Omicron Lexicology
In May of 2021, when the World Health Organization, or WHO, announced novel naming conventions for the equally novel coronavirus, we were launched headlong into “onamastics,” a field of study that falls under the heading of lexicology, and that Fortean “blogger” Loren Coleman has dubbed “name games.”
In the WHO’s new vocabulary, mutated versions of the original pathogen, called “variants,” will, in the foreseeable future, be designated by letters of the Greek alphabet.
Until the end of October of 2021, the most prominent of these variants was “Delta,” about which letter we will have more to say in a moment.
But, in November, the world was introduced to “Omicron,” which word – itself – means “little ‘o’.” And stands in contrast to the more familiar letter “Omega,” or “great ‘o’.”
To confuse matters, we must also consider the “o-macron,” where “macron” means “long” or “big,” and which appears with a straight bar over the letter.
As Twilight-Language expert Michael Hoffman has publicized, and as a visit to the appropriate entry on Wiktionary.com will confirm, “omicron” has a pair of provocative anagrams.
Although it is possible to imagine percipients rearranging these themselves – whether consciously or subconsciously, I’m a bit dubious about the reliability (or impact) of this.
However, it is beyond doubt that various media outlets have drawn deliberate attention to some of these recombinations – and this exercise sets these anagrammatic possibilities before our minds.
For instance, there’s a widely publicized anagram spelling the word “moronic,” which fits into a broad fool-related symbol pattern that I will touch on here, but further develop in a subsequent video (already in production).
Or again, the letters of “omicron” can be rearranged to create the obscure word “oncomir,” a terminus technicus (it turns out) in genetic medicine.
Straining for credible associations, one might think back to the so-called “Oncomouse,” a rodent mutated for the express purpose of growing cancerous tumors, ostensibly for experimental purposes.
Patents on the little monster were, for a time, the exclusive province of the corporation that, at the time, was known as E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., or just DuPont, for short – a company that will crop up again in part two of this study.
At present, it’s striking that some of the same oncological and genetic key words recur in articles about the coronavirus.
Also of interest is the fact that word “omicron” can be broken down into the names “Omi” and “Cron” which, as this Hoffman Wire points out, summon the specters of two heathen gods, Odin — recently featured as a character in various installments of the so-called Marvel Cinematic universe — and Cronus.
In Greek mythology, Cronus was the pre-Olympian god who castrated and deposed his father, Uranus, resulting in a separation of heaven and earth, only to be dethroned by his son, Zeus.
If you think that this association is far-fetched, I direct your attention to this New York Post headline that unmistakably links the word “omicron” with ideas of deity.
And this provides a segue to a deeper level of analysis. I believe that, when one looks, one finds a Saturnian undercurrent to recent events.
Saturn, of course, is the Roman version of Cronus.
But, before we venture too far down this road, we must address an apparent difficulty. Numerous online sources are at pains to disassociate or otherwise distinguish Cronus/Saturn from Chronos, otherwise known as the god of time.
It is frequently claimed that it is erroneous to identify Cronus and Chronos.
However, whether an errant “confusion” or a justified equation, the fact is, there is ample reason to consider the Greco-Roman Titan to be part of the same symbol set as the figure sometimes designated “Father Time.”
For an obvious reason, we turn to one of America’s so-called “newspapers of record,” the vaunted New York Times, remarks: “…Saturn’s Greek name, Kronos, and the Greek for ‘time,’ Chronos, are nearly identical.”[1]
For a more august source, take a look at the 1st-to-2nd-c. historian and philosopher Plutarch, who asserted: “Cronus is …a figurative name for …Time” – at least, according to a passage in the possibly pseudepigraphal Moralia.
Moreover, the anonymous ancient authority known only “Pseudo-Clementine,” writing sometime around the third century A.D. – give or take a hundred years – declared: “…Chronos, who is Saturn, is allegorically time…”.
