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Soul Urge is a modern name. Cheasley in 1916 and Wilson in 1922 wrote Ideality, Walton in 1914 wrote heart's desire, and Taylor in 1926 read the vowels as Soul and natural talents. The sum itself is simple: take only the A, E, I, O and U of the full birth name, plus any Y the chosen rule counts as a vowel.

Nell Ives gives a clean case: the E of Nell is 5, the I and E of Ives are 14 and reduce to 5, and 5 plus 5 makes 10, then 1. Among the vowels, only A carries the value 1 on its own, and Balliett in 1905 treated the first vowel of a name as the one that counts most. She read A as boldness of action and fearless speech.

Cheasley's general entry for 1 speaks of self-assertion and building one's own individuality. Modern popular books turn that inward and say a Soul Urge of 1 describes a wish to act on one's own judgment and answer to no one. Wilson framed the vowels as the cherished ideals a person keeps private, which fits this reading closely.