sticking my oar in
What a fascinating thread this has become.
The problem I have with the arguement that Ha is such a "femanine letter" is that it often used in the same breath as arguing that Lamed = Libra and Teth = Leo. Well then, Ha = Aries!
The arguements about Justice must be Lamed because it is obviously Libra is quietly forgotten when The Star = Ha is concerned. Because that means The Star = Aries and The Emperor = Aquarius. But The Emperor is so "obviously" Aries.
All that stuff about Star and Emperor must be changed to balance the Zodiac because Waite changed round the positions for Strength and Justice? Oh come on. All waite did was swap the cards 'cause they looked more in keeping with the Zodiac. He didn't change the Tree or the Zodiac or the letters. But Crowley swaps Star and Emperor and we run around like headless chickens trying to make sense of it. And as for "all the letters of my book are aright but Tzadi is not The Star"? How can they ALL be "aright" except for one if we're supposed to swap it for another? The jokes on us guys and gals.
Way, way back in post 12, Aeon418 made the same (sexist
) error in the "Thoth, the Tree of Life and The Star" thread (I really wish I'd called it something else) about Tzadi = fishook = hunter, etc being a masculine thing. Whereas the gods of war were often (though not always) male, the greatest hunters in mythology were invariably female; Artemis, The Morrighan, Freyja and the Valkyries, to name but a few. And that doesn't include the dark and devious hunters such as the Sirens and Lilith.
Also, (as you yourself pointed out Aeon) Ha - the name of the letter - means "Lo!" and "behold" (the exclamation mark is not mine) which suggests to me a sharp, sudden ejeculation of, or appearance of, something visible. In other words, the letter may refer not to the opening, i.e. window, but instead to what comes through it. By the by, the letter itself refers to "an opening"; it doesn't have to be a window.