To quote the New York Times again: “The myth of Saturn …became an allegory of time: …he devours his children because time also destroys whatever it creates.”[2]
Even Wikipedia can be summoned to the effect that interpreting Cronus a “personification of time” was commonplace in antiquity.
Furthermore, the mammoth Dictionary of Ancient Deities, published by the prestigious Oxford University Press, lists “Chronos” and “Saturn” as aliases for Cronus, regarding these – with all their variant spellings – as synonyms for that deity who is both “God of the World” and “God of Time.”
Incidentally, the phrase “god of the world” appears reflected in the Bible, with 2 Corinthians (chapter 4, verse 4): informing us that “the god of this world” blinds unbelievers.
And an allied concept is picked up by curious late-19th/early 20th-century French thinker, René Guénon whose book “The King” or “The Lord of the World” (transl. of Le Roi du monde),[3] first printed in 1927, is an extended investigation of, and meditation upon, the legendary realm of Agartha.
Suffice it to say that, for purposes of this present symbol odyssey anyway, we will echo the succinct statement of the online mythology encyclopedia, Theoi.com: “Kronos was essentially the same as …Chronos …, the primordial god of time…”.
This association is not trivial. For one thing, some mystery religions, such as Mithraism, placed Chronos at the pinnacle of their often vast and multifarious pantheons. So, he was a pretty important guy.
But, also, the connection ramifies the Saturnian leitmotif – which, to borrow a phrase from the Gospel According to Luke (chapter 21, verse 25), includes “signs” in the heavens.
Who remembers the so-called “Great Conjunction” at the end of 2020?
This rare astronomical event involved the perceived alignment of Jupiter and Saturn. And, despite Saturn’s often dark interpretive profile, was referred to as the “Christmas Star” by some media outlets.
To emphasize the singular nature of this celestial state of affairs, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, underscored the fact that such a close approach of the two largest planets in our solar system hadn’t occurred since the publication of William Shakespeare’s First Folio in 1623 and hadn’t been visible since the Catholic crusade against the Albigensians was carried out in 1226.
With one crucial exception, press descriptions of the 2020 “Christmas Star” were reminiscent of a presentation, titled The Star of Bethlehem, and put on by one Rick Larson, which made the rounds in churches around 2007. The conspicuous difference was that, in Larson’s hypothesis, the original star said to have heralded the birth of Jesus Christ, involved a conjunction of Jupiter with Venus, as opposed to Saturn. And this substitution changes the meaning, astrologically speaking.
Is this Saturnine “Christmas star” announcing the birth of something? Hold that thought.
For, in the discipline known as mundane astrology, Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions are regarded as presaging widespread changes in “society …as a whole.”
And, wouldn’t you know it, supposedly astrology is experiencing a surge in popularity unprecedented since the 1970s.
The British Broadcasting Corporation, this boosted prestige is explicable in virtue of a search for guidance and meaning in the midst of a seemingly never-ending pandemic, and in the wake of explosive bursts of populism – e.g., as seen in Brexit and the presidency of Donald Trump.
Whatever the merits or demerits of this ancient subject, the full story story behind increasing demand for the drawing up of horoscopes and related services cannot be told without mention of some of the sociological stage managers operating largely unseen, behind the scenes.
We read that, supposedly, “[t]he year 2020 was a topic of anxious speculation in the astrology community long before Covid-19 became a household word.”
The sympathetic article explains that astrologers interpreted rare conjunctions of Saturn and Pluto and the aforementioned conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter as harbingers of “trauma and transformation”. Is this paragraph to be found on Oprah Winfrey’s website? Or is it embedded in a sales pitch for some astrology “app,” like Co-Star or Sanctuary?
As a matter of fact, it’s an excerpt from an analysis by Dr. Omi Elisha, professor of anthropology at the City University of New York.
Elisha’s “think piece” was posted by the non-profit Social Science Research Council, or SSRC, and is presumably written for academic specialists and industry insiders. But…in what area or field? Just who and what is the SSRC?
