The letter L is the letter of lightness: it puts humor and the urge to tell stories into a name.
L is 3: the consonant of humor and the pleasure of storytelling.
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By Thomas Guilhot · updated
Does your first name start with L?The initial L
The twelfth place gives L the value 3 (1 + 2), which it shares with C and U. It carries humor, pleasure in telling stories, and a need to exchange.
It is a consonant: it mainly shapes realization, the way you approach tasks. Its plane is the mental one, so everything goes through words and reasoning, a little more than through action.
Two strokes meeting at a right angle, like a carpenter’s square or a table corner: the shape is of rare simplicity. It suggests a structure something can lean on, or the step you climb before turning. The sound is that of a tongue touching the palate and letting air flow down each side: a liquid, almost sung sound, found in “la,” “lumière,” “lire,” “lent,” or “lien.” This sound that flows without friction fits the 3 rather well.
For L, love feeds on conversation and laughter.
Long exchanges, written love notes, and memories told within the family weave the bond. A name with several L’s often describes someone for whom intellectual closeness matters as much as attraction. The risk is to intellectualize a disagreement; simply saying what you feel sometimes helps more.
L shines in writing, presenting, training, and customer relations: anywhere you need to explain clearly and make an idea pleasant to hear.
A name where it recurs shows an ease in arguing and persuading with words. Silent, repetitive tasks weigh more; making them shorter or shared helps you stick with them.
An L in the name, as in Laura or Lucas, adds a 3 to the chart, a bit of cheerfulness and verbal ease.
Several L’s, as in Lilian or Lallemand, emphasize conversation, sometimes at the expense of listening. Without an L, the 3 comes from elsewhere, from C or U, and expression may take more effort, more preparation before speaking in public or writing an important message.
The III card (The Empress), and as its ancestor the Phoenician letter lamed: reported correspondences, which play no part in any calculation.
Lamed, value 30 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 L gives a first impression of pleasant ease: your words come easily and people feel good in conversation with you.
Transit letter L brings your social life to life: reunions, invitations, and new friendships give the year a warm tone.
Each letter is worth its place in the alphabet, reduced to one digit. L, 12th letter: 1 + 2 = 3.
L expresses the 3: speech, humor, the pleasure of exchange. It is a consonant of the mental plane, which helps put ideas into words, persuade, and entertain a little, without heaviness, around a table as in a meeting, and makes people want to keep the conversation going.
It equals 3, just like C and U. L is twelfth, and 12 gives 1 + 2 = 3. No more complicated calculation is involved: you never keep two digits for a letter, whatever its place.
Yes, like every letter of the birth name. L enters the full addition of the name and that of the consonants alone, but not the calculation reserved for vowels, since it is not one and so cannot be placed there.
Without an L, the 3 can still come from a C or a U. If all three letters are absent, the inclusion chart has nothing to enter under the 3. The missing number 3 is read as a voice to be tamed: daring to tell stories, joke, and share an idea before it is perfect. Writing or an artistic practice can be the way in.
The history of writing ties it to the Phoenician lamed, depicting an ox goad, which became the Greek lambda; lamed remains the name of the twelfth Hebrew letter. Among tarot readers, the 3 of L evokes card III and its shield with the eagle. The connection remains decorative as far as the calculation goes, which keeps L at its value of 3.