All the letters
א

Aleph

When it is flowing

You bring lightness and space wherever you go. You can hold two opposing things at once without needing to crush either, and your presence lets people breathe. Ideas move through you freely, and you have a knack for clearing the air so that what was stuck can start to move again.

When it is strained

The air goes thin and scattered. Your thoughts race without ever landing, or you stay so far above the trouble that nothing quite touches you. You can talk all the way around a thing and never arrive at it, or feel oddly weightless, as though you are hovering over your own life instead of living inside it.

The details

Letter
אAleph
Category
Mother
Planet / element
Air
Card
The Fool (0)
Path
Kether ↔ Chokmah

This system, and the Golden Dawn

Sefer Yetzirah (this system)

Air · The Fool (0)

Golden Dawn

Air ✓ · The Fool (0)

The two systems agree on this letter.

Across the three spheres

UniverseYearSoul
AirIn preparationIn preparation

The Year and Soul columns are being rebuilt from Hayman §§39, 41, 52 and will fill in as that reading is verified.

Sources: Peter Hayman, Sefer Yesira (Mohr Siebeck, 2004). Aryeh Kaplan; Saadia Gaon commentary.