The letter R is the letter of generosity in action: in a name, it brings a sense of completion.
R equals 9: like the I, but its generosity is proven in action.
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By Thomas Guilhot · updated
Does your first name start with R?The initial R
It has only one sibling of the same value, the I. The difference lies in their nature: the I is a vowel and keeps the 9 as an ideal, while the R is a consonant and puts it into action.
The eighteenth letter of the alphabet, R reads as 1 + 8, which makes 9, the number that completes a cycle, passes things on, and gives without counting.
It is the letter that moves from principles to deeds. It belongs to the emotional plane: what it carries is felt before it is demonstrated, with an intensity that eventually shows. Its shape sends a stem forward into a loop, then into a leg that strides out: nothing in it stands still. Its sound vibrates at the back of the throat or at the tip of the tongue, longer than that of most consonants.
In a name, the R gives the 9 a concrete dimension: someone takes over a file no one wanted, keeps a promise once the enthusiasm of the start has faded, prepares the ground for those who will come after. What it asks in return is easy to say and hard to do: learning to hand things over, because the 9 does not ask you to carry everything alone.
The R loves by giving a great deal.
It invests itself with intensity, defends the person it loves, and keeps its promises even when the enthusiasm fades. A name heavy with Rs shows real generosity, sometimes to the point of carrying everything in the relationship. Accepting help in your turn, and asking for it clearly, keeps the exchange fair between the two of you.
Professionally, the R takes action for a cause: taking over the file no one wanted, leading a humanitarian project, passing knowledge on to the next generation.
Several Rs in the name point to strong commitment and a taste for finishing what has been started. The risk is exhaustion from excess devotion; delegating is part of the job.
Each R in a name adds one unit to the 9 box of the inclusion chart, together with any I. Two or three Rs point to a marked need to serve a cause or to finish what has been started.
With no R or I, the 9 is absent from the chart: this missing number is then read separately, as a quality to cultivate rather than a flaw. The rest of the report explains how to approach it.
The IX card (The Hermit), and as its ancestor the Phoenician letter resh: reported correspondences, which play no part in any calculation.
Resh, value 200 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 R gives a first impression of commitment: people see you speak up for a cause and bring others along in your wake.
Transit letter R accompanies deep transformations: the year asks for flexibility in the face of what is changing around you.
Each letter is worth its place in the alphabet, reduced to one digit. R, 18th letter: 1 + 8 = 9.
The R stands for giving, conclusion, and commitment to others. A consonant of the emotional plane, it puts the 9 into action: you invest yourself, take up what was left unfinished, and keep your promises. In a name, it brings generosity and asks you to learn to hand things over.
The letter R equals 9. It sits in eighteenth place in the alphabet, and the site’s Pythagorean chart reduces it to 9. Only the I shares this value. Being a consonant, it is used for the Expression and Personality numbers, never for the Soul Urge number.
The chart arranges the letters in three series of nine, and each takes the value of its rank reduced. The I is ninth, so 9. The R is eighteenth: 1 + 8 also comes down to 9. They are the only two letters to land on this number, at two different levels of the alphabet.
Without an R, the 9 is still present as soon as an I appears in the name. When both are missing, the inclusion chart shows an absent 9, which the method treats as a quality to cultivate: generosity, a sense of others, the ability to turn a page. Involvement in an association or a project directed toward others can be the way in.
The R goes back to the Phoenician resh, whose name meant the head; it passed to Greek as rho, and Hebrew still calls its twentieth letter resh. The R’s 9 also links it to the ninth card, the Hermit’s lantern. It is mentioned out of curiosity; the method does not take it into account.