The letter W is the letter of distant horizons: it opens a name to movement and to elsewhere.
W equals 5: a letter from elsewhere, which goes far afield for what is missing.
Bouncing back fast when a plan falls through, without wasting time complaining.
Dropping a project as soon as the novelty wears off, sometimes just before the result.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
Does your first name start with W?The initial W
In twenty-third place, W comes down to 2 + 3 = 5, like the E and the N. The 5 is about curiosity, change, and the need for air.
The W keeps its appetite for novelty, with a particular tint: in French it is used mostly to write words that came from elsewhere, wagon, week-end, watt, web. A borrowed letter, in a way, which reminds us that the 5 readily goes looking for what it does not find at home.
It belongs to the physical plane, with the E: movement happens through the body and through travel more than through reflection. Its name, double v, tells its shape: two Vs set side by side, a zigzag line that rises and falls. Each point suggests a departure, each hollow a stage. In a name, a W adds a 5 without strong ties, more available than that of the E, which likes variety, or of the N, which likes discovery. The difficulty is that of any 5: settling in a little, long enough for experience to ripen instead of scattering.
A name that carries a W often reveals a love that breathes: a need for travel, for new horizons, for a relationship that does not lock itself into habits.
The W likes to share discoveries more than routines. Explaining this taste for freedom, rather than leaving without warning, reassures the person you love about your real attachment.
The W thrives on movement: international posts, short assignments, careers in travel or import.
Rare in French, it testifies, wherever it appears, to a curiosity about what comes from elsewhere. Stability within a single organization can feel heavy; varying projects within a fixed position helps you stay.
W is rare in French, so its presence stands out, as in Walter or Edwige.
It counts as a single 5 in the inclusion chart, not as two Vs. Together with E and N, it makes change a recurring theme. With no W, E, or N, the 5 is missing: curiosity then has to be provoked, without waiting for the opportunity, through a trip, a class, an unexpected encounter.
The V card (The Hierophant), and as its ancestor the Phoenician letter vav: reported correspondences, which play no part in any calculation.
Vav, value 6 in Hebrew
A doubled V, in the Middle Ages.
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 W leaves a first impression of boldness: a rare letter, a person associated with changes of scenery and quick decisions.
Transit letter W brings many invitations with no direction imposed: the year asks you to choose your heading from among the offers.
Each letter is worth its place in the alphabet, reduced to one digit. W, 23rd letter: 2 + 3 = 5.
A consonant of the physical plane, the W gives a need to move and to go see elsewhere. Rare in French and used mostly for imported words, it colors a name with a note of openness and a taste for the unknown, with the curiosity typical of the 5.
The W equals 5, just like the E and the N. Twenty-third in the alphabet, it reads as 2 + 3. Unlike the E, it is a consonant: it is used to calculate the Expression and Personality numbers. Its polarity is neutral, like that of the H and the Y: it leans in no direction.
No. Despite its name, double v, the W is a letter in its own right and equals 5, not 4 + 4. In Edwige or Walter, it is added as a single letter, and the spelling of the birth name is what counts.
The W is found mostly in names from other languages, and its absence almost never matters: an E or an N provides the 5. If the name contains none of them, the inclusion chart leaves the 5 empty. This lack is understood as a curiosity to awaken, a taste for change to work on through small new experiences, without upheaval.
The W is a doubled V, which appeared in the Middle Ages to write a sound that Latin no longer knew. Through the V, it is therefore tied to the Phoenician vav, whose name Hebrew preserves. Like E and N, the W equals 5: it is therefore linked to card V. A reported link, with no effect on the number obtained.