Founded in 1923, the SSRC was apparently funded by a veritable A-list of ostensibly philanthropic organizations such as the Carnegie Corporation as well as the Ford, Laura Spelman Rockefeller, Rockefeller, and Russell Sage Foundations. It’s records are housed in the Rockefeller Archive Center in Westchester County, just northeast of New York City.
Dr. Alondra Nelson, who concluded her stint as SSRC president in 2021, is billed as “[a]n acclaimed sociologist” who has past associations with Princeton University’s esteemed Institute for Advanced Study in New jersey.
And I would be remiss if I forgot to mention that she currently serves as Deputy Science Chief to President Joe Biden. So, it seems safe to say that the SSRC does not lack establishment connexions. But, what does it do?
To begin to sketch an answer that question, let’s look briefly at two important figures from the SSRC’s past: Charles Merriam and Harold Laswell.
Merriam was known for combining behavioral psychology with political science.
He sought to create “…a manipulative science that could alter social structure…”.
In case viewers are unaware, the use of “psychological manipulations” aimed at “influencing …opinions and actions” is one of the basic definitions of “propaganda” given by the important 20th-c. French theorist Jacques Ellul. So…the SSRC was essentially founded by professional propagandists.
According to the late political philosopher Sir Bernard Crick, Merriam and his cohorts – such as Lasswell – particularly focused on the creation of propaganda that was characterized by “…the manipulative use of ‘symbols,’ ‘slogans’ and ‘key-words’…”.
Lasswell himself explicitly stated that such a symbolical manipulation of the public was the means by which “…elites …may …be attacked or defended”.
To put it slightly differently, Lasswell believed that “[t]he elite preserves its ascendancy…”, in part, “…by manipulating symbols…”.
Far from being a dead letter, something of this same sentiment was recently articulated by The Matrix Resurrections director, Lana Wachowski, when she stated that “technology …[has t]he power …to trap or limit our subjective reality…”.
That money elites have a deep, abiding academic and economic interest in propaganda and symbolism should be kept firmly in mind when we discover, for instance, that the current wave of COVID has the same name as an obscure, 1963 Italian sci-fi “flick” about a body-invading alien bent on world domination.
This is especially so since it is an open secret that government information brokers and psychological-warfare operators, not least of which include the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, have – for years – had an entrée into so-called “show business.”
Likewise, discovering “omicron” references in video games should scarcely surprise us, for similar reasons.
Namely, there has arguably been a CIA/video-game-company pipeline since (at least) the mid-1990s.
Of course, the cover story is that such a connexion is merely the “entertainment industry” equivalent of former athletes being enlisted as broadcasters for their “color commentary.”
Those who have a bit more familiarity with the history of “psych war” may be forgiven if they are unable to suppress a chuckle.
But unusual and symbolical references are hardly limited to amusements and diversions.
Would you believe that some cases of COVID secondary infection have a physiological presentation dubbed “Rings of Saturn”?
Let us turn, for a moment anyway, from these odds and ends, to a more significant image – the visage of the man nominated “…the public face of the Capitol Riot.”
His semi-nude appearance and horned head reminds this observer of the wild and woolly “fertility spirits” and companions of the god Pan that are known as Satyrs.
Apparently, you don’t need too much assistance locating these fantastic beasts, as they are part of a cluster of mythic figures who are “…not difficult to catch…”…
…as this particular specimen discovered shortly after his odd photo session on Capitol Hill.
Among the myriad remarkable features of this quasi-Satyr, especially in light of the Greek-flavored alphabet soup served up by the doctors at WHO, is the tattoo emblazoned over his left pectoral muscle.
Per a hyperbole-laced article on theconversation.com, the symbol in question – a “Valknut” – is Nordic in origin, and therefore linked to the previously mentioned Odin. But, in any case, consists of a trio of mutually interlocking deltas – which word is, of course, the name of another prominent member of the COVID variety pack.
The triangle-shaped delta occurs in the symbology of Freemasonry, where it frequently is represented with an eye in its center.
