks a name with attention to your own people and a sense of home.
F equals 6: a consonant that cares for loved ones and soothes disagreements.
Keeping a promise for years: the Sunday call, the hand you said you would lend, the volunteer shift.
Answering a request before it has even been voiced.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
Does your first name start with F?The initial F
Sixth in the alphabet, F equals 6.
The number 6 concerns home, harmony, responsibility toward loved ones, and the need for everyone to feel at ease in their place. As a consonant, F weighs on the Personality number: its way of doing things consists of looking after others, organizing a meal, settling a disagreement before it grows, not always waiting to be asked.
It sits in the intuitive plane, with C, K, Q, U, V, and Y: you sense the tension in a room before anyone opens their mouth. Its shape is a pole topped with a hook and cut by a bar, a flag planted to signal a shelter. The sound, a breath against the teeth, resembles a long exhale, that of someone who has just set down a heavy package. In concrete terms, F is the one who remembers to warn the neighbor, to save a slice of cake for the absent one, to note the birthday date no one had kept in mind.
F loves by caring.
It senses a partner’s weariness, prepares the favorite dish, organizes the family party. With several F’s in your name, commitment and home probably matter a great deal, and harmony in the couple sometimes comes before your own comfort. Accepting in turn to receive what you give keeps the relationship from becoming a burden.
In a team, F looks after the climate: it welcomes newcomers, defuses a tension, and sees that everyone has what they need.
A name marked by F shows an affinity with service, advisory, or support professions. The risk is doing too much for others; setting clear limits protects your time.
Repeated F’s, in a name like FRANCOISE or FIFI, strengthen the 6: you readily take charge of others, sometimes to the point of neglecting your own wishes.
Without an F, O and X also carry the 6; the absence of all three at once appears, in the inclusion chart, as a 6 to develop. At the head of a name, as in FLORA or FABIEN, it presents someone you naturally expect to keep a secret or a key.
The VI card (The Lovers), and as its ancestor the Phoenician letter vav: reported correspondences, which play no part in any calculation.
Vav, value 6 in Hebrew
Through the Greek digamma.
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 F gives a first impression of thoughtfulness: people sense that you look after others’ well-being, often before they ask.
Transit letter F makes duties toward loved ones weigh more: the year teaches you to help without taking everything on.
Each letter is worth its place in the alphabet, reduced to one digit. F, 6th letter: equals 6.
F equals 6, the number of care and family. A consonant of the intuitive plane, it makes responsibility toward loved ones a way of acting. It has its own pages as an initial and as a transit letter, to read as a complement.
It is counted as two letters: P equals 7 and H equals 8, which makes 15 in all. The chart follows spelling, never sound. STEPHANIE therefore adds a P and an H, not an F. Other letter groups, like CH or GN, are handled the same way.
A name without F, O, and X has no letter of value 6: the inclusion chart then marks a missing 6. The reading concerns emotional responsibility: caring for loved ones, committing to a home, accepting that people count on you. It is a quality to cultivate, often through the experience of a concrete role with others. A single O is enough to keep the 6.
Its history runs through the Phoenician vav, which archaic Greek had turned into the digamma, a letter later dropped by classical Greek but taken up by the Romans. Hebrew keeps the name vav for its sixth letter. With its value 6, F is associated with the Lovers (L’Amoureux), where a young man hesitates between two figures, under a Cupid ready to shoot. This link belongs to tarot culture, not to the method.