The letter U is the letter of light exchanges: it nudges a name toward storytelling and joking.
U equals 3: the only vowel of the C, L, U trio, hence a taste for talking that comes from within.
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By Thomas Guilhot · updated
Does your first name start with U?The initial U
In twenty-first place, U reduces to 2 + 1: it equals 3, along with the C and the L. The 3 touches on speech, humor, and the taste for sharing.
Yet the U is the only vowel of this trio, and that changes its place: it weighs in the Soul Urge number, the one that says what you seek inside. A U in a first name signals a 3 more inward than that of the C and the L, a pleasure in talking and laughing that has more to do with the life you want to lead than with the image you project.
It belongs to the intuitive plane: ideas come by association, by connection, often just when you are not looking. It is the last of the five classic vowels, the one that closes the series A, E, I, O, U. Pronouncing it means rounding the lips forward, as if blowing on a flame. In a name, it adds softness to the 3: less flamboyance, more shared cheerfulness. The downside: this 3 readily goes quiet when the atmosphere is heavy, and you can seem reserved when the wish to talk is there.
The U loves with cheerfulness and softness.
It enjoys shared laughter, small attentions, and conversations that stretch late. When your name contains several Us, the pleasure of exchanging is part of what you are looking for deep down in a relationship. When the atmosphere is heavy, you may go quiet; saying what weighs on you frees speech again.
The U brings quiet creativity: ideas that come by association, a mood that relaxes a team, a talent for presenting things lightly.
A name carrying Us suggests an affinity with writing, creative, or facilitation work. It helps to structure these intuitions in writing before proposing them to the group.
Like every vowel, the U counts toward the inner drive and toward the inclusion chart, where it fills the 3 box.
Several Us, as in Ulysse or Lucie Dumur, give this number a place of honor in the inner life. With no U, C, or L, the chart has no 3: expression then asks for a little more daring, and the pleasure of storytelling, writing, or joking is worked on deliberately.
The III card (The Empress), and as its ancestor the Phoenician letter vav: reported correspondences, which play no part in any calculation.
Vav, value 6 in Hebrew
Derived from V in the Renaissance.
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 U leaves a first impression of openness: people sense your wish to welcome other people’s ideas and help them grow.
Transit letter U tests the precision of your words: the year asks you to clarify, reread, and concentrate your efforts.
The first vowel U is the vowel of expression: faced with the unexpected, you feel the need to tell, to comment, often with humor.
Each letter is worth its place in the alphabet, reduced to one digit. U, 21st letter: 2 + 1 = 3.
A vowel of the intuitive plane, the U reveals a need to exchange, laugh, and create, which weighs in the Soul Urge. The cheerfulness it carries is lived out of sight more than in public: it says what you want to live, not what you show.
The U equals 3, a value shared with the C and the L. Twenty-first place in the alphabet reduces to 3. As the only one of the three to be a vowel, it takes part in the Soul Urge, the Expression, and the inclusion chart, but is absent from the Personality number, which takes only consonants.
Yes, even when it is not heard. In Miguel, Guillaume, or Quentin, the U is present in writing and weighs 3, with its status as a vowel. The calculation follows the spelling of the birth name: each letter of the official name is added, silent or not.
The U is the only vowel worth 3: without it, the vowels of the name do not carry this value, but the chart can still receive it from a C or an L. If none of the three letters appears, the 3 becomes a missing number. It is seen as a need to learn to express what you feel, to laugh at yourself, to make your ideas visible.
The U has no direct ancestor: it was drawn from the V, with which it was long confused in Latin writing. Through this intermediary it goes back to the Phoenician vav, still called vav in the Hebrew alphabet. With its value of 3, the U joins, in the same tables, the crowned figure of The Empress. Books on cartomancy mention it; the additions ignore it.