Weirdly, as the VigilantCitizen.com noticed, the Greek letter “omicron” developed out of earlier alphabetic characters – such as the Semitic ayin, found in Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Phoenician, and Syriac – that were originally modeled after the human eye. What a coinkydink.
Some sources claim that the Omicron variant may have “unusual symptoms” that may include “…sore eyes.”[4]
Additionally, the triangle/delta, a supreme Masonic symbol of deity (according to widely cited authority Albert Mackey), is usually drawn emanating various “rays” that are known as a “glory.”
As discussed in our previous video, another name for a “glory” is a corona.
Before we move off of the delta, we shouldn’t forget that at least some of those involved in the events of January 6, 2020 – which will be examined more in depth in part two – would have marched from the Trump rally to the Capitol along the hypotenuse of what is called in Washington D.C. “Federal Triangle.”
In Masonic lore, the hypotenuse of the Pythagorean triangle stands for the issue of a “sacred marriage,” or hieros gamos, between the divine masculine and the divine feminine.
Believe it or not, the symbolism of the Pythagorean triangle isn’t the only sexualized element of this whole sordid affair. First of all, we should note that, according to The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters,[5] not only “Saturn” and “satyr” cognates, they also both derive from the Greek word for the male reproductive organ.
Ancient natural historian Pliny the Elder concurs on the point, saying that the word “satyr” is the namesake of the membrum virile on account of their proclivity toward lust.
This is likely one reason why satyrs are sometimes depicted ithyphallically.
This would all perhaps be an irrelevance, presently, were it not for a bizarre fact.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation entered into evidence, in an official court filing, a photoshopped image featuring the QAnon Shaman adjacent to a lewd picture of a man. Officially, there was no suggestion that the FBI had created the so-called “meme” – merely that some unwitting agent had included it by accident.
As noted in passing already, satyrs are also associated with faun-like god, Pan.
This lusty figure lends his name to the terror-stricken frame of mind termed panic an all-too-familiar modifier in our era of around-the-clock COVID media coverage.
Oh… recall when we asked about whether the “great” Saturn-Jupiter conjunction should be read as a birth announcement? Consider that Arthur Machen, the 19th-20th-c. Welsh horror novelist wrote a book called “The Great God Pan.” The plot?
Well… let’s just say that it appears to have been one of the principal forerunners – not to say inspirations – for Ira Levin’s 1967 book, Rosemary’s Baby, which was made into a movie the following year by Polish-born filmmaker Roman Polanski.
It is not for nothing that the proprietors of tarot.com bid readers to take note of “…the similarity between the words ‘Saturn’ and ‘Satan’…”.
This connexion is also drawn by Aleister Crowley’s protégé, Kenneth Grant, who links Saturn – and his emasculating sickle – with Satan, Shaitan, and Set.
Yet a further peculiarity stems from the QAnon Shaman’s real name – which, by the way, is prone to vary from article to article. He is sometimes called “Jake Angeli.” At other times, his surname is given as Chansley. And I seem to recall once reading that it was “Angeli Chansley.”
The Online Etymology Dictionary starts us off by registering the idea, dated from 1854, that “Jake” is “…the typical name of a rustic lout,” or country bumpkin.
But, the really juicy tidbit lies in the more usual observation that Jacob means “supplanter.”
Or to be technical, the meaning is sometimes given by the phrase “he takes by the heel” or “he cheats.”
Again, we may turn to the Bible for insight. In the Book of Genesis (chapter 27, verse 36), we read that Esau – son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham – lamenting the theft, by his own brother, of his birthright, exclaims: “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me…”.
What intrigues me, here, can be gleaned from the offbeat, seventeenth-century treatise Daemonologia Sacra, written by marginal English minister named Richard Gilpin.
Gilpin makes the incisive remark that “…we may say of [Satan]” what “Esau said of Jacob”: they’re both supplanters!
Indeed, Cronus-Saturn was a supplanter, too. After all, he overthrew his father, Uranus, until he was himself overthrown by Zeus-Jupiter.
So, right at center stage, and in the midst of all these Saturnian/Satanic references, we’re presented with a burly character whose name translates to “supplanting angel.”
But, if Angeli is playing a Saturnian role, then where is his sickle?
Arguably, there’s been no more prominent face, lately, than that of Anthony Fauci. He’s dominating the news cycle.
The reason for his celebrity owes to his dual position as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Chief Medical Advisor to the President.
According to the Oxford University’s Dictionary of American Family Names, the surname “Fauci” means, well… Have you guessed it?
Fauci means “sickle.”
Omicron Numerology
But there’s a numerological aspect to all this as well. And, as usual, it’s multifaceted.
For starters, as with Hebrew, Latin, and some other languages, Greek characters lead a double life as both letters and numerals.
Viewers will observe that, considered as a cardinal or “counting” number, omicron is assigned a value of 70. It may be passing interest, therefore, that news reports of late have been seasoned with references to 70s.
For example, until a retraction was issued, we were told that the omicron variant accounted for around 70% of COVID cases (at least, in California).
Omicron supposedly “multiplies 70 times faster than Delta.”
At the same time, it’s around 70% less severe.
Omicron – or a variant cousin – seems to have afflicted 70 medics at one Christmas party.
And one community is summoning an equivalent number of national guard persons to address the associated “surge.”
Or again, guess how many cruise liners have allegedly been “hit by COVID”.
Or, here’s one: what percentage of “immunization coverage” is the WHO aiming at by mid-2022?
If you need a hint, it’s the same name that keeps showing up in reports about January 6, 2020, concerning arrests, guilty pleas, and sentencing.
Even the total (if preposterously large) number of “…Riot …Defendants” is a multiple of 70.
And, coincidentally, it’s also the number of military-connected participants to the so-called “Capitol Insurrection.”
As well as the number of officers who have resigned or otherwise “left the Capitol Police since the January 6 Riot.” Again, stay tuned for the second part of this study where I will be preoccupied with the symbolism specifically surrounding January 6.
But 70 isn’t the only numerical value of interest. For Saturn – by way of it’s 3×3 “magic square” – has a magnetic relationship with the number 15. You will see that every column, diagonal, and row in the diagram sums to 15.
So, I was unsurprised to read that 15% of arrestees have been denied bail.
Or that Omicron was – at the time of writing – found in 15 U.S. States.
And seeing that Jake Angeli was sentenced to a total of 51 months in prison, you will note that “51” is merely “15” with the digits transposed.
To be strictly accurate, Angeli-Chansley’s ultimate sentence was 41 months – though it was unclear to me whether he was given a reduced prison sentence, or whether he was simply given credit for the 10+ months of time he had already served.
Be that as it may, one of the major components of occult theory and practice is the Tarot. So, it is always worth a look to see if there is some relevant correspondence, particularly to the so-called “Trump” cards. In this case, card XV – labeled “The Devil” in both the Rider-Waite and Crowley decks – caught my attention.
According to Aleister Crowley, the 19th-century magus Éliphas Lévi “…[identified The Devil card] with Baphomet, the ass-headed idol of the Knights of the Temple,” also known as the Knights Templar.[6]
Crowley goes on to remark that the “…card …[also] refers to Capricornus in the Zodiac.”[7]
This association is made fairly obvious in Crowley’s version of the card. He adds that: “ …The sign is ruled by Saturn… [And t]he card represents Pan Pangenetor, the All-Begetter.”[8]
It should be noted that Crowley explicitly equates Saturn with the Egyptian god Set as well as with the Islamic Shaitan and Satan.[9]
Crowley concludes his fascinating analysis of the fifteenth Tarot Trump by drawing one final reference to Pan and connecting “The Devil” symbol “…to the letter ’Ayin, which means an Eye.”[10]
And… with that, we come full circle, so to speak, back to the “omicron” which letter, you will recall, also derived from ’Ayin.
We arrive, also, at what is perhaps the most crucial numerological correspondence.
As Edward Burger writes, in the “The Power of Zero,” “[I]n the 2nd century CE, Ptolemy used the Greek letter omicron, which looks like an ‘O,’ to denote ‘nothing.’ So, this is the symbol for zero, the ‘o’ that we see – the circle.”[11]
In other words, one – contested – hypothesis has it that omicron was used since the Greek word for “nothing” started with that letter. Speaking of “nothing,” I seem to recollect seeing that word somewhere.
Oh yes, I remember! Nothing is what we’ll soon own, according to the World Economic Forum. But…we’ll “…be happy.”
It’s part and parcel of the “Great Reset,” of course.
Announced in June of 2020, “The Great Reset” was the “theme” of what the World-Economic-Forum press release termed “a unique twin summit.”
Which also happened to be the 51st meeting of Davos men and women.
The face and founder of World Economic Forum is the dour-looking German-born engineer, Klaus Schwab.
But the Great-Reset initiative was jointly announced by Schwab in conjunction with Britain’s Prince Charles, the Secretary General of the U.N., and the head of the International Monetary Fund.
And it is being undertaken with financial titans from Asia, Europe, and North America – including British Petroleum, Mastercard, and Microsoft.
Subsequently, the phraseology was echoed by other heavy hitters, such as venture capitalist Peter Thiel, author of the book Zero to One.
It’s intriguing to note that one of the primary definitions for the word “reset” is to set back to a zero state.
It seems that “zero” is a buzz word and choice title for numerous projects and schemes, of late.
Does its relation to the “Great Reset” have to do with its mathematical reputation as the “Great Equalizer”?
Any other number, when multiplied by zero, produces zero as a result; and any other number raised to the power of zero becomes 1. On the other hand, adding or subtracting zero has no effect.
In a way, zero’s equalizing properties are inescapable.
By the way, the U.S. Army doctor thinks that, in a similar way, “there’s no way” to escape the Omicron variant – “the whole world will be vaccinated or …infected” (or perhaps both).
But we may not need armchair speculation about the significance of the “Great Reset.” For 2021 had been declare “A New ‘Year Zero’” by the same Klaus Schwab whose expressionless visage we just saw.
Schwab is self-consciously drawing a line to the “Year Zero,” or “Zero Hour,” that began in 1945 with the “de-Nazification” of Germany.
According to the relevant Wikipedia article, “Zero Hour” is a synonym for “radical new beginnings” and the eradication of “old traditions.”
And the World Economic Forum program isn’t the only one that is preoccupied with zero-related symbolism.
Environmentalism and “climate-change” doomsayers are as well, as exemplified in this video production from 2019.
In fact, “Net Zero” has become the stated goal of those who wish to eliminate carbon emissions.
Among “net-zero” enthusiasts is former Microsoft chieftain, Bill Gates, who revealed in September of 2021 that he was “launching his own news publication” name “Cipher,” which derives from an old Arabic word for zero.
Symbolically, sifra basically designates a consul, satrap, or viceroy whose authority is delegated to him by the true sovereign.
Cognates abound, and seem to be popular choices for villain names, as evidenced by Le Chifre, in the 2006 remake of the James Bond movie, Casino Royale.
Or the traitorous, original Matrix character, Cypher, who expresses regret over having taken the red “truth pill,” and eventually favorably quotes the aphorism “ignorance is bliss.”
The English word “cipher” sometimes also referred to something expressed secretly, or in code.
This usage reflects the fact that the concept of zero emanates uncertainty another commonality with Omicron, a variant against which current vaccines provide “absolutely zilch” (i.e., zero) in terms of protection, according to immunologist’s lament, anyway.
As the late historian of the occult James Webb pointed out, “large outbreaks of unreason” often follow fast on the heels on societal catastrophes, such as the “crisis of Zero A.D.”
Notorious global consulting firm McKinsey, which helped construct the now ubiquitous, zebra-striped Universal Product Code, Omicron is ushering in a new “uncertain chapter” in the pandemic narrative.
Is this because of Omicron’s “uncertain origin”?
In Cartesian geometrical terms, of course, the origin is always 0,0.
And division by zero results in a quotient that is variously labeled as “infinity” or “undefined.”
All this is being presented as an ominous portent for the world and the global economy.
And this is despite the fact that, for many weeks, it was said that Omicron was responsible for “zero deaths.”
A claim that even the system-approved “fact checkers” at Snopes.com acknowledged was true.
Yet, the Federal Reserve Bank, known as “the Fed,” has kept interest rates hovering around zero.
You may recall that the initial rationale for the zero percent involved the Fed’s claim that such rock-bottom rates were required to avert market panic.
The word “panic,” of course, takes us back to the god Pan whose name signifies “all” – the exact opposite of nothing – and who may, or may not, be the most ancient of pagan deities. (Appropriately enough, Pan’s origins are uncertain.)
What about Mr. Jake Angeli, whose widely circulated Pan-lookalike images made him the spokesmodel for the Capitol Riot? Prior to January 6, he had “zero criminal history.”
Similarly, the 15-year-old Oxford High School shooter, Ethan Crumbley, had no prior disciplinary infractions before taking the lives of several of his classmates – one of whom was repeated pictured with large yellow-orange “zeroes” on his jacket.
It is of course vital to appreciate that, in English, the numeral zero and the letter “O” are often used interchangeably.
So much so that a popular 1990s television show, ostensibly the zip code for Beverly Hills, California, 90210, was pronounce “nine-oh-two-one-oh.”
Or again, consider the 2012 movie Zero Dark Thirty, which presented Hollywood’s version of the search for Osama bin Laden. In military jargon, the titular phrase would most often be heard as “oh dark thirty” – which could almost be the opening words of an occultically themed ode.
So, when you see the photograph of the unfortunate Tate Myre, remember that it makes virtually zero difference whether the prominent patch on his “varsity jacket” is a numeral or the initial letter of “Oxford,” the visual impact is arguably the same.
Relatedly, the roundabout outside Oxford High School’s entrance discharges the same, zero-point energy, if I may take a little artistic license.
We were introduced to circular signs during the most recent presidential election cycle, as Joe Biden’s campaign logo featured four of them.
His design may itself have been a takeoff from the emblem previously used by Barack O-bama.
Turning away from circles, for a moment, let us recollect the campaign speech in which Hillary Clinton “…put half of Trump’s supporters into …the basket of deplorables.”
In light of the present study, this is interesting – not least because “deplorables,” in this context, refers to people who are regarded as uneducated, “worthless nobodies.”
Deplorables are people with “no importance or authority” at all – not even as ciphers.
As pointed out in the Handbook on Autoethnography, our familiar, zero/“O” shape would be a fitting shorthand for such people – partly as a throwback to Odysseus’s ploy to outwit the Cyclops in Homer’s epic The Odyssey.
In any case, “deplorables” are contemptuous, undistinguished zeros.
In the 2018 film Vice, Christian Bale portrays George W. Bush’s former V.P., in a stylized take on how Dick Cheney became – in the director’s estimation – one of most powerful autocrats in U.S. history from “…a big, fat, piss-soaked zee-roh” as actress Amy Adams memorably stated it.
The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols builds upon the observation that zeros have “no properties” of their own, by connecting this powerful numeral to “…the initiatory significance of the Fool in the Tarot pack.”
Also called “the Simpleton,” “…the Fool has no number.” Well…no positive number, anyway.
Viewers may wish to ponder a moment the fact, stated earlier, that one of “omicron’s” anagrams is a synonym for the word fool.
Self-proclaimed “libertarian” pundit Kristin Tate drew a direct parallel between “fools” and Clinton’s “deplorables” in her 2020 book, The Liberal Invasion of Red State America.
The cover art is provocative and suggests a possible link with the “Purple Revolution” concept attributed to Bank-of-England “breaker,” George Soros.
The World Economic Forum itself associates the “Great Reset” – or zeroing – with what it labels “the Fourth Industrial Revolution.”
And this probably won’t shock attentive observers, since the pervasive Saturnian symbolism has had revolutionary connotations since antiquity.
The Fool tarot card is variously designated “0” and “22.”
Which variance amounts to six of one and half dozen of the other, since – either way – the Fool is said to represent “…a return to zero, like [resetting] a meter…”.
Indeed, used as a verb, “zero” and “reset” are frequently intersubstitutable in the field of electronics.
And wouldn’t you know it? Who else stands for both “end and …beginning”? Why Saturn, of course.
Conclusion
Let’s take stock.
Explicit “time” references have been prominent parts of many recent news items.
Think back, once more, to Jacob Angeli Chansley, the man the media coronated the “QAnon Shaman.” Rolling Stone reports that Mr. Angeli is alleged to have written a note to Mike Pence, warning the then-vice president “it’s only a matter of time; justice is coming.”
For a slightly more sober-minded source, take a look at this tantalizing headline from Scientific American titled “Now Is the Time to Reestablish Reality.”
It includes a juicy quotation from our old friend Alondra Nelson, of Social Science Research Council fame, you might recall.
Nelson advises “Biden and his team” that, in order to sell the American public on “a sense of shared reality,” it is necessary to “reset the clock.” The full implications of this are a little, well… uncertain. But Dr. Nelson suggests that it would need to involve the use of “executive orders – likely building upon the Draconian edifice expanded by Dick Cheney.
In line with the SSRC’s raison d’etre, this chronological “zeroing” will involve “behind-the-scenes” “behavioral science” and a liberal dose of denigration for “conspiratorial delusions and paranoid thinking.”
“Science and Technology Now Sit in the Center…” Or, to be more precise, technocrats sit in the center, wearing white lab coats for “photo ops” brought to by their corporate sponsors.
As a final note, let’s consider Marxist-inspired “Critical Theorist,” Walter Benjamin.
In his 1940 essay, “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” otherwise known as “On the Concept of History,” Benjamin developed his notion of jetztzeit, or a “…time that is ripe” for revolution.
In Benjamin’s estimation, revolutionary upheaval is precipitated by a moment he calls Stillstellung, sometimes translated as “standstill.”
But the editors at Marxists.org preferred the phrase “zero-hour,” instead.
This “Zero-Hour” sparks a chain of events of supposedly “messianic” proportions and enables the stage-managers to exploit a “revolutionary chance” to reorganize the world.
But, alas, I see we’re out of time.
See part two for an in-depth look at the so-called 2020 “Capitol Insurrection,” including tie-ins to Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the opening scene of which takes place during the joint celebration of Epiphany and the Feast of Fools, January 6, 1482.
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Notes:
[1] Stephen Orgel, “Saturn’s Revolutions,” New York Times, Oct. 31, 1981, section 1, p. 27, <https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/31/opinion/saturn-s-revolutions.html>.
[2] Ibid.
[3] Paris: Ch. Bosse, 1927.
[4] Felicia Hou and Kylie Logan, “Omicron symptoms: How they differ from Delta, the flu, and a cold, and how quickly they’ll show up,” Fortune, Dec. 27, 2021, <https://fortune.com/2021/12/27/omicron-blindsided-world-symptoms/>.
[5] Jeffrey Weinstock, London: Routledge, 2016, p. 234.
[6] Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth, Stamford, Conn.: U.S. Games Systems, 1996, p. 105.
[7] Ibid.
[8] Ibid.
[9] Ibid., p. 106.
[10] Ibid., p. 105.
[11] Edward Burger, “The Power of Zero,” Zero to Infinity: A History of Numbers (Great Courses), Feb. 15, 2017, <https://www.thegreatcoursedaily.com/zero